Teaching hate and ignorance to children!-----Oregon’s DOE ‘acted to obscure’ radical ideologies ‘woven’ into policies, lessons

Oregon Department of Education promoting “ethnomathematics” (which instructs educators to “identify and challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views”) - Dave Huber - Associate Editor 

• There’s also the fact that Governor Kate Brown signed into law a bill which did away with “all [Oregon high school graduation] essential skills requirements” in the name of “equity” and “anti-racism.”

(In 2021, The Fix reported that Oregon’s “Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction” toolkit claims “the concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false,” and notes a way “to improve equitable outcomes for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students” 

is to 

• “visibiliz[e] the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture with respect to math.” 

Some of these “toxic characteristics” include a “focus on getting the 

• ‘right’ answer,” 
• “independent practice is valued over teamwork,” and 
• “requiring students to show their work.”)