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emblem boy posted...

I agree with that guy then. Have other high level math class options and also increase the general rigour of math classes for all kids, not just the ones chosen to be the select few.

as a side note... , I will say though, from a purely pragmatic sense... I wish people would not use "it's a racist policy" as an argument when talking to parents about this stuff.

If there's anything we've learned recently, it's that people don't care if a policy has racist outcomes. They just don't. It's sad as fuck and depressing, but use any other reason. It's very easy for people to be racist or support racist policies. Don't try to appeal to racists by telling them you want to fix racist things.

Almost everybody cares about racism, but they don't care about what certain people call racism because those people use it to apply to almost everything frequently with literally 0 evidence.

Take this person's argument for example. He just said tracking "is racist" without an iota of evidence. Why should a parent care about that? Why should anybody?

Personally I find it much more racist to lower expectations and tracks of mathematical success to people as a function of thier race.

So yeah, almost everybody cares about racism, but that doesn't mean simply by invoking the term without evidence people should care, only fools care about that.