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BluegrassStateBlues

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5. Forced textbooks in Kentucky to contain climate change and evolution...

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Wed Oct 9, 2013, 06:06 PM

Oct 2013

So for Kentucky and other Bible Belt states, at least, I am strongly in favor.

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How do you feel about the Common Core Curriculum? [View all] mfcorey1 Oct 2013 OP

My wife is a teacher and she says fuck that shit gopiscrap Oct 2013 #1

Pretty much the exact sentiment of every teacher I know. Initech Oct 2013 #19

As a teacher with 31 years of experience I say its a disaster waiting to happen. Blue Idaho Oct 2013 #2

Thanks I will read this as I too have come to that conclusion ! lunasun Oct 2013 #32

I could be wrong, but I thought the upside to this was to combat cbayer Oct 2013 #3

I'm against it. For a lot of reasons... Smarmie Doofus Oct 2013 #4

They are trying to force special education kids to perform at the same level as their general liberal_at_heart Oct 2013 #14

Algebra for kids because they are 15 years old even if they have Down Syndrome.... Smarmie Doofus Oct 2013 #29

exactly. liberal_at_heart Oct 2013 #30

Forced textbooks in Kentucky to contain climate change and evolution... BluegrassStateBlues Oct 2013 #5

I doubt most of us are familiar enough to have a truly valid opinion frazzled Oct 2013 #6

One of the objections to CC is that it has been adopted without any field testing or pilot program. Smarmie Doofus Oct 2013 #8

+1 follow the money lunasun Oct 2013 #33

today my 4th grader had a social studies test d_r Oct 2013 #7

This is exactly what I studied in 4th grade in 1964. Smarmie Doofus Oct 2013 #9

me too, but d_r Oct 2013 #10

A goal of common core is more writing nadinbrzezinski Oct 2013 #12

risk taking behavior has to do with biology and psychology. What 4th grader is going to know why liberal_at_heart Oct 2013 #13

Perhaps my experience is colored by having grown in a system nadinbrzezinski Oct 2013 #16

They have the wrong people in control. They are putting people who want to profit off of our kids liberal_at_heart Oct 2013 #18

Same as it has always been in the US. nadinbrzezinski Oct 2013 #20

I can't come up with a strong enough word for how much I hate it. liberal_at_heart Oct 2013 #11

It's not a curriculum frazzled Oct 2013 #15

that is not how it is being implemented. Especially since they are tying teacher liberal_at_heart Oct 2013 #17

You're mixing up very many different things frazzled Oct 2013 #21

you believe what you want. I know better. Common Core, Race to the Top, and the defunding of liberal_at_heart Oct 2013 #22

As it's applied in my school district... Kill it with fire. politicat Oct 2013 #23

They have decreased the funding and increased the accountability, and they expect positive results liberal_at_heart Oct 2013 #24

Effectively decreased funding. politicat Oct 2013 #25

well yeah. Not keeping up with inflation is in effect defunding. Not keeping up with inflation is liberal_at_heart Oct 2013 #26

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $$$$$$$$ lunasun Oct 2013 #27

George W. Bush, Arne Duncan, Obama, and Bill Gates. These are the people we are entrusting our liberal_at_heart Oct 2013 #28

and our tax $$$$ too = big profit maker lunasun Oct 2013 #31