Common Core
Posted by CarolSeer2014 11 years ago to Education
It's time to have the conversation about Common Core. What are your thoughts, Gulchers, about the innate evil in Common Core?
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Yes. We are at greater risk of this now than in the past for two reasons:
1) Technology makes it easier for the gov't to spy on people. For example, the Fourth Amendment allows the gov't to follow people around in public spaces and watch them. But they can't afford to do that to everyone. Now they can b/c of technology.
2) Automation is replacing many jobs, causing us to have economic growth but wage stagnation. The growth is in the form of return on equity. This will make people reach for socialistic solutions.
OTOH, I'm optimistic that we'll get the benefits of technology and find ways to work through the pitfalls. I agree completely, though, that we must be vigilant. The material in Fountainhead and AS is more important than ever.
I love those topics. I've thought of going back and taking another class on math or physics now that I have more practical context. I know many rules of thumb involving physics. If I learned Maxwell's equations, I'd understand them better this time b/c I have all these years of seeing the results in action.
I think that's crazy and that Obama is a good president, as mainstream candidates go. He was elected fairly, as was Bush in '04. The problems would almost be easier if there were one villain. The problem though is a mindset of turning things over to the gov't and the exec branch having too much power. The problem is asking "should this be allowed" instead of "should we empower the gov't to stop this".
That one school had a rule for everything, even trivial thing like which way to approach the lunch table. It would have been fine if it were one pet peeve, but they had a rule for everything. Many of them were trying to do the right thing. A few of them liked enforcing rules strictly for its own sake.
BS EE - U of FL
MS EE - USF
I read Fountainhead and then AS. I found them sort-of by chance. I loved them. I know they illustrate objectivist thought, but I don't know which parts are objectivist and which parts are just the story.
Regarding being really a Gulcher, I don't think the world is crashing and it's time to give up. I think that Rand was making an extreme illustration to make a point, not something we should aim for. I love the idea of people building a community to live deliberately with increased liberty. I will probably support such an effort in some form at some point.
I can't get back to you til tomorrow, so economize on your thinking, as you are wont to do.
What bothers me is that in most schools only a form of Marxism will be taught-"
If I see that, we may be suing yet another school. Actually, we'd probably just pull them out. And we're never handing a school $10k all at once again. We're learned to be skeptical.
I know most Gulchers welcome anyone to their blogs, even someone not quite objective!
What bothers me is that in most schools only a form of Marxism will be taught--
It sounds like the same stuff people who think having things with corporate logos will have dire consequences for my kids, that it's indoctrinating them into seeing the world as large corporations do. I reject this view. I reject it even more if it starts out people feeling sorry for my kids b/c I'm the parent.
They ought to be on the top of the list, now more than ever.
I'm naturally paranoid about very little peril with my kids. I'm trying NOT to be afraid. I won't be shocked if we have to pull them out. It only took 13 days last time. LOL But we loved the new pre-school. I really hope things continue to work out.
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