You're talking about Stroud's headline? Because Fox's is accurate, not that I'm in the habit of defending Fox News. I agree with your point as it pertains to our individual integrity. It doesn't change his point one bit, though, or anyone else's in this thread.
(04-24-2021, 07:54 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: [ -> ]You're talking about Stroud's headline? Because Fox's is accurate, not that I'm in the habit of defending Fox News. I agree with your point as it pertains to our individual integrity. It doesn't change his point one bit, though, or anyone else's in this thread.
That is correct. I'm talking about Stroud's headline, not Fox's headline.
I wasn't making any point about the arguments in this thread.
(04-24-2021, 07:47 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: [ -> ]Why do we have to twist these stories to make a point? The headline says, "Virginia moving to eliminate all accelerated math courses." That is lying by omission. Virginia is moving to eliminate all accelerated math courses before the 11th grade.
We can argue all we want about the merits of it, but we should at least be factually accurate.
You can't learn advanced math if you don't have foundations learned before that. They are also stopping anyone from being able to take algebra, geometry, statistics, etc before 11th grade. It is punishing smart students because they are saying some races don't do well in math because of racism instead of some students don't care and don't have parents who force school as a priority.
They claim they are doing it help students create critical thinking, problem solving, and real world skills. That is great and I loved it in the advanced program I was in. The issue is the kids that fall behind in algebra aren't going to develop critical thinking skills if they don't know the basic concepts. If you can understand how to follow a pattern to solve a math problem, you can't then ask them to think how they would do something using the concepts they don't know.
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