VIDEO: Parents Speak Out Against CRT at Missouri School Board Meeting

[pjcomix]

Because of public exposure, CRT proponents no longer present themselves as "CRT" (Critical Race Theory) and instead now use the term DEI (Diversity Equity Inclusion) which is the same scam. CRT, now DEI, performs the money-making scam of providing profitable "consultation services" to school districts in order to indoctrinate students as to why capitalism is wrong (while using capitalism to make school district money for themselves). Fortunately, parents around the country, including the ones seen here at the Park Hill School District School Board meeting near Kansas City, are on to this scam and are speaking out about it. In this case they have exposed the real ideology promoted by the Sophic Solutions CRT, I mean DEI, scam.

https://rumble.com/vygb3t-parents-speak-out-against-crt-at-missouri-school-board-meeting.html

[SVPete]

Crap, by any other euphemism, would it not stink the same?

[BamaMoose]

This article caught my eye a while back:

California promotes 'dismantling racism in mathematics' guidance in draft for statewide framework

'The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false,' document states

A California-based group is sounding the alarm as the state education department considers implementing a framework that promotes controversial ideas about race and mathematics.

The "Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction" teacher training caught attention in February when Fox News reported on Oregon defending the program, which advises, among other things, that the focus on finding the right answer is an example of White supremacy infiltrating classrooms.

"The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so," a document for the "Equitable Math" toolkit reads. "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict."

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-racism-math-framework

A review of the "Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction" teacher training guide yields claims such as:

White supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when...
Curriculum developers and teachers enculturated in the USA present mathematics the way they learned it, without critical reflection.
Instead...
This reinforces the idea that there is only one right way to do math, which may not serve all students. The history of mathematics, its colonization, and what is deemed as “acceptable” knowledge is rich and complex, therefore, the way that mathematics is taught in the United States needs to be interrogated because it currently centers Western, Eurocentric ways of processing and knowing information. When students who were taught differently are required to learn in this way, they either have to unlearn their learned native traditions to meet teacher expectations, or they are deprived of learning math in their ancestral history. For curriculum developers and teachers, presenting math the way they learned also reinforces the right to comfort because to conform is easier than to challenge themselves and the field to teach math differently

https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/1_STRIDE1.pdf

As an example the guide brings up the fact that the Pythagorean theorem existed in various forms in various places in the world centuries before Pythagoras.  While that's an interesting tidbit of knowledge, what the hell does it have to do with racism or teaching math?  They also point out that the Yoruba of Nigeria used base 20 math.  Apparently base 10 is also racist.  Do we need to teach math in base 20 to preserve African ancestral history?  Are there a lot of black students whose "learned native traditions" are base 20 math?  I've always been good at math and had to take some pretty advanced math courses to get my engineering degree.  So, I've become the de facto math tutor to my kids and my kids friends.  They don't need to know, nor do they care, about the history behind their geometry homework.  And I don't think I could ever properly explain the concept of math in a system other than base 10.  It would only confuse them.  All of is an attempt to blame the lower academic performance of black kids on white people.  Can't be any other reason.

[CollectivismMustDie]

'The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false,' document states

Yeah, just like science is about concensus.      


Of course math is purely objective. You can test it objectively for repetition, and objectively it repeats.

Maybe they should try getting consulting firms staffed with professionals, instead of professional activists.