<<< Common Core, if implement under state control, features these six over-riding goals. If the program becomes an institutionalized effort by Central Planning to establish a national program, it should be considered as evil, an resisted at all cost. Why? Because, as a national and required program, it will be used by the godless in this country, to propagandize our young away from God and the traditional values of this great country.
Editor’s
notes: I am not a teacher
but I (we – my wife and I) have two daughters who are school teachers (7 kids who are professionals as listed: two teachers,
two nurses, on lawyer, one ER doctor and one business owner). We (my daughters and I) have talked about Common Core, here in
California. One is a high school teacher
and the other, an elementary teacher. Neither sees serious problems with Common Core.
I am thinking that it is early in the
evolution of this Federal Program to know exactly where this program will take
us or how it will be used by the control freaks on the Left. Over the weekend, we have learned that even politically liberal
teachers are seeing the need for re-consideration. There IS cause for concern, apparently.
The Common Core has been applauded by education leaders and
promoted by the Obama administration as a way to replace a hodgepodge of state
standards with one set of
rigorous learning goals. Though 45 states and the District of Columbia have
signed on to them since 2010, resistance came quickly, mostly from
right-leaning states, where some leaders and political action groups have
protested what they see as a federal takeover of local classrooms.
But the newest chorus of complaints is coming from one of
the most liberal states, and one of the earliest champions of the standards:
New York. And that is causing supporters of the Common Core to shudder.
Carol
Burris, an acclaimed high school principal on Long Island, calls the Common
Core a “disaster.”
“We see kids,” she said, “they don’t want to go to school
anymore.”
Leaders of both parties in the New York Legislature want
to rethinkhow the state uses the Common Core.
The statewide teachers’ union withdrew
its support for the standards last month until “major course
corrections” took place . . . . . Read the full article in the NY Times, here.
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Opening paragraph, a second version:
Nothing wrong with the posted goals of Common Core, but, to turn them into a nationalized educational push to bring all programs into a singular, compliant program, is to invite the control freaks on the Left, to reject local controls and parental supervision - THAT is the fear some have for this program. In some school districts, parents are not allowed in the classrooms and the taping of class lectures is illegal. Parents are not invited. THAT should always be resisted. There is never a time when parents should be excluded from the education of their children. There should never be a time, when parental opinions and moral values unique to the particular family, are disallowed. If you are a teacher, be certain that you are not a part of this threat.
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Opening paragraph, a second version:
Nothing wrong with the posted goals of Common Core, but, to turn them into a nationalized educational push to bring all programs into a singular, compliant program, is to invite the control freaks on the Left, to reject local controls and parental supervision - THAT is the fear some have for this program. In some school districts, parents are not allowed in the classrooms and the taping of class lectures is illegal. Parents are not invited. THAT should always be resisted. There is never a time when parents should be excluded from the education of their children. There should never be a time, when parental opinions and moral values unique to the particular family, are disallowed. If you are a teacher, be certain that you are not a part of this threat.
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