"... The U.S. Department of Education has just released it's latest ranking of international education systems (Program for International Student Assessment - "PISA") and performance of U.S. students just continues to deteriorate on both absolute and relative terms..." That's what happens when Lefty, "everybody gets a trophy" dogma turns our kids into snowflakes. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-14/education-pisa
I've always been a public school guy. Part of that is because I pay taxes that go towards education, and I want to get my money's worth. Part of it is because I've targeted where to live by good schools. But lately, because of the absolute worthless Common Core program, I've debated putting my kid in private school. I'm going to wait and see what the Trump administration does, as he has stated the desire to get rid of Common Core. I've had several conferences with teachers about this. They all hate it. But they have to teach it.
Sadly, common core is not primarily about education... it's about indoctrination and Lefty brainwashing. I feel sorry for the kids.... feel sorry for us patriot taxpayers, too... having our taxes pay for that horse shit.
Not sure about that. Our teachers are quite conservative (at my son's school) and it's hard to indoctrinate kids into "lefty" thinking with math.
"Common core" math? As for "lefty thinking".... it's a matter of "this is how we say you're to now learn math (arithmetic, actually)"... not that math is Lefty itself. Actually, the teachings of "common core math" are just a phony and convoluted way of doing arithmetic, aren't they? Can common core math be applied to anything bigger than adding up your restaurant bill, if even that? If a kid is forced to learn "math" via common core, how does he apply that to any degree of higher mathematics? Or is "the Lefty prescribed way of doing arithmetic" the ultimate education objective in mathematics for today's kids? IOW... how can you do algebra, trig, calculus and higher with "common core arithmetic" principles? How does common core allow you to solve/understand.... F =ma? Or even more simple..... "My yard is 100 feet long, 100 feet wide. How much lawn fertilizer do I need to buy to cover it?" Can today's kids figure that out? That kind of simple analysis is a valuable thing just to "get along" in life. Can today's kids do that with "common core" teachings?