Virginia moves to eliminate all advance math classes

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

Tequilla said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

This is how a lot of SJW teachers think.

Keep the advanced kids down. They can go help the disadvantaged kids instead of going on to Calc. 2. It's all Trump and institutional racism's fault. Watch for grades to start going away.

Starting in the 2nd/3rd grade it was pretty obvious that I was way ahead of my peers in math ... neither teacher really knew what to do ... let’s just say I was fairly bored

I had the same teacher for 4th and 5th grade ... his solution was to drop an advanced book at my desk and tell me that by and large I was on independent study during the main lesson aspect and he’d come work with me while the rest worked on their problem sets ... I thrived

Midway through 6th grade I switched school districts and went from middle school back to elementary school ... back at elementary school it was pretty obvious that the teacher didn’t know math and I effectively taught the class

That’s a long winded way of saying that you bring up an excellent point in that not only are we dumbing down the kids, but we’re reducing the requirement for excellence from our teachers.

This is such an abject disaster

Bill was demoted from the high math class in 2nd grade. Then I got like 97s in the ghetto average class without trying hard but by middle school it was clear I was in the average range. It's okay. I accept it. I'll never be an engineer.

Back then, or even ten years ago we accepted people are either good at math, average, or suck st it and placed them a accordingly. Now younger Gen X and Millennials who were given trophies for nothing and hate successful types throw in their woke nonsense into verifiable facts. Lifting people who struggle is good. Stagnating the ones with 134 IQs is irresponsible and wrong.