Still more grief involving Common Core

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http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138121/posts

http://victoriajackson.com/10834/teacher-quits-common-core

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I haven't fully read your links yet -- just skimmed. It seems strange to me, a politically progressive person, that they blame this on the progressives. All of this educational nonsense started with George 2, who was not at all progressive.

I'm going to read them and think about this.

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@boomerang,

It didn't start with George II or III, more like around 1870 or thereabout, again based on the Prussian model as Gatto notes. And, again, that model was never intended to produce self-reliant or competent people, it was meant to produce cannon fodder and bricks in the wall.

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@gungasnake,

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/29/common-core-emerges-as-potent-election-issue-for-fed-up-parents/

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/01/on-first-day-common-core-testing-some-ny-students-sit-out/#

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On Monday, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, who is running for governor of New York, released an online video in which he had harsh words for the Common Core standards and announced that he would not have his children participate in the round of testing.

“After speaking at length with my wife Sheila, who’s a special education teacher, I am announcing today that my children will join with thousands of other school kids tomorrow, statewide, in refusing to take the Cuomo Common Core test,” he said in the video released by his campaign. “They will be in school, but they will opt out of the exam, as is their legal right.”

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