Are are American students struggling with math?

So what?

I support total elimination of government schools

 

Trump loves the poorly educated because they're dumb enough to vote for him.

Trump was the guy who almost took away their healthcare. He gave them little of his 2017 tax cut. He's no friend of poor folks.

Trump is a malignant narcissist. He think mostly about himself.

 

Churches charge lower tuition and can't afford to pay STEM teachers.

Vouchers aren't government-run schools.

 

The best education in America is pre-school/family education, and the best teachers, “We, The Parents”, for example; We played educational/challenging games EVERY DAY, and after supper, Boggle was a family favorite.

Results; At age 6/7, my kids we smarter and more knowledgeable than a fifth grader.

Also, I’ve never criticized our Government funded K-12 education because my kids were A-students.

 

That's awesome

I know that vouchers aren't government-run schools. I didn't say I was opposed to vouchers. I said I'm opposed to government-run schools.

 

Good for you!
Little kids, pre-school age- are like sponges and learn very fast. They are curious, and I think easy to teach. When my first son came along- I, like you, tried to give him that early jump start.
We set up a kind of play school, started teaching him the alphabet at two. he went into kindergarten already able to read and write very well. Today- he's still amazing. Analytical, can do most anything- art, electronics, design building and mechanical things, invent things.

Parents don't have to be brilliant to do this, but they do have to care, to want to give their children the keys to success- and invest that effort in them.
That's how we build a better future- build better kids today. It's not an accident.

Your kids will forever benefit from what you did for them- as will their kids.

 

You have absolutely no idea what's going on in schools.

 

Okay. I misunderstood your position.

 

I'm sorry, but this isn't even true of most parents. It's especially not true as kids get to high school.

 

Too many school districts would rather focus on instilling racism, or urging children to amputate perfectly healthy body parts, than teach core academics.

 

Bad genes

 

Schools should stop promoting perversion and politics and return to core academics.

 

Woke Garbage

FIGHT THE POWER: UC Faculty Members Rebelling Against DEI in Math Classes.

'Given enough time, all bad ideas are eventually shown to be exactly what they are. The issue, of course, is how much collateral damage is created before someone either admits that they were wrong or stands up and declares that it is time to put an end to the madness. And members of the faculty in the University of California (UC) system have decided that DEI just isn’t working, at least in terms of math.'

It was immediately apparent that this was polluting indoctrinating garbage.

'The UC faculty members are speaking out against a policy dating back to 2020, which lowered the requirements for math in order to include more “marginalized” people. Of course, dropping the standards for things like math hardly equips a student to succeed in life, much less in their chosen field. The policy was intended “to expand course offerings beyond the traditional sequence of math courses that may lead students into the ‘race to calculus,’ to be more inclusive of new and innovative advanced math courses (e.g., data science), and to address equity issues.”'

Failing to comprehend the language of mathematics is a debilitating form of illiteracy.

'“We are concerned that under-represented groups, women, and those attending under-resourced schools may be steered into alternative math pathways that are promoted as being friendlier or more engaging but in fact offer less preparation.”'

So students aren't properly equipped, but, they're more diverse!

“Introduction to Data Science … [makes] claims that they specifically support learning for women and minorities, which are not only baseless, but fail to appreciate that they actually do the opposite and harm students from such groups by steering them away from being prepared for STEM majors.”

Field after field has to expel this nonsense and return to their core purpose. For example, when I get into an airplane, I want to know that the design engineer was competent in physics, I do not want to sacrifice any part of his education to insert "DEI" because I don't want to see people DIE.