I have seen many educational
fads come and go, trying to replace teaching methodology in our public schools
with something so revolutionary and never tried before that would make teaching
a “science” instead of an art and place all children into a national
standardized one mold fits all in spite of the human variability in
intelligence, talent, aptitude, ability, and the desire to learn. All these
fads were driven by the Department of Education’s intention to fund new
research that justified its existence and the college professors of education
who were under the threat of “publish or perish” when it came to obtaining the
very sought-after tenure - life employment without dismissal for cause.
Education grew more and more liberal, infusing non-science subjects with Chavezism,
Castroism, Maoism, Stalinism, feminism, racism, socialism, and communism.
Why are we then sending our
kids to college, borrowing the money we don’t have, knowing that the kids won’t
be able to pay it back when they can’t find a job because the jobs don’t exist,
the economy is in shambles? Why are we allowing these degenerate college
professors many of whom hate America and what it stands for to destroy the
minds of our children and reshape them in the vision of their professors’
ideology?
Common Core, the
brainchild and work of 30 individuals under the aegis of the Governors’
Association and the almost $200 million sponsorship of the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, is something else. It is the tool to achieve the “fundamental
transformation” of our society as promised in 2008. It is nationalized
education “standards” that require students to find another way to reach an
answer, particularly in math, even if the answer is wrong, justifying the
incorrect answer as the path to help students learn to think critically. This
would probably happen right after the student is turned off to math or he/she
reaches the right developmental age to think analytically and critically.
A simple addition,
17+25=42, elicited the following response from a second grader in San Jose who
was using the GO Math! Curriculum of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, aligned with
the Common Core standards, “I got the assignment by talking in my brain and I
agreed of the answer that my brain got.” http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/30/this-second-graders-revenge-against-common-core-math-will-make-your-day/
Here is another simple
math problem that a third grader should be able to solve immediately, 26+17=43.
In the Common Core new, perplexing, and convoluted way of thinking, the problem
is resolved this way:
“Add 26+17 by breaking
apart numbers to make a 10.
Use a number that adds
with the 6 in 26 to make a 10.
Since 6+4=10, use 4.
Think: 17=4+13
Add 26+4=30
Add 30+13=43
So, 26+17= 43”
If you are dumbfounded by
this kind of stressful and irrational logic, you are not alone.
+3
+10 +100 +43 100+43+10+3=156
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Can we imagine now
studying calculus and differential equations under such contorted thinking? But
it gets much worse in reading, writing, government, and history.
A Common Core kindergarten
problem instructs, “In each cube stick, color some cubes blue and the rest of
the cubes red. Draw the cubes you colored in the number bond. Show the hidden
partners on your fingers to an adult. Color the fingers you showed.” Aside from
the fact that the problem is almost impossible for an adult to comprehend, it
involves “cube sticks,” “number bonds” and “hidden partners.” The worksheet further
urges children to impose this math concept on an adult. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=511540018952786&set=a.198312883608836.34844.198021666971291&type=3&theater
Another example from the
Go Math! Common Core aligned math curriculum involves Mina Boyd’s kindergarten
child who was given the worksheet to Count and Write 20, presumably 20 apples
that looked curiously like bombs. There were actually only 19. Was it a
printing mistake or were the publishers having difficulty with this “transformational”
math? One reader described the assignment beyond brainwashing - a form of
Pavlov’s dog conditioned response, “neuro-linguistic programming, and otherwise
known as hypnosis.”
http://eagnews.org/before-the-math-gets-too-complicated-common-core-publishers-should-learn-to-count-to-20/
A fourth grade reading assignment
asks students to describe adultery, a highly inappropriate topic for elementary
school. http://weaselzippers.us/180880-common-core-fourth-grade-worksheet-features-story-about-adultery/
Sixth grade students in Arkansas were given in
2013 the assignment to “revise” the “outdated” Bill of Rights, “suggesting that
the government can grant and remove inalienable rights.” Middle School students
were also told that the Second Amendment requires gun registration.
According to the workbook, “This amendment
states that people have the right to certain weapons, providing that they
register them and they have not been in prison.”
http://eagnews.org/middle-school-assignment-second-amendment-requires-gun-registration/#more-29159
It gets even more
interesting. The USDA is now in the business of nudging grandparents to use
ChooseMyPlate.gov to help their grandkids eat healthier, and giving
instructions to offer their grandchildren “hugs” instead of treats and to “read
government bedtime stories.” http://blogs.usda.gov/2014/03/31/grandparents-help-kids-develop-good-eating-habits/
People like Jeb Bush and
Mike Huckabee have constantly pushed the Common Core standards. If implemented,
they are “designed to make the United States more competitive with the rest of
the world.” How exactly would a dumbed down curriculum make children more
competitive? Were we not competitive enough before Common Core? Was American
higher education not the envy of the world? Why must we now destroy it? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/03/24/jeb-bush-common-core-critics-care-too-much-about-kids-self-esteem/
Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in
Education is running Common Core ads non-stop. Parents are waking up and
garnering the support of some teachers. But there are powerful groups who are
pushing Common Core because there is a lot of money at stake. Common Core
standards are not a grass-roots, nor state-led initiative. It is the Obama administration Race to the Top
competition bribing schools with billions of dollars if they adopt Common Core.
It is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, it is Pearson, the billion dollar
educational publishing and testing conglomerate, the Center for American
Progress, the National Governors Association (NGA), the Council of Chief State
School Officers (CCSSO), and recipients of Bill Gates Foundation money who continue
to propagandize Common Core.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/373881/your-common-core-marketing-overlords-michelle-malkin
U.S. News and World Report quoted Randi
Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (1.5 million
members), who stated that the Common Core implementation is ‘far worse’ than
Obamacare.”
http://www.newsmax.com/US/common-core-chamber-of-commerce-repeal-conservative/2014/03/14/id/559652/
Money is no object when it comes to sending school
administrators to a luxurious hotel and spa ($38,000) in order to discuss
strategies for implementing Common Core standards at schools in the Inglewood,
California impoverished school district that had to be bailed out in 2012 to
the tune of $55 million. http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/06/impoverished-school-district-sends-admins-on-lavish-common-core-spa-trip/#ixzz2vUNgQYxe
The Daily Caller assembled a list of complicated,
dreadful math problems and worksheets that are glaring evidence that Common
Core standards are not really trying to improve our children’s education, but are
hurting their education. http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/07/heres-proof-that-common-core-aims-to-make-americas-children-cry/
Common Core math standards are based on the
theory of Constructivism. This
theory rejects the drilling of children on basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction,
multiplication). Instead, children are taught to “construct” their own way of figuring out an answer. An incorrect answer
is acceptable as long as the child explains how he/she got the wrong answer.
The reading found in the English literature
selections is not chosen for the joy of reading and learning, but instead, they
are to be “analyzed and discussed by students using leftwing norms” of morality
and behavior. This unproven theory of education is called New Criticism Literary Analysis.
Moral ambiguity, acceptance of perverse and aberrant
behavior presented as courage, overt sexuality, adultery, and even pornography are
some of the themes chosen for young and older students. For example, schools in
North Carolina who adopted the Common Core standards are requiring the reading
of the sexually explicit book, The House
of Spirits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Spirits_(film)
Middle school readings
include the complete United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of the Child and the complete United Nations Millennium Declaration
with the main theme being global diversity and global citizenship. Stories include
head scarves of Muslims in France, an American teenager punished in Singapore,
an arranged marriage in India, learning Japanese, an African novel, and
articles promoting global warming as settled science. The readings indicate the
progressives’ love affair with third world societies which they deem superior
to our own.
Centuries of European and
American civilization and culture are glossed over. The few stories devoted to
American culture include a kid who tries to avoid parental punishment for
breaking curfew, Halloween, and a controversy over sea lions in Oregon.
http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/2014/03/why-moms-are-protesting-common-core/#.UxgO2lNibRA.gmail
The Eagle Forum described some of the reading
materials aligned with Common Core. The common denominators are
anti-Americanism, sexuality, porn, and global warming:
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Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia (10th
grade reading, anti-American and sexually explicit)
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Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (9th
grade, a 13-year old boy describing his father’s genitals and a sex act)
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Wind Power (k-1, telling children their
electricity comes from wind mills)
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Ted the Fly Guy (k-1, cartoon characters
with large eyes)
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Where Do Polar Bears Live? by Sarah
Thomson (2nd and 3rd graders, global warming, climate
change, carbon foot print)
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Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher
(4th and 5th graders, woman learns of her own murder plot
when phone wires get crossed; is this the kind of reading appropriate for 9 and
10 year olds?)
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English language arts lesson plans for 3rd,
4th, and 5th graders based on the book, Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,
portray President Obama as a “messianic figure,” clearly a propaganda effort to
align ideology with Common Core
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Common Core Anti-American teaching
guides produced by Zaner-Bloser company
1. Two-week lesson for 4th graders using the book The Jacket indoctrinates children into
the concept of racism and white privilege; the left-wing concept that the
values of American society are designed to benefit white people to the
exclusion of black people
2.
Another Zaner-Bloser guide uses the book Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez,
to indoctrinate 2nd graders into the founder of the United Farm
Workers union and “equality.” The conditions of the farmers and the landowners
are presented on opposite pages, instructing teachers to say, “Fairness and
equality exist when the scales are balanced” and “unfairness and inequality
exist when the scales are weighted heavily on one side and are out of balance.”
Do 7 year olds understand economics and property rights? Do they understand
that first generation Americans came to this country with the clothes on their
backs to escape poverty and religious persecution, worked very hard and made a
better life for themselves and their children? (EAGNews.org, 10-17-13 and 10-21-13)
“These
lesson plans will indoctrinate students against the same American opportunities
that allowed millions of immigrants to arrive here penniless, work hard, and
achieve the American dream.” http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/educate/jan14/controversy-porn-pervade-common-core-curriculum.html
Phyllis Schlafly explained
that parents also object to Common Core for its massive data collection on
every student in the United States, in-depth longitudinal studies from birth to
college, an invasion of privacy, and the mark of a totalitarian state.
To make the Common Core
more acceptable, some states are changing the name. Iowa calls it the Iowa Core.
Florida found a more euphemistic name, Next Generation Sunshine State
Standards. Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed an executive order to erase the
name Common Core.
“Even under a different name, the Common Core
Standards are still mediocre, at best, and continue to put American students at
a significant disadvantage to their international peers,” Glyn Wright,
executive director of the Eagle Forum.” http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/22/name-game-amid-opposition-states-change-title-common-core/?intcmp=trending
Should parents question
the Common Core standards that are unproven and untested, they might experience
what happened to the father who showed up at a school board meeting in Towson, Maryland,
asking questions the board had not picked – he was forcibly escorted out of the
meeting by a hired security guard and arrested. http://benswann.com/maryland-parent-arrested-for-challenging-common-core/
The latest Common Core
outrage comes from California. The Mark Twain School in Sacramento has
suspended Katherine Duran, the mother of a 12-year old student, for 14 days in
her home for “disrupting the school.” Duran’s son, Christopher, distributed Common
Core opt-out forms to other students to take home to their parents. The
principal confiscated the forms. Mrs. Duran visited the school and confronted
the principal who then called the police. She was served with the two-week
suspension order. According to the Blaze, the principal “sent police with a
chilling note that contained notice of the two-week ‘Withdrawal of Consent’ as
well as a threat of arrest should she violate the order,” including the
legalese, “The District will seek reimbursement for attorney costs the courts
may impose.” http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/04/moms-anti-common-core-stance-gets-her-suspended-from-sons-school-threatened-with-arrest/
In light of the recent
developments in Scotland where a bill was passed that appoints a health worker
to act as a “named person” for every child until the age of five, then to a council
with teachers until the child reaches 18, parents should be concerned. Conservatives tried to argue that such
measures should have been taken only when the well-being or safety of a child was
at stake. A Christian charity promised to take court action to overturn the law
because it violates parental rights. The law was passed under the guise of
identifying children with developmental difficulties and potential cases of
abuse. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10650090/Scottish-ministers-threatened-with-legal-action-over-state-guardian-plans.html
Michael Ramey, of ParentalRights.org,
writing to his supporters, pointed out that “the legislation was specifically
aimed at compliance with the radical U.N. Convention on the Rights of the
Child.” Where are the rights of the parents vis-à-vis excessive government
intrusion?
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/17748-citing-un-treaty-scotland-assigns-overseer-to-every-child
American parents should better
wise up before it is too late and they too will lose their parental rights
because the government deems that it is better positioned to be mommy and
daddy.
Note: Michelle Malkin is informing parents that
there is a Common Core opt-out form, courtesy of Truth in American Education. “You
can exercise your parental rights to protect your children from the
nationalized Common Core.” http://michellemalkin.com/2013/03/11/attention-parents-common-core-opt-out-form-now-available/
Watch the recently
released documentary on Common Core by Ian A. Reid, Building the Machine, www.CommonCoreMovie.com
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