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Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools
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I meant Common Core in terms of English, like the basing your interpretations of a text on evidence, etc. Catching students up in basic reading skills is a real problem, but I don't think that's an issue with how the curriculum is designed, but rather a problem with the basic economic functions of the country, where parents don't have time to meaningfully interact with their kids because of job pressures. Starting kids on literacy young is hugely important, but a parent with 3 jobs isn't going to have time to read to their kids every night.
So there's pressure on the school to get kids up to grade level without economic support, and there's pressure on the parents to help their kids without having any time to deal with it... turns out stagnating wages in favor of the millionaire class for 50 years wasn't the solution after all.
Is it not also a problem to wastes years of millions of students lives on education of specifics far beyond what they need or want, merely to fill time because they want everyone in highschool until 17 or 18?
I'm not quite understanding your point. Should we stop educating most kids at 14 or 15? Then the prospects for them are starting full time work a few years earlier or something?
If mandatory education is really about basic knowledge, if they can demonstrate that basic knowledge at any age they should be free, rather than continuing to imprison them now for no point at all. Of course they could choose to study more if they wanted to.