This is unacceptable. We good folks need to band together and demand our schools drop common core. The largest percent of our property taxes go to our schools, so we must have a say in what is being taught to our children.
Reading the comments after the article is enlightening. There are a lot of people out there who are ready to completely believe this ‘exercise’ is just putting ‘critical thinking’ into practice and that there is nothing wrong with it - they are socialists.
They believe that any group, committee, or, in their minds - cabal, can successfully redo anything - if enough of the right kind of people can agree on it. A troublesome word - redo. They can ‘redo’ everything; they just can’t ‘do’ anything.
Get into the mind of a child and see what’s being said here: “Bill of Rights - no good -outdated” “Take away the bad parts and put in two new ‘good parts’ (what have I been hearing lately? Healthcare? Gun Violence?).”
Couple the school and peer-pressured child with parents that are upset (just like “You didn’t clean your room!” “You did this...you did that!”). All they want is no trouble. No trouble with the teacher, no trouble with other classmates. They spend a lot more time with them than with their parents.
If they these ‘educators’ wanted an exercise in critical thinking, why not dissect one of Obama’s lame speeches and rewrite it with the restriction that anything he ‘wants’ has to comport with the Bill of Rights. How about taking the most prominent parts of the Quran and doing the same thing? How about almost anything else?
The fact is this Common Core started with the most important regulating document of our country and said it was ‘outdated’ According to who? Obama?
To take such a document which I regard as the product of a group of divinely inspired men (the real critical thinkers) and to equate it to ‘inappropriate for today’ is trickery soley aimed at nothing but brainwashing young minds.
It is a philosophical attack on our foundations, more deadly than the planes that struck the Twin Towers in my opinion.
easy assignment - good learning op for the kiddo’s..
Remove the 2nd ammendment;
replace with “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Remove the 7th ammendment
Replace with modern language basically saying the same thing - would be a good research project.
**In your ammendment** add a section to REPEAL the 16th Ammendment to the constitution.
I would enjoy the opportunity to have this conversation with my child and help with this assignment. Parents are still more powerful than a teacher (whether their intentions align with your philosophy or not) real learning still happens at home.
Of course we have a pretty good idea what the “intent” of this assignment is - but it can be turned into a “teachable Moment”