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2016-08-26 Home Front: Politix

A Hundred Years of Reducing Standards - The History of the AFT

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Probably should be listed under 'culture wars'... but I'll spare you my reasons, other than to say it's not just education that has 'reduced the standards.'

Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-26 07:07|| 2016-08-26 07:07|| Front Page Top

#2 I recall in the 70s how 'standards' suddenly became racist. Let's just say the Asian community for some reason were not in the vanguard of that movement.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-08-26 08:15|| 2016-08-26 08:15|| Front Page Top

Standards? Who needs standards ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-26 08:39|| 2016-08-26 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 @#1: Agreed, maybe we could also include the media and the parents ->"friends" metamorphosis. These aside, ~~indoctrination centers~~ schools, imho, provide the drumbeat from which the others derive their dances.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-08-26 12:37|| 2016-08-26 12:37|| Front Page Top

#5 But what about Common Core?

My wife just retired from teaching Kindergarten in large part because of the new "standards" that require 5 year olds to have daily homework and play time is cut dramatically.

Posted by AlanC 2016-08-26 13:26|| 2016-08-26 13:26|| Front Page Top

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