Dumbing down the population is essential when the Government wants complete control over our lives. The newest generation will not have the advantage of being able to think for themselves. Pray for our country.
What would you do for a fist full of federal dollars, er I mean, Klondike Bar?
I was half listening to the radio yesterday and heard someone talking about this program describing it by saying kids won’t be asked when the U.S. “dropped the atomic bomb, but how the world would be different if we had not.” I wish I had been paying closer attention before he said this. Talk about indoctrination.
Dumbing down the population is essential when the Government wants complete control over our lives.
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Worse than dumbing down - communist indoctrination
‘Really Spooky’ Poem Praising Common Core Allegedly Recited by Dozens of 5th Graders
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3053007/posts
You really need to HEAR Beck and Stu perform this. It is worse than the Obama kids mentioned in post 11, because it is giving glory (worship, Kudos) to the curriculum, not a person, such as Obama.
Were 5th graders forced to recite “We learn more with common core!” poem?
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Common Core: A Scheme to Rewrite Education
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3053038/posts
This is not necessarily dumbing down. I am no fan of Common Core. I consider it a wretched piece of crap that is designed to control our children. That said I simply suggest to you that the things ‘removed’ from the K12 curricula are not that big a deal. There is no good reason to teach fractions before 5th grade. There is no good reason to teach probability at all until college. So what if a high schooler cannot take calculus? Most of the calculus taught in high school is worthless when you take college courses that really need it (like physics and engineering).
When I went to school (back in the dark ages) we studied none of this junk until college...and of course it was so detrimental that my generation got to contribute to some of the best growth years this country has seen in modern times. We helped get us to the moon. We improved measurement techniques. We did the engineering and science work that has provided the modern world with many of its conveniences. Not a one of us had probability in elementary school or learned the fundamental theorem of arithmetic. So much of the ‘new’ math is nonsense. It is geared to protecting children from learning their ‘tables’. They use calculates and cannot make change if their life depended on it.
IF the common core would focus more on actual useful skills (can you add and subtract? multiply and divide?) it would be a better thing.