Posted on 03/14/2015 5:07:07 PM PDT by kindred
Bill Bennett Gets Paid to Spin Common Core to ‘Conservatives’
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/09/12/bill-bennett-gets-paid-to-spin-common-core-to-conservatives/
Then, even if full-time homeschooling is not an option, teach your kids the real way when they’re at home, and tell them, “Look, we know the school’s not teaching anything useful anymore, so keep the following in mind: The law requires your physical presence in the classroom, and only that. It does not require you to actually do the work, so it’s OK with us if you just blow that crap off. Obey to the extent that is necessary for physical safety, but do your own thing otherwise. They can’t MAKE you do anything other than sit there.”
What Mrs L and the other parents should have done was pull their children from school and demand the board members resign.
Until then, their children will not attend govt. schools.
End of story.
“Tell me that the teachers don’t have blame for their work in the dumbing down of American children in public schools, a scourge of education and moral teaching.”
Teachers are responsible, and their ‘new ways’ have only bought more failure. That said the demand that work be shown is probably motivated by a concern for cheating. With calculators and computers today its easy enough to do the math problems using them rather than in your head.
Teachers however should be more flexible, and at some point we need to confront the reality of our technological world, and focus in mathematics more upon merely understanding the process than preforming the act.
“Don’t write CC in cursive because they’re not going to teach cursive anymore”
A friend thinks they quit teaching cursive so people won’t be able to read the Constitution and other founding documents as they were written. That way the libs can rewrite them as much as they like.
“a lot of problems have come up because are kids are using calculators for everything, digital watches instead of knowing how to read a circular watch...”
Exactly. Kids now need a fancy graphing calculator to take math classes in high school. They spend all their time learning the calculator instead of the math.
On the other hand, I just found my old calculator from college. I went through 4 years of majoring in engineering with it, and passed the EIT with it. No graphing and just the basic trig functions onit.
I agree; jam the system!
I still don’t understand the problem. There’s no way I could ever figure out the answer.
I ran into the same problem. My kids could do it the old way but had to show their work and were penalized. For grins I did one of their assignments and made a 50 because all the answers were right but my work steps were wrong. The meeting with the teacher was of course unproductive as she had to tow the school line.
Shortly thereafter we were in private school.
Wow. Kids deserve to be educated in the basics of reading and writing and math and not to be manipulated into a unproductive and foolish process of thinking that confuses the simple answers available. The public schools and universities of people thinking and doing that which is wrong because their ideas are wrong and the teachers unions are wrong.
Simply put, public education is both evil and counterproductive nowdays. God knows.
Soon, that 50 percent will have passed on and the mexicans, moslems and third world riff raff will view us as an ancient civilization like ancient greece.
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