Comment on Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 10 months agoI didn’t need to write a 10 page paper on 3D trig for general math. Nor how to transpose a matrix.
I don’t think that’s what most people learn in terms of math. If you’re not going to college you probably don’t need trig or calc, but a basic understanding of algebra and geometry is useful IMO.
we just kept doing the same imagery fan theorizing from 8th grade to graduation.
Sounds like a problem with a shitty school or poor teachers, rather than a defect of English lit education in general.
aidan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A significant share of people finish common core curriculum long before graduating. That’s why AP, IB, and other advanced courses exist.
SCB@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As a former teacher, this is not how educational standards work at all.
aidan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What did I say about educational standards?
SCB@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s what common core is. A curriculum is built from a set of standards.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I meant Common Core in terms of English, like the basing your interpretations of a text on evidence, etc. Catching students up in basic reading skills is a real problem, but I don’t think that’s an issue with how the curriculum is designed, but rather a problem with the basic economic functions of the country, where parents don’t have time to meaningfully interact with their kids because of job pressures. Starting kids on literacy young is hugely important, but a parent with 3 jobs isn’t going to have time to read to their kids every night.
So there’s pressure on the school to get kids up to grade level without economic support, and there’s pressure on the parents to help their kids without having any time to deal with it… turns out stagnating wages in favor of the millionaire class for 50 years wasn’t the solution after all.
aidan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is it not also a problem to wastes years of millions of students lives on education of specifics far beyond what they need or want, merely to fill time because they want everyone in highschool until 17 or 18?
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I’m not quite understanding your point. Should we stop educating most kids at 14 or 15? Then the prospects for them are starting full time work a few years earlier or something?