Lloyd Lofthouse

It is a fact that the United States already met the Common Core’s stated goals before the Common Core was written or implemented

A large sector of the American work force is highly over education and working in jobs that don’t require the education they earned, because those jobs do not exist.

Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé

The Common Core goals are clearly stated: “The standards … are designed to ensure students are prepared for today’s entry-level careers, freshman-level college courses, and workforce training programs.”

According to bls.gov, in 2013, 26-percent of the 143.9 million jobs [37.4 million] did not require a high school diploma or its equivalent; 40-percent [57.56 million] only required a high school degree; 6% [8.6 million] required a post-secondary non-degree award (I think that is some form of specific job training that may lead to a certificate – for instance, a plumber, mechanic, etc.); 4% required an Associate degree—about 2 years of college [5.7 million]; 18% requied a BA degree [25.9 million], 2% a Master’s degree [2.87 million], and 3% [4.3 million] a doctoral or professional degree—I think a professional degree includes public school teachers.

For 2013, the U.S. Census Beurau reported education attainment in the United States for age 25 and…

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Lloyd Lofthouse

8 responses to “It is a fact that the United States already met the Common Core’s stated goals before the Common Core was written or implemented”

  1. Marilyn Armstrong Avatar
    Marilyn Armstrong

    I was thinking of you while I refused to vote for our school council, all of whom were running unopposed.

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    1. Lloyd Lofthouse Avatar
      Lloyd Lofthouse

      The local k-8 school board had two openings and several running. I researched them and voted for the two that I think will support teachers, but I’m not impressed by the fact that all of them ignored my e-mail questions to their campaign websites/pages. I’m thinking about going to one of the monthly school board meetings and getting on the agenda to lecture them—or should I say educate those who are ill-informed or ignorante.

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      1. Marilyn Armstrong Avatar
        Marilyn Armstrong

        I shouldn’t say I didn’t vote for any of them. I voted for the two I actually know personally. The rest were completely unknown to me and had no websites or literature or any material. So I voted for 2 out of 10.

      2. Lloyd Lofthouse Avatar
        Lloyd Lofthouse

        I’m starting to vote the same as you. If I can’t find enough information to discover what their real agenda is, I also don’t vote for them. I don’t care what party they belong to anymore. No more loyalty to party. What counts the most to me, is the candidate and what they stand for, and if they don’t support my values, I will not vote for them.

      3. Marilyn Armstrong Avatar
        Marilyn Armstrong

        A lot of these local candidates don’t seem to stand for anything except themselves. To me, their lack of commitment to anything makes them dangerous.

      4. Lloyd Lofthouse Avatar
        Lloyd Lofthouse

        Finding information on local candidates is difficult to impossible. For instance, I’ve learned that Vote Smart seems to only focus on the Congress, White House and the state governors. The more grassroots, the less info there is, and from what I’ve been reading, this is where the likes of the Koch brothers, the Walton family, Eli Broad, Bloomberg and a few other billionaires are focusing their campaign contributions to buy local county judges, school boards, and state representatives.

      5. Marilyn Armstrong Avatar
        Marilyn Armstrong

        And these are people who are up for grabs. Cheap at the price.

      6. Lloyd Lofthouse Avatar
        Lloyd Lofthouse

        To billionaires like the Walton family, the Koch brothers, Eli Broad and Bill Gates, politicians are on the auction block for a dime a dozen.

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