Posted on 06/02/2013 7:14:50 AM PDT by opentalk
The passage for the seventh-grade lesson was blatantly offensive — an excerpt from a 1938 anti-Semitic children's book.
But that was the point: to provide students in the Santa Ana school district with a perfect illustration of insidious propaganda.
In the book, a mother and her son gather mushrooms in the forest, and she explains that, as with mushrooms, there also are poisonous people. Slapping his chest in pride, the boy says, "Of course I know, mother! They are the Jews!"
When teachers expressed misgivings about the material, which also included an excerpt from a speech by Hitler, officials struck the passages from the curriculum.
But their inclusion — and even their removal —underscores the challenges embodied in an ongoing nationwide attempt to overhaul teaching and testing. This would-be revolution, called the Common Core, is aimed at teaching students to be analytical and to gauge this learning with tests that do more than drill students with multiple-choice questions.
Nearly every state has adopted the Common Core, which is a set of learning standards laid out by grade and subject, in math and English. States and individual school districts are developing, adapting or adopting curriculum to help students meet the mark.
(Excerpt) Read more at touch.latimes.com ...
In my experience (which includes a number of years working in academia) this sort of phrasing -- along with the vaunted "Critical Thinking skills" -- always means one thing, and one thing only: blindly accepting the wisdom of Marxism as the only solution to any problem. Independence of thought is stamped out: it's all settled science, so to speak.
Analytical?
Critical?
Don't make me laugh.
The media has to come out now and support this educational disaster because both liberals and conservatives are coming out against it. When you have Diane Ravitch and the Heritage Foundation on the same side of an issue, there’s a MAJOR problem.
‘the Common Core is aimed at teaching students to be analytical’
No, it’s not. It is insidious in teaching Leftist propaganda and eliminating critical thinking. To quote Abraham Lincoln ‘you can fool some of the people all of the time. You can even fool all of the people some of the time. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time’. This Admin thinks we are too stupid to see their ‘Common Core’ objectives. And Jan Brewer is on the verge of implementing Common Core in Red State Arizona.
If this is not stopped immediately it will make its way in to all areas of K-12 education, and that includes: Home schools, private schools, charter schools and parochial schools.
From what I’ve read, Common Core is about creating compliant socialist worker bees who do as they’re told without question.
I think you’ve got it. Since testing will change to reflect common core, and all school students will be subject to the results of testing to include all you have listed, it is only realistic to assume common core is going to the core of all learning/school systems.
In the book, a mother and her son gather mushrooms in the forest, and she explains that, as with mushrooms, there also are poisonous people. Slapping his chest in pride, the boy says, “Of course I know, mother! They are the Jews!”
Is this is American public schools or a madrassa?
I thought Jeb's daddy solved our education and curriculum problems during the late eighties with the adoption of "Goals 2000". 2000 has come and gone so I assume the problems have been solved since that year.
And then Jeb's brother W solved our education problems again a few years after 2000 with "No Child Left Behind". Two Bushes have already solved our education problems at the national level two different times, so why the need for "Common Core" and another solving of the problems?
Maybe because these politicians don't have even the first clue what they are doing?
Common core state standards the hot topic at ABEC conference
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026250/posts
Dangers Of Common Core - TheBlaze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ErJc8whU56w
Battling Common Core - TheBlaze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hXYFrxBREIg
Stopping Common Core - TheBlaze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ6HCqdW0Oo&feature=player_embedded
This video is very old and about an hour long, but it describes how long state control has been going on. A student database has been in place for a long time, but common core according to Beck videos above include biometric database.
Who Controls The Children (schools dumb down kids deliberately)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ErL9zPHdH4A
We see type of response often on Free Republic regard to schools. We see my child isn't learning ( anti-gun, homo-indoctrination, Marxism, political correctness...etc.) not in my child's ( state, county, neighborhood, classroom) school
BUT.. BUT...BUT...Tsunamis sweep the good away with the bad. Even if pockets of rationality do hold out against the Marxist tsunamis the good will go down with the bad in the voting booth. Freedom will be lost in the voting booth and all citizens will suffer.
interesting...Jeb Bush trying to push common core agenda in MI..makes it even more suspect. Progressives out trying to push another program people don't want.
similar to Obama summer traveling tour to push the goodness of Obamacare.
The elimination of the common core curriculum will require the efforts of everyone.
If this is not stopped immediately it will make its way in to all areas of K-12 education, and that includes: Home schools, private schools, charter schools and parochial schools.
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But it is not just common core - we are fighting a land grab at the same time. Agenda 21
From Common Core to Common Ground, the next transformation (vanity)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3025829/posts
additional info:
The legislation has been passed - er - executive order signed - and now we are in another battle - this time for our land.
On Fox news this morning
Tucker Carlson interviewed Rob Astorino regarding land grab in his county in NY.
http://www3.westchestergov.com/
Westchester county, NY
HUD cut a deal to make all neighborhoods “fair” so that poor families access to suburbs and affordable housing.
Force neighborhoods to change and take away zoning codes. Zoning outlines what can and can’t be built
Zoning should be local, not federal. The barrier to housing is income - if you can afford to live in a certain neighborhood.
On the website - (http://www3.westchestergov.com/westchester-has-it-all) there is a video - it is his “state of the county” address. At the very beginning, the local tv station says that this politician, Rob Astorino, could be prosecuted for not complying with the HUD arrangement.
You tube channel for Stop Albany
http://www.youtube.com/user/STOPAlbany?feature=watch
Why does the U.S. Constitution make no mention of education? Because the Founding Fathers understood that the education of children must be at the local level. We now stand at the edge of a cliff as the federal Common Core State Standards continues its march across the country.
Ping!
“In the book, a mother and her son gather mushrooms in the forest, and she explains that, as with mushrooms, there also are poisonous people. Slapping his chest in pride, the boy says, “Of course I know, mother! They are the Jews!””
Sounds like Occupy Wall Street, although they use the term “banker”, but you don’t have to be a historian to know what they mean by that.
The federal government has no business meddling in education whatsoever whether it’s public, private, or home-schooling. It is completely un-Constitutional for it to do so. There should be No Dept. of Education at the federal level.
Only the individual states and the citizens within those states should have a say over their education system. Only the states and local counties, cities, towns, etc. should have input on what kinds of schools they want, what the curriculum should be, and what standards will be.
The tentacles of the federal government are so intertwined with education at every level from preschool to elementary to secondary to colleges and universities that the only possible way to change it is for governors and state legislatures to simply refuse to cooperate with the feds when it comes to anything regarding education - especially they have to refuse to accept the feds money.
This Common Core crap is just more government control - unbelievable government control - which is the whole point. The federal government now sets the curriculum for schools??? And, by the way, many private schools are cooperating with this demonic thing too.
Many will say that the feds have been controlling public education for decades. There is some truth to that in that as the states took money from the feds, they had to dance to the feds tune and implement whatever stupid federal string was attached to that money. But, adopting this national curriculum is the final nail in the coffin in regard to the states having any real say in their state’s education system. That influence will now be totally dead.
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