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The way I used to like it? It was a mess then, and now it will be worse because the fix it ...wait for it....more government intervention. Aces.

Ask any public educator how much money they need to fix the problem. They won't be able to answer honesty. Because no amount of money they throw at it has fixed it so far, and all they can say is 'we need more"...[/quote]

So you are complaining about states choosing to have common standards, because they suck; compared to the way things used to be, which you also say, sucked, because it was too damn much government intervention in the public schools.

So you aren't really opposed to Common Core at all -- you are opposed to public schools, because they are sucking the taxpayers dry, and show nothing for it.

So you would support a return to what...?   No standards, no taxes, no public schools?

Dame schools perhaps?   Send the kids down the street to Widow Clancy, who will teach them their ABCs and 123s for a little egg money?[/quote]

I am opposed to the way public schools are run. They have gotten so bureaucratic, that efficiency has gone out the window and the kids are the ones that are suffering.  I am wholly amused at the constant fallback by you re: standards. You keep talking about the standards and then shrug and say that they are being implemented wrong, as if the two are not related or worse, that it doesn't matter much.

Saying 'well the standards are good' means nothing, when teachers are sending home worksheets with errors, problems that don't make sense, and worse, re-writing history under the guise of meeting an English standard (google search that last one - it's a doozy).

As for the Widow Clancy? Plenty of kids are home-schooled and do just fine. And by the way? I kind of resent having to still pay for the crappy public schools AND pay for my kid's private schools. But I'm sure I won't be getting that money back.[/quote]

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