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No one is soliciting their input on teaching - they are being asked to provide examples of the skills they look for [and often don't find] in potential employees. If the goal of education is to prepare people for a productive life, I think that's important. Even if they support Obama. :rolleyes:

That last sentence is wrong: businesspeople [and parents, who also contribute input] are not attempting to tell teachers how to teach, they are offering feedback on where they believe the past standards have been inadequate. The are also wrong about it being a federal government takeover...

If she said anything advocating or approving of the injury of another person, [I don't pay much attention to 'celebrity' quotes], absolutely. It's funny when the bull chases the clown, but not if the clown gets trampled. That fact shouldn't change because the clown is wearing the 'face' of an...

You mean the double standard where it's fine to cheer for the possible injury of a political opponent, but if he does anything praiseworthy, you find fault with it? What I read [including the reader comments following the articles] is that many who objected didn't have a problem with the Obama...

Your emphasis on the 'I' implies that someone else did - so please elaborate. And while you're at it, you might answer the question I asked, which was not rhetorical: do you think the business leaders helping to craft the acceptable standards are okay with students who get the wrong answer? And...

The way I read it, you knew [or should have known] that the truck was coming up in the left lane when you decided to move over, thus forcing him to hit the brakes. You justify it by pointing out that he was speeding, but that's irrelevant, IMO. It's not your place to enforce the speed limit for...

Maybe I missed something, but the articles I read seemed to indicate that the anger wasn't over the clown, but the announcer, who asked whether people would like to see the clown/Obama chased down & run over by the bull. Then asked it several more times, louder each time, "whipping the crowd up"...

No, Craig, you can't. Companies [actually, carriers] don't train drivers, they contract them to pick up & deliver freight in the driver's vehicle. Or, a fleet owner's vehicle - but rarely, a company vehicle. And even for the entriest of entry level positions, [driving a cargo van], nearly all...

Leo: did you miss entirely the part about the standards being created with the advice [for the very first time, as far as I know] of current business leaders? You know: the people who hire people? Or do you believe that students who get it entirely wrong are fine with them? This is a positive...

And laughing - don't forget laughing!

It made me feel stupid, and I figured I can do that for free [and usually without worrying about getting arrested, too]. ;)

Didn't you have an absolutely amazing photo of your truck at Christmas? I remember liking it a lot, and I don't even like snow, lol.

The 'party line' has it that education is a liberal dominated field, and liberals want to control everyone, ipso facto: it's a liberal plot to control people. How they plan to do that by encouraging students to think for themselves is beyond me, but then, I still don't understand how a 'liberal'...

I can't direct you to a person or phone number [too little info] but I can direct you to some help: on the 'home' page of the Newbies forum, click in the FAQ thread, then on the link in the first post. There will be a lot of answers there for you to consider. Good luck - I know it gets frustrating.

What - did you somehow miss the 14,877 times he already told us? :confused:

I have no way of knowing whether "a curriculum coordinator in Chicago" is explaining it correctly, or whether you understood it correctly, but my understanding is the goal of Common Core is teaching students how to think, rather than how to get the 'approved' answer [to pass the test] and I'm...

Slo-ride: wouldn't it be simpler to get a manila envelope [5x7 or 8x10] and attach it to an atlas, so it's handy for sticking them in?

Jr: I don't know about greedy, [they won't make maximum revenue that way!] but they aren't the brightest bulbs on the string of lights, for sure. They'll be frequently having to find new drivers until they go broke.

Gottago has them on the hood, which I didn't do because it requires determining the airflow pattern by placing something on the hood - there is [or was] a description of the process on the Airtabs website, and it looked complicated. She also has some on the west coast mirrors, fenders, and...

When I tested for entry to nursing school, they wouldn't credit my [correct] answers to the division problems unless I showed that I know how to do it with the division symbol-thingie-whatchamacallit. Which I didn't - I got the correct answers my own way, but they needed me to do it their way. I...