Posted on 04/04/2016 3:27:15 PM PDT by MtnClimber
If youre glued to the trashy, monotonous 2016 horserace, just like the presidential candidates still insisting they will end Common Core you will have missed that the cornerstone of President Obamas education policy has already become a tombstone. Thats right: Common Core is dead. The big postmortems will roll out in a year or two, but its already clear this education monstrosity is eking out its last gasps.
Not that many normal people paid much attention to the biggest shift in U.S. education for decades, to hear Buzzfeed tell it in the recent video below. To recap, Common Core is an organizing scheme that aims to control all of American education, from preschool through college. Its core is a set of testing and curriculum blueprints being used as a lever to get all of what kids learn in every subject and at every age into alignment with its centrally planned, academically low-quality, and one-size-fits-all mandates.
Common Core has by now not only failed academically, it has failed operationally. This is a horrific outcome. None of us who oppose Common Core are happy to be able to say I told you so, because it means our predictions that consultants would enrich themselves while mashing millions of children and teachers into chaos have come true.
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My kids went from being excellent at math to homework being an incredible chore.
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They DELIBERATELY invented new ways to solve problems to render old texts impossible to use, invented new terminology complete with parental dictionaries so parents look like idiots, and then licensed all the tests, quizzes, workbooks and so forth to profit from every piece of curriculum and tutoring content. It was big business meets big education.
Why did the government like it? Because it let them gain control of the curriculum, inserting far left lessons in every grade without having to face states that fought it in the textbook wars. And with all the content digital and copyrighted, parents didn’t KNOW what the kids were learning until you get the tests back saying Founding Fathers are like Muslim terrorists, Muslims have greater faith than Christians, or the most puzzling one my oldest reported, global warming lectures in PE along with how not to overheat while working out.
That’s the game the GOPe-RINO politicians and their supporting media outlets like Fox News and the talk show hosts, websites want to sell you.
Look we want to repeal Obamacare, Common Core etc. etc. and ‘replace’ it.
That the ‘detail with the devil in it’.
Wishful thinking.
Even New York is giving up on it.
My grandson’s 1st grade teacher exempted him from the “art” part of Common Core since he always knew the answer as soon as he saw the problem. A great teacher, a real blessing. By the time he was in 4th grade he was taking 10th grade math. More teachers ignoring Common Core.
Great news for your grandson and a great reflection on his teachers!
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic. DISMANTLE federal agencies trampling state’s rights.
The most important question that was ever proposed to your decision, or to the decision of any people under heaven, is before you, and you are to decide upon it by men of your own election, chosen specially for this purpose. If the constitution, offered to your acceptance, be a wise one, calculated to preserve the invaluable blessings of liberty, to secure the inestimable rights of mankind, and promote human happiness, then, if you accept it, you will lay a lasting foundation of happiness for millions yet unborn; generations to come will rise up and call you blessed. You may rejoice in the prospects of this vast extended continent becoming filled with freemen, who will assert the dignity of human nature. You may solace yourselves with the idea, that society, in this favoured land, will fast advance to the highest point of perfection; the human mind will expand in knowledge and virtue, and the golden age be, in some measure, realised. But if, on the other hand, this form of government contains principles that will lead to the subversion of liberty if it tends to establish a despotism, or, what is worse, a tyrannic aristocracy; then, if you adopt it, this only remaining assylum for liberty will be shut up, and posterity will execrate your memory.
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So far therefore as its powers reach, all ideas of confederation are given up and lost. It is true this government is limited to certain objects, or to speak more properly, some small degree of power is still left to the states, but a little attention to the powers vested in the general government, will convince every candid man, that if it is capable of being executed, all that is reserved for the individual states must very soon be annihilated, except so far as they are barely necessary to the organization of the general government. The powers of the general legislature extend to every case that is of the least importance there is nothing valuable to human nature, nothing dear to freemen, but what is within its power. It has authority to make laws which will affect the lives, the liberty, and property of every man in the United States; nor can the constitution or laws of any state, in any way prevent or impede the full and complete execution of every power given. The legislative power is competent to lay taxes, duties, imposts, and excises; there is no limitation to this power
And are by this clause invested with the power of making all laws, proper and necessary, for carrying all these into execution; and they may so exercise this power as entirely to annihilate all the state governments, and reduce this country to one single government. And if they may do it, it is pretty certain they will; for it will be found that the power retained by individual states, small as it is, will be a clog upon the wheels of the government of the United States; the latter therefore will be naturally inclined to remove it out of the way. Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over every thing that stands in their way. This disposition, which is implanted in human nature, will operate in the federal legislature to lessen and ultimately to subvert the state authority, and having such advantages, will most certainly succeed, if the federal government succeeds at all.
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That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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Alter it. Its easy to
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Keep your eyes open. Like ACORN I expect all or part of Common Core to be reintroduced under a new focus-group tested name.
Don’t worry. The Gope will swoop in with a plan to streamline and make it work. Much like they are doing with Obamacare.
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