The Common Core is a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy (ELA). These learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade. The standards were created to ensure that all students graduate from high school with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life, regardless of where they live.
(corestandards.org)
You’d think only flat-earth conservatives would oppose testing to ensure students meet these standards. After all, they would even swear on the Holy Bible that evolution is junk science, but creationism (rebranded as intelligent design) is scientific fact.
Yet, in their provincial opposition to Common Core standards, these conservatives have common cause with anti-vaxer liberals. Of course, these liberals would swear on the Yoga Bible (yes, there is such a thing) that meditation, not medication, eradicated polio.
These strange bedfellows are all idiots. The only thing that concerns me about them is that they’re rearing innocent children to live by the misguided notion that it’s better to have beliefs, no matter how ignorant, than to know facts, no matter how informed.
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