Common Core Tries to Buy a Senate Seat
by Erick Erickson
July 17th, 2020Millions of American parents have always heard conservatives complaining about Common Core, but never understood until they had to homeschool their kids in the last few months. Five thousand years of doing math one way are out the window thanks to corporate innovation, greed from textbook publishers, and an interest in having good little automatons who can work for the Fortune 500 without competing against them.
Common Core is so bad that even Disney poked fun at it in Incredibles 2 where Mr. Incredible vents, “Math is math!†The whole concept of Common Core math is ridiculous and states have been throwing it out largely due to parents in revolt.
Well, the Fortune 500 loves Common Core. At its heart is an easily understandable concept. In a highly mobile society, a kid who moves from California to Florida should be roughly at the same place in both places in math and reading. The problem is Common Core devalues fundamentals, ridicules traditional learning, and derisively indoctrinates kids that their parents learned “grandma math,†among other things.
<..snip..>
https://theresurgent.com/2020/07/17/common-core-tries-to-buy-a-senate-seat/
