What were they thinking?

T-shirt sold by Children's Place that they took
off the shelves after a social media uproar

I'm not sure who was more shocked to see this t-shirt - the mom, the teacher or the woman in me? I've just finished an unbelievable MOOC run by Dr. Jo Boaler entitled "How To Learn Math".  I plan to implement many of the ideas presented over the sessions in my classrooms and I know we will all be better for it.

One aspect we learned about and discussed were the messages that society puts out there with regards to math learning.  That they damage our students, both strong and weak.  While many of us were focused on the more subtle ones like telling kids that it is OK to be weak in maths if you are strong in something else, this doozy of a shirt appeared on store shelves.  I guess there is still work to do!