If you teach the way Sheriff Clarke suggests, you will have unequal outcomes.
The system denies that unequal outcomes are even possible, because racism.
The delusion that equal outcomes are even possible, never mind normative, is widely believed all across the land, especially by the voters who elect school boards, legislatures, and Congress. In fact, the voters demand equal outcomes and choose “reform of a broken system” when they don’t get it.
So, the system has reacted in the only way it can. The only way for outcomes of K-12 to be equal is for everyone to be equally stupid. Get used to it.
Bingo.
The only thing that matters to these people is Equality. They don't care about education at all. They just want everyone to be as equal as possible and, as you say, the only way to get there is to make everyone equally stupid.
This stuff isn't an accident.
The only way for outcomes of K-12 to be equal is for everyone to be equally stupid.
This was the fatal flaw of Kennedy/Bush ‘No Child Left Behind’ which had the ultimate goal of having every kid reach ‘proficiency’. And they meant every kid. Rich, poor, native Spanish speaker, special ed kids—every single kid. It was absurd. The only ways to meet the standard was to either cheat, or lower the standard to an absurd level. Both methods were used.
Common Core goes on the assumption that the problem with the schools is that teachers just aren’t teaching the right stuff the right way. If only they would that, then every child would be able achieve success in school. But of course the idea is based on a lie—that we are all blessed with the same abilities.
Everyone knows that there are some people who are brilliant, some who are average when it comes to smarts and some who are really, really dumb. Educators are not allowed to acknowledge this. If the whole educational establishment is based on an absurdity, why is anyone surprised that it is not actually working?
“The only way for outcomes of K-12 to be equal is for everyone to be equally stupid. Get used to it.”
In attempting to explain this concept to a liberal I asked if he had ever been to the mountains and he said yes so I asked if he could imagine huge machinery leveling the mountains and he said yes so I asked him how it would be done and he said all the peaks would be cut off and the fill dumped in the low places resulting in a plain. I then asked if the resulting plain would be closer to the level of the lowest points existing before the leveling or to the highest points before leveling. At that point he seemed to have a glimmer of understanding. I really don’t know why people have so much trouble seeing what is obvious.