Common Core Opponents Accept A Challenge
Gentle reader Becky posted a challenge to opponents of Common Core on a post from Wednesday.
A challenge: I challenge those against Common Core to provide an unbiased, objective reason on WHY you are so against CC (here’s the bonus part) WITHOUT using the words “liberty”, “sovereignty”, “freedom” or “right”. Is that possible?
Several opponents were more than happy to respond to Becky’s challenge. We told them the rules she provided and asked them to keep their response under 500 words. Here are just a few of our favorites.
Is this a trick question? Is being “unbiased” relative? With that being said, I object on a whole host of things but I’m limited on space. #1. I object to CC because I object to “state” or “national” standards owned exclusively by private organizations (I would use the word “copyrighted” but wasn’t sure if that counts against the rules…). So these standards are not governed by the laws of my state which means my voice does not count. They cannot be governed by the laws of my state because the government cannot own {copyrights}. In the introduction of the CC it states, “The Standards are intended to be a living work: as new and better evidence emerges, the Standards will be revised accordingly”. This means that tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, in five years or all of the above the people who OWN the standards can change the language of the standards and they don’t have to ask anyone, not a single teacher, administrator, parent, expert anywhere has to weigh in. If the organizations decide that new “evidence” emerges that fish can fly they can change the standards to reflect that. If it is included on the assessment test, teachers will teach it. There is danger in this because new “evidence” emerges all the time to disprove the ”evidence” produced the day before. One day eggs are good for you, the next day eggs are bad for you
