California's Marxist Math: The Once-Golden State Is Past the Point of No Return

[Kamaji]

California's Marxist Math: The Once-Golden State Is Past the Point of No Return

By Ward Clark
July 28, 2023

These days, if you were to draw one of Kamala Harris’s beloved Venn diagrams with one circle for “California” and another for “Reality,” there would be no overlap. The once and former Golden State has surrendered its state government to third-raters and its education system to the terminally woke. Now, just to put the icing on that lunatic cake, they have implemented new math standards.

Marxist math standards. Yes, you read that right.

California has approved new radical K-12 math standards that are openly a vehicle for Marxist ideology.  The stated goal is equity in math learning for non-whites and those from low-income families.  The framework notes that “black, latinx, indigenous, women and poor students” have been underrepresented in the curriculum throughout history.” Equity will be implemented in the curriculum by dumbing down and sugar-coating the lessons and infusing them with political issues and student organizing.

Tom Loveless, education researcher and former Brookings Institute fellow, predicted that the new framework “would place Golden State 6th graders years behind the rest of the world—and could eventually skew education in the rest of the U.S., too.”

There are some tidbits of what these new standards include, and they are just as risible as one would think, with babble like “explanatory text,” “examine(ing) inequities,” and “math identity rainbows.” Nothing that would be of any practical use, of course, and since mathematics is at the heart of, well, almost everything in our modern world, from the military to economics to engineering to business, this will eliminate any chance these poor young people have to get anywhere in life – unless they are pursuing one of the various Underwater Ethnic Dog-Polishing Studies degrees that seem to be sprouting from our academic institutions like cow parsnips.

*  *  *

Source:  https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/07/28/californias-marxist-math-the-once-golden-state-is-past-the-point-of-no-return-n783848

[Fishrrman]

2+2 = marxism.

("How many fingers do you see me holding up, Winston?")

[goatprairie]

Remember about ten years ago when amidst all the talk about leftists attempting to make all education woke, a number of people on the right said that well, they won't try that with math and science?
WRONG!!!!! Leftists are now attempting to say that 2 + 2 equals 5 if you feel like it or you're a certain color.
The insanity of these people is limitless.

[roamer_1]

All in my lifetime. I remember when Cali was staunchly Republican and mostly Conservative.

[DB]

And the exit of large numbers of Republicans it will only turn the state bluer further allowing the state to go more woke without resistance.

It has likely entered a death spiral that feeds on itself until there is nothing left to feed on.

[goatprairie]

All in my lifetime. I remember when Cali was staunchly Republican and mostly Conservative.

The tremendous Hispanic influx/immigration and high birth rate and the low birth rate of California whites did in California.
Minorities now make up 60% of the California population. There's the answer for the decline right there.

[DefiantMassRINO]

 

So, they seek Equity via Mediocrity.  Let the lowest of the lowest common denominators win!