From Pizza to Propaganda

Not only do they want men to pretend to be women and compete in the Olympics… not only do they want your kids to apologize for things they never did to people they’ve never met… now they’ve set their sights on the one subject we thought was immune to politics: math.

Yes, math. Numbers. The last universal truth. It used to be the one subject where opinion didn’t matter, where “truth is truth” wasn’t up for debate. Two plus two equals four. End of discussion.

But in 2025, not even math is safe. Woke ideologues, backed by billionaire donors and ivory-tower academics, have decided numbers aren’t neutral anymore. They’re cultural weapons. And they’ve infected your kid’s homework.

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📝 A Parent’s Homework Nightmare

A friend of mine in Virginia told me what happened when his 3rd grader came home last week. The kid opened her backpack, pulled out a math worksheet, and instead of “Add 12 and 8,” it asked her to “count the book characters by race, then chart which group has privilege.”

That’s not math homework. That’s a sociology seminar for 8-year-olds. Parents across the country are reporting the same thing: assignments that used to teach arithmetic now force kids into activist exercises dressed up as “equity learning.”

When even addition and counting get hijacked, you know the radicals aren’t playing around.

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🍝 Example #1: The Elbow Noodle Fraction Fiasco

Back in the day, you learned fractions with pizza. One pie, eight slices — Joey eats two, how many are left? Simple. Clear. Concrete.

But the “equity” crowd decided pizza was too neutral. Too fun. So they swapped it out for a bag of elbow noodles — and a lecture on wealth inequality.

Here’s how it works: 100 elbow noodles represent all the wealth in America. Students split them into five groups, each representing 20% of the population. They’re asked to guess how much pasta each group gets. Kids spread it out evenly — 20 apiece, because that’s fair.

Then comes the “truth”: the bottom quintile gets almost nothing, the top quintile gets almost everything. Instead of learning “¼ of 12 is 3,” your child is being taught that America is unfair and broken — via elbow noodles. Fractions were hard enough without turning dinner into Karl Marx’s tasting menu.

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➕ Example #2: 2+2 ≠ 4, It Equals “Families”

Now let’s go from fractions to the most basic arithmetic problem on earth: 2+2=4. It’s the bedrock of all mathematics. Universal. Eternal. Even a caveman with a rock could work it out.

But in the new woke workbooks, 2+2 doesn’t equal 4. Instead, it equals “families.” The logic goes like this: two men plus two men doesn’t make four men, it makes two families. Cute? Maybe. Math? Absolutely not.

This is how you take the simplest problem ever invented and bury it under a mountain of philosophy. Instead of teaching your kid how to add, you’re teaching them how to blur categories until truth itself becomes “fluid.” Even the number four gets canceled.

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🍏 Example #3: Apple Counting by Color

Finally, let’s look at kindergarten math — counting. The simplest of the simple. Apples on the table: 🍎🍎🍎 = 3. Done.

But that’s not good enough anymore. Today’s woke math tells children to count the apples by color. How many are red? How many are green? Which group is “privileged”? Chart it.

This isn’t arithmetic — it’s a racial audit disguised as a math problem. Instead of learning how to count to three, your five-year-old is being taught how to divide everything they see into categories of oppression and privilege.

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🏃‍♀️ Here’s a Fraction That Actually Makes Sense

If the radicals insist on turning math into politics, fine. Let’s do some math that actually checks out.

When it comes to transgender athletes in women’s sports, the numbers aren’t imaginary. The advantage in muscle mass, lung capacity, and bone density doesn’t just disappear. It’s not 9 out of 10. It’s not 10 out of 10. Some studies suggest it’s practically 11 out of 10.

So here’s a fraction that makes sense: biology still beats ideology, every time.

That’s not propaganda math. That’s reality — and the radicals can’t solve for it.

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📉 The Results: Lower Standards, Lower Scores

The results are in, and they aren’t pretty. In New York City, after the Department of Education rolled out its “Illustrative Mathematics” curriculum — a program steeped in equity goals — Algebra I pass rates dropped from 59% to 45% in some districts.

In California, the state pushed an “equity-first” framework that de-tracked students, meaning no early Algebra and no gifted math classes. The idea was to make the classroom more inclusive. The result? Test scores flatlined, and parents pulled their kids into private schools just to get real math.

A Heritage Foundation study warned that “activist curricula risk leaving American students unprepared in a global economy that doesn’t grade on a curve.” Meanwhile, the Fordham Institute called California’s framework “a disaster for rigor,” arguing it’s “activism in place of academics.”

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🏛️ Even the Supreme Court Knew Better

Here’s the part the radicals don’t want to hear. The best case the Supreme Court ever got right — Brown v. Board of Education (1954) — was built on the principle that every child deserves equal access to the same quality of education.

Segregation was struck down because it made schools unequal. Brown stood for the idea that opportunity in education shouldn’t be poisoned by ideology.

And now? These new “equity math” frameworks are doing the exact opposite. They’re creating two Americas again: one where kids get real math, and one where they get macaroni lessons, racial audits, and activist slogans. Brown was about tearing down walls. Woke math is about building new ones.

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🎯 The Big Picture

The radicals didn’t just break math. They managed to:

• Make the hardest math harder (fractions by macaroni activism).

• Make the easiest math meaningless (2+2 turned into a sociology seminar).

• And make the simplest counting divisive (apples by color).

This isn’t progress. It’s subtraction — subtracting clarity, subtracting rigor, subtracting the one subject where truth was supposed to be universal.

Parents: if you don’t fight for real math, you’ll end up with kids who can write equity essays but can’t balance a checkbook. Numbers don’t care about politics — but the people grading your child’s homework apparently do.

And the only fraction these kids are really learning? How to be half as smart as their grandparents and twice as dumb as their friends.

That’s not Common Core. It’s certainly not common sense. If anything, it’s the least common denominator.

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By Bill Racequest