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Education

TreasonousBastard

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1. With no kids in school, this is mysterious to me...

Reply to AtheistCrusader (Original post)

Thu Sep 4, 2014, 11:22 AM

Sep 2014

and far too complicated for me to worry too much about. But, you can't get away from it.

Although, while I remember the mess with "new math" (which seemed to confuse the parents far more than the kids) I can't imagine any good reason why all this hysteria about wanting kids in Texas and Mississippi to be at the same level as Massachusetts and California.

Simultaneously, there seems to be a war on teachers, with demands to cut tenure and pay.

Is there really a movement to dumb down our kids? Sure looks like it, but who would do such a thing?

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I don't know how much more of this Common Core bullshit I can take. [View all] AtheistCrusader Sep 2014 OP

With no kids in school, this is mysterious to me... TreasonousBastard Sep 2014 #1

Yes yes and yes underpants Sep 2014 #4

Welcome to the Age of Mediocracy procon Sep 2014 #2

It's the modern day "Communist fluoridated water" underpants Sep 2014 #3

Oh... I don't know. Smarmie Doofus Sep 2014 #5

That sounds like fallout from NCLB. AtheistCrusader Sep 2014 #6

It's fallout from people that don't know anything about public education... Smarmie Doofus Sep 2014 #7

Mostly. Igel Sep 2014 #10

"administrators and parents, both greedy and grasping" Wow! madfloridian Sep 2014 #11

Frankly it's upsetting to see these attacks in the Education forum madfloridian Sep 2014 #12

Arne just stated he wants ALL students to have IB classes, pass all tests. madfloridian Sep 2014 #9

"When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all" - msongs Sep 2014 #8

"troglodytes" refers to what group? madfloridian Sep 2014 #13

The ones posting the 'I've got a math BA and I can't figure out this CC math problem' AtheistCrusader Sep 2014 #14

There are a lot of ways I could answer that. madfloridian Sep 2014 #15

Common Core is a nation-wide *experiment*; no evidence it will work. Ka hrnt Sep 2014 #16

Common Core is not a "new method." LWolf Sep 2014 #17