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If you care more about your kid getting their politics form the 6th grade social studies teacher, then you are missing the point of whats really wrong with our schools.

I care about results. PERIOD!
I far less about method.

Common Core offers no particular advantages toward that end, at least as far as I can see. It requires a lot more work in preparation from a teaching end. CC standards do seem higher. The methods of attaining those results are as elusive as ever though.

There are far more productive alternatives.

Opening up access and choice via vouchers would be one.

Another is intellectually leveling classes. Grouping kids across the IQ spectrum into the same classroom under the same educational umbrella is extraordinarily inefficient. Less capable kids hold the most capable back. The more capable kids push classroom tasks up to a level impossible for the lower capacity kids to meet.

The result?
Mediocrity.

We pay more and get less for the dollar in our primary and secondary public education system than any other society in history.

We can do far better.
CC is shifting the chairs on a sinking shipdeck.

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Posted by SammyTiger

Baton Rouge, LA

Member since Feb 2009

67122 posts

Posted on 4/13/14 at 2:36 pm to NC_Tigah

Our schools were failing before common core. I am not defending common core, but people are blaming our education systems failure on something that came along after the schools were already failing.

Clearly the old way wasn't working, i don't think the new way will so maybe we need to stop blaming common core for something that was already happened. It is just shifting chairs on a sinking ship, but you don't blame the new place of the deck char for why the shite is sinking.

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