Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Destroying education!-----Mathematics a tool of racial oppression, Seattle public schools committee says

Mathematics a tool of racial oppression, Seattle public schools committee says
See the source image"Something called the "K–12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework," created by a Seattle Public Schools "Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee," is intended to instruct students that math is intimately connected to racial oppression.  
Students will be taught "how technology and/or science have been and continues [sic] to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color."  
The framework, the final draft of which is scheduled to be completed by September 2020, will also attempt to "explain how math dictates economic oppression."  
That's correct: math.
Tracy Castro-Gill, the ethnic studies program manager at Seattle Public Schools, noted that the framework is intended to redress the fact that the district has not been properly serving minority students..."
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