Hat tip Campus Reform and John Speedie for audio
That's what New Hampshire's Granite State College teacher David Pook told an audience in explaining the glories of the Common Core curriculum.
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5632
If you are wondering what white privilege is, let me try to explain because that's the new buzz phrase being used on university campuses these days. It's what you say when you can't prove white racism or white discrimination. You just say, "white privilege'. It's much like when you can't prove Global Warming, you just scream, "Climate Change".
Works every time.
David Pook is an idiot (if he is being accurately represented here).
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen any evidence that the content of Common Core lives up to his expectations.
I'm dubious about "common standards" in the first place, because states aren't meant to be carbon copies of each other, and education isn't a one size fits all matter that can be reduced to a series of discrete elements.
Once upon a time, educational standard made sure that teachers were literate, competent in math, had some basic human relations skills, because one room school houses across the country (and urban schools) had been filled with anyone available rather than anyone of basic competence. But there is only so much "standards" can do to get children taught properly.
One good teacher is worth a thousand standards, and a really good teacher incorporates so many nuances, intangibles, and imponderables, you just have to thank God for one when you find them -- or fire them, depending on your point of view.