I tried to opt my kids out of the Common Core in their school, with no luck. The Principal sympathizes with me, but said they would lose funding if they offered any classes that did NOT teach the Common Core Standards.
The least I get out of it, is that now she knows about the program and has done her own research as to what it is all about, whereas before she had no idea what it was, even though her school was implementing this new curriculum.
These schools have been bribed with funding to push this Progressive anti-American agenda. It's sick and it's huge....
I don’t mean to be confrontational, but WHY are you, a conservative, still sending your children to a public school?
The “public school” is the Bus Ministry of the State Church of Humanism.
The “public school”, including the “charter school”, is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The “public school” is better understood as the “government school collective”.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is collectivist.
It is hypocritical to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. Children do not trust hypocrites, so this will undermine your own authority, let alone influence, with your children.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
To understand the content and compass of modern education, see ...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54400125/Change-Agents-in-the-Schools-Barbara-Morris-1979
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves your children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children better than you can.
Nobody knows your children better than you do.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!
Especially not with your own children.
And DO NOT TAKE GOVERNMENT “EDUCATION” MONEY!
He that pays the piper calls the tune, and that’s especially true for any government entitlement program.
It’s the money. It is now understood that money is nearly everyone’s paramount concern. Control a man’s access to money and they control the man.
They don’t need to take his guns by force, just make them expensive enough.
They don’t need his vote, just buy two others.
They don’t need his approval. Just his money. He will give them AT LEAST half of it, so they can go on giving that to moochers, foreign enemies, and abortionists; he will give it so they’ll allow him to continue to work, have a home he can’t quite afford, put the kids in indoctrination schools and colleges, maintain that pleasant lifestyle and think his own hands are clean.
Participate in the evil system, make it work, sponsor the thefts and abortions and corruption of the children, and say you’re not guilty, you have no choice.
Works for the fascists. Works for you?
Why does this not surprise me?
The old going on your permanent record threat has now become a truly scary fact to be used to control our future citizens for now on.