These United States are obsessed with matching and exceeding every other nation's education system. It is a terrible idea. The education system needs to return to the progressive ideals of the late 1800's and early 1900's that those like Edward Bok espoused. The Common Core represents all the damage that Horace Mann inflicted on the American education system and student. In a January 1900 editorial titled "A National Crime At the Feet of American Parents" for the newspaper "Ladies' Home Journal", Edward Bok wrote that "The child is made to study far, far beyond his physical strength, and consequently his mental good." Bok made it clear that students should from elementary to junior high school should not even have to carry books home, that theirs' is to be a child and spend time between "dismissal and dinner" outside with friends before eating dinner and going to bed. It is a sad state of affairs that words written 120 years ago should remain so true.
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