[Steve_Seattle]

Any Freeper would be delusional if they think this is some sort of right-wing protest. On the contrary, the left-wing Seattle teacher's union strongly opposes Common Core because of the testing requirements, NOT for the reasons that conservatives oppose it, e.g., dubious pedagogical methods, the abandoning of traditional curricula, and the promotion of left-wing social engineering.

This is strictly a top-down protest against testing and accountability per se, and if anyone thinks this is a spontaneous, grass-roots movement of students, they are wrong. The teachers put them up to it. They can and will do the left-wing social engineering WITHOUT CC.

[Lumper20]

That is what I figured. They taught kids many many years ago. Then along came busing and academic standards soon slid some. Soon a number of whites quit high school, something unheard of through the mid 60’s. It appears after dumbing education down, teaching folks to pass tests, that educators don’t want to have their performance measured by how well they teach.