Bill Gates has spent years pouring money into education programs that are said to support ideas such as “white supremacist” math instruction and that children are born sexual. .
One of the curricula Gates supported was Pathways to Equitable Mathematics Instruction, published by The Education Trust-West.
“We… would like to thank the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for their generous financial support for this project,” Education Trust West said in the acknowledgments section of its website.
The aim of the curriculum is to “enable as many students as possible to not only solve mathematical problems, but also to understand mathematical concepts and apply them to a variety of real-world applications,” the publisher said. claims.
One section of the curriculum called “Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction” explains what it means to be an “anti-racist mathematics educator” and provides: Masu.[e]This is an exercise for educators to reflect on their own biases and change their teaching practices. ”
Some parents have taken issue with the curriculum and Gates' financial support for it.
Nicole Neily of Parents Defending Education said in an interview with Fox News that funding for Gates' math equity program was “terrible.”
“In other words, [the part where it says] Showing the answers in math class is a culture of white supremacy. You have to step back and think. Are the people teaching this teaching it to their own children? I have to think otherwise,” she said.
Although the curriculum does not explicitly state that asking students to show their work is a “culture of white supremacy,” the curriculum's website says: The key is to have a dialogue about students' processes and learning, not to require every student to follow the exact same path to the correct answer. ”
“Children of immigrants may have learned alternative ways to solve problems because their parents were taught that way where they grew up.”
The Gates Foundation also supports social and emotional learning (SEL). SEL is considered to be the process of developing and using social and emotional skills.
“People with strong social-emotional skills are better able to cope with everyday challenges, build positive relationships, and make informed decisions. We help them grow,” claims advocacy group Understood.
In November 2020, the Gates Foundation provided $500,000 to RULER, a curriculum developed by Yale University. The curriculum is said to delve into students' emotions, relationships, beliefs, trauma and psychological factors.
Part of the curriculum focuses on teaching students that they don't have to follow social norms and rules. The curriculum also encourages students to be outraged about “social justice issues” and instructs teachers to bring inflammatory and potentially outrageous images into the classroom, Fox News reported. reported.
The Gates Foundation also provided $80 million to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), which influences global sex education policy. The 2017 IPPF Toolkit provides educators with the[u]”Understanding young people as sexual beings,” FOX News reported.
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