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Common Core Exec: 'Damn the Second Amendment'Says conservatives are "idiots."
Truth Revolt ^ | 21 Jan 16 | Trey Sanchez

Posted on 01/22/2016 4:38:26 AM PST by xzins

Project Veritas has released its third undercover video of another Common Core executive revealing the political ideology behind the national educational standards. And this time the anti-American agenda is made clear.

The featured Common Core salesperson in this video is Kim Koerber of National Geographic Education (funded by the Gates Foundation, by the way) and a former Pearson Education publishing executive. Her expressions of hatred for America's founding documents coupled with her undying love for Common Core brings the problem to an entirely new level. Plus, she brings a new meaning to the word disgust when talking about those pesky Texas conservatives:

Common Core is really important because it needs to have some cohesion between the states, and Texas keeps screwing it up over and over again.

Texas got upset about it and they wanted to have their founders, they wanted to pound the founders in it. And it's like come on!

The dead white guys did not create this country. It was a whole bunch of different kinds of people. And yes there were women, and yes there were people of color, and yes… you need to talk about them, too. But they want to talk about those dead white guys.

People who say that they want to teach the Constitution, only want to teach the part of the Constitution that they like. 

When told that Texans are upset that the Constitution isn't being covered, Koerber pushed back hard saying, " It is being covered, but not the way they -- cause they're idiots and they don't know what's in it."

"You should know a little bit about it, you shouldn't have to memorize the thing," she added.

When a Project Veritas undercover journalist spoke about the Second Amendment, Koerber interjected:

That damn Second Amendment. I don't think personal handguns need to be on anyone except the government, the police. What is the purpose of having a gun?

But Koerber wasn't done insulting conservatives, or Christians -- what she kept referring to as "those" people in Texas who keep resisting Common Core:

They don't agree with Islam, so they don't want their kids to know about it. They don't agree with birth control, so they don't want their kids to talk about it. They don't agree with math because they don't understand it. It's not the same math that they did in high school, so they don't want their kids to know about it. 

Here is a little back and forth with a PV journalist and Kroeber, continuing this line of thought (via Breitbart):

PV: I am really glad I'm here in California, whatever religious affiliation you want to take is fine, but in Texas they want to push the Christianity.

KOERBER: Because they think it's the only one.

PV: They do, and I see that.

KOERBER: That's why it's so offensive to have these prayers in the school board.

PV: Christianity is totally out of the common core?

KOERBER: Yes it is. Totally. It's not a core concept at all.

PV: But then there is a mention of other religions like Islam.

KOERBER: Yeah well you have to because...

PV: So how did Islam get worked in?

KOERBER: Islam…they said you have to talk about Islam, you have to talk about Judaism and you have to talk about Christianity and they wanted to make it big about Christianity; no it's like, everybody needs to know about everything else.

This third video in the series follows a first and second that both featured execs telling Project Veritas that Common Core has never been about children and that it is all about money. The undercover operation has been successful as one of the women featured in the first video was quickly fired for gleefully saying, "No, I hate kids. I'm in it to sell books, don't even kid yourself for a heartbeat."



TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: banglist; billgates; commoncore; constitution; education; guns; indoctrination; jeb; jebbush; kimkoerber; microsoft; msdos; redmond; washington; windows
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To: WKUHilltopper

Local school boards still have a huge say.

We need to get after them.

I heard one report yesterday that the SAT has gone to questions based on students having learned common core methods.

The ACT hasn’t...yet.

I’d ignore the SAT. Hopefully, they keep their old test on file, because they’ll have to go back to it.

What is the volume of the cylinder:

ACT answer: 1 Liter.

SAT answer: well, it could be lots of balls, and the spaces between the balls could be filled with water. And if we guess the size of the balls, we could imagine bb’s for a bb gun (Proctor: Did he write, “GUN”? Pull the fire alarm, call the cops, we have a gun nut taking a test! Fail. Fail. Fail.)


21 posted on 01/22/2016 5:27:51 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Common Core is the most idiotic, dumbing-down thing I’ve seen in my 65 years of breathing air on this planet.
The stupid is strong in this one.....


22 posted on 01/22/2016 5:39:24 AM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: IMR 4350
Trump very often brings up Common Core and his solution. It's that education decisions should be made at the local level. He doesn't have to expound on that, because he gets immediate agreement.

FWIW I can't imagine that "New York Values" include the feds telling them how to educate their children. It's not just a Texas thing. NOBODY (except those who benefit from the control or cost) likes it.

In fact, one has to why the HOR didn't take it out of all funding bills.

23 posted on 01/22/2016 5:40:28 AM PST by grania
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To: xzins

This is just another of the myriad reasons “Common Corps” should be destroyed as “Common Corpse”


24 posted on 01/22/2016 5:43:23 AM PST by glennaro
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To: xzins

Bushbots will come on to defend Common Core along with the Little Jebbies.


25 posted on 01/22/2016 5:54:49 AM PST by stockpirate (IF ISIS IS CONTAINED THEN THE REFUGEES CAN GO HOME!)
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To: xzins

I was under the impression regarding the constitution that the Federal gubmint has no power over the states concerning ed-ja-ma-cation. /s


26 posted on 01/22/2016 6:07:06 AM PST by seeker7_dj (Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out)
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To: seeker7_dj

I agree. And the truth is that education really IS a local issue.

Whether a county school district or a township school district, those folks know what makes their people tick. They know their festivals, their jobs, their NAMES.


27 posted on 01/22/2016 6:11:27 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

“Object to your school board.”

Good luck with that. I was in local politics for years and inviting a conservative to attend a local village council, county board or schoolboard meeting was like asking a vampire to attend a sunrise church revival.


28 posted on 01/22/2016 6:25:03 AM PST by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: sergeantdave

I don’t like Sunrise Church revivals, but our board meetings are pretty easy to attend. Sending letters is even easier, but BEST is sending letters to the editor addressed to the school board.


29 posted on 01/22/2016 6:29:26 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

I could see the Fed Gov *maybe* publishing non-mandatory guidelines for the “lowest-common-denominator” of what a curriculum should cover...

— EVEN THEN —

If your State, or even local, educators are looking for external guidance on what a given curriculum should cover to prepare students for life in the real world, you’ve got far bigger problems than an over-reaching fed. That would tend to indicate to me that you don’t have “teachers” or even “schools”. You quite likely have “baby-sitters” and “day-care” and you are probably better off finding a home-school co-op.


30 posted on 01/22/2016 6:45:16 AM PST by jaydee770
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To: xzins

If you’re talking FL, I’d say it’s a bit perplexing.

There’s enough gray hairs and snow-birds in the South to turn the stomach of us in the Northern end. They went goo-goo for Yeb! over and over...Like Nelson and the ‘cutie’ Rubio


31 posted on 01/22/2016 7:55:05 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: GenXteacher

Yes, it’s indoctrination. Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao approve of Common Core.


32 posted on 01/22/2016 8:41:26 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: DuncanWaring
I saw a movie once where only the police and military had guns. It was called Schindler's List....

You ever see a Brad Pitt flick called Fury?

Hey! Shoot that guy....

33 posted on 01/22/2016 11:43:55 AM PST by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: archy

Not yet ... I may have to rent it.


34 posted on 01/22/2016 11:50:04 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: norwaypinesavage
It's funny, I recently joined an animated discussion among some siblings and cousins, a couple of whom are educators, the topic of which was Common Core.

To my surprise, the opposition to Common Core was unanimous. Thoughtful educators (the ones who actually care about their students) see Common Core for the fraudulent and evil entity that it is.

35 posted on 01/22/2016 12:41:46 PM PST by sargon
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To: xzins

Definitely local is better.


36 posted on 01/22/2016 3:11:48 PM PST by Yardstick
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