Betsy DeVos: Common Core is Dead

[Rustic]

Yet some more common core...

 

[Leo123]

Naw, I'm not jealous. I don't compare myself with others. However, $300 a day for a teacher is outrageous. Parents that home school do a good job usually and they're not paid at all. They sacrifice by staying home.

I home schooled both of my kids. They could learn in one day what it took a week to do in public school. They participated in sports, had lots of friends and were able to learn first hand from our many field trips. I will say that they were in public school for a few years before that. Home school is not for everybody but for us, it worked out well. We were assigned a teacher and followed school curriculum otherwise they would not qualify for graduation.

 

[Rustic]

This kid just committed Suicide...

 

[Rustic]

Naw, I'm not jealous. I don't compare myself with others. However, $300 a day for a teacher is outrageous. Parents that home school do a good job usually and they're not paid at all. They sacrifice by staying home.

I home schooled both of my kids. They could learn in one day what it took a week to do in public school. They participated in sports, had lots of friends and were able to learn first hand from our many field trips. I will say that they were in public school for a few years before that. Home school is not for everybody but for us, it worked out well. We were assigned a teacher and followed school curriculum otherwise they would not qualify for graduation.

No doubt, my girls are way ahead of their peers in public school.

 

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[Rustic]

Naw, I'm not jealous. I don't compare myself with others. However, $300 a day for a teacher is outrageous. Parents that home school do a good job usually and they're not paid at all. They sacrifice by staying home.

I home schooled both of my kids. They could learn in one day what it took a week to do in public school. They participated in sports, had lots of friends and were able to learn first hand from our many field trips. I will say that they were in public school for a few years before that. Home school is not for everybody but for us, it worked out well. We were assigned a teacher and followed school curriculum otherwise they would not qualify for graduation.

No doubt, my girls are way ahead of their peers in public school.

And they are not being indoctrinated into political correctness...

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You're vastly overpaid. I made a good living and worked hard in factories as a printer and machine adjuster until physically unable, then paid my way through medical transcription school, taught myself to type, worked in the medical field for 15 years, then retired. Doing just fine. How's my punctuation, teacher.

I hear ya....I was a factory worker for 30 years then started my own business which I still work at. Only in America.

Yep, and we worked hard for everything we have. These statists are way overpaid and show disdain for taxpayers that work every day, not just 9 months.

Ah, so we have fallen back on the old 9 month myth and the overpaid teacher myth. I don't get paid if I don't work. Do you get paid when you go on vacation like most people do? Not me! If you run your own business, do you close for your vacations and never make a dime?

I get maybe 6 weeks off in the summer. That is payback for the normal 14+ hour days during the week at least another 8 on the weekends.

I still don't see what this has to do with your not knowing that Common Core "died" over 2 years ago.

Yes, you do get paid when you don't work. You have sick pay and you can arrange to have your pay spread over 12 months. My wife is a teacher's aide. She works in the Public School system and hates common core.

Sick pay? Yeah, taking off from school is harder than going into work and just suffering through it. I had about 50 days saved up when I left teaching. Guess how much I get for it? Nothing! Not a dime.

Spreading my pay over 12 months has nothing to do with it. I give the school board an interest free loan on my pay that gets held back. That is hwy my pay seems so high per day, but works out to only $50,000 a year and I only net about $35,000. My wife makes almost that much in her job which requires a high school diploma.

I'll bet she hates the curriculum and THAT is not Common Core. Has anything changed in the last two school years since Common Core died? I'll bet it hasn't!

 

[Rustic]

I just hate the idea that these public schools and the federal government think they know what’s better for people’s kids... Common core is the gateway to indoctrination

 

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[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Yes, you do get paid when you don't work. You have sick pay and you can arrange to have your pay spread over 12 months. My wife is a teacher's aide. She works in the Public School system and hates common core.

I think teachers are way underpaid in the first place. They hold the future of our Republic in their hands.

I support teachers of all kinds, but I do not support the Federal DOE. I support charter schools and home schooling.

Super! However, if you knew the dirty little secret about charter schools, you might change your mind. But that's another discussion entirely.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I just hate the idea that these public schools and the federal government think they know what’s better for people’s kids... Common core is the gateway to indoctrination

You are always welcome to place them elsewhere.

 

[Leo123]

And they are not being indoctrinated into political correctness...

Good for you. I wish more parents would home school but, unfortunately, schools have become a babysitter for parents who work and can't watch their kids at home. They put the kids on the bus and pick them up after school. Public schools have become warehouses for kids. IMO

 

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[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

More common core...

No. That's how the Common Core haters get confused between standards and curriculum. That is a curriculum issue. The standard would be: The student will be able to calculate the area of a geometric figure in one plane.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Not any more! Ha ha!

Good. Whatever you were getting paid was more than you're worth.

I made over $300 a day. That's about $50.00 an hour. Now, I will sit back and soak up my retirement while working in a low stress job of my choosing.

How about you, sunshine?

You're vastly overpaid. I made a good living and worked hard in factories as a printer and machine adjuster until physically unable, then paid my way through medical transcription school, taught myself to type, worked in the medical field for 15 years, then retired. Doing just fine. Never took a dime from the state, but paid my taxes that paid your wages. How's my punctuation, teacher.

I am overpaid? I pay for my own retirement. I don't get paid when we are on breaks, If I go on vacation, so does everyone else and the airfare triples so if I want to see my granddaughter it costs me a grand or more in airfare that would normally be a few hundred. I pay for part of my own medical, my life insurance, and any other benefits I want come out of my pocket. I spent 9 years in college after high school, and paid for all of my certification tests and licenses. I worked countless hours for no pay for faculty meetings, professional development training (24 hours per year) parent-teacher conferences, selling tickets at sporting events, and chaperoning proms.

I think you are getting a bargain considering that $300 a day is what forced me to retire. Although I am nowhere close to the top of the pay scale, no one will hire me when they can hire two cases of fresh meat out of college for less than half my salary.

BTW, your punctuation is excellent!

I respect the work you do, but you don't respect what I did. Maybe it;s because you are a little jealous and don't know the whole story?

Naw, I'm not jealous. I don't compare myself with others. However, $300 a day for a teacher is outrageous. Parents that home school do a good job usually and they're not paid at all. They sacrifice by staying home.

Are you reading my posts are just spamming a response?

 

[Rustic]

I just hate the idea that these public schools and the federal government think they know what’s better for people’s kids... Common core is the gateway to indoctrination

You are always welcome to place them elsewhere.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

This kid just committed Suicide...

He should. He did it wrong.

 

[Rustic]

More common core...

No. That's how the Common Core haters get confused between standards and curriculum. That is a curriculum issue. The standard would be: The student will be able to calculate the area of a geometric figure in one plane.

That’s why common core should be 100% voluntary, no one should be forced into that progressive shit

 

[Leo123]

More common core...

No. That's how the Common Core haters get confused between standards and curriculum. That is a curriculum issue. The standard would be: The student will be able to calculate the area of a geometric figure in one plane.

Correct...Common Core is just another way to get to the same answer. I think kids should be taught both traditional math and common core.