How NOT To Argue with Parents About Common Core

Townhall.com ^ | October 18, 2013 | Michelle Malkin

[Guenevere]

I am so sorry......I just didn’t expect this.

[TNoldman]

Commom core ping

[Whenifhow]

Just like Obamacare exemptions - there will be something similar for testing of students - that’s my guess.

The point is that homeschool parents should be aware of the agenda which is to shut down homeschoolers and get involved. Call your local board of education or do whatever you can to stop common core.

[HomeAtLast]

I dropped the ball, thinking no way would it be in this school.

Now that you (and daughter and sil) know, what will you do?

[Black Agnes]

As a taxpayer, YOU are likely paying for all the ads.

[Armando Guerra]

Just read a newspaper article that freshman English classes are dropping novels like “To Kill a Mockingbird” to make room for nonfiction texts such as “How to Re-Imagine the World.” From Amazon about the book: Who says that all possible social and political systems have already been invented? Or that work—or marriage, or environmentalism, or anything else—must be just what they are now? This book is a conceptual toolbox for imagining and initiating radical social change.

[Whenifhow]

to make room for nonfiction texts such as “How to Re-Imagine the World.”
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Beck article tells about re-imagining America

Glenn Beck ‘Horrified’ by ‘America’s Latest Propaganda Machine’

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/17/glenn-beck-horrified-by-americas-latest-propaganda-machine/

Excerpt:
Among the topics the individuals were caught on tape discussing was the fair redistribution of wealth and how “we’re funding the arts through the Cultural Development Fund, which is upwards of $20-some-odd million funding our cultural communities.”

Beck also said Imagining America was created by Bill Clinton, and that its membership now includes roughly 90 universities including Columbia University, Brown University, the University of Chicago, and more.

Many receive funds from the Soros-linked Tides Foundation, Beck added, in addition to various government grants.

Imagining America - TheBlaze

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx0im4a9Go8

[kabumpo]

While it is shocking that a known work of fiction is being replaced by overt propaganda, TKAM is very mediocre fiction that is only two degrees away from agitprop.

[Guenevere]

Now that I know ...I'm keeping her informed, but it's up to her to get involved, to take that first step....(Of course I would gladly help)

She is unhappy with Common Core and she needs to talk to the principal....(we just found out about this)

[Albion Wilde]

Nothing but more UN propaganda bullshi# disguised as critical thinking.

Don't you love how "critical thinking" has come to mean "unthinking adherence to the Marxist party line -- or else"?

[HomeAtLast]

Speaking of Hitler, does anyone remember when there was no such thing as leftist science? It was just science. There was also plain mathematics, no left or right.
Except in Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union. Big insane asylums like that had politically correct science and math.

If parents don’t personally attend school board meetings, make a fuss and not relent until they get results, they should withdraw their children. That hits the school where it hurts: in many districts they lose more than $10k per pupil withdrawn.

Enough people do that, change for the better might be expected.

That said, I do not for a moment believe that public education is a good thing, an improvable thing, an excusable thing. I am simply endorsing activism within the system for those parents whose eyes are still sealed.

[smilebig1]

In my house public school is supplemental. I the parent see it as my duty to raise my children and build their minds. I don't like seeing what they bring home for classwork, point is I look. I teach them how to absorb the world around us. How to observe and listen. And strategies people use in manipulating others. The greatest lessons can be taught to our children by spending time with them and playing games.

[logi_cal869]

Good article. Thanks for posting (I’d have missed it otherwise).