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Common Core

Posted by CarolSeer2014 11 years ago to Education
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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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  • Posted by FlukeMan2 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Tying various subjects together into projects predates Common Core and is not mentioned in the Common Core Standards.
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  • Posted by TheOldMan 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have no idea but that is how it is being implemented in our school. I assumed (and you know what means) that this is a CC requirement. If not, then it's yet another unrelated dumb idea (IMO).
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I worked at a public school for ten years. Research John Dewey. The UN' s agenda 21. Books: Credentialed to Destroy, teaching Johnny to think, ominous parallels, and my own logic of course. Also the lack of willingness on the part of school staff to even discuss it beyond the same droning words of...college and career readiness, which amounts to nothing but feel good nonsense. What about the arrests of parents at school board meetings who dared demand answers to their concerns?
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's a wedge and a nudge towards socialism. Do some research beyond what the paid talking heads tell you. You are gullible if you think this is innocent. Having the gov calling the shots (ANY shots) in education, molding of young minds, is an evil recipe that's been baked before. I urge you to wake up.
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  • Posted by FlukeMan2 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There is no such thing as a "Common Core curriculum." The standards are goals. How things are taught is up to the schools.
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  • Posted by Fairykahn 11 years ago
    Hi everyone, I am an English major, and as such am very concerned about the fact that the Common Core seems to be doing away with fiction in English classes and focusing more on nonfiction articles and essays. I actually wrote a letter to the editor on this subject, if anyone is interested: http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/op...
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  • Posted by CarolSeer2014 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Perhaps you're right, Maritimus. Atlas shrugging is definitely a more severe disciplinary action than any regular union strike, since these are the prime movers of civilization. At times, the art of the deal presupposes the need to just turn your back and walk. Unfortunately, crony capitalism has taken such strong hold in our culture (and all in the name of "We're doing it for you!) that we now need to strike back, as well as shrug. Strike back with reason and morality. And action!
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  • Posted by CarolSeer2014 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    CG--I just reread this post, and it set me wondering if you were exposed to some amount of liberal thought in your education.
    Also, I've wondered what it was about Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead that turned you toward Objectivism?
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  • Posted by Maritimus 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Hey! Another admirer of Dante.
    I want to be careful. My understanding is that AR envisioned her Gulch inhabitants as temporary absentees, who would return back to the country to restore and rebuild. They shrugged so as to hasten the collapse and therefore hasten the recovery
    My perception, and it might very well be unfair, is that at least some of the people who shrug now here, do it because they gave up. Of course, three will not be a real Atlantis, a copy of AR's imagined one. But there might be ways to fight the onslaught of moochers and parasites in such a way that they loose quicker than otherwise. It boils down, I think, of persuading minds. The most able ones first, but gradually many, many others.
    What do you think?
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Exactly correct Carol. Before we were a separate country, children were sent to one room schools which covered grades 1 through 4. They were allowed to move at their own pace and were not held to a rigid stupidity that demanded that if they were seven years-old, they had to "know" this and that.
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  • Posted by CarolSeer2014 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I've wondered about that. You must believe that we cannot just shrug. As Dante said: "The hottest fires of hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis."
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  • Posted by Maritimus 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Hi, Carol,
    I wish it were only in the ivy league schools. It is, unfortunately, much wider in educational institutions and much deeper in mass communications. We have a huge battle on our hands.
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  • Posted by CarolSeer2014 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Oh, and by the way, Circuit Guy, I didn't go looking for the prez--he found me.
    A warning, though, people in high places watch posts like these--
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years ago
    I realized that after you shared about your past. I wrongly assumed it was at an event.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I have a crazy schedule that started this spring. I can tell you about it in PM if you want. Thank you for sharing some person info with me.
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  • Posted by CarolSeer2014 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I read Ayn Rand ( and just about everything she had written up to then) when I was 15, in high school. Most of my friends were slightly more to the left--I was the sole intellectual.

    A book you should read is her "For the New Intellectual--the Philosophy of Ayn Rand." Taking from the particular to the general. That is, from the novelist's instantiation of her philosophy to the philosophy itself. You will get a taste of her Attila the Hun/Witchdoctor analogies.
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  • Posted by CarolSeer2014 11 years ago
    Circuit Guy, enough of my personal relationships. If it helps you open your eyes, I will be glad of it.
    You do seem to either worship power or those in offices of power.
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