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Topic	56% of Americans don't want Arabic numbers to be taught in schools
Kyuubi4269 05/23/19 10:08:24 AM #29:	keyblader1985 posted... BlackScythe0 posted... Dear god. Why wouldn't their first question be "What are arabic numerals?" This. It's not even about the "Arabic" part (although I don't doubt that a decent amount of folk had a knee-jerk reaction based on it). If you don't know what it is, you should find out and see if it has any academic merit before answering "no." There's already so much fluff in schooling, I can see why they'd see learning any more fluff as useless. --- Doctor Foxx posted... The demonizing of soy has a lot to do with xenophobic ideas. <cite>Kyuubi4269 posted [p:922265296] in 56% of Ame... [t:77734307]...</cite> <quote><cite>keyblader1985 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>BlackScythe0 posted...</cite> <quote>Dear god. Why wouldn't their first question be "What are arabic numerals?"</quote> This. It's not even about the "Arabic" part (although I don't doubt that a decent amount of folk had a knee-jerk reaction based on it). If you don't know what it is, you should find out and see if it has any academic merit before answering "no."</quote> There's already so much fluff in schooling, I can see why they'd see learning any more fluff as useless. --- Doctor Foxx posted... The demonizing of soy has a lot to do with xenophobic ideas.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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