We Need Less of This!
I click on enough black themed and education news that my feed showed me the following story this morning:
https://www.theroot.com/sacramento-science-teacher-suspended-for-asking-this-ra-1851585759
I discussed this exact issue regarding some of the faculty underrepresented students have to deal with so this is no surprise to me. Of course if you are older these sorts of stories have been happening for years:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/racist-math-quiz-pimps-hos-drugs_n_574edaeae4b0af73af95d5c0
These stories would be funny if they weren't so awful. It's tempting to imagine that maybe this was just a misguided attempt to "make math relevant" but it is obviously racist.
Unfortunately, this is what passes for math education for kids in the US who are poor, black, and brown. We Need Less of This!
In contrast to the above type of math education, we already discussed what we need more of in a previous post.
https://6abc.com/post/50-year-teacher-lehigh-valley-math-team-score/14950230/
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