Math, Not Meth

San Francisco sure likes its' methheads. Yet parents have to take collective action so children might be provided with math skills in a timely manner.

When governments want to take more of your money, it is first helpful to examine what their real reason is, not just superficially look at the pretext. Next, what important things could those appropriated funds be better spent on?

Often, as with the “news” businesses, what governments omit from the discussion is more important than what they talk about.
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In a letter sent on July 12, Friends of Lowell Foundation, a group of parents, called for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to place a ballot measure in the 2024 election to make Algebra 1 available again for 8th-graders.

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"[O]ur school kids in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) cannot get to calculus, because when they moved Algebra 1 out of the eighth grade and put it into the ninth grade, that pushed everything back as a result"...

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Mr. Ridgeway recalled that hundreds of parents and residents protested before the school board, trying to stop SFUSD from removing Algebra 1 from the 8th grade in 2014.

“They didn’t even pay attention,” Mr. Ridgeway said. “They were going to do this, whether we liked it or not.”

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While 13.8 percent of Latino and 3.9 percent of African American students completed Algebra 2 by the end of 10th grade under the old course sequence, the numbers have fallen to 6.2 and 1.3 percent respectively under the new course sequence, according to education watchdog Families for San Francisco.


San Francisco Parents Call for Algebra 1 to Be Returned to 8th-Grade Curriculum



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