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Common Core lessons blasted for sneaking politics into elementary classrooms

A "whopping" $61K!!! :lamo

That's less than 10% of the $631K they spent in support of republican candidates

National Education Assn: Summary | OpenSecrets

Oh Sangha....There is nothing more dishonest than trying to compare the donation to one candidate, to the entirety of the opposing party of candidates....

From your link....

Discloses Donors? YES
Viewpoint: LIBERAL

Independent Expenditures: $3,678,565
For Democrats: $1,965,924
Against Democrats: $0
For Republicans: $631,887
Against Republicans: $3,850,426

Electioneering Communications: $134,191About Electioneering Communications
Communication Costs: $2,766,991


Good Lord....Why would you do something so easily debunked as what you typed?
 
Oh Sangha....There is nothing more dishonest than trying to compare the donation to one candidate, to the entirety of the opposing party of candidates....

From your link....




Good Lord....Why would you do something so easily debunked as what you typed?

IOW, my link shows that they gave to people on both sides of the issue.
 
How much money did the NEA funnel to the Obama campaign? Do you know?

A lot of these very costly mandates were put into place under NCLB. The NEA has petition to review the lower court decision in School District of Pontiac, Mich. v. Duncan, 09-852. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court denied the petition.
NEA - NEA disappointed in Supreme Court

Your other comment about supporting Obama is a strawman. They did not support him because of these mandates.
 
Well many states have caps on how much money can be provided for educational costs while at the same time these new mandates being passed down by Race to Top are costly and many of these costs either get passed down in the form of layoffs or local communities voting to fund them through taxes. Teachers never advocated for these costs.
Good summary.
There are other unfunded mandates besides the Great Race (to the top), but that's a great example.
 
IOW, my link shows that they gave to people on both sides of the issue.


No where near what you tried to dishonestly portray....In fact it was exactly opposite....
 
Update!

So another teacher and I were working on the new report cards and rubrics we have to use next year. We're switching from grading by averaging percentages and giving F, D, C, B, As to using rubrics to give 1, 2, 3, 4s (since "averaging grades is evil"). So we were looking at a rubric for math calculations and noticed that "composing a 10" (i.e. regrouping, borrowing a 10, etc.) was on it. We (both of us with 10+ years of teaching) thought that was too difficult for 6 year olds to grasp. So we put it as a "4" instead of a "3". (The 3 is considered "on level" and the 4 is considered "above level".) When our administrator came back to see how we did with the rubrics, we told him about moving that concept up to a 4. He said we cannot do that because it's part of Common Core standards. If they say it is the standard, then we must teach to that standard. Therefore, almost all first graders will be getting a 2 in that area because that concept is way too hard for the average 6 year old to grasp. Fun times!

Oh yeah --- they also have to write out the step-by-step process of how they got the answer to math word problems.

And have I mentioned that they don't have to learn to count money or use a ruler?
 
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Update!

So another teacher and I were working on the new report cards and rubrics we have to use next year. We're switching from grading by averaging percentages and giving F, D, C, B, As to using rubrics to give 1, 2, 3, 4s (since "averaging grades is evil"). So we were looking at a rubric for math calculations and noticed that "composing a 10" (i.e. regrouping, borrowing a 10, etc.) was on it. We (both of us with 10+ years of teaching) thought that was too difficult for 6 year olds to grasp. So we put it as a "4" instead of a "3". (The 3 is considered "on level" and the 4 is considered "above level".) When our administrator came back to see how we did with the rubrics, we told him about moving that concept up to a 4. He said we cannot do that because it's part of Common Core standards. If they say it is the standard, then we must teach to that standard. Therefore, almost all first graders will be getting a 2 in that area because that concept is way too hard for the average 6 year old to grasp. Fun times!

Oh yeah --- they also have to write out the step-by-step process of how they got the answer to math word problems.

And have I mentioned that they don't have to learn to count money or use a ruler?

But the common core standards were written by educators who aren't bothered by actually teaching children, you know, so they have oh, so much more expertise than mere classroom teachers. They have advanced degrees, after all (sometimes), as well as political connections.

And, if the 6 year olds don't get it, it means that they're mathematically illiterate, and it's the teacher's fault.
 
But the common core standards were written by educators who aren't bothered by actually teaching children, you know, so they have oh, so much more expertise than mere classroom teachers. They have advanced degrees, after all (sometimes), as well as political connections.

And, if the 6 year olds don't get it, it means that they're mathematically illiterate, and it's the teacher's fault.

I would LOVE to see one of these policy makers have an entire class meet each of those benchmarks and be deemed failures and loose their job if they don't deliver. Better yet, have the court of public opinion deem them worthless and incompetent. I think basing a teachers worth on these high stake tests would be thrown out pretty darn fast;)
 
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