tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post9032489698537456380..comments2024-03-22T02:15:56.280-07:00Comments on Jersey Jazzman: Something Is Very Wrong With Merryl TischDukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-54808262677365419592013-04-23T09:43:15.653-07:002013-04-23T09:43:15.653-07:00Elementary Rat on the NYT pro common core testing ...Elementary Rat on the NYT pro common core testing editorial:<br />Shorter New York Times: Parents need to stop freaking out about these Common Core tests. If we don't fail more children today, how will we know which teachers to fire?<br /><br />Also, we didn't read any of our own coverage about the test's problematic content, the stress New York children are evincing due to these tests, or Pearson. Our kids go to the kind of schools that don't allow these tests, so it wasn't relevant to us.<br /><br />And stop complaining about the private concerns making big bucks off the Common Core. They're totally research-based AND no one is making you buy Pearson materials. Wow, you all are conspiracy theorists or unionists or something.<br />Posted by E. Rat at 8:51 PM<br />My comment:<br /> <br />From the Times editorial on common core:<br /><br />"some parents whose children have already taken the tests are outraged. They shouldn’t be:… Common Core [standards] have been adopted by 45 states."<br /><br />The New York Times has served as a demagogues echo chamber for many years. The most damning the run-up to the Iraq war. I see this New York Times editorial as being part of that pattern. It can be excited by those who have created The artificial push forward these ill-conceived standards as an echo chamber, which to some appears to be additional evidence. But it does nothing but BS<br /><br /><br />In 2002, someone in the Bush administration leaked to New York Times Iraq puppet Judith Miller that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling aluminum tubes to construct an atomic bomb. Then vice president Dick Cheney went on NBC’s Meet the Press and cited the Times story as proof that Hussein was stockpiling aluminum tubes to construct an atomic bomb.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12283175654921772515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-85059531922201924482013-04-21T18:11:29.635-07:002013-04-21T18:11:29.635-07:00Typical response from a member of the Tisch family...Typical response from a member of the Tisch family. I'll bet inside her 403b portfolio you will find a healthy chunck of Measurements, Inc stock that is worth a bundle.<br /><br />BTW, it is a state law that only certified teachers who sign off on the test can be present in a classroom that is administrating the test. I am surprised that she wasn't cited for that. Maybe some smart parent or lawyer will sue her for that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18252657462697510044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-1717221322133742412013-04-21T13:11:25.004-07:002013-04-21T13:11:25.004-07:00I think if you read carefully the problem she char...I think if you read carefully the problem she characterized as healthy was that some students were having difficulty finishing the test - not that a child was crying.<br /><br />It's a bit of a leap to jump from that anecdote to 'real harm to children' -- your rhetoric here is more than a touch overheated.almhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420465709926105665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-58524594155216253102013-04-21T09:38:38.240-07:002013-04-21T09:38:38.240-07:00The time between birth and age 12 is sacred turf. ...The time between birth and age 12 is sacred turf. The love of learning to last a lifetime has to happen in the first 12 years. No backsies.<br /><br />The meaningless barrage of tests replacing the love of learning for generations of our children will come back to haunt us long after the politics have been forgotten.Mrs. King's music studentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05211235832988015448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-48242005399086527702013-04-21T08:13:20.435-07:002013-04-21T08:13:20.435-07:00OMG! There are no words....(that could be printed ...OMG! There are no words....(that could be printed here anyway).Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04327822308735939315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-66760723055847855942013-04-21T07:46:12.449-07:002013-04-21T07:46:12.449-07:00Disgraceful. This is why my children have opted o...Disgraceful. This is why my children have opted out of testing this year.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com