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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: 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.