Posted on 09/07/2015 6:15:34 AM PDT by knarf
M4L CommieCore
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In the past one of the hats I wore was as a strategist. In reference to Common Core, you could actually use Alinksky’s rules against the Alinksytes with a little modification substituting “truth” in the place of lies and deception. Its also the reason their mission is going to fail. Truth always trumps lies. They know it too. They’re just acting up while they still can.
To OP
Bottom line: talk to the teachers and parents if you really want to know how Commie Core is affecting the system and the students.
Common Core is pure adolescent brain washing in the same sense as the Hitler youth movement . It is repulsive to the traditions of academia and conservative factual teachings . It is nothing more than a huge social experiment in mind control at an early stage of human life .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCoOv_DwaAk
This video really brought home to me the dangers of Common Core to our children’s minds. The question and answer session at the end gives some good insight on how to combat it but no easy answers.
The other roots are at the state level.
I live in a state that has not bought into Common Core. My daughter lives in a state that has taken it and she has decided to homeschool.
It would be good if you knew a little history of the Common Core.
The money used to develop Common Core came from the Annenburg Challenge back in the eighties. Bill Ayers had a major hand in it's creation. They used the inner city schools to practice their skills because the single moms would not kick up a fuss as they would have no idea what was being taught to their kids.
Now look at what is coming out of the inner city schools.
The major work CC does is to instill critical thinking skills designed to make children as adults think amorally.
Just what the socialists want in order to recreate our country. Right under our noses.
If your state has signed on, then my best advice is to work to minimize its effects where you are.
Outside of the Lord coming back, CC will be our educational cancer.
Alternatively, get a few like minded people to join the school board with you. In our area, opposition to a $100 million High School that most citizens opposed took 5 like-minded people, running for school board as a team, sharing the advertising and campaign costs, and winning a majority of seats on the board. They voted to cancel the proposed plan (even though they lost money on a bond guarantee), that the school the administrator wanted. They started over, developing a plan the taxpayers wanted, and won a bond referendum they needed to start construction.
The old board, when they held the required public meeting on budgets, sat on the stage, chatting with each other and passing candy around, while close to 200 citizens spoke in opposition it, but the team approach was the only one that worked to get rid of them.
One kid in middle school, one kid in elementary school. Both hate common core math.
I actually blew up at a teacher when we did third grade math multiplication 58x58 the traditional way
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And the teacher counted it wrong, because we did not use the new fangled “matrix” method I didn’t understand.
The right answer was wrong, because we didn’t use the new method.
And the schools haven’t necessarily been handing out translation sheets to explain that we’re asking your kid to estimate, add, subtract, divide. You have to translate what the instructions are asking the kids to do, and it is very hard to find FREE detailed explanations of how to use their new methods to do math.
That isn’t a surprise, though, that curriculum companies would devise new more abstract and complicated ways to do math problems in elementary school. They have copyrighted digital text books parents can’t see and now control the text book market for districts that adopt it. They’ve rendered all existing math practice workbooks by other companies obsolete while cornering the Common Core practice workbook materials market for themselves.
And the groups that control common core are the same ones that sit on the SAT board and other standardized test administrators. So you HAVE to at least use their expensive materials at some point to prepare kids for government standardized tests to pass high school and get into college, even if you use other tests, too.
They also get to charge for all the assessment tests to measure how kids are progressing throughout the year, turning the curriculum into a massive money maker at its roll out (everyone buys new materials, from parents to school districts to tutoring centers) to ongoing cash flow (semi-annual testing fees).
It has been annoying the way they have linked topics, and every class covers that topic. OK, science talks about global warming, but English read selections on the topic while math class did sections on it.
Me too. Women on the Wall.org
When we were going to vote in spring primaries, our kids asked why we cared about this candidate versus that candidate.
My kids didn’t care about any of the stuff until I said I didn’t vote for this person whose sign we passed because she supports common core.
Both of my children started to sound off on what they hated. Lots of tests, little information on what you got wrong, confusing methods, punished for using the old ways - and they didn’t even get the political issues insinuating into it like Islam is all peace and Christianity is bad, climate change will kill us all worship mother earth, white guys did everything bad.
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