Posted on 09/19/2015 10:20:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An Ohio dad wanted to let his son’s elementary school know how frustrated his family is about Common Core math. Douglas Hermann from Painesville posted a picture on his Facebook page of a check made out to Melridge Elementary School with place value chart in place of the dollar amounts:
If you’re unfamiliar with this method of teaching math, check out this video of a little girl demonstrating how to add three-digit numbers using both the traditional method and the Common Core method:
Little Girl Destroys Common Core Math in Under 2 Minutes
Hermann also wrote on his Facebook page, “It’s sad when I can’t help my second grader do his math homework. Mental math and ten-frame cards? Common core sucks!”
The Ohio father said that he didn’t actually send the check to his son’s school, but rather, posted it on Facebook as “a slam on Common Core.”
He’s not the only parent sounding off about Common Core math on social media:
Tried to help my third grader do his basic math homework and showing the work but I can't because… #CommonCore
— Dennis (@KramerNineGuy) September 16, 2015
How come my BabyBoomer peers cannot help their grandkids with their #CommonCore math? MATH. We're NOT talking algebra here.
— mark wonderful (@markwonderful) September 9, 2015
I had her memorize the multiplication tables this summer. I drilled her almost every day. #commoncore math is a nightmare. Conceptualist.
— Loretta the Prole (@Lorettatheprole) September 8, 2015
#commoncoremath Are they CRAZY⁉️ pic.twitter.com/d2N0TjhRmI
— Franny Brill (@TexasWench) September 1, 2015
#commoncoremath Let the games begin
You don’t need to be all learnin’ ‘n she-it.
Just push the button that looks like a hamburger.
Common Core is useful for building serfs
Apparently, Sidwell Friends School does not use Common Core.
I thought Quakers were all about equality. Curious.
And their school lunch menu is not in step with the DC public schools. Also curious.
Nah, the Bureaucrat and Elite castes won't know anything either (trust me, I've been around a few - dumber than boxes of rocks), but they'll have the power to prevent the lower castes from doing anything about it.
>>Nah, the Bureaucrat and Elite castes won’t know anything either (trust me, I’ve been around a few - dumber than boxes of rocks),
Your thinking is limited to the current paradigm. I’m talking about a generation or two from now, when the masses won’t even be educated enough to do more than basic math and “txtspk” reading. The bureaucrat and elite children will recieve enough education to make them seem intelligent beyond the reach of the masses.
Sorry-didnt mean to demonize teachers-more so the system which is power hungry and invasive.You said it yourself:
Exactly . . . it is the power of denying your competency. It is parent and child abuse.Seriously, parents - all parents - need to inform themselves about homeschooling and online video lectures. Enough to make it clear to the Establishment, when the parents challenge them, that their monopoly is not secure. The teachers union should be the ones to get the word, and they should take that word to the Democratic Convention. If they did so, they have the clout to shut this obscene mess down within an election cycle.If the teachers unions rejected it, the issue would quickly turn into teachers and parents - everybody - against nobody."
If and when true tyranny comes to our nation, they elite will not use cattle cars. No. No.
Instead, the ruling oligarchy will use big yellow school buses. The shekel will compliantly board them just as their government teachers taught them to do.
Yeah I blame teachers and every other person in the “system” who **know** ( or should know) that they are literally destroying the future of the children in their care.
It is CHILD ABUSE! Shame on them!
Bingo!
The whole point is to separate the children from their families and to make them look to the state for leadership.
That would be a good thing. Communities could start over using a system of privately owned and privately delivered schooling for its children.
One more thing.
Government schooling has **never** been a good thing. It only took one to three generations of government K-12 indoctrination to give the nation Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
When the nation’s children attend socialist-entitlement schools they learn to be comfortable with socialism!
When the children attend socialist-entitlement schools that dish out a lukewarm and generic Protestantism they learn to be lukewarm and generic spiritually. ( Why were the 60s a surprise?)
When the children nation’s children attend **GODLESS** schools they WILL learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the godless classroom. How could it be otherwise?
>>If and when true tyranny comes to our nation, they elite will not use cattle cars. No. No.
Once their power is cemented in place and the useless eaters are no longer necessary for their votes, the ruling elite will use the cattle cars. Not because they have to. The school buses will work fine. But, they will use the cattle cars just because they can. They will need to see the people that they had to pretend to care about for all those decades being humiliated as they are pushed on to those train cars.
We have to earn a living.
You care to contribute $55,000 to our bank account every year so that we can pay our bills, pay for our healthcare benefits, contribute towards our retirement?
Unless you are willing to do so, you frankly, aren’t big enough of a man to impose your idiocy on our family.
There were prisoners in the WWII concentration camps who still loved Hitler. They claimed that if Hitler knew what was going on he would put a stop to it. ( Fools!). The same would be true here, too.
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