Reply to Common Core question for proponents

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Common Core question for proponents"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

It is so heartening to see the American people finally pushing back against this . . . calling out a process that affects them greatly and [b]in which they had little input[/b] (regardless of what the pro CC people say).  Many Americans were unaware of the whole CC process and are only now understanding what it is (and they don't like all of it---especially the testing---which they have plenty of experience with in the schools).

Winston Churchill said, "You can count on the Americans to do the right thing . . . after they have exhausted all the other possibilities."

We are getting there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core_implementation_by_state[/quote]

I don't think the public should be involved in developing standards or how to implement them.  It's not their place, and quite frankly, most people are too dumb.  As PP stated, there have always been standardized testing even before CC.  In MD they have two tests - PARCC and MAP tests.  They should just do away with the MAP testing.

Why are people so wrapped up in the process of how CC standards were developed?  If you don't agree with them, fine.  But there are plenty of educators and parents that think they are good, and some think they are better than what some of the states had before.  For people like you, who don't like the process, I think the issue is really that you don't like the standards.  Not sure why.  Maybe it's what Arne Duncan said -  “white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were.”
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics