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If anything up it to calculus
According to news reports, the Texas Board of Education today gave preliminary approval to a proposal to drop the second year of Algebra requirement for high school graduation. There was already a pathway for avoiding the second year of math requirement by taking a general curriculum rather than a college prep curriculum. Approximately 20 % of Texas high schoolers already took that approach. Now this change will allow even students pursuing an alleged 'academic' curriculum to avoid Algebra II.
Really impressive, eh?
Math? MATH?! We don't need no steenking math!!!
If anything up it to calculus
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http://www.wfaa.com/news/education/T...232933901.html
Apparently, Texas wss one of only 17 states that required Algebra II.
Teysha beat me to it. Granted Arizona is about as far from a good measuring stick on public education as it gets, when I started HS as a freshman, everyone was excited they could take the honors freshman math class that covered algebra I/geometry and be done with math after that. When I saw this story I'm surprised Texas still required it. I think it's stupid as to lower math standards and don't agree with it all, but this isn't big news imo.
The part that's the most stupid, and it's another thing that doesn't just apply to Texas at all, is the fact the "general curriculum" (i.e. the curriculum kids who aren't going to college take) requires less math. If anything, the "general curriculum" should be more specialized and focus on technical skills so the kids graduating with it at least have a sliver of a chance at getting a decent job with a HS diploma.
Last edited by DUNCANownsKOBE; 11-22-2013 at 07:51 PM.
if standards are lowered, maybe our students will test out better.
I took Algebra in 8th grade, Geometry, Algebra II, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus in high school. If I had to take those hard ass classes, emo pussy kids should have to pay their dues and in' take them too.
And how exactly is Geometry needed when working at Walmart?
Funny how they have no problem removing Algebra II and yet can't seem to let go of Darwin.
calling any of those classes hard
You guys act like Math is really needed in today's youth as they roam the streets.
Yeah mouse, math isn't needed for someone like you who "roams the streets" living in a trailer as a transient parasite.
Yes I can see from your postings how math has made you a better person and the mature class act you are today..
All the class in the world isn't gonna get you out of that double wide
I remember my dad telling me that my textbooks were a joke. Awhile back I saw one of my friend's kid's books and said the same thing.
Algebra and Algebra 2 are a breeze for some kids, next to impossible for others, and moderately difficult for most, it seems. Genetics can be so cruel... or kind.
Real Algebra II was long gone in public schools once Algebra II became required. Just like physics. The State is the problem, they rate according to failures. So many kids coming into public HS can't complete REAL Algebra II. So the teachers are forced to pass them.
Everyone knows how to teach and understands what needs to be fixed in education because they went through it so this makes them experts. So the board would rather we keep the status quo in which Algebra II WAS not taught, it was just labeled as Algebra II.
Excellent. Raising standards, but not allowing teachers to fail kids... That's what the state wants.
m>s thinks that all students should be required to take calculus... Want a quiz m>s?
Yeah, all these Taco Bell workers are hammering out the algebra.
It doesn't need to be a requirement. It can be an elective, sure. Let those who have a future in academia or science choose it, but let those who change oil and flip burgers get that diploma so they can be shot at by the hajis.
We've been lowering the requirements for education since 1979, when the Department of Education was started. Watch the do entary 'lottery of birth' which is about as 'left wing' of a do entary as there is where they talk the about things such as the Trilateral Commission and why it was set up. You will see that our population has been intentionally dumbed down educationally since then, purposefully. What has been done to young people, over the last 30 years, is a crime. You're ignorant, by design, and don't even know it. It's in our public schools and in our universities but at the top schools for the best education. The rest of you are to chase useless degrees designed to do their work.
Let me give you the quick study here. The Trilateral Commission was formed after the sociological upheaveal of the 1960's and early 70's. Rockefeller, Breszenski, Carter....yes..Jimmy Carter, before he was president. Their concern was how did this all happen ? How did the 1960's happen ? How did 'they' lose control. It scared them. They decided the population, and more specifically, young people, were 'overeducated' and their expectations could not be met and this frustration caused revolt. They were the 1st generation more educated than their parents and they were in the streets, dissatisfied with how it all worked. So, they, the TC recommended to, intentionally, dumb down our public schools and universities ( by default ). The next election cycle Jimmy Carter was elected president and during his administration the Department of 'Education' was formed. ( Work is Freedom ). The purpose of the DoE is to do anything BUT educate.
Last edited by ErnestLynch; 11-24-2013 at 01:49 AM.
I hope all of you that give me for working in retail lose your current job and can only get a lowly job at a retail store. I also hope you have to work there for at least 5 years and never getting promoted too and no nights or weekends off. Let's see how you feel when you get to experience that. I don't think you would be bashing random strangers on an internet message board for having some bad luck in the job market.
The US has one of the best education system's in the world..Yes students from the 50's and 60's 40's, had a better grasp of math facts but they couldn't use a computer, design a web page, use power-point, word, excel, access..
HAHAHAHA...CREATING it and using it are two different things. Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C language and basically, Unix, is in his 70's. You're just an end user, kiddo.
Who do you think created this , son ?
The big names of the computing revolution, that gave us this, aren't household names. And they are all old farts, older than your parents I would guess. The modern digital tech industry sits on the shoulders of those that aren't even boomers. They're older than THAT. , if you're 20, right now, Dennis Ritchie and that group know more about computers than you'll EVER know and they're your grandpas age. What's next ? We go to the moon ( again ) and you declare your generation the most smartest ever ?
Excel...HAHAHA...
But going back to my point up there. See, if you're young...and I'm not blaming you for being young...but you just don't understand what the 1960's and early 70's WERE and how it changed this nation or what 'the boomers' were about. There was a lot of brain power in that generation. Highly educated generation. Just by numbers alone but beyond that, a well educated generation. The most educated generation in our history. YOU, are not. But it's not your fault.
Last edited by ErnestLynch; 11-24-2013 at 02:38 AM.
What this generation needs is another version of Carroll Quigley, Bill Clinton's favorite writer and who's book 'Tragedy and Hope' which outlined 'how the world works' and who runs it, by the self proclaimed historian of 'The Illuminati' as the book that influenced him the most. Another of his favorite Quigley books is 'The Evolution of Civilizations'. But, the most important thing here is, to examine who Carroll Quigly, who died in 1977, was. There is your answer to a few questions you may not even have held. This world is run by people and it's important to know who they are, what they believe, and what their goals are. In this, there are more answers to your life than most realize.
Last edited by ErnestLynch; 11-24-2013 at 02:35 AM.
The question being played out here in America, is whether 'inclusive diversity' is possible. A huge gamble on the part of the anglo-european power of this country that has and is putting the cons ution and ideas of the founding fathers to the ultimate test and whether capitalism, the rule of law, can survive and/or accomplish this test. The odds are, these days, that you are little more than a lab rat. Whether you'll be exterminated or be the exterminator, is still in question. That, or the 'big experiment' works. America has always been an experiment.
Last edited by ErnestLynch; 11-24-2013 at 03:02 AM.
algebra 2 is row matrices, exponentials, and irrational numbers. Exponentials and symmetries are where a lot of mathematical intuition comes into play. i respect they wanted that standard met. I am surprised not in the least that it cannot be.
Most people in life aren't going to need to know math past Algebra I, unless the curriculum isn't that it use to be. I don't see a problem with this. I too Algebra in 7th grade, and continued on through HS with higher levels, but really? What do people need trig, analytic geometry, calculus, etc. for unless a job scientific job field needs it?
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