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mia

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12. Teachers have been reduced to robots as they follow the scripts and routines

Reply to zazen (Reply #11)

Sat Jan 2, 2016, 02:49 PM

Jan 2016

demanded by the Common Core curriculum. At a nearby school, all teachers in a grade level must be teaching the exact same skills on any given day. There is to be no deviation from what is in the "Standards" for a particular grade level. For not doing so, teachers have been chastised in front of the students by principals and assistant principals. It's demeaning for the teachers, but once they have become Gates' automatons, who needs them? Virtual teachers can take over. They're a lot cheaper and do exactly what they're told.

Corporatists will continue to set the agendas as long as they are allowed to buy off the politicians.

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What we could learn from the Victorian classroom [View all] mia Jan 2016 OP

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I agree, but misbehavior in the classroom mia Jan 2016 #9

Would love to see universal affordable saltpoint Jan 2016 #15

Proper posture, esp. at the table, was considered a sign of good manners and social class. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2016 #13

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Terrorized or allowed to run amok? SusanCalvin Jan 2016 #2

Agreed, there is "a happy medium". The author only suggests that there's something to learn. mia Jan 2016 #10

There's a lot to be said for doing the right thing at the right time, SusanCalvin Jan 2016 #14

Evidently Miss Perkins doesn't want saltpoint Jan 2016 #3

I can't see how the authoritarian style described in the article The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2016 #4

Birbalsingh was the darling of the Tory Party for bunking off her job to come and tell them how bad muriel_volestrangler Jan 2016 #5

Back in 1972... malthaussen Jan 2016 #6

This is a poe right? Warren Stupidity Jan 2016 #7

Should it be? mia Jan 2016 #8

No, it's standard thinking for the Daily Telegraph and the Conservative Party muriel_volestrangler Jan 2016 #16

yes - I can't believe anyone here seriously thinks that beating children into Warren Stupidity Jan 2016 #17

This is a straw man. Right? mia Jan 2016 #21

Hey it's your link that discusses the merits of beating the fidget out of kids. Warren Stupidity Jan 2016 #23

? mia Jan 2016 #26

ironically, Common Core's implementation is as authoritarian as the supposed "rote learning" zazen Jan 2016 #11

Teachers have been reduced to robots as they follow the scripts and routines mia Jan 2016 #12

That is not common core that is your schools implementation of it. Egnever Jan 2016 #18

the common core advocates wedded themselves to the testing industry Warren Stupidity Jan 2016 #24

Perfect attendance shouldn't be celebrated. hunter Jan 2016 #20

I don't think the article makes a very convincing point fishwax Jan 2016 #22

Stop Fidgeting! Warren Stupidity Jan 2016 #25