Schools are pushing the "liberal agenda" by teaching algebra.

[Kalyyn]

Wow, that is absolutely amazing. Hats off to this guy for taking a play on words and making it a full blown political agenda.

[delus]

But I'm willing to bet that most of the sheeple who post on these forums will either ignore it or defend it as being "necessary" for some unknown reason.

Your use of that pseudo word is irritating. How do you expect to be taken even remotely seriously with an attitude like that?

[Lockon Stratos]

My professors in school were largely conservative, at least economically, and didn't talk about social issues. I don't watch CNN or MSNBC, or Fox for that matter. You painting all liberals with the same brush is just as bad as liberals painting all conservatives with the same brush and suggesting they all believe Fox, which you have to admit is pretty objectively awful.

Oh, but I have been red pill'd my friend! I was merely poking fun of liberals for actually thinking they are any better than conservatives. They are still a different kind of stupid, but stupid nonetheless.

[Ragedaug]

The only thing I saw on the page was a picture of a girl with a wad of cash(rich? maybe maybe not) the title and a bunch of math problems. Theres nothing on the page suggesting its political or even who the money is going to. I wouldnt even say it was dumbed down, if anything putting "$" in front of stuff can confuse kids, and it just looked like a normal page of math problems except for the picture. Most of what the commentators have a problem with is something they made up because they wanted to complain about liberals.

The story and thread is no worse than the one about Al Gore selling his TV channel to Al Jezeera which, incidentally, was also blown out of proportion on Fox News.

In what real world application does it make any sense for a girl to be standing on a street corner with a big ol' bag of money handing out fistfuls of it. The idea in the picture makes no sense to start with and when you try to make sense of it and look at the title of distributing wealth on a math paper, the ideas it conjures up are Marxist..and frankly do not belong in a math book.

On top of that, no liberal in this thread said anything about that, until the conservatives in this thread educated them as to what was being complained about. Not one independent minded liberal bothered to find out what was being complained about. Every liberal response to the original post has been "OMG Fox is attacking math!", which is ironic in that it shows none of them bothered to think for themselves and do anything but relay the story.

And for the record I'm fine with you saying, "the picture he was attacking was harmless and no big deal". That's your opinion, whether or not I agree with it. The liberals aren't saying that though. They are saying "he's attacking math", which is completely untrue.

[Reeve]

Weird. All teachers in France are seemingly socialist. This might change with the socialists actually being in power.

Well I was also a business major, so most of my professors were former business leaders. This one guy in particular really did a great job of impressing on me the importance of economic growth to world stability.

[iceberg265]

I guess if algebra is liberal, then ignorance and stupidity must be the conservative agenda.

Basically. Especially since we are talking about Faux News.

[Garnier Fructis]

Not one independent minded liberal bothered to find out what was being complained about.

I did, you even quoted me.

[Underverse]

Well I was also a business major, so most of my professors were former business leaders. This one guy in particular really did a great job of impressing on me the importance of economic growth to world stability.

That makes sense, business teachers being conservative. But any other major, and all your professors will be liberal, especially the sociologists

[Boogieknight]

Claims Eric Bolling of Fox News (source). Because they teach the "distributive property".

You can't make things like this up.

And they wonder why their polls were wrong. All those damned liberal numbers distributing the data.

Reminds me of the republican platform in Texas this year, where they were opposed to the teaching of critical thinking skills in public schools.

Pants on head retarded.

Yep, our school system here is pretty messed up.

EDIT:
And for reference a LOT of what you learn in Public Schools is WRONG. Half of it is a flat out lie. The other half, like the media, is bias and misleading.

Recommend you read this:

[Underverse]

In what real world application does it make any sense for a girl to be standing on a street corner with a big ol' bag of money handing out fistfuls of it. The idea in the picture makes no sense to start with and when you try to make sense of it and look at the title of distributing wealth on a math paper, the ideas it conjures up are Marxist..and frankly do not belong in a math book.

On top of that, no liberal in this thread said anything about that, until the conservatives in this thread educated them as to what was being complained about. Not one independent minded liberal bothered to find out what was being complained about. Every liberal response to the original post has been "OMG Fox is attacking math!", which is ironic in that it shows none of them bothered to think for themselves and do anything but relay the story.

And for the record I'm fine with you saying, "the picture he was attacking was harmless and no big deal". That's your opinion, whether or not I agree with it. The liberals aren't saying that though. They are saying "he's attacking math", which is completely untrue.

Thing is, sharing of resources is a natural outcome of social interaction. So if anything, teaching our kids hat we should all keep our stuff to ourselves is the real world application that makes no sense.

[Deleted]

On top of that, no liberal in this thread said anything about that, until the conservatives in this thread educated them as to what was being complained about. Not one independent minded liberal bothered to find out what was being complained about. Every liberal response to the original post has been "OMG Fox is attacking math!", which is ironic in that it shows none of them bothered to think for themselves and do anything but relay the story.

You're the one assimilating people to political labels I'm afraid. By your standards I'd be a liberal.

[Ragedaug]

Thing is, sharing of resources is a natural outcome of social interaction. So if anything, teaching our kids hat we should all keep our stuff to ourselves is the real world application that makes no sense.

Sharing resources and teaching social interaction have no place in a math class. Neither polar political agenda should be taught. I can be intellectually honest to say my political agenda should not be taught in math class, why can't you own up and do the same?

I have this weird idea that math class should be used to teach math. I know that idea is WAY out there.

[Dracbane]

Fox News

That is your problem....

[Ragedaug]

I did, you even quoted me.

You caught me showing my arse. I made an assumption that you were conservative and take complete ownership of my mistake. You sound like the kind of liberal I could be great friends with. Someone I could completely disagree with, yet be able to hold an earnest conversation or debate about our political differences. My hats off to you.

[Underverse]

Sharing resources and teaching social interaction have no place in a math class. Neither polar political agenda should be taught. I can be intellectually honest to say my political agenda should not be taught in math class, why can't you own up and do the same?

I have this weird idea that math class should be used to teach math. I know that idea is WAY out there.

I wasn't arguing with you on that...I don't know why you took it there, and I don't know why you have to you ad hominem attacks. In fact, I agree with you in this case.

That being said, in an ideal situation, redistribution of wealth is not seen as a political entity or agenda. It is made into a political entity or agenda by people who want to protect their interests - those with wealth to be distributed and an equal measure of greed. If such a polarized situation did not exist, redistribution of wealth would not be the issue it is today; it would exist outside of the linear spectrum as a basic quality of society.

[Garnier Fructis]

You caught me showing my arse. I made an assumption that you were conservative and take complete ownership of my mistake. You sound like the kind of liberal I could be great friends with. Someone I could completely disagree with, yet be able to hold an earnest conversation or debate about our political differences. My hats off to you.

Ya, I usually take each issue by itself and determine where I stand. Some issues I'm conservative on, some issues I'm liberal. Overall, I'm more liberal than I am conservative so I identify myself as a liberal. I hold good conversations with my father, who's more conservative. Those types of conversation are actually quite fun.

[Ragedaug]

I wasn't arguing with you on that...I don't know why you took it there, and I don't know why you have to you ad hominem attacks. In fact, I agree with you in this case.

That being said, in an ideal situation, redistribution of wealth is not seen as a political entity or agenda. It is made into a political entity or agenda by people who want to protect their interests - those with wealth to be distributed and an equal measure of greed. If such a polarized situation did not exist, redistribution of wealth would not be the issue it is today; it would exist outside of the linear spectrum as a basic quality of society.

Because you said that teaching the opposing ideal would be wrong, and while I agree with you on that point, my bigger point is that teaching either or any ideal in math is wrong. I didn't attack you, and if you felt I attacked you I apologize. I did challenge you, but I personally don't think that is the same, and it looks like stepped up and met that challenge.

[Underverse]

Because you said that teaching the opposing ideal would be wrong, and while I agree with you on that point, my bigger point is that teaching either or any ideal in math is wrong. I didn't attack you, and if you felt I attacked you I apologize. I did challenge you, but I personally don't think that is the same, and would still like to see you be able to admit that teaching a political ideal in math class is at best improper.

I did, I said I agree with you

[Ragedaug]

I did, I said I agree with you

I'm failing at multitasking, I did reedit my post, 'cause I saw that (a bit late)
/tips hat

[Adam Jensen]

Did anyone actually read the article?

His issue wasn't with the mathematical concept of distribution, but rather how it was being taught.

The worksheet said to "Distribute the wealth with the lovely rich girl with a big ole bag of money, handing some money out."

I'm sorry, but that has nothing to do with the distributive property and is just a subtle way of shaping children's beliefs. If you're told stuff like that over and over again you begin believing it's the standard. Which causes you to lean to the left and vote left when you are old enough.

In case you forgot, here's the distributive method (a + b)(c + d) = ac + bc + ad + bd. <--How is that a lovely rich girl handing out some money? In what twisted world is that the most efficient analogy to use to teach children how it works? What happened to the FOIL method (First, outer, inner, last)?

Seriously? Math problems are subliminal messages now? You people truly are paranoid. Jesus, when I was in school, I didn't take any stock in what the problem said, I just figured out the equation and went from there. Kids aren't going to become OMG COMMUNISTS from a fucking algebraic word problem.

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Adults aren't but third graders are...

Adults are too smart to fall for it. Kids are too stupid to see it.

So yeah, it's *just* a fucking math problem.

I don't think there's a third grader out there (or a Republican) who knows (or cares) what communism is.