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Rotten to the Core (Part 2): Readin', Writin' and Deconstructionism

heeltar Wrote: Jan 25, 2013 6:43 PM
Like most gov't agencies they are illogical, expensive and serve no purpose except to pay a lot of high salaries to primadonnas . The dept of Education is one of these and needs to be eliminated and let the STATES control their own education systems where educators and PARENTS can control what children are being taught. If you don't give a fig about your children, well they will just get left behind. Teaching to the lowest common denominator produces a lot of ignorant children and we get an abomination.
everyonesfacts4usall Wrote: Jan 25, 2013 8:47 PM
So go back to the system we still have?
Wow! Great idea.
ZealousConscript Wrote: Jan 25, 2013 7:34 PM
You are of course absolutely right. Let's leave education up to the individual states.

But don't complain when we see education rates drop even lower.
jmg11 Wrote: Jan 25, 2013 8:17 PM
What will you say when the young are taught facts and methods that are actually useful? When they actually know how to compose instead of deconstruct? When those "ed admins" have to find real work and discover how little they are really good for?

OK, three questions you can't answer, that's enough time spent on a lefty goober.
everyonesfacts4usall Wrote: Jan 25, 2013 8:48 PM
jmg11 the CCSS is all about composing, teaching content or facts, and methods. It is hard to take serious an argument from someone who obviously has not looked at the standards. Read it and come back. Thanks.
jmg11 Wrote: Jan 26, 2013 12:57 AM
I HAVE looked at the standards. I am not a liberal doink, so I do not favor them.

If you are as far gone as your comments over the past few weeks indicate, then you might actually think they are an improvement.
Joan383 Wrote: Jan 26, 2013 10:13 AM
Yes, leave education up to the states. In SC the education SUCKS, the general populous can barely string together a cohesive sentence. Charleston graduates 20% of its students as illiterates and the admin says they don't have enough money and the teachers aren't paid well enough to teach the kids to READ. Then guess what is happening? People from the Northeast (tax refugees) came down here and saw the level of education and flocked to private schools with real education who are having a banner decade. Montessori schools are coming up like mushrooms. In other words the market is working. Yes, leave it to the states and to the parents who are accountable. You leave it to the feds and all the locals just get to shrug and blame Wash.
Colonialgirl Wrote: Jan 26, 2013 3:06 PM
Hey Leftist troll; The education rates were MUCH higher BEFORE the Feds got involved.
Let's give you an A+ in Stupidity.
Colonialgirl Wrote: Jan 26, 2013 3:07 PM
More trollish gobbledegook and pure BS.

(This is the second part of an ongoing series on federal "Common Core" education standards and the corruption of academic excellence.)

The Washington, D.C., board of education earned widespread mockery this week when it proposed allowing high school students -- in the nation's own capital -- to skip a basic U.S. government course to graduate. But this is fiddlesticks compared to what the federal government is doing to eliminate American children's core knowledge base in English, language arts and history.

Thanks to the "Common Core" regime, funded with President Obama's stimulus dollars and bolstered by duped Republican governors and business groups, deconstructionism...

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