TIDBIT: COMMON CORE STATES OPTING OUT BECAUSE OF COST

November 11, 2015 / Joseph P. Farrell /

This one was shared by many of you, and it highlights yet another failure of common core: its cost:

WSJ: COMMON CORE IN JEOPARDY DUE TO COSTS

It's time to starve the edugarchs and the testing corporations, and pay the good teachers, and restore local parental control.

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Joseph P. Farrell

Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and "strange stuff". His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science".

9 Comments

johncomegys on November 23, 2015 at 2:57 pm

Have you seen this? http://www.usworldreport.com/this-hilarious-video-mocks-the-bizarre-liberalism-in-schools/ No I don’t agree with it, but it is a fairly accurate burlesque of the current educayshunal system
johncomegys on November 23, 2015 at 2:55 pm

http://www.usworldreport.com/this-hilarious-video-mocks-the-bizarre-liberalism-in-schools/
marcos anthony toledo on November 11, 2015 at 7:15 pm

This is a educational version of a Ponzi scheme over priced and it doesn’t work. Failure assured from the beginning just wondering what these wiseguys who put this con together think the World will be like when they succeed no bookstores no libraries who will be around to know how to feed these parasites just wondering.
Robert Barricklow on November 11, 2015 at 1:05 pm

There is hardly anything “common” in the common core;
except, being rotten to the core.
- zendogbreath on November 11, 2015 at 7:42 pm
  
  core rupt.
  - Robert Barricklow on November 12, 2015 at 9:44 am
    
    Good one zenodogbreath!
    [As you know, rupt comes from Latin meaning to “break”.]
WalkingDead on November 11, 2015 at 9:25 am

One need only look at who truly benefits from common core, those manufacturing the hardware and software, corporate profits above education, robots over intelligent people. The bulk of students graduating today graduate with what amounts to an eighth grade education.
There will always be gifted/determined students who take it upon themselves to educate themselves despite the odds stacked against them. Total control will always elude the elite. This we should be grateful for and grant these few all the encouragement we can muster; for they are the hope of the future.
- zendogbreath on November 11, 2015 at 7:47 pm
  
  sounds too noble wd.
  
  couple more perspectives. how is our own development effected by working with others way too slow to give us a run and make us reach? how much and in what would we be smarter given a differently abled set of peers. and mentors.
  
  one can only cover as much ground as the weakest member of the group on a walk. unless one leaves the group and strikes out alone. that brings up a whole different set of vulnerabilities and advantages.
  
  it is a matter of there but for the grace of (name your deity) go I. It is also a matter of there I go since I’m never very far away from what I see going on around me.
  
  Wonder what Tesla might have done with a different set of friends and financiers.
  - milt on November 14, 2015 at 5:37 pm
    
    Or, I wonder what Tesla would have been if he had been subjected to common core as a child. So putting that fine a point on it, what is this BS doing to other children who could be the next inventors?