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| Trump’s education secretary pick plans to get rid of Common Core standards | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 15 2016, 12:19 PM (1,245 Views) | |
| Robertr2000 | Dec 15 2016, 12:19 PM Post #1 |
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Trump’s education secretary pick plans to get rid of Common Core standards By Mary Kay Linge Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education, will put the brakes on the contentious Common Core standards if she is confirmed by the Senate. “It’s time to make education great again in this country,” she said at a Trump rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Friday. “This means letting states set their own high standards and finally putting an end to the federalized Common Core.” DeVos, a prominent Republican donor and the former head of the Michigan GOP, is known as a charter-school advocate and a booster of school choice and education vouchers. DeVos’ five-minute speech echoed her new boss’s stance. “The answer isn’t bigger government — it’s local control, it’s listening to parents, and it’s giving more choices,” http://nypost.com/2016/12/11/trumps-education-secretary-pick-plans-to-get-rid-of-common-core-standards/ Common Core must Die topic closed, was too old for News Boards when opened Edited by wilmywood8455, Dec 18 2016, 07:16 PM.
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| "if that **** wins we'll all hang from nooses" | |
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| clone | Dec 15 2016, 01:12 PM Post #2 |
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Hope so....while she's at it....get rid of the whole darn department would be even better...
Edited by clone, Dec 15 2016, 01:13 PM.
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Robertr2000 | Dec 15 2016, 01:31 PM Post #3 |
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Give it some time. Trump 2020!
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| George Aligator | Dec 15 2016, 02:20 PM Post #4 |
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She is planning a lot more than that. She isn't in favor of government education, preferring highly diverse private and charter schools of religious, ethnic etc. character. She has strong fundamentalist beliefs. The core idea which she opposes is the role of public schools as the melting pot creating a homogeneous citizenry out of our multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, religiously diverse population. This is an idea that was wildly popular when progressives introduced it a century ago at a time of very high immigration rates. It was never applied very seriously in the Jim Crow South, but it was a goal in many Northern cities. Many minority groups find the idea of a charter school with an ethnic or religious core very attractive -- as long as the school their kids go to preaches their personal belief system. There is a lot less enthusiasm for other faiths or race based schools. The idea is potentially explosive. |
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| jaydedjen110 | Dec 15 2016, 02:23 PM Post #5 |
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Every little part of this plan is a bad idea... |
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| clone | Dec 15 2016, 02:28 PM Post #6 |
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Care to elaborate? |
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| nNeo | Dec 15 2016, 02:35 PM Post #7 |
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It's ironic that the same party who complain about perceived demise of American culture, and lack of assimilation by immigrants, also attack the institutions that have historically contributed to integration and common strength. Public education is one of America's cornerstones. Math, science, and English should be the same in Alabama and California. Disparate local curricula invite agenda-driven meddling, and weaken our global competitiveness. |
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| Harambe4Trump | Dec 15 2016, 02:36 PM Post #8 |
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Public education was historically controlled by people in their own community. The standards of public education should be whatever the local community deems appropriate. |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| Harambe4Trump | Dec 15 2016, 02:38 PM Post #9 |
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That was a mistake. If parents wanted to send their children to Catholic or Lutheran school, that was no business for the state to interfere. |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| George Aligator | Dec 15 2016, 03:05 PM Post #10 |
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The issue not one of privately funded schools but of charter schools, which receive public funds but have considerable latitude in teaching various religious, social or scientific theories. There is also the matter of school vouchers which may be redeemed at strictly private schools. Mrs. DeVos is on record as favoring the expansion of the frontiers limiting charter schools and voucher programs, even to the extent, if necessary, of a constitutional amendment. The idea is popular in some conservative circles and should be considered carefully. Perhaps molding the ideas of America's children is not an activity in which the government should be directly involved. Is there a way to avoid such powerful government influence while still maintaining the educational opportunity necessary for a functioning democracy? It' not an easy question. |
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| clone | Dec 15 2016, 03:17 PM Post #11 |
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Ah OK :oyvey If Heather has two mommies and Billy has two daddies and Cindy has parents that are gender fluid how many different gender pronouns can you self identify with? If Rositas school is 97% Spanish speaking only English class should be the same in Alabama & California..... If Huffington Post says Clinton has a 98% chance of winning the election what percentage of stupidity are their Common Core educated pollsters accountable for. And while you are at it... Can You Solve These Common Core Problems? BTW How did one of the cornerstones of America survive prior to October 17, 1979 when the Dept of Education was foisted upon the hapless American people by the second worst President ever Jimmy Carter...???? |
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| Robertr2000 | Dec 15 2016, 03:38 PM Post #12 |
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Ya Ya YA!!!!!
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| Robertr2000 | Dec 15 2016, 03:40 PM Post #13 |
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Bottom line is, the Parents and teachers get to choose what their children are taught now. Not the Federal Government. Now.... go make me a sandwich. |
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| thoughtless | Dec 16 2016, 12:09 PM Post #14 |
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My son develops computer based educational programs that customize themselves to the student, with the long term goal of making education at all levels, available to anybody that wants to learn. The lack of common curricula among states makes that goal extra difficult. |
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| George Aligator | Dec 16 2016, 12:19 PM Post #15 |
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The Common Core Standards is just a talking shop in which states are free to exchange suggestions about public school curricula. As the Republican Party achieves the conservative goal of withdrawing the federal government from the public schools, CCS, never important in any way, will disappear without a trace. More important is how public education will change under radical conservative policies. If trends and recent struggles are any indication, the spending and performance gap between high-achieving state systems and those states whose schools rank at the bottom in student achievement will grow swiftly wider. The crisis in Kansas will spread to more and more red states and, if unchecked, will sharply increase the cultural divide between red and blue. America will revert to the very widespread model of an elite bicoastal economy separated from a primitive interior. It wasn't until the middle of the last century that we moved away from that model, return to it won't be difficult at all. |
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| Robertr2000 | Dec 16 2016, 12:33 PM Post #16 |
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"The Common Core Standards is just a talking shop in which states are free to exchange suggestions about public school curricula." So it's no big deal if Common Core gets destroy then right? I mean if that's all it is, then we don't really need it. Trump is going to take down the Department of Education. And hand back control to the States and counties. Making America Great again.
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| clone | Dec 16 2016, 01:36 PM Post #17 |
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Meanwhile in nNeo's "cornerstone of America" Just in time for Christmas, Satan club opens at Wash. elementary school This is what you get when you combine political correctness, anti-Americanism and multiculturalism – a Washington state elementary school will now have a Satan club after school program.
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| BuckFan | Dec 16 2016, 02:17 PM Post #18 |
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Public schools are public property and open to all law abiding citizens. It is long standing that if you open a public building to one group you need to open to all similar groups. This "after-school" program is not part of the school district or the school outside a private group is using a public building. There is no endorsement or involvement of the school in this meeting. |
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| BuckFan | Dec 16 2016, 02:20 PM Post #19 |
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Common Core is state control of curriculum. It was developed by states in cooperation with businesses. The federal government had no involvment in the creation of Common Core and only got involved after it was clear a majority of states along with significant corporations were backing the effort. The involvment of the feds was limited to providing grants to local districts who were implementing Common Core. This should be the type of program the Right supports, the problem was it happened when a Democrat was President. |
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| BuckFan | Dec 16 2016, 02:20 PM Post #20 |
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She doesn't want Common Core because it would show how poorly her Charter Schools really perform |
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