Posted on 12/10/2019 6:25:18 AM PST by george76
The math is insane. My grandkids used to love doing math the “old way”.
Now with CC they hate it. So sad.
In another reversal of former Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s policies, Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered an end to Common Core..
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3724519/posts
This is easy to fix.
Require every member of Congress and state legislatures to send their kids to schools in the bottom ten percent of the public schools.
Then watch what happens next.
Around five years ago, I worked with a guy who had the son all set to go off to the first year of college. College put the SAT tests aside....no requirement (that was all fine). But they had a plain reqular math test required. Kid failed it miserably (supposedly straight A-student, but I would question that).
College then says fine...you can continue on but you have to take a pre-college math class (has no bearing for points or the degree), and has a cost of roughly $600.
My guess is that most colleges will end up going this route in the future, you might have five non-college classes tossed onto you to accomplish in that first year. They will eventually agree to a 5th year being standard for getting a degree.
Abject failure, but more money will fix it. /s
What will 21st-century Americans bequeath to their descendants? Illiteracy? A Dark Age? Decadence? Internal moral rot and decay, the destroyer of civilizations?
Or will they rally behind President Trump and his calls to MAKE AMERICA GREAT! and IN GOD WE TRUST!
Will the American People rally to the side of the angels, congregate in the Light of Truth, and bring the USA soaring to unprecedented heights of greatness, ascendancy, and godliness and bequeath to future generations the precious heritage that they themselves inherited?
Will America soar into greatness, trusting in God? Or will she descend into decadence, moral rot and decay, and a Dark Age?
The choice is that of the American People.
Good. Some are leading the way out of this big mistake.
But they still beat out Baltimore’s 0% math proficiency and 1% reading proficiency.
Not all private schools are doing their students any favors. The one here hands out grades in exchange for tuition. When the kids talk their parents into letting them go back to public school, they’re held back because they aren’t up to their grade level.
OTOH, a relative moved his kids to a private school this year because the public school wasn’t teaching history prior to Clinton.
In today’s schools, there are as many “aids” as there are teachers. Looking closer, many of those “aids” are security types who are assigned to follow behavior problem kids. Those kids shouldn’t be in school but in juvie.
the test is called the accuplacer.
a test to see if they can comprehend at all.
Totally agree. I think “normal” kids should all have access to School Choice and basically attend the private school of their choice. Those schools should kick out any and all problem children.
The problem kids should attend government schools. And those government schools should basically be juvie.
“supposedly straight A-student, but I would question that”
The weaselly hipster doofus who taught my youngest son’s HS English Lit class thought he was an intellectual light for teaching poetry.
“Oh,” I said. “Kipling? Service?”
“Maya Angelou,” he sneered.
I swear I really couldn’t help doing a spit take.
It’s even better than that. I worked for a college that had these type of college prep courses to help students learn what they were supposed to learn in HS. You cannot imagine the hand-wringing and pearl clutching over the fact that the large majority of students in these classes were minorities. So, they started an initiative to remove the supposed blatant racial bias from the placement tests.
Truth really was told, the real problem is not common core, per se, but the fact that teachers today are barely qualified given the have dumb-downed the PRAXIS, etc. to allow utter idiots to be able to teach.....the whole entire K12 system needs to be flushed and re-started.
I don’t know what kids go to Aspen schools. Middle class people can’t afford to live there. Walk around town and all you see are rich, old, white people. The people who make the town work have to commute in.
Many (most?) resort towns now have large government housing projects using tax dollars to subsidize the billionaire ski area owners : likely outside the city limits.
As you correctly note : commuters from nearby towns .. where 30 percent of students were deemed proficient in reading / 70 percent not .. (per the article) ..
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