This is the cohort that was supposed to learn this material during the covid years, but got a free pass. I think most of them will probably not catch up, and their career choices will be circumscribed by it. The overwrought covid safetyism with regard to children has untold numbers of lifelong victims.
We are all going to be victims of this cohort. These are people who will be unable to integrate into society due to lack of basic competency skills.
I doubt their reading skills are much better.
And she thinks she was decieved by his Elementary School even though he's bright and industrious and running his own successful business at 14?
Many things are not adding up here.
I'd assume based on being in the NYPost that it's propaganda, but it's at the very least weird propaganda.
The "no child left behind" policies do this on an industrial scale. Failing to acknowledge learning deficiencies and differences in ability causes far more long term damage than being honest about it up front.
Future generations of US citizens will be the uneducated labor of the global society. Probably 2-3 generations from now.
If (many, not all) public schools forced students to learn math where they were supposed to learn, unfortunately, the entire system would come to a stop, as almost no students can do basic math.
Might be good though to let people know where we really are as a society. Take a couple years off work back up with our rudiments.
Look at the adjusted COL numbers. Whatever you think they're paying money for, it's not the people directly responsible for teach children.
This is intentional degradation of communities.
If a student comes from a disadvantaged neighborhood, out of charity give additional opportunities, assistance, treat them as individuals instead of a group, but don't let them off the hook. If the student won't take the opportunities, you can lead them to water but can't make them drink. Spend the effort on those who want to drink, regardless of background or current condition.
Edit: In all fairness, teaching in general is hard especially for a teacher in a public school, so I do also hold sympathy for them. And not all of them agree with the practices.
Yeah, the mom featured in the article should also double-check her son's abilities in spelling. And other subjects.
EDIT: Math grade inflation really ain't new. Back in the later 1980's, I taught a few lower-level math courses at (on paper) a major research university in Michigan. Rule of thumb was that every undergrad taking our "Algebra 101" course (of which there were thousands every year) had gotten through all 4 years of their high school's top-end math courses. With good grades. Hard reality was that any student who actually learned and retained 1 1/2 years of HS math could easily place out of the course. And there were still loads of students who still couldn't manage to get an easy "B-" when they took our hand-holding Algebra 101 course.
Anyway, schools in many states are funded by property taxes; when properties arn't owned by the people going to the school, that school degrades. So essentially, the more wealth "creation" happens via property ownership, the worse the schools become.
The idea this has anything to do with DEI other than the poverty via racism that had white people cementing pools in the 60s is dense and myopic.
I also think there is an unwillingness to let people fail.