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People truly are "that dumb" at the community level- at least the sorts of people elected to local educatipn boards. Even at the state level, we've seen disastrous anti-evolution, anti-climate change education agendas attempted to be pushed through, not to mention highly politicized conservative historical revisionism, just within the last 16 years. Common core is a good idea for several reasons, not least that.

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If you think they are dumb, that's your opinion. Let them live their lives without your wisdom and you live yours without theirs.

Ideas (you can call them opinions if you'd like, it makes no difference) backed by scientific inquiry, consensus, and fact are the ones we should be teaching, end of story. The educational system is an intrinsic aspect of our society and has an enormous impact on the well-being of our societies and planet. It's am essential life goal of mine and of many others in science to work to improve and protect it. People opposed to an educational system that values scientific thinking and literacy have lost battles for the last 600 years and will continue to do so.

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