MHT School Board(Hour 1a, b) Rich revisited the scene at Tuesday’s public session on the Manchester Academic Standards and he read two letters to the editor from critics of the process.

Olszta: Manchester got the floor, not superior standards

Banfield’s testimony from public hearing on proposed school standards

Are administrators just going through the motions?  Was the deck stacked for Common Core from the start?

(Hour 1a) 07-10-2014 Hour 1a

Can’t we do better than Common Core?  Are Bill Gates deep pockets more important than the education of the students?  Didn’t we learn anything from No Child Left Behind?

Rich called out the cronies behind the “superior” standards of Common Core.

Also, local administrators that blamed a book shortage for the introduction of CC alligned curriculum into the Manchester Schools and the lack of critical thinking by our elected School Board.

Brickman Debates Girard on “Superior” Common Core Standards

(Hour 1b) 07-10-2014 Hour 1b