Newsweek Attacks Comedian Who Challenged Common Core
Legal Insurrection’s Bryan Jacoutot covered comedian Louis C.K.’s epic rant against Common Core.
It has earned him a lashing from a noted arbiter of elitism.
After lambasting Common Core for ruining his kids’ education, Emmy Award-winning comedian Louis C.K. is taking flak from a Core-supporter at Newsweek.
In an article titled, “Sorry, Louis C.K., but You’re Wrong About Common Core,” Alexander Nazaryan took the comedian to task for using his bully pulpit to “malign an earnest effort at education reform.”
Louis C.K.’s anti-Common Core message was delivered via a series of Tweets on Monday, in which he blamed the new national education standards for making math learning more difficult for his kids.
Nazaryan derided Louis C.K.’s concerns as angry, counter-productive rants that would undermined the standards — and thus hurt kids.
The worst part, according to Nazaryan? Since Louis C.K. is not a conspiracy theorist, he can’t easily be written off:
But what’s dismaying about Louis C.K.’s anti-Common Core rant is that he is neither a shill for the unions nor a far-left conspiracy theorist who thinks that Education Secretary Arne Duncan (and perhaps the president himself!) is in the pocket of Pearson and the Princeton Review. He is, instead, a New York City public school parent who has the ears and eyeballs of millions across the nation, not to mention his 3 million Twitter followers. And he has used that bully pulpit to malign an earnest effort at education reform, one that is far too young to be judged so harshly.
Newsweek Attacks Louis C.K. For Daring To Challenge Common Core (The Daily Caller)
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“And he has used that bully pulpit to malign an earnest effort at education reform,….”
Since it was an earnest effort, does it necessarily follow that it should not be maligned? CK was judging the quality of the results not the earnestness of the attempt.
“…one that is far too young to be judged so harshly.”
…but not too young to be forced onto classrooms of all ages throughout the entire nation? This stuff really should have been taken on a 3 or 4 year shakedown cruise before it was offered up to the nation as the only lifeline to escape NCLB purgatory.