NYC Educator: Top 10 Reasons Common Core Isn't Good for Bill Gates', John King's, Andrew Cuomo's, or Barack Obama's Kids

NYC Educator: Top 10 Reasons Common Core Isn't Good for Bill Gates', John King's, Andrew Cuomo's, or Barack Obama's Kids:

Top 10 Reasons Common Core Isn't Good for Bill Gates', John King's, Andrew Cuomo's, or Barack Obama's Kids

Have you ever seen a guinea pig with a silver spoon in its mouth?

Have you ever wondered why educational reform is supposedly good for most people's children, but not for most of the children of the "reformers"?  Perhaps you've been afraid to ask yourself this question.  Well, I found myself wondering about it the other day.  So, here are my top ten guesses why educational reformers might think their brainy ideas don't merit experimentation upon their own children, only upon other people's children.

10.  Let's start with Rhee who claims she is a "public-school parent"--which according to her definition means one child attends a public school while the other attends a private institution, free from all this reform stuff.  One child must be the statistical control.

9.  Perhaps students in private schools have biological immunity from the Common Core based upon their superior brain power--whilst the rest of the population is highly susceptible to the contagion.

8.  If Common Core really works as posited, one might expect an overwhelming surge in demand from the private schools.  They would succumb to the irresistible force of attraction to the Core, surely stronger than gravity itself.  Perhaps private schools are holding out for the same type of spectacular grants that attracted the states.  Maybe they hope large "bribes" will be placed at their doorsteps?

7.  Perhaps by withholding the smack Common-Core standards from private schools, corporate-minded NYC Educator: Top 10 Reasons Common Core Isn't Good for Bill Gates', John King's, Andrew Cuomo's, or Barack Obama's Kids: