Math: Still Irrelevant

“The math section had 60 questions. I knew the answers to none of them, but managed to guess ten out of the 60 correctly. On the reading test, I got 62%. In our system, that’s a “D”, and would get me a mandatory assignment to a double block of reading instruction… I have a wide circle of friends in various professions. Since taking the test, I’ve detailed its contents as best I can to many of them, particularly the math section, which does more than its share of shoving students in our system out of school and on to the street. Not a single one of them said that the math I described was necessary in their profession.

Man, that’s what I’ve been hollerin’! The affluent school board member with a master’s degree who was profiled in The Washington Post Monday for bombing his school district’s standardized test — and making the same anti-algebra argument every high schooler since the beginning of time has made — has revealed his identity.