SuperSpreader Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 San Francisco Voters Overwhelmingly Support Algebra’s Return to 8th Grade WWW.YAHOO.COM By a huge margin, San Francisco residents voted Tuesday in favor of returning algebra to the 8th grade after a decade-long experiment failed to provide the equity-minded results the school district...    Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 That's not the only thing that San Franciscans brought back:  City of peace and love votes for drug screening and more police surveillance  Quote  The liberal bastion of San Francisco pivoted rightward in Tuesday’s election as voters responded to ongoing drug, homelessness and crime crises by approving policies that bolster police and require drug-screening for welfare recipients.  The results represent a major victory for embattled Mayor London Breed, a moderate Democrat who faces a tough fight for a second full term in November. She hitched her political future to a slate of three ballot measures that aim to move a city struggling with its slow post-pandemic recovery in a strikingly more conservative direction.  Voters approved all three of her measures on Tuesday, including her proposal to screen and mandate addiction treatment for people receiving county welfare.   1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 7 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: That's not the only thing that San Franciscans brought back:  City of peace and love votes for drug screening and more police surveillance    Wow bootlicker capitalists! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 Now we know why they lost the Superbowl, they're tryna be like Dallas! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUFKAK Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 The welfare one is dumb but cool with the others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Who's bright idea was it that getting rid of algebra would help with equity? lmao 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 7 hours ago, mclumber1 said: Who's bright idea was it that getting rid of algebra would help with equity? lmao  Every child left behind   San Francisco loves Muslims so much they banned Algebra   San Francisco plans to fix its high cost of living by banning math  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 7 hours ago, mclumber1 said: Who's bright idea was it that getting rid of algebra would help with equity? lmao  Probably the same person that taught you english.   2 5 1 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 Hoose* Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 1 hour ago, Kal-El814 said: Â Probably the same person that taught you english. Â Â Â I was raised in the streets 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 I didn't even know this was a thing. Trying (and apparently failing) to make things equitable by bringing others down instead of lifting others up was quite the policy decision! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 5 hours ago, legend said: I didn't even know this was a thing. Trying (and apparently failing) to make things equitable by bringing others down instead of lifting others up was quite the policy decision! Libs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 All the policy did was move algebra 1 from 8th grade optional to a 9th grade class. The results were mixed in terms of meeting its goals. Yall are boomering the topic  San Francisco Insisted on Algebra in 9th Grade. Did It Improve Equity? WWW.EDWEEK.ORG The policy change improved access to some courses. But racial inequities at the most advanced levels of math remain largely unchanged.  1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysDyingX Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 On 3/7/2024 at 9:29 PM, TUFKAK said: The welfare one is dumb but cool with the others.   Curious as to why? Doesn't bother me either way, I don't live there. Im sure its a meager amount of money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 4 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: All the policy did was move algebra 1 from 8th grade optional to a 9th grade class. The results were mixed in terms of meeting its goals. Yall are boomering the topic  San Francisco Insisted on Algebra in 9th Grade. Did It Improve Equity? WWW.EDWEEK.ORG The policy change improved access to some courses. But racial inequities at the most advanced levels of math remain largely unchanged.   But how does lowering the bar help anyone? I still think it was shortsighted for us as society to replace equality with equity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 7 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:  But how does lowering the bar help anyone? I still think it was shortsighted for us as society to replace equality with equity. How was the bar lowered? They kept kids on a common math track, and the rates of kids taking advanced math either went marginally up for some groups or stayed roughly the same. There wasn’t an apparent regression. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: How was the bar lowered? They kept kids on a common math track, and the rates of kids taking advanced math either went marginally up for some groups or stayed roughly the same. There wasn’t an apparent regression.  Reading the article you posted, the policy initially caused drops in enrollment in AP math classes because the students who would have taken algebra 1 in 86th grade now got jammed up on taking the prereqs for the AP classes. It does say this eventually got fixed to some extent by combining algebra 2 and precalc into a single "compression course", but it still causes problems because a lot of universities don't recognize the compression course as fulfilling precalc, so students put through the SF system then have to waste a semester of college taking precalc.  Quote Some critics of the district’s policy, including STEM professors from several California universities, have claimed that the district’s precalculus compression course doesn’t provide students the same preparation for higher-level classes that a traditional precalculus course would offer. (The University of California system categorizes the compression course as an Algebra 2 course, and it doesn’t exempt students from precalculus prerequisites in state colleges.)  The end of the article also discusses how the policy change didn't actually fix any equity gaps in who was taking AP classes, which was supposed to be the whole point of the policy in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marioandsonic Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 On 3/8/2024 at 9:43 AM, mclumber1 said:  I was raised in the streets   3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUFKAK Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 15 hours ago, BasemntDweller2 said:   Curious as to why? Doesn't bother me either way, I don't live there. Im sure its a meager amount of money. It’s the equivalent of cutting off healthcare to someone with a chronic health condition. Addiction has many contributing factors and fiends are gonna fiend, but cutting off a path to recovery ensures they stay fiends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 16 hours ago, Jason said: Â Reading the article you posted, the policy initially caused drops in enrollment in AP math classes because the students who would have taken algebra 1 in 86th grade now got jammed up on taking the prereqs for the AP classes. It does say this eventually got fixed to some extent by combining algebra 2 and precalc into a single "compression course", but it still causes problems because a lot of universities don't recognize the compression course as fulfilling precalc, so students put through the SF system then have to waste a semester of college taking precalc. Â Â The end of the article also discusses how the policy change didn't actually fix any equity gaps in who was taking AP classes, which was supposed to be the whole point of the policy in the first place. If lowering the bar means an unintended consequence happens, which was then corrected or attempted to be corrected, then every experiment can be labeled as lowering the bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysDyingX Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 3 hours ago, TUFKAK said: It’s the equivalent of cutting off healthcare to someone with a chronic health condition. Addiction has many contributing factors and fiends are gonna fiend, but cutting off a path to recovery ensures they stay fiends.  Not to mention the wasted money on drug test just to find out its only a very small percentage of people who will test positive. This has been proven time and time again in other states. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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