Beck was talking about the “Common Core” curriculum. I’d never heard of it before.
Sounds just dreadful and it’s taking over all over the country.
The “public school”, including the “charter school”, is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The “public school” is better understood as the “government school collective”.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is collectivist.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
It is hypocritical for you to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. Children instinctively mistrust hypocrites.
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves our children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children better than you can.
Nobody knows your children better than you do.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!
Especially not with your own children.
And DO NOT TAKE GOVERNMENT “EDUCATION” MONEY!
He that pays the piper calls the tune, and that’s especially true for any government entitlement program.
My sister, though a mere two years younger, went through that “core” nonsense. I took the usual route from arithmetic, times tables, and long division to algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus, in that order. After elementary she went off on a tangent to gosh knows where. It wasn’t algebra, exactly, though that was involved. It wasn’t anything you could pin a name on, really. She ended up with an accounting degree and has worked at banks and a tax firm. No thanks to publik skrool.
She also somehow ended up missing out on the Civil War in history. One teacher went into too much detail on the Mexican War, or something, then next semester, trimester, quarter, or whatever it was the next teacher was on reconstruction. I’ve talked to a number of people from different areas who claim never to have learner much about the Civil War, mysteriously. It almost resembles a conspiracy.
Not that had they actually studied it would it have been worthwhile. I went the traditional route through the maths, as outlined, and today am basically functionally innumerate.