Posted on 05/30/2019 8:27:55 AM PDT by RightGeek
These people should be strung up by their genitals.
Cheers!
Oh, the negative, unexpected consequences that proggie actions continually create...
Math ... long the domain of boys in school was to be made so intelligible as to confuse the student to the point of failure.
this was part of the attack by the progressive left against men and the US.
the country won’t feel this for another 10 years... at which point we’ll be importing people for STEM jobs we cannot fill with Americans
Well, when the Chinese kill them all, maybe Math will become popular again.
An unenthusiastic, ignorant public is a compliant public........and that’s just one of the ways the Left gains voters.
Patriots, beware of any federal involvement in INTRAstate schooling.
From related threads…
More specifically, consider that both President Thomas Jefferson and pre-FDR era generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had indicated the following concerning so-called federal power to deal with INTRAstate schooling.
The states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution to give Congress specific power to dictate policy, regulate, tax and spend in the name of intrastate schooling before Congress could actually do so, something that the states have never done.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphases added]. Congress is empowered to lay taxes for revenue, it is true; but there is no power to encourage, protect, or meddle with manufactures." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The states need to wise up and eliminate the unconstitutional middleman, the unconstitutionally big federal government, from “helping” the states to manage their revenues, such revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes according to Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above, unconstitutional federal interference in intrastate schooling in this example.
Both constitutional lawmaker Rep. John Bingham and Justice Brandeis had put it this way about unique state powers to care for the people.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.
After all of that, the question is how can any state afford to establish its own schooling, healthcare and retirement programs since the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification federal government is continuously stealing state revenues from all states by means of unconstitutional federal taxes according the Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above?
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Not Democratic MADA (Make America Dead Again)
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.” —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Surprised? really? When My wife was still teaching she got the impression that promoting more illiteracy was a goal of Common Core. The experts were not surprised. I suspect they are saying things like that now to pave the way for an even worse follow-on to Common Core. It is part of making everyone equal. You can make a much larger portion of the rising generation dumb than you can make smart. A few will, of course continue to learn stuff in spite of the system and that is a problem that needs to be addressed in the upcoming Commoner Corp. Perhaps reading books at home can be banned.
Common Core is garbage.
The way it approached math by trying to come up with novel ways for students to solve simple problems is going to leave so many students deficient in basic math skills. In addition to pushing new methods that aren’t as easy to use quickly as the traditional methods, students are often encouraged to participate in both solo and group activities where they try to come up with their way to solve problems.
The problem with this is that, while it’s true that there are often multiple ways one can approach a mathematical problem, most kids NEED simple direction, especially until their brains have reached the stage where they can truly think abstractly, which is usually NOT in the elementary school years.
The few bright mathematical geniuses that do benefit from such learning can be pulled out and taught math separately. But common core math pretends that all students have mathematical talent, and perhaps even worse, that all teachers actually understand what they are teaching. Most teachers teaching elementary common core math don’t even have the math skills to understand why they are using a different method. They just mark students wrong if they deviate from the answer sheet.
Common Core wasn’t intended to maintain or increase scores, it was intended to cripple the bright kids and bring their scores down. It is one of the many methods of redistributing (destroying) the advantage of being intelligent. They’ve already redistributed wealth, income, college credentials, and many other thing statistically linked to European culture.
Seems I was right.
I homeschooled, now tutor kids 1:1. Common Core is the worst. Ever. Period. I tell all my clients, “Make sure your kid knows how to do math the way you were taught. It was good enough for Euclid.” The parents hate CC, the teachers have to use the how-to manuals AS they teach, the kids have no clue and cannot explain how to do stuff for love nor money.
But ... but ... they PAID the districts/ schools to adopt it. So of course they bought it. Not all, but most.
(That’s the short version. I’ll spare the rant.) Glad the research is out.
I taught jr high for 30 years. Happily I taught history which wasn’t considered important enough for common core to take too big a bite out of it. Actually was told that my main goal as a history teacher was to support the math and reading common core goals.
Anyway, after I retired, I’ve kept busy with occasional subbing at the school where I taught. I have gotten to teach the common core math lessons. Besides making every math problem maybe 5 times more complex than it needs to be, the approach also favors exposing kids to as many math concepts as possible. So I had 2nd graders trying to do simple fraction problems—before many had mastered simple addition. Maybe half of the eighth graders knew their times tables. I had some who attempted to solve 7 x 8 by adding 7 8s together. Also most problems involved drawing lots of little boxes. If a kid correctly solved a problem, but didn’t draw the boxes, no full credit.
Kids are exposed to concepts, but never given time to master them. Also the curriculum in math seems to jump around from one skill to another without any logical progression. Fractions for two weeks followed by angles the next.
People have been teaching kids for a very long time. Our ancestors got most (not all, but most) of it right. Nearly all of the ‘reforms’ I’ve seen in my career have been failures. Not only haven’t they made teaching/learning better, they have in fact made it worse. The education I received in the 50s was far better than what has been provided in most schools over the last half century.
I wonder how much money was spent on and made by 300k/yr dumbf***** with recent PhD’s in education (=approximately a high school diploma in 1955) in order to design this ingenious program.
Maybe it’s because of teachers like this.
Key and Peele : Substitute Teacher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
“Common Core wasn’t intended to maintain or increase scores, it was intended to cripple the bright kids and bring their scores down. It is one of the many methods of redistributing (destroying) the advantage of being intelligent. They’ve already redistributed wealth, income, college credentials, and many other thing statistically linked to European culture.”
The reason that the richer are getting richer and the poorer are getting poorer is that the smart are getting smarter and the dumb are getting dumber. The solution is obvious.
That's they said for the new math, phonetics, ebonics and all the other social experimentation the NEA has imposed on our kids since the 1960's.
Having read down to your post, I thought possibly some FReepers were missing the point, which you seem to have captured.
I also think that it was more about maintaining influence over and vulnerability in the upcoming generation by controlling more and more aspects of education than it was EVER about making any effort to “improve” teaching approaches or skills.
Many teachers and parents ignored Common Core. They knew it was a scam.
Many teachers and parents ignored Common Core. They knew it was a scam.
Common Core Sunk U.S. Kids’ Test Scores - AND WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK THAT BEFORE HAND - every damn I knew and we all fought it tooth and nails locally in NC and were all told to go f*ck ourselves by the “educated - professional” NC teachers - union types REDFORED - the ones marching on MAY DAY in the state capital and else where for more teacher pay to throw away - BULLSH*T I say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NC going purple and stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ILLEGAL HEAVEN OF THE SOUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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