re: Common core continues to indoctrinate the young, with bogus history

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i teach hs chem and i can tell you right now cscope is a complete fricking joke ...

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Thanks for your perspective.

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i do laugh at the "conservative" who bitch about "liberal" teachings ... most of you "conservatives" aren't conservative at all ... you're Republicans who have no more in common with conservatism than libs and Democrats ...

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Well, since you replied to me on this, I'll address it from my perspective.

I think you will find that most on this board know all too well that "republican" and "conservative" are not synonyms.

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so many of you "conservatives" want school choice, but you keep voting for republicans, who seldom ever support real school choice

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Like most people, my views rarely fall in lock step with any one candidate. But our choices are so limited and the third party candidates have not made as many strides as some of us would like to see. Sadly, too much campaign money is tied to being an "R" or "D".

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[school choice] would mean a lot of Republican principals/superintendents/etc might lose their jobs, and Republicans are just as supportive of big government as the Dems are ..

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Umm, not necessarily. People like me who choose private school are actually contributing to a growing job market for those who are committed to a more conservative and workable academia. School choice with vouchers would only grow that market.

I'd eat government cheese and live in a van down by the river if I had to in order to scrape enough money together to send my kids to the school of my choice (OK, maybe the govt cheese part is rhetorical). So yes, I absolutely support school choice. I support it for all children, regardless whether their parents/guardians have the means to send them elsewhere. I think it hasn't gained more traction because the implementation is perceived as unwieldy and may produce some adverse unintended consequences. But hey, they did it with Obamacare.