Dumb Things Said By Real People
This is so trivial... but it's been sticking in my craw for a few days. A downstate principal opines:
It's a dumb statement. There is no factual basis for the claim that the Common Core standards are going to do a good job of anything, particularly in the area of having students think about how they're thinking. Nobody can
“I think the Common Core standards are going to do a good thing in having our students think about how they’re thinking, rather than regurgitating what comes out of the test books,” said Mable Woolsey Elementary School Principal Tara Bahnks.I realize people find themselves talking to the press and then these phrases simply fly out of their mouths, and I realize that this principal isn't protected by any kind of codified due process and therefore has to toe the company line, but still...
It's a dumb statement. There is no factual basis for the claim that the Common Core standards are going to do a good job of anything, particularly in the area of having students think about how they're thinking. Nobody can
