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As Arne Duncan and other unthinking vertebrates get aroused by the notion of common core standards, the rest of us should look at how stoobid<\/em> the existing ones are.<\/p>\n

Teachers in California are not only required to write the standards they are teaching on the board so that their disinterested first graders will magically achieve enlightenment, but they are forced to teach bunch ‘o crap standards like this gem from the 2nd Grade<\/strong> History \u2013 Social Science for California Public Schools Content Standards<\/a>:<\/p>\n

2.5 Students understand the importance of individual action and character and
\nexplain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in
\nothers\u2019 lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting
\nBull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir,
\nJackie Robinson, Sally Ride).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Please answer the following comprehension questions:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. WTF?<\/li>\n
  2. Which does not belong?<\/li>\n
  3. Are you kidding?<\/li>\n
  4. Second grade?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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