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The diversity of experience and thought due to expansion of experiences through differing standards and curricula was positive. If tests are the same and textbooks are all made by the same 2 or 3 companies, well, BORING. It's like having McDonald's and Subway all over.

Love it! And, I thought the Libs hated Mickey D's. 
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They do!!  I'm the above poster and I'm liberal and I am anti CC.  I don't believe in the kind of "equity" the CC people are trying to create.  They don't understand what "equity" means.  I believe in giving opportunities, but in realizing that we are a million different flowers blooming.  We can create an interesting and beautiful country if we keep our freedoms intact.

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How is it giving kids opportunities when you let them slide without meaningful expectations rather than trying to maximize their potential?  How is it giving kids opportunities when you spend more time on sight words than you do on phonics, leaving them with limited vocabulary and literacy?  How is it giving kids opportunities when you don't give them robust enough math skills to be able to think on their feet and figure out in their head on the spot whether something's a bargain or not, let alone the skills to plan and budget their finances?  How is it giving kids opportunities when you shut them out of college because what you have taught them has left them woefully unprepared?  Don't you see that this kind of educational malpractice and lackluster mediocrity in the system has been TAKING AWAY freedom?[/quote]

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