Posted on 12/17/2014 6:05:58 PM PST by Kaslin
10-year-old Elizabeth Blaine dropped the mic at a Montclair, New Jersey, school board meeting Monday night, sharing her support for a policy that lets parents opt out their children from taking the Common Core test, also known as PARCC (Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers).
"I love to read. I love to write. I love to do math. But I don’t love the PARCC. Why? Because it stinks," Elizabeth said.
"This is crazy!" she continued. "I am one of the most gifted students in my grade (or so my mom says) and I have not even the slightest clue as to what this means."
"I am glad my mom and dad are letting me opt out, because I don’t want to deal with this nonsense."
The full text of Elizabeth's speech reads:
I love to read. I love to write. I love to do math. But I don’t love the PARCC. Why? Because it stinks.
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...
The goal to have a baseline of knowledge when a kid finishes high school, and every grade for that matter, is a decent goal. The problem is what they are teaching and how they insist it be done.
CC has put more kids into homeschooling than anything else. It’s a shame too because public school is where kids learn to socialize, get into sports and other team building activities, etc. etc.
CC has ruined it all.
The essential goal of “Common Core” that nobody really wants to say out loud is this:
To make all the standardized tests so confusing that white kids will do just as bad on them as black kids.
As evidence of this, watch this Common Core PSA put out by the Urban League, the racial subtext is practically dripping off it:
Their message, that “all kids come in first” really means, in practice “all kids must lose equally”, so that some kids don’t feel bad about themselves.
Home school ping.
Why would the parent of “one of the most gifted students in my grade (or so my mom says)...” allow her daughter to attend a government indoctrination center?
Smart little girl..she has more common sense than most in Washington DC
Somewhere, I read a tale told in an interview with a little Chinese woman who’d escaped Mao. She spoke of how Common Core is like what she experienced under Mao in school: same stuff, same way of teaching.
She specifically mentioned that people were taught to not think for themselves, and that, in the US, she noticed people could think for themselves. Apparently, this non-independent thinking carries through the lives of people who learn this way.
Right. When it takes a teacher two minutes to explain how to subtract 267 from 578, yeah!
Common Core refers to the lowest common denominator. It is meant to bring the smartest kids down to the level of the worst performing kids. This is the obama way for all of society.
Here is the tale I mentioned in my prior post. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Chinese American woman: Common Core in U.S. same as Communist Core in China
November, 2014
Here is something interesting all of you should independently verify. Common core is only required in public, charter, and low tuition private schools. Those private schools that are more costly do not have to adopt it. They are given exemptions. You should all ask yourself why.
Anti-Christian.
Anti-gun
Pro-Islam
“CC has put more kids into homeschooling than anything else. It’s a shame too because public school is where kids learn to socialize”
Sorry to ‘lower the boom on you, Boomer,
The fact is clear and unambiguous: Home schooled students are better socialized that the sad, sorry, students stuck in the Pooblik Skrewl Collective’s hives.
Facts just are.
Isn’t Jeb Bush a keen proponent of common core education?
Of course, his kids probably went to private school.
I've spent a decade teaching topics in multiple methods because a) there usually are multiple methods, and b) when stressing problem solving, recognizing that the task can be broken down and completed and checked is more important than doing it the One True Way we said to.
And now they're doing crazy crap. The kids know the math; they just can't figure this stuff out.
So she refused to check her wite privledge??
Bravo.
I honestly think the explanation is that at this point, absolutely everything the democrats do turns out exactly the opposite of what they say.
forget brain washing.....its clearly a brain trashing curricula
Using so-called poetry by Maya Angelou is sufficient evidence to deem common core worthless.
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