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Comment by amanda choate on August 1, 2013 at 8:45pm

Rick Scott brought Bennett on board because HE wants Commmon Core. Rick Scott is the problem.

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 1, 2013 at 5:56pm

Amanda, as usual, you are off in your own little world (or should I say off with your little liberal friends in their world).  You are totally clueless about Common Core................you have nothing more than the spin which has nothing to do with the collection of 400 data points, mood braclets, special chairs that sense mood, cameras watching their eyes and countless other very 1984 things they want to do to children without the consent of the parents because your buddy in the white house rewrote the privacy rules for children and wrote out the parental consent for most things.  Those who have actually looked at common core say it is horrid, lowers the standards, imparts very little in the way of real knowledge......only skills, the math is about explaining things instead of actually being able to do a problem and get the right answer, and from the program I went to last night, I learned that some 9th graders were giving a writing assignment to write a suicide note (please tell who in their right mind gives someone that age something so horrid) and it goes on and on and on!  But thank goodness Mr. Common Core Bennett quit today which may be a good thing and our state representatives who keep saying the state will be in charge and who don't even know what this will cost once implemented, are going to put off implementation.  I would say since the folks up in Conneticutt in Sandyhook went to their local school board to get the children at the school where the shooting took place exempted for having to take one of the common core tests on schedule and were then sent to the state of CT department of education who also indicated they did not have the authority and sent them to get permission from the federal board of education, I would say the state of Florida will have zero control over education in the state if they implement Common Core (which is exactly what the Obama administration has in mind.................one more thing he can take over and destroy).

Comment by amanda choate on August 1, 2013 at 5:40pm

This is the the third or fourth ed Commisioner, several Corrections guys have quit, the Lt. Governor had to leave, When describing the job of Rick Scott in choosing his associates I think the phrase, " Brownie, you are doing heckuva job" comes to mind.

Common Core is just a set of goals that put our students on par with the best schools in the world. That is all it it is. Goals. Guidance. Now when can argue whther those goals are worthwhile or not. Whether implementing them is doable. Whether they will truly provide our students with theeducation they need. Not want, not wish for, NEED. We can move more kids to vocational training under Common Core. It has provisos for just that. It identifies kids who can excell and develops windows of success for others. Supposedly. But that is all it it is.