Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP. The case in favor of woke curricula would be stronger if the examples of top schools that include woke were outside the US rather than inside the US.

How so?

Anonymous wrote:DP. The case in favor of woke curricula would be stronger if the examples of top schools that include woke were outside the US rather than inside the US.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is math racist? Haha

I left the USA so my kids can have better preparation than the average teenager here. LCPS and FCPS are major frauds and are considered top districts in the country. Make it make sense.

Why not just homeschool your kids or move to the Bay Area or take them to AoPS/RSM after school?

Because I’m taking my kids to a private institution abroad where they’ll acquire a more rounded and stronger skill set than the nonsense peddled here.

More round and stronger how? Math isn't the issue since you can always supplement. What do you feel the international private is providing that a US private can't?

The fact that your first instinct is to suggest "supplementing math" at home is the loudest admission of institutional failure I’ve ever heard. Imagine cutting a check for forty or fifty thousand dollars a year only to have to spend your weekends acting as a remedial tutor because the school is too busy "de-centering" excellence to actually teach the basics. If I wanted to homeschool my kids in the core pillars of civilization, I’d save the tuition and do it for free. You aren’t paying for an education at that point; you’re paying for a high-end social club that has rebranded its own academic decline as "inclusivity."

What an international school provides is something U.S. private schools have completely abandoned: objective reality. While you’re busy defending a system that views merit as a "social construct," the rest of the world is still grounded in the real world. There is something deeply humiliating about watching elite American parents scramble to justify why their kids are being lectured on gender ideology and "lived experiences" instead of being prepared for a global economy that doesn't give a damn about their pronouns. It’s hard to take a "prestigious" curriculum seriously when the administration is more concerned with the "progressive victory" of putting tampons in the boys’ bathrooms than they are with actual literacy and logic.

The world outside the American "woke" bubble operates on competence, a concept that U.S. private schools now find "problematic." You’re essentially paying a premium to ensure your children are the least prepared people in the room when they hit the global stage. International institutions aren't wasting time navigating the absurdity of whether biology is a suggestion or if math is a tool of oppression; they’re producing students who can actually solve a complex problem without needing a safe space or an HR-approved list of microaggressions to get through the day.

Keep your supplemental worksheets and your "rounded" American indoctrination if it makes you feel better about the massive checks you're writing for a broken product. But don’t act surprised when the kids who were actually educated in institutions that prioritize sanity and science end up running circles around yours. Some parents want their children to be leaders; you clearly just want yours to be the most "enlightened" person in the unemployment line.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is math racist? Haha

I left the USA so my kids can have better preparation than the average teenager here. LCPS and FCPS are major frauds and are considered top districts in the country. Make it make sense.

Why not just homeschool your kids or move to the Bay Area or take them to AoPS/RSM after school?

Because I’m taking my kids to a private institution abroad where they’ll acquire a more rounded and stronger skill set than the nonsense peddled here.

More round and stronger how? Math isn't the issue since you can always supplement. What do you feel the international private is providing that a US private can't?

The fact that your first instinct is to suggest "supplementing math" at home is the loudest admission of institutional failure I’ve ever heard. Imagine cutting a check for forty or fifty thousand dollars a year only to have to spend your weekends acting as a remedial tutor because the school is too busy "de-centering" excellence to actually teach the basics. If I wanted to homeschool my kids in the core pillars of civilization, I’d save the tuition and do it for free. You aren’t paying for an education at that point; you’re paying for a high-end social club that has rebranded its own academic decline as "inclusivity."

What an international school provides is something U.S. private schools have completely abandoned: objective reality. While you’re busy defending a system that views merit as a "social construct," the rest of the world is still grounded in the real world. There is something deeply humiliating about watching elite American parents scramble to justify why their kids are being lectured on gender ideology and "lived experiences" instead of being prepared for a global economy that doesn't give a damn about their pronouns. It’s hard to take a "prestigious" curriculum seriously when the administration is more concerned with the "progressive victory" of putting tampons in the boys’ bathrooms than they are with actual literacy and logic.

The world outside the American "woke" bubble operates on competence, a concept that U.S. private schools now find "problematic." You’re essentially paying a premium to ensure your children are the least prepared people in the room when they hit the global stage. International institutions aren't wasting time navigating the absurdity of whether biology is a suggestion or if math is a tool of oppression; they’re producing students who can actually solve a complex problem without needing a safe space or an HR-approved list of microaggressions to get through the day.

Keep your supplemental worksheets and your "rounded" American indoctrination if it makes you feel better about the massive checks you're writing for a broken product. But don’t act surprised when the kids who were actually educated in institutions that prioritize sanity and science end up running circles around yours. Some parents want their children to be leaders; you clearly just want yours to be the most "enlightened" person in the unemployment line.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is math racist? Haha

I left the USA so my kids can have better preparation than the average teenager here. LCPS and FCPS are major frauds and are considered top districts in the country. Make it make sense.

Why not just homeschool your kids or move to the Bay Area or take them to AoPS/RSM after school?

Because I’m taking my kids to a private institution abroad where they’ll acquire a more rounded and stronger skill set than the nonsense peddled here.

More round and stronger how? Math isn't the issue since you can always supplement. What do you feel the international private is providing that a US private can't?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is math racist? Haha

I left the USA so my kids can have better preparation than the average teenager here. LCPS and FCPS are major frauds and are considered top districts in the country. Make it make sense.

Why not just homeschool your kids or move to the Bay Area or take them to AoPS/RSM after school?

Because I’m taking my kids to a private institution abroad where they’ll acquire a more rounded and stronger skill set than the nonsense peddled here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is math racist? Haha

I left the USA so my kids can have better preparation than the average teenager here. LCPS and FCPS are major frauds and are considered top districts in the country. Make it make sense.

Why not just homeschool your kids or move to the Bay Area or take them to AoPS/RSM after school?

Anonymous wrote:Is math racist? Haha

I left the USA so my kids can have better preparation than the average teenager here. LCPS and FCPS are major frauds and are considered top districts in the country. Make it make sense.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glad to see they are bringing it back and that the idiocy of not having it did not spread far and wide. VA was on track to do something similar but thankfully did not.

No, it wasn’t.

Is that not what VMPI was?

No it wasn't. That has been debunked a dozen times on this forum.

Only by those rewriting history. I'm a Dem but was shocked and furious when I saw what the VA DOE had planned. They then walked it back and tried to pretend otherwise, but it was the proposal. I watched the video and read the website. Gaslighting isn't going to work here.

So glad algebra is back in middle school. I don't necessarily agree with moving it all the way to 6th grade like FCPS is trying, but 7th or 8th grade algebra is a good option for accelerated students.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jo Boaler is the charlatan who decimated math education in California with her pseudoscience fraud.

Agree that Jo Boaler is a piece of work. Read a lengthy scholarly peer-reviewed paper by 2 math professors that debunked her claims. She sems to be the Lucy Calkins of the math educational world.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jojo's Bizarre Adventure!

Jo Napolitano is the author of this article.

Jo Boaler is the charlatan who decimated math education in California with her pseudoscience fraud.

Wait, the Jo Boaler who wrote a bunch of math books that people seem to love?Mindset Mathematics volumes for different grades seem to be beloved. I thought the homeschool and extra enrichment people were pretty picky and savy about which resources they use.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jojo's Bizarre Adventure!

Jo Napolitano is the author of this article.

Jo Boaler is the charlatan who decimated math education in California with her pseudoscience fraud.

Wait, the Jo Boaler who wrote a bunch of math books that people seem to love?Mindset Mathematics volumes for different grades seem to be beloved. I thought the homeschool and extra enrichment people were pretty picky and savy about which resources they use.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jojo's Bizarre Adventure!

Jo Napolitano is the author of this article.

Jo Boaler is the charlatan who decimated math education in California with her pseudoscience fraud.

Wait, the Jo Boaler who wrote a bunch of math books that people seem to love?Mindset Mathematics volumes for different grades seem to be beloved. I thought the homeschool and extra enrichment people were pretty picky and savy about which resources they use.