State GOP group adopts anti-Common Core resolution (Marietta: school, inspection)

[toll_booth]

The Marietta Daily Journal - State GOP group adopts anti Common Core resolution

If someone could come up with a sensible argument for this opposition, I'm all ears. Because I didn't find one in there.

[MattCW]

We're a single, unified country supposedly. I fail to see why it's a bad idea to make sure all people when they become adults have at least been exposed to information necessary to functioning in society. Why should students in Seattle, not know the same things that students down in Miami are taught? This is just another attempt at stirring things up to get their names in media, and to cast the political opposition as some big bad boogeyman.

[cqholt]

The tea party is getting out of hand.

[tikigod311]

I know nothing about this specific program.

But this sounds like it involves a stronger role of the federal government in education. This program sounds very nebulous. This may be a situation where the feds are promising "better education standards" but then adding 2,000 pages of rules and regulations to go along with it.

I don't like it right off the bat due to increased federal power. Knowing their track record, it will probably go over as well as No Child Left Behind. That and the fact that once it gets on a federal level, you will not be able to change or reform it without serious piles of money.

[tikigod311]

Originally Posted by MattCW

We're a single, unified country supposedly.

We really are not supposed to be. What's the point of states if they all have the same laws and standards?

[MattCW]

Ok, fine. Make sure you have your passport ready next time you take your kids down to Disney World in that case and prepare for a 1 hour customs inspection at the state line. What's the point of a country, if it's cut up into completely independent pieces?

[tikigod311]

Originally Posted by MattCW

Ok, fine. Make sure you have your passport ready next time you take your kids down to Disney World in that case and prepare for a 1 hour customs inspection at the state line. What's the point of a country, if it's cut up into completely independent pieces?

Its a union of states - The United States. Part of the union involves agreements such as cross border commerce, free movement, etc. I don't advocate for COMPLETELY independent pieces. But what is the point of states if the federal government does everything?

Tying back to the OP, this may be a good program, but I don't know and I seriously doubt it. On the face of it, it sounds like another one of these BS nebulous programs that has some vague promise in turn for a boatload of new laws and regulations. I am comfortable in assuming that because this has been the M.O. of governments for a long time now.

Create a feel good name with an extremely vague description, but that's only the hook. The sinker is the 2000 + pages of regulations that comes along with it. I never trust a politician's explanation of a bill or program.

[atltechdude]

We desperately need more federal standards in education since the GOP have proven they have a serious aversion to facts and basic tenets of reality in the last few years.

[toll_booth]

Originally Posted by tikigod311

We really are not supposed to be. What's the point of states if they all have the same laws and standards?

Exactly. We need to make sure that there is flexibility of different students to learn different things. For example, Massachusetts may force it's students to believe that 2 + 2 = 4. But Georgia students should have the right to think critically, because 2 + 2 = 4 is a theory, not a fact.

Give me a break. Nothing good has ever come from letting individual school boards set policies. NOTHING.

[MattCW]

There are some things that really should be handled across the country, and basic education is one of them. There should be a little wiggle room, students in Alaska might need to learn wilderness survival, while students in Georgia don't, but students in both states should still know the same world history, same math, and same science and be able to read and write proper English. For all but the English, the same could actually be said for the entire world, but let's focus on what we can control for now.