Somehow I missed this post- but that was going on way back when I was in Jr/Sr High school- a student would get 'partial credit' for doing a math problem correctly even if he/she got the answer wrong. The next 'doozie' the teacher came up with was having kids use calculators in the classroom. After reading your post I checked out 'this core stuff'- I wouldn't make it through the 3rd grade.
If you asked any of those people do they think they are intelligent and well educated they would say yes. It is a sad state when we have reached that point. Celebrities Always Know Best
This new education says that if you are the majority you need to feel guilty and if you are the minority you need to feel empowered and they do everything to push that
I must live in another world because what I am hearing from the educational system is getting so crazy that I want my world back. Universities are now getting so politico correct that students using He, She, Mankind, and other terms are considered sexist and you will be penalized in your exams if you use them. These universities funded by the government your tax dollars at work making a crazy world.
Don't surprise me none at all. The flock of fools only support free speech if its their speech (or speech of those they agree with). Let Michael Moore try to give a lecture on campus, and all the rabid conservatives come to shout him down and disrupt the meeting. Let Ann Coulter try to give a lecture at a university, and all the rabid liberals are in attendance to shout her down and disrupt the meeting. This doesn't surprise me none, as I have been watching the 'dumbing down of America' since around the 1970's, and watching it spread to other countries too. The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America (ISBN:978-0966707113) The Underground History of American Education, Volume I: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling (978-0998919102) https://www.charismanews.com/opinio...-prove-the-dumbing-down-of-america-has-worked https://wakeup-world.com/2016/10/24...7-ways-the-ruling-elite-are-making-us-dumber/ My Granny used to say that 'common sense' was an endangered species. I suspect its now 99% extinct, and we should get 'general intelligence' added to the ESA List.
I love Mark Dice when he does interviews in the street. All these people who, if asked would say their are intelligent turn out to be idiots. Mark has a lot of videos on youtube showing this
I knew nothing about "core" stuff til I just did a google search (thanks for the tip). I found this: https://www.usnews.com/news/special...ticles/2014/03/04/common-core-myths-and-facts http://www.corestandards.org/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...58260e3940a0_blog.html?utm_term=.1505ee2a69e6 https://www.rethinkingschools.org/articles/the-problems-with-the-common-core Frankly, I still don't know what to think after reading all this, other than the public school system stank like 3-day old roadkill when I was in it, and it don't look like its gotten any better in the forty-some years since.