Your opinion on common core

[Famous Mortimer]

Overall supportive, although individual lesson plans might be tweaked.

I'm very supportive of the concept of a national curriculum though. One even more stringent than Common Core.

Math and history are the same everywhere. There is no reason kids in Texas and kids in New York need to learn differently.

As far as I can tell, there are only two types of opposition: 1) Religious fundamentalists who are worried about evolution and gays 2) Teachers who don't want to be held to any standard and just want to be paid automatically. I guess there's a third group of people, parents like Louis CK who are mad that their kids are dumb and blame Common Core, although they would blame whatever the current regime was as long as their "genius" kids were failing under it.

[Famous Mortimer]

Curriculum set by local school boards is ridiculous for a number of reasons.

1) Supposedly conservatives believe that the free market will make every school board strive to be the best it can possibly be. Clearly this is not the case though. We've had extreme localization compared to the rest of the Western world for years now and it has categorically produced WORSE results.

2) Even if localization did lead to every district having the best education system possible (again, it doesn't but just for the sake of argument), how would that be different from imposing those same best standards but from the top? The end result is the same. The only difference is that localization caters to conservatives' irrational knee jerk hatred of the central government.

3) If there was one standard, that would be one bureaucracy, as opposed to the hundreds of local bureaucracies we have now. National standards means less government. Conservatives literally don't even know why they oppose the federal government, it makes no sense, they just hear "federal government" and freak out without thinking.