Oregon promotes teacher program that seeks to undo 'racism in mathematics'

In some cases, alternative medicine is all that is necessary. Supporting the idea that pumping synthetic compounds through your body is necessary for the most basic of conditions, is not only dangerous to your body, but some of those side effects can be, um, unpleasant. One that comes to mind is : diarrhea and the inability to control it.

I'll go alternative to the point that it is not successful. Chiro has taken care of a number of back and neck issues, pain meds were not necessary.

 

I'd vote for a populist.

You know who can't relate to me?

- An *******
- A man who shits on gold toilet seats
- A man who cheats on every wife he has
- A disloyal jerk
- A troll

Etc.


I have zero in common with such a person. I have zero friends with those qualities.

 

Actually they do. When I was in college I took a class called Error Analysis. We were shown examples of finely engineered projects gone wrong. The thing that needs to be taken into account, is that no matter how perfect your numbers, there is always enough natural variation to throw them all out of whack. I’m mostly an electrical engineer and no matter how careful I go over my calculations, the end results in the physical product can vary wildly. It is because the variability in each component varies, which varies with temperature. In some cases the variability can be averaged out, but in other cases, it takes a trim pot and a little screw driver to fine tune it.

 

The OP is based on a misleading story from FOX.

There was a time when conservatives insisted that charter schools were needed because not everyone learned the same. That one size does not fit all. Yet here, that sentiment is being abandoned. But then the original argument was really just a BS argument in an end around effort to force religion into the public school system.

 

Thank you for a stellar post. Literally top quality and well thought out response.

 

Just as there are 'advanced' classes and 'remedial' classes, for those who learn at different speeds. The subject matter stays the same.

 

Whose story is that. It is not Gibbon's story.

A truer story is that Greek learning was preserved by the Greeks in Constantinople. The Dark Ages befell the West due to barbarian invaisions but never affected the East. Greek learning returned to the West because Byzantine scholars were fleeing the Turks who sacked Constantinople.

https://impactofthefallofconstantin...m many books and manuscripts written in Greek.

The Persians had little impact on the Renaissance because their centers of learning were destroyed a century before by the Mongols. Arab civilization never recovered surviving only in Iberia until the Reconquista.

But real history doesn't affirm your prejudices, so I don't suppose it makes any difference to you.

 

You didn't respond to anything I said. Why did you quote me?

 

This is Oregon that we are talking about. The state that was founded on White purity. At times it seems to be going overboard in making amends. There has been a rather large Black Lives Matter movement within the state, even though Oregon has a rather small Black population. But then, I think that the protests were often taken over by anarchists who just like the chaos and disruptions. Oddly though, historically, the people of Oregon have wrecked far more harm on the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese, than they ever have to Blacks.

I really don’t know a lot about the educational system in Oregon, as I came from Colorado, to retire in Oregon, where the trees are bigger and more plentiful. Oregon schools seem to have some of the worse outcomes in the country. But then it may be cultural as neighboring Idaho, which is closely linked, culturally, to Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington, is the least educated state in the country. It is a dichotomy from one end of the state to the other. The industry in the Portland area is dominated by high tech and financial companies that require a highly educated workforce. That educated workforce has mostly been coming from outsiders, which has been putting pressure on Oregon to improve their educational system.

 

Everyone gets their turn at running the world.
We did run the world, but by going into isolationism the last 4 yrs, we kinda fell out of being leaders.

 

To me, it seems there's a segment of the population that only thinks in binary terms. Up/down. Good/evil.
So if something is changing or mentions cultures, it can only be because something about it is racist. Even if, race has nothing to do with the topic at all.

Skin color is treated as racist.
Different cultures in the world is treated as racist.

When in reality, there' only 1 race, the human race. Which many ethnics/cultures/skin colors all part of the human race.

 

The left is abolishing advanced classes because not enough blacks qualify.

 

There’s a lot of pseudo-intellectual garbage on racism and white supremacy in the US at this time. It’s really fashionable to virtue-signal using racism by tying it into as many different issues/topics as possible.

The stories are a joke, but the headlines make great clickbait. Every one of us, sadly, hit the link.

 

The Left prides itself on defending reason, logic and science, will it do so here:

 

You said "the military has standards" as if no one else does.

Or maybe you didn't mean it that way. I am especially oversensitive to military elitism among conservatives.

 

I guess politics revolves around law. And law is either guilty or not guilty.
Or other laws try to weed gray out of it so it can be applied in courts or decision can be made. Again back to guilty or not guilty.
And when dealing with 300M people, even though there are near infinite gray areas, it has to boil down to simplistic terms.

 

So let's graduate engineers who have been taught they don't need to do correct calculations that wrong answers are acceptable. Let's tell medical researchers that their analysis of the data can't be right or wrong and they don't have to worry about doing precision math. Let's tell people who design new aircraft their calculations don't have to be accurate guesses are OK.

 

If you assert context is missing then supply it.

 

What does that have to do with 2 + 2 = whatever you choose there is no right or wrong answer?

 

Tell me when the NASA and SpaceX people are making those thousands of calculations to sent humans to the moon does it require precision math or close enough. That there is no right or wrong answer in the calculations?

 

What in hell are you going on about? Certainly nothing I just said.

 

I was joking, obviously, lighten up.