so they will accept the socialist utopia they have planned for all of us.
Posted on 11/01/2014 8:08:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Proponents of the Common Core standards are hailing educational theorist E.D. “Don” Hirsch as a founding father of the education initiative and one who laid the intellectual groundwork for the controversial reform.
The problem is that Hirsch himself says, “I hate to be godfather of something that is not going to work.”
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It’s pure garbage.
..........I don’t know about Hirsch being a communist but he did admit to being a socialist. I think back in 1986 the world was a different place and his “original intent” MAY HAVE been ok as far as conservatives are concerned. After all, it’s main goal was to establish a top notch curriculum for school kids. What’s not to like about that?
But, here comes the BUT! The fn liberals got a hold of it and NEA came to power (unions) and the sodomists, socialists and marxists got involved and conservatives, as always, were cowed by the left and their lap dog media so now here we are. The Common Core Curriculum is kind of a Communist Manifesto for school kids in the US. Give it a couple generations and there will not be a US left.
Obama care...Common Core...and so many other failures....which of course destroys what was working!
The intent was supposedly to allow a student to move to any other state and continue his education largely where he left off, because with 52 different state education departments, it can be difficult for some students to play catch up with the other students, if he came from another state with lesser standards.
This was the intent.
However, what happened was the NEA got a hold of it and saw the means of lowering the standards, so it would take longer to educate a child and force the state to higher more due-paying unionized teachers.
All it shows is that, at best, the feds should only be involved in creating guidelines that all states can incorporate into their system to ensure children are well educated by the time they graduate.
But a non-enforceable guideline should be the limit of the feds involvement.
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” - some smart conservative
.............excellent post and I agree with you on all but one point. Actually, it is a half point. You say the Fed’s involvement should be reduced substantially. I say the Fed’s should be OUT all together! The 535 are just rotten to the core and they are lazy! Meaning, they pass some damn law and then let a bureaucracy create thousands of sub laws or regs under it while they are out on the golf course or on vacation.
Education should be turned back to local control and monitored by and/or regulated by each state. The Feds have screwed everything they touch up so bad it is time for them to get trimmed back about 90%.
Michelle Maulkin (sp?)was right all along.
The real intent is the data trove that resulted that WON’T go away even if CC is rejected by some states. It’s the womb to the tomb thing that no one is talking about and parents don’t have a clue.
I agree with you that education is a state responsibility and that’s where it should remain.
The NEA should be shut down.
all education in America is not local but ultimately racial
I would argue it is a parental responsibility that the state can optionally assist with.
In related news E.D. “Don” Hirsch decided to work on obamacare.
Hirsch himself says, “I hate to be godfather of something that is not going to work.”What does a Doctor of Education know? Trust Bill Gates. /s
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