Government failed miserably with Head
Start but the taxpayers’ memories are short. Sec. Duncan wants to throw $1
billion more to the Title I program to low-income school districts with no
guarantee that it will make a bit of difference in the education outcomes of
those students, particularly since curricula is dictated by the wicked Common
Core standards with the nonsensical and unnecessarily complex math,
collectivist indoctrination, and proselytizing for Islam.
No wonder teachers with a conscience are
retiring early after 22 years of teaching—nobody wants to jump through
political correctness hoops, they want to teach traditional curriculum that
made Americans successful before the Department of Education came into being
and before Bill Gates decided to change it into “Conformity Core” Standards.
Government intrusion into education is
not a formula for success. Parents, teachers, and even some administrators have
no idea how the data mining of their children is going to be used by third
parties who will purchase the information. The start-up company, Knewton, has
gathered information on 4 million children.
Politico reports, “Students are
tracked as they play online games, watch videos, read books, take quizzes and
run laps in physical education. The monitoring continues as they work on
assignments from home, with companies logging children’s locations, homework
schedules, Web browsing habits and, of course, their academic progress.” http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/data-mining-your-children-106676.html#ixzz3Oo9FovT6
Knewton, according to parents, administrators, and
teachers, collects more data on our children than the NSA. When parents
protested against data-mining, Knewton’s CEO Jose Ferreira responded that
“concerns are overblown,” he was helping them learn. He asked, “Is it simply
that they don’t want a for-profit company to map their kids’ minds? If not, why
not? They’d rather the NSA have it? What, you trust government?”
Knewton, which advertises, “The world's
most innovative learning companies use Knewton technology to boost student
achievement,” has the following partners: http://www.knewton.com/
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Santillana (Spain and Latin America)
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Wizard (Brazil)
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Sesameworkshop (“The Electric Company”)
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Elsevier (scientific, technological, and
medical information)
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Gyldendal (Norway)
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Sanoma Learning (Netherlands,
Belgium, Finland, Poland, and Sweden)
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Malmberg (Netherlands)
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Sebit (U.S., Europe, Turkey, Middle East,
Asia)
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Adaptive Curriculum
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Microsoft
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Cengage Learning (Management and Sociology)
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Gutenberg Technology (My Ebook Factory)
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Lelivresscolaire.fr (French grammar,
English grammar, math, geography, and history)
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Cambridge University Press
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MacMillan Education
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Triumph Learning (Common Core standards)
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Wiley Global Education (Australia and New
Zealand)
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Pearson (Common Core standards and testing)
There is nothing wrong with helping children learn by
traditional methods but there is no evidence that using technology to spy on
children’s habits and their thought-pattern is actually helping them learn.
Technology can be used nefariously to implant thoughts and ideas into impressionable
minds, brainwashing them into the ideology of the government’s choice.
It is impossible to demand “equity” in schools because
not all schools are created equal and not all children are created equal, some
have stronger musical intelligence, some logical, some are naturalists, some
are mathematically gifted, some learn best kinesthetically, and some have
stronger linguistic intelligence. Howard Gardner identifies 8 types of
different intelligences in children, some are weaker and some are stronger in
each child. http://www.cse.emory.edu/sciencenet/mismeasure/genius/research02.html
A student coming
from a small and remote school in Alaska cannot pick up where he/she left off
when moving to another state. In many places, one cannot find an entire class
of students ready, willing, and able to take advanced chemistry nor the teacher
qualified to offer such a course. Perhaps it can be offered through the web but
students need hands-on experimentation in a lab.
Germany has “sorted out” information on children and
their families in order to address allegiance problems to the state. “Children were used to control their parents by
being encouraged to report what they did and said. Hitler realized that older
people would be less enthusiastic about his ideas, so he made every effort to
win the minds of the next generation.” The control of people’s ideas was
introduced in the form of a gradual change. The brainwashing/education
included:
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Nursery rhymes and songs were “about
bloodshed, violence, and anti-Semitism
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No foreign languages for girls and only math
related to cooking and childcare
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Textbooks were revisionist versions of Nazi
propaganda
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Lesson included only Nazi ideals and ideology
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Girls were taught about church, 4 children,
and cooking, no makeup, no expensive clothes, long hair worn in a bun
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Propaganda lessons about the ideal German
family
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Boys studied math and science and outdoor
activities/sports
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Membership in Youth Organizations was
compulsory http://www.johndclare.net/Nazi_Germany2_BBCnotes.htm
Then there is the Virginia Goochland County Board of
Education that was swamped by angry parents who wanted the repeal of a policy
that would have forced 14-year-old home-schooled children to be interrogated by
the school board about their religious beliefs. Virginia’s religious exemption
statute gives parents the right to control the upbringing and education of
their children. http://www.redstate.com/diary/matthewclark/2015/01/14/virginia-county-interrogate-homeschool-teens-religious-beliefs/
What are some of these 600 plus data points collected on
each child? When religion and political affiliation of your parents, or whether
they voted or not in the last election are included in the data-mining, it is
worrisome.
Suppose you know this information and your next onscreen
lesson is about the non-existence of God, or that Republicans are mean and
hateful people who stand in the way of progress and success of the downtrodden,
conservatives are enemies because they object to redistribution of wealth,
government control, and high government taxation, then your child’s obstacles
will be overcome by training them to accept government control of their lives
through subliminal messages included in their on screen lessons. Government
curricula can thus make children believe whatever they want them to believe
through subtle and subliminal brainwashing.
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