Rather than drilling children, awareness of diversity is hoped to foster numeracy.
This is really a pet peeve of mine. I only have a B.S. in math. I have scarcely used any of my high school math. Whenever I try, except among engineers, I am treated as if I am using some kind of crazy magic. I was demonized by Councilwoman Holly Jones for denying that $7.60 as a trace decrease in a substantial tax increase was “HUGE” while getting hammered at work for not understanding how $600,000 as 20% of gross was insignificant. I am still trying to comprehend, as previously posted, that Asheville’s EOY available fund balance, $21.9 million, is less than the projected $16.5 million for this year because a smaller percentage of a smaller number is a larger one.
Enough about local government. Mission Hospitals, an organization sponsoring this program of “math for job readiness†charged me three times for a $400 ambulance ride to the hospital across the street when I could have walked and $860 twice for a procedure I only had once. I took a day and a half off work to contest the charges. I went from building to building, but nobody could direct me to the correct office.
I live in a revenue-neutral city where bonds can be taken out without raising taxes. If taxes go up, that is purely coincidental. We all recently heard in the presidential debate how a tax increase is not a tax increase. It is education for children. It is maddening to try to do math in this world. Those who want to believe silly laws of conservation can work three jobs to subsidize the lifestyles of those who want to juggle in the sunlight.
