Common Core is just another step
in the direction of Socialism in this country by the progressives in
Washington.
Common Core bribed the states
with the 2009 Stimulus Bill. They told
them that if they wanted any of the Stimulus money, they would have to agree to
implement Common Core, even before the standards for Common Core were
written. The applications for the money were
due in by January 2010, but the draft for the Common Core Standards wasn’t
released until March of 2010.
Common Core advocates claim that
Common Core is just standards and not curriculum, and States will be in charge
of their own curricula. But the point
of standards is to drive curriculum. Standards
say what should be taught in the classroom, curriculum just adds the details. And what’s on the National Tests will dictate
the curriculum. This is what the 2
testing consortia admitted in their Federal grant applications when they said
that they would develop curriculum models and the DOE confirmed this when they
gave them the Federal grants. So this
shows that there will be a National Curriculum.
This clearly shows that this is
not constitutional. Common Core violates
3 Federal Statues.
1.
General
Education Provision Act
2.
Department
of Education Organization Act
3.
Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965
When a State agrees to adopt
Common Core, they agree to implement the standards “word for word”. The State cannot change anything and it
cannot delete anything, the State may add no more than 15% to any content area. I don’t see how giving States 15% control of
education equals States controlling education.
If States do have control like
the proponents of Common Core say they do, what happens when parents or
teachers find that parts of Common Core don’t work? They can’t do anything; they can’t go to the
principle, the school board or anybody up through the Governor. Nobody in the State can change any standard
of Common core. So who has control to
change things with Common Core? Common
Core is owned and copy righted by the National Governors Association and the Council
of Chief States School Officers. So
parents will have no clue as to who these people are that are in charge of writing
the Common Core Standards. So how is it
that States are in charge of our children’s education?
As for what some of the standards
are. Some of the math standards’ are,
Algebra 1 will be moved to the 9th grade from the 8th
grade, so now it will be harder for students to reach calculus in high school,
which is what many Universities require.
Geometry is going to be taught by an experimental method never used successfully
anywhere in the world. And if a teacher
sees that this experimental method of teaching Geometry isn’t working, there is
nobody for that teacher to go to in order to get it changed. Because of these types of changes, our
children will not be ready for college.
Studies show that American students by the time they get to the 8th
grade they will be at least 2 years behind those of the highest achieving
countries.
As for English Standards, they are
inadequate and won’t prepare students for college and that they would be
reading only on a 7th grade level when they are to be leaving for
college. Instead of reading Classical Literature,
Common Core will emphasize nonfiction “informational texts”. Texts like “technical manuals, government
documents and even brochures and menus.
What will teachers do that were trained to teach Literature and now have
to teach how to read a menu?? I believe
that the good teachers will quit and go to private schools of even other
countries so they can actually teach. Because
there is nothing they can do about it in Federal Run Government Schools.
There is a student-tracking
system that collects personally identifiable data, removing student and
parental privacy. Some of the data
points to be collected are discipline records, test scores, family income,
health information, religious affiliation, and the DOE is pressuring states to
turn over that information in exchange for various federal grants. And this data can also be shared with other
governmental agencies.
The worse thing about Common Core
is how it will affect Charter Schools, Voucher Programs, Private schools and
even homeschoolers. The DOE will say that
if you are a Charter School or receive Vouchers, you will have to adopt Common
Core Standards. The new president of the
College Board and primary author of the Common Core English Language Arts
standards says he will seek to align the SAT with Common Core with its unique
style of instruction. So how will that affect
Private and Home Schools? These schools
will be at a disadvantage unless they adopt the Common Core Standards, because
Colleges require strong performances on the SAT for students to be
admitted.
As of now these are the only 2
subjects included in Common Core, progressives believe in baby steps to get
people to do what they want, but Science and History are already in the
development stages and will be coming on line in the near future.
This needs to be stopped. Check out these web sites for more
information:
stopcommoncore.com
truthinamericaneducation.com
This is just another step towards
socialism. Begin controlling what people
think at an early age and they will do and vote how they want you to. Children are being indoctrinated into
thinking that the government needs to be in control of our lives.
WAKE UP AMERICA
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