Okay so you're basically saying that it's too much effort to be smart so it's better to be stupid
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CanuckPlucky and
No one is saying that small children need to all spend the time and effort required to be bilingual in English and Farsi But becoming conversant with the *concept of multiple languages* is absolutely vital, yes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CanuckPlucky and
A kid isn't fully educated if they don't fully grok the concept that there's nothing inherently funny about the syllable "barf" just because it means one thing in English and a different thing in a different language
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CanuckPlucky and
This isn't about being "sensitive" or "not hurting people's feelings" this is about *not being stupid* Or, as we call it, cultural competence You are advocating *being stupid* (being completely used to one particular system of symbols and unable to think on a level above them)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CanuckPlucky and
It is very easy to be stupid, Americans in particular who rarely get challenged on matters of cultural competence are particularly prone to it -- "I don't have an accent, I talk normally" -- and it is in the long run very dangerous and very harmful
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Replying to @arthur_affect @borrfdad and
Do Americans not have a social studies or geography class where they study other cultures? If they do, and that class is failing, why use math class to teach this? # finishing school without basic math and eng. literacy is staggering. You'd have them run before they can crawl?
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Replying to @CanuckPlucky @arthur_affect and
I mean... can you explain to me how cultural competence will help Adults answer a question as simple as this? Or is a kid "fully educated" if they can explain the traditional counting method of Aztecs, but can't read a table and graph?pic.twitter.com/fyldBJPR2p
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Replying to @CanuckPlucky @borrfdad and
Right, the problems with American education are all down to "wokeness" in the curriculum and nothing to do with poverty and access Fuck off
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Replying to @arthur_affect @borrfdad and
For someone who knows more than average, your reading comprehension sucks. I don't think the problems are due to 'woke curriculum. Never said or implied that. But I don't think that adding 'woke' curriculum will do anything to help, and likely make it worse.
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Replying to @CanuckPlucky @borrfdad and
No, I pretty strongly think that anything that turns education into less of a slog treating students like programmable components of a machine is quite likely to help
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The specific curriculum elements seem less important to me than the *attitude* that mathematics (like any other subject) are something to play around with, a set of tools that humans use to creatively explore what they can do to accomplish goals
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CanuckPlucky and
And not a set of received truths we reprogram your brain with so when you shut up and listen and do as you're told you spit out the "right answer" and get a pat on the head
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