I have very little respect for people who oppose Common Core. It's one of those things where opposition signals that you're an ignorant who is easily swayed by rambling conspiracy theorists on the Internet.
Yea, because let's just take away the rights of students and teachers to learn at that classroom's pace. Because the government is better than the teacher in judging her students and what they need to learn. Standardized Testing is also BS, because you spend months studying for a test, while learning nothing.
Concerns about "teaching the test" are so stupid. Every test has to be taught for. Or do you propose testing people on random information they never learned? Or do you oppose tests in general? How will we know if people are qualified or not, if we just give everyone a gold star for attendance.
Actually they are extraordinarily legitimate concerns. Schools that teach to a test learn absolutely nothing. America is at a loss for critical thought. The vast majority of honors students have little ability to analyze anything in depth, fail to intuitively understand what they are actually doing (just repeatedly following "a process"), and are very poor at developing original and creative thoughts. The education system is a joke, and it is
because we give everyone a gold star for attendance. That's what these tests do. Even in college, grade inflation had made getting an A absolutely meaningless. People don't know how to think in the abstract. Only to repeat exactly as they are shown. And I ironically repeat - that is just the elite students. Can you imagine the other 95%?
(Please note, this is not necessarily an indictment of the thread topic.)
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