Wokie fraudster in Cali gets the state to stop teaching algebra to 8th-graders

If you're over 35 or so and attended a decent school you probably took algebra in the 8th grade, maybe 9th.  Now a *very* odd, "wokie" female professor at Stanford has urged California to stop doing that--cuz it beez raaaacis'.

Turns out the morons who run California have just adopted a new "math curriculum" for public schools.  It's got the trendy name "California Math Framework."

They call it a "framework" because the rubes know what "curriculum" is, but don't realize that "framework" is the same thing disguised.  And she's getting $5,000 per HOUR to explain it.
 
The main person responsible for this disaster is Jo Boaler, a Stanford professor of math education.  She urges that middle-schoolers not be taught algebra.  And you may well wonder why.

Did the lockdowns ordered by Dem governors make kids so dumb that 8th-graders can no longer understand algebra?  Or is this just a cunning move to cut K-12 spending by replacing algebra teachers with illegal aliens?

Jo Boaler explains that she made her "recommendation"--now adopted as the "framework" (i.e. policy for the whole state) "in the name of equity."

See, most people see "equity" and think it means "equality of opportunity."  Nope, it means equal *outcomes* regardless of effort (or lack of it).

Ever heard of anyone who charges $5,000 an HOUR for "consulting services"?  Yep, Jo Boaler.  That's how politically connected wokies like Jo pull down the big bucks, eh?

Though Jo has succeded in getting public schools to adopt her new curriculum, she sends her own children to a $48,000-a-year private school--that teaches its middle schoolers algebra.  That's called "double-standard," and the Dems excel at it.

As California goes, so goes the rest of the country, eventually.

Boaler's "guidelines" suggest delaying Algebra I until high school, instead teaching fuzzy “data science” courses as alternatives to calculus in the name of ensuring “equity.”

For years Boaler has somehow had the ear of administrators eager to do something about the fact that over 65% of public-school students can't do math at grade-level.

Boaler first made a name for herself in the early 2000s by urging schools to end “tracking,” under which they had advanced, average and remedial classes.  That allowed high-performing students to be challenged while underperforming students got help with basics.  

But so-called "brilliant" wokies like Jo pushed schools to have just one standard class, teaching the same content to all students. Problem was, to avoid classroom disaster, such classes had to be geared to the ability of the slowest students.  Boaler cunningly called her idea “heterogeneous classes” because that kept regular folks from knowing what she was proposing.  

Most rational adults instantly see that that one class for all won't produce the best results.  But as wokiez began to dominate all public schools, the idea of holding back the brightest students to cater to the dullest won, because it was so totally "woke."

Did we mention that Boaler's kids attend a $48,000-a-year private school?

In her hypocrisy Boaler matches the wokiez in DC, all of whom refuse to pass school-choice laws (opposed by the huge teachers' unions), but avoid the consequences of bad public schools by sending their kids to private schools.

Hypocrisy?  Perish the thought!

Boaler also seems to misrepresent her academic credentials, calling herself a “mathematics professor” at Stanford. Her promotional material describes her as a “Stanford mathematics professor.  But her Stanford webpage only shows her as ever being a part of the Education faculty.  She's never been a math professor, and there's a vast difference.

When accused of academic fraud in her "research" claiming her "one standard class" policy produced better results, she didn't respond to any of the actual charges, but instead claimed that her PhD critics "engaged in a range of tactics to discredit me and damage my work.”

Sounds like a typical wokie Democrat, eh?  If a policy fails it's never their fault.  "It failed cuz it wuz blocked by MAGA republicans!"