The attempt of creating a national education standard is logical and correct for any developed nation. Education should have minimum guidelines. We shouldn't allow Texans to be under-served versus Ohioans.
However, when you look at the corporations (eg, exxon mobile) and oligarchs that support Common Core, and you look at how politicians wield the program as a tool - I think it should be considered of great harm to our school system. For over two decades now, neoliberal policies have aimed at chipping away at our public school system through the privatization of schools and the weakening of teacher's unions.
The ultimate goal of Common Core I believe is to create a set of standards so unwieldy and so publicly damaging that parents will have no faith in their public schools. They will be forced to send their children to private schools. This aligns with the goal of undermining our public schools for the enrichment of the elite.
We do not pay our teachers enough nor do we train our teachers enough to teach a complex set of expectations that is common core. It is simply too arcane for parents to help their own children out with, either. It teaches rigid adherence and allows for no flexibility in solving problems. I don't understand why we couldn't just copy China or Japan's educational criteria anyway, there wasn't any need to dream up our own set of standards, if the rest of the world already has it figured out.
In conclusion, I think in order to save our public schools, we need to tell our politicians that common core needs to end and that different standards need to be created. Privatizing our school system / keeping common core will create a massive rift in mental acuity between rich and poor families for many decades, if not corrected.
Submitted July 26, 2020 at 11:23PM by ridenbiden2020 https://ift.tt/3f3Pn9K
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