DEI and the University of Washington

[TurdBomber]

When my kids were in HS, Cliff got canceled by KUOW for advocating for traditional math versus the confusing bullshit "New Math" nobody could understand, or teach worth a shit.
Ultimately the district chose the traditional curriculum, but it was a dogfight against some really, really dumb people who just wanted to overturn anything in place that they'd already decided was "institutionally racist."
Including Algebra, as if they even know where it originated.
JFC. That's when I decided Seattle was fucking hopeless.

 

[WestlinnDuck]

When my kids were in HS, Cliff got canceled by KUOW for advocating for traditional math versus the confusing bullshit "New Math" nobody could understand, or teach worth a shit.
Ultimately the district chose the traditional curriculum, but it was a dogfight against some really, really dumb people who just wanted to overturn anything in place that they'd already decided was "institutionally racist."
Including Algebra, as if they even know where it originated.
JFC. That's when I decided Seattle was fucking hopeless.

Oregon did the same thing with both math and reading. It's okay for the basketball coach to demand practicing free throws. But teachers hate having the kids practice and then review that practice. So, no phonetics, just see and say. Just skip the basics. Same with multiplication tables. We had flash cards and I had to practice with my mom doing the multiplication tables and we would get tested in school and our results were posted. Oregon finally has mandated phonetics in all schools. No one is pushing basic math problems. Just give the kids a calculator in third grade and let them figure it out.

 

[huskyhooligan]

Was at a state training last year where they threw in 15 minutes at the end in DEI. A tall black lady dressed like Dumbledore from Harry Potter with blue hair got up and talked about how her mixed race family couldn't eat at certain establishments in WA state. She cited the staring her family receives when walking in such restaurants as the objective reasoning. I thought to myself, yeah, I'm going to stair at black Dumbledore walking past my table, but the fuck am I going to care if she's eating there.

It is not lost on me that DEI seems to have come to the forefront as a response to the repeal of affirmative action in a lot of places. It would appear to be the same thing, but it seems to be an even stronger version so as to make all tenants of the practice much harder to fully repeal.

 

[RoadTrip]

Was at a state training last year where they threw in 15 minutes at the end in DEI. A tall black lady dressed like Dumbledore from Harry Potter with blue hair got up and talked about how her mixed race family couldn't eat at certain establishments in WA state. She cited the staring her family receives when walking in such restaurants as the objective reasoning. I thought to myself, yeah, I'm going to stair at black Dumbledore walking past my table, but the fuck am I going to care if she's eating there.

It is not lost on me that DEI seems to have come to the forefront as a response to the repeal of affirmative action in a lot of places. It would appear to be the same thing, but it seems to be an even stronger version so as to make all tenants of the practice much harder to fully repeal.

No offense but what the fuck is a Dumbledore? Is that some Harry Potter or Dungeons and Draggons shit?

 

[Fire_Marshall_Bill]

When my kids were in HS, Cliff got canceled by KUOW for advocating for traditional math versus the confusing bullshit "New Math" nobody could understand, or teach worth a shit.
Ultimately the district chose the traditional curriculum, but it was a dogfight against some really, really dumb people who just wanted to overturn anything in place that they'd already decided was "institutionally racist."
Including Algebra, as if they even know where it originated.
JFC. That's when I decided Seattle was fucking hopeless.

Oregon did the same thing with both math and reading. It's okay for the basketball coach to demand practicing free throws. But teachers hate having the kids practice and then review that practice. So, no phonetics, just see and say. Just skip the basics. Same with multiplication tables. We had flash cards and I had to practice with my mom doing the multiplication tables and we would get tested in school and our results were posted. Oregon finally has mandated phonetics in all schools. No one is pushing basic math problems. Just give the kids a calculator in third grade and let them figure it out.

My third grade teacher made a game of it and had us compete against each other. She would show a flashcard (ex. 6 x 5) and the first person to sat 30 wins. One person would stand behind the other. This was in the late 80s when teachers smoked, males still wore ties, and we never heard about homosexuality. Now that would be discouraged in many school and teachers would be forced to teach grouping and spend 45 minutes extra on it.

 

[whlinder]

I'm sure I've told this story on here before but back in 1999 freshman english or something the prof (or maybe she was a TA) tried to tell me that NFL players were effectively slaves because they couldn't move cities or change teams on their own.
I about lost my shit on her. But stupid profs have been around for a while. Luckily I didn't have too many classes outside of Econ and Stats.

 

[huskyhooligan]

Was at a state training last year where they threw in 15 minutes at the end in DEI. A tall black lady dressed like Dumbledore from Harry Potter with blue hair got up and talked about how her mixed race family couldn't eat at certain establishments in WA state. She cited the staring her family receives when walking in such restaurants as the objective reasoning. I thought to myself, yeah, I'm going to stair at black Dumbledore walking past my table, but the fuck am I going to care if she's eating there.

It is not lost on me that DEI seems to have come to the forefront as a response to the repeal of affirmative action in a lot of places. It would appear to be the same thing, but it seems to be an even stronger version so as to make all tenants of the practice much harder to fully repeal.

No offense but what the fuck is a Dumbledore? Is that some Harry Potter or Dungeons and Draggons shit?

Ha ha. Yes. Harry Potter.

 

[huskyhooligan]

I made a mem