Wander by his tomb, I bet he's up to 4,000,000rpm by now. You should be able to hear it just fine!
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When they finally manage to reduce the population of the planet to 500,000,000, as is their aim, it won't matter, there'll be just enough drones to feed the bastards
Same thing happening in San Mateo, California. Archived article here: https://archive.is/7BiGx. Latino students are underperforming in math when compared to white and Asian students, so they're considering eliminating advanced math and putting all students in a single math class. The article is a real gem, including a mention of how putting everyone in the same math class "improved outcomes for all students". There's a COVID twist too; they want to spend pandemic relief funds on this idea.
Lots of parallels with Loudoun County, Virginia. Here the equity consultants are the National Equity Project, which inspired the San Mateo school district Equity Task Force. The Task Force has minutes online here. You can tell they're having a really tough time integrating high Asian student mathematics achievement into their supremacist narrative, especially as they have to assign victim points to Asians over recent anti-Asian attacks due to COVID.
Side note: Asia is enormous, and when they say "Asian" students perform well in math, they mostly mean students of East Asian origin. But pointing out how or why different countries may perform better in different subjects is troublesome to the woke movement, so they stick to their broad categories.
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So there is a conundrum.
I agree with the notion that there needs to be a massive increase in financial support of education, especially and specifically STEAM (For those whose heads are about to explode over my adding art to the list, I wish you peace).
Here is the conundrum. They who appear most to favor the that increase in support are from the same political persuasion as the ones referenced above in this ongoing thread about their advocacy of the abomination of dumass math.
Equity as a movement must be condemned! Rejection of failure must be condemned! Rejection of the scientific process must be condemned! If we fail to develop a generation of creative, and careful thinkers, then it will be to our doom. Our failure will be one of not trying versus one of trying. We, most of us, agree on that difference.
I do advocate for opportunity on top of opportunity. I do advocate for testing. I do advocate for finding your limits. I do advocate for allowing students to fail and to help them to try again. I do advocate for the need for every talent from every ethnic and both sexes to be encouraged and allowed to bloom and blossom. I even advocate for some of the stupid responses here.
All the way back in grade school I was ahead of the class in science so I was banned from receiving Science News that the other students got to read and also could not participate in science classes.
My father was more than a little upset and had a few words with the school principal, but they wouldn't do anything about it.
Having spent some time teaching math to ESL-Spanish speaking kids, I'm not sure it's going to help that much. They need parents at home who can help them, too. I did convince the parents that reading in both English and Spanish would help them, but there's a lot of "they only need enough math to count money" out there. That said, it certainly can't hurt. And if they can get the language for math in both Spanish & English, that will probably help too. MY preference would be to shove as much math at them as we can, using as many concrete examples of math as possible. The way math is taught, they spend a lot of time learning a few factoids about math, then a bit of practice, and then they often get dragged into some other facet of mathematics that doesn't use much of what they've already had. They were just starting to have some examples of things you could do with math when I stopped being a teacher, and hopefully the kids are getting more practical examples now. When I was in Algebra I, in 1971, I asked my algebra teacher why I needed to learn this algebra crap? His answer was "So you can graduate from High School." Lot of motivation there. Not!
If he'd known enough about me to suggest I needed it for the math I'd need to become an engineer, as to be an Astronaut, you needed to have an engineering degree and test pilot experience, he might have managed to motivate me a bit. After I got out of high school, and a few years into my USAF career, I found more reasons to learn algebra. Enlargements and reductions of film to print or slide can be calculated with a bit of algebra. With my eyes, I was never going to be an astronaut, but with an engineering degree I could later have become a shuttle Mission Specialist. While I was teaching, I asked my students what they wanted to do with their lives. Did have one young lady decide not to be a doctor after all, since they needed math, too, but mostly I found some example of math they'd need for whatever field they were interest in. I had a very short teaching career, so probably didn't get that many kids interested in math, but I tried.
Bill
All English literature, or virtually all, must be banned AT ONCE!
Let’s see what Wordsworth has to say:
“It is not to be thought of, that the flood of....
Seems like the Nordic countries have had some successful international exports after all...:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante;
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Also reminds me of the sci-fi short story I stumbled over in my early teens:
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Guess noone needs to ask why that story is still imprinted in my few grey cells left...
Johan
Well, that's interesting, since I found it searching Harlan Ellison. Though it is properly credited in the pdf I linked.
Bill
There is a YouTube video called 'Deliberate Dumbing Down of the World, Charlotte Iserbyt' who is talking about how she was one of those responsible. I cannot wrap my head around the fact that there are so many people in the world,(I think all bureaucrats would fall into this group),who work so hard to ruin other peoples lives and they for the most part seem to take delight in doing so.
Then there are those who are full blown woke. This from 2016 so maybe some of these students are now 'teachers'? The fact is that it has really only taken 50 - 60 years to destroy the West and unfortunately fads in America spread fast, things like spelling, "it doesn't matter how you write something as long as YOU know what you wrote" doesn't cut mustard when someone else has to try and decipher your drivel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14
My IQ has been severally rated at 124, not magically high, but higher than average. when at school, my position in a class of 64 students was 1st in algebra.
Three months AFTER leaving school I could not comprehend my own exercise book, and have not consciously used algebra in the ensuing 63 years.
However, I have a very logical bent of mind, which in my opinion, is primarily what algebra is, so, instead of filling student's heads with bucket loads of gobble-de-gook called algebra, teach them to THINK, logic(algebra), will most likely follow.
The problem with this situation is that governments the world over do not like critical thinkers, because it is they who will quickly identify the lies perpetrated by "authority", and thus endeavor to show that to everyone else.
As long as my son gets his turn to play quarterback for the football team, I am fine with all of this.
Actually, when he was in elementary school, we complained about the chart on the gym wall that showed he was able to do zero pull-ups, zero push-ups and was the slowest runner in the class. When we asked about posting math and science scores, we were told that would make the other kids feel bad. Go figure!
All I can figure is that we have an American culture that mostly outsources the education of their children to the school system. There are cultures that have quality parent involvement. But that is not common in descendants of white northern European immigrants, or the descendants of African forced immigrants, as well Hispanic immigrants.
It does seem to be a cultural behavior of the India, Asia, and Jewish cultures. Where the parents invest much extra time in teaching and providing learning opportunities with music and tutors.
And I've seen the local school districts that have inept superintendents, as well teachers, that push for touchy-feely learning. There are few skilled math teachers in high school, as if your that good at math, why would you teach grade school when you get real pay working in private industry.
I just remember my math teachers saying, "wait till you get to calculus, that is hard". In my adolescents, I took that as the truth. It was not until I attended university, that I had to take basic algebra and trig before I could start calculus, and still wonder where the difficulty is. So I have to believe that we have morons in our primary education system here. And in college, I saw, if you can't get a degree in anything else, you can get a teaching degree.
As well we have a system here, where we won't pay for the quality needed.
But the root failure is parents.
Metric_Taper,
I comprehend your angst, but don't blame the teachers, or for that matter the schools, the "education" system is not there to teach kids ANYTHING, it's there to ensure that they are brain washed into thinking that perceived "authority" is always right there fore any other opinion must be wrong, thereby producing compliant little drones.
I don't remember why now, but I was explaining the use of imaginary numbers with regard to power calculations. The friend's teen daughter had been listening and I could see the light bulb come on. She said she could now see why they were being taught this strange stuff, it made sense!
When are they going do this for basketball? How can anyone vote democrat? So they are going to make all equal by bring down the ones with a better work ethic. Math takes effort. It is not for the less disciplined.
'Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers ..
And I say again, any culture that promotes idiots into positions of power is destined to collapse under the weight of it's own stupidity.
Another one, this time at Grace Church School, a private school in Manhattan. A math teacher was fired for refusing to comply with the woke curriculum. He secretly recorded a meeting with the Head of School, George Davison, in which Davison admitted that they're demonizing white kids. After the incident, Davison announced his retirement. Same pattern here; this is the school's equity guide, and the equity consultant in this case was a firm called Polyanna. 11:43 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwTe-qP9AxI
Full 25:45 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZdddZYKFpU
More:
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/i-r...le-my-students
https://www.gcschool.org/programs/an...-and-belonging
Another corker from History Debunked. This video is based around a publication from Sheffield University called 'Decolonise_Handbook'. Unfortunately the link has just been taken down,(as in minutes ago),fortunately I had just finished downloading it: Attachment 39448
The video is called Decolonising science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYMKtS97wpQ
I don't think it's the mainstream political parties we have to worried about. I'm in my late 30s. The number of people who are my age and younger who are full on, card carrying communists is utterly staggering. There is a massive movement right now. Go check out Reddit for a quick cross-section of people who have never opened a history book.
I take this extreme dumbing down as more of a communist-esque offshoot of ultimate forced equality than any of the mainstream politics.
A genuine, viable third party could be a big help. Two parties makes it easy to formulate policy; you simply do the opposite of your opponents. With a third party present, your policy has to oppose without that opposition pushing you closer to one of your two opponents. Ideally, your best policy would be to advocate that which the majority of voters deemed appropriate.
At least that's the way it should work. Since dumbed-up people, and many of them (spit) lawyers, are involved, it would just turn into a three-directional mud slinging fest and nothing of value would be accomplished (IOW the way it is now).
We have that here in Canada. Technically more than three parties. But really it's three parties. Liberal, Conservative and NDP. It does help. At least it's not the us-vs-them cheering for your favorite team College Football match that American politics has turned into.
I speak now, only for Australia. We have a constitution, instigated in 1901 by Queen Victoria that mandates a "Commonwealth of Australia Parliament", not the teasonous AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT.
The 1901 constitution does not provide for political parties, it REQUIRES the members of parliament to be independent representatives of their electorate, and to present the will of the people to the "house". Everything else is corruption and fraud. just for the record, it also prevents lawyers from being law makers. Right at the moment i think about half of the pollies are lawyers, the other half are accountants. Now there's a ground feeding bunch ne'er do wells.
Here in the USA, everyone is for The Constitution, until they're not.
In truth Americans are for their comfort. The woke movement is about being comfortable not having to deal with anything unpleasant, such as the nature of humans to pillage their way across continents and peoples. None of the indigenous peoples just happened to arrive like an emerging athena. Each and all the survivors entered a land and drove out its prior residents.
Yep, sure, there was a first peoples in Australia, in Canada, in the USA, in Western Europe, Asia, Africa, tens of thousands of years past. Behind them came others who established themselves in the first ones' stead.
While we woke, the World forges ahead.
old kodger, At least you have various people and groups standing and fighting across your country. Across the ditch there was an Allahu Akbar terrorist attack and the only reason it made any sort of local news was that it had been reported in Australia.
The motive is unknown according to police.
Just to lighten the mood here is a very short offering from the venerable Ave that came out this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO2IG4WXdFM
NORTON DOMMIE,
Clearly he "woke"...................ho hum.
For all these sleeping beauties we need a Prince Charming, nothing else is going to wake them up!
That HAS to be a put up job NOBODY could be that bloody stupid, .......could they?
yes they can, but it is not always the case of stupidity alone.A lot of it can be directly attributed to ignorance gone to seed and down tight laziness.
I've seen guys who were supposed to be greasing the fleet of earth moving equipment just walk around wiping the zerks with a greasy rag make a half hearted attempt to put the nozzel on them give a quick pump then move on not caring if any grease went inside or not.
That HAS to be a put up job NOBODY could be that bloody stupid, .......could they?
Sometimes I have had to just walk away when words have failed me.
Another gem. This time, it's Sheffield University, and their plans to decolonize their engineering curriculum because key scientists such as Isaac Newton, Paul Dirac, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz may have benefited from "colonial-era activity". Archived Telegraph article here: https://archive.is/lBwMS
I am reminded of US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Robert's comments in Fisher v. University of Texas:
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The good news is that Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, a similar case to Fisher, is likely to reach the Supreme Court. In a nutshell, Harvard may be in trouble for considering "holistic" admissions guidelines during admissions, which have been shown to work against high-scoring Asian-American students, and in favor of lower-scoring African-American students. Harvard has done something similar to this before, with their Jewish quotas in the early 20th century that limited the number of Jewish students that would be admitted. Supporters of the plaintiff argue that university admissions should be like acceptance standards to professional sports teams - decided entirely on merit.
More:
https://archive.is/lBwMS
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_ar...4-981_onjq.pdf
I have an engineering degree. I went to school with a hell of a lot of really smart people, but if half of them got a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, they'd just lay down and die.
Tire iron? Check. Jack? Check. Full sized spare? Check. This problem is insurmountable. I guess this is where I die. Tell my family I love them.
Engineers have a bad reputation for a reason. Useless as tits on a nun. Hands on machine shop experience should be mandatory.
It's not just shown to work against Asians, they've admitted they're messing with SAT scores. At least some ivy leagues have openly admitted that their policy is to add a certain number of points to black SAT scores, and SUBTRACT a certain number of points from Asian SAT scores. That is insanely racist and evil. I don't understand how the woke crowd aren't losing their minds. This should be an enormous scandal.
I would like to see the data on non-ivy league schools, because it's only the big gunners that are getting the (tiny amounts of) attention.
I'm not an engineer, but have been cursed to work with them on high performance fighter and cargo aircraft, satellite communications gear, and industrial laundry machines. I figure they need five years in a production machine shop, and an additional five years pulling maintenance on the type of equipment they will be designing. And even then most of them shouldn't be allowed out without a keeper.
Bill
Quote "I don't understand how the woke crowd aren't losing their minds." end quote.
You make the presumption that they HAVE one