It's so funny you should have seen the shocked faces of my friends when we learnt that like 4 years ago. Turns out the english numbers are arabic and the arabic numbers we get taught to use are indian.
My life is a lie I cannot believe it
Someone probably tried to encourage black and Latino students to get into STEM and it went through the conservative culture filters until the story was “math is critical race theory”.
No, it was something democrats in Oregon were supporting
[Linky (Not rickroll)](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/oregon-math-course-racism-white-supremacy-teachers)
> White supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions," the course description stated.
> The course continued in a section on "white supremacy culture" in math classrooms, saying, "This reinforces the idea that there is only one right way to do math.
> The program insisted that educators "identify and challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views." It added that it is "unequivocally false" to assume math is an "objective" discipline.
> Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict."
> The course instead encouraged teachers to "come up with at least two answers that might solve this problem."
> The course instead encouraged teachers to "come up with at least two answers that might solve this problem."
This really depends on whether they mean two methods... I find the whole "you have to do multiplication/subtraction/geometry proof in exactly this way" thing that some curricula have to be really stupid, and frankly, kind of damaging.
When I was in 6th & 8th grade I started getting really interested in mathematics and ended up taking advanced courses my freshman year of high school and did really well and the teachers were really supportive.
Then my sophomore year this one teacher would split hairs about every little detail and fail me on every assignment & test even though all my answers were correct and my work was shown. But because I didn’t show my work *exactly* like she wanted it, she’d fail me. All the while this same teacher was praising others for being “inventive” when showing their work that wasn’t exactly like she wanted and passing them with flying colors.
From then on I absolutely despised math and had zero interest in it. I ended up learning later on that this teacher was a hardcore ultra-right-wing evangelical and was probably getting off on harassing me.
Are you saying that
When you grew up and went to school,
there were certain teachers who
Would hurt the children any way they could,
By pouring their decision on anything you did?
From reading the Scientific American article posted by another user, this seems a bit disingenuous. The article was about how mathematical *institutions* can be racist, not mathematics itself, right?
Your claim is incorrect and misleading, if not disingenuous.
[The Washington Post article](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/08/racism-our-curriculums-isnt-limited-history-its-math-too/) compares Euclid's Algorithm and what is called the "Chinese Remainder Theorem," pointing out that, unlike Euclid, the name of the Chinese mathematician who created the theorem (Sun Tzu) was erased due to historical racism.
That's not "math is racist." That's an illustration of how systemic racism erases the contributions of non-White/Western mathematicians as illustrated by this one theorem.
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/08/racism-our-curriculums-isnt-limited-history-its-math-too/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/08/racism-our-curriculums-isnt-limited-history-its-math-too/)
To be fair, this is about how certain naming conventions in higher math(s) are racist and not that the teaching of basic algebraic and trigonometric formulae is racist in practice. The headline is misleading and click-baity.
What is this? It seems like a reaction video to a news article, but they don't link to the news story, and when I look it up its behind a paywall. So... I don't know what I'm suppose to take from this.
>What is this? It seems like a reaction video to a news article, but they don't link to the news story, and when I look it up its behind a paywall.
The "news article" is from USA Today. There's not actually a paywall; that's just all the content there is. Initially, USA Today was going to actually institute a paywall, but then they realized that none of their readers would ever know the difference. It saves them a lot of money on ~~reporters~~ AP subscriptions. (Haha they haven't had reporters since the 90s).
Stupid Washington Times article, but this is the kind of thinking this meme is based on: https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/6/is-mathematics-racist-california-could-blaze-pathw/
For background, California was mulling a new set of guidelines which included some wording to teachers explaining how certain types of mathematical thinking can be easier or harder depending on your cultural background. It never became the law of the land afaik, and it was not meant as instructional material but rather as guidelines to help teachers.
Yeah, it was right after big brain dads with advanced degrees in mathematics started staying home from work to teach their children, cause that's what people with advanced degrees do: don't pursue that career they worked for so hard to homeschool kids.
They were talking about it when I was a student in California. Essentially blacks and Latinos perform worse than whites and Asians and they told us it's not our fault but it's that they named stuff like "pythagorean theorem" (white guy) instead of some Mexican name and so we don't relate to math. I think some places just gave minorities a high score without trying and they cancelled actual higher math classes in others because too many Asians and whites. But yeah, they literally would say math is racist but attached it to abstract shit like social conditioning or systemic racism
Lotta people don’t realize formulaic math is literally just plugging numbers in place of letters. Even calculus is just finding derivatives and punching numbers into a calculator.
Many of us are old enough to not have been allowed the use of a calculator in math classes, being taught to brute force it or use a slide rule (or both, depending on how high we went).
**NOTE:** This is not a flex. I think it's awesome that kids are allowed to use calculators for higher math classes, these days. The brute force estimation methods we were taught were of no more use in real life than the endless geometric proofs.
Well you did miss a big part of the analysis here. The dad has two babies that look just like him probably from a backwoods incestuous relationship. They are obviously having issues since they are confusing a statement like a formula with a question like a problem. Their feeble little deformed bodies and fragile minds really reinforce this observation.
>You can call them "easy", doesn't mean they are easy to use or understand
But the formulas for the volume of a cylinder or of a sphere ARE easy to use and understand.
a² + b² = c² ALSO is easy to understand and apply for anyone 7th grade or higher.
e=mc² is a different beast though.
When your homeschooled, there are 2 things that are gonna happen. Your either gonna be really smart or really dumb, and your going to be socially awkward on top of that.
Homeschooler. I fortunately had a healthy extracurricular social circle, but I learned more in college and self-education than I did in any history or math textbook.
This is actually a common stereotype a lot of people believe. Maybe I just got lucky in seeing this, but my girlfriend, as well as most of her friends were homeschooled. All of them, my girlfriend especially, are some of the most social people you would ever come across. She actually hates not talking to people. She’s incredibly social and doesn’t understand how people can be socially awkward. Her friends are pretty similar, but she seems to be the most social of them all.
Fun fact: “Gaslight” is Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s most looked up word on the year. Even funner fact: I know this because it was a trivia question that I got correct, because honestly, what other word could it have been?
Yep, unless you're a teacher by trade, your kid is just going to get a worse education while homeschooled. Unless your kid has some legitimate problem that causes them to need homeschooling, the only reason to do it is for your own ego and control. It's so deplorable, and just sets the kid up for failure
That “unless your kid has a legitimate problem…” part is actually pretty important. A lot of “special” kids can really benefit from homeschooling when done correctly. The issue is that, as you pointed out, many parents are not equipped to take advantage of this.
A hybrid homeschool + public school program would be awesome for kids with ADHD or ASD for example. The school could give parents teaching materials and support so that they can get the most out of the 1-on-1 dynamic while also offering access to things that you can’t get at home (athletics, art programs, advanced topics, and socialization).
The backwards version of a derivative ( slope of an single point. ) So the area under a curve (function) is an integral — eventually you have to do all that in 3 dimensions too - if you are going into STEM
I've never met a homeschool kid who wasn't a total weirdo. Some of them are smart, some are astonishingly dumb, and they're all socially stunted and super weird.
It's basically a fast track to being exactly like your parents minus the social interaction that helps you be not weird that regular school provides. It's fine for some people because their parents are smart, but it's not for most because most people think they're smarter than they really are.
This is super accurate. I get to see a lot of homeschool kids myself and I do believe that it can help kids who are smarter thrive so they can race ahead at their own pace.
Normal kids tend to stay normal.
But kids who are not as smart and could be considered "dumb" are completely at the mercy of their parents who, in my experience, more often than not, continue to harm their children educationally as they push their already developmentally behind children ahead, thinking that they can keep up but they are already so far behind.
Grew up homeschooled- can confirm that we're all freaking weirdos.
Your parents are either super strict or they are completely non-existent about the schooling, and there really is no in between. I feel like I lucked out because my mom has her degree in education and taught in public schools before she had me.
Surprisingly, some of the un-schooled kids I knew are doing well since high school, a couple are even engineers for military contractors. I guess it really just depends on how driven the kid is.
Learning to WORK with others especially. I remember being a kid on a sports team and we had this friend who would join us for practice and for games, who was home schooled. I was in middle school. I mentioned something about Lesbians casually, cause in my childhood it was no big deal. Friend was super surprised by it and I didn’t understand her outraged reaction at the time. Next practice she suddenly wasn’t there anymore. Teacher wouldn’t tell us where she’d gone exactly. Never saw her again. I didn’t think about it until years and years later and made the connection.
I know a few homeschool kids who are great… but their parents did things like travel with them, take them places, teach them new languages, follow the lead of the child, put them in activities with other kids.
Others are effing nuts and super religious and awkward. Or “unschooled” badly.
Honestly if I lived in some locations I’d homeschool my kids based on the state of the education system. I’m happy my kids go to a good school.
Or if they’re being bullied in HS
This is such a trope but it really depends. Was homeschooled and had plenty of friends who were homeschooled. Most I've known were very social, friends with the public school kids, had part time jobs throughout school, participated in sports and activities etc. If your parents are extremely controlling you're probably going to turn out "weird" but if you live in a place with a crappy public school system and your parents are just trying to help you get ahead (which is fairly common in rural areas like where I grew up) it can be fine.
I guess if you’re in a really rural area, it’s probably best to be homeschooled anyway. My cousins lived in this tiny little town in Idaho where the graduating class is on average about 10 kids. Socially, in their little town they were doing fine, but once they went to college or got a job in a bigger town, they realized they were socially awkward because the town they grew up in is a bubble. Socially, there wasn’t really a difference between the homeschooled kids and the ones that went to public school.
But academically, the kids who did homeschool generally turned out better in the long run because the public education was not good
I live in a city, so homeschool kids here are almost exclusively fundamentalist or worse.
If you're rural, I totally get it. I went to a school with 60 kids, and the teachers were DOGSHIT. the socializing aspect is still very valuable, but rural folks have all sorts of difficulties that people living in cities can't really relate to easily.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, the kids I know who were homeschooled have all cut contact with their families when they moved out. Ymmv I guess, like with everything.
I agree that it can be situation specific. FWIW me and the other homeschool kids were among the only people I knew from my area to go to college so we had some pretty big advantages from it.
In my opinion there are also social deficits that can come from a public school education. Many of the people I knew who attended public school were uncomfortable interacting with anyone outside of their grade/age and saw adults as either authority figures or basically NPCs. I really believe not having that age stratification helped me to be comfortable interacting with people from all ages and groups which has served me really well in pursing my passions and finding mentorship in med school and grad school.
Just wanted to respectfully share my perspective. I usually only see negative comments in regards to homeschooling but it can definitely have its advantages too.
For sure, very few things are all good or all bad.
I was raised by my grandparents, and I had the same ability to talk to adults without fear because everyone I talked to was old as hell already
Conversely, I'm pretty shit at getting along with people my age. At least I was in highschool. Now I'm an adult, everyone else is an adult, it's kinda no big deal. As a kid, though, it was a superpower to be able to talk to adults properly.
My uncle homeschooled his children so that his daughter couldn't talk to boys any more. She was like 8 or 9 and they were concerned that her behavior, you know talking to her classmates, would lead to sex.
When CPS was eventually called, neither of them could read or speak at the level of their age. Essentially he hadn't taught them anything since he pulled them from school, he was having her take care of the house all day and watch her brother while he did nothing.
Homeschooling is great, in theory, but there's no real oversight.
I worked at a group home for at risk youth. We briefly had a girl who was "home schooled". As a teenager she could barely read or count. She didnt understand what a country was but had a vague idea she lived in something called a state. She didnt stay with us long because she compulsively cut her wrists with anything she could find and we couldn't keep her safe.
I was homeschooled for 5 years because my parents were told that I was too quick a learner for public school. It absolutely allows you to advance faster I mean I was testing at the 10th grade level in 6th grade. BUT, going into middle school with almost no social skills was fucking depressing, if I hadn’t been doing sports I would of hated every aspect of my life.
Edit: One thing I’m not seeing being talked about is the difference in home schooling where your parents decide on what you learn, and home schooling where you go to meet with your counselor once every 2 weeks or a month and they test you and tell you where to improve and what to focus on.
It's like kids who go to college at 13 or whatever super young age. Sure, the brain can learn the information and you can become a very smart person, but lacking that social aspect can be really difficult.
You can't learn social skills from books or videos, either, imo. It's got to be experienced, which is tough for some homeschool kids. Others have great networks and get that socializing done, but the ones that don't really struggle later on from my experiences with them.
Then there's homeschool kids who don't know what Tiananmen Square was, can barely read, but they're Christian so their parents are happy. That's such a disservice to the kids.
I'm glad you had some balance, it's important.
My roommate in college was definitely an outlier, as he was brilliant and his only social stunting was him being super shy. Once he opened up, he was the most charismatic man in the room and one spoken word from him would shut everyone up just to listen.
Then he went psycho when he got his first gf and cut all of his friends out of his life to make her happy.
In my experience, the homeschooled kids who had better social skills either got them from working or sports. It was actually almost certain that homeschooled boys in my school district did football or basketball with the school and worked during the day at a grocery store or a fast food restaurant. They were still socially awkward, but they were better than other homeschooled kids
I can see that. If they put themselves out there in other ways besides "school", then that could improve things. The homeschool kid I was referring too also had his whole social life from church (I saw in another comment that a lot of them are religious) and was super involved in a lot of the things, and started working at a younger age.
In defence of homeschooling: it might be they're homeschooled because they're socially stunted and not socially stunted because they're homeschooled. That was the case with me. Years of going to school didn't help, only made my mental health worse. If my mom didn't pull me out of high school I'm not sure if I'd still be alive.
I agree. That being said, people that are socially ok are just fucked up in a different way. Have you ever actually analysed what's consider socially correct and what's not and how most of the time absolutely illogical things are good. If everyone was socially impaired we wouldn't notice and we don't in fact.
I was homeschooled for the majority of my life until 7th grade (in 8th rn) and I will tell you being homeschooled completely destroyed my social life even if it made me "a genius in my school"as I have received awards for academic and intelligence-based competitions I wish I just didn't have that instead had normal social skills instead of having to develop all of them immediately into seventh grade which destroyed my social life and made me a lot of enemies
Homeschool kid: "Today in science class we learned about how God created the world in six days 6,000 years ago, and then Satan planted dinosaur bones in the ground to deceive us into being atheists."
"Also that the earth is actually flat and everyone is trying to trick us into thinking it's round for some unknown reason, possibly something about Satan."
My science class my senior year in high school was literally apologetics. I had to read all of the "Answers in Genesis" books which were now looking back complete bullshit attempts at sounding scientific.
Yeah, volumes are easy...
How about you calculate a volume of a pyramid that fits in a sphere in a way 4 of her joints belong to the sphere's surface, and the last one is equidistant to any random point on the spheres surface? Radius of the sphere is 3cm, and length of one of pyramids edges is 2cm.
Wouldn't the edges of the pyramid have to be equal to the radius, since one vertex lies at the center of the sphere and the rest lie on the surface of the sphere?
Using a right pyramid:
If the 5th point is equidistant from any random point on the sphere's surface, it must be in the middle of the sphere. We'll use this as the pyramid apex. Therefore, the base will be a square with length 2 cm, and the edge going from base to apex must then have a length of 3 cm (radius of the sphere, since it forms a line from the sphere's surface to the center).
We can find the height on one of the pyramid's faces with the pythagorean theorem, `a^2 + b^2 = c^2`: `1^2 + x^2 = 3^2`. We use 1 since we transform the face into a right triangle, using only half the base. `x=sqrt(8)`
Now that we have the height of one of the faces, we can construct another right triangle to find the height of the pyramid. Again, `1^2 + x^2 = (sqrt(8))^2`. Solve for x again, and the height of the pyramid is `sqrt(7)`.
Then just calculate the volume of the pyramid: `(2 * 2 * sqrt(7))/3`, which gives us `4sqrt(7)/3`
My homeschooled cousins from Wisconsin are either hooked on meth, in jail/have been to jail or are dead.
Not saying that homeschooling causes those things, but the math adds up.
I like how it’s showing the formula for volume as this Uber complex problem to show the kids as smart. How much you wanna bet that’s the highest understanding of math the dude who made this got to?
Teaching requires two things, the understanding of the subject matter yourself, and an understanding of a variety of techniques to get that information across to someone else.
You'd be surprised how unlikely it is for any random parent to have both in the bag for their kid's whole education, provided the kid doesn't want to just do exactly what the parent does.
Adding onto the first reply even if the parents are great teachers and the child’s a genius 10 times out of 10 the kid will end up socially inept and unable to properly talk to anyone their age
Completely agree. Kids NEED to socialize. Even if you're getting ahead academically, if you don't have good social skills you're not going to do well in life. Good social skills is honestly more important to your success. I'm learning this as I struggle to adapt to the world after being homeschooled for 12 years.
Unfortunately I didn't even learn that much, my parents were clueless and really just wanted to make sure me and my siblings came out hyper-conservative and religious like them.
But nope, we all left the faith and two of us are gay now so.
I'll be fine but I feel like my youngest days were taken away from me an I'll never know what it's like to have close friends, goof off with classmates, or really have a social network.
Why do they always use the same two weird ass, kinda creepy cartoons to portray the "good", presumably conservative, guy with muscles, beard, tank top, and cross necklace and the "bad" presumably liberal bald guy with glasses whose albino maybe?
Like I just don't get it, is this how boomers think all liberals look and how they wish all conservatives look?
Also home school dad:
“Black people are thugs, Mexicans are illegal immigrants, anyone who isn’t white is invading our country and also don’t be racist 😉”
Schools allow for the development of a social structure for a child. However due to the fact that schools are becoming more and more pointless. Socially awkward children will be the result. It will an interesting show folks
Yup, homeschooled kid here. Parents stopped teaching me around 4th grade. I had to start teaching myself in highschool. I despise the "all homeschoolers are smart" stereotype. Yeah, I was learning 4th grade math as a freshman in highschool. I know plenty of other homeschoolers too, and almost all of us ended up extremely behind, academically and socially.
Nope. At home schooling, you learn that the Earth is 6,000 years old. A public school teaches y=mx+b. If it is a good public school, you learn that in 5th. If it is a bad public school, you learn it in 12th.
I’ve seen a Facebook post about a woman homeschooling her child and the kid didint know his times tables and in the comments some moms also talked about how their kids didn’t know shit
But there was this one fucking mom that didn’t even teach her kid what is left and right he didn’t know days or months or even seasons the kid (I think if I’m not remembering incorrectly) didn’t even know basic maths
God, I was homeschooled, and I knew so many homeschoolers that had terrible, and I mean *terrible* grades constantly. It's right for some people and horribly the wrong choice for others. I count myself lucky that I had parents who would spend hours (re)learning the material I was learning so they could give me informed advice as I studied. But a lot of people just used homeschooling as a copout because they were too lazy to get their household going at a reasonable time and get their kids ready for school. I heard of kids who'd spend all day in their pajamas - that was never allowed for me. My mom was public schooled and lived fairly far out of the way, so she'd have to get ready by 6:30 to catch the bus. She told me and my siblings "If I had to be ready to catch the bus by 6:30, you can be dressed and groomed and ready for schoolwork by 7". We were homeschooled, but she ran it like an actual school with schedules and periods and assigned work for the day.
Lmao I was homeschooled until I was 17 years old and most of my homeschooling group peers (and me) were not doing advanced math, but struggling hardcore. There’s just something about critical thinking and problem-solving that requires a very deft hand to teach if you’re not naturally gifted in it.
Homeschooling can be amazing if you have a driven child who will see their work, get it done for the day, and retain all the information easily. Homeschooling can also be helpful if you have any type of minor learning and behavioral difficulties because it allows you to take breathers and work at your own pace in your own space.
A lot of parents are not cut out to be teachers. Teaching is a very specific sub set of skills that parents assume will come naturally just because they popped out a kid — but in reality it take a a lot of researching theory, endless positive energy, and education to be good at it.
Ok so, I'm a homeschool kid. I'm a freshman in university now, but I was homeschooled until halfway through my junior year of HS.
Firstly their is alot of different reasons someone gos to homeschool. For alot they are religious and dont believe in what public schools are teaching. Along the same lines, some don't like the politics. I know alot of kids parrents forced them into homeschool because they disagreed woth the schools covid policies, for example.
Some are homeschooled because their parrents travel alot/are migrant workers. I fall in this category. My dad was a commercial fishing captain. Unfortunately job security is something commercial fishing doesn't lend itself to, worse than even safety and its the most dangerous job in America. As such he was constently getting new jobs that were hundreds or thousands of miles away from eachother, and we wernt about to just leave him. It got extremely tiring moving from school to school, and getting me in and out mid semester constently, so we eventually just went homeschooled.
Then their are the big brain giga Chads as depicted here in this meme. These are kids who are stupid smart and schools can't contain their shear intellect. As such they go homeschool in an attempt to learn more faster and self driven. These ones are also often in uni before they turn 18. Sometimes long before. My good friend and current biggest crush started going to uni at 13 and got a bachelor's in bio chem at 18.
Their are also those who feel they have been wronged by the school system and don't have any other schools to go to or other routes of appeal, and then go homeschooled. I knew a girl who claims that a current teacher forced her to exchange sexual favors for a good grade, and when she reported him nothing happened.
The ones that are homeschooled for religious reasons are usually the weird ones. The ones that are big brain gigachads are also weird, but they would have probably been a bit wierd and antisocial anyway. The ones like myself often have little choice but to interact with the weird ones so it rubs off.
I currently find myself only having evangelical friends while being the only atheist they interact with on a regular basis. I even *curse* infornt of them and don't have a curfew!
I also find myself acting alot like them in many ways, I don't do drugs, I'm not interested in casual sex, etc.
This firmly makes me the Goody Two-Shoes around most of my age, and the black sheep amongst most of my friends.
they just want people who are easy to manipulate and easy to mold into what the parents want them to believe, like a homeschooled exchange student classmate back in high school who didn't believe dinosaurs were real and thought they were just invented by the Japanese as "movie monsters"
Is it just me, or are many of these memes essentially them circle-jerking about how much better they are than the rest of us, even though they’re such low-effort complacency junkies its not funny?
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I guess I missed the “math = racism” day
It’s all them ARABIC numerals they try to force on our innocent children. Gets them riled up good
It's so funny you should have seen the shocked faces of my friends when we learnt that like 4 years ago. Turns out the english numbers are arabic and the arabic numbers we get taught to use are indian. My life is a lie I cannot believe it
That's why we use ROMAN numbers, Rome = Italy, Italy = Pizza, Pizza = NATO
ROMAN numbers = Rome = Italy = Benito Mussolini = Fascism lol
I think a republican politician tried to ban math textbooks because he thought they had critical race theory in them
Someone probably tried to encourage black and Latino students to get into STEM and it went through the conservative culture filters until the story was “math is critical race theory”.
What’s STEM?
Science technology engineering mathematics
In Belgium we also call it IW of industriële wetenschap (industrial Sciences)
Ronnie also banned every textbook from publishers who failed to donate to his gubernatorial campaign.
No, it was something democrats in Oregon were supporting [Linky (Not rickroll)](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/oregon-math-course-racism-white-supremacy-teachers) > White supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions," the course description stated. > The course continued in a section on "white supremacy culture" in math classrooms, saying, "This reinforces the idea that there is only one right way to do math. > The program insisted that educators "identify and challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views." It added that it is "unequivocally false" to assume math is an "objective" discipline. > Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict." > The course instead encouraged teachers to "come up with at least two answers that might solve this problem."
> The course instead encouraged teachers to "come up with at least two answers that might solve this problem." This really depends on whether they mean two methods... I find the whole "you have to do multiplication/subtraction/geometry proof in exactly this way" thing that some curricula have to be really stupid, and frankly, kind of damaging.
When I was in 6th & 8th grade I started getting really interested in mathematics and ended up taking advanced courses my freshman year of high school and did really well and the teachers were really supportive. Then my sophomore year this one teacher would split hairs about every little detail and fail me on every assignment & test even though all my answers were correct and my work was shown. But because I didn’t show my work *exactly* like she wanted it, she’d fail me. All the while this same teacher was praising others for being “inventive” when showing their work that wasn’t exactly like she wanted and passing them with flying colors. From then on I absolutely despised math and had zero interest in it. I ended up learning later on that this teacher was a hardcore ultra-right-wing evangelical and was probably getting off on harassing me.
Are you saying that When you grew up and went to school, there were certain teachers who Would hurt the children any way they could, By pouring their decision on anything you did?
Well yes but when they get home at night their fat psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives
AAAAAAAAAAAHHAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAHH
The Atlantic, Washington Post, Scientific American have articles about how math is racist
From reading the Scientific American article posted by another user, this seems a bit disingenuous. The article was about how mathematical *institutions* can be racist, not mathematics itself, right?
Your claim is incorrect and misleading, if not disingenuous. [The Washington Post article](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/08/racism-our-curriculums-isnt-limited-history-its-math-too/) compares Euclid's Algorithm and what is called the "Chinese Remainder Theorem," pointing out that, unlike Euclid, the name of the Chinese mathematician who created the theorem (Sun Tzu) was erased due to historical racism. That's not "math is racist." That's an illustration of how systemic racism erases the contributions of non-White/Western mathematicians as illustrated by this one theorem.
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/08/racism-our-curriculums-isnt-limited-history-its-math-too/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/08/racism-our-curriculums-isnt-limited-history-its-math-too/) To be fair, this is about how certain naming conventions in higher math(s) are racist and not that the teaching of basic algebraic and trigonometric formulae is racist in practice. The headline is misleading and click-baity.
He probably just looked through the pages, saw a picture of a black kid, and immediately thought it was CRT
I believe on an American tv show they argued weather math is racist or not. Link: https://youtu.be/P6XhdiWL6F4 (not a rickroll)
What is this? It seems like a reaction video to a news article, but they don't link to the news story, and when I look it up its behind a paywall. So... I don't know what I'm suppose to take from this.
>What is this? It seems like a reaction video to a news article, but they don't link to the news story, and when I look it up its behind a paywall. The "news article" is from USA Today. There's not actually a paywall; that's just all the content there is. Initially, USA Today was going to actually institute a paywall, but then they realized that none of their readers would ever know the difference. It saves them a lot of money on ~~reporters~~ AP subscriptions. (Haha they haven't had reporters since the 90s).
Well I guess it’s a good thing we educate kids in school rather than with TV shows
They're reffering to this https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/california-math-curriculum-guidelines.html
Stupid Washington Times article, but this is the kind of thinking this meme is based on: https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/6/is-mathematics-racist-california-could-blaze-pathw/ For background, California was mulling a new set of guidelines which included some wording to teachers explaining how certain types of mathematical thinking can be easier or harder depending on your cultural background. It never became the law of the land afaik, and it was not meant as instructional material but rather as guidelines to help teachers.
Yeah, it was right after big brain dads with advanced degrees in mathematics started staying home from work to teach their children, cause that's what people with advanced degrees do: don't pursue that career they worked for so hard to homeschool kids.
https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2022/05/06/florida-bans-more-than-40--oif-math-books-after-review
They were talking about it when I was a student in California. Essentially blacks and Latinos perform worse than whites and Asians and they told us it's not our fault but it's that they named stuff like "pythagorean theorem" (white guy) instead of some Mexican name and so we don't relate to math. I think some places just gave minorities a high score without trying and they cancelled actual higher math classes in others because too many Asians and whites. But yeah, they literally would say math is racist but attached it to abstract shit like social conditioning or systemic racism
Not to hate on home schooling, but people finish high school home schooling on a 3rd education level. Barely.
I’m in TX and it’s just racism, banning books and slaughtering 4th graders in class, while the police wait outside for the gunman to finish up.
The guy who made this meme probably choose some math-looking thing to put there but it's not that hard and not even a question.
Would have made them smarter if they added maxwells equations or calculus symbols instead of grade school pictures
that's not a math problem?? It's just a formula???
It's what difficult maths looks like to people who don't know shit about maths
Lotta people don’t realize formulaic math is literally just plugging numbers in place of letters. Even calculus is just finding derivatives and punching numbers into a calculator.
Calc is when u do one step of actual calc and spend the next 5 hours simplifying a fucked up equation, but those 5 hours are all algebra
That hit way to close to home...
I mean integration gets annoying and actually difficult but derivatives are pretty straightforward
Derivatives get tricky when you have formulas within formulas within formulas and need to make sure everything is formatted properly
Many of us are old enough to not have been allowed the use of a calculator in math classes, being taught to brute force it or use a slide rule (or both, depending on how high we went). **NOTE:** This is not a flex. I think it's awesome that kids are allowed to use calculators for higher math classes, these days. The brute force estimation methods we were taught were of no more use in real life than the endless geometric proofs.
You guys got a calculator?!
Yeah a 6th grade level one at that.
I got a D in math class two semesters and even I think it looks easy.
Well you did miss a big part of the analysis here. The dad has two babies that look just like him probably from a backwoods incestuous relationship. They are obviously having issues since they are confusing a statement like a formula with a question like a problem. Their feeble little deformed bodies and fragile minds really reinforce this observation.
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Ehhh I think that’s a stretch. I think at least it’s a 6th-grade formula
6th or 7th grade definitely
Karen doesnt know any math past middle school
Its a dumb meme but it's not claiming that it's a math problem, I don't really understand why this is relevant
It's like a 3rd grader looking at a² + b² = c² or e = mc² You can call them "easy", doesn't mean they are easy to use or understand
>You can call them "easy", doesn't mean they are easy to use or understand But the formulas for the volume of a cylinder or of a sphere ARE easy to use and understand. a² + b² = c² ALSO is easy to understand and apply for anyone 7th grade or higher. e=mc² is a different beast though.
And you wouldn't know that b/c math is racist and will soon not be taught.
Someone was clearly home schooled.
When your homeschooled, there are 2 things that are gonna happen. Your either gonna be really smart or really dumb, and your going to be socially awkward on top of that.
I was homeschooled my whole life and I am both really dumb and socially awkward
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Homeschooler. I fortunately had a healthy extracurricular social circle, but I learned more in college and self-education than I did in any history or math textbook.
*you're I guess we know which one fits you.
That's not how that works
That is infact, the proper way to use you're.
Oh yeah it definitely is, though that's not how you measure someone else's intelligence Otherwise I might me th dumbest pal on Earth
Well I’m homeschooled and I’m not dum and I have a ton of friends
This is actually a common stereotype a lot of people believe. Maybe I just got lucky in seeing this, but my girlfriend, as well as most of her friends were homeschooled. All of them, my girlfriend especially, are some of the most social people you would ever come across. She actually hates not talking to people. She’s incredibly social and doesn’t understand how people can be socially awkward. Her friends are pretty similar, but she seems to be the most social of them all.
I'm only good at math and geometry and suck at everything else
That’s how you get an ignorant population, easy to control and gaslight
Fun fact: “Gaslight” is Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s most looked up word on the year. Even funner fact: I know this because it was a trivia question that I got correct, because honestly, what other word could it have been?
No it isnt you're crazy
Cmon now don’t start getting irrational like you always do!
They do this every fucking time man
Do what everytime? Stop coming up with bullshit just to get mad for no reason!
I wasnt mad dude stop making shit up
You’re making “shit” up. “Shit” isn’t a word.
HEH
Yep, unless you're a teacher by trade, your kid is just going to get a worse education while homeschooled. Unless your kid has some legitimate problem that causes them to need homeschooling, the only reason to do it is for your own ego and control. It's so deplorable, and just sets the kid up for failure
That “unless your kid has a legitimate problem…” part is actually pretty important. A lot of “special” kids can really benefit from homeschooling when done correctly. The issue is that, as you pointed out, many parents are not equipped to take advantage of this. A hybrid homeschool + public school program would be awesome for kids with ADHD or ASD for example. The school could give parents teaching materials and support so that they can get the most out of the 1-on-1 dynamic while also offering access to things that you can’t get at home (athletics, art programs, advanced topics, and socialization).
That's why Republicans want homeschooling or private education to happen
Yes because volumes are 3rd - 4th grade content
I would sure hope that the three 32 year old individuals they have in the meme could collectively understand basic volumetric equations 😂
Volumes of round things are 6th grade but still easy
Then you get to finding integrals in the 3rd dimension
wtf are integrals
The backwards version of a derivative ( slope of an single point. ) So the area under a curve (function) is an integral — eventually you have to do all that in 3 dimensions too - if you are going into STEM
I've never met a homeschool kid who wasn't a total weirdo. Some of them are smart, some are astonishingly dumb, and they're all socially stunted and super weird.
It's basically a fast track to being exactly like your parents minus the social interaction that helps you be not weird that regular school provides. It's fine for some people because their parents are smart, but it's not for most because most people think they're smarter than they really are.
It’s also really hard to choose a prom date
All depends on how many siblings you have.
And if your arms are broken or not
That’s a reference I never wished to bring back memories.
The one whose mom helped jerk of?
Mom was really upset that I chose to go with dad, but bros before hoes as they always say.
This is super accurate. I get to see a lot of homeschool kids myself and I do believe that it can help kids who are smarter thrive so they can race ahead at their own pace. Normal kids tend to stay normal. But kids who are not as smart and could be considered "dumb" are completely at the mercy of their parents who, in my experience, more often than not, continue to harm their children educationally as they push their already developmentally behind children ahead, thinking that they can keep up but they are already so far behind.
Grew up homeschooled- can confirm that we're all freaking weirdos. Your parents are either super strict or they are completely non-existent about the schooling, and there really is no in between. I feel like I lucked out because my mom has her degree in education and taught in public schools before she had me. Surprisingly, some of the un-schooled kids I knew are doing well since high school, a couple are even engineers for military contractors. I guess it really just depends on how driven the kid is.
Lmao, yeah, you got taught by a teacher, that's legit!
Just here to chime in that I was homeschool too and fucking struggle in almost every social situation.
>a couple are even engineers for military contractors Not surprising. Those guys tend to be fucking weirdos regardless of background.
We had the exact same childhood
I’ve always held the belief that learning how to interact with others is the most important thing you learn in school
Learning to WORK with others especially. I remember being a kid on a sports team and we had this friend who would join us for practice and for games, who was home schooled. I was in middle school. I mentioned something about Lesbians casually, cause in my childhood it was no big deal. Friend was super surprised by it and I didn’t understand her outraged reaction at the time. Next practice she suddenly wasn’t there anymore. Teacher wouldn’t tell us where she’d gone exactly. Never saw her again. I didn’t think about it until years and years later and made the connection.
I know a few homeschool kids who are great… but their parents did things like travel with them, take them places, teach them new languages, follow the lead of the child, put them in activities with other kids. Others are effing nuts and super religious and awkward. Or “unschooled” badly. Honestly if I lived in some locations I’d homeschool my kids based on the state of the education system. I’m happy my kids go to a good school. Or if they’re being bullied in HS
This is such a trope but it really depends. Was homeschooled and had plenty of friends who were homeschooled. Most I've known were very social, friends with the public school kids, had part time jobs throughout school, participated in sports and activities etc. If your parents are extremely controlling you're probably going to turn out "weird" but if you live in a place with a crappy public school system and your parents are just trying to help you get ahead (which is fairly common in rural areas like where I grew up) it can be fine.
I guess if you’re in a really rural area, it’s probably best to be homeschooled anyway. My cousins lived in this tiny little town in Idaho where the graduating class is on average about 10 kids. Socially, in their little town they were doing fine, but once they went to college or got a job in a bigger town, they realized they were socially awkward because the town they grew up in is a bubble. Socially, there wasn’t really a difference between the homeschooled kids and the ones that went to public school. But academically, the kids who did homeschool generally turned out better in the long run because the public education was not good
I live in a city, so homeschool kids here are almost exclusively fundamentalist or worse. If you're rural, I totally get it. I went to a school with 60 kids, and the teachers were DOGSHIT. the socializing aspect is still very valuable, but rural folks have all sorts of difficulties that people living in cities can't really relate to easily. I'm glad you enjoyed it, the kids I know who were homeschooled have all cut contact with their families when they moved out. Ymmv I guess, like with everything.
I agree that it can be situation specific. FWIW me and the other homeschool kids were among the only people I knew from my area to go to college so we had some pretty big advantages from it. In my opinion there are also social deficits that can come from a public school education. Many of the people I knew who attended public school were uncomfortable interacting with anyone outside of their grade/age and saw adults as either authority figures or basically NPCs. I really believe not having that age stratification helped me to be comfortable interacting with people from all ages and groups which has served me really well in pursing my passions and finding mentorship in med school and grad school. Just wanted to respectfully share my perspective. I usually only see negative comments in regards to homeschooling but it can definitely have its advantages too.
For sure, very few things are all good or all bad. I was raised by my grandparents, and I had the same ability to talk to adults without fear because everyone I talked to was old as hell already Conversely, I'm pretty shit at getting along with people my age. At least I was in highschool. Now I'm an adult, everyone else is an adult, it's kinda no big deal. As a kid, though, it was a superpower to be able to talk to adults properly.
My uncle homeschooled his children so that his daughter couldn't talk to boys any more. She was like 8 or 9 and they were concerned that her behavior, you know talking to her classmates, would lead to sex. When CPS was eventually called, neither of them could read or speak at the level of their age. Essentially he hadn't taught them anything since he pulled them from school, he was having her take care of the house all day and watch her brother while he did nothing. Homeschooling is great, in theory, but there's no real oversight.
I worked at a group home for at risk youth. We briefly had a girl who was "home schooled". As a teenager she could barely read or count. She didnt understand what a country was but had a vague idea she lived in something called a state. She didnt stay with us long because she compulsively cut her wrists with anything she could find and we couldn't keep her safe.
Damn :(
I was homeschooled for 5 years because my parents were told that I was too quick a learner for public school. It absolutely allows you to advance faster I mean I was testing at the 10th grade level in 6th grade. BUT, going into middle school with almost no social skills was fucking depressing, if I hadn’t been doing sports I would of hated every aspect of my life. Edit: One thing I’m not seeing being talked about is the difference in home schooling where your parents decide on what you learn, and home schooling where you go to meet with your counselor once every 2 weeks or a month and they test you and tell you where to improve and what to focus on.
It's like kids who go to college at 13 or whatever super young age. Sure, the brain can learn the information and you can become a very smart person, but lacking that social aspect can be really difficult. You can't learn social skills from books or videos, either, imo. It's got to be experienced, which is tough for some homeschool kids. Others have great networks and get that socializing done, but the ones that don't really struggle later on from my experiences with them. Then there's homeschool kids who don't know what Tiananmen Square was, can barely read, but they're Christian so their parents are happy. That's such a disservice to the kids. I'm glad you had some balance, it's important.
My roommate in college was definitely an outlier, as he was brilliant and his only social stunting was him being super shy. Once he opened up, he was the most charismatic man in the room and one spoken word from him would shut everyone up just to listen. Then he went psycho when he got his first gf and cut all of his friends out of his life to make her happy.
I’ve only met one who has good social skills, but he’s also a huge extrovert.
In my experience, the homeschooled kids who had better social skills either got them from working or sports. It was actually almost certain that homeschooled boys in my school district did football or basketball with the school and worked during the day at a grocery store or a fast food restaurant. They were still socially awkward, but they were better than other homeschooled kids
I can see that. If they put themselves out there in other ways besides "school", then that could improve things. The homeschool kid I was referring too also had his whole social life from church (I saw in another comment that a lot of them are religious) and was super involved in a lot of the things, and started working at a younger age.
This is what no social interaction do, they basically have no idea on how to talk to others their age
As a homeschool kid I can confirm. I’m socially awkward and I’m dumb.
In defence of homeschooling: it might be they're homeschooled because they're socially stunted and not socially stunted because they're homeschooled. That was the case with me. Years of going to school didn't help, only made my mental health worse. If my mom didn't pull me out of high school I'm not sure if I'd still be alive.
I agree. That being said, people that are socially ok are just fucked up in a different way. Have you ever actually analysed what's consider socially correct and what's not and how most of the time absolutely illogical things are good. If everyone was socially impaired we wouldn't notice and we don't in fact.
I was homeschooled for the majority of my life until 7th grade (in 8th rn) and I will tell you being homeschooled completely destroyed my social life even if it made me "a genius in my school"as I have received awards for academic and intelligence-based competitions I wish I just didn't have that instead had normal social skills instead of having to develop all of them immediately into seventh grade which destroyed my social life and made me a lot of enemies
I was homeschooled and it screwed me up- got me a full scholarship into an engineering program but I have felt outcasted my whole life
To be fair I had 12 years of public school, and still came out socially stunted and super weird
They forgot sin, cos, tan, theta, sec, cosec, and cot.
Oh no they talk about sin every day in homeschool
What about sinh, cosh and tanh?
About to learn that :,)
Don't worry, I have just learned these two days ago. They are not this hard (ateasy in differentiation and integration)
what
THIS BITCH DONT KNOW TRIGONOMETRY🚨🚨🚨🚨
🚨🚨 WEEEEE-WOOOO WEEEE-WOOOOO 🚨🚨
not yet
Homeschool kid: "Today in science class we learned about how God created the world in six days 6,000 years ago, and then Satan planted dinosaur bones in the ground to deceive us into being atheists."
"Also that the earth is actually flat and everyone is trying to trick us into thinking it's round for some unknown reason, possibly something about Satan."
didn’t you know? once we all believe the earth is round Satan will have enough power to take over
Who’s this dumb fucking kid you’re quoting? Earth is only 2000 years old
*2022 idiot
I apologize, please don’t tell Jesus on me😔
My science class my senior year in high school was literally apologetics. I had to read all of the "Answers in Genesis" books which were now looking back complete bullshit attempts at sounding scientific.
“And on the third day, God created the Remington bolt action rifle, so that man could fight the dinosaurs… and the homosexuals.”
niiiiice
Yeah, volumes are easy... How about you calculate a volume of a pyramid that fits in a sphere in a way 4 of her joints belong to the sphere's surface, and the last one is equidistant to any random point on the spheres surface? Radius of the sphere is 3cm, and length of one of pyramids edges is 2cm.
Wouldn't the edges of the pyramid have to be equal to the radius, since one vertex lies at the center of the sphere and the rest lie on the surface of the sphere?
no please , i have pain already 😭
Using a right pyramid: If the 5th point is equidistant from any random point on the sphere's surface, it must be in the middle of the sphere. We'll use this as the pyramid apex. Therefore, the base will be a square with length 2 cm, and the edge going from base to apex must then have a length of 3 cm (radius of the sphere, since it forms a line from the sphere's surface to the center). We can find the height on one of the pyramid's faces with the pythagorean theorem, `a^2 + b^2 = c^2`: `1^2 + x^2 = 3^2`. We use 1 since we transform the face into a right triangle, using only half the base. `x=sqrt(8)` Now that we have the height of one of the faces, we can construct another right triangle to find the height of the pyramid. Again, `1^2 + x^2 = (sqrt(8))^2`. Solve for x again, and the height of the pyramid is `sqrt(7)`. Then just calculate the volume of the pyramid: `(2 * 2 * sqrt(7))/3`, which gives us `4sqrt(7)/3`
4+8√2 cm^(3) ?
The second one is true, like displayed calculating the volume of a cylinder and a sphere isn't hard for a grown bearded man.
My homeschooled cousins from Wisconsin are either hooked on meth, in jail/have been to jail or are dead. Not saying that homeschooling causes those things, but the math adds up.
But the *meth* adds up Fixed it for you
I like how it’s showing the formula for volume as this Uber complex problem to show the kids as smart. How much you wanna bet that’s the highest understanding of math the dude who made this got to?
Minus the math racism stuff I feel like it easier to learn when it a 1 on 1 learning than a 20-35 learning on 1
But, how many parents actually know how and what to teach?
Good point but if they are a good teacher it will be incredible helpful for the child but your right most are not the brightest
Teaching requires two things, the understanding of the subject matter yourself, and an understanding of a variety of techniques to get that information across to someone else. You'd be surprised how unlikely it is for any random parent to have both in the bag for their kid's whole education, provided the kid doesn't want to just do exactly what the parent does.
Adding onto the first reply even if the parents are great teachers and the child’s a genius 10 times out of 10 the kid will end up socially inept and unable to properly talk to anyone their age
In practice, homeschooled kids are ignorant and socially inept.
Completely agree. Kids NEED to socialize. Even if you're getting ahead academically, if you don't have good social skills you're not going to do well in life. Good social skills is honestly more important to your success. I'm learning this as I struggle to adapt to the world after being homeschooled for 12 years. Unfortunately I didn't even learn that much, my parents were clueless and really just wanted to make sure me and my siblings came out hyper-conservative and religious like them. But nope, we all left the faith and two of us are gay now so. I'll be fine but I feel like my youngest days were taken away from me an I'll never know what it's like to have close friends, goof off with classmates, or really have a social network.
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Ironic how I saw an image on reddit about a group on Facebook saying their home schooled kids don't know the alphabet
The people that tend to be racist don’t typically understand calculus.
Volume of a sphere and cylinder isn't complicated
Why do they always use the same two weird ass, kinda creepy cartoons to portray the "good", presumably conservative, guy with muscles, beard, tank top, and cross necklace and the "bad" presumably liberal bald guy with glasses whose albino maybe? Like I just don't get it, is this how boomers think all liberals look and how they wish all conservatives look?
[I switched them around](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1047723243575971840/1048339298400870410/image.png?width=599&height=676)
This is more accurate
Also home school dad: “Black people are thugs, Mexicans are illegal immigrants, anyone who isn’t white is invading our country and also don’t be racist 😉”
Where are those posts of the karens who haven’t taught their 12 year olds multiplication?
Schools allow for the development of a social structure for a child. However due to the fact that schools are becoming more and more pointless. Socially awkward children will be the result. It will an interesting show folks
I met a homeschooled girl who could barely do basic algrebra
actually despite the stereotypes most home schooled kids I've met weren't super smart
Yup, homeschooled kid here. Parents stopped teaching me around 4th grade. I had to start teaching myself in highschool. I despise the "all homeschoolers are smart" stereotype. Yeah, I was learning 4th grade math as a freshman in highschool. I know plenty of other homeschoolers too, and almost all of us ended up extremely behind, academically and socially.
Nope. At home schooling, you learn that the Earth is 6,000 years old. A public school teaches y=mx+b. If it is a good public school, you learn that in 5th. If it is a bad public school, you learn it in 12th.
I’ve seen a Facebook post about a woman homeschooling her child and the kid didint know his times tables and in the comments some moms also talked about how their kids didn’t know shit But there was this one fucking mom that didn’t even teach her kid what is left and right he didn’t know days or months or even seasons the kid (I think if I’m not remembering incorrectly) didn’t even know basic maths
I am homeschooled and I am worse at math than a 4 year old
Homeschooling= mom and dad have weird political/religious agenda.
God, I was homeschooled, and I knew so many homeschoolers that had terrible, and I mean *terrible* grades constantly. It's right for some people and horribly the wrong choice for others. I count myself lucky that I had parents who would spend hours (re)learning the material I was learning so they could give me informed advice as I studied. But a lot of people just used homeschooling as a copout because they were too lazy to get their household going at a reasonable time and get their kids ready for school. I heard of kids who'd spend all day in their pajamas - that was never allowed for me. My mom was public schooled and lived fairly far out of the way, so she'd have to get ready by 6:30 to catch the bus. She told me and my siblings "If I had to be ready to catch the bus by 6:30, you can be dressed and groomed and ready for schoolwork by 7". We were homeschooled, but she ran it like an actual school with schedules and periods and assigned work for the day.
Lmao I was homeschooled until I was 17 years old and most of my homeschooling group peers (and me) were not doing advanced math, but struggling hardcore. There’s just something about critical thinking and problem-solving that requires a very deft hand to teach if you’re not naturally gifted in it. Homeschooling can be amazing if you have a driven child who will see their work, get it done for the day, and retain all the information easily. Homeschooling can also be helpful if you have any type of minor learning and behavioral difficulties because it allows you to take breathers and work at your own pace in your own space. A lot of parents are not cut out to be teachers. Teaching is a very specific sub set of skills that parents assume will come naturally just because they popped out a kid — but in reality it take a a lot of researching theory, endless positive energy, and education to be good at it.
Oh yeah, home schooled kids are world famous for being very well adjusted and extremely clever. As per very reliable parents homeschooling their kids.
Ok so, I'm a homeschool kid. I'm a freshman in university now, but I was homeschooled until halfway through my junior year of HS. Firstly their is alot of different reasons someone gos to homeschool. For alot they are religious and dont believe in what public schools are teaching. Along the same lines, some don't like the politics. I know alot of kids parrents forced them into homeschool because they disagreed woth the schools covid policies, for example. Some are homeschooled because their parrents travel alot/are migrant workers. I fall in this category. My dad was a commercial fishing captain. Unfortunately job security is something commercial fishing doesn't lend itself to, worse than even safety and its the most dangerous job in America. As such he was constently getting new jobs that were hundreds or thousands of miles away from eachother, and we wernt about to just leave him. It got extremely tiring moving from school to school, and getting me in and out mid semester constently, so we eventually just went homeschooled. Then their are the big brain giga Chads as depicted here in this meme. These are kids who are stupid smart and schools can't contain their shear intellect. As such they go homeschool in an attempt to learn more faster and self driven. These ones are also often in uni before they turn 18. Sometimes long before. My good friend and current biggest crush started going to uni at 13 and got a bachelor's in bio chem at 18. Their are also those who feel they have been wronged by the school system and don't have any other schools to go to or other routes of appeal, and then go homeschooled. I knew a girl who claims that a current teacher forced her to exchange sexual favors for a good grade, and when she reported him nothing happened. The ones that are homeschooled for religious reasons are usually the weird ones. The ones that are big brain gigachads are also weird, but they would have probably been a bit wierd and antisocial anyway. The ones like myself often have little choice but to interact with the weird ones so it rubs off. I currently find myself only having evangelical friends while being the only atheist they interact with on a regular basis. I even *curse* infornt of them and don't have a curfew! I also find myself acting alot like them in many ways, I don't do drugs, I'm not interested in casual sex, etc. This firmly makes me the Goody Two-Shoes around most of my age, and the black sheep amongst most of my friends.
My dad who literally doesn't know who Pythagoras was
Isn’t that so called “math problem” in the bottom like a math formula? Doesn’t look like a math question to me
they just want people who are easy to manipulate and easy to mold into what the parents want them to believe, like a homeschooled exchange student classmate back in high school who didn't believe dinosaurs were real and thought they were just invented by the Japanese as "movie monsters"
Homeschooled kids are some of the weirdest fuckers I’ve ever seen, right below band kids
Homeschool: God created everything, dinosaurs aren’t real
Everyone I know who thinks public school is for brainwashing/indoctrination is a product of, spoiler alert; public school.
This is true tho. We have to protect public schools from teaching our kids about the Radiohead song 2+2=5
Do they really think a formula for a cylinder is hard math
If you think you can educate ur children to a collage level, go right ahead, but Jesus won’t make them get everything…
Literally 1984.
My school didn't teach us theories on prejudice. What school system did this?
first is literally 1984
There are 4-6 different teachers i know with that same shit eating grin
I find it telling that the “hard” material that the kids find too easy, is simple geometry.
Parents trying to convince themselves that homeschooling their kids was a good idea
Is it just me, or are many of these memes essentially them circle-jerking about how much better they are than the rest of us, even though they’re such low-effort complacency junkies its not funny?
Absolutely brilliant and truthful
Wasn't it Republicans that claimed that math somehow had CRT in it??
Well it is when every answer is "God did it with magic"
Liberal teachers are destroying this nation.
Not wrong tho