
Greenwich Democrat BOE appointee Sampradama Tamm has no opinion on anything whatsoever, she promises
Inspired by the example of that Hudson Falls Chief Librarian who switched from choosing winners of a reading contest on the basis of who read the most books, to a lottery, with the winner decided by luck, our national government has decided to do away with “right” answers in math.
[U]nder the Common Core program implemented in public schools across the nation—promoting faulty logic is encouraged. Facts and reality along with critical thinking skills are suppressed. Reality is no longer crucial as long as you can explain imagined conclusions.
As an example of how the new “Common Core” math system will work, a curriculum director recently noted that even if kids get the wrong mathematical result, as long they can “explain” how they arrived at their answer, then that is still a good outcome for the Common Core teachers.
Speaking on the evening of July 17 to a room of administrators and interested citizens at Grayslake School District 46, in the northern suburbs of Chicago, Curriculum Director Amanda August said that in the new system the correct answer is less important than “the procedure” of arriving at that answer.
In response to a question of how the new Common Core math teaching system will work, August said that “the reasoning” is a main goal, not just correct answers.
“But even under the new Common Core,” she says “if even if they 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 words and oral explanations and they showed it in a picture but they just got the final number wrong; we’re really more focusing on the how and the why.”
If this lunacy is the result of stupidity and error then there’s hope, because that can be corrected. If it’s a deliberate attempt to destroy the country, then we’re in even more trouble than we thought. Interesting that just when we as a local town get rid of this sort of math curriculum the federal government steps in to force us back. I lean increasingly toward a conspiracy theory of our political enemies.