Proof The Bible Is True

 11/12/19

“Excellent article on Common Core and what a disaster for education it is.”  Admin

I feel like plucking some low-hanging fruit today, and so let’s take a look at Common Core. I’ve written of it before, how it ignores science, how it’s just another excuse to inject more indoctrination into our schools, and how by changing the approach to how mathematics is learned, will further separate the children from their parents, since the latter won’t have a clue how to help their kids with homework using the convoluted new methods.

Predicting the failure of Common Core is about as easy as predicting Epstein’s “suicide” in prison, but now we get to see how well the “new ways of knowing” methods of Common Core are working, but it’s now been 4 years since this idiotic idea was proposed–enough time for a kid go through all of high school, using Common Core as preparation for college.

My own eyeballs tell me something’s gone wrong. Even though the endless cancer treatments make it impossible for me to teach a real class, I still do much free tutoring for the department. The advanced students fresh out of high school can no longer handle fractions unless they have a calculator to do it for them, and the non-advanced students can’t handle fractions even with a calculator. This is just one example of how Common Core has gone a full step lower–before Common Core, the advanced students could add fractions without $50 of electronics to help, for example. And of course, as soon as a kind of fraction pops up which the calculator can’t handle, it’s mental lockdown time for the students. Even arithmetic like “15 divided by 5” has the “A” students needing a calculator now.

But that’s my own eyeballs. How about something less anecdotal.

Read More: Confessions of a College Professor: Common Core Graduates Are The Worst Prepared For College