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Bill Gates Tacitly Admits His Common Core Experiment Was A Failure
The Federalist ^ | 10/25/2017 | Joy Pullman

Posted on 10/26/2017 5:29:38 AM PDT by Haiku Guy

It looks like this is as close to an apology or admission of failure as we're going to get, folks. Sorry about that $4 trillion and mangled years of education for American K-12 kids and teachers.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billgates; commoncore; education; gatesfoundation; melindagates; microsoft
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This vanity project by Bill and Melinda Gates cost taxpayers $4 Tillion and me, personally, about $50,000, because I had to pull my child out of screwed up public schools.

I do not know why people who have success in one field assume that they have keen insights and valuable expertise in completely unrelated fields. Not to be harsh, but a lot of their success is due to luck and good timing. If Bill Gates had been born two years earlier or later, we would have never heard of him.

But has he learned his lesson?

Of course not.

He is merely going to shift to a new and improved strategy that is just as bad. He now wants to screw up science education.

1 posted on 10/26/2017 5:29:38 AM PDT by Haiku Guy
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If his desire was to further ruin public education in the US, ask any public school board member, he succeeded.


2 posted on 10/26/2017 5:33:38 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (RINO politicians beware your time is coming ... SOON)
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From the Gates Foundation: “Unfortunately, our foundation underestimated the level of resources and support required for our public education systems to be well-equipped to implement [Common Core]. We missed an early opportunity to sufficiently engage educators – particularly teachers – but also parents and communities so that the benefits of the standards could take flight from the beginning.”

Missed and opportunity to sufficiently engage?

They ram-rodded this garbage down our throats without the slightest pretense that local concerns mattered at all.

Do they think we forgot?

3 posted on 10/26/2017 5:34:56 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (eliminate perverse incentives)
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I’m sure he made plenty of money off this and now it’s time to move on to another way he can make more $ messing up kids.


4 posted on 10/26/2017 5:36:38 AM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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If his desire was to further ruin public education in the US, ask any public school board member, he succeeded.

It has all worked out for Microsoft. Now that he has destroyed American education, there are fewer qualified coders and engineers emerging from American schools, so Microsoft can import more H1-B Visa holders to work for pennies on the dollar.

I'm not saying that was the plan all along, but it sure seems to have worked out that way.

5 posted on 10/26/2017 5:37:22 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (eliminate perverse incentives)
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Probably a good time for the Federal Government to get totally out of the education game. Out of school lunches, pre-school, daycare etc etc


6 posted on 10/26/2017 5:38:14 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Haiku Guy

Every school in the nation is running and upgrading Bill’s computers.


7 posted on 10/26/2017 5:39:21 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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This is the problem with using tax money: failure teaches them nothing because there’s no sting associated with it. Declaring bankruptcy is a learning experience. Making other people’s money disappear is not; you can always get more. It’s Monopoly money to them (pun intended.)


8 posted on 10/26/2017 5:40:22 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Haiku Guy

Whenever a socialist totalitarian fails, he always falls back to the intentions was good arguement.


9 posted on 10/26/2017 5:41:05 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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From the article: Look, I want Gates to succeed. He and Melinda obviously mean well and have means to do good.

I don't accept that as given.

But even if I did, what does it matter? What matters is what they did.

What they did was destroy everything in their path.

10 posted on 10/26/2017 5:47:25 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (eliminate perverse incentives)
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"He now wants to screw up science education."

Haven't you heard... Science education is racist...

11 posted on 10/26/2017 5:47:48 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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Common Core has destroyed the math education of an entire generation in my state, as the traditional progression of high school math that has served the US for 100 years (algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus) was discarded in favor of a grneric math 1, math 2, math 3, math 4 sequence, each with a random hodgepodge of unrelated topics and no textbooks that were available when the change was implemented.

My state eventually pulled out of Common Core, but only by an act of the state legislature over the objections of the educator class. The damage was already done and it will be years of fighting at the local level and another round of transition chaos before teachers are allowed to teach the standard math sequence again.

Fortunately my own youngest child missed the chaos by one year, but I know many younger kids of friends who are now unprepared to pursue science or engineering.


12 posted on 10/26/2017 5:50:27 AM PDT by CaptainMorgantown
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Yep, Gates is a real genius. He dumbs down American students with the lousy Common Core fiasco. Then he says he can’t find American workers smart enough for Microsoft, and he whines that he needs to employ more H1-B workers from low-paying countries. Any GOP politician that approves his request should be voted out next year.


13 posted on 10/26/2017 5:57:12 AM PDT by txrefugee
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So...”since unions oppose accountability for teachers and”...There is no ‘and’, commie core is kaput.

Trump should outlaw public school teacher unions and jail all their leaders!


14 posted on 10/26/2017 5:58:47 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfef)
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Not to be harsh, but a lot of their success is due to luck and good timing.

...

Bill Gate’s mother also had a lot to do with his success.


15 posted on 10/26/2017 6:04:37 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Sacajaweau

The liberals in education always loved Apple first.

Most of them weren’t smart enough to operate a Windows computer.


16 posted on 10/26/2017 6:06:10 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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the founders of this country, probably some of the best educated men in history went to school in one room school houses, yet somehow received an excellent education. Why do we need to keep trying to recreate the wheel! we have known for 1,000’s of years how best to educate people!

STOP trying NEW crap! go BACK to old ways that WORKED!


17 posted on 10/26/2017 6:09:46 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Haiku Guy

You have laid out exactly what has remained a mystery to me for many years.


18 posted on 10/26/2017 6:12:39 AM PDT by Obadiah
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It is ridiculous to blame Bill Gates. It was Congress that voted to adopt Common Core, and they are the responsible elected officials who authorized spending this money.


19 posted on 10/26/2017 6:15:24 AM PDT by proxy_user
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That seems redundant and repetitious.

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The education system seemed to have a major shift in the mid-1960s, when 'experts' began conceptual learning rather than the old fashioned rote learning. That was about the time 'new math' and 'new language arts' hit the scene.
20 posted on 10/26/2017 6:18:30 AM PDT by TomGuy
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