“By 2014, California was the top state in the nation in eighth-grade algebra enrollment. That was the year Common Core went into place. It erased all those gains almost immediately.”
I know, I know, I hear it all the time (my comments in parentheses):
(1) “I don’t have the money to provide for my children’s education (and still maintain my lifestyle), so I’m going to use the ‘free’ education provided by the government schools.”
(2) “I paid PROPERTY TAXES, so I sure as hell intend to get ‘my money’s worth’ (regardless of what that means for my kids’ futures).”
(3) “It’s only THOSE SCHOOLS that suck - the schools that my children go to are just ‘wonderful’. Heck, I even met Johnie’s teacher at Walmart the other day. (therefore she’s ‘human’, just like you and me)”
(4) “Yea, I know those government schools are not the best, but they can’t pull anything over on me - I watch them LIKE A HAWK, never missed a PTA Meeting - so take that BobL (actually, unless there’s a webcam available to you in the classroom, they can do whatever they want with your kids - and you’ll only know what they choose to tell you)”
Yes, those are the excuses. One more, schools are acrively telling kids to not tell their parents some of the things they’re being taught (I seem to recall in one Massachusetts school, some form of pervert or another was brought in to teach a class about perversion, and the kids were told to not to take the workbooks home or let their parents see them). Not to mention, the incidents where kids have been asked, in essence, to spy on theor families and report to their teachers (I assume so that the school can counter any beliefs instilled by the parents which are counter to the left’s agenda of perversion and anti-whiteness).