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[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if common core was the predecessor to CRT. I saw similar albeit lighter reactions to CC back then.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I had completely forgotten about the obsession with common core. Most of it had to do with opposition to teaching long division in a step-by-step way, right? I remember my uncle freaking out about a video of a woman teaching multiplication by showing how to add sets of numbers. He described it as common core math and for the life of me I can't understand exactly what conservatives were trying to say. I think the idea was that schools wanted to dumb down math to make everyone pass.

i think the reality was that American education is so poor and kids are so behind that teaching very remedial math is probably an improvement

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think their opposition to common core was as simple as "that wasn't how I was taught math, therefore it is bad and wrong and shouldn't be done. With an possible addition of "the kids these days shouldn't have it easy and should be taught math in the obtuse and terrible way I was."