Bill Gates Admits His Common Core Experiment Is A
Failure, by Baxter Dmitry NewsUS
After
spending $400 million on forcing schools around the country to adopt Common
Core, Bill Gates has finally admitted that the controversial teaching method is
a failure, and significantly less effective than traditional teaching
methods.
Parents and teachers across the nation
have been urging schools to dump the toxic Common Core curriculum, arguing that it
deliberately dumbs down children and creates unnecessary and complicated
methods for working out relatively simple problems.
The Gates Foundation has spent more
than $400 million itself and influenced a staggering $4 trillion in U.S.
taxpayer funds towards making Common Core the mandatory curriculum across the
country. Eight years later, however, and after a huge wave of
disapproval, Bill Gates is finally admitting
that his and Barack Obama’s baby, Common Core, is a failure.
“Based on everything we have learned in the
past 17 years, we are evolving our education strategy,” Gates wrote on his blog as a preface to a speech he gave
in Cleveland. He followed this by admitting that U.S. education has essentially
made no improvement in the years since he and his foundation, working closely
with the Obama administration, began redirecting trillions of public dollars towards programs he now admits failed our
children.
The bad news is that Gates is now
talking about a new idea for school curricula, a Common Core 2.0, if you
will. After the devastating failure of Common Core, should Bill Gates be
given the opportunity to have any say in the way our children are educated in
the future?
“If
there is one thing I have learned,” Gates said in
concluding his speech, “it is that no matter how
enthusiastic we might be about one approach or another, the decision to go from
pilot to wide-scale usage is ultimately and always something that has to be
decided by you and others the field.”
If this statement encompasses his Common
Core debacle, Gates could have the humility to recall that Common Core had no
pilot before he took it national. But it looks like this is as close to an
apology as we’re going to get, folks. Sorry about that $4 trillion of tax
payers’ money wasted and sorry about those ruined years of education for American K-12 kids and teachers.
Why
is Bill Gates setting our students up to fail? One of Common Core’s defining
characteristics is the way it “dumbs down” many concepts and has students take
too many steps to reach conclusions that are obvious to those of us who were
schooled the traditional way. Teachers have been pulling their hair out across
the country trying to implement the failing system, when they know the
traditional teaching methods are far superior.
But Bill Gates is not suggesting we go
back to traditional methods that have been tried and tested over hundreds of
years. Gates is now pushing for the implementation of Next
Generation Science Standards, a “cousin of Common Core”, (which
academic reviewers rate as even lower quality
than Common Core).
Experiments in New York and Louisiana, the latter of which Gates cites, have
not produced proven improvements for student
achievement. Gates is planning to experiment with our children’s education all
over again, without any evidence that his bright new idea will reap any
benefits.
The most likely outcome is the
historically most frequent outcome from big-bucks philanthropy in public
education: another disaster, just like Common Core. And another generation of
children who don’t receive a quality education.
It’s going to take a lot more than
acknowledging Common Core’s failure to make up for the years of classroom chaos
that the Gates/Obama curriculum inflicted on many teachers and students without
their consent. A direct apology and a promise to stay away from our kids and
their education in the future would be a start.
Comments
Obama’s
plan was to spend the US into oblivion to implement UN Agenda 21.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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