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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Common Core and Education Reform: Why Can't Billy Divide?
 
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Dec 22, 2003

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Cantorsdust posted:

Arithmetic is perfect for a computer: it requires perfect accuracy but no thought. So why are we making children focus on arithmetic instead of math?
Because what is desired from these students is accuracy, but no thought, I guess. Of course, that implies there's some kind of a goal here, and I'm pretty sure that at no point was any of this actually designed from the top down to accomplish these goals, they are just side effects of a desire to "do more with less" (by very strictly defining what is more (higher test scores) and what is less (costs).)

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the boston bomber posted:

The teachers in my family are convinced common core is just an elaborate way to close down public schools and gut the teacher's unions so we can have non-union charter schools. Maybe someone who knows more about it can say whether this is at all accurate or not.
I would amend it to say that the goal is to turn the money going into public schools and teacher's salaries etc. into a private revenue stream, where presumably the same money would go in, and a vaguely similar quantity of schooling would occur, but private parties would be able to take a certain percentage out as profits. It is also considered politically desirable to undermine one of the few remaining bastions of organized labor, because organized labor is to these guys like Superman is to Lex Luthor: Even if it isn't doing a single goddamn thing to hurt them, and is arguably helping them, it still must be destroyed.

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