> It's absolutely mind-boggling that the administrators try to establish "equity" by pushing all students down, instead of them
It’s not “mind boggling” if you do a deep dive into the “ethnic studies” curricula that so many teachers and administrators are graduating from these days. It’s a completely parallel value system complete with revisionist history. It’s like the Wahhabist madrassas in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Granted that stuff like that exists. What I question is whether teachers are actually being taught and accepting this in any sort of meaningful numbers, rather than simply existing as a handful of isolated publications that are largely ignored; do you know how widespread that is?
That first link is amazing. As far as I can tell, it has essentially nothing to do with math. One could search-and-replace to change math to any other field and get an equally valid paper.
It absolutely exists. Insane books like “White Fragility” didn’t come out of nowhere. There are whole academic departments in universities coming up with the underlying ideas.
Nikole Hannah-Jones had a line in the 1619 Project: “Out of slavery — and the anti-black racism it required — grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional.” If equity programs seem to disregard myriad other values, it’s because the underlying framework is expressly totalizing.
It’s not “mind boggling” if you do a deep dive into the “ethnic studies” curricula that so many teachers and administrators are graduating from these days. It’s a completely parallel value system complete with revisionist history. It’s like the Wahhabist madrassas in Pakistan and Afghanistan.