Famous comedian rails against asinine Common Core curriculum
Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
April 29, 2014
One of the things renowned comedian Louis C.K. is known for is speaking his mind, so it’s no surprise to see him vent his frustration on Twitter after sitting down to help his daughters with their homework.
Yesterday, the star of the FX show Louis published a series of tweets expressing his outrage towards New York state’s Common Core standardized testing and math curriculum, some of whose problems, he says, are so difficult to comprehend they actually made his children cry.
My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) April 28, 2014
“My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!” the expert self-deprecating humorist tweeted.
He continued railing against the national initiative with comical jabs and even photographed some of the more baffling examples.
A huge amount of my third graders time is spent preparing for and answering questions like this. pic.twitter.com/WU5tEo8JRO
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) April 28, 2014
This is one of my favorites. Also for third graders. Who is writig these? And why? pic.twitter.com/xUBVIxE6WU
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) April 28, 2014
Look at 4 of part a. And the point isn't that it's too hard. Just read #4. Please. pic.twitter.com/5bnUlaXG5b
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) April 28, 2014
"Why night you want each picture to stand for more than 1 balloon?"
Yet again I must tell my kid "don't answer it. It's a bad question"
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) April 28, 2014
Sorry. I sit with my kids as they so their HW they devour knowledge. When it's hard they step up. Their teachers are great
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) April 28, 2014
But it's changed in recent years. It's all about these tests. It feels like a dark time. And nothing is going in anymore.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) April 28, 2014
It's this massive stressball that hangs over the whole school. The kids teachers trying to adapt to these badly written notions.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) April 28, 2014
these questions btw were not written by her teacher. they were on a standardized test. written by pearson or whoever the hell
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) April 29, 2014
Okay I'm done. This is just one dumb, fat parent's POV. I'm pissed because I love NYC public schools. mice, lice and all.
— Louis C.K. (@louisck) April 29, 2014
Lest some think C.K. is joking or embellishing to make a point, recall just a few months ago we covered the story of a mother who inadvertently snapped a photo of her frustrated daughter enduring anguish at the kitchen table while struggling to comprehend a Common Core math lesson.
Recently, parents in New York state were also puzzled when standardized Common Core English tests administered to students from grades 3 through 8 contained advertorial-like promotions of brands like Nike, Mug’s Root Beer (a registered trademark of PepsiCo), Wrigley’s, Mattel and more. The product plugs were so blatant that one child reportedly asked his mother, “Why are they trying to sell me something during the test?”
Imagine C.K.’s agitation when he finds out Common Core allows children to declare that 3×4=11, so long as they can explain how they arrived at that conclusion:
Despite the outrage spawned by the relatively new curriculum, which many suspect is actually designed to dumb down children, Microsoft billionaire and one of the prime movers behind the initiative Bill Gates throws his full support behind it, having donated over $170 million toward its implementation. Of course Gates’ children attend an elitist private academy in Seattle, where they aren’t taught Common Core methods.
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