“Common
Core will be raising good little socialists, who are in tune with their
feelings, not so much their critical thinking skills.” – Author unknown
“Common sense of
the common people is more important for the health of the nation than the ideas
of the philosophical elites.” – Wayne Brasler
The best
documentary on the National Common Core Standards, Building the Machine, was directed by Ian A. Reid, who set out to
illuminate the sixty-two percent of Americans who had not heard of Common Core
in 2013. www.CommonCoreMovie.com
Common Core,
the brainchild and work of 30 individuals under the aegis of the Governors’
Association and with the help of almost $200 million from the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, is the tool to achieve the “fundamental transformation” of
our society by adopting nationalized education “standards” that require
students to find another way to reach an answer, particularly in math and
science, even if the answer is wrong, justifying the incorrect answer as the
path to helping students learn to think critically. The fact that the student
needs to reach the right developmental age to think analytically and critically
does not seem important in this newest educational scheme.
I gave examples
of ill-conceived lesson plans, textbooks, and inappropriate reading materials in
many subjects in my article here. http://canadafreepress.com/article/teach-common-sense-not-common-core
The national teaching
standards were adopted by 45 states without parental or teacher input, under
confidentiality agreements, without public debate, untested, untried, unproven,
and certainly not “internationally benchmarked” or “state led” as it is now
promoted in ads.
The bait for adoption was
the $4.35 billion worth of grants offered through the President’s stimulus
package. States had two months to write proposals in order to be eligible for the Race to the Top grants. Hurting for
money because the economy was so depressed, 45 states applied and, in doing so,
they accepted the Race to the Top Standards.
The standards, which were
to become Common Core standards were not debated, “the drafts were cloaked,”
there were no hearings, no testimony, just “some truncated public comments and
no response to comments.”
“The Common Core standards
were designed for an industrial model school,” claiming that they are
“rigorous, even though they can’t tell you what makes for rigorous or
non-rigorous standards.” Marc Tucker believes that they are designed for “work
force development in the German model system.” Andrew Hacker, Professor
Emeritus at Queens College, called Common Core standards, “a radical change
from the past.”
According to the documentary,
Building the Machine, “players”
involved in developing, funding, adopting, and advertising national Common Core
standards were:
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Achieve, Inc.
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Fordham Institute
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The National
Governors Association
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Council of Chief
State School Officers
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U.S. Department
of Education
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Foundation for Excellence
in Education
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U.S. Chamber of
Commerce
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45 governors
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Jeb Bush
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Mike Huckabee
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School Officers
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Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation (donated $200 million in 2012 alone to adopt Common Core)
http://canadafreepress.com/article/building-the-machine-the-common-core-documentary
The Validation Committee
was composed of 30 people who had to sign a confidentiality agreement that they
would not discuss what took place in the meetings. (Dr. Sandra Stotsky)
Five committee members, a
significant percentage, did not sign the final standards and were thus
“expunged from the record.” Dr. Jim Milgram said, “They are not giving the
public any idea of what’s going on.” Dr. Milgram and Dr. Stotsky were the only
mathematician and English language arts content specialists on the 30-person
validation committee. Neither approved the standards.
Replacing basic arithmetic
(addition, subtraction, multiplication) with Constructivism, teaching children how to “construct” their own way of figuring out an answer, even if it’s
the wrong answer, and replacing English literature selections with New Criticism Literary Analysis, using
leftwing norms of morality and behavior, appears to be a recipe for mediocrity.
We are a diverse nation
populated by individuals with different talents, ability, IQ, motivation,
interests, and dissimilar childhood experiences. Some children live on farms
and some in the cities, some are affluent and some are not.
College should help Americans
become life-long learners, not ideological robots. Education should be about
our children, not the “system.” Paul Horton, Veteran History Teacher,
University of Chicago Lab Schools, thinks that the “Current policy makers see
the purpose of education as training people to acquire the minimum level of
skills that are required to work in a technical workplace.”
In this Race to the Top competition standards
that baited many into adoption of leftist ideas of what education should be, what
race exactly are we supposed to win and against whom?
We are not trying to win any
race; we are trying to pursue happiness, our American way of life, and keep our
constitutional republic intact and safe, maintain our Christian heritage and
faith, and reject the overt indoctrination into Islam. We do not need
billionaire elitists, politicians, or Hollywood to tell us how to think, how to
live, or dictate our faith.
James O’Keefe’s
Project Veritas has released a new video, Common
Corruption – Elitist Indoctrination, in which one of the Pearson Publishing
former executives, Kim Koerber, explains the profit motive and the role of
textbook publishers in our children’s education and what is the aim of Common
Core. http://www.projectveritas.com/
“I hate kids. It’s
never about the kids. Don’t kid yourselves…. It’s all about money.”
“Common core is really important
because it needs to be some cohesion between the states and Texas keeps
screwing it up over and over. Texas got upset about it and they wanted to have
their founders, they wanted to pound the fathers in it. … The dead white guys
did not create this country. It was a whole bunch of different kinds of people.
And yes there were women, and yes, there were people of color and yes, you need
to talk about them too. But they want to talk about those dead white guys.”
According to
Kim, conservative voters don’t agree with birth control and therefore do not
want their kids to learn about it. Conservatives object to the very graphic
lessons on sexuality and sexual perversion, and STDs that small children
would be subjected to.
According to
Kim, conservatives object to the approximate math of Common Core because they
do not understand the new math, they did not study it in high school.
Kim is of
the deceptive opinion that conservatives want the Constitution taught but only
the parts they like. It seems to me that she wants only the parts progressives promote
when she says, “Damn the Second Amendment! I don’t think personal handguns need
to be on anyone except the government, the police. What is the purpose of having a gun?”
Kim should
study the history of the Holocaust and communism when only the government and
the police had guns – more than 100 million innocents lost their lives at the
hands of their governments.
Donald Trump
spoke at the National Tea Party convention against Common Core and the “bureaucrats
in Washington [who] are making a lot of money, they don’t give a damn about
your kids in South Carolina…. Nobody can win when you are in favor of Common
Core, it’s a disaster.”
Ted Cruz
said that, as president, on his first day in office, he would instruct the
Department of Education to end Common Core.
Santorum
echoed the opinions of the other presidential hopefuls. “The real issue for
common core is the elites in our culture who want to indoctrinate our young
people into a certain way to think, a certain belief structure, and it’s all
spread out through Common Core. I believe the best and safest way to maintain our
values in this country is to leave it up to the people at the grass roots
level.”
According to
Kim Koerber, “conservatives don’t like being told what to do by people they don’t
agree with.” She wants history to include lessons about the Wild West and its
prostitutes.
When “Republicans
want to influence what is being taught,” Koerber said, “Common Core does not
put up with that.” Apparently progressives know better and we must comply with
their standards. Conservatives must be told how to think. “I can’t stand it,
said Kim. If they talk to me one more time about common core, about climate
change not being real, I’m just gonna scream.”
The elites
who push Common Core do not think much about Christianity. Kim Koerber continued, “I am really glad that
here in California, whatever religious affiliation you want to take is fine,
but in Texas they want to push the Christianity.” …”That’s why is so offensive
to have these prayers in the school board.”
“Christianity is totally out of the Common
Core. Yes, it is. Totally! It’s not a core concept at all. But then there
is a mention of other religions like Islam.”
Apparently
Kim Koerber does not understand that we were founded on Christianity, not
Islam. Islam had made no contribution to the establishment of our country and
of our success. Europeans fled the tyranny of monarchs so they could live and worship
in peace.
It is very
profitable for textbook companies anytime someone changes something in a
textbook, said Kim. “School districts then have to adopt new books. It is all
about the money.”
Koerber admits
that there is a liberal bias in the Common Core standards. “So, I think the
progressive bias is that the more educated you are, the better you are.” Education
may be good but there are certain things that kids don’t need to know in such
stark and pornographic detail and at such a tender age.
The reporter
argued that kids were doing math and science just fine before Common Core;
Koerber replied that critics don’t like it because the government is telling
them what to do.
She
continued, “The separation of church and state they don’t understand. They don’t
like that. They don’t like equal rights between all groups. The voter suppression
in the south is unbelievably awful.” What voter suppression? What planet BIG
LIE does this woman live on?
Smearing
critics that, “People who are not educated are easy to flim-flam, and that they
react by fear instead of by knowledge,” Koerber is proving the progressive elitist
arrogance that they are the only smart ones and they hold the academic key to
knowledge. Fortunately, informed and intelligent people see through progressive
stratagems and through Conformity Core indoctrination into collectivism and
Islam.
Of course,
now that the omnibus bill has been signed last month, the next education
federalization that is augmenting Common Core comes as the Every Student
Succeeds Act (ESSA), S.1177, sponsored by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) which was
included in the omnibus bill. https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1177
Deceptively
named “Community Schools,” promoted by Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), these
government schools will replace parental responsibilities under the guise of “early
childhood learning, medical and dental screenings, and career counseling,” all
of which have been done unsuccessfully under Head Start, Medicaid, and school
title programs.
Jane
Robbins, attorney and activist with Truth in American Education, is quoted in
the New American, such “schools will be expanded to replace family and church
as the center of every child’s life, offering myriad ‘services’ including
mental-health programs.” She added that “Few things should alarm parents more
than the prospect of the government’s assessing their child’s mental health and
proceeding to fix any problem the government claims to find.” http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/21395-obamas-community-schools-aim-to-replace-parents
Arne Duncan,
former Secretary of Education, had boasted that these government schools will
care for some American children 24/7, while all students will become global citizens
and will be converted into ‘green citizens’ with UNESCO as ‘global partner’ and
its World Core Curriculum. http://www.unesco.org/education/tisf/mods/theme_c/popups/mod18t01s03.htmlNow we really understand why curricula around the world are relatively the same --manufactured history, neglected traditions, white achievement bashing, multiculturalism, no unified language, the fundamental transformation into one world collectivist government with its sustainable development everything.
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