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I sincerely hope you're writing a book about this! You'd have an eager audience of teachers who hate what this profession has become in the last 15-20 years.

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Appreciate it, perhaps some day though I am far from an expert! There's good books out there on the Common Core specifically (Mercedes Schneider's Common Core Dilemma) but I don't know of one on a broader history of education bureaucratization.

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Students should get education that focuses on STEM and job skills and get a job as soon as possible. Our public schools and universities have been taken over by activists who want to teach history, transgender, and social justice because that is all they are qualified to do! We should eliminate all history, transgender, and social justice courses from school curricula. History, transgender and social justice is useless in the job market. The past is past. Students can get all their optional history, transgender, and social justice from YouTube. Our schools should be focused on STEM courses and job training and bring back standardized testing! Teach to the test!

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Agreed that humanities and social sciences have shot their credibility by becoming ideological vehicles. But not sure about standardized testing as the solution-- Common Core math shows why teaching to the test is flawed. The recent antiracist pushback against standardized testing (including college admissions tests like SATs) is definitely further muddying the waters though!

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“History, transgender, and social justice is (are) useless in the job market.”

How about English in the job market?

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Ok, so we have identified the problem. Yay! Now, how do we go about isolating and attacking (removing) it?? Is there a direct course of action we can take.... a person(s) we can call/write to encourage? What is next? Its the most important part of this problem

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Agreed! I didn't want to offer up a glib solution. But I have observed parents effectively forming local coalitions pushing back against SEL and other initiatives, usually in explicitly right-wing terms. If they could frame concerns in less ideological ways they might get less conservative parents and teachers to agree, too. Long-term bureaucratization, profit-seeking, crap bloatware technology in schools etc is bad for everyone.

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Thank you for explaining this convoluted web of influence destroying our schools and our country.

This "non-profit" explosion has to be reigned in, and quickly, if we hope to get our country back on track for success. People are literally going to die crossing bridges if we don't make changes.

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There’s no profit like non-profit like non-profit/ Like no profit I know

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What's it like to walk around with Trump dripping out of your anus

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lol

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Democrats are sick, twisted, perverts.

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That makes them sound too fun

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