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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems to me that many public school critics wanted to see more rigor in the curriculum but now that schools have adopted a more rigorous curriculum parents are freaking out.[/quote]

I think most of the outrage comes from two distinct camps:

[b]1.) teachers union folks who don't want to have to change anything or be held accountable to any new standard and/or befuddled concern about "privatization of schools"[/b]
2.) befuddled conservatives who have been misled into believing this is "ObamaSchools"

Ironic that they are now working together.  Though I don't think they realize it.[/quote]

I don't think that this is an accurate description. The outrage from the left doesn't come specifically from the teachers' unions; it comes from people who oppose corporations getting involved in public education (which includes standardized testing, for-profit charter schools, value-added evaluation systems, and so on), as well as people who believe that there shouldn't be any standards or requirements or homework or testing. And, really, the corporatization of public education preceded the Common Core, and making the Common Core go away won't make the corporatization go away.[/quote]

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