Posted on 03/18/2015 3:47:20 PM PDT by detective
In a scathing resignation letter about the issue, Oklahoma City math teacher Juli Sylvan blasted the controversial Common Core standards and exposed numerous serious problems with the Obama-backed scheme — including the fact that it is being quietly implemented in apparent defiance of state law. Among the most troubling elements, according to Sylvan — a veteran teacher with more than two decades in the classroom — is the data-mining of children, which she said she is not willing to facilitate. However, the problems with the administration-promoted national school standards are much more wide ranging. From using ineffective teaching methods and imposing a one-size-fits-all education model to doing away with individualism and confusing students, the Common Core disaster is growing even in Oklahoma. Unable to protect her students from the scheme any longer, Sylvan said her only remaining option was to resign from the profession she loves. Lawmakers are aware of the resignation and looking into the matter.
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God bless her!
Obama, like all dictators requires total submission to his will. The children are the place to begin. Little heads full of mush to be shaped into obedient Marxists.
Mother of three says Common core it just like Chinese communist schools.
Bkmrk.
...but Jebbie thinks Common Core is wonderful in spite of the failure.
She was gutsy. Hopefully there is a school that isn’t doing Common Disaster where she can use her great skills.
Bfl
Yep!
Quitting is one thing but is she going to fight CC?
The Governor of Oklahoma needs to order the state police into the schools to arrest the law-breaking faculty and administrators.
That’s the only way to get through to these arrogant communist scum.
In the present computer age the old school joke of putting it in your permanent record is no longer a joke. The government is now compiling an endless electronic “Dossier” on everyone from pre-K on forward with every minor infringement in it to be used against the subjects for any reason. It is way beyond 1984.
“Common” anything has always been a liberal failure.
People are not cookie cutter automatons, which is a requirements for socialist success.
Exactly.
0bama’s bureaucrats will pick gymnasts.
Giving up her livelihood isn’t enough for you? What are YOU doing to fight it??
Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!
”… including the fact that it is being quietly implemented in apparent defiance of state law."
With all due respect to mom & pop, please consider the following. As a consequence of the parents of this Oklahoma teacher evidently not making sure that their daughter was taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, their daughter is not able to argue the following against Common Core.
Simply put, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to decide policy, regulate, tax and spend for intrastate schooling purposes.
In fact, regardless that federal Democrats, RINOs, activist judges and indoctrinated attorneys will argue that if the Constitution doesn’t say that the feds can’t do something then they can do it, the Supreme Court has addressed that foolish idea too. Politically correct interpretations of the Constitution's Supremacy Clause (5.2) aside, the Court has clarified in broad terms that powers not delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to dictate policy for intrastate schools in this case, are prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Comon Core is the last push the leftists have to get our kids totally on board with their way of thinking.
They got around Texas not implementing Common Core by using on-line curriculums that ONLY teachers could access. Even the State Board of Education was kept in the dark, and state legislators.
A couple of years ago they cut some deal that supposedly gave the state back some power to regulate curriculums, but from what I could tell of it, the bastards that run education here are still in total control.
I would like to think that the legislators in Texas understand that ANY ON-LINE curriculum can be changed at will by the people that control it, but I seriously doubt that’s the case.
Yet, we have these days a SCOTUS that ‘reads the nuances’ or ‘defers to the govt INTERPRETATION of their own “Laws”’....good luck if you get through the ‘standing’ requirements.
Was it not Bush whom signed into Law saying (paraphrasing) “let the Courts figure it out”?? Or, “I had to break the Constitution to support it”? Uh..WTF?!?
Our Republic died over 100 years ago. I’m hoping, with the current crop of GOP (some -e), are starting to wake up and realize the truth.
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