I don't know that. It was back in 1970 that I was indirectly working with the arson investigation team of the CDF in Riverside County, California. That's is where I came in contact with the FBI (holding the CIA guys leash) and their investigation of espionage/counterespionage by a soviet operative (SFO USSR consulate) in the USA. I'm pretty sure CC was honored by Fidel Castro down in Cuba,
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I'm not that familiar with Khan Academy, but they seem to be in lock-step with Common Core.

https://www.khanacademy.org/about/our-co...

I also ask why is marine corp boot camp run like kintergarten? Why are we brainwashing kids to take orders and micro managing them from day one?

Where the government falls short is trying to solve a problem through paternalism. The key to improving society is through entertainment. It is no secret that children are addicted to videogames and have 4 seconed attention spans. The result is the student cannot learn because they are too distracted and teachers are unable to keep students from being bored. That said we should shift to practical education and less theoretical. Kids naturaly want to learn but our soceity devalues education hence the riddicule of nerds. Show them math and let them build a virtual building with their theory instead of multiple choice testing. There are home schooled children who are capable of handling college theory by freshman year. Reading a text book and regurgitating its conents is not learning. Teaching children to follow orders is not learning. Give them problems with ability to freely solve them. I played chess all through high school because i was philosophical in nature and new highschool was nonsense i had friends go to college by taking their ged and dropping out their junior year. One of the students was already a reporter for our city news paper while going to high school. Its our soceities lack of respect and honor of education that is the problem. Its the inibility for teachers to teach that is the problem.

Thanks for the reply. Guess I'll stop eating lettuce. I have not read any of Chavez history. Any idea if he actually visited/went to Russia like many of the communist tools here in America?

My second-oldest daughter just started high school and is in an advanced algebra class (think pre-trig). We looked at one of her assignments and had to really struggle to figure out that the question just wanted her to find Greatest Common Factors because the wording they were using was so round-about as to be completely obtuse.

Mathematics is only as complicated as you want to make it, people. The best mathematics teachers and professors I ever had were those who explained things in the simplest terms. Intentionally obfuscating the meanings of simple principles by couching them in other terms is reprehensible to the knowledge seeker.

"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. Short story but one of the best pieces of sci-fi I ever read.

I'll have to disagree with you (pun), just listen to these professionals. What they are doing is criminal to say the least. This is one of my favorite videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QBv2CFT...

This is not new.It just wasn't as focused as Common Core. When my kids were young they experienced what I called "anti-teaching." Stick to the plan no matter what and if you showed a spark of ingenuity, you had to be "fixed." Can I give you an example? I'll try to abbreviate it as much as possible.

I was thinking of a teaching career in what was then called "special education." These were what today we would call special needs kids. I quickly realized that teaching them the three R's wasn't going to work. Instead I worked on how to make change from a dollar. How and when to get off and on a bus. How to be polite. The principle wrote me up for not following the lesson plan. There's more to the story, but that's the essence of it. I never became a teacher. In later years I did a little research on public schools and was appalled by what I discovered Common Core is merely the government supporting that principle so long ago.

That's what Mozart and Beethoven are doing now.

If you are serious, boy, are you on the wrong forum!

A dumbed down citizenry is a more easily controlled citizenry. Past dumbing down has already produced socialist fruit. Obama was not only elected but reelected president.
What has this proven to our socialist elite? It would be really beneficial to their cause (of control) if more of us were dumbed down some more.
Hence such nifty tools as Common Core.

Rand regarded Reagan as not particularly intellectual, from what I remember. Around 1970 she was asked about possible presidential candidates, and her reply was an astonished exclamation, "Ronald Reagan??!!??" As in, "You've got to be kidding."

Unless these thugs set your small business on fire and burn your packing sheds to the ground like Chavez's thugs did. Then it gets personal. Sort of like the businesses destroyed in Ferguson, MO. Not a lot of spice there, but i do get your point, wired1
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Tell us/describe this "practical math." Is that the stuff where the correct answer doesn't matter so long as you get the wrong answer using the methods accepted by the politbureau?

Yes he did, just like all the other "ruling proletariat" in mother Russia... and he was KGB.
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Bless you for doing that. But....will this "label" your daughter as a troublemaker.? If so, the struggle would likely make her stronger.

Yes all schools should be privately owned, non-unionized, and non-government regulated. It is going to require a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to get there.

Chavez had a chauffeur???

The US military does not reject volunteers for math skills.
US elected "public servants" treat US soldiers with very little respect and send them to die without learning from history of the region or considering the constituionality.
Before you pull the trigger, make sure your sights are on the proper target, wired1.

Living in LA has to be interesting at best.
Perhaps you can allow her to flee to the middle of the country for a summer or two in one of our "gulches" when she is a bit older.
The experience will teach her life skills that she won't get elsewhere.

Regarding online education I just have to mention a sight we are extremely happy with: https://www.khanacademy.org/. With two children on opposite ends of the educational spectrum it allows for them to go at their own pace and truly learn.

Lets get beyond the 'Thugs', or rather, who is behind them. There is not much "business" without strife, the pot must simmer, never boil over into large conflict. Small bushfire actions keep business spicy.

Military equals stupid? Freedom without a military? freedom for all is at the cemetery, y'all are free to decompose