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Common Core Failing Students · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  I got a question for American mamas. Dear Mama's common Core has done a
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  horrible job preparing this next generation for the real world. Well, let's ask
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  our American mamas. Alma Mama, she said, and joining us now our
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  American mamas Terry Nediville and Kimberly Burlison. This doesn't really come across as much
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  of a question, but do you all agree that common Core has done a
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  poor job of preparing the gen Z generation for the real world. I think
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  they've done a really bad job. I think they're kind of out of touch
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  with what needs to be taught. The other day I was talking Terry's daughter,
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  Summer and her fiance are buying a home. Wow, that's great.
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  Yeah, and her fiance feel so they live in Arlington, where we live,
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  and he said to my husband, He's like, I don't know what
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  to do. He said, I feel like my education, my college education,
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  my high school education, has not prepared me for this adulthood. How
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  do you do your taxes? How do you write a business plan? How
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  do you buy a house? Right? How does all that work? And
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  I thought, how what a missed opportunity. These schools have missed the mark
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  right. Well, it's kind of like you know, in high school,
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  I was big into fah a future Homemakers of America, Okay, which is
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  hilarious because I can't cook, can't so can't do all the things that I
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  got graded on. But we did. We learned all of those basics of
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  what it means to be a homemaker, what it means to manage your house,
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  right, right. And it's kind of like our school called it home
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  economics. Home economics, that's what it was, right and and so and
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  then I think about those boys that took shop uh huh, and and how
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  prepared they were in a in a specific field, whether it was welding,
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  woodworking, or whatever, and they've done away with that. I had friends
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  zo were in junior high. We're in the shop class in junior high and
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  learning how to fix cars before they could drive. That's right, that's right.
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  And they did away with those with those and that what a lost opportunity
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  it is, right there. So the common core thing, when that comes
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  to mind, it makes me it's a trigger because my kids were like right
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  past that point when they brought when Bill Gates of all people, brought common
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  core and Obama brought that into the school system, and teachers fought that.
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  They fought it tooth and nail, but they were overruled by you know,
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  the powers that be. That messed up a whole generation of children because you're
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  basically teaching them instead of doing math two plus two is four, you are
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  teaching this whole different level of math that did not make sense to anybody.
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  It called stress anxiety, especially if you're not a math person. Anyway,
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  that's just for the parents. Right well, I'm believing now there was an
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  objective to it. You know, I feel like the Biden administration right now,
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  it's really about will take care of you. It's trying to create socialism,
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  so it's trying to get the family out. It is of the child's
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  life, exactly. In common Core made things so complex that that parents couldn't
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  help their kids home. I'm now thinking that was the objective. Wow,
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  to make it so difficult. I see everything now that way. I don't
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  feel like anybody's out there trying to help. It's going to be us helping
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  ourselves, is how it feels. Right now. You're saying that you feel
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  like all of this has been one big agenda. Absolutely, that's exactly how
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  I feel, and I feel like in private schools, Like when we had
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  our magazine, my children out of private school and I started a business program
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  there. It was a business curriculum from kindergarten to sixth grade where these kids
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  learned how to make a business plan. We had a big thing, a
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  hugely success. I had millionaires actually that we featured our magazine come and speak
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  to the kids and basically tell them the blueprint of their life. The excitement
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  around that school during that time was absolutely the most amazing experience of my life.
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  And I'm like, why is this not in every single school in the
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  country. Yeah, it's a real issue that the kids are getting out of
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  school, they're getting out of high school, they're getting out of college,
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  and what they really lack are some real world skills. And not to mention
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  you talk about them trying to buy a house. I don't think it's ever
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  been harder in American history for a young couple to be able to buy a
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  home. I saw this kid on TikTok just yesterday saying I made three times
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  the minimum wage. How do people do it? I cannot afford to live
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  right now. This is an entire generation of kids that are dealing with this
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  right now. This is the real problem. You know what. And I
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  said this to Summer. The cost of the housing is unbelievable. I said
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  that what you and Philip are looking at your price range, that's what Dad
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  and I paid for this house with eight acres of land, right and you're
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  getting this little bitty house, a starter house. And I don't understand how
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  in that in that world. That's in Texas, by the way, and
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  that's not California, that's not New York. That's Texas where you can compare
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  to what you get in Blue states. You can still get a lot of
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  land compared to what you get in back states. And yet it's it's insane.
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  Let Canada be an example for US. Is falling apart right now.
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  Everything is nobody can afford to live there now. So this is an example
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  of where America is going if we don't get our stuff together pretty dang quick.
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  But yeah, we need to be teaching kids. And you know,
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  when I took economics in high school, and we did have a unit on
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  taxes, and I think you know, when you get your first paycheck.
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  This is one of the problems with the minimum wage being seven twenty five because
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  high school kids really, frankly aren't worth seven twenty five an hour. But
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  you get your first paycheck and that's when you see how much the government's taken
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  out of your check. We need to be seeing that at an earlier age.
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  I agree, right. And by the way, what does Bill Gates
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  have to do with any of it? Like how did he get to be
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  the one to usher in common Core because he was the one who had the
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  money. If you like descar American Mamas the question, you go to our
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  button turning out of vill can'berally bur listen? Thank you so much, Thank you,