Follow the money! Heck yeah! How I've missed you OP, haven't been in this forum for a while.

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Anonymous wrote:

Maybe you are okay with these corporations taking over American Education, I for one am not.

I'll indulge your irrationality for just a second.

Considering that big corporations employ huge numbers of American workers and therefore have a pretty good idea of the skills they require from the workforce, I'm actually perfectly OK with corporations having a tremendous influence on American education.

I find your fixation to be truly bizarre though.

The goal of corporations is to increase their power and profits. They could care less about grooming the future work force, and if they did their goal would be to obtain the most skilled workers for the least amount of money.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Maybe you are okay with these corporations taking over American Education, I for one am not.

I'll indulge your irrationality for just a second.

Considering that big corporations employ huge numbers of American workers and therefore have a pretty good idea of the skills they require from the workforce, I'm actually perfectly OK with corporations having a tremendous influence on American education.

I find your fixation to be truly bizarre though.

So in your view, the purpose of education, from preschool on, is for nothing more than to groom children for the workforce? Wow, and here I thought the purpose was far more expansive than that, particularly in the early grades.

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Anonymous wrote:

...for the purposes of maximizing education for our young one needs the services of lawyers to find out what our children are doing in math in order that we as parents can help them.

This lack of transparency from the top down is preposterous. I suspect the Board of Education and MCPS are equally nontransparent about how they spend the tax payers money ($1.2 billion/yr for the school system). Time to look under the hood with our own lawyers!!!

And predates both Pearson and the Common Core standards.

True. It's been happening since before NCLB too. I'd argue it's been happening since the 80's. My state passed a "reform act" in the mid-80's, to which I was subjected in middle school, which treated us like guinea pigs without regard for the impact on educational quality. As a top student, the quality of my classroom instruction definitely decreased and my mother had to fight tooth and nail on my behalf. If she could have afforded private school I'm confident she would have made that choice.