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Common Core Assignment Makes Parents Identify Whether They Are ‘Liberal’ or ‘Conservative’
PJ Tatler ^ | December 3, 2013 | Stephen Kruiser

Posted on 12/04/2013 5:38:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

AND…creepier.

An assignment sent home from an Oak Forest, IL high school government class is raising eyebrows among parents who are shocked by the questionnaire they and their children are required to fill out. The questionnaire (below) has the parents identify their positions on a number of highly-charged issues, and then places them on a “political spectrum”.

The survey is part of Oak Forest High School’s Common Core curriculum, which according to the school district’s website is to …”provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them.”

There is a screenshot of the questionnaire at the link, as well as the lesson’s purported objectives, all of which could ostensibly be taught without hitting the parents with what looks like a political party fundraising survey.

It’s not a stretch to believe that the agenda here from the Common Core overlords is insidiously political when you remember that these are the people who used sentences like “Government officials’ commands must be obeyed by all” in an English lesson.


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Wonder why they want to know that? Any theories?
1 posted on 12/04/2013 5:38:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They need that info for tax purposes.


2 posted on 12/04/2013 5:40:52 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Equality.


3 posted on 12/04/2013 5:41:32 PM PST by cornelis
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To: TigersEye

And who to deny treatment to under Obamacare.


4 posted on 12/04/2013 5:44:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

NOYFB.


5 posted on 12/04/2013 5:45:54 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, tax purposes. I said that! ;-)


6 posted on 12/04/2013 5:46:25 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

See this as an opportunity to be placed on the “Do not send to re-education camp list”...

Put in Liberal / Apathetic positions that would make sure it gets you off their list...


7 posted on 12/04/2013 5:48:59 PM PST by GraceG
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To: ought-six

You might as well send them your tri-corner hat and Gadsden flag.


8 posted on 12/04/2013 5:52:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They are making a list...
Checking it twice..

Gonna find out if you are socialist mice..
Communism is coming to town...

They want to know who you will sleep with
Who you have sex with when you are awake
They claim to care but their charity is fake

Oh, you better not laugh
You better always cry

The Commies are coming to town...


9 posted on 12/04/2013 5:54:42 PM PST by GraceG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Parents should just lie. Obama does it all the time.


10 posted on 12/04/2013 5:54:51 PM PST by dforest
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To: TigersEye

Tax purposes? To feed the information to the IRS so they can determine who to audit?


11 posted on 12/04/2013 5:56:37 PM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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...the people who used sentences like “Government officials’ commands must be obeyed by all” in an English lesson.

What can you expect? It is an ENGLISH lesson!

I mean, REALLY, think about it people.

ENGLISH!

They could not use "Sieg Heil!" That would make it a German lesson!

/s

12 posted on 12/04/2013 5:56:40 PM PST by BwanaNdege (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. J.F. Kennedy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here's my card ...

... please harass and humiliate my child relentlessly.

13 posted on 12/04/2013 5:58:40 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: TruthWillWin

Yes.


14 posted on 12/04/2013 5:59:46 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Leftists didn’t take over the education system for nothing. Now that they have their govt monopoly they will milk it for total control of our future generations.


15 posted on 12/04/2013 6:04:25 PM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: TigersEye

Love that graphic.


16 posted on 12/04/2013 6:06:26 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: workerbee

So do I. I think I’ll save that one to my hard drive.


17 posted on 12/04/2013 6:07:48 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would answer “American”.


18 posted on 12/04/2013 6:11:38 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Ouderkirk

ping


19 posted on 12/04/2013 6:19:23 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Determination of health insurance eligibility.


20 posted on 12/04/2013 6:27:08 PM PST by dinodino
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