Meanwhile, the Office of Personnel Management may soon be headed by someone who supports the view that standardized tests are racist. So, notes long-time milblogger Commander Salamander, does the Naval Chief of Operations.
Politics Against Education
It's common for states to have 'required classes' of politically-mandated nonsense that end up forcing high school students to study politically-approved subjects rather than things like mathematics. Virginia is going beyond that, however, and simply banning the study of advanced mathematics before the 11th grade.
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The word of the day is "Pro·crus·te·an
/prōˈkrəstēən/"
It's hard to imagine why parents would leave their kids in a school district like that. Soon we'll have to have a black market in forbidden studies.
What a lot of rot these people talk about abandoning old-fashioned concepts like algebra and geometry in favor of "Fundamental Reasoning." It would be lovely if what they meant was that they'd teach rigorous mathematical reasoning instead of making kids parrot jargon, but we know that's not how it works out. Luckily, these days you can learn perfect good math from YouTube tutorials, available even to people who've been bled dry by public school tuition-tax. When public schools stop giving kids a leg up in the world of employment, someone's still got to figure out how to keep the roofs and bridges from collapsing.
I suspect the home-school math curriculum is getting passed around, and anyone with Teaching Company DVDs about math (they have several classes) suddenly becomes popular. :) Plus the KhanAcademy, EdEx, Crash Courses (YouTube) and other on-line resources.
I will refrain from voicing my opinion of the idea that "if one group can't/won't do it, no one may do it." As memory serves, our honored host frowns on that sort of language in the Hall, when used without sufficient cause.
LittleRed1
@ T99 - your suspicion is correct. The lack of math, real science, civics, etc is covered by something that sounds like more advanced thinking that is actually indoctrination in the correct opinion.
We are fortunate that children pay no more attention to their teachers than we did in the old days. Otherwise we would be doomed.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/virginia-accelerated-math/
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