Bye, Bye, Common Core good riddance

Big Bank Hank
Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
edited February 2018 in All Encompassing Trip
Bye, Bye Common Core, children brains should be used for better things like appreciating beauty, nature, music, art and self-evolution, the more you can live your life with your soul happy & free, guiding you with that light shining bright from within, the happier you will be. The only math I ever use in my daily life is all the stuff I can figure out in my head or with a calculator if I feel like saving time. Wisdom>Knowledge, being great at life, and I am not talking about how much money you make or how famous you become, I am talking about becoming the greatest person you can be and making the world the best place you can, being happy every day of your life, sending out as much joy and inspiration as you possibly can. Understanding you own your happiness, you can be happy whenever you want, others can do what their going to do, but ultimately you choose whether or not your happy or not, real sunshine comes from within, so let it shine as brightly as you can, illuminating and inspiring others. Never half-ass anything, put all your soul and passion into everything you do, and see what becomes of your life and roads it leads you down, and what doors it opens, and what questions it answers. Putting every fiber of your being into all that you do, is the best way to not live your life with any regrets.
-Hank Kershell 02.16..2018
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  • darwinstheory
    darwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 7,411
    "A smart monkey doesn't monkey around with another monkey's monkey" - Darwin's Theory
  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    darwinstheory said:
    lol
  • Degeneratefk
    Degeneratefk Posts: 3,123
    I just,experienced AMT flashbacks
    will myself to find a home, a home within myself
    we will find a way, we will find our place
  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    Degeneratefk said:
    I just,experienced AMT flashbacks
    lol, it's been so long since I posted in here, but it's pretty non-controversial, I don't think most parents want their children being taught that crap
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,599
    Big Bank Hank said:
    Degeneratefk said:
    I just,experienced AMT flashbacks
    lol, it's been so long since I posted in here, but it's pretty non-controversial, I don't think most parents want their children being taught that crap
    Hank it's nice to have you back!!!!  

    I hope we can meet up for a beer in Seattle!
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    I don't know what you are all talking about
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Big Bank Hank said:
    Degeneratefk said:
    I just,experienced AMT flashbacks
    lol, it's been so long since I posted in here, but it's pretty non-controversial, I don't think most parents want their children being taught that crap
    Hank it's nice to have you back!!!!  

    I hope we can meet up for a beer in Seattle!
    I should be easy to find, lol
  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    I don't know what you are all talking about
    lol is a crazy way of teaching they had been teaching, but Trump ended it, so it's gone
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Big Bank Hank said:
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    I don't know what you are all talking about
    lol is a crazy way of teaching they had been teaching, but Trump ended it, so it's gone
    Interesting.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • RogueStoner
    RogueStoner Sunny AZ Posts: 1,716
    As the sole homework helper for four kids, I HATE Common Core with a passion!  It’s like trying to learn a completely foreign language. Even the directions don’t make sense with all the new lingo. 
    Despite the frustration, I always stress the importance of education to my kids...especially higher education where they finally teach you critical thinking skills over memorizing facts. Also, a part of my personal happiness does rely on my kids knowing the difference between “their” and “they’re” and “your” and “you’re”. 
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    RogueStoner said:
    As the sole homework helper for four kids, I HATE Common Core with a passion!  It’s like trying to learn a completely foreign language. Even the directions don’t make sense with all the new lingo. 
    Despite the frustration, I always stress the importance of education to my kids...especially higher education where they finally teach you critical thinking skills over memorizing facts. Also, a part of my personal happiness does rely on my kids knowing the difference between “their” and “they’re” and “your” and “you’re”. 
    I hate when people get that wrong and you tell them and they keep repeating the mistake.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • darwinstheory
    darwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 7,411
    RogueStoner said:
    As the sole homework helper for four kids, I HATE Common Core with a passion!  It’s like trying to learn a completely foreign language. Even the directions don’t make sense with all the new lingo. 
    Despite the frustration, I always stress the importance of education to my kids...especially higher education where they finally teach you critical thinking skills over memorizing facts. Also, a part of my personal happiness does rely on my kids knowing the difference between “their” and “they’re” and “your” and “you’re”. 
    Your right! People these days, their just not very good with that kind of stuff. It is like you're help isn't wanted or there too busy over the're playing video games.

    :rofl:
    "A smart monkey doesn't monkey around with another monkey's monkey" - Darwin's Theory
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,669
    Howdy, BBH!

    The best teaching I ever saw was at a private Seventh Day Adventist school I visited that used an integrated curriculum which mirrors the interconnections of life experience.  Just as importantly, these kids did not spend their whole school day behind a desk.  They also did organic gardening, cooking and were taught a variety of other practical skills and these activities broke up the sit-down lesson time.  It was mind blowing and wonderful to see this in action.   The kids coming out of this school averaged much better at having successful, happy and healthy lives.  So why aren't all schools like this?  I think it's because our schools are meant to create worker bees, not creative individuals with the ability to think critically.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • RogueStoner
    RogueStoner Sunny AZ Posts: 1,716
    darwinstheory said:
    RogueStoner said:
    As the sole homework helper for four kids, I HATE Common Core with a passion!  It’s like trying to learn a completely foreign language. Even the directions don’t make sense with all the new lingo. 
    Despite the frustration, I always stress the importance of education to my kids...especially higher education where they finally teach you critical thinking skills over memorizing facts. Also, a part of my personal happiness does rely on my kids knowing the difference between “their” and “they’re” and “your” and “you’re”. 
    Your right! People these days, their just not very good with that kind of stuff. It is like you're help isn't wanted or there too busy over the're playing video games.

    :rofl:
    :lol:
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,143
    Where is a link for this?
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,599
    RogueStoner said:
    As the sole homework helper for four kids, I HATE Common Core with a passion!  It’s like trying to learn a completely foreign language. Even the directions don’t make sense with all the new lingo. 
    Despite the frustration, I always stress the importance of education to my kids...especially higher education where they finally teach you critical thinking skills over memorizing facts. Also, a part of my personal happiness does rely on my kids knowing the difference between “their” and “they’re” and “your” and “you’re”. 
    If you live in Pennsylvania you'll have to learn "youn'z" too...

    First time I heard that I cracked up.
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    I thought Common Core was a subgenre of metal.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,669
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    I thought Common Core was a subgenre of metal.
    :rofl:   I love it!

    "Hey man, wanna listen to some listen to some Metallica?"

    "Nah.  Ya got any Common Core stuff like Brass Monkeys or Nickleback?"
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    brianlux said:
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    I thought Common Core was a subgenre of metal.
    :rofl:   I love it!

    "Hey man, wanna listen to some listen to some Metallica?"

    "Nah.  Ya got any Common Core stuff like Brass Monkeys or Nickleback?"
    haha!
    Nickleback sure is common core lol
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Common core isnt so bad, it's not perfect, but in many ways it's far superior to the way we were taught math.
    We were taught math through memorization, and that makes it really hard to understand advanced mathematics like algebra and beyond because you don't have a clue about the actual mechanics, you just know blank blank blank equals blank.
    Common core teaches why blank blank blank equals blank.
    It's only our inflexible adult minds that make it so bad.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?

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