Edina High School principal W. Bruce Locklear was talking about “math deficient” students, those kids who have failed or are at-risk of failing math graduation standards tests and thus likely to leave school without a diploma.
And, since it reflected a grain of truth, he was using a little humor with his audience at a recent Association of Metropolitan School Districts meeting.
“Inevitably we were waiting on some divine intervention to teach them math and it wasn’t working,” Locklear said wryly.
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