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Common Core Teachers Taught to
Praise Wrong Answers Like '3 x 4 was 11’
Michael Schaus
Aug 19, 2013
Apparently,
under the new
Common-Core standards, correct answers don’t really matter. At least
that’s
according to a “curriculum coordinator” in Chicago named Amanda August.
“Even
if [a student] said, ’3 x 4 was 11,’ if they were able to explain their
reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer really in,
umm, words
and oral explanation, and they showed it in the picture but they just
got the
final number wrong, we’re really more focused on the how,” said the
common core
supporter and typical liberal, Amanda. Off course this reasoning
explains quite
a bit regarding our nation’s 16 trillion dollar debt, and Nancy
Pelosi’s
assertion that Obamacare was a “deficit reducer.” When you consider
that our
finest economic leaders in the Federal Reserve, and the White House,
think
spending more money will result in fewer deficits, teaching that 3 x 4
= 11 (if
you explain it well) isn’t really much of a stretch.
The
left has long sought to bolster
self-esteem by downplaying wrong answers in education. Everyone gets a
ribbon;
a truly disastrous lesson to teach when not everyone is capable of
getting a
job. And while the how is important in any lesson plan, in the end, the
answer
should still be correct. Amanda’s students are going to be in for a
world of
surprise when their first employer decides that doing the job correctly
is more
important than demonstrating “with words” an employee’s fundamental
failure to
grasp the concept of their task.
To
the credit of the presumably
leftists audience, someone asked if teachers will still be correcting
students
on math tests. The simple fact that someone had to ask the question
should
demonstrate the atrocious nature of American education reform. The
question
“are we still going to correct wrong answers” would seem
incomprehensible in a
system of honest instruction. Amanda, however, stumbles through a very
entertaining non-answer...
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the rest of the article at
Townhall Finance
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