Common Core has firmly taken hold in Joplin, Huff said.
"We have successfully implemented Common Core."
Huff said this has been done by fostering dialogue in the community and helping the community understand the value of Common Core Standards and standards based grading.
Much of this has been done, Huff said, by first convincing the staff of the value of Common Core and "bringing it on board" and then using the teachers as "ambassadors to the community."
Huff noted that Joplin has a "tremendous amount of poverty," and that the people in the district are conservative, so he has been successful in bringing them the truth about Common Core. "It's not a scary thing. It makes sense. This really is a good thing for kids."
Huff said he has brought the message to the community through "my conservative perspective."
Huff said he understood how the opponents of Common Core think. 'The folks who are against Common Core, they want what's best for the kids.
Because he is conservative, Huff said, "I can talk to those folks."
12 comments:
What an arrogant POS!
The only successful thing that jackass has done in Joplin was get the schools open in August after the tornado and that TOOK A TEAM OF HIGHLY SKILLED WORKERS!! HE DID NOT DO IT BY HIMSELF!!
Huff stop taking all the credit for something you didn't even do!!
Huff loves to say how poor the Joplin "folks" are! He doesn't mind to take a huge salary from the backs of these same poor tax paying folks! His neighborhood doesn't look poor.
The chamber of commerce should tell him that his poverty talk is not helpful to their efforts to get new companies to come here. He makes it sound like we are a bunch of welfare illiterates.
More lies! I guess that is what has landed joplin with poor achievement
Why would the state want something like that! What an embarrassment
The state commissioner wannabe doesn't appear to understand that Missouri has rejected the Common Core standards and is now in a battle within its borders to write its own standards. The CCSS assessments have been tossed aside, and the old standards have been reinstated while the new ones are in process.
Of course, he wouldn't know that because up to now there have been no publicity ops connected to it. But now that he wants to ruin, I mean run, the whole state he must pretend to know what is going on. Unfortunately, his command center is also out of the loop and is just now spending lots of money the district does not have for teacher PD for the CCSS and the Smarter Balance Assessments that are no more.
A day behind and a dollar short could be the R8 motto.
It's a good thing for kids, he says, to the people who rejected it. What I'm wondering is, what does he mean that the people are conservative in Joplin so he's been able to explain the CCSS to them? What does that mean, that he uses their simple language, or that they are smarter than the other side? Either way you put it, a lot of people have been insulted by this sack of walking crap. How can a man who has destroyed a district that has falling scores and a miserable record even be considered as a commissioner? Pure politics. I wonder what the president of the MSBA owes CJ? But then, what did the Board in Joplin owe him? Lots of questions to be answered.
I would think the true conservatives in this area would be cringing right about now. This member of the flock has spent every tax dollar, donated dollar, and misappropriated dollar he could get his hands on, put the district into a debt level it cannot pay, and has plans to do nothing but spend and borrow more for years to come should he should be passed over for the commissioner's position. Is this the definition of a conservative? Spend, steal, and lie? Interesting.
It's true we aren't all drawing $175,000 a year salaries and living in the fanciest of neighborhoods. The fact of the matter is, that we don't ride the backs of the taxpayers bilking them for millions of dollars while simultaneously destroying this town and the futures of the children. We may not be the richest comminity in the world, at least we aren't using the backs of other people's children to build a house of cards that is going to crumble on our heads like you CJ, but not before you leave a trail of destruction much larger than 5-22-11. Financial destruction it will take far longer to recover from than that EF-5!!
I urge each of you to research and learn the truth about Common Core (CCSS). It is NOT good for kids. It is good for politicians and business men, especially the ones that are members of the consortium that bought into to this before the standards were even written- people like our Governor, Jay Nixon, whom Dr. Huff is close to.
CCSS is harmful in that it dumbs down curriculum. Students are not challenged. Private information is no longer protected. Special Needs students are ignored. Students are surveyed about home life, therefore, robbing your home of it's privacy. FERPA will no longer protect your child's privacy. Standards Based Grading (the Joplin way) is the omission of grades rather than identifying learning deficits. Standards Based Grading that is educational acceptable is not the same system that Joplin uses. The Joplin Schools that use a form of Standards Based Grading use an inferior system that 2 employees at East Middle School claim to have created. In this grading system, students earn a Yes (for having mastered a standard) or a No (for not demonstrating mastery).
Take 5 minutes and google common core. As a parent, grandparent, or taxpayer, you owe it to our future generations to learn what this is all about. It is so much more than an educational trend.
The two guys at EMS are actually very nice people. The problem is the bigger guy has bought into every might as well try it scheme cooked up by CJ and company. The littler guy rode the SBG to a promotion. This does not mean that either of these good ole boys could not have succeeded outside of the Huff atmosphere. It just means they have gone all in on an administration that is doomed to fail. Unfortunately for them, history will stain them with their over exuberance in assisting the oppressive efforts of an occupying force.
The CCSS do not dumb down the curriculum. They DO push down the curriculum so that younger students are being required to pretend to be older.
The worst thing about CCSS is tests to practice for tests to practice for tests. I'ts perfect for paying companies for test and practice materials. It's not good for learning.
The other piece that is not working is the constant use of computer programs and purchasing products.
Why does the district need all that PD if they bought all this stuff so the teachers don't need to think?
I have often wondered why the most conservative areas are typically the most economically disadvantaged, and vice versa. Is it because impoverished people tend to be less informed and are therefore more easily convinced to vote against their own interests? Is it because the populist view tends to favor communal growth which attracts more wealth generatng activities?
Any thoughts?
Gene Taylor loved quoting what he felt was the Liberal's motto:
"There is no problem that cannot be solved with our brains and your money."
CJ Huff lives by these words.
Here is a challenge: Will any well known conservative claim CJ as a fellow conservative?
Jay Nixon does not count. He is not a conservative by any stretch of the imagination.
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