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Arne Duncan: White suburban moms’ upset that Common Core shows their kids aren’t ‘brilliant’
The Washington Post ^ | Saturday, November 16, 2013 | Valerie Strauss

Posted on 11/17/2013 5:50:33 AM PST by kristinn

(Update: Adding more on opposition to Core, where Duncan spoke)

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a group of state schools superintendents Friday that he found it “fascinating” that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from “white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were.”

Yes, he really said that. But he has said similar things before. What, exactly, is he talking about?

In his cheerleading for the controversial Common Core State Standards — which were approved by 45 states and the District of Columbia and are now being implemented across the country (though some states are reconsidering) — Duncan has repeatedly noted that the standards and the standardized testing that goes along with them are more difficult than students in most states have confronted.

The Core was designed to elevate teaching and learning. Supporters say it does that; critics say it doesn’t and that some of the standards, especially for young children, are not developmentally appropriate. Whichever side you fall on regarding the Core’s academic value, there is no question that their implementation in many areas has been miserable — so miserable that American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, a Core supporter, recently compared it to another particularly troubled rollout:

You think the Obamacare implementation is bad? The implementation of the Common Core is far worse.

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To: gusopol3

To #9. As Rex Harrison sang in “My Fair Lady”, “By jove, I think (s)he’s got it”.

Arne was supposedly a great educational/school administrator in Chicago but if you look at the body counts there, he obviously didn’t teach “Thou Shalt Not Kill”.


101 posted on 11/17/2013 11:33:23 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Jane Long

So how many white suburban moms are going to pay the price with the liv for these outrageous remarks? How many white suburbs will be invaded by holder’s cadres? How many white moms will be attacked for being a white mom? Not liking this.


102 posted on 11/17/2013 11:39:04 PM PST by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: kristinn

Have a Republican President’s Secretary of Education say “Black Inner City Moms” instead of “White Suburban Moms” and see what happens.


103 posted on 11/17/2013 11:41:03 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Good news, Federal Funding for my Tagline has been restored. Crisis averted.)
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To: yldstrk
Yeah, Arne Duncan, the man who obozo like the looks of and loved playing basketball with in pickup games in Chicago parks. So, what didya have to do to get the gig in Chicago,and in DC, Arne? Did ya have to “suck” up to obozo? Is there a little bit of Larry Sinclair in ya, you know, whatever it takes to get the juicy job promised to ya by obozo in trade. You ahole...your name's on the list of lefties to be dealt with when the time comes. In charge of education, my azz. You're just another pos in the socialist/communist/marxist ideology known as the Democratic Socialist Party.
104 posted on 11/18/2013 1:11:19 AM PST by itssme
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To: marygam

The dims, always bring race into it. Homeschooling is the way to go. If BHO were to get his way he’d ban homeschooling.


105 posted on 11/18/2013 5:59:33 AM PST by opres
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To: butterdezillion
...but the truth of the matter is that very, very few of those acorns will fall far from the tree.

I believe you just described "genetics".

At last week's football banquet, my 11YO son was called "cantankerous, nasty, and proud" by his coach.

Acorn...tree...his mother has a bit of Mescalero Apache in her. lol...mix that with my Scottish temper, it can be a lethal combination.

106 posted on 11/18/2013 6:11:27 AM PST by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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To: kristinn
What, exactly, is he talking about?

The King has no clothes?

Choose either Lake Wobegon or else Stepford, Connecticut.

107 posted on 11/18/2013 7:33:56 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: marygam
All I can say is it is in God’s hands. Pray more.

I doubt praying is going to work.

However; DOING might.





Are you still killing your unborn?

-- GOD


 

108 posted on 11/18/2013 7:35:28 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: kristinn
Someone started a White House petition to remove Sec. Duncan from office..

Will NO one rid me of this meddlesome priest?

109 posted on 11/18/2013 7:37:02 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: drbuzzard

And a mighty SMALL set as well!


110 posted on 11/18/2013 7:37:34 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: tbw2
Try it with 3 digit numbers!
111 posted on 11/18/2013 7:44:56 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: kristinn
Okay, I'm apparently missing something about the *evils* of Common Core. FYI, our kids are adults and long past school age.

Anywho, from what I see from scanning the linked info it *seems* that the goal of Common Core is that kids will actually learn something. And put an end to the practice of automatic promotions and graduation of complete dullards functional illiterates. Like those that are still in HS at 19 and can't read or write cursive like that ignoramus cow in FL, St Skittles 'girl friend'.

Granted having the FedGov dictating what local school districts HAVE to do isn't anyone's cup of tea. But if a boot needs to be put on the necks of schools like Chicago and NYC, it's their own dam fault for not teaching the kids anything in the first place.

112 posted on 11/18/2013 11:42:14 AM PST by Condor51 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: Condor51

You highlight the problem with common core. It’s sold as everything you see it as, but is really just a Trojan Horse vector for Liberal indoctrination.

There was a thread last week I think showing some common core materials on sentance structure that included writing sentances like “The government must be obeyed.”. Common core is FILLED with Liberal, if not socialist and authoritarian messages that are snuck in barely under the radar.


113 posted on 11/18/2013 11:52:28 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: Navy Patriot

So, all moms that send their children to public schools are stupid. My mom would not have appreciated your attitude. She had no choice. You do understand that don’t you?


114 posted on 11/18/2013 12:01:04 PM PST by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: butterdezillion
>> As an educator the most frustrating thing in the world is trying to convince the kids that it’s worth their time to apply themselves when the parents are

Heh ... I used to be a teacher ... big frustration was trying to convince etc. when the parents were welfare bums.

115 posted on 11/18/2013 12:02:03 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Night Hides Not
>> "cantankerous, nasty, and proud"

At a football banquet, that's high praise.

116 posted on 11/18/2013 12:03:58 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: kristinn
A mean spirited arrogant condescending liberal. And a racist.

Gosh, that pretty much describes the entire Obomba regime.

117 posted on 11/18/2013 12:06:16 PM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Condor51

I got the same thing from it. The problem that exists in a lot of schools is that the grades are inflated and it’s not a true measure of what the kids actually “know”. I get the “one-worlder/pro-Islamist” issues with Common Core but have no issues with the HIGHER standards it appears to set.


118 posted on 11/18/2013 12:21:09 PM PST by Wyatt's Torch
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To: Farnsworth
I am proud as hell that Texas said “NO” to this POS...

Unfortunately, there are more than a few Texas school districts that *ARE* teaching to Common Core standards. If you have elementary age kids, check their homework. I suspect you will get an unpleasant surprise.

When asked, the standard educator response about tested and vetted sounds like the answers given about "Whole Language". Since that went so well I can see why we want to do something similar < /s >

119 posted on 11/18/2013 12:36:00 PM PST by BoringGuy
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To: BoringGuy; Farnsworth

the SBOE might have said no to Common Core but the whole CSCOPE thing showed how easy it was for school districts to come up with and share Common Core type teaching materials behind the SBOE’s back


120 posted on 11/18/2013 12:39:31 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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