Posted on 11/17/2013 5:50:33 AM PST by kristinn
(Update: Adding more on opposition to Core, where Duncan spoke)
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a group of state schools superintendents Friday that he found it “fascinating” that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from “white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were.”
Yes, he really said that. But he has said similar things before. What, exactly, is he talking about?
In his cheerleading for the controversial Common Core State Standards — which were approved by 45 states and the District of Columbia and are now being implemented across the country (though some states are reconsidering) — Duncan has repeatedly noted that the standards and the standardized testing that goes along with them are more difficult than students in most states have confronted.
The Core was designed to elevate teaching and learning. Supporters say it does that; critics say it doesn’t and that some of the standards, especially for young children, are not developmentally appropriate. Whichever side you fall on regarding the Core’s academic value, there is no question that their implementation in many areas has been miserable — so miserable that American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, a Core supporter, recently compared it to another particularly troubled rollout:
You think the Obamacare implementation is bad? The implementation of the Common Core is far worse.
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I’m sure glad this guy is around to put white suburbia in its place.
Most of the complaints I have heard regarding Common Core have to do with both the subtle and overt indoctrination of students with pro communist, pro muslim, pro one-world leftist mush.
Some private schools are bringing in common core, too, so that kids are ready for standardized tests.
I discovered this when my fifth grader, who is learning algebra, was confused by the matrix method of multiplying two digit numbers. I’d never heard of it, much less had to explain it.
White people are not interested in sending their kids to a school that acts as a day care. White people want their kids to learn, They want them to learn their mathematical Times tables and to write in cursive and they want history taught to them.
But no matter these days what white people want they bring out that it is racist . Racist to want their children to learn, and racist to expect the public school system they are paying for to teach.
Where Arne Duncan Sends His Kids to School
When asked this question: As the second education secretary with school-aged kids, where does your daughter go to school, and how important was the school district in your decision about where to live?
Duncan replied: She goes to Arlington [Virginia] public schools. That was why we chose where we live, it was the determining factor. That was the most important thing to me. My family has given up so much so that I could have the opportunity to serve; I didn’t want to try to save the country’s children and our educational system and jeopardize my own children’s education.
Check the class size in Arlington and also the per spending per pupil. I wonder why he didn’t send his kids to DC schools under Michelle Rhee? Think his daughter is going to get enough test prep? Does Arlington have mayoral control of schools? Or does Duncan get to vote on school budgets and have a school board? Duncan sends his kids to schools where he gets the same parental privileges that he wants to deny parents in urban school districts.
http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2009/04/where-arne-duncan-sends-his-kids-to.html
what a dipshit
people are upset about it because it is a steaming pile of communism
Common Core is a totalitarian collectivist bureaucrat’s wet dream.
All the schools have problems. My kid goes to the snootiest school in town and it is full of atheists and rich Democrats. The Catholic schools are full of liberal idiots. The Christian schools are oppressive and don’t trust the kids. What is the answer?
What happened to “Race to the Top?”
Home school.
HEAR! HEAR! After the first of our four children hit the fifth grade and we discovered what the agenda was of the Department of Education we pulled him out of school and home schooled them all. I've since repeatedly stated and will continue to shout from the rooftops, if you love your children you will educate them yourselves.
You state, "It may be hereditary." Absolutely. Think about it. Why would parents subject their children to the same education they received when that same system left them impotent to pass on what they were supposed to have learned if it were not in their genes to shirk their responsibility to raise their children themselves?
Forgive me. I don't want to get started. I could rant all day about this.
yes
Another commie cracker playing the race card. This crap is getting old. It’s time to get all of these college programmed retards out of there.
Diluting education to the lowest common denominator is the best way to produce idiot voters and create obedient followers. While we have that now, this will shift the assembly line to full speed.
I am proud as hell that Texas said “NO” to this POS and to the Fed money with all the strings attached.
Yeah, that will work because Obama always listens to the people.....*SNERKS*
Trying to get along with any of the officials or teachers is viewed as weakness to be exploited. All your kid means to public schooling is a source of money, vouchers might fix some problems, but not many.
Government schooling seeks to put parents and children at odds so both can be controlled by playing them against each other. Hollywood and "musicians" do the same.
That’s funny, I thought Common Core was because Teachers sucked.
Isn’t this the grand-child of “No Child Left Behind”?
Arnie baby knows a thing or two about stupid white people.
After all, he sees one in the mirror every morning.
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