Posted on 03/09/2015 6:59:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A professor at Granite State College and chair of the history department at the Derryfield School in Manchester, New Hampshire admitted to writing the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts in order to end white privilege. According to the response heard on the video, Dr. David Pook shocked the audience at an event at New Hampshire Institute of Politics when he made the following statement:
The reason why I helped write the standards and the reason why I am here today is that as a white male in society I am given a lot of privilege that I didn’t earn[.]
Dr. Pook went on to say all kids deserve an “equal opportunity to learn how to read” and the same advantages he had. However, according to Campus Reform, the Derryfield School where Pook works considers the CCSS inferior and does not use the Common Core State Standards, not to mention that the school has a student body that is 91 percent white. In addition, Campus Reform notes that the “Standards” have been especially hard on black and Hispanic students, who have seen their test scores plummet since the introduction of Common Core.
According to Dr. Pook, not all children have equal opportunity to learn to read. He never stated what advantages he, as a white male, had over other students. What specifically is prohibiting children from having equal opportunities to learn? What has changed over the past 50 years? Perhaps the real problem with public education is caused by liberalism.
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During my years working on a time card, I lost 2 different promotions to persons who were promoted under Affirmative Action.
Neither ended up able to do the job requirements.
One job I quit outright. Took 2 people to do the volume of work I could do. Am I feeling sorry for either the employer or the affirmative action promotion person? HELL NO.
Well done! It's brains that count.
He is trying to be “Diana Moon Glampers” from Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” Similar to Atlas Shrugged, fiction is slowly becoming reality, pray for guidance.
so lets end his white priviledge...
tenure rules and laws keep old white hippies in places that blacks deserve to be in...
get rid of tenure laws and rules, they are racist
That moron may not have earned his white privilege, but most white children of my era had to earn theirs. Here is how we earned it:
Go to bed on time.
Say your prayers.
Clean your room.
Take care of your belongings.
Address your elders as Maam and Sir.
Do your chores before you play.
Respect your parents and the house rules.
Eat what’s put in front of you.
Sit up/stand up straight.
Do your homework.
Get good grades.
Go to Sunday School and church.
Attend confirmation classes and learn your religion.
Obey the Ten Commandments.
Be home on time.
Boys do not hit girls.
Girls do not chase boys.
Avoid a bad crowd.
Do not smoke, drink or swear. If you do, do not let any authority figure catch you.
Obey all driving laws and get a job to pay for your insurance.
Graduate from high school.
Get a job or go to college; if you go to college, also get a job.
Save money for the future.
Wait to get married before having sex.
If you don’t wait, you will have to give up the child or give up school and marry that person. So choose carefully.
Being married is teamwork.
Keep your finances simple and clean.
Work hard and respect your spouse and/or your boss, even if he/she is a jerk.
House, feed, clothe and love your child.
Discipline your child fairly; do not spoil, do not abuse.
Read to your child.
Pray with your spouse and your child.
Don’t ignore your spouse or your personal grooming because you’re now married or a parent.
Stay married.
Settle fights with your spouse before going to sleep at night.
Save money for old age.
Take care of your elders.
Expect the above list also of your chlld.
More proof the pendulum's swung too far....
You are on to something, both factual and anti-minority.
Its all about dominance.
The purpose of Ho#86 is the increase the quantity, not the quality of that species. In the Law of the Jungle the species that has the greater population dominates.
In the case of black African descendants, it is unlikely they could reach majority in any culture focused on individual excellence (not saying some of those descendants do not excel intellectually).
The liberal progressives pretend to sympathize and promote “primal behavior” in an “enemy of my enemy is my friend” ploy toward their backdoor effort at dominance. As with every socialism experiment the remaining intellectuals are naturally the elite and all the rest, including their previous assisting cohorts are relegated to peasantry.
This same liberal philosophy is also at play with the current liberal seemingly blind sympathy for muslims.
If the good professor is ashamed of being white, why doesn’t he do us all a favor and assume room temperature?
Agree even my Immigrant parents, who spoke fairly well English, read us books and took us to the library all the time.
I dont fall for the white privilege BS either. To all Moms and Dads out there who care:
THANKS MOM AND DAD! I CAN NEVER THANK YOU OR PAY YOU ENOUGH BACK FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR WE KIDS!
What is this white privelege stuff I keep reading about. I am a 57 year old white male that had to work for everything I have, including working my way through college.
White supremacy? and why yellow race supremacy? They are the best students. It not the color of your skin but the family values and culture.
To delve into this mater read;
RACE, CULTURE, AND EQUALITY
by Thomas Sowell
http://www.tsowell.com/spracecu.html
I tell you, something has killed my oldest super-intelligent daughters love for school.
She complains that school is SOOOO boring. (6th grade). Her words: Dumb kids, teacher has to repeat things, kids don’t listen and then ask questions about things the teacher already covered.
I hate to see it. Our oldest is home schooling and is much happier now. We might do it for her too.
Sad. I think it’s hurting our youngest daughter too.
Well said!
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I only knew about it in detail because Michael Savage has brought it up.
These people are insane.
I went to Catholic school for grade school ( 1st to 8th) and on my very first day of public school, my eyes were opened. I never liked school, I never fit in (entirely my issue) and once in public school I found that I didn't have to attend.
Half the class was there for baby sitting - they were useless beyond constant disruptive behavior- one quarter tried but lacked the ability, the remaining quarter were able to succeed.
There were AP classes and such but the entire system is focused on improving the "success rate" for the oxygen thieves thereby never challenging the capable. You could get straight A's without much effort - I rarely went and when I showed up, I slept through most of it.
Savage’s show can be very informative. That said, I’m always a bit amused when the suspicions of Freepers over the years are vindicated when some rat bastard lefty comes out of the woodwork and confirms it matter-of-factly.
The strange past of all of this is if they were to implement "Common Core", within FIVE years white children would have mastered it and many blacks would still be badly lacking.
WHY? Because learning has to do with methods of STUDY and LEARNING habits usually enforced through parental rules and guidance.. NOT revising or "dumbing-down" the material itself for a specific group.
Well now we have a growing number of lib leftists who use the term "white privilege" when they mean to holler "cracker" or "honky" or "evil whitey."
The race baiters can't give up on the "racist, evil whitey" theme, because that would mean their prime constituency, black Americans, would have to acknowledge that they were responsible for their own problems. That is something the race-hustlers will never do.
...it was revealed the suspect was an unarmed dental hygienist from Connecticut with a 1-year-old in the backseat.
On October 3, Carey approached a White House checkpoint and was approached by Secret Service officers. She made a three-point turn, striking an officer who was trying to move a barricade into her path, before driving away, according to an affidavit filed in support of a search warrant.
Police said the car sped down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol, where security vehicles stopped it at Garfield Circle. Carey put the car in reverse, hit a police car and drove away as officers fired at her.
Sounds like a righteous shoot, woman or not. The enemedia couldn't spin it far enough left, so they dropped it.
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