As the federal government has gotten MORE involved with local education, the performance of kids has gone down.
The solution, according to the statists? Increased federal intervention.
To: SoFloFreeper
I’m very sorry she didn’t feel that her seasonal job with every government holiday and summers off didn’t pay enough. I wish her all the best in the private sector.
2 posted on
04/14/2014 7:03:48 AM PDT by
Orangedog
(An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
To: SoFloFreeper
I thought “low teacher pay” was only an issue here in OK where the recent drumbeat has been about the ranking of 49th in that category.
3 posted on
04/14/2014 7:07:36 AM PDT by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: SoFloFreeper
One of President Bush’s biggest failures. That testing thing was dumb. Sure we did have Iowa Basics as a kid, but I dont’t believe the scores mattered except for personal knowledge of them and for families to see how their child did among other children of the same age. Today it is all about testing and getting federal funding.
4 posted on
04/14/2014 7:07:54 AM PDT by
napscoordinator
( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the country!)
To: SoFloFreeper
Ted Cruz wants it to be eliminated.
6 posted on
04/14/2014 7:11:48 AM PDT by
MarMema
(Run Ted Run)
To: SoFloFreeper
I have a cousin who is a retired teacher who now tutors after school hours. She told me that before Common Core she had a reasonable number of kids coming to her for help. Now that Common Core is in Arkansas, she is having to turn students away because so many kids are needing her help.
What does that tell you?
8 posted on
04/14/2014 7:17:23 AM PDT by
Slyfox
To: SoFloFreeper
If you like your teacher, you can keep your teacher.
11 posted on
04/14/2014 7:25:22 AM PDT by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: SoFloFreeper
I don’t have school aged children, so I don’t understand this “common core” thing.
Aside from making teachers do more paperwork and forcing teachers to teach reading, writing & arithmetic, I don’t understand what is so terrible about it. I took aptitude tests every year 50 yrs ago and we were expected to have a certain knowledge by a certain grade or you went to summer school. And if you still weren’t able to do the work of that grade level, you didn’t go on to the next grade.
How is this bad for kids?
14 posted on
04/14/2014 7:25:48 AM PDT by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: SoFloFreeper
low teacher pay in Colorado I'd like to never, ever again hear a teacher whine about their "low pay".
You knew what the pay was when you signed your contact!
You're getting your chance to leave your mark on Amerika (indoctrinating our kids), so Shut Up Already!
16 posted on
04/14/2014 7:35:46 AM PDT by
grobdriver
(Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
To: SoFloFreeper
no worries, Colorado is going to hire an illegal alien to take her job... and many more
19 posted on
04/14/2014 7:58:12 AM PDT by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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