As time passes, it looks more and more like policy in SFUSD is being set by various individuals whom, for their own reasons, think that "math education" is bad and that it must be avoided for "reasons", probably that they say involving "promoting equity".
But they're still all in on STEM which cannot be pursued at all without some facility in math. Then when those who are lacking the necessary education to do the work drop out of their STEM freshman college program it's social inequity to blame for these failures rather than the "math class is tough" Barbie mentality.
As time passes, it looks more and more like policy in SFUSD is being set by various individuals whom, for their own reasons, think that "math education" is bad and that it must be avoided for "reasons", probably that they say involving "promoting equity".