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Posted on 03/15/2015 9:45:09 PM PDT by null and void
The superintendent of the Watchung Hills Regional High School District in New Jersey has confirmed that she sent an email to fellow superintendents Tuesday about her concern that education publishing giant Pearson is “monitoring” children’s social media accounts for possible leaks about the Common Core-aligned PARCC tests.
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Decimate
So these adults, are creeping on the underage kids? interesting, on many levels.
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While this is certainly another reason to homeschool, it is something homeschoolers ought to be aware of.
Homeschooled kids also use social media and personal information about them can be found in round about ways from other kid's profiles.
What makes us thing that someone from the educational establishment is spying on their students?
Probably that incident with that school in NJ some years back where the kids were issued Apple laptops and it was found that the webcams were being remotely activated and the kids were being spied on by the school.
It’s called *precedent*.
Pennsylvania schools spying on students using laptop webcams, claims lawsuit
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Oh this one is great. Parents can encourage their kids to take pictures of the tests and email them around. Civil disobedience.
They don’t need a warrant. They are private organization. That is partly what makes it so dangerous. The state is outsourcing its services to private contractors and they can avoid these pesky Constitutional and Civil Rights issues. And, they can make a crap load more money too. That is largely what this is about. You cannot patent the process of calculating 10x100. So they changed it to 5x2x10x2x5, using geometric shapes instead. Now they own it. They can sell it. And they don’t answer to anyone.
Decimate is a 10% cull. I believe the term you mean to use is OBLITERATE.
“They should be investigated by the FBI. Do they have a warrant for wiretapping
across state lines? Is this even an agency that can get a Warrant? “
The Gates, who actually are behind the Pearson empire , like the Clintons and Obamas are not subject to our laws and certainly Holder would never investigate/prosecute.
Bump
Isn’t twitter kinda public? and searchable?
So this big company was searching tweets for info about intellectual property and found some?
or, are they specifically hacking into twitter to find ‘kid’ accounts, and searching only them? if a teacher tweeted something about the test, they wouldn’t have found it?
I would imagine a lot of companies search twitter for info about themselves, or their super/sub contractors?
Oh great.
From what I've read about Common Core it's designed to make all students fail or
get below average grades. It's how the inventor designed it, to bring down Whites/Asians
scores to make the playing field even for Blacks.
Test scores are based on the Teachers assessment of the answer, and not based
on actual correct or wrong answers.
Common core has nothing to do with education. I cannot fathom how many people are involved
in this undermining of Americas children. They should all be brought up on conspiracy charges.
What law? Probably none because they wouldn't have gotten this far if there were a law
against undermining children's test scores. No law that I'm aware of.
From Wiktionary: "The definition reduce by one in ten is occasionally cited as "the correct" definition, with severely reduce considered a misconception, arrived at by reading decimate as to reduce to one-tenth rather than by one-tenth."
"The Cambridge Guide to English Usage states that the nonspecific use of this word to mean devastate or severely reduce the numbers of is "nowadays the commonest use of the word in both British and American English, and it’s registered without comment in modern dictionaries."
I was never much on homeschooling because our kids went to a pretty decent small conservative school and we were involved so knew what was what. However, I’m thankful they graduated when they did or they would be homeschooled today.
A cohort (roughly 480 soldiers) selected for punishment by decimation was divided into groups of ten; each group drew lots (sortition), and the soldier on whom the lot fell was executed by his nine comrades, often by stoning or clubbing. The remaining soldiers were often given rations of barley instead of wheat (the latter being the standard soldier's diet) for a few days, and required to camp outside the fortified security of the marching camp.Because the punishment fell by lot, all soldiers in the group were eligible for execution, regardless of the individual degree of fault, or rank and distinction, unless rigged to eliminate the mutiny ringleaders. The leadership was usually executed independently of the one in ten deaths of the rank and file.
I'm not unsympathetic with the goal of using words correctly but:
Languages evolve over time and lots of words have changed from their original meanings and/or added new meanings. We don't have to keep everything the way that it was in ancient Rome. When literally every dictionary says that a particular word usage is OK, it's OK. When 90% of people start using a word in a new way the meaning has effectively changed.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary there have been two meanings to the word decimate since the mid-1600's and people have been arguing about this since 1870. link1, link2
By the way, lately I have been reading a lot about Chinese etymology. Many Chinese characters have changed their meaning over time.
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