re: Dad Writes Gag Check to Son's Elementary School Using Common Core Math

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I'm responding to YOUR COMMENT about federal takeover

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Not quite.

Your comments on this thread include:

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Most people don't like CC because it's just another step toward the de localization of education, not because it shows kids a different way to learn.

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What do you do as a parent when the school standards, cirriculum, and teaching methods are all dictated by the federal government, cause that is where this ride end

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I'm responding to your comment that we should just hand education over to the feds because Lousiana sucks. I'm not ready to toss the keys over to the same idiots that run Amtrack and the Postal Service. There IS no turning back from federal control of schools and we are already throwing $9K per student down a black hole in the current public school system with no end in sight

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If that's not implying that a federal takeover is imminent in this world of CC, then I don't know what to say.

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And as for private schools in Lousiana that receive public educations funds, they most certainly are subject to the government oversight tied to those funds. This is the case with my children's school which is the only reason we are teaching the methods of CC in the first place

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Your private school could always turn down the small amount of money it gets for textbooks. If avoiding CC was that important to your school.

However, I actually had a conversation with a friend who is principal at a local Catholic school - who told me that it's almost impossible to find math workbooks at this point that are not aligned to CC, and the same with math and english textbooks. So he said as these textbooks become unusuable over time, they will have to move to CC.