The Common Core cluster F

Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 7 months ago to Education
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Here is the blueprint for the progressive takeover of the children of this country. It behooves us all to stop it, or start homeschooling. School districts and states need to get off the teat of the Federal Govt.
it's only too clear what happens when they become involved in areas they don't belong.

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  • Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oh throw in a dollar coin... that's always fun to watch. (My son actually took two to school today to use in the cafeteria...just for fun. The cashier always has to go ask someone for help. I'll report back later...he might come home with a story.)
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I do that all the time; over pay with a penny or .11, so I receive a dollar or whatever, back. They DO look baffled, lol. Sad really...
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As a right-stripe libertarian, I have been waiting a while for the cries of "anti-intellectualism".

    My reply is simply, "I am not `anti-intellectual', I am `anti-pseudo-intellectual' and 'anti-intellectual-elite-pseudo-or-otherwise'".
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  • Posted by $ winterwind 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    happens to me all the time - if you really want a laugh, try giving a cashier change over - like $1.24 for a 99c bill to get a quarter back. They are baffled, absolutely baffled.

    I always compliment someone who CAN make change now, since it's such a rare skill.
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  • Posted by $ johnrobert2 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Mike, Mike. Almost all of us here are not anti-intellectual. We simply think that fuzzy thinkers become too abstruse in their suppositions and solutions. Most of us live in a concrete world, with concrete problems, and are used to solving them with concrete solutions. Granted, none of us are perfect and we don't always see the totality of the threads we have woven into our solutions but we work from a basis of common sense and proven foundational bases. The premises on which this country was founded are being eroded. It might be well to remember the words from George Washington's first inaugural address, "The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself hath ordained." This message was hidden in the foundation stones of St Paul's Chapel at Ground Zero ands not found until the towers fell and cracked the foundation.
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't usually come in and lash out at anybody. The most is to ask to explain a certain perspective.

    I am now going to break that rule here. I have grown quite weary of seeing you go off on self aggrandizing rants, fawn over someone who might agree with you, but then lash out against anyone who does not.

    The childish playground bully tactics are not appreciated, by posters or other commenters. Name calling because someone doesn't agree with you just places you squarely in a spoiled child category in my view. Leave the pettiness off the forum, or no one will play.
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  • Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We had good teachers. Its not more complicated than that. Increase funding. bigger buildings, sports...thats all noise. We need local control and good teachers.
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  • Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I aint that good at that grammar thing but I got it. You are lucky kfaye. I was fortunate enough to live in one of the best school districts in our area. I didn't realize it until I went to college and saw how far behind the other students were. Best of luck to you and your kids.
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    Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Are you being ironic, or do you have a problem with comprehension? Karl Marx was saying exactly the same thing you are: modern society is destroying the family. For his complaint that children are "articles of commerce and instruments of labor" you can put the hand-wringing here about "parents as ATMs" raising children to be consumers.

    The "home education" he opposed is only different in detail from the "home education" you dislike. In other words, you and Marx both disliked the homes for not teaching the children what you (and he) regarded as important.

    Television has been with us for 70 years. All along people complained about kids watching "too much television" but here we sit at our computers... It is to our age what books were the Renaissance. And in those days, people complained about those who "read too many books," rather than living a "real life."

    What I perceive in this thread is the third aspect of conservative agenda: anti-intellectualism. Conservatives who saw one movie and maybe read one book once through, have no interest in epistemology or metaphysics. They want to blame Pres. Barack Obama for everything wrong in the world, but have no opinion on whether you always have to exclude measurement when you form a concept. They complain about education, but have no idea what a concept is.
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  • Posted by kfaye 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Strong academically, conservative school...Meaning Strong academically with conservative values. My apologies for lacking proper grammar, I am a product of public school that didn't cover grammar. MikeMarotta. Not Sit down and shut up.
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  • Posted by lmarrott 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Being from Utah I say I think my state is overall doing well for itself.

    We have a fairly large movement against common core here (www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com) and I hope we are successful. Last year when I was first learning about common core I had a hard time finding actual information and facts. However this year many of my kids papers have a "Common Core standard x.x.x.etc" on them and it is horrendous. I found a video yesterday showing a Language Arts (I think this has already been referenced) which made me sick.

    I'm am submitting forms to opt my kids out of the common core testing and tracking and trying to educate people I know to do the same. I'm also working to influence our politicians to get rid of it as well.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah...last 2 years of high school. :) And then it will be time to start with the grandson. Common Core, and this Dewey fellow, be damned!
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Quite right. I believe it has reached the point where we should define it as insanity.
    "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

    Albert Einstein
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    interesting angle, but I've been a visitor to two Montessori schools in the US, and they're not completely following the method. Lots of focus on sharing and draconian rules on what you can bring to lunch and for snack. Although you can work on projects independently (many of which are based on erroneous premises "save the rain forest" puzzles) for periods of time, everyone comes together for "circle" in which emphasis is on socially accepted behaviors and plenty of socialist thinking. That, of course, would be on a school by school basis.
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