Texas Parents Stunned by Common Core Materials Coming Home From School

Breitbart ^ | 4 Sep 2014, 5:25 AM PDT | Merrill Hope

[SoConPubbie]

DALLAS, Texas -- It is like a Texas sampler platter of the 2014-15 Common Core offerings served up around the state -- Sadlier "Common Core Enriched Edition" Vocabulary, Springboard and Carnegie Math. There is even a kindergarten handout that defines the importance of the term "Common Core." Parents are up in arms. More so, they are worried. They have heard endlessly that there is no Common Core in Texas. It is the law. Yet, this is what is coming home in the backpacks.

To her surprise, a Boerne Independent School District (ISD) parent pulled out the "6 Math Terms to Know (in primary grades)" from her kindergartener's Fabra Elementary take home folder in the Texas Hill Country. Apparently, "Common Core" itself is a math term that five year olds need to know.

The sheet places a high value on Common Core, which is defined as "The Common Core State Standards are expectations our state has adopted to provide a framework for teaching, answering the question - what should our students know by the end of the year? As a school, we have chosen to use specific mathematical processes to teach the Common Core Standards."

It also provides a link to the official Common Core site for the five year old, who may or may not be reading yet, but she or he will be able to find numerical patterns using a process called "subitizing" to identify the number of items in a small set without counting. It's all part of what the handout calls, the new number sense or "an understanding of number relationships that allows students to work mathematical problems without a traditional algorithm."

The parent who provided the handout asked Breitbart Texas to withhold her identify for "fear is that my children will be targeted at school by Common

[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[yldstrk]

Bite the bullet and do private or home school

[SoFloFreeper]

“Building the Machine”

www.commoncoremovie.com

For anyone undecided about the dangers of Common Core or unable to articulate why it is a bad idea.

[stanne]

I am stunned...by the prevalence of parents who send their kids into this morass.

Just take control of kids’ education, it is a God given responsibility

[Nevadan]

Great quotes!

[driftdiver]

I’ve homeschooled my kids and they turned out well. However, I’ve come to believe we cannot stop at homeschooling our kids. We cannot surrender the nations schools to these whackos. If we do night fight for the minds of this nations children they will win. They will control everything in a generation.

[Nevadan]

Thanks for the link. I will check it out.

[MrB]

I’m amazed that they are “stunned”.

Kinda like the people who voted for “hope and change”, and GOT IT.

[Falcon4.0]

"Common Core" = "Commie Core".

[stanne]

When it comes to kids, don’t people look at who’s running the show and say, ‘no, I am not sending my kids to be supervised by them’?

People neglecting to take charge of their kids’ education is a huge part of this cultural destruction.

And they are answerable for it.

They should try explaining to God on their personal judgment day when asked what they did to form the people/kids He entrusted to them ‘ooh, I was stunned’

I think it won’t go well.

Oh, well...and some say I’m just no fun.

[februus]

Communist to the Core...

[yldstrk]

I attended both private and public schools. My private school was a Catholic school and was fine. In the public school I attended, there was what I would call an innocence, almost a nobility to the character aspect. (Of course there were some already into the depravity of the hippie movement, but they were negligible.)

I sent my kids to public school, but they retained my values, don’t lie, don’t cheat, don’t be loud and obnoxious, clean your room—alright well they didn’t get that one, dress modestly and not like a hooker.

The baby was miserable in public school with all the mean girls, so I put her in a very good private prep school. It was not a perfect fit because the girls smoked weed and drank booze. But my daughter didn’t I think because I didn’t. I live a quiet, dutiful, industrious life and try to set an example for them. I don’t dress like a prostitute, I dress modestly, live quietly.

My point is, the kids will follow your example. If you are at the country club boozing it up, they will be boozers. If you are a quiet person striving to be virtuous and gentle, they will too even if they have to contend with idiots.

[MrB]

It’s pollution by the humanist worldview that causes this.

It’s the tenet of humanism that says “trust human experts”, because of course, they are smarter than you and know more.

Then people are stunned to find out that these “experts” simply AREN’T, and instead have a flawed agenda of their own to advance.

[stanne]

If people could go back to, I’m going to say it...pre birth control thinking, and realize god is the Creator, not us, and not the government, and realize WE are the experts.

God trusts us with these kids, and we are most certainly the primary educator, then people would realize how very ill equipped government reps are to raise other people’s kids to be properly formed.

That’s where people have to start.

The only stunning should be about people trusting others to form their kids.

[MrB]

All conclusions are reached by starting with your worldview,

and without a Christian worldview,
you’re going to end up at the wrong, destructive conclusion.

[stanne]

Well, JudeoChristian, anyway.

[SoConPubbie]

Thanks!

[Whenifhow]

Stossel will have a special on school choice on Fox Business (tonight at 9 pm)which will be shown on Fox News over the weekend (10 pm).

4:28 Minutes

Common Core Clueless - Not Adding Up - Experts Question New Common Core Math Methods - Stossel - F&F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCdvumyZTPE

[Jane Long]

As the article states, CommieCore is against the law, in TX.....

“Texas school districts are required to provide instruction in the essential knowledge and skills at appropriate grade levels, and pursuant to subsection 28.002 (b-3) of the Education Code, they may not use the Common Core State Standards Initiative to comply with this requirement,” Abbott stated clearly in opinion GA-1067.

Certain “freedoms” allow districts to select curricula on their own....to cover TEKS requirements. This appears to be where the CommieCore materials are “slipping” in.

EVERY parent must be vigilant in looking for these CommieCore materials. Bless this Boerne mom for finding - and reporting this.

EVERY parent in this school district (Boerne ISD) should be outraged and demanding these commie materials be pulled, immediately.

[JoyjoyfromNJ]

From a friend who has homeschooled 4 children, there is great concern that Common Core, among other things, will deny college educations to home schooled families.
Check the Home School Legal Defense Association site:

http://www.hslda.org/commoncore/