Common Core Education - It's about the kids. Uh huh.

[Patriot]

Adopted by the Kansas State Board of Education in 2010, the Common Core Standards for education (another federal overreach) has some elements that may not please concerned parents.  Big government is running your kids' lives... and not in a good way.  Remember, Progressivism isn't a good thing.


Rotten to the Core: The Feds' Invasive Student Tracking Database
By Michelle Malkin  •  March 8, 2013 09:41 AM

...While many Americans worry about government drones in the sky spying on our private lives, Washington meddlers are already on the ground and in our schools gathering intimate data on children and families.

Say goodbye to your children's privacy. Say hello to an unprecedented nationwide student tracking system, whose data will apparently be sold by government officials to the highest bidders. It's yet another encroachment of centralized education bureaucrats on local control and parental rights under the banner of "Common Core."...

...These systems will aggregate massive amounts of personal data — health-care histories, income information, religious affiliations, voting status and even blood types and homework completion. The data will be available to a wide variety of public agencies. And despite federal student-privacy protections guaranteed by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the Obama administration is paving the way for private entities to buy their way into the data boondoggle. Even more alarming, the U.S. Department of Education is encouraging a radical push from aggregate-level data-gathering to invasive individual student-level data collection...

...Home-schoolers and religious families that reject traditional government education would be tracked. Original NEDM data points included hair color, eye color, weight, blood types and even dental status.

How exactly does amassing and selling such personal data improve educational outcomes? It doesn't. This, at its core, is the central fraud of Washington's top-down nationalized curricular scheme....

...Individual student privacy is sacrificed at the collective "For the Children" altar.

Fed Ed is not about excellence or academic achievement. It's about control, control and more control.

If you really care about the kids (and your privacy)  start here: http://michellemalkin.com/2013/03/08/rotten-to-the-core-the-feds-invasive-student-tracking-database/

Then read this:  http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/343040/common-core-trojan-horse-michelle-malkin

And, yes, Kansas schools are part of the 'program":  http://www.usakansas.org/content/190027600.php

Do your state reps support, or even understand this nonsense?

[redcliffsw]

Good post there Patriot.

If you want to raise your kids to be communists, then send 'em to a government school.

[Warph]

Adopted by the Kansas State Board of Education in 2010, the Common Core Standards for education (another federal overreach) has some elements that may not please concerned parents.  Big government is running your kids' lives... and not in a good way.  Remember, Progressivism isn't a good thing.