My little sister brought this textbook home from school.
Notice anything fucked up?
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Sister issued common core book
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Common Core is terrifying to me. I really think that this system is trying to fundamentally alter kids to be less likely to protest against the government or large corporations.
If you have some free time, peep this video:
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At 9/6/14 01:20 PM, Raab wrote: My little sister brought this textbook home from school.
Notice anything fucked up?
Does the textbook mention aliens?
Is it about ufo collections? If so, it actually may be reputable.
At 9/6/14 01:36 PM, ZJ wrote: If you have some free time, peep this video:
2 hours - TL;DR bro!
fuk
At 9/6/14 01:39 PM, BrenTheMan wrote:At 9/6/14 01:36 PM, ZJ wrote: If you have some free time, peep this video:2 hours - TL;DR bro!
Put it on as background noise and play Bejeweled or something. WORK WITH ME BREN.
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Lol and people actually support this bullshit.
Oh God...
...well, the least we can do is see what they have to say about it.
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At 9/6/14 01:40 PM, Nickisabi wrote: lol how is this a common core book?
because it is
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At 9/6/14 01:36 PM, ZJ wrote: Common Core is terrifying to me. I really think that this system is trying to fundamentally alter kids to be less likely to protest against the government or large corporations.
I don't want to turn this into a politics thread or anything.... but I 100% agree with you.
They are trying to teach children from the start that there is only the red pill or the blue pill.... and that
Republicans and democrats are the only choices..... when in all reality they are simply the left and right foot of the same machine.
....keep in mind that this is a WRITING TEXTBOOK.
Issued in an English class.
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At 9/7/14 01:16 AM, Raab wrote: ....keep in mind that this is a WRITING TEXTBOOK.
Issued in an English class.
Oh no, how dare they not teach about alternative views. It's like in compulsory education they're teaching the bare-bones needed to survive.
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At 9/7/14 01:45 AM, Lost-Chances wrote:At 9/7/14 01:16 AM, Raab wrote: ....keep in mind that this is a WRITING TEXTBOOK.Oh no, how dare they not teach about alternative views. It's like in compulsory education they're teaching the bare-bones needed to survive.
Issued in an English class.
Its more like.... how dare they lace a course about writing with their own biased version of governmental history.
Essentially filling the clean slate that students have with the false dichotomy of the "choices" they have for government here in the US.
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Why are we outraged about Common Core again? I always forget because there's no cohesive strand of arguments beyond "nah man it sucks! Look at how different it is from my schooling!" from people who quite clearly lack comprehensive education.
Kids today have the Internet. Just because the schools teach them one thing doesn't mean they're going to be stuck with that same limited view on the world for the rest of their lives.
Unless…it's all a liberal conspiracy to make kids afraid to search for new perspectives online and turn our kids into tree-hugging pro-choice atheist Democrats. Oh lord have mercy.
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Alright, so as someone who works for a school system I have to disagree.
Common Core is meant to change the way teacher's perform their namesake; the way they teach. It's meant to give teachers the ability to teach kids how to really answer questions, as opposed to reciting answers.
I'm not sure about the political nonsense. Honestly, if a child believes that there are only two political choices, then that is the parent's failure.
That's my $0.02, take it as you will.
I don't know about common core for classes like social sciences/history, but common core math is horrible.
The only reason people suck at math is because they don't try or have the will to learn.
At 9/7/14 11:37 PM, SentForMe wrote: I don't know about this common core stuff. All I know is the result, which is that the US education system continues to rank lower every year vs. the rest of the world. Even though every ten years or so some people come up with a new idea to "save" the US public education system they don't seem to actually improve it much.
That's a misrepresentation of the state of education in America.
Affluent school districts in the United States have the best public schools in the world. Many private, boarding, Montessori, charter, preparatory, etc schools in the United States are top tier.
The average and mean for performance in education is low because less wealthy school districts and states which purposely underfund their public education for political reasons have a performance which reflects that starvation and neglect.
America does still have most of the world's best colleges and universities. The Ivy League is so pumped full of 4.0+2.0, 2400 SAT, 8 AP, team captain, pseudopolyglotic, musical, entrepreneurial, humble, charitable, 12 extracurricular middle-to-upper-class applicants from American and international schools that they dump the overflow into nearby state schools.
However, students in financially needy districts aren't often granted the mentoring necessary to become one of those excellent sheep. Usually the ones that find that role model are looking outside of the schools, where they're unlikely to find someone who demonstrates the need to develop a passion for learning.
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