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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
So you're saying that standards are not relevant in education. As far as you're concerned, there shouldn't be any standards at all. Yes?

You have conflated their importance to a degree that is absurd.

This reminds me of Bush saying, "you're either for us or against us". Simplistic much?

I'm for what is going to help students the most. At this point the problem is not that we needed to change the standards (at least not where I am). Maybe somewhere these standards are going to really, really help. I don't see it. I think federal solutions are often so broad as to be worthless. Lots of money spent with little ROI. There are other problems that are more pressing than this. Yes, those problems are not easy to solve, but we need to look at them and think about how to start.

No, I was asking for clarification. So you think that there should be standards, but that there are more pressing problems than the quality or variability of the standards. In that case, I agree with you. [b]We should focus our energies on those more pressing problems. [/b]

[b]But this is actually a strong argument to stop fighting the Common Core standards. Take them as given, let them happen or not happen, and move on. Fighting the Common Core standards takes away from focusing energies on the more pressing problems. [/b]

Also, the Common Core standards are NOT a federal solution. 
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Huh?  You do understand how democracy works.  I have some beliefs and principles and I argue for them.  If I do not believe in something, I cannot support it.  It wastes money, time, and in the case of CC, it is even destructive.  I'm not about to "move on" while billions of dollars are spent on something I believe to be a total waste.  How is it that we fund less pressing problems in order to "move on" and talk about more pressing problems??  That's idiotic.  It's no argument.  I don't think you know a "strong argument" if it stares you in the face.  [/quote]

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