SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @08:15AM
What people are opposed to is rote memorization at the expense of everything else, like critical thinking skills and creativity. I don't think multiplication tables are a big deal, but it becomes a real problem when nearly all math is taught as nothing more than a series of facts and patterns to be memorized and then regurgitated back onto assignments and tests, where there's no underlying principles to understand and no creativity involved. Math classes are not teaching students to think like mathematicians, and that is a real problem. Same with so many other subjects.
Our schooling system is fundamentally broken. However, so many of the victims who suffer through it do not know what an actual education looks like, so they think the system is either fine or just in need of minor tweaks.