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If you have a kid in school,educate yourself about the federal Common Core Curriculum
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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 2282914" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>The biggest problem with the Federal government getting involved in Education standards is the exact same problem with the Federal Government getting involved in anything - contracts, money, and power of that size attract the scum of the earth types who would steal, kill, backstab, and cheat their way into that power.</p><p></p><p>Those same scumbags that happen to already have some money, power, and influence will use that to affect the course of anything the Federal government does - it's why the lobby from a powerful and rich corporate entity is far more important to a congressman/woman than that of average citizen.</p><p></p><p>When those in the government stop opposing lying, cheating, stealing, etc... and open themselves up to the power of lobbyists money/influence/etc... then no hardworking, honest, good people can win over those who are willing to break all the rules to achieve something unless they already have that same money/power and are willing to risk it for their cause.</p><p></p><p>Common Core is only a change in standards - nothing else. Common Core isn't going to do much other than force a vague, hard-to-comprehend change in a system that is already suffering from corruption all on it's own at the state level.</p><p></p><p>But a change in standards drives changes in curriculum (and that means new books, apps, training, websites, smart-boards, teaching-aids, etc.). </p><p></p><p>A change in standards drives changes in testing (and that means new contracts with companies who provide online testing, new computers with greater hardware/software requirements, new study-materials, etc.).</p><p></p><p>A change in standards means a whole bunch of new money to those who provide the products/services that satisfy all of the new standards and requirements.</p><p></p><p>So if you were a corrupt scumbag, who owned a company that provided some of those things and you happened to have fairly powerful lobbyists...</p><p></p><p>What would you do?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 2282914, member: 229"] The biggest problem with the Federal government getting involved in Education standards is the exact same problem with the Federal Government getting involved in anything - contracts, money, and power of that size attract the scum of the earth types who would steal, kill, backstab, and cheat their way into that power. Those same scumbags that happen to already have some money, power, and influence will use that to affect the course of anything the Federal government does - it's why the lobby from a powerful and rich corporate entity is far more important to a congressman/woman than that of average citizen. When those in the government stop opposing lying, cheating, stealing, etc... and open themselves up to the power of lobbyists money/influence/etc... then no hardworking, honest, good people can win over those who are willing to break all the rules to achieve something unless they already have that same money/power and are willing to risk it for their cause. Common Core is only a change in standards - nothing else. Common Core isn't going to do much other than force a vague, hard-to-comprehend change in a system that is already suffering from corruption all on it's own at the state level. But a change in standards drives changes in curriculum (and that means new books, apps, training, websites, smart-boards, teaching-aids, etc.). A change in standards drives changes in testing (and that means new contracts with companies who provide online testing, new computers with greater hardware/software requirements, new study-materials, etc.). A change in standards means a whole bunch of new money to those who provide the products/services that satisfy all of the new standards and requirements. So if you were a corrupt scumbag, who owned a company that provided some of those things and you happened to have fairly powerful lobbyists... What would you do? [/QUOTE]
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