noncompliantgame: I've added a link to a full interview with
Gates talking about it. If you can manage to watch it without up-chucking. He talks around things a bit but you barely even need to "read between the lines" with what he's saying, he's really quite blatant.
Emob78: He's done some TED-style talks on Common Core. Yes, very serious if you consider the implications for the future. When he talks about 'building' the kind of skilled workers they'll need in the future, the Orwellian level of human resource direction and control becomes very apparent. They want to control people in school to be educated for specific purposes so they'll be good in the sectors or industries where they'll be directed to. Rather than basic courses and electives allowing people to choose their own education, the State will basically tell you what your courses are going to be, what you need to do to finish with good grades, AND what job or career you will have after you've finished school.
So, the State is going to tell people what they're going to study, how long it will take, and what they will do for a living when they graduate. I can't see anything bad happening from that at all. Considering Gates used individualism, hard work, and independence of action (not to mention a little greed) to get his start, I find his support for Common Core to be a bit odd. Bill Gates never would have had the level of success he did have if he had been a public school student taught with Common Core. He'd be a lever jockey in some factory somewhere working 10 hours a day cranking out someone else's ideas on the assembly line.
But hey, competition is a sin, right Bill?
. This was supposed to be a public meeting in Maryland, about Common Core. The man was very civil, stood up to ask a question prefaced with a brief statement. He just wanted to ask a question!
