On common Core

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39. I'm suspicious of the profit motive behind this CC concept

. . . Gates Foundation spread their money around Congress and got this fast tracked . . . it's like their computers; they lock you in to their new, unproven program and you're beholden to their product line to augment the curriculum.

More troubling, this is a conservative notion that poor schools have lower achievement rates because the curriculum isn't equal, when the problem is the poverty, itself, that's been proven to contribute the most to lower student performance.

Common Core tears down what we know works and forces a one-size-fits all approach that ignores other influences and barriers to learning and pretends as if teachers can just teach harder and make up the slack on their own.

I've never understood why our Democratic president insisted on implementing Bush's plan to push public education to the breaking point. Common Core will suck the life out of the system and all we'll be left with is another program that the more affluent still get the advantage and the poor are still left struggling to afford to keep up.

They need to put an end to this Bushian charade now or all our educational curriculum will be proprietary property of Microsoft.