Teacher arrested

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Tom@Hilltop_Machine

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A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a calculator.
At a morning press conference, Attorney General Eric Holder said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.
"Al-Gebra is a problem for us," the Attorney General said. "They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values. They use secret code names like "X" and "Y" and refer to themselves as "unknowns" but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country." As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Obama said, "If Allah had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes." White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President. It is believed that another Nobel Prize will follow.
 
Luckily our commander in chief has developed a defense against this movement, called common core. What I'm seeing in our elementary schools, common core is obliterating any foundation where this algebra movement can take shape, so we will see the al-gebra movement die out.
 
RenegadeT said:
Luckily our commander in chief has developed a defense against this movement, called common core. What I'm seeing in our elementary schools, common core is obliterating any foundation where this algebra movement can take shape, so we will see the al-gebra movement die out.
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No shit.

I had to sign a paper for Lane (my 7th grade son...taking algebra 1) he made a 95.
The one question he missed :

5x - 3 = 22
Write the value for X and explain in sentence form how you calculated your answer DO NOT SHOW WORK IN NUMERIC FORM.

His answer: X = 5 because. In order to solve for X I first added three to each side and determined that 5X equaled twenty-five. Next I divided both side of the equation by five and the determined that X equals 5.

WRONG...the entire question.

Why?

Because he wrote side instead of sides. He knew the difference it was a careless error. But because his grammar was incorrect his entire math problem was wrong. Hopefully they let him use a calculator on his english test...
 
I think I'm a pretty open minded fella. I feel that I can look at things from many points of view in order to see how someone could comprehend any given idea. But it absolutely baffles the fuck out of me how anyone can think that turning a simple math problem into a 3,4, 5 step process is a good idea.

It irritates me daily to help my kids do this so they can get a good grade. I have actually made them do one more step on their math homework. Doing it the right way on the side if their paper after they do the common core BS form.
 
This is where parents need to stand together and not do this bullshit. Go to the teachers, administrators, Board of Education, Lt. Governor's office (Dan Forrest is not a fan of common core), etc. If everyone stands by and passively goes along with this crap we'll never stand a chance of getting rid of it.

Go to stopcommoncorenc.org for a good starting point.
 
Stopping common core is fine, but you'd be better off taking another two steps back and scrapping the entire Prussian educational system.
 
mbalbritton said:
Explain?
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The educational system as we know it today in the US is based on the "Prussian" model. US educators (Horace Mann, in particular) in the mid-19th century modeled a new, uniform educational system after what was then being used in Prussia. The King of Prussia was interested in reinforcing his power and establishing a large pool of qualified factory workers, so emphasis was placed both on teaching basic knowledge (and national standard testing to verify progress) as well as teaching students to be obedient and disciplined. Classes began and ended with the bell (just like at the factory), they were taught not to question authority, etc. The goal was to mold children in such a way so that they wouldn't have a will of their own, except for whatever will the educators thought they should have.

Mann gets a lot of credit - and rightfully so - for establishing standard training systems for teachers, creating compulsory elementary schools where children were divided by age, not by social status or wealth, etc. But we don't need to be indoctrinating compliant, obedient little factory workers anymore. Children need to be encouraged to be dynamic, hard working, to question dogma, to research and to create. Not to sit quietly for six hours a day while some "educator" tries to teach the "new math".

Common core is just a symptom of a terribly broken system.
 
Not coincidentally, the modern "progressive" movement traces its roots to Prussia from roughly the same period. The idea of the Constitution as a "living" document, of progress for progress' sake, rejection of both the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian visions of the rugged individual "common man", etc. The Prussian model is more interested in the masses being guided by "their betters" for the benefit of both groups (and the creation of a massive social welfare system to protect the lower classes from themselves). Prussia was where Wilson and Roosevelt were picking up a lot of their ideas.
 
mbalbritton said:
Ya, I know what it is. But you don't think basic schooling should be required?
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No, that's not what I said at all.

I think the Prussian model is fundamentally flawed and should be scrapped. Then I explained why.
 
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