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North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday August 10 2019, @01:20AM   
from the death-by-litigation dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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/

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• Re:1+1= Re:1+1= (Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday August 11 2019, @01:12AM (1 child)

  by driverless (4770) on Sunday August 11 2019, @01:12AM (#878605)

  Yeah, it was presented as "a test for X-th graders", can't remember that X but whatever level that is in the US, presumably to check whether they knew how to apply BODMAS. It's not that X-th graders are expected to be rocket scientists, it was to evaluate whether there were absorbing what they were being taught.

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• Re:1+1= (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @02:45AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @02:45AM (#878653)

  Shout out to the Reverse Polish Notation Master Race! Infix can burn in its ambiguous Hell.

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