We should be grateful Common Core did not succeed as its inventors and boosters had planned. While it is by no means blotted completely out of primary and secondary education the extreme goals it was designed to achieve have been greatly blunted.
We must still be vigilant lest what the video shows still could take place.
This bit of video demonstrates what could have happened.
Most of your parents (and even some of your grandparents) will remember a TV show from the 1960s called “The Prisoner”, staring Patrick McGoohan. In those days, it was good theater but still a rather horrific vision of the future that few of us wanted to take seriously. Unfortunately, you may, if you pay attention, see the many similarities with what we’re witnessing with Common Core today.
Now that’s horrifying.
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