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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Oh, that is such bullshit. In this day and age of Wikis and ubiquitous information technology there's absolutely NO REASON why teachers couldn't band together and create collaborative open source textbooks, content and curriculum, put the textbook companies out of business and save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.

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That would put the Common Core people out of business.[/quote]

Consider the politics behind Common Core, i.e. the feds have tied funding to the adoption of common core by states. Considering that was done, what is to stop the feds from financially enticing states to use the resources of the corporations in bed with them rather then open source? [b]What the government gives, the government can take away...[/b]

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Get the government out of our public schools, is what I always say.[/quote]

Yeppers. For some reason, people think that the if the department of education was obliterated tomorrow, that no one would be educated in the future. This could not be farther from the truth.[/quote]

Sure it could be farther from the truth. For example, it could be the idea that state and local government is not actually government.

(It could also be the idea that Martin Luther King Jr. was a subspecies of avocado:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/atgene-weingarten/2013/09/27/a964353e-6679-11e3-8b5b-a77187b716a3_story.html )[/quote]

According to the Constitution, state and local governments are indeed governments. The feds can only legally do what the Constitution dictates they can (despite Obama's pen and phone) and after that, the power falls to states and on down. [/quote]

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