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DoubleOSnake posted...

i have read little about common core and what it does etc...., just have heard a lot of gates being a big pusher of it and how bad it is. have not read much about what exactly common core is, and stuff

Common Core is a standards for content being taught in schools as well as how it is being taught. In many ways the entire system is designed around a lack of critical thinking with many of the choices being made for how to do things largely being dependent exclusively on the exact method of doing things rather than why the method is being done. Thus if you want to learn how the world actually works (in any vocation) you have to go with privatized schooling, furthering the disconnect between the haves and have nots as a function of society. Hence why more than half of the US has seen extreme dips in the funding given to public schools since common core has become a thing: public school is becoming increasingly a thing for "the poors" as a way to get training for whatever menial factory work is necessary.