[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[Kenny Bunk]

Very enlightening. Now I don’t blame Trayvon for dropping school to become a burglar. Hell, I might have joined him!

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Now this is effective criticism. And funny!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Common core is designed to discourage children and produce dumbed down DemocRat voters.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I use the methods in the first two examples all the time to do math in my head. So does my Shanghai born and educated ladyfriend. But the other examples are just stoopid!

[Old Sarge]

The only word I can use to describe this stuff is “asinine”.

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[Sans-Culotte]

Bump

[Buckeye McFrog]

THIS is why I was a hopeless basket case all through school when it came to Math. The “New Math” which was unleashed on me in 1970 was not too different at all from this crap. They had me so confused by second grade it was years before I caught on.

[TNoldman]

Common core

[rockinqsranch]

So THEY are doing this to our kids as well shoving homosexual lifestyle on them, and teaching them Islamic culture all the while denigrating Jews, and Christians whenever they can. I'd say it's past time to kick some liberal ass.

[Servant of the Cross]

Huckabee’s Photo Featured in Pro-Common Core Big Business Group’s Book of Supporters

And here are some of Huckabee's "clear" statements supporting ('came out swinging') Common Core:

Huckabee, however, has a history of supporting Common Core. As late as August of 2014 he called on conservatives to “stop the fight” over Common Core and, instead, consider the positive effects the nationalized standards might have on students in poorly performing schools.

In June of 2013, Sunshine State News reported that Huckabee “came out swinging…in defense of Common Core Standards in education,” and “sent a letter to lawmakers in Oklahoma, urging them to support Common Core.”

“It’s disturbing to me there have been criticisms of these standards directed by other conservatives including the RNC,” Huckabee wrote to the lawmakers. “The truth of the matter is, these criticisms are short-sighted.”

And yet, Huck's spokesperson has the audacity to say this now ....

Now that he’s a candidate for President, there will be countless efforts to try and misrepresent the Governor’s clearly stated and well-documented position against Common Core. This is just simply another one of those election year lies.

Governor Huckabee believes education is a family function, not a federal function – period. Anyone who says otherwise is either misinformed or not telling the truth.

Huckabee is pissing on the GOP base and telling them it's raining. Don't believe him.

[Salvation]

Poor kids.

When will they go back to basics?

[left that other site]

“Faiza”?

“Roberto”?

[Red Badger]

For ten thousand years man has been taught math the ‘old’ way, and it has served him well.

Now, idiots who can’t find a job in the real world are giving lessons in how to destroy a child’s mind......................

[Sergio]

bkmk

[Sherman Logan]

And where a pre-enlightenment teacher might advise students to “borrow” a number when performing an equation, today’s kids are trained to “take a ten and regroup it as ten ones.”

Don't know why the author thinks this is a Common Core thing. It's at least 60 years old. Here's Tom Lehrer from the 50s with New Math.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wHDn8LDks8

[Fightin Whitey]

bimp

[doorgunner69]

"A number sentence" "A subtraction sentence"

Geez, no wonder this country is a disaster in technical fields, kids are being taught by math-phobes.

[Captain Peter Blood]

You have to wonder what idiots came up with this. Also they let and encourage students use calculators in class.

When I was in school back in the 1960’s we had the new Math that was just as bad, this is worse.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

And, one wonders why, without the cash register reading, young clerks can’t make change.