Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Memo to Belling: College Admissions Are A "Measure"

Yesterday the usually correct Belling semi-endorsed "Common Core".  He had reservations--mostly that the program was designed and enforced by Lefties.

His endorsement rested on "measurable" criteria--that is, that without "Common Core" there is no "national" basis for evaluating students and school systems.

Belling is wrong on two counts.

1)  The Constitution does not award K-12 education responsibility to the Federal Gummint.  That is reserved to the States.  And there is no "national emergency" which allows for an over-ride of the Constitution.

2)  College admissions are the best measure of K-12 achievement and accountability.  Students from piss-poor districts will not be admitted to good schools (think Purdue, UW-Madistan, Yale, G'town, Marquette, etc.)

3)  Both ACT and SAT are "measures" and are operative--but not "Federal".  Surprise!!  The private sector works.

'S OK, Mark.  Eventually you'll learn that Statism under any guise is still Statism.




2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Except, not everyone goes to college and takes the ACT/SAT, nor needs to attend university to be a well-educated, contributing member of society.

Dad29 said...

True. And they don't have to graduate from high school to be a contributing and (eventually) well-educated person, either.

What we do NOT need is another Bush-boggle, this time in education.