Teacher admits he helped write Common Core to end white privilege

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Critical 234dd57d2c8db · 2017-01 · on “Track Trump: The First 100 Days”

Dr. David Pook, who wrote a large part of Common Core wrote it not because it was a "better" education system, but because "white privilege" and the evil white man meme. Here he is saying it at a conference: [this video] No thanks, I'll go the private or homeschool route. The public system is bad enough with BS like zero tolerance, no recess, no horseplay, no fun zone learning, adding anti-white features to the learning system is just the cherry on top.

Critical sergiotapia · 2020-04 · on “Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)”

This is common core, and the reason why it was created will shock and enrage you. [this video] Straight from the horses mouth.

Critical desine · 2021-03 · on “Student passes 3 classes in 4 years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA”

[this video] Often the war on white privilege manifests itself as preventing white success rather than helping PoC. Families that help their children with math homework have been irritated that students often get no credit on math homework if they use the older arithmetic methods. Rather than allowing students to use any valid mathematical principles to learn, children are forced to use a new system that (in my opinion) generates extra work to achieve the correct result. I dated a teacher many years ago, long before the political climate shift, and she constantly ranted about how common core was slowing her students down. At the time I didn’t understand much (and didn’t ask her to elaborate much)