Arne Duncan Says What?

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What he said last Friday to a group of state superintendents: “White suburban moms” were shocked and upset at the new testing standards of Common Core because “all of a sudden, their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought … and that’s pretty scary.”
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The administration has no limit to their racial division tactics.
 
Not only should it be defunded, it should be abolished. American kids managed to get all the way through school with decent educations before the Dept. of Ed. was established in 1979. It's a total waste of taxpayer money. Education should be handled by the States, not the Fed. government.
 
The Dept. of Education is one reason that younger people today can't find Canada on a map. It's just another failed social engineering project.
 
1. I have always advocated for local control in education. Every federal education program I have seen has been a disaster other than a select few. The ones that are not a disaster involve states/local school districts actually hiring the people and carrying out the mission of the program. Fed involvement from a personel standpoint has always been terrible.

2. Race baiting in this scenario distracts from the acutal message, as it almost always does. I'm guessing that it was a calculated political move.

3. If you dig through the worthless rhetoric, there is some substance to what he is saying. Suburban republican voters have always been for more accountability in the school system. In Texas, we got a massive expansion of state mandated testing that is more difficult than previous tests. Teachers/districts were the first to complain. But, the second group that started complaining was white suburban parents (moms) that thought their little snowflake was a lot smarter than he really is. They also didn't like that little snowflake had to sit through hours of testing. The very next year, many of those end of course exams magically went away. So, we got about two years worth of increased state accountability before the same people that pushed for it decided that they didnt like when it applied to them. Its where NIMBY meets education.
 
If I am speaking about something different, my apology. However, the complaints I hear and voice about those tests are that the entire school year revolves around those tests. Once they are over, the public schools seem to convert into day care systems. I do not fault the teachers as they are probably equally disenfranchised. Throwing race into it is despicable. In my experience, the people complaining (white, black, Hispanic or Asian) are parents who care enough to be involved. Without those parents, the schools would be total failures.
 
I don't disagree with your thoughts in general. But, there were a lot of kids that did well on the easier state tests, then began to struggle when the state made them harder. The suburban helicopter moms that never had a problem with testing suddenly became against it when they saw their kid struggling. It was almost comical how fast the legislature got to work on taking out some of the exams.

Duncan is talking about the Common Core State Standards and how some parents are against it because it might be too difficult for their precious child. I have no idea if that is a common complaint, but it wouldnt surprise me based on the reaction we got to testing in Texas. Anytime suburban kids with involved parents struggle, you can be sure the complaints will roll in.

I don't know enough about the CCSS to comment on them. I only know that Texas is one of five states that hasn't adopted them.
 
typical of the BO admin to inject race
so white suburban moms are paying attention to what goes on in their kids schools and that is explained away by people saying the white moms don't like seeing their little snowflakes not do as well?

Really?
Then what does it say about the black and Hispanic moms whose kids have scored poorly compared to white kids for years and years?
Don't forget DIAS ( only 5% white) lowered passing scores so more students wouldn't fail.

How about we forget the color of the kid and insulting the white suburban Moms and concentrate on getting kids to learn.
 
spider^^^..........Check Yahoo news today and you'll find that Harvard students did not know the Capital of Canada........it's Ottawa, by the way.
 
larry T
I see your point. I notived in your earlier post that you said the teachers were the first to point out the new state tests needed to be changed.
does that mean, do you think, that the teachres complaining think new state tests are too difficult?

I am not in education but I see both sides. without some sort of measurement how do we know a kid had learned and can proceed to the next grade?
OTOH if all we are doing is teaching to the test that doesn't seem to help.

So most of us took end of semester and year tests and had to pass them to move to next grade. with no facts on which to vase this I'd still assert most of us got good public educations.
What changed so drastically that we are in the mess we are in now?
 
Its amazing how liberals inject race into everything. They are obsessed with race. It is truly pathetic.
 
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