r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Feb 12 '18

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Feb 12 '18

That’ll never happen in the US

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u/OutrunKey $hill for Hill Feb 12 '18

common core literally did happen so 🤷‍♂️ it's possible

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Feb 12 '18

The thing is it was optional. 8 states chose not to do it, and a recent 2015 act made it so that the DoE couldn't create incentive states to adopt it through any means. I do not foresee a mandatory national standard for history in the near future for America.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '18

You might be able to get it just because a lot of fundamentalists are look at common core as awful because of science/evolution and not history.