Common core

**dsdmmat** · 11-07-2013, 08:43 AM

Question 5 and 6 are setting up your child for a life of Serfdom and Slavery.

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**ladder13** · 11-07-2013, 09:01 AM

They've been slowly doing this for decades, turning young brains into mush.

**djoksimo** · 11-07-2013, 09:35 AM

I need to home school my kid(s) or else I'm gonna wind up in jail when I storm into the school and start burning textbooks.

**AudiBiTurbo** · 11-07-2013, 10:35 AM

Common core clearly has it's issues, but there are a lot of potential benefits. Two that I personally see;
First, nationwide standardization makes sense for a variety of reasons. The most obvious is when kids move school districts. But there are a lot of ancillary reasons such as less remedial courses in higher education as well as to stop the most liberal of school boards as well as the school boards who want to teach creationism only, and not modern science.
Second, for me... I've always thought the most intelligent people were the ones who saw patterns and relationships where others don't.... and then apply analytical thought to those relationships. An example that most American's don't see is the onslaught of the state against individual rights... not just anti-gun laws, but PRISM, individual traffic monitoring, and many other forms of electronic surveillance in today's evolving world. Etc. I'm not a "tin foil hat" guy... I just see us living in a transformative time.

Home schooling is always an option, but teachers have long been a liberal bunch... that's not going to change anytime soon. They say that Common Core "is too hard." I expect my children to work up to that standard and surpass it.