(THE NEW AMERICAN) – Math just used to be math. It was such a matter-of-fact part of life that people used it to refer to things that just are what they are – such as using the phrase “two plus two is four” to indicate the logic of a known fact. But that was before Critical Race Theory (CRT) and BLM and the racial politicization of nearly everything. Math just used to be math; now, it’s racist. Or at least it is possibly racist, according to USA Today.
In an online article published Tuesday under the headline, “Is math racist? As many students of color struggle with the subject, schools are altering instruction — sometimes amid intense debate,” USA Today led readers to the poisoned well of CRT math where racism hides behind basic equations. Sure, two plus two is four, but you are a racist for wanting that information relayed to black students in a way that does not acknowledge – and even celebrate – their blackness and victimhood status.
Making education a “team sport” with rules and “new techniques designed to promote equity” seems to be little more than a way to pass failing students – after all, what kid can’t “win” if he can skate by on the correct answers from stronger “teammates” in a game that is designed to “promote equity” by propping up weaker students? What it will not do is address the actual education of students. While those students will “get by” and get through school on the illusion that they are learning, the only “lesson” they will really take away is the lie that they require a different set of rules or they can’t play.
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