“Michigan GOP Serves-Up Delicious New
Conspiracy Theory
“ Michigan House Rep. Tom McMillan (R-45) is
serving-up a brand new, piping hot, conspiracy theory for their enjoyment. The
aroma is simply irresistible to them.
McMillan is raising the alarm about
a program called Common Core, whose goal is to provide some
basic standardization in key learning areas across the U.S. It
doesn’t write lesson plans, and no state funding is tied to the program, — it
simply brings science, math and writing benchmarks into, more-or-less,
alignment across state lines. Their mission statement says:
The Common Core State Standards provide a
consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so
teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. The standards are
designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge
and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers. With
American students fully prepared for the future, our communities will be best
positioned to compete successfully in the global economy….”
Cassi Creek: this is
not intended to demean fast food workers.
Many of today’s franchise employees are adults trying to keep food on
the table and a roof overhead. Others
are high school students working to help the family budget or students trying
to maintain tuition.
However, there
are some burger franchise workers who are so poorly educated that they can
neither read nor write. They can’t make change;
they require pictures on the order-entry system in order to work the counter.
The opponents
of Common Core view it as unconstitutional, overturning the right of states and
local school boards to set educational standards. They fear that science programs will
introduce their good little red state students to sex. They would rather bitch about Russia, China,
India, and Europe holding superior positions in the current space race than to
educate students about geology, physics, and other technical fields.
The GOP and
the tea parties would rather see the nation’s technical capabilities rendered
obsolete than to allow national standards to be set for education. They want to continue breeding a populace so
incapable and so anti-intellectual that they will never understand the global
weather and climate changes that are taking place, which will never realize the
dangers of fracking until their water supplies are no longer clean enough to
drink, that will continue to vote against its own best interests.
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