Common Core Education And More About Federal Government Control

[Ross]

Dumb ass teachers.

I thought they wanted to teach children to read and write and do math.

I guess, I was wrong!

It appears they want to keep going the Obama way!

Sure, vote Democrat and keep thing going the wrong way and Dumb Down America.

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The Obama way or the Republican way, it's all the same ole stuff - socialism.

[Ross]

Check Out This Common Core Math Problem.

Posted By: Mockarenaon: October 05, 2015  In: Education

A clever and competent reader sent us a copy of her third grader's math homework sheet.  I am blown away by how completely stupid this method of subtraction is.  Is it just me, or does this just totally complicate what would otherwise be a relatively simple calculation?

I mean, how is this helpful?  Just freaking stack the 568 over the 293 and do NORMAL SUBTRACTION LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN BEING.

Common core.  Madness.

http://www.chicksonright.com/check-out-this-common-core-math-problem/

[Ross]

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In my last article, I mentioned COMMON CORE. Some of you do not know what this is.

Common Core is a curriculum to be very wary of based on the people who are putting it together, one of whom is Linda-Darling Hammond who was endorsed by domestic terrorist Bill Ayers for Secretary of Education and served as an advisor to the Obama campaign.

What EXACTLY is Common Core?

Essentially it is a standardized, all-out assault on learning: it is designed to further lower schools standards and is supported by the teachers' unions which have a self-serving interest in avoiding as much accountability as possible; the lower the standards, the less push back against the teachers, too many of whom are failing the young trapped in the government schools. The over arching ideology that shapes this agenda is far leftist ideology, that is  much more intense and deliberately focused than that which tends to be a somewhat sporadic, less uniform at present.

Okay. But can you give us some examples.

The curriculum even includes teaching math in such a way, that non ideological Math experts who have looked at the proposed programs are telling us that "it marks the end of improvement in education." Moreover it devalues and de-emphasizes traditional literary works in favor of song lyrics and of course, government documents. I am willing to bet that these documents will be carefully cropped to make the left all-powerful and the only channel of the flow of such information, or should we say disinformation?
These are for starters.

Why is this happening?

The left, in order to increase its hegemony, its total control, permanently, since we are still  "a democracy" of sorts, that is, requires an absolutely ignorant as possible cadre of voters. It isn't enough that the mainstream media, almost all of the organs of the dissemination of vital information are in collusion with the left and extremely dangerous, double faced organizations, such as CAIR, it is necessary to destroy any vestige of Constitution-upholding citizens if at all possible. It is too late for the older generation who were not indoctrinated in the government schools, but the young are vulnerable.

Currently only five states do not have any aspect of the Common Core curriculum programs. Maine is not one of them, most unfortunately. The five states are Alaska, Texas, Nebraska, Virginia and Minnesota.

There are many logos for the various subsets of Common Core, one of which is an apple that has been bitten into on both sides. This reminds me of the serpent in the garden with Eve who has taken a bite out of the apple - she chooses what is good and evil, not God - then hands the apple to Adam who eats of it also. The apple has always been a symbol for the teacher, but as an unblemished, whole fruit, until now.

I believe that this is why Obama wants to begin with mandating school for impoverished 4 year olds, under the pretext of preparing them for a global economy, to further Common Core. Once the public becomes used to this, then it will be mandated for all 4 year olds. Five years is just too old - Mom and Dad may have already begun to instill the ideal of true liberty and the natural law principles that go hand in hand. By this time, he and his so-called Department of Justice and other agencies will have striven to have home schooling outlawed. If he is no longer in office, the war against normalcy and meritorious standards will  be carried on with whatever means are available to those still entrenched in government agencies where policy is issued.

Parents who do not want their children indoctrinated for the left at present have a choice and choice for the "pro-choice" crowd only means abortion, not education.

Let us listen to Michelle Malkin, who says it best of all. This excerpt is taken from an article about  Common Core from her web site, link HERE. http://michellemalkin.com/2013/01/23/rotten-to-the-core-obamas-war-on-academic-standards-part-1/ [Text below in Red, emphasis in bold added by me.]

For decades, collectivist agitators in our schools have chipped away at academic excellence in the name of fairness, diversity and social justice. "Progressive" reformers denounced Western civilization requirements, the Founding Fathers and the Great Books as racist. They attacked traditional grammar classes as irrelevant in modern life. They deemed ability grouping of students (tracking) bad for self-esteem. They replaced time-tested rote techniques and standard algorithms with fuzzy math, inventive spelling and multicultural claptrap.

Under President Obama, these top-down mal-formers — empowered by Washington education bureaucrats and backed by misguided liberal philanthropists led by billionaire Bill Gates — are now presiding over a radical makeover of your children's school curriculum. It's being done in the name of federal "Common Core" standards that do anything but raise achievement standards.

Common Core was enabled by Obama's federal stimulus law and his Department of Education's "Race to the Top"gimmickry. The administration bribed cash-starved states into adopting unseen instructional standards as a condition of winning billions of dollars in grants. Even states that lost their bids for Race to the Top money were required to commit to a dumbed-down and amorphous curricular "alignment."

In practice, Common Core's dubious "college-and career"-ready standards undermine local control of education, usurp state autonomy over curricular materials, and foist untested, mediocre and incoherent pedagogical theories on America's schoolchildren.

Over the next several weeks and months, I'll use this column space to expose who's behind this disastrous scheme in D.C. backrooms. I'll tell you who's fighting it in grassroots tea party and parental revolts across the country from Massachusetts to Indiana, Texas, Georgia and Utah. And most importantly, I'll explain how this unprecedented federal meddling is corrupting our children's classrooms and textbooks.

There's no better illustration of Common Core's duplicitous talk of higher standards than to start with its math "reforms." While Common Core promoters assert their standards are "internationally benchmarked," independent members of the expert panel in charge of validating the standards refute the claim. Panel member Dr. Sandra Stotsky of the University of Arkansas reported, "No material was ever provided to the Validation Committee or to the public on the specific college readiness expectations of other leading nations in mathematics" or other subjects.

In fact, Stanford University professor James Milgram, the only mathematician on the validation panel, concluded that the Common Core math scheme would place American students two years behind their peers in other high-achieving countries. In protest, Milgram refused to sign off on the standards. He's not alone.

Professor Jonathan Goodman of New York University found that the Common Core math standards imposed "significantly lower expectations with respect to algebra and geometry than the published standards of other countries."

Under Common Core, as the American Principles Project and Pioneer Institute point out, algebra I instruction is pushed to 9th grade, instead of 8th grade, as commonly taught. Division is postponed from 5th to 6th grade. Prime factorization, common denominators, conversions of fractions and decimals, and algebraic manipulation are de-emphasized or eschewed. Traditional Euclidean geometry is replaced with an experimental approach that had not been previously pilot-tested in the U.S.

Ze'ev Wurman, a prominent software architect, electrical engineer and longtime math advisory expert in California and Washington, D.C., points out that Common Core delays proficiency with addition and subtraction until 4th grade and proficiency with basic multiplication until 5th grade, and skimps on logarithms, mathematical induction, parametric equations and trigonometry at the high school level.

I cannot sum up the stakes any more clearly than Wurman did in his critique of this mess and the vested interests behind it:

"I believe the Common Core marks the cessation of educational standards improvement in the United States. No state has any reason left to aspire for first-rate standards, as all states will be judged by the same mediocre national benchmark enforced by the federal government. Moreover, there are organizations that have reasons to work for lower and less-demanding standards, specifically teachers unions and professional teacher organizations. While they may not admit it, they have a vested interest in lowering the accountability bar for their members. ... This will be done in the name of 'critical thinking' and '21st-century' skills, and in faraway Washington, D.C., well beyond the reach of parents and most states and employers."

I referred to an organization, CAIR, above. What is it and why should we all be concerned?

You could say, without any exaggeration, that CAIR is the media's "common core." How?

CAIR is the acronym for The Council on American–Islamic Relations, a PR front group that presents the good face of Islam to the public. It has tentacles throughout government and the media that either knowingly or stupidly act as propaganda shills for Muslim extremists. CAIR has strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Both depend on preventing the public from seeing through their ultimate goals - Islam the dominant power and belief system in the world and the establishment of the Caliphate. Period. Only they cannot let us know this. They exploit Americans' lack of common sense and reason in re "discrimination" in order to mis-direct our attention and change our ideas about Islam. The term Islamphobia is bandied about as if we are all evil for rejecting elements of Islam or all of it, as we should. One CAIR honcho on one of their web sites some time ago boasted about the group's ability to get us to comply in so many words. CAIR also has its sinewy clutches into various financial institutions, etc. I suspect, although I cannot prove it right now, that CAIR has a hand in Common Core principles. Certainly at present the American government schools are pro-Islamic and anti-Christian, very important for CAIR. There was even a Supreme Court case that did not make it through Certiorari - in effect, the Islamists won big time in the New York schools because the Supreme Court permitted a lower court ruling favoring the favoritism of Islam in public schools over that of the Christians. Just think about this, folks!

CAIR pressures journalists to cease using the term Islamist because to them it ought not connote and denote what it actually, rightly does. One cannot adequately address and fight against a concept or idea that one is not permitted to name. At best a distortion but the intent is to remove it from the American mind. How many times have we heard a reporter's account or read a story that this word is absent from and a politically correct substitute is used, like Jihadist? Now Jihadist is a warrior for a holy war. But there is only one kind and that is Islamic. We are not supposed to connect the two. Of course, fundamentalist and Christian are paired by our sell-out journalists ad infinitem so as to prejudice the public unfairly. The defense of Christ the King, why that is such a threat, don't you know! But Allah's war on the West, well, that's okay for now, it fits our agenda.
When anyone raises the alarm about CC [Common Core] and CAIR, their spokesmen just offer the usual clichés about alarmists and so forth, then provide some soothing talk to allay public fears. The public, wanting things to just go away as it has too much to deal with as it is, buys it all too many times. We are losing our culture, our Western heritage, our religious rights, our freedoms, one at a time, our very country and so few as yet realize it. The revolution needs this mindset to succeed. I am determined that this will not happen and there are others, too. Do not let the insurgents against common sense, the ideals of the natural law, and above all the Social Reign of Christ the King maintain their already powerful grip on those in power. Make no mistake they are after total control and no-choice, not pro-choice. Now Islam does not favor abortion. Once they become dominant I am not certain that their useful idiots - the left - will know how to handle this reality, which they have discarded for the moment - strange bedfellows and all. Perhaps the Islamics will permit America to continue to abort herself into oblivion and such degradation of immorality that America will cease all together, which suits them I am sure, just so long as they have control of what is left of the finances and infra structure.

Do not be deterred by the politically correct statements, the disarming palaver in the media. What else would you expect from those with such an evil agenda? The truth, an admission? Oh, come on people ...

The banner image was put together thus: the twice bitten apple for COMMON CORE and the green serpent for CAIR. Green is the color symbol of the Caliphate. The snake for the devil in the details.

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http://www.catholictradition.org/common-core.htm

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USA TODAY

Lawmakers fear Islamic 'indoctrination' in schools

Dave Boucher, The (Nashville) Tennessean 9:16 p.m. EDT September 10, 2015

NASHVILLE — Tennessee seventh-graders spend a portion of their time in a world history course studying "the world of Islam."

The amount of time spent on the topic, and what students are actually learning during that time, has some lawmakers and parents in an uproar and the state planning to review standards.

"There is a big difference between education and indoctrination," U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said in a statement issued Thursday.

"It is reprehensible that our school system has exhibited this double-standard, more concerned with teaching the practices of Islam than the history of Christianity. Tennessee parents have a right to be outraged and I stand by them in this fight."

Blackburn's criticism joins the calls of state lawmakers and parents in several Tennessee counties upset over the middle school curriculum. Parents in Maury, Williamson and other counties have expressed concerns about the class. They say their children were required to memorize the five pillars of Islam and to write "Allah is the only God" as part of an assignment, according to several local and national mediareports.

Both are basic tenets of the Islamic religion, and simply learning them or repeating them doesn't make anyone Muslim, said Paul Galloway, executive director of advocacy organization American Center for Outreach.

"To learn what the first pillar is has nothing to do with indoctrination. You can't trick someone into being a Muslim," said Galloway, who is Muslim.

There is a basic level of misunderstanding driving this fear and outrage, he said. In Arabic the word "Allah" means God. Christians who speak Arabic use the word Allah to talk about God all the time, Galloway said.

He noted there is a difference between teaching students about religion and proselytizing, and argued no one is in favor of public schools trying to convert children to any particular religion.

Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Candice McQueen said the intent of the curriculum is to provide a deep understanding of how world religions have affected world history. However, in a statement late Thursday she acknowledged the state is speeding up the review of social studies standards.

"While we desire to maintain the intent of this approach, we believe a statewide social studies standards review process will help further an appropriate balance in the coverage of world religions," McQueen said.

"In light of recent concerns from educators and stakeholders, the department has asked the State Board of Education to move the social studies standards review process up ahead of the traditional six-year cycle."

Elizabeth Fiveash, director of legislative affairs for the Tennessee Department of Education, sent an email to lawmakers Tuesday in response to concerns about the curriculum. In her email, obtained by The Tennessean, she acknowledges the "Islamic World" is covered in seventh grade. But she notes Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism and Shinto are also covered in various courses throughout middle school and high school.

Students have learned the same content included in the seventh-grade curriculum for years, Fiveash said. The information was mainly included in the sixth-grade curriculum until the state Board of Education adopted new content standards in July 2013, she said.

"While it appears that some seventh-grade teachers are covering Islam longer than Christianity, it's important to note, that the last chapter of the sixth-grade textbook covers the rise of Christianity extensively. That chapter is repeated at the beginning of the seventh-grade textbook," Fiveash wrote to lawmakers.

Several conservative Republican state lawmakers weren't satisfied. In more emails and public statements obtained by The Tennessean, they call for the revision of the curriculum.

"The section on 'Ancient Israel' isn't called the 'Jewish World,'" Rep. Tilman Goins, R-Morristown, wrote in an emailed response to Fiveash.

"If a study of a geographic region such as 'The Middle East' were to discuss the major religions found there, so be it! But until there is a section on India referred to as 'The Hindu World,' I do not believe this favoritism toward Islam should be allowed to continue to exist."

Rep. Bill Sanderson, R-Kenton, agreed with Goins. In an emailed response, he said the "time is here for those accountable to either 'out' the ones responsible for the bias or stand and defend their position."

In her original email, Fiveash is clear that the standards were developed in conjunction with Tennessee teachers and were publicly available for review or comment before they were adopted.

The recent outcry caused state Rep. Andy Holt, R-Dresden, to take a look at the standards. Holt, one of the chief opponents of a bill providing undocumented immigrants with in-state college tuition this year, agreed with his colleagues that it's time to remove the "strong bias in favor of Islam" from the curriculum.

"While I can certainly understand the desire for cultural knowledge, it must never be at the cost of our own cultural identity," Holt wrote in a post on his blog, a site he uses to issue statements and raise money. "Many of our children are not being taught the Ten Commandments in school, but instead the Five Pillars of Islam and the 'Prophet' Muhammad as a sovereign to Jesus Christ."

Holt noted the recent shooting death of five U.S. service members in Chattanooga by a man called a "perverted jihadist" by Vice President Joe Biden.

"Tennesseans have seen the radical side of Islam, and many have grown skeptical of this 'peaceful religion,'" Holt wrote.

Tennessee officials have a history of scrutinizing Islam. Two East Tennessee sheriffs made controversial comments about Muslims recently, and several officials at various levels attempted to block the building of a mosque in Murfreesboro in 2012.

The state reviews standards every six years, but general outcry over the controversial Common Core caused the state to start that process earlier for math and science. McQueen said in her statement the process will start in January.

"While standards describe the minimum learning expectations for students in each grade, curriculum and instruction are local decisions made by districts, schools, and teachers," she said in her statement.

Lawmakers return to session in January.

http://www.cascity.com/howard/forum/index.php?action=post;topic=15765.390;last_msg=226599

[Ross]

ISLAMIC INDOCTRINATION
BROUGHT TO YOU BY COMMON CORE
AND THESE PARENTS
WON'T HAVE IT

Michael Becker — October 3, 2015

If you've followed the forced acceptance of Common Core by the US Department of Education onto school districts across the nation you won't be surprised to learn that Common Core is being used as a tool to indoctrinate elementary and middle school students into Islam.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Another school district is facing parental outrage over lessons on Islam, the latest in what's becoming an all-out offensive against what many characterize as blatant "indoctrination."

"How can you assure us that our children won't have to study Islamic religion?" parent Pam Keene recently asked members of the Rutherford County School Board.

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The Common Core-aligned social science assignments require students to write or recite "There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet," the Five Pillars of Islam, and other things that conflict with family beliefs.

Could you imagine for one second if students were required to recite the tenets of faith of Christianity?

The ACLU and Democrats across the nation would be burning down schools and burning offending teachers and administrators at the stake.

School districts are claiming that they're powerless to stop it. Education bureaucrats at both the state and federal level will make sure Common Core is not messed with. That would inhibit their ability to control your child's mind.

Now, locals are focused on rooting out Islam from the school curriculum, but it's a decision Rutherford Director of Schools Don Odom said is out of the district's hands.

At the recent board meeting, Odom "told the group that he and the board understand their concerns, but pointed out that textbooks are no longer chosen by the board or a local textbook committee.

He recommended that concerned parents contact the State Department of Education through its website to complain.

Right Don. That's certainly going to help. NOT!

http://joeforamerica.com/2015/10/islamic-indoctrination-brought-common-core-parents-wont/

As I've said many times, putting your children in public school is child abuse.

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The guy is right:

"As I've said many times, putting your children in public school is child abuse."


Or if you prefer:

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

[Ross]

Perhaps if school boards knew what their jobs really are things wouldn't be so bad !

Perhaps if school boards educated themselves on education and the Common Core things wouldn't be so bad !

Perhaps if school boards educated themselves on Roberts Rules of Order things wouldn't be chotic and so bad !

Perhaps if school boards knew and understood that building fancy new buildings and gymnasiums is not education in the class room, things wouldn't be so bad !

Perhaps if school boards knew that they need to learn something at every meeting, things wouldn't be so bad !

Perhaps if small town school boards moved into the 21 st Century with their board meetings, things wouldn't be so bad !

Perhaps if school boards really caired about the general public, parents and taxpayers and voters, they would video the board meetings and post them on the internet, and things wouldn't be so bad !

[Ross]

Government Control on the School Grounds --- Worse than a crazy man with a gun!

This scares the hell out of me! Not for myself but for young families with school age children !

If you have never had to deal with Child Protection Services --- Good for You !

Where I lived in Washington was Kitsap County.  Nick named Kidnap County!

I wasn't dealing with them because they took a child from me, no sir.

They cane to me about a nephew in their care and then they turned on me.

I fought them and their lies in family court for a year and a half.

I was successful, I adopted my wifes nephew, my son!

But folks there is an awful lot of money in taking children from their families. Lots of money!

Yes, the Department of Child Protective Services has a legitimate resaon to operate, but there are people inside the organization that are out of hand .

The Department of Child Protective Services does make people crazy and occassionaly a parent will walk into one of their offices and open fire.

I had a co-worker who acted like a mad man and rightfully so. They took his new born right out of the hospital on the day of birth, because his wife was a paranoid schizophrenic. They did not give the family a chance. They told him because, he was in the army reserves he was cosidereed violent. They told him to drop out of the reserves and they would give him his baby back. 2 years to go to retirement and he quit. They did not return his child. They told him to get off grave yard shift and they would give him his child back. He got on day shift and his child was not returned. He was told, get ready for this, divorce your wife and we will give your baby back. He divorced his wife and his baby was not returned. Child Protective Services totally ruined the decent hard working young mans life. The last I heard of him he was jobless and homeless. This is a true story.If i had not experienced it first hand I would not believe it.

BE AFRAID    BE VERY AFRAID !

If you  need a reason to home school you won't find a better reason than this:

CPS Workers Are Now Being Stationed In Our Schools

This article was written by Joshua Krause and originally published at The Daily Sheeple

Many of you reading this probably remember a time when seeing a school resource officer was a rare occurrence in public schools. It was one of those situations that was mainly reserved for crime ridden inner city schools. But as time went on, more and more police departments started employing officers whose chief responsibility was to watch our kids, even in districts with low crime rates. Now there are nearly 20,000 of these officers nationwide.

It turns out that we may be seeing the beginning of a similar trend in our public schools, but instead of police officers, it will be with employees from Child Protective Services. In Erie County, New York, the school districts have announced a new partnership with the Department of Social Services, that would allow CPS workers to show up in their schools several days a week. They will have to provide an office for the workers, who will be able to "streamline" their investigations into child welfare.

Much like how the employment of school resource officers was largely fueled by zero tolerance policies that routinely have students arrested for absurd reasons, this new push for school CPS workers is no doubt a response to our society's paranoia regarding child safety. But considering the fact that CPS departments are known to take kids away from healthy homes, drug them up to their eyeballs, and place them in the homes of sex offenders, perhaps parents should be a little more paranoid about having CPS workers around their children on a daily basis.

http://oathkeepers.org/cps-workers-are-now-being-stationed-in-our-schools/

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Listen to the oath keepers !

I do have a friend in Montana who is a social worker for Child Protective Services and I happen to trust her.
I have a niece who is a big shot with CPS who makes a six figure income. She had a real hard time believing my story about my CPS story in Washington and about my friend. I guess higher up the ladder you have a buffer from reality.

If you have a CPS worker assigned to your school learn your rights. Find out what your state allows you to legally do. Can you write instructions to the school refusing contact with anyone other than teachers? Can you write instructions for the school to contact you and that you must be present before any contact by CPS?

You are the parent --- I suggest you protect that right any way you can before the need arises.
Itf the need arises and you don't know your rights --- it may be too late !

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Why do Americans trust more power to the government?  Isn't that why we got rid of the British?

We have these people who demand that we be taxed more money for the government schools.
Gotta wonder why Americans have developed a special trust for their tyrants.  Our forefathers never would have contributed to such thinking.  Republicans and Obama types can't be trusted.