Tweeter Doesn’t Like Living in an Educational Oligarchy….But….What Can You Do?
Twitter update: I was in a conversation on why I am against common core with a person who agreed that the adoption of Common Core set up an oligarchy and even though he/she didn’t like living in an oligarchy, he/she didn’t agree that by living in an oligarchy of non-governmental organizations directing public education was enough reason to be anti-Common Core.
He/she tweeted that ‘system is failing, someone needs to step in’. I observed ‘And there’s your conundrum. Who gets to decide who the ‘someone’ is? And ‘who’ decides failure?’
The tweeter erroneously responded it is up to Congress to provide answers to those two questions. According to this tweeter, Congress should be the arbitrator determining educational programs and educational success. It is not within the power of Congress to decide who the someone is to set education policy, nor is it Congress who should be deciding failure. These are the responsibilities of the states, not Congress. How long has it been since Civics was taught in the schools? Congress approved of the disastrous No Child Left Behind and the tweeter wants to support CCSSI that has been described as “NCLB on Steroids”?
The US Department of Education and Arne Duncan were quite creative in the continuing Federal foray into educational reform. In the creation of Common Core, Congress did not directly Tweeter Doesn’t Like Living in an Educational Oligarchy….But….What Can You Do? | Missouri Education Watchdog: