 We've talked about this before, but there's a big story out about this equity in math in California. So, you remember, there were certain school districts in California that were, that for a few years now, particularly in San Francisco, we're not teaching anybody. Algebra at eighth grade, that is, they had banned algebra from eighth grade from middle school, and algebra was only offered in high school, even for kids who were ready for algebra, even for kids who knew algebra, all in the name of, we don't want to treat the smart kids, the able kids, the kids who know math better than the kids who don't. So, all in the name of, quote, you know, pseudo equity, right? And then there was also this attitude in California that we shouldn't segregate classes by ability. So, I mean, when I went to school, high school, right, you had three levels of math, you had very advanced, you had intermediate, and you had beginners, and you picked which one of those, and you were tested and graded based on the level of math. So, people who want to go into sciences, engineering, picked, you know, advanced math, and so on. I did advanced math and, but you had that option, right? You had that option. But in California, they have embraced this idea that no, we need to have everybody in the same class and teach to the lowest common denominator. Again, in the name of equity, so that the kids who are not that good at math don't feel bad because they're in a different class, they're, you know, in a less advanced class, we need to treat them all the same in the name of equity. And, of course, study after study after study is shown that not only is this hurt the able, hurt those kids that are good at math, we all know that, that's obvious, and I don't think anybody, anybody who supports these kind of things cares, but also shows that it doesn't help the other kids. So, it's lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose proposition. Anyway, all of this has been encoded in a set of curriculum recommendations, not, this is not, you know, they don't have to adopt it. It's a set of curriculum recommendations that's being adopted by the state of California called California math framework that basically has been distributed around the state. Some school districts are paying attention to it, some others are not, but this idea of no algebra in middle school classes with all students teaching law, lowest common denominator, all of that is, is, is part of this California math framework. Now, it turns out that a lot of this, and I think we mentioned this before, a lot of this is based on the work of one Stanford academic, not even work, based on the advocacy of one Stanford academic, a woman by the name of Joe Bola, who is a professor of mathematics education. Well, last week, I guess, there was published 100 page complaint by an anonymous source, so unauthored, but anonymous source that claims that Joe Bola in her research, the research on which, and in her citations, all of which this California math framework is based on are fraudulent. That is, they've been misrepresented, her research has been misrepresented. Even her title, she often presents herself as a PhD in mathematics. No, she has a PhD in education of mathematics, not mathematics itself. She's not a mathematician. But the 100 page document, which is well sourced and published, as I said, anonymously, is basically claims that these citations that she uses are misrepresented, and all of these misrepresentations have made it into the California math framework. So what you have here is that it is, I mean, this shouldn't be shocking to anybody, what you have is major math recommendations for the state of California, how to teach in the public schools and the government schools in California, based on flawed work, based on distorted, perverted work that has no basis in reality, and that basically misrepresents what is going on at the expense of students, particularly students of ability, but really at the expense of all students. Now, you know, I say particularly students of ability, that is what should be particularly shocking. It used to be that we cherish students of ability, we invested in students of ability, we realized that students of ability, people were particularly smart and particularly able or particularly motivated, contribute an enormous amount to all of us, that we all have a selfish incentive to support them and to see them flourish and to see them succeed and innovate and grow and discover new knowledge, these people change the world. Most of us, 99% of us who are average within certain, you know, one standard deviation or whatever, are not going to dramatically change science, change the business world, change the world. It's a certain percentage or 1% probably of the population that has an overwhelming majority of all the impact, positive impact through science, technology and business and medicine and things like that on the world out there. And yet we rely on geniuses, we stand on the shoulders of geniuses and yet the state of California as I think many states are trying their best to subvert that, to undermine that, to repress those people. I mean this is part of kind of a whole philosophy I guess of stagnation, all in the name of, it's not fair that some people are smart and some people are not. And of course once egalitarianism is your standard, that is equality of outcome is your standard, then all there is is the destruction of ability and destruction of talents and destruction of genius. Again, for anybody who hasn't heard my spiel on the Cameroos, check out my talks on inequality. The fact that we are different is a fact of existence, it's not fair or unfair, it just is. And the fact that they are among us great geniuses makes us all better. And yet California wants to end that, destroy that in the name of equality of outcome, in the name of the most nihilistic, anti-life, anti-human being, anti-man philosophy ever, the philosophy that should all have the same outcome. And destroy those who have ability who might be better than us in some capacity. So, yeah, super horrific. I'm glad that Joe Bola is being shown for what she is. She's both a liar and an ideological egalitarian who will do anything to subvert ability and destroy ability. I don't know what drives her. I don't know what the motivation is. But I can tell you this, she's not subverting herself. So for example, she sends her kids to a private school that costs $48,000 a year. And to help make money for that, she charges school districts, including some of the poorest school districts in California, $5,000 an hour for consulting. So we're talking about somebody who has above and beyond just the evil ideology and the willingness to lie in order to get that evil ideology hearing. She also has the audacity, which is, I guess, consistent of making as much money as she can for herself at the same time. Anyway, another despicable human being, another despicable human being. And I hope, I really, really, really hope that this kind of, you know, starts building a momentum against the whole new egalitarian approach to mathematics that I'm sure other states are looking at too, particularly other states dominated by the left. But we need to crush this in California, and we need to crush it everywhere it appears. I mean, these people really hate. That's what drives them. So I hope the California mathematics framework, which has been approved and now circulating, I hope it is ignored. And I hope that ultimately nobody else adopts it and the California drops it, and that we get more reason in mathematics.