Common Core Education And More About Federal Government Control

[Ross]

DO WE NEED COMMON CORE
TO MAKE MATTERS EVEN WORSE

This is just one example of athletics and higher education!

Will you support the West Elk School Boards Push For
More Sport Education Over Real Education By Voting Yes
For A New Gymnasium?

Check out the terrible paper that earned a player an A- at North Carolina

UNC athlete paper.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of our nation's finest universities, ranking 30th in the latest U.S. News and World Report list of top schools and eighth on Forbes' list of top public colleges. And the bit of drivel above apparently earned an A-minus, according to ESPN.

Why? Simple. That paper was written by an athlete for a class specifically designed to keep them moving through the university.

"Athletes couldn't write a paper," Mary Willingham, a specialist in the school's learning-support system-turned-whistleblower, told ESPN. "They couldn't write a paragraph. They couldn't write a sentence yet." She said that some of the students were reading at a second- or third-grade level, which is considered illiterate for a college-age student. As Willingham notes, in the "AFAM" classes, players were notching As and Bs, but in actual classes such as Biology and Economics were receiving Ds and Fs.

The academic scandal at UNC has deep roots; hundreds of classes since the mid-1990s fell into a "no-show" category, classes made up primarily or completely of athletes who didn't even show up to class and yet earned an A. Such dry statistics generally receive a disbelieving shake of the head, but it's not until you actually see what kind of work these "students" were producing that you start to see the way a "student-athlete," and an athletic department, can game the system:

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Whistleblower says UNC put athletes in classes that never met and required only one final paper. This one got an A-.

That paper doesn't even make it six words before its first error (the actual date of Rosa Parks' bus incident was Dec. 1, 1955), and the rest of the paper would make a fourth-grade Language Arts teacher burn through two red pens.

One of the key arguments of the NCAA and its defenders, or those opposed to paying players, is that the players are "receiving a valuable education." Giving an A-minus to a paper like this shows how false that premise can be.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/check-out-the-terrible-paper-that-earned-a-player-an-a--at-north-carolina-151005969.html

Under the Remarks section:
Given how tuition of colleges has soared 300% over the past 34 years... and the level of education has decreased overall... yet sports programs have boomed in the Universities.... does this really shock or surprise anyone?

We all see this. We have all been looking at this for decades, so this should really come as no surprise. For God's sake, we've all watched at least 1 basketball / football game in the past 20 years, and we've all seen and heard how some of these athletes talk... they talk like they're in Elementary school... blowing through words, mispronouncing them, etc... their level of education has been obvious and evident since at least the late 1980s...

So why does this surprise the Media and the people of our country, when its been so obvious?

[Ross]

[Ross]

This second grader's revenge
against Common Core math
will make your day

The Daily Caller
March 30, 2014 10:18 AM

The litany of frighteningly stupid Common Core math worksheets never ends. Perhaps now, though, kids are starting to fight back in satisfyingly creative ways.

An alert reader sent The Daily Caller this image of her seven-year-old son's perfectly reasonable homework answer. The boy attends a public elementary school in San Jose, Calif. He is in the second grade.

The math curriculum used by the school is GO Math! The publisher of GO Math! is produced by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

The parent who sent the homework question to TheDC noted that the curriculum aligns with the Common Core math standards.

"If you look closely under the math question, you will be able to see the Common Core standards in a blue-colored print that aligns to that particular question," she explained.

The constantly burgeoning inventory of sad and hideous Common Core math problems is very long.

Just this month, for example, a frustrated dad posted his kid's absurd Common Core-aligned math homework on Instagram. (RELATED: 'Why are they making math harder?' More absurd Common Core math problems.

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Over the summer, The Daily Caller exposed a video showing a curriculum coordinator in suburban Chicago perkily explaining that Common Core allows students to be totally right if they say 3 x 4 = 11 as long as they spout something about the necessarily faulty reasoning they used to get to that wrong answer. (RELATED: Obama math: under new Common Core, 3 x 4 = 11 [VIDEO])

Rep. Timothy Hill, R-Blountville, looks toward the House gallery where Common Core opponents were gathered during a floor debate in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, March 13, 2014. Hill's bill was amended to include a delay in Common Core standards before it was passed by the chamber. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

Common Core, new educational standards adopted in many states across the country, is dividing Florida conservatives. Critics say local control of education would be stripped away.

In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 25, 2013, Airia Turner, a second grader at George Buck Elementary School in Indianapolis, works on writing. The national math and education standards outlined in the Common Core are everywhere at Buck Elementary. Stapled packets of the standards hang outside classroom doors, and individual guidelines are cut out and displayed in the hallways next to hand-drawn graphs scribbled in crayon. A bill signed last Monday by Gov. Mike Pence makes Indiana the first state to revoke those standards, but what will replace them is unclear in a state where teachers are still reeling from years of change. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

George Stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with billionaire Bill Gates on Common Core education standards.
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[Ross]

Education

This Common Core math worksheet offers a glimpse into Kafkaesque third-grade hell

Eric Owens   9:51 AM 01/28/2014

The latest nightmarishly awful Common Core math worksheet to bubble up courtesy of Twitter is for third graders, according to Twitchy.

Here it is, in all its surreal, subtly cruel glory:

The instructions — "Match the picture with the fraction that names the shaded part" — are likely confusing to a typical third-grade kid just trying to make it through the day. This is because, as Twitter user Jennifer Hall keenly notes, there are no shaded parts.

Of course, the instructions would probably be even more confusing to some poor kid who knows very little about fractions.

Sadly, Hall observes, her daughter is just learning fractions for the first time:

Also, sure enough! Those super-tiny words at the bottom of the worksheet say "Common Core."

This awful worksheet is the latest in an ever-growing series of stories demonstrating the awfulness of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a curriculum — but don't call it a curriculum! — currently being implemented by 45 states and the District of Columbia.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/28/this-common-core-math-worksheet-offers-a-glimpse-into-kafkaesque-third-grade-hell/

[Ross]

Obama math:
under new Common Core,
3 x 4 = 11
[VIDEO]

Eric Owens   11:09 AM 08/18/2013

Quick: what's 3 x 4?

If you said 11 — or, hell, if you said 7, pi, or infinity squared — that's just fine under the Common Core, the new national curriculum that the Obama administration will impose on American public school students this fall.

In a pretty amazing YouTube video, Amanda August, a curriculum coordinator in a suburb of Chicago called Grayslake, explains that getting the right answer in math just doesn't matter as long as kids can explain the necessarily faulty reasoning they used to get to that wrong answer.

"Even if they said, '3 x 4 was 11,' if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer really in, umm, words and oral explanation, and they showed it in the picture but they just got the final number wrong, we're really more focused on the how," August says in the video.

When someone in the audience (presumably a parent, but it's not certain) asks if teachers will be, you know, correcting students who don't know rudimentary arithmetic instantly, August makes another meandering, longwinded statement.

"We want our students to compute correctly but the emphasis is really moving more towards the explanation, and the how, and the why, and 'can I really talk through the procedures that I went through to get this answer,'" August details. "And not just knowing that it's 12, but why is it 12? How do I know that?"

Watch:

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/18/obama-math-under-new-common-core-3-x-4-11-video/

[Ross]

EPIC FAIL:
Parents reveal insane Common Core
worksheets

Furious parents are taking to Twitter to explain their frustration with the new Common Core standards, posting screenshots of incomprehensible Core-aligned worksheets and tests.

The unintentionally hilarious images were collected by Twitchy.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/22/epic-fail-parents-reveal-insane-common-core-worksheets/

[Ross]

Education

Is this Common Core math question the worst math question in human history?

Eric Owens   10:00 AM 12/07/2013

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has promised to improve education quality vastly by pushing for the implementation of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

This year, 45 states and the District of Columbia have implemented the Common Core standards and curricula based on those standards.

Duncan doesn't much care for the people who criticize Common Core, either. He has insisted that it's all a bunch of "white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary." (RELATED: Arne Duncan blames irrational angst of 'white suburban moms' for Common Core pushback)

What, exactly, is the content of this Common Core that's going to make American kids so much smarter? So far it appears to be a slew of worksheets and tests involving various, incomprehensible arrays of squares and circles.

There are also traditional word problems. Twitchy has found a word problem that may be the most egregiously awful math problem the Common Core has produced yet. Take a look:

According to the Twitter user who posted it, the vexing problem came from a friend who is a teacher.

The problem comes from a Houghton Mifflin Assessment Guide. It appears among a larger set of basically similar math problems here. The problem involving Juanita appears on page AG102, nestled among some other problems that are similarly weak and crappy — though not nearly as harrrowing as the problem above.



Houghton Mifflin is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a huge textbook publisher. The company's website promises to be "a partner who will share the responsibilities" of the Common Core: "We have created a wide range of content, curricula, and services to support school leaders, teachers and educators, parents, and especially students with this transition."

Twitchy readers tried to tease out the answer to the Juanita problem — how can you not? – and determined that the answer is either 12, 24, 0 or 7.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/07/is-this-common-core-math-question-the-worst-math-question-in-human-history/

[Ross]

Now they're arresting people
who complain about the
Common Core

2:21 AM 09/23/2013

A YouTube video went viral over the weekend showing a parent who got violently arrested for expressing his frustrations about the implementation of the Common Core at a public forum Thursday night in the suburbs of Baltimore.

Somehow, Ellicott City parent Robert Small was then charged with assaulting a police officer in the second degree, reports The Baltimore Sun.

Small stood up out of order during a question-and-answer forum held by the Maryland State Department of Education. He interrupted Dallas Dance, the Baltimore County School Superintendent. Small explained — calmly, though not particularly fluidly — his belief that the Common Core lowers standards of education for children in the district.

"You are not preparing them for Harvard," he said.

The irate parent, who has a sixth-grader and a second-grader in Howard County, Md. schools, asserted that the new curriculum will only prepare students for community college.

This fall, for the first time, 45 states and the District of Columbia have begun implementing the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which attempts to standardize various K-12 curricula around the country.

Criticism of the Common Core has risen sharply. Opposition has brought together conservatives who stand athwart a federal takeover of public education and leftists who deplore ever-more standardized testing.

The plan for the question-and-answer forum was for attendees to write their questions down on pieces of paper. Then, Dance and the Maryland State Superintendent of Schools, Lillian Lowery, would answer them.



After Small spoke for perhaps a few minutes, a security guard confronted him. A police report alleges that Small tried to push the guard away when the guard initially confronted him.

The video does not appear to show Small pushing the guard.

"Let's go. Let's go," the security guard said.

"Let him ask his question," someone yelled.

To audible gasps, the guard then pulled the 46-year-old father aggressively in the direction of the aisle.

As the guard escorted Small out of the forum, Small said "Don't stand for this. You are sitting here like cattle." Then he asked, "Is this America?"

According to The Sun, Small was then handcuffed and forced to sit on the curb outside until police showed up to take him to a local police station. He was finally released around 3 a.m.

The charge against Small, second-degree assault of a police officer, carries a maximum fine of $2,500 and a prison term of up to 10 years. Another charge, disturbing a school operation, carries a $2,500 fine and six months in prison.

"Look, I am being manhandled and shut down because I asked inconvenient questions," Small told The Sun on Friday. "Why won't they allow an open forum where there can be a debate? We are told to sit there and be lectured to about how great Common Core is."

Small added that he himself attended a community college before transferring to the University of Maryland, College Park to finish his bachelor's degree.

Watch:

http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/23/now-theyre-arresting-people-who-complain-about-the-common-core/

There is another video at the bottom of the page, which is not youtube.
But watch it, it looks and sounds like a School Board President of a large School District.
Listen to how well he is spoken. And then try to observe the lies, I feel I observe.
Just try it you might like the experience.

[Ross]

Education

Here's another
impossibly stupid
Common Core
math worksheet

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Yet another painfully awful Common Core math worksheet has bubbled up courtesy of Twitter.

This time, the math is for fourth graders, according to Twitchy.

The incomprehensible directions tell the poor nine-year-old souls forced to endure the worksheet to "use number bonds to help you skip-count by seven by making ten or adding to the ones."

At the top left corner of the worksheet are the all-capitalized words "NYS COMMON CORE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM."

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My 9 year old sisters math homework with this "common core" shit. WHAT ARE THESE DIRECTIONS.

A subsequent Twitter conversation between the tweeter Lauren, who is trying to make sense of the assignment for her little sister, and someone named Relle is ribald and hilarious.

This awful set of homework problems is the latest in an ever-growing series of stories demonstrating the awfulness of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a curriculum — but don't call it a curriculum! — currently being implemented by 45 states and the District of Columbia.

In December, Twitchy found the most egregiously awful math problem the Common Core had produced yet until that point.

In September, a father was violently arrested for expressing his frustrations about the implementation of the Common Core at a public forum in the suburbs of Baltimore.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/22/heres-another-impossibly-stupid-common-core-math-worksheet/

[Ross]

Is it possible the frustrations are heightened by COMMON C0RE.? Just asking!

This week in teachers who bullied students over cookies, threatened punches 'right in the face'

Public school teachers are now getting in on the action when it comes to America's bullying problem.

In Pawtucket, R.I., Slater Junior High School teacher Richard C. Koster faces misdemeanor charges over allegations that he physically assaulted a student who tried to scarf down a cookie in his classroom on March 18.

According to The Boston Globe, Koster told the unidentified male student not to eat in his class. The student  may or may not have then made some sort of face at Koster.

Koster allegedly responded by following the kid to his next class, picking him up at the waist, pinning him to the wall and calling him a "freak."

Court documents obtained by local CBS affiliate WPRI indicate that a second teacher entered the fray to try to defuse the escalating confrontation.

The boy's family contacted police to press charges. Koster, 49, now faces a simple assault charge. He turned himself in this week and was released on a $1,000 personal recognizance bond.

He is now on administrative leave as well. It's not clear if the leave is paid.

Meanwhile, an eighth grader in Waterbury, Conn. surreptitiously recorded his junior high reading teacher declaring that she wanted to beat the crap out of another student with whom she had gotten into a dispute at lunch.

The teacher, Mary Lou Addona, allegedly announced her desire to go "one-on-one" with student Jesus Velez, reports NBC Connecticut.

"Me and him, one-on-one, I'd punch him right in the face and break that glass in his eye," Addona appears to have said in the recording.

"I wanted him suspended, but what does he do? He just cries," she also can be heard saying. "I can't stand a crybaby."

A bit later in the four-minute recording, Addona can also be heard speaking  to a new student in her class.

"What is your name anyway? Blake. Blake, what kind of name is Blake? Irish, Italian, French? What are you? White?"

The secret recording was made by a student named Aaron Stewart, who said he correctly guessed that Addona's lunchtime frustration would carry over to the next class period.

It's not clear why Addona and Velez were arguing, but this fight pretty clearly wasn't their first.

"She just screamed at me," Velez told NB Connecticut, "so she just found a way to pick on me."

The boy's mother, Ellise Vasquez, was "disgusted, upset, mad, angry, everything else" after hearing the clandestine recording.

"How can she talk to my son that way?" she asked in an NBC Connecticut interview.

School district officials won't call Addona's actions bullying. Instead, they are calling it "belittling," which is totally different.

The teacher is also on administrative leave. It's not clear if the leave is paid.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/30/this-week-in-teachers-who-bullied-students-over-cookies-threatened-punches-right-in-the-face/

(I heard rumors running around Elk County about West Elk loosing a couple of employees for similar reasons, i.e. bullying. Just  rumor, because none had the cahonies to stand up. So they shall always remain rumors.)