Post by Chris_Wendt on Mar 26, 2014 14:21:04 GMT -5
Good article, rr.
But it should not suffice for you or any (all) supporters and proponents of the Common Core to be right, to profess a righteous position in blogs or comments attached to press articles.
What I hoped to have provided was a clear window on the organized, militant, determined, and interwoven agendas of various forces aligned and arrayed against the Common Core.
Being "right" no longer matters. Just ask the Ukraine Prime Minister (either the current one or the old one). In the words of Vladimir Putin, "I got this!" (He never said that, he just did what he did, with the same meaning and intent).
Anyone who has a stake in the Common Core is at war, and warfare is all about strategy and tactics.
While we would always like to think that right makes might, or that right will win out over the alternative, whenever "right" wins the day it is because of superior strategy and tactics brought to bear against the opponent, the opposition, the "opposite" side..
In the end, isn't the winner on the side of "right" (we're not talking morality, here), with the loser generally being just...wrong? Or, at least having come out on the "wrong" side of the skirmish?
The 2014 Assessments are about to begin. There are two things on-the-line.
Number two (2) will NOT be answered in Wantagh or Seaford, at least not if there is any validity to your stated position. Where it will be answered is in the Big Five Cities (Buffalo, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers), and in Roosevelt, Hempstead, Uniondale, Freeport, Westbury, Brentwood, Central Islip, Half Hollow Hills, and Wyandanch, and a host of small, sparsely populated, economically disadvantaged, mostly white villages and towns and small cities in the upper Hudson Valley and all along the northern and southern tiers of New York State.
We should remain interested and engaged in the discussion.
Chris Wendt
But it should not suffice for you or any (all) supporters and proponents of the Common Core to be right, to profess a righteous position in blogs or comments attached to press articles.
What I hoped to have provided was a clear window on the organized, militant, determined, and interwoven agendas of various forces aligned and arrayed against the Common Core.
Being "right" no longer matters. Just ask the Ukraine Prime Minister (either the current one or the old one). In the words of Vladimir Putin, "I got this!" (He never said that, he just did what he did, with the same meaning and intent).
Anyone who has a stake in the Common Core is at war, and warfare is all about strategy and tactics.
While we would always like to think that right makes might, or that right will win out over the alternative, whenever "right" wins the day it is because of superior strategy and tactics brought to bear against the opponent, the opposition, the "opposite" side..
In the end, isn't the winner on the side of "right" (we're not talking morality, here), with the loser generally being just...wrong? Or, at least having come out on the "wrong" side of the skirmish?
The 2014 Assessments are about to begin. There are two things on-the-line.
- How big will the "Opt-out" syndicate prove itself to be?
- What will this year's scores reveal when compared to last year's scores and to the prior year's?
(Is the Common Core really as devastating as its opponents have made it out to be?)
Number two (2) will NOT be answered in Wantagh or Seaford, at least not if there is any validity to your stated position. Where it will be answered is in the Big Five Cities (Buffalo, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers), and in Roosevelt, Hempstead, Uniondale, Freeport, Westbury, Brentwood, Central Islip, Half Hollow Hills, and Wyandanch, and a host of small, sparsely populated, economically disadvantaged, mostly white villages and towns and small cities in the upper Hudson Valley and all along the northern and southern tiers of New York State.
We should remain interested and engaged in the discussion.
Chris Wendt