Posted on 04/29/2020 10:55:14 AM PDT by Signalman
Not at all surprising. Could have told anyone just this.
I see college kids coming in right now with criminal malpractice in their preceding educations. Sure, smart kids don’t need school to learn how to read and compute. But the less able students who have been taught through common core are terrible readers—in college!—and the math situation may be even worse.
Bill Gates admits Common Core failure, then doubles down on it
That was the plan all along.
SHOCKING! I tell you, absolutely shocking.
That explains AOC
Homeschool is the way! That is why the Elites want to stop it
Bingo!
And the progressives will say not enough funding. With education it is an inverse relationship, 2x funding = 1/2 results.
Imagine that. A curriculum based on ‘social justice’ and racial greivence that sucks in math & reading.
Must be ‘systemic racism’... Can’t do algebra but I hate whitey for sure!
It’s somewhat like the Midas touch in reverse. Whatever liberals touch turns to s**t.
DeVos seems to have done nothing. I get the idea she’s one of those only interested in home or charter school options and so can’t be bothered to take on the criminally poisonous pedagogy in both public and private schools, but more uniformly in public schools. (Home schooling generally avoids this nonsense.)
The kind of school reforms this country needs is only possible in a 2nd term with both the house and senate. The reforms will be so drastic (in a positive way) it will disrupt so many voters Trump would never win a 2nd term. Massive because it will necessitate major changes - eliminating the current structure, funding, curriculum, etc. It will also need to be initiated in Red states where the Governors can take the lead.
I think something could have been done, if not as much as we would have liked—and that could help kids in the system now.
I haven’t seen or heard any efforts along these lines at all.
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And yet the elites are demanding lock downs continue.
They can't have it both ways.
If the lock downs continue, homeschooling will as well.
I hope it is the border.
Everything (bar none) is second to that.
School choice would be a great sideshow.
I Japan, schools still work like when I was a kid.
A student walks to the front of the class, solves a problem on the board, erases it and then the next student comes to the board and is given a problem.
Every student knows where every other student stands (if he pays attention) and nobody fails in secret. Teachers can assign study partners if needed to help with known weeknesses.
Academic secrecy is the enemy of academic achievement.
The left always wanted a new Liberal “American Revolution” and have been trying it for over 100 years. They achieved a good portion of it in the last few MONTHS!
Thanks, Bill Gates, you ChiComBastard!
My daughter (native level Japanese, poor English skills, looked obviously America) was assigned with a Japanese girl (native Engish right down to the Texas twang, poor Japanese skills) whose family had just returned from a long posting in Houston. They both improved greatly in their (supposedly) native language after working together that school year.
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