Follow this thread:
And also this thread by Steve Miller, including the “anti-racist” motivation for eliminating calculus, which provoked the above inquiry by House Democrat Ted Lieu:
California’s Department of Education Evades Simple Questions about Elimination of High School Calculus in New Math Framework
This move is the pseudo-capstone of a long series of actions. In the 1970s I went back to the school where I had done my student teaching, and discovered that the budget for the arts had evaporated to fund required positions of an Equal Opportunity official and a second similar position, the title of which escapes me. The school was deep in Appalachia, where everybody (not most, all) was white, nobody had any money, and everyone was as equal as possible. In the 1980s I found that most programs for the gifted had been scaled back or eliminated in favor of hiring people and undertaking construction to comply with the ADA.
In the 2000s I watched as Barack Obama promised teachers’ unions he would dismantle No Child Left Behind, which held teachers accountable for results. The black-white achievement gap, which had been closing at three percent per year, immediately began expanding at one percent per year. This isn’t taking Calculus out of high school, it’s the destruction of American education.
The next step is funding pre-school for everyone, which expands the number of teachers to be unionized, coupled with destruction of two-year colleges by making them effectively grades thirteen and fourteen. More teachers to be unionized. Where it goes from there, I don’t know.