Why Stop Common Core?

"Common Core" is a scheme, organized by unionized teachers (not parents, students, employers, or homeschoolers) in several states, to enforce a single curriculum on the public schools in every state. While this might sound useful to those who plan to move children from state to state (which this web site does not recommend), in practice it would interfere with parents' and communities' efforts to uphold their standards.

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And what standards would be violated? Could be one school's longstanding reputation for teaching more advanced material, preparing students to make better use of better colleges, than other schools seem able to manage; e.g. Gate City High School, where simply having more teachers than the other high schools in the county has allowed students more choice between faster-paced and slower-paced classes, and better learners have tended to uphold higher academic standards. Or it might be a neighborhood's tradition of skimming over parts of textbooks that present theories as facts, e.g. the "fact" that species evolve into completely different species (not scientifically verified), or that homosexuality is genetically determined like skin color (no longer even a tenable theory). Or it might even be a local school's tradition of making full use of local resources, e.g. Northern Virginia's tradition of being able to offer summer internships in government offices.

Local communities need to maintain control over their public schools. If some schools uphold higher standards than others, we should be able to use free-market dynamics to help inferior schools upgrade, rather than using standardization to pull down the best schools.