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A parent whose child goes to a high school in the Wake County Public School System has been sued after criticizing the math curriculum used in the district.
Utah-based "Mathematics Vision Project" or "MVP," filed a lawsuit against Blain Dillard, whose son attends Green Hope High in Cary.
Dillard has been vocal about his opposition to the MVP curriculum, which is student-driven and focuses on group work, posting on his website, blog and social media.
The lawsuit obtained by ABC11 said, "In or around March 2019, Dillard commenced a crusade against MVP, claiming that MVP is ineffective and has harmed many students."
It alleges that some of Dillard's statements were false and defamatory and harmed the company financially.
https://abc11.com/education/wake-schools-parent-sued-after-criticizing-math-curriculum/5430840/
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Saturday August 10 2019, @10:38AM (5 children)
Indeed, at best in groups the brighter kids are just acting as the teacher and gain nothing themsleves, while the teacher surfs porn or something, or the group degenerates to the level of the lowest member.
Group teaching comes from the socialist idea that all people have exactly the same natural intelligence and if you rub them together they will all learn to exactly the same high level. Or, failing that, the brighter ones should be dragged down and the dimmer ones pulled up to some sort of intermediate common level. That's why socialists think that exams and their marks are unimportant, because we should all score the same anyway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @01:03PM
Teaching others can be very rewarding for the comprehension of even gifted students. Not everyone is cut out for it though, and forming groups to force smarter kids into doing the work for others is pretty stupid.
(Score: 2) by srobert on Saturday August 10 2019, @02:17PM (1 child)
I got a pretty good education in a public school. I don't think you understand socialism at all.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 10 2019, @03:23PM
Your age would be an important bit of information, regarding that statement. In the 60's & 70's there were a lot of bad schools, but there were still a lot of good schools in the public education system. Only part of that equation involved cash availability. Times since have seen a lot of changes.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 10 2019, @11:01PM
Oh god, this. My college CS program (run by Chinese) was huge on groupwork. So you had your leech foreign students that get good grades for doing no work whatsoever, and many situations where a single person was literally doing all the fucking work. I can also say with certainty that younger Chinese foreign students who manage to make it here are totally fucking rotten. Horseplay, don't pay attention, etc. Probably because they know they won't get beat down here like they would in China for being little assholes.
They say that groupwork is about diversity and the exchange of ideas and learning life-lessons working with a multitude of people. Yeah, no. It's so you can collect lucrative foreign tuition and hand lazy Chinks and Arab scum accredited degrees for doing nothing at all. Shit, I remember when the lazy had to actually cheat to get better grades, now everything is handed to them at the expense of the brightest and hardest workers. And don't assume that getting into a nicer school will solve that problem, because my sister described the same thing studying for her master's degree at CMU.
Back when I was a kid, we worked in groups in school, but people were grouped according to their grades and behavior. If you were in the group of idiots, fuckups, and retards; the whole class knew it. But if you wanted to improve, there was always also a way into a better group. And teachers had latitude to really discipline students back then, so if the group of fuckups wanted to try and drag the rest of the class down with them, they would get moved out or detentions until they behaved.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Sunday August 11 2019, @01:33AM
Actually group teaching comes from the idea that it's the cheapest way (in terms of resources such as classrooms and teachers, which are ulimately viewed by our bean counter overlords as money). If the group is small and all the members have similar abilities some wonderful education happens; not so much if the group is large and abilities differ greatly.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.