Common Core
Posted by CarolSeer2014 10 years, 3 months ago to Education
It's time to have the conversation about Common Core. What are your thoughts, Gulchers, about the innate evil in Common Core?
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(This is the only way anything bad like this can survive)
How did you come to your conclusion?
Maybe I'll be singing a different tune after my kids get in it. We've been known (unfortunately) to pull our kids out of school abruptly in the recent past. :) I'm almost sure the standards histrionics is just politics. The more likely scenario is we'll think the worksheets or tests are lame (i.e. boring, not a plot to destroy America) and we won't send our kids to those parts.
We went to all the schools nearby, and the public school down the road seemed surprisingly good. We thought that about the school they started last year, though, and we ended up in a lawsuit.
The world is full of sanctimony about other people's kids. Amazingly it starts with the birthing processing, feeding, screen time, corporate logos on clothes, and it keeps going. I'm only six years into it.
It sounds like the same stuff people who think having things with corporate logos will have dire consequences for my kids, that it's indoctrinating them into seeing the world as large corporations do. I reject this view. I reject it even more if it starts out people feeling sorry for my kids b/c I'm the parent.
"You're quick, Carol :) "
But I can write like what you consider a bona fide Gulcher.
**There are packages of ideas you must accept as a whole, no independent thought allowed. The package that causes all the problems in the world is the one associated with President Obama. We need to stop all this independent ivory tower thinking and just form groups and support whatever our group says.
I'm a misunderstood genius with an amazing ability to tell you how any event is a harbinger of doom. I worked for the gov't or a corporation and never went out and served customers, but as a genius I certainly could have if only the right politicians had been elected. I can tell you just how awful any problem is and whose to blame for it, but I can't do anything to improve it. I keep telling people how amazingly stupid they are but for some reason (maybe b/c of President Obama) this approach doesn't win any allies. Well I've had it. Just at the point when my gov't/coroporate pension plus SS is enough to support me, I decide to go Galt (aka retire) and deny the world my genius b/c of what politicians in DC are doing. Everyone out there accomplishing stuff in the world must be getting some kind of sweetheart deal. The true heroes are holed up watching cable news and reading blogs about how the world's going to worms, waiting for the final collapse of everything positive in the world.
All I can do for my part is to make sure that every time I see a problem, I use the opportunity to be a jerk and tell people who's to blame for it. **
I actually think such people are suffering from a psychological problem that hurts worse than a physical problem like arthritis. And there's always the chance they're right and doom is coming. I reject the entire spirit of blame, mean-spirtedness, and politics, but as a rational person I must accept that at some points in history things really do fall apart. We should not be complacent.
I read Fountainhead and then AS. I found them sort-of by chance. I loved them. I know they illustrate objectivist thought, but I don't know which parts are objectivist and which parts are just the story.
Regarding being really a Gulcher, I don't think the world is crashing and it's time to give up. I think that Rand was making an extreme illustration to make a point, not something we should aim for. I love the idea of people building a community to live deliberately with increased liberty. I will probably support such an effort in some form at some point.
I think that's crazy and that Obama is a good president, as mainstream candidates go. He was elected fairly, as was Bush in '04. The problems would almost be easier if there were one villain. The problem though is a mindset of turning things over to the gov't and the exec branch having too much power. The problem is asking "should this be allowed" instead of "should we empower the gov't to stop this".
My principles and his idiotology are intensely incompatible.
Are you saying you swore at him metaphorically or literally? Way to go for being so candid. Most people going to those events are trying to get grants or just talk with other supposedly-connected people, so they're circumspect. What kind of event was this? What did he do when you went off on him? Was he polite prior to your criticizing him?
If the story is true, I think it's really cool.
It's so different from his public persona of an intellectual. Do you gather this from his writings or did you know him before he ran for president?
Then, you're just beating your chest for your group and calling names? I could say Bush was a master of whatever school-yard epithet they call people from the right. We beat our chests for artificial groups, get to be mean, and if we're lucky even get to make a scene at an event, but it doesn't do anything for the cause of liberty.
Yes! A great summary. I don't know what the logo rant is about either, but it's something you hear when you have kids-- don't expose them to corporations. I have no idea why not. I ignore it.