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Look, we landed on the moon because we had a PLAN and OBJECTIVES, we defeated the Japanese because we had a PLAN and OBJECTIVES.

Common Core contains a PLAN and OBJECTIVES.

Getting rid of Common Core gets rid of the PLAN AND OBJECTIVES.

We damn sure didn't defeat the Japanese by having each soldier and sailor wing it entirely on his own, as the anti-CC folks want to have us do by balkanizing education so that Alabama can teach fractions differently than North Dakota, just because "states rights"... [/quote]

You have now officially "jumped the shark"!  Congratulations or something.

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Jumped the shark?  I wasn't the one who brought up WWII.  But that said, obviously you know NOTHING about how we won WWII.  It didn't just happen organically, "because of grit and determination and American exceptionalism..."  It was through strong, centralized government coordination and planning, not just military but civilian, to ensure we had the resources back home to support the effort as well, through production, through rationing, et cetera.

As for how states did on education with those soldiers and sailors who were fighting in WWII, they for DAMN sure didn't water down everything with your kind of pathetic "it's developmentally inappropriate" whining - if you actually look at some of the textbooks and class materials from back then, you'll see they were pushing harder in many areas than we were prior to Common Core.  The typical 8th grader back then had a much stronger foundation in math and English than an 8th grader circa 2005 did.  [/quote]

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