[walford]

I thought for sure that the Leftist teacher would be comparing Common Core to Soviet-style education in a complimentary way, but she sees how stifling and pigeon-holing it is.

[NormsRevenge]

Poobably spent her time in an American Gulag.. Like Detroit or Chicago or Baltimore as a kid.

[nickcarraway]

In Soviet Union, school indoctrinates you.

[right way right]

For those of us who were actually taught about communism in elementary school, this is a “No 5h1t Sherlock!” moment.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[9thLife]

Can we all finally see that we have been completely overtaken by communists?

[katana]

There was a giant banner at a Soviet textile factory I visited once. Our guide interpreted it for us as saying “The Plan is Law!” The education fascists who came up with Common Core probably wish they could put up the same sort of thing in every high school in America.

[Steve_Seattle]

It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Common Core is a deliberate effort to make American students less competitive with their peers in other countries, thereby increasing the demand to import STEM workers from other countries, thereby internationalizing the top-end and creative end of the American work force, thereby alienating the intelligentsia from the rest of the country, undermining national sovereignty, and ushering in calls for a world government.

I know it sounds like a tinfoil-hat argument, but I'm trying to make sense of it.

[Zeneta]

Common Core = Common Coma.

Drones.

Useful idiots.

When did the “powers to be” decide that our world would be better off by destroying the creative power of the individual?

[WalterSkinner]

..dumbing down, collectivist, prematurely sexualized—God help us...

[ForYourChildren]

Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!!

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Federalized, compulsory schooling will always be unpopular with students and parents for the following reason.

Advocates of educational approaches that are popular with students and parents have little interest is forcing their ideas on others, since force isn’t necessary to promulgate their ideas.

Advocates of unpopular educational approaches are naturally drawn to environments where their ideas can be imposed by force on students and parents.

[Da Coyote]

Smart gun?

Izzat sorta like a smart liberal?

[upchuck]

This is not surprising when you consider the close parallels between the philosophy of the Soviet Union and those who wrote Common Core.

[BfloGuy]

I thought for sure that the Leftist teacher would be comparing Common Core to Soviet-style education in a complimentary way, but she sees how stifling and pigeon-holing it is.

Please,don't take me wrong -- I despise Common Core.

But this article is a perfect example of propaganda.I'm all for getting rid of CC, but simplistic and obviously exaggerated (they came for my teaching materials!!!) accounts like this one are not ultimately effective.

Critical thinking,people.

[BobL]

The Soviet Union may not have been the ‘paradise’ that they claimed it was but at least their kids can do math WITHOUT a calculator...and that holds in Russia to this day.

There’s a lot to criticize over there, through the decades of the past, but math education is not one of them, and DEFINITELY not something we (America) can claim superiority over (maybe S. Korea and Singapore, but certainly not us).

[Secret Agent Man]

I am so glad I was in good schools before all this garbage started occurring 24/7. I was pushed real hard to achieve. My teachers rided me. I was one of the few students that ever took pre-calculus and calculus at the same time. I wanted to take calc before going to college. It was the only way I could do it.