Posted on 10/27/2014 12:47:15 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Common Core could be called ObamaEd. It's as much a signature issue as ObamaCare. Indeed, it has the same goals: more government power, more control of individual citizens, more jobs and money under White House control.
In short, Common Core is Obama's baby. A Democrat who opposed Common Core would be accused of stabbing the President in the back.
As a practical political matter, Democrats cannot be against Common Core. And that alone is ample justification for keeping them out of office. Common Core is a nightmare that everyone should be against.
If you don't know how bad it is, check out one or two of these items, then you'll know:
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“Principals say Common Core tests make little kids vomit, pee their pants” — Eight New York State principals protested: “We know that many children cried during or after testing, and others vomited or lost control of their bowels or bladders. Others simply gave up. One teacher reported that a student kept banging his head on the desk, and wrote, ‘This is too hard,’ and ‘I can’t do this,’ throughout his test booklet.”
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/25/principals-say-common-core-tests-make-little-kids-vomit-pee-and-poop-their-pants/
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“Building the Machine, the Parent Interviews / PREVIEW”—Video of parents discussing how distraught their children are due to Common Core: “My younger son went into third grade. Within a month everything just bottomed out. He didn't like school anymore. He said he was dumb. He was stupid. He didn’t understand anything….I didn't know what to do to help him.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyP2PZk-XFg
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“Common Core Exposed—compute 15-7”— Extremely irritating; don’t view if already in a bad mood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKXMblyqzx4
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“A Poison Pill for Learning”—The Common Core education standards harm students and teachers, according to U S News.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/09/02/the-common-core-standards-are-bad-for-teachers
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“Education that you know is sick”—Article on American Thinker reveals the weird complexity of Common Core math problems, some of which have no answer.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/05/education_that_you_know_is_sick.html
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“Common Core: 3 x 4 = 11 is okay”—a short video of apologist explaining Common Core. “We want our students to compute correctly but the emphasis is really moving more towards the explanation, and the how, and the why…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW0VxxoCrNo
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“Laurie Rogers: Reframing the Common Core Discussion”—“The Common Core (CCSS) is a huge problem, to be sure. It’s dictatorial, inadequate, experimental, expensive, developmentally inappropriate, politically infused -– it’s nearly everything critics have said it is. But it isn’t the worst problem we face. That dishonor goes to The Network, a moniker I’ve given to the conglomeration of corporate and government interests (and their allies) that have seized control of America’s classrooms.”
http://www.6news.net/laurie-rogers-reframing-the-common-core-discussion/
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The only hope for getting rid of Common Core is that we elect lots of Republicans, Independents, Conservatives, Moderates, everybody but Democrats. We need practical people from left to right who recognize that traditional education is what the country needs now, not a coercive scheme like Common Core.
The phrase "traditional education" refers to what schools do around the world and have always done for thousands of years: reading, writing, arithmetic, and then geography, history, science, literature, etc.
Virtually every private school does what I'm here calling "traditional education." The basic idea is that children learn lots of stuff. Common Core sabotages all normal traditional practices, with the result that children learn little.
It's difficult for the average person to understand that Common Core commissars don't care much about knowledge. But that's what all the statistics suggest. The commissars are focused on social engineering, and on making children cooperative and pliable. There is the problem for Common Core. However slickly packaged, it's just another part of the deliberate dumbing down of America. Democrats have to support Common Core. Ergo, don't support Democrats.
Please pass this article on to your political-junkie friends.
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Yes. Asking for a specific explanation clearly demonstrates a lack of interest.
Do you know what Common Core is?
Not too much, thus my question. Kind of elementary there.
Have you read any of this author’s past postings.
Naw, he's a self-promoter. Only posts his own stuff.
That pretty much makes him suspect and best shunned.
If you had you would know what Common Core is and you wouldn’t have to ask the author to explain himself.
Too bad his little "article" failed to do that, isn't it?
I really think you're drunk.
Indeed. People forget history, I guess. ObamaEd? No.
“Do you not remember our little conversation about no personal attacks?”
Do you mean this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3219261/posts?page=11#11
Yeah, pretty weak.
Guess that’s the best you can do. Try it sober sometime.
Common core is designed to convert students to Islam:
The Ties That Bind Michael Bloomberg, Qatar and Radical Islam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220250/posts
From Maggie’s Notebook:
http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2013/08/common-core-the-qatar-connection-a-wahhabi-state-skypes-with-your-children/
The Qatar Foundation International, or QFI, in 2011 partnered with the Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to facilitate matchmaking between classrooms in the U.S. and international schools through something called the “Connect All Schools” project.
QFI, funded by the Qatari government, explains on its website the initiative was founded in response to Obama’s call in his June 2009 speech to the Arab world in Cairo, Egypt, to “create a new online network, so a young person in Kansas can communicate instantly with a young person in Cairo.”
* QFI relates how more than 100 U.S. schools and organizations have already connected on the interactive website. [* Public and Private schools.]
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