1 posted on
01/21/2015 11:35:19 AM PST by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
“Too much” testing points out the failures of the public school system.
2 posted on
01/21/2015 11:36:23 AM PST by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Olog-hai
Why would anyone in the Congress grapple with student testing? That should be the reserve of parents and the local school board. Oh --- wait -- I forgot: "it takes a village to raise a child".
3 posted on
01/21/2015 11:38:04 AM PST by
buckalfa
(First time listener, long time caller.)
To: Olog-hai
I’m sure the Senators will make the best possible decision. After all, they’re so much smarter, better informed, and virtuous than the rest of us.
4 posted on
01/21/2015 11:39:35 AM PST by
Tax-chick
("A war is not over until the enemy stops fighting." ~ Thomas Sowell)
To: Olog-hai; cripplecreek; GraceG
Why is this the Senates Business in the first place?
(Answer: Early 20th Century Progressives sticking their finger in every pie, or layman's answers: Federal School Lunch Program Money. It all comes back to the Lunch Money, whether its a Bully or Uncle Sam)
5 posted on
01/21/2015 11:40:19 AM PST by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
To: Olog-hai
Sen. Lamar Alexander needs to read the US Constitution and find where the congress gets its power to do anything with education.
To: Olog-hai
Why grapple? The US Senate should recognize that there shouldn’t be any federal interference in public education. Let the states in coordination with local governments make decisions.
7 posted on
01/21/2015 11:43:28 AM PST by
grania
To: Olog-hai
They have to be taught something before they can be tested on anything.
8 posted on
01/21/2015 11:45:17 AM PST by
Parmy
To: Olog-hai
this is NOT something the US Senate should have anything to do with.
9 posted on
01/21/2015 11:53:48 AM PST by
PGR88
To: Olog-hai
This is a stupid thing for U.S. senators to be grappling with, since they have actually not been empowered by the Constitution to have any purview whatsoever over it.
10 posted on
01/21/2015 11:54:49 AM PST by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: Olog-hai
$18 trillion in debt and these louses want to run schools.
No doubt at some point they’ll mandate how heavy backpacks can be and outlaw sharpened pencils as too dangerous.
11 posted on
01/21/2015 11:55:17 AM PST by
SharpRightTurn
(White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
To: Olog-hai; All
The states have never granted the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate public schools. This is another example of problems with the ill-conceived 17th Amendment where corrupt, Constitution-ignoring federal senators elected by misguided voters arent letting state lawmakers do their jobs to regulate intrastate schools.
Note that most state legislatures probably comply with constitutionally indefensible, federal policies (vote-winning student indoctrination) concerning intrastate schools in order receive constitutionally indefensible federal funding for their schools, state lawmakers clueless that the Supreme Court has clarified that the feds are prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
To: Olog-hai
How about it is none of their dang business?
13 posted on
01/21/2015 11:59:17 AM PST by
GeronL
To: Olog-hai
You see, they want to stop the testing now, because it will show just how dismally CommieCore has failed.
You watch, the GOP-E will do nothing to stop CommieCore, however.
14 posted on
01/21/2015 12:11:32 PM PST by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: Olog-hai
Isn’t that a decision best left to....oh, I dunno....teachers and local school boards, rather than Senators sitting in Washington, D.C.?
To: Olog-hai
There is little time for teaching anymore. It’s test test test test test. .....
16 posted on
01/21/2015 12:12:07 PM PST by
Uncle Miltie
(Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
To: Olog-hai
...teaching to the test... The test should be general knowledge that you would be expected to know after taking the course.
So just what is wrong with "teaching to the test"? It should produce the same results as teaching unless what they are saying is that the students learning what the course was suppose to teach is a bad thing.
17 posted on
01/21/2015 12:15:21 PM PST by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
To: Olog-hai
Why not “grapple” with a time line to get the feds out of education?
All the crap you got to work on and you want to waste time playing like you are the SAT board?
18 posted on
01/21/2015 12:17:24 PM PST by
Adder
(No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
To: Olog-hai
19 posted on
01/21/2015 12:47:28 PM PST by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for you. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to kill you.)
To: Olog-hai
As a teacher I have no problem with accountability. The issue is that all of the mandated testing and new teacher evaluation systems fix nothing. Do you know what has resulted from all of this? More layers of state and federal bureaucracy, and more tax payer $$$ to pay for it.
20 posted on
01/21/2015 12:58:06 PM PST by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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