re: Evidence that Common Core is garbage continues to mount

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Regurgitation was the whole point. The entire point of common core is exactly this. They want mindless drones and not critical thinkers.

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I dont know if it's what they want or an evolution of the system. I lean toward the latter.

Our evaluation and support of education institutions in this country is bizarrely fricked up. Schools have to pass certain standardized tests and students must all conform to exactly the same rigid thought processes or the school loses funding or gets shut down. Two words that should almost never apply to educational processes are rigid and uniform. School, especially elementary, should be about teaching kids how to think and building foundations for the core subjects. But that's not the case anymore. Students who are more artful free critical thinkers are being punished and discouraged and the regurgitative scientific thinkers are being ill-prepared for the real world. It's an interesting dynamic you could write a book on. The world needs both. It needs critical thinkers and artful problem solvers as much as it needs scientific memorization and adherence to routine.