This guy is an education professor. He teaches other people how to be
marxists. He believes that Common Core is the best way to turn
American public school children into tools of the state.
Posted on 12/01/2014 8:49:21 PM PST by PROCON
"Do you just want your kids to be test machines and cheap workers for corporations?"
Lily Tang Williams, a mother of three, testified before the Colorado State Board of Education that Common Core was similar to the education she received growing up in Mao’s Communist China.
“Common Core, in my eyes, is the same as the Communist core I once saw in China,” Williams said. “I grew up under Mao’s regime and we had the Communist-dominated education — nationalized testing, nationalized curriculum, and nationalized indoctrination.”
In a post at FreedomWorks, Williams wrote about her experience with the Chinese education system:
Our teachers had to comply with all the curriculum and testing requirements, or lose their jobs forever. Parents had no choice at all when it came to what we learned in school. The government used the Household Registration and Personnel File system to keep track of its citizens from birth to death.
“I came to this country for freedom and I cannot believe this is happening all over again in this country,” she said in the meeting. “I don’t know what happened to America, the Shining City on the Hill for freedom.”
She said Americans should not compare their children (or their kids’ test scores) to those being educated under the Chinese system.
“I am telling you, Chinese children are not trained to be independent thinkers,” said Williams. “They are trained to be massive skilled workers for corporations. And they have no idea what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989 where government ordered soldiers to shoot its own 1,000 students.”
Williams said that while she understands that testing is necessary to improve education, top-down standards controlled by the federal government are not the answer: “Federal government holds the stick. International corporations hold the money.” She complained that students are offered this system of carrots and sticks by outside groups. Instead, she said, parents are supposed to control their children’s education.
“Individual rights. Individual liberty. That’s what I came to this country for,” Williams said. “Do you just want our kids to be test machines? Workers — cheap workers for corporations?” she asked the school board.
America is great. Don’t compare yourselves to China. That’s why lots of Chinese are trying to come here — to try to be free. And they all tell you, “Do not go after the Chinese Communist education.”
Williams said the Chinese system produces great test takers and great machine workers who are brainwashed and lack critical thinking skills. “I was brainwashed so bad it took me ten years in this country to get out of it,” she said.
Already in a country near you?
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Bttt.
But China has free education right? and Free Healthcare.
As long as it's free it can be that bad, right?
What’s arth?
Somebody ping Jeb Bush.
A ringing endorsement of Common Core if there ever was one. This should please the Central Planners that are pushing it.
Get your children out of the public schools (government indoctrination center) - NOW!
I like this woman!
Another
Reason
To
Homeschool
metmom holds the pinglist to it.
This guy is an education professor. He teaches other people how to be
marxists. He believes that Common Core is the best way to turn
American public school children into tools of the state.
BUMP
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young and U2 declined to write a song about that.
Mrs. PRO and I were fortunate enough to both homeschool and send our 2 kids to a great Christian school; a big financial commitment (believe me), but they’re both good, conservative God loving adults now :-)
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Lily Tang Williams, a mother of three, testified before the Colorado State Board of Education that Common Core was similar to the education she received growing up in Mao’s Communist China.
Chinese American Mom ~ Common Core in U.S. same as Communist Core in China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAIetn6sE00
Good for you. I have done the same.
The most precious gifts God has given us are our children, so why would anyone want to give them up to the government.
Its a horrible shame this idiot is still wasting perfectly good oxygen.
Just like they’re also declining to write songs about what Red China’s doing to Hong Kong of late.
One of the most ironic things about Common Core is that the advocates of it are continually claiming that it promotes “critical thinking skills”. But if a student does not think exactly as is being taught and solves a problem in a non-directed way actually using their critical thinking skills, they will be marked “wrong”. Conformity is the name of the the game when it comes to Common Core.
This woman speaks the TRUTH, unfortunately America is looking more and more like Communist China, even worse..look around, people walking around begging for Communism, its sick..they have NO idea what Communism truly is, if they did they wouldn’t want it..or even worse, they might know what it is and really do want it
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