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jcd writes:
"The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the primary backer for the inBloom educational grading and service (which also acts as a platform for third-party applications), is catching flak for its role in encouraging the outsourcing of US Education. The article (cited by RMS today) argues that though the Common Core is a scary new concept that takes power away from state and local school governance, the real danger is allowing corporate enterprises to have so much control over our classrooms. The Washington Post also reports a case where Pearson included corporate logos and promotional materials inside its test booklets."
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Khyber on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:20PM
"the Common Core is a scary new concept that takes power away from state and local school governance, the real danger is allowing corporate enterprises to have so much control over our classrooms."
I remember seeing within the past two weeks a post of some sorts on another site from a parent that was pissed at the golden arches being used as a corporate promotional tool.
Quite honestly, I'd be pissed, too. Not only from a parent standpoint, but from a business owner standpoint. This provides extremely unfair impressionable advantage upon our children with regards to knowing one sign versus another in regards to food advertising.
This should simply not be allowed. No McDonalds, Burger King, Whataburger, In-N-Out, or any fast food place proven to be bad for our health should be allowed to advertise in our schools. PERIOD. Nor their parent companies (like Taco Bell owns Pepsi.)
To do so is the fault of the parents, and in my opinion, they should be charged with criminal neglect if they allow their children to eat this garbage more than once a week. If they can afford this, they can afford to make a more nutritional meal for their children. Damn the excuse "I don't have time" because if you truly didn't have time you shouldn't have had a child to feed, and thus you failed in practicing logical birth control, plus likely you didn't think in the first place.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Sir William on Wednesday February 19 2014, @12:49AM
The common core was developed by a cooperative of the states. You may make the argument that it takes away local control, but not state control as the states developed it and each state chooses to adopt it or not.
In a separate issue is local control good? Do we have local control of medical standards or do we let people who study medicine and are educated about the field make decisions about what is best practice.
(Score: 1) by dmc on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:10AM
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Damn the excuse "I don't have time" because if you truly didn't have time you shouldn't have had a child to feed, and thus you failed in practicing logical birth control, plus likely you didn't think in the first place.
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While I agree with the idealistic animosity of much/all of your comment, I'll criticize. Short of some fascist/tyrannical dream including total state control of reproduction, your sentiment will never get anybody anywhere. People failing logical birth control is how humanity progresses through time. It'd be wonderful if it wasn't the case. It is worthwhile to calmly do your best to nudge things toward it not being the case. But it's the case. I suggest that if you really want to see the world become a better place, you come to terms with it, instead of just damning it for all the good that will do anyone. While I certainly don't have the answers, I'm quite certain your attitude of damnation isn't going to get anything improved either.
(Score: 1) by nukkel on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:21AM
Most people hate to think, so yeah.