Published: November 5, 2025
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Day 1 since Mamdani got elected, public schools in NYC are already teaching schoolchildren Arabic numerals

@wongmjane lol. indian numerals. He’s Indian, not Arabic.

@wongmjane They should teach binary so children learn how to communicate with AI in its native language

@wongmjane You realize how ridiculous that sounds, right? We’ve been using Arabic numerals since before modern English even existed. The entire Western numbering system is based on Arabic mathematics. You’ve been using “Arabic numerals” your whole life every time you write 1, 2, or 3.

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@wongmjane Damn. Our schools are doing roman numerals. What is this world coming to?

@wongmjane What’s next? teaching students Algorithms?

@wongmjane Hindu-Arabic numerals* He’s got both sides covered

@wongmjane Oh and they even started 5 times daily prayer as a compulsion.........they have even started preparing for Ramadan fasts

@wongmjane they're going to fall for this

@wongmjane Oh the humanity!

@wongmjane I see what you did there and I raise you 🤭 At this rate they will all be Hafizs by the end of the day! 🙄

@wongmjane The younger kids just have to learn the numerals. The kids in middle school are taught to use them for something called al-jabr. I looked at some of the assignments and it looks like some kind of encryption method. The liberal media are silent, of course.

@wongmjane They are teaching math in NYC public schools, what a relief

@wongmjane What in the Aladdin

@wongmjane Hey, wait a minute. Those are Hindu-Arabic numerals, I'll have you know.

@wongmjane Arabic numerals ruined my life

@wongmjane I’ve been using Arabic numerals since 1986

@wongmjane THATS FUCKING BULLSHIT THE NEED TO TEACH AMERICAN NUMBERS RAHHHHHHHH!

@wongmjane @theZeugh You know they won’t get this and will get angry.

@wongmjane are you pissed that they're not teaching chinese numerals as well, in those NYC public schools? who are you to decide what they teach children in public schools?

@wongmjane Mamdani has lived in the United States since he was seven. Mamdani speaks six to seven different languages, what’s the problem? Stop with the untruths.

@wongmjane They not getting this ur sense of humor at all.... Anyways we mouvvee

@wongmjane Just one mayor changed the curriculum? Really?

@wongmjane My God.

@wongmjane cleverrrrr

@wongmjane They had already been teaching that

@wongmjane ahahah

@wongmjane Arabs are the chosen people.

@wongmjane Well played

@wongmjane 🤣🤣

@wongmjane Nice 🤣

@wongmjane Sharia numbers

@wongmjane MAGA donot understand sarcasm Jane

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