[ikura]

Exactly. And then compare the language used in the Open Letter with the claims they are making. One easy example which seriously undermines the Letter's credibility:

Letter Claims: "Distracts from actual mathematics by having teachers develop students’ “sociopolitical consciousness.”"

Referenced Section in Proposal: "Ms. Ross teaches fifth grade at the Jackie Robinson Academy. She has been focusing on developing her students’ sociopolitical consciousness through language arts and wants to bring mathematics into their thinking"

The letter uses an anti-pattern of redefining something and arguing against the definition, rather than doing the hard work of discussing the actual something. Bringing mathematics into a subject where it can be applied is not 'distracting from actual mathematics'. Whether or not the sociopolitcal consciousness element of the curriculum is appropriate for fifth grade is a red-herring as that's not what's being proposed.

[mikevm]

Are you kidding me? Talk about missing the forest for the trees.

The general agenda of the proposal is quite clear. It is to advance this social Marxist agenda through the teaching of Mathematics. Why is this a good thing? Maths can be purely neutral. Why do you have to infect everything with this shit?

To quote the referenced section in full:

> Ms. Ross teaches fifth grade at the Jackie Robinson Academy. She has been focusing on developing her students’ sociopolitical consciousness through language arts and wants to bring mathematics into their thinking (SMP.1, 2). To begin the process, the class is led in an analysis of word problems from their fifth-grade mathematics textbook (NF.1, 2, 4, 5, 6). Ms. Ross selects three word problems to connect with the class’s current read-aloud of George, a novel by Alex Gino that shares the story of a 10-year-old transgender fourth grader and her struggles with acceptance among friends and family. In doing so, the teacher is reflecting the recommendations of California’s Health Framework, which suggests that sensitive discussions of gender are important for students (https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/he/cf/).

Really? We are now teaching fifth graders about about 10 year old TRANSGENDER FOURTH GRADER. I don't want my kids to learn about gender from social constructionists whose views are divorced from reality.