Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion A district will drop the Mercator projection, which physically diminished Africa and South America, for the Peters, which cut the developed world down to size The Gall-Peters projection, which shows land masses in their correct proportions by area, puts the relative sizes of Africa and North America in perspective.

Mercator’s distortions affect continents as well as nations. For example, South America is made to look about the same size as Europe, when in fact it is almost twice as large, and Greenland looks roughly the size of Africa when it is actually about 14 times smaller. Alaska looks bigger than Mexico and Germany is in the middle of the picture, not to the north – because Mercator moved the equator. Three days ago, Boston’s public schools began phasing in the lesser-known Peters projection, which cuts the US, Britain and the rest of Europe down to size. … “This is the start of a three-year effort to decolonize the curriculum in our public schools,” said Colin Rose, assistant superintendent of opportunity and achievement gaps for Boston public schools.

Colin Rose has been appointed Assistant Superintendent of Opportunity and Achievement Gaps for the Boston Public Schools. In his new role, Rose will attack cultural and structural barriers and promote culturally sustaining practices enabling traditionally marginalized students to engage in rigorous curriculums and pedagogy in Boston’s schools, thus creating opportunity and access they need to close performance gaps.

From The Guardian: Or they could have looked at the globe in their classroom.Yup, that’s his job title. Here’s the press release announcing his hiring:Back to The Guardian: Can’t get much more multicultural than Amherst, MA.

It doesn’t seem to occur to anybody involved that the Peters Projection demonstrates how there is plenty of land in Africa for Africans and plenty of land in Latin America for Latinos.

So it doesn’t make much sense for African and Latino migrants to overrun the smaller lands of the North.

Are the woke folk really that dumb that they don’t notice this?

Yes.

By the way, why is Boston still in thrall to Northern Supremacism?

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