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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Reason enough to not vote Jeb Bush too
A lot of “Republicans(RINO, GOP-e ers)” support “Common Core” too(Jebby, Brandstad etc).
So.. explain exactly what Common Core is.
I think one of the main designers of Common Core is now head of the SATs.
Our state Education Superindendant GOP candidate told me, eye to eye, toe to toe, she did not have a problem with it. Refraining from voting on that race. Just can’t support Joy Hoffmeister
Updated meaning that it can do to a kid rather quickly what used to take many years of meaningless word play.
The old Values Clarification used to be found only in the more social classes like English, Social Studies, History and Sex Education. However, this new Common Core is designed to push amoral agenda within all the classes including science and math.
You may ask, how possible is that? And what would be the purpose of injecting children with amorality across the board?
The people who have designed this stuff have only one objective in mind -- and that is to control the souls of all our children. They need amoral automatons for their marxist paradise.
Do you ever wonder how and why a kid will shoot up his classmates? A nice kid? He is their success and proof that their education is working out just fine.
Common Core is specifically designed to create people with no consciences. Yes, a nation of psychopaths.
This type of education is Evil to the Core.
Do you have anything to add to this conversation?
Like asking for specifics regarding the topic?
Geez.. tough crowd.
Governor Christie from NJ loves Common Core. His kids don’t have to bother with it because they go to private schools.
Also, the state education commissioner of NY’s kid doesn’t have to bother with Common Core. He goes to private school. I don’t know what his father’s political affiliation is.
Then you have nothing to add to the conversation.
Do you not remember our little conversation about no personal attacks?
It ain’t just Democrats.
No. Apparently you didn't make much of an impression.
Do refresh my memory.
And try to explain why asking about details regarding a
topic has no bearing on a discussion about that same topic.
Our country is in such a deep hole right now that NOTHING is enough reason to vote for a Rat for any office.
They all need to be removed so we can change course before it’s too late!
And Common Core is reason enough to NOT vote for Jeb Bush either.
All of your exchanges you have had so far on this posting proves that you don’t want to know about the subject. Do you know what Common Core is? Have you read any of this author’s past postings. If you had you would know what Common Core is and you wouldn’t have to ask the author to explain himself.
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