Can you imagine a school attended by the children of Silicon Valley executives from eBay, Google, Apple, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard sending their children to a nine-classroom school without computers? Schools nationwide have "rushed to supply their classrooms with computers, and many policy makers say it is foolish to do otherwise. But some parents and educators have a message: computers and schools don’t mix." See At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology can Wait.
"This is what educational freedom and parental school choice are all about. Every K-12 school should be a ‘choice school’ and the dollars (per-pupil funding) should follow the child. Common Core is so insidious because of its mandated top-down, one-size-fits-all approach. Charter schools are transforming K-12 education through the market principles of competition and choice. No child is ever assigned to attend a charter school; charter schools must compete to enroll students and therefore must be fully responsive and accountable to parents. We need to empower parents and give them the full range of choices across all educational options. That’s the only way to ensure accountability and sustained academic performance. Free markets really work"! Frank Riggs, gubernatorial candidate for Governor of Arizona
See Also:
Why Steve Jobs Didn’t Let His Kids Use iPads (And Why You Shouldn’t Either)
Teachers Revolt Over Common Core Tests
Huppenthal Admitted Arizona Education Was Improving BEFORE Common Core
Frank Riggs for Governor of Arizona
Diane Douglas for Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction
Tom Horne Brought Common Core to Arizona
Common Core Globalization: Fact and Fiction
The History of Common Core Standards
Those 24 Common Core 2009 Work Group Members
Mercedes Schneider: Who are the 24 People Who Wrote the Common Core Standards?
Building the Machine: The Common Core Documentary
Child Psychologist Dr. Megan Koschnick Explains Why Common Core Standards are Inappropriate for K-3
What’s Wrong with Arizona’s Common Core Standards? (aka ACCS)