Public education is biting us back. Schoolteachers can’t be trusted with children, having been indoctrinated in John Dewey socialism and worse. They certainly can’t teach because they are too busy with political correctness and socialist/post modernist/relativist brainwashing.
The battle over common core is important.
Michelle Malkin, an insightful essayist and activist.
http://www.aim.org/guest-column/school-choice-and-common-core-mortal-enemies/print/
Mary Grabar, PhD English U of Georgia, makes the connection with the Terrorist, now pedagogue promoting common core and other socialist programs in the schools, Bill Ayers who was a terrorist with the weathermen but then got a respectable academic job like so many of the creepy anarachists.
Ayers is a Ed professor at the U of Illinois, has a friend in the White House, and is famous for saying guilty as hell free as a bird, America is a great country.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/guilty_as_hell_free_as_a_bird_1.html
Here is Grabar’s essay:
http://www.aim.org/special-report/terrorist-professor-bill-ayers-and-obamas-federal-school-curriculum/
Reblogged this on Edonurwayup's Blog and commented:
Ayers=pedagogue=oxymoron.
I concur. Statists always overlook the biggest advantage of decentralized policy. The potential for concurrent experimentation allows us to see what works and what doesn’t much faster. The conspiracy theorist in me suspects the statists want to eliminate competitive policies exactly because they know their ideas don’t stack up.
Political epithets like communist, socialist, and fascist have lost their true meanings and are little more than dirty words to call your opponent. The concept of the political spectrum is nothing more than a farce to create the archetypal “other”. The political class pretends to choose sides to keep us divided and bickering over unimportant issues. The only solutions offered by either side is ever-increasing power for the politicians. The only real political struggle is between those who desire the imposition of will and those who value the practice of freedom.
As for common core, the whole policy is nothing more sinister than typical crony capitalism. The winners are clearly the companies that are going to get paid to provide the entire nation’s school supplies. The socialist/communist invasion of public school succeeded decades ago.
I don’t disagree with what you say at all. I wasn’t focusing on the question of whether some national curriculum was just a bad idea anyway, but how this imposed curriculum was a disaster. Whatever I was doing, it was intended to introduce the Malkin and Grabar essays, which get into the weeds on the curriculum and methods of Common Core. I just wanted to add my note of outrage that the curriculum is all Dewey socialism and postmodernist nuttiness and a dedicated violent commie had a big role in the formulation of the curriculum. Ayers fancies himself a pedagogue’s pedagogue.
You and i agree that a national curriculum as imposed with Common Core is fundamentally a bad idea. I have already exercised myself enough on the fatal conceit. We are joined at the hip on opposing the mistake of the centrally planned administrative state. Capice?
I subscribe to this blog via RSS because you are a very smart guy with a lot of interesting and clever things to say.
However, this particular blog rates as “smart, smart, stupid”.
The problem with the common core curriculum is not that it is socialist. Even if the common core were rabidly free market it would be inappropriate for raising education standards because there are bound to be deficiencies in the program as in any program. If a single state or group of states imposes upon communities a poorly conceived curriculum, parents have the option of moving elsewhere, or the state can observe a neighbor state that does it better.
But a national program is by its nature a risky program merely because it is national, merely because mistakes become harder to recognize and harder to fix.
Besides, the US Constitution must have reserved some rights and obligations to the states and surely education is a state matter, not a federal matter in the USA as it is in Canada..
There are plenty of bad ideas that are neither capitalist nor socialist and a national common core curriculum is one of them.
The federal government can support education by making financial contributions, but those contributions should be considered tainted if they come with strings, provisions that impose federal policies as conditions for financial support.
The whole point of a federal system of government is that the Federal Government does not always know best. The imposition of a core curriculum for any reason represents a further move towards a unitary state by usurping the prerogatives of state governments.
Legal it may be, but the core curriculum tends to undermine a fundamental principle upon which the US Constitutional was framed.