Re:An update on the campaign to defend serious math educatio...
by duxup on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @03:29PM
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>to dumb down math in high school?
There's a lot of competing / strange interests in school systems that can have well intended but BIZARRE outcomes.
My wife works in early childhood education. At one point it was recognized that the early childhood department should be more involved in helping students with learning disabilities as soon as possible. There was lots of outreach to parents to get them into free classes and education, and most importantly screening so they could get free services if they qualified / needed them.
However, it was noticed at some point by some very vocal parents that some students with specific backgrounds were refereed to these services more than others. These services were provided in and out of school, the kids weren't moved to another school or anything like that, but despite all their efforts... The result was deemed to be some sort of bias, or outright racism.
Therefore it was made very clear that they could not disproportionately "single out" students of some backgrounds for these services, that are free, to help them learn.
There's a lot of competing / strange interests in school systems that can have well intended but BIZARRE outcomes.
My wife works in early childhood education. At one point it was recognized that the early childhood department should be more involved in helping students with learning disabilities as soon as possible. There was lots of outreach to parents to get them into free classes and education, and most importantly screening so they could get free services if they qualified / needed them.
However, it was noticed at some point by some very vocal parents that some students with specific backgrounds were refereed to these services more than others. These services were provided in and out of school, the kids weren't moved to another school or anything like that, but despite all their efforts... The result was deemed to be some sort of bias, or outright racism.
Therefore it was made very clear that they could not disproportionately "single out" students of some backgrounds for these services, that are free, to help them learn.