Teachers seem to be mostly against common core (and race to the top for that matter).  It seems that when it comes to health decisions, we ask doctors.  But when it comes to education, we don't ask teachers.  Race to the Top is just No Child Left Behind designed by Obama.


A lot of people favor ideas like merit-based pay, when there's no good way to determine merit.  I mean there's so many things out of the control of teachers, it'd be like judging the quality of a doctor on the BMI of his patients (and he can't turn any patients down).  


We've become obsessed with standardized testing so much, that we forgot that education is supposed to be more than a test.   It's important to have standards.  But students are being over-tested (and often the tests are confusing to the point where people with masters can't do well on them).  


It wouldn't surprise me if many parents weren't against Common Core either.  I'd love to see one of these politicians try to teach in a public school for a year.  Not sure what they could teach though.  Seems like they have trouble with a lot of basic concepts.

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