Posted on 01/09/2015 7:45:56 AM PST by Academiadotorg
Yup.
Everything else aside, Common Core alone makes Jeb Bush a non-starter for me. As onorous as the injection of social indictrination elements is, it’s the math component that I really stand to fight on. I’ve seen the work that came home with my kids. I have an advanced degree in Business and a heavy quantitative background in economics, finance, accounting and statistics. The common core style math instruction and work they got was ludicrous. An opinion shared by multiple members of my family, also with advanced degrees in business and management.
It will depend on who they are speaking to.
This is how much money influences politics. Common Core is toxic among R’s and many D’s. Supporting it will hurt any R candidate. Here in CO, we still have R’s who support it but talk in public as if they don’t, with a lot of mau-mauing.
At the national level, there are huge amounts of money being made and to be made off of common core. So the mau-mauing will be much more extensive there.
& Jeb has none of those things!
But, he is reluctant to budge on them and will not listen to common sense conservatives.
Wouldn't it be nice if all the candidates were as obstinate when it came to first principles and the Constitution?
For anyone on the fence or unsure as to why Common Core is a bad idea, go here:
http://www.commoncoremovie.com/
In our current one party political system you can know exactly how to determine what gets funded, despite representatives usual staged protests on spending, you can know if spending defies common sense, the spending will be authorized, these types of spending will pass by one or two votes to give the impression there was fight going on.
Conservatives need to divorce the uniparty beast, and come out from among them, start an opposition second party.
That is how the Dino/Rino uniparty intends to use conservatives; as tools to project a form of defiance knowing they have votes to pass whatever they want, conservatives must reject this one party system NOW!
Huckabee/CommonCore = Romney/RomneyCare
Huck No!
I have discussed Common Core math assignments with an MIT grad, engineering and business educator. He could identify at least two ways to solve some of the problems so it was impossible to know what was expected of the student. The goals of an assignment were unclear. The attempt at practicing a method of thinking raised the question why that method was of any value to learn. There were horribly ambiguous questions asking the student to explain or describe how he or she solved a problem. Solving the problem was a mathematical exercise that did not need a qualitative explanation, otherwise, why would we do it mathematically—math is supposed to be a method for doing things that aren’t achievable using other skills such as language skills. It really is confusing and of unknown long-term effect. If your child is an abstract thinker and gets some guidance from his or her teacher about the intended approach to solving each problem, then that student might be able to complete assignments “correctly”—but the question would remain, “Why do it this way?”
& someone reminded me, he supported Dewhurst over Ted Cruz
Common Core is making PARCC and Pearson very wealthy. They have exclusive rights to classroom materials and testing. I wonder how much they’ve donated to his campaign?
Get your children out of the public schools (government indoctrination centers) - Now!
Pearson’s offices are right next door to mine.
You can live quite well with out being able to solve complex equations, but if you are living under communism/socialism what does it matter?
$.98 - $.89 < $.10
It’s a matter of choosing what element to fight Common Core on.
It’s easier and more effective to go after it for the math. Which is more definable/tangible and seen as causing a lot more headaches and pain by the kids and parents forced to deal with it.
Remember that Al Capone was taken down for tax evasion. Same principle at work. Fight on the math, get rid of it all.
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