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The Spectacle Blog
The Common Core standards, and the Obamites’ hijacking thereof, will soon explode into a big issue, I predict. Here’s an explanation. More here:
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is trying to repeal her state’s participation in Common Core: “Just as we should not relinquish control of education to the Federal government, neither should we cede it to the consensus of other states,” Haley wrote. “Our children deserve swift action and the passage of a clean resolution that will allow our state to reclaim control of and responsibility for educating South Carolinians.”
It is now a hot topic here in Alabama. I served as MC for a candidates’ forum last night at the University of Mobile, and the hottest dispute involved just this issue, which is the central battle in a state school board race. I was interviewed on it here.
This is important.
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Floyd Looney | 3.2.12 @ 3:40PM
Public schools are leftwing indoctrination centers, all of them. Look at the way they teach history and english, nothing but leftwing brainwashing. That doesn't even get us into so-called "sex-ed"
RJ| 3.2.12 @ 3:48PM
Centralization is often a curse when it comes to progress and unfortunately America has become more centralized and constricted in recent years. I find the following observation by Jared Diamond to be of great interest:
"In fact, precisely because Europe was fragmented, Columbus succeeded on his fifth try in persuading one of Europe’s hundreds of princes to sponsor him. Once Spain had thus launched the European colonization of America, other European states saw the wealth flowing into Spain and six more joined in colonizing America. … These consequences of Europe’s disunity stand in sharp contrast to those of China’s unity. From time to time the Chinese court decided to halt other activities besides overseas navigation: it abandoned development of an elaborate water-driven spinning machine, stepped back from the verge of an industrial revolution in the 14th Century, demolished or virtually abolished mechanical clocks after leading the world in clock construction, and retreated from mechanical devices and technology in general after the late 15th century." (page 413 of Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond)
JJ| 3.3.12 @ 12:23PM
Top down, centralized organizations fail. It is an obsolete concept in this age of instant communications. It creates massive inefficiences and is unmanageable. Obama is in the wrong century. He still thinks this is the industrial revolution. He would have been happier with Trotsky.
Oldefarte| 3.2.12 @ 9:37PM
If/until public education is returned to the control of the states [and purged from the federal government's control] will there ever be a chance in hades of ever improving its dismal status. Additionally its teacher unions [like all labor unions] must be eliminated, and replaced by a merit pay system entirely. Democrats historically have used the public schools as racism tools to maintain minority mostly educational inferiority status so that they dependence upon Democratic supplied welfare benefits can be granted in return for their votes. It all has to stop, and Republican should lead the charge on this!!!!
JJ| 3.3.12 @ 12:21PM
Why the states? Traditionally they were in the control of local school boards not the state. GOP gave us "no child left behind in the first place" They are not going to lead any charge.
Oldefarte| 3.4.12 @ 5:20PM
Ever heard of the STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION? I and many others have indicated returning control to the state since they are the best ones to handle administration of same. What are you going to have 5000 etc local school boards within a state administrating differently and not uniformely within a state? Different counties within a state have varying degrees of revenue and therefore unequal school funding [and discriminatory results from same].....so you favor discrimination? A state control of same would insure uniformity of funding between counties wouldn't it? If memory serves me, the US Constitution signifies administration between the federal government and those of the individual states, and generally says that those powers not specifically enumerated to the federal states residually belongs to the states [does it not?]. Therefore if the power of administration is deleted/eliminated from the federal government, does it not also therefore go to the states to control same? Since a state government controls the operations of individual counties within that state, should not therefore the state have corresponding control over individual counties' or local school boards?????????
JJ| 3.3.12 @ 12:20PM
Mark me down as one who believes we should end public schooling. What would replace it would be far, far better.
RJ| 3.3.12 @ 2:21PM
Based on our experience with public schooling, I think you are right. The community schools (not really government operated) in the prairies in the mid to late 1800s did a remarkable job with limited resources and McGuffey Readers. Our experience with big, expanded government has given us a corrupt and dictatorial government. To restore educational quality, we certainly need to reduce the role of government. More private schools, the better.
Oldefarte| 3.4.12 @ 5:25PM
I would agree with your opinion partially in that the federal government has made a disaster of public education, The answer is to transform public education into what it should be. This is dones by [1] eliminating labor unions from public education [2] eliminating all incompetitent teachers, promoting the competitent and superior ones and tripling their salaries [3] eliminating illegal immigrants access to public education [4] install a competitent teacher at the front of every classroom and a 350 MONITOR WITH A BASEBALL BAT at the rear of same. Public education thereafter would be improved and not have to be eliminated within 6-12 months thereafter!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 3.4.12 @ 5:26PM
Correction: a 350 pound monitor!!!!
Jeff Perren| 3.3.12 @ 1:47PM
All public education should be phased out, starting with a swift closure of the Federal Dept of Ed, for which there is no Constitutional authority.
Beyond that, the only way to cure the problems of education is to get the government out of it. Failing that, communities and states will continue to argue in unwinnable battles that this or that should be taught or not taught. Private education permits choice, just as private health care would.
Socialism, most of all in education, is bad.