Posted on 12/10/2012 8:21:28 AM PST by Perseverando
Exclusive: Barbara Simpson exposes nationwide 'dumbing down of America's children'
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They explained classes would be reconfigured, curriculum content was being revised, teachers are being retrained on how to teach and what to teach, how every student would have a laptop, books were to be virtually phased out – but some new books would be created for this whole new education system.
We were told it would take a couple of years to get everything in place, but by the time that happens, it would be in every school and every grade in California.
There was no question of refusing because the governor had agreed to it. It’s happening, and no one is exempted. It’s called the “Common Core Curriculum,” and it’s a national program, courtesy of the Obama administration. In fact, it will affect all schools from K-12th grade.
Until that point, I’d never heard of it, and there had been nothing in local newspapers and only one column since. Parents have virtually no idea what’s being planned for their children, especially since practically no one attends board meetings.
But then there was Obama himself – during the debate moderated by Bob Schieffer – who was talking about that he’s accomplished, and he said: “You know, under my leadership, what we’ve done is reformed education, working with governors, 46 states.” He said bad schools were improving.
I couldn’t believe it! He said it! But no one called him on it. No media pursued what he was talking about. No one wondered why not all 50 states were involved. No one asked what it meant
I found out.
Most traditional “fictional” literature, classics and poetry are eliminated. Nothing long, only short pieces Children will read what’s described as “informational texts,” government reports, computer manuals and technical bulletins.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
The leftist/communist takeover of education and the media have taken a toll on our population. We’re in big trouble.
I coach baseball at a local CA high school. On Dec 7 I asked a bunch in the dugout if they knew what day this was. More than half piped in, “Pearl Harbor Day”, and they actually knew something about how America had been attacked by air on that Sunday morning in 1941.
All is not yet lost.
A member of my extended family who is attending Teachers College has been talking about this and little else for about a year and a half.
The govt comes up with the "common core" curriculum which homogenizes the message across all school districts. This includes a social agenda disguised as literature.
The teachers and administrators have been groomed for decades now to accept liberal bias not only as "correct" but as the only approaceh.
Parents and students have been groomed to accept teachers as a selfless benevolent group who are masters of their subject matter and have the students' best interests in mind, always.
Don't flame me, I am a retired teacher.
“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”~Stalin
Ping worthy?
yet another reason why we homeschool with a Classical style of education.....
National program, courtesy of the Obama administration.
THE LITTLE RED BOOK
Would I be considered cynical if I suggested you probably coach an predominantly Asian team? ;-)
Tearing Up the Fabric of a Free Society: The New College, Career and Civic Life (C3) Framework
Posted on November 25, 2012
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I did not say impair. I did not say damage. I said Tear Up. Why such a dramatic statement? Because the week AFTER Obama was reelected (Nov 12) and then quietly put out more publicly during a holiday week, the CCSSO (Council of Chief State School Officers, the heads of State Departments of Ed which is funded by many of the same businesses who benefit from its edicts including many tech companies and the accreditor AdvancED) issued a Framework that appears designed to create Homo Sovieticus right here in the USA. Seriously. Taking the political theories developed in the USSR to change mindsets there and making them the required perceptual “lenses” for students to confront daily life here going forward. Treating long-held aspirational visions of collectivist decision-making as established “evidence-based” fact. Treating metaphors like BEST, Bronfenbrenner Ecological Systems Thinking, as factual descriptions of how the world works. Oh. My. Goodness. So yes, I stand by the words “Tear Up the Social Fabric.”
http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/category/common-core/
Jim DeMint wrote a fund raising letter about Obama’s plans for education this summer. It was a real eye opener, but no one seemed to be paying attention.
This just terrifies me more and more. OMG what will my grandchildren face? We thankfully have gotten our 3 boys raised in a rural southern Indiana small school and they are well versed in the greatness of this country. I can only hope that they teach my yet to be thought of grandkids. My daughter in law is a teacher. She thinks like we do, so hopefully they all will.... just a worry.
What they are doing is removing all creativity from the curriculum. Students can’t challenge manuals and fact sheets. It is training kids to be robots, reading nothing but tweets and doing absolutely no reasoning.
Put that together with the 8 point drop in IQ from heavy marijuana use and increased risk of schizophrenia and it won’t be long before the US produces a whole generation of cyborgs, that rely on their I-phones for everything and cannot survive without them.
You have the right of it. It's is all that and more. The war that is being waged by the Left is not for our childrens' minds; it is a war waged on their minds. Robert Conquest had a term for it: mindslaughter.
Who is Robert Conquest? Go to Amazon and find out.
Exactly like the Chinese culture. Creativity is exceedingly rare in their engineering graduates... but since their culture sees nothing wrong with "borrowing", it isn't much of a problem, as long as someone else is creative enough.
(Plagiarism is a very big problem with Chinese students.)
A few states have opted out of the “Common Core”
Texas and Virginia are two.
I **THINK** Alaska and Wisconsin have also
Collect and save important books now.
Someday soon they will be almost unavailable.
People are willingly but unwittingly making it easier and easier for the government to curb freedoms and control information by embracing electronic conveniences.
When students and the general population are weaned off paper books and ‘trained’ to totally receive their information electronically, the government will have the power to control what everyone can read or not read.
Someday only approved books will be converted to digital form.
Libraries today are already stocking fewer and fewer books.
Old reference books are increasingly being replaced with electronic versions.
The book stacks in libraries are almost deserted while the growing ranks of computer workstations have people waiting for a turn.
We have already surpassed the limits of George Orwell’s most extreme warnings of totalitarian government information control and more is on the way.
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The left got smart when they saw they could not take over in the 60s. They went into the colleges and then into teaching and schools. Basically, they have won that war. They have dumbed down millions of kids by now and there is little chance of getting them back.
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Not familiar with the other books, but Bradbury was prophetic with Fahrenheit 451. Some authors can see what's coming more clearly than the rest of us.
Absolutely. Anytime you see something like this, let me know.
If you don’t graduate from high school you will learn how to make an “X” for your name. If you do graduate you will learn how to sign your name for yourself and next to those you know who didn’t graduate and made their “X”.
Since the cultural resources are fast vanishing and we need to encourage each other on, here are brief explanations of the Nuremberg Rallies (Nazi Party conventions in the 1930s), and the Cultural Revolution (Communist Chinese purge of Western influence).
Bill Ayres education reform at work...children are taught to become political activists.
the communists are playing chess while we’re playing tiddleywinks
The problem with the Left’s takeover of public schools is arguably really the fault of hypocritical patriots who evidently don’t know the Constitution any better than the Left does.
More specifically, as a consequence of patriots not taking the responsibility to know the Constitution, patriots are clueless that, since the states have never delegated to Congress via the Constitution the specific power to address public school issues, Congress cannot regulate, tax and spend in the name of public schools.
And since Congress cannot make legislation regulating public schools, neither can Obama make a constitutionally defensible executive order to manipulate public schools.
the communists will use Core Curriculum to get their claws into the homeschoolers too
Correct...Bill Ayers is one of those who chose to continue the revolution by doing exactly what you stated.
So...guess who’s been travelling around the country giving clinics on curriculum development?
Guess who is a HUGE supporter of Linda Darling-Hammond?
That’s right...our friend Bill
!
More like Wei Qi (Go).
Agree...i really believe they are going to try and do that....
I think the gist of it is...they will “reform” college entrance exams such as SAT to match their commie curriculum.
If you don’t teach your child how to be a proper Comrade - that SAT score will suffer.
I think they will try to force all kids to take these standardized tests too. Not sure how they’ll pull that off.
Like the author said...no one goes to board meetings.
Heck - most of the education professionals haven’t caught on yet what is going on right under their noses.
I'm not so sure about Texas. I just got this in email yesterday:
"On Saturday morning I sent you the alerter below to Wayne Richard’s radio program dealing with a curriculum in many Texas schools called CSCOPE. (I can’t imagine that it – or something like it – is not in schools across the country!)
I listened to the program – and you MUST too! It will be archived on Wayne’s website by Monday noon. www.WayneRichardShow.com
FOR QUICK ACCESS TO WHAT WAS BEING TALKED ABOUT – go to www.CSCOPEreview.com and just click around, read articles, if you live in Texas see the huge list of schools where this is already in place!
The program is highly secret – no textbooks, online only in the schools … no one can look at it at home. Parents are not allowed access. Many teachers are disturbed because they must teach it and not talk about it.
The CSCOPE curriculum has a lot of Agenda 21 things in it – purposely “dumbing down” Americans, lots of groupthink vs individual initiative & concern. Incorrect instruction is rampant – Columbus was a terrorist, 2nd Amendment means only militias can have guns, Christianity is a cult, and on and on. (Lots of details on the website, including teachers’ horror stories!)
The woman interviewed by Wayne is Janice Van Cleave, a retired science teacher who has written many textbooks. She pointed out that the method of instruction used by CSCOPE is “vision learning” – not fact-based, but discussion groups getting kids to share how they feel about a topic at hand. The resulting consensus constitutes what they learn about the topic!
In Texas, the curriculum has been put together and implemented by the Educational Service Centers around the state – not seen at all by the State Board of Education! As a start, we can tell our legislators, as they begin the new session, to give the SBOE review & approval power over ALL curriculum!
Sorry I’m rambling, but I’m truly concerned after hearing this program. So – PLEASE do two things:
1- Go to www.CSCOPEreview.com and begin to learn about this
2- After Monday noon, listen to this interview with Janice VanCleave on www.WayneRichardShow.com
the uneducated can’t argue with their betters....you peons and peasants better just go along now and shut up.....
I have a while before I have to worry with all of that. Hopefully we’ll have the Rapture before then and we won’t have to mess with college anyway! :)
Mainly whites, hispanics and one Armenian kid.
The CSCOPE links didn’t work for me. I Googled, and came up with txscopereview.com.
Now that’s worth a ping to the homeschool list
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Ping to worthwhile information in post 28.
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Ping to worthwhile information in post 28.
Thanks, Jane. I hadn't tried any of the links before I posted them. I'll check out the other link you found.
The important thing is that people alert their friends and neighbors about this stealth indoctrination program posing as 'education'. Thanks.
Creativity often spurs competition and we cannot have competition because minorities are most often disadvantaged in academic areas.
I was thankful that our school district is not on the *naughty* list. That doesn’t mean we can relax or rest on our laurels...every parent, grandparent, family member and all teachers need to made aware of this. Thanks for your post with all the info.
You bet, Jane. Right now, I'm not worried about what this means for my own kids because we home school, and are (for now) effectively out of the reach of this Machiavellian crap.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of our folks have kids or grandkids who are right in the path of this malevolence. We need to get the word out to them as quickly as possible.
With the ability to instantly change any of it because everything will be stored in the cloud.
They let Ronald Reagan slip in, but even he could not end the Department of Education even tho he ran on that, then is when this Coup d'état really began in earnest.
Only our enemies can get a real education here.
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