[mixmastamyk]

These kind of anti-solutions backfire.

Say there's a real problem, the police are killing people. Instead of solving that... well few of us have any power over that, so instead we resort to changing things we do have power over.

Like… watering down math classes and pretending that is even the thousandth thing on the list of solutions that should be tackled first as a response. It's so far down the list (and has better remedies) that it actually hurts the cause.

[dragonwriter]

> These kind of anti-solutions backfire.

Its not an anti-solution, and you provide neither evidence or reasoning to support your claim that it is part of a class of things that backfires.

> Say there's a real problem, the police are killing people

That is a real problem. Education is done in a culturally biased manner which perpetuates the disadvantage or marginalized groups is also a real problem. As is the fact that education is done by outdated methods which underserve even the best served, on top of the inequities. The former one doesn't negate the latter two.

> Like… watering down math classes

This is not about “watering down” math classes, but the opposite; it is about applying evidence to improve the quality and equity of mathematical instructions.

I don't except that my tax dollars should be wasted on broken on biased math just because we haven't fixed racist violence by police.

[s1artibartfast]

>This is not about “watering down” math classes, but the opposite; it is about applying evidence to improve the quality and equity of mathematical instructions.

This ignores a majority of students that are are well severed through the current curriculum and would advance more slowly under the proposal.

[dragonwriter]

> This ignores a majority of students that are are well severed through the current curriculum and would advance more slowly under the proposal.

The framework cites the research that that isn't the case, where is yours that says it is?

[s1artibartfast]

Can you point me to where in in the framework it has the data? I couldn't find it

[mixmastamyk]

It was these folks (and it seems you agree) that decided to wrap up a few good suggestions (and a few bad ones) in political propaganda with only the most tenuous tangent to relevance.

People recognize that pretty easily and are instantly turned off. So yes, it backfires, poisoning any hope they had to convince. Re-read this comment section from top to bottom for your evidence.

[s1artibartfast]

When your sole metric is equality, it is easier to hold all students back than address the issues causing a subset of of students to underperform.

It is most akin those who advocate for harsher penalties for white criminals to because penalties are disproportionately harsh for minorities.