Posted on 03/16/2014 8:36:52 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
Bill Gates, the multi billionaire who does not have an earned college degree or teaching certificate, never taught a day in the classroom, never worked in an educational system or one room school house is comparing the education of children to electrical outlets.
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If we had common core in 1900, we would have landed a man on the moon before world war 1
Otoh, MSNBC and Win8 reveal much about Mr. Gates and Common Core seems to be from that same part of his brain and psyche.
Somehow we didn’t need a federal mandate to standardize the phillips screwdriver.
Seems the “Diversity” and ‘Tolerance” crowd is always trying to make things the same or standardized. Diversity in thought and/or achievement cannot be tolerated
Some times being a multi-billionaire give you the impression that you know everything about everything when it is really an arrogance of people around you patting you on the back with their hands out for your money and that makes you think your are smarter and way above joe sixpack.
What a way to go through life, rich but without commonsense.
good point
privatize schools. the government schools are an abomination
democrats create many fake crisis (like the global warming hoax) so that we think government is needed
see if you made $100,000 per year you could buy anything you would ever need in the free market. so we don’t need government for anything .
so democrats/communists have to create fake threats to scare the people into begging for government to protect them. the news media gets people say “We have to do something about school shootings, global warming, evil corporations etc”
global warming : a hoax, a fake crisis
40 million don’t have healthare : another lie
see the fact that democrats have to lie , crate fake threats , means that there are no real crisis that government is so needed to save us from.
these are just 2 examples but there are milions at all levels of government. there is nothing the free market cannot do BETTER than government can .roads? yes private roads. private schools, private hospitals, private security patrols and so on .
but democrats have written room fulls of laws mandating government agencies like the EPA, IRS ,FDA, FEC , FCC etc. and obamacare. all these government programs do do is cripple business ,add to the cost of products, tax the hell out of us and businesses ,and take away our freedom
another fake crisis is the “mass shooting crisis”
He certainly was in the right place at the right time. I'll give him his due though. He was driven and he was ruthless in his early years. He saw where the industry was heading when IBM decided to get into the PC market and he positioned Microsoft perfectly to take full advantage of it by bullying and pushing other would-be competitors aside.
The defining move of Bill Gates' career was the purchase of 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products in July 1981 for just $75,000 - just a month before IBM went public with the first PC. Renamed MS-DOS for the IBM launch, this one product launched a monolithic empire that is still earning Microsoft billions of dollars a year to this day despite Microsoft missing the boat completely with the Internet, social media, smartphones, tablets, MP3 devices, etc.
A hundred years from now, when the histories of the computer industry are written, people like Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Jeff Bezos will be shown to have had a bigger impact overall.
But once an electric outlet becomes standardized,
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God didn’t make children to be plugs in a socket or to be plugged in like plugs in a government standardized hole.
However...One thing is very standardized already in the government SS indoctrination camps ( Single-payer, Socialist-entitlement “schools”).
EVERY government owned and run K-12 school in this nation is godless in its worldview, curriculum, and school policies. It isn’t religiously neutral but it is standard. The children **will** learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate while in the godless classroom. How could it be otherwise?
The problem with common core is that it is not just a set of common and basic standards. That’s the marketing spin but it’s a lie. Instead it’s a command and control system the covers almost every aspect of education.
Contracts for these “digital tools” will be parceled out to insiders and the outcome will be much like the Obamacare exchange.
Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) accused President Barack Obama of wanting to “bully” states into adopting a Common Core system that would federalize education and eventually empower bureaucracies, instead of local governments, as it imposes top-down standards.
“He wants to control everything,” Bridenstine said.
Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution enumerates federal powers. Education is not among the enumerated powers and, thus, is left to the states or the people as required by the 10th Amendment. Additionally, there are longstanding federal statutes that explicitly prohibit using the federal bureaucracy to control education within the states. Presidents from both parties have violated these statutes.
Actually, the quote you’re commenting on is not from the poster but Gates.
“My question is this... What will happen to the students and people who refuse to be cookie-cutter products?”
They will flunk out, just has always been the case.
“Bill Gates, the multi billionaire who does not have an earned college degree or teaching certificate, never taught a day in the classroom, never worked in an educational system or one room school house “
Sounds like some damn fine credentials if you ask me!
No teaching certificate? Horrors.
How about no parenting certificate, as in a man who has shirked his responsibility to take on his role as a father?
Yes, shirked!
I smell compensatory behavior, maybe there is an aborted Gates Jr. in his past. Now he’s gonna make up for his failure to form a family by messing with ours.
He’s a genius, right?
I knew of a commie history teacher who uses Howard Zinn’s curriculum in class.
Not if one is trying to brainwash minds and end up with slaves to government.
The common core issue is federalizing schools further....more than anything
But why schools do not perform has much more to do with families or lack of today than the schools
Why nobody here gets this is a sickness and betrays what is our fundamental undoing
Our unwillingness to confront sad truths about our culture and groups that fail....and why they fail
Yes public schools are more liberal but so are nearly all private schools
Progressive political correctness over history ..race....gender...religion...permeates all education and those who run it
I guarantee you even Hillsdale is PC about racial empirically observed issues
Guarantee it.
This infection is like the Borg....and there is no cure.....not even home school
Only cure is a hard reset and what comes from that is anybody’s guess.
I’ve been dealing with this 20 years and another 15 to go
Political correctness killed it....sure as a hydrogen bomb.
That and the dissolution of the traditional family and values
I was basically scorched for saying the same yesterday.
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