Dear Free Republic: Why did you link to this article without doing your own due diligence on Common Core??? Something Wrong with your head???
Do you due diligence and write your congresspersons. Get active in an anti-common core organization for the following reasons
The AP article is benign, but it is hiding the real motives behind Common Core:
Except when describing lesson plans, they are extremely detailed so a monkey could teach it. it takes the depth of experience out of teaching.
The Common Core lesson content is the most egregious.
1. English in Texas included Allah is great and disparages other religions.
2. Part of one lesson explanation states that they want to teach the children to nag their parents with inflammatory, emotional arguments rather than civil discussion.
3. Established education experts rejected Common Core. European countries rejected Common Core and would not endorse it when requested presumably by the founding Gates Foundation, a major contributor to funding the curriculum.
Bribery was used to get Common Core accepted by the schools:
The DOE tied Adopting Common Core to school funding measures, forcing schools to adopt even before the curriculum details were released.
The national governor’s association embraced Common Core before the curriculum was completed. They bought something they had no knowledge of.
Common Core Purpose is Socialist/Marxist:
The stated purpose of Common Core is to prepare our children to be “workers”. This is socialist, pure and simple.
No Parental Consent (you do not have the right to inquire about the content of Common Core being taught to your children:
Parental consent statutes have been gutted so now parental consent is not required for them to do anything to your child at school - all without your knowledge.
Extensive personal and family data mining:
School districts now can or will collect up to 400 elements of database information tracking every aspect of child and their family lives from K thru 12 and then make the information available to third parties. NO privacy. This means the child’s misbehavior if any will haunt him for all his life.
Philosophical background:
Pres. McKinley is on record as saying there has to be 2 systems of education in America. One for workers (Common Core), the other for elites to govern the workers.
The only purpose of linking was to show how the MSM is propagandizing. So noted in the first post.