Posted on 01/22/2016 4:38:26 AM PST by xzins
Local school boards still have a huge say.
We need to get after them.
I heard one report yesterday that the SAT has gone to questions based on students having learned common core methods.
The ACT hasn’t...yet.
I’d ignore the SAT. Hopefully, they keep their old test on file, because they’ll have to go back to it.
What is the volume of the cylinder:
ACT answer: 1 Liter.
SAT answer: well, it could be lots of balls, and the spaces between the balls could be filled with water. And if we guess the size of the balls, we could imagine bb’s for a bb gun (Proctor: Did he write, “GUN”? Pull the fire alarm, call the cops, we have a gun nut taking a test! Fail. Fail. Fail.)
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Common Core is the most idiotic, dumbing-down thing I’ve seen in my 65 years of breathing air on this planet.
The stupid is strong in this one.....
FWIW I can't imagine that "New York Values" include the feds telling them how to educate their children. It's not just a Texas thing. NOBODY (except those who benefit from the control or cost) likes it.
In fact, one has to why the HOR didn't take it out of all funding bills.
This is just another of the myriad reasons “Common Corps” should be destroyed as “Common Corpse”
Bushbots will come on to defend Common Core along with the Little Jebbies.
I was under the impression regarding the constitution that the Federal gubmint has no power over the states concerning ed-ja-ma-cation. /s
I agree. And the truth is that education really IS a local issue.
Whether a county school district or a township school district, those folks know what makes their people tick. They know their festivals, their jobs, their NAMES.
“Object to your school board.”
Good luck with that. I was in local politics for years and inviting a conservative to attend a local village council, county board or schoolboard meeting was like asking a vampire to attend a sunrise church revival.
I don’t like Sunrise Church revivals, but our board meetings are pretty easy to attend. Sending letters is even easier, but BEST is sending letters to the editor addressed to the school board.
I could see the Fed Gov *maybe* publishing non-mandatory guidelines for the “lowest-common-denominator” of what a curriculum should cover...
— EVEN THEN —
If your State, or even local, educators are looking for external guidance on what a given curriculum should cover to prepare students for life in the real world, you’ve got far bigger problems than an over-reaching fed. That would tend to indicate to me that you don’t have “teachers” or even “schools”. You quite likely have “baby-sitters” and “day-care” and you are probably better off finding a home-school co-op.
If you’re talking FL, I’d say it’s a bit perplexing.
There’s enough gray hairs and snow-birds in the South to turn the stomach of us in the Northern end. They went goo-goo for Yeb! over and over...Like Nelson and the ‘cutie’ Rubio
Yes, it’s indoctrination. Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao approve of Common Core.
You ever see a Brad Pitt flick called Fury?
Not yet ... I may have to rent it.
To my surprise, the opposition to Common Core was unanimous. Thoughtful educators (the ones who actually care about their students) see Common Core for the fraudulent and evil entity that it is.
Definitely local is better.
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