My relative from Seattle used to be a Microsoft employee and an evangelist for Common Core, the nationwide curriculum pushed by The Bill Gates foundation, in order to provide his company with cheap standardized workers.
It was always a mystery to me why the same people who despised “No Child Left Behind”, which had similar goals – to Federalize Education and keep those backward school districts in the mountains of Tennessee from teaching Creationism – while ignoring the dropout rates and dismal reading and math scores in most major cities dominated by Democrats.
Monocultures are bad. Liberals taught me that. Diversity is good – except apparently in allowing variations in what schools teach. Young men in Kentucky who will end up working in the coal mines probably need different learning than a California youth hoping to grow up to be a pot dealer on the beach in Venice.
The bipartisan Education bill removes mandates for States to implement Federal curriculum standards.
Note that the bill does not dissolve the Education Department, but it is something.
Diversity is good. It leads to the survival of the species and the nation. Through different approaches, we can see what works best and what works worst and make adjustments accordingly. Does a taxpayer subsidized degree in medieval art help our country and the average student as a degree in economics?
Does your profession have professional certifications? In many states, the people that cut your hair need not only a certification but a professional license. Why don’t politicians have the same, at least on a voluntary basis?
Should there be certifications in economics be available for politicians so voters can avoid electing the types of leaders that Venezuela had elected, or that large cities in the US usually elect?
Ever wonder why that since the creation of the US Department of Education, SAT scores and US student performance compared to other nations has decreased?
Ever wonder why, since the creation of OSHA, we now have more people on disability than ever before? … I thought today’s desk jobs were safer than those old factory jobs, no?
Good stuff. The schools don’t seem to know what education is anymore. In the Communist credo and in Saul Alinsky, the population is tamed by dumbing them down to mush-headed drones. This process has been in effect since I was a child and it is paying off in ways unimagined. Have we ever wondered why anyone would support the liar and felon Hillary? No critical thinking skills. They were taught to accept what the media and the government puts out as gospel.
Yes. The vast majority of America’s youth is being taught by Democrats that are in a labor union and view the government as the solution to all problems. That labor union typically collects dues that are used for supporting Democrat candidates. There is little diversity in the education of our youth- how can that be for the common good? It isn’t, it is for the good of the selfish set up that situation and benefit from it.
At least for now, teachers in North Carolina can’t form a union and can’t strike. It seems like most of the white children in the Charlotte area go to private religious schools and don’t care if the public schools suck.
Thank God for the freedom to vote with your feet. If the public schools suck – let folks go to the private ones that don’t. I think the inherent trap is set for inner city kids (a large percentage African American) who can’t get vouchers for private schools. These kids are forced into schools that suck and so they perpetuate the mush-headed drones. Sometimes these kids protest stuff – ask Rahm Emmanuel.
That’s my perception, but since I didn’t go to school in Charlotte, I don’t have much info. My nephew sent his son to a “magnet” school where the school system creates special schools for children who might survive. His magnet school was total immersion in French, so the son could talk to his French nanny. One of the reasons they left Charlotte was because they wanted to get him out of the school. He’s now attending a Montessori school in the triangle area. If this is sounding like a stereotypical progressive family, welcome to my hell. I don’t have an address where they moved and don’t care.