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Subject Anti-Common Core Speech by High School Student Wows Crowd

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This kid is right on.

Common Core is so deeply flawed I could go on and on, but the kids who suffer are the outliers. Because of social pressure, the special-needs kids are generally taken care of.  As it should be.  It's the gifted kids who suffer in such a system.  In our district the solve the problem of what to do with these students with a magnet school for gifted kids...my son went there for kindergarten.  They taught the kids at one grade level above normal.  That's it. And they became really indignant when I suggested that it wasn't enough for some of the students.

Bureaucratic convenience indeed....
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This is one of the biggest reasons I began to homeschool.  As said in the video, we are no longer teaching students, but little robots.  The current educational system squelches creativity and inquisitive natures.  God forbid we should churn out any free thinkers upon graduation....

It's interesting.  I'm a product of the public school system.  It's through the process of homeschooling my child that I truly see how programmed I was.  We started homeschooling this year and have been "deschooling".  For those that aren't aware, deschooling is a process where you cultivate the child's natural wonder and curiosity.  You avoid churning out the paperwork mill and focusing on seeking knowledge.  He deschooled rather quickly....he's eight.  I am still deprogramming with regards to education.  I still feel the need to crank out the paperwork.  I still feel the constant need to test, test, test.

I thought I was awake before I began homeschooling.  Little did I realize how asleep I was.  This educational model is beyond broken.  It kills our best thinkers.
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Original Message Speaking at a local school board meeting earlier this month, a Tennessee high school senior issued a brief and incredibly insightful address on the problems with Common Core standards.

Ethan Young, a student at Farragut High School in Knox County, Tenn., made his case as to why he believes the school district should drop the new national education standards, a set of guidelines that were never voted on by Congress, the Department of Education nor by local or state governments.

“The president essentially bribed states into implementation via ‘Race to the Top,’ offering $4.35 billion taxpayer dollars to participating states, $500 million of which went to Tennessee,” Young said. “And much like No Child Left Behind, the program promises national testing and a one-size-fits-all education, because hey, it worked so well the first time.”

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