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Fourth graders taught about ‘pimps’ and ‘mobstaz’ in Louisiana
foxnews.com ^ | 09/16/2013 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 09/19/2013 6:07:22 PM PDT by massmike

Fourth grade students in Vermilion Parish, La. were given a homework assignment that included words like “Po Pimp” and “mobstaz,” but school officials said the worksheet was age appropriate based on an education website affiliated with Common Core education standards.

“I try to instill values in my son,” parent Brittney Badeaux told Fox News. “My goal is for him to ultimately to become a great man, a family man, a well-rounded man. And now my son wants to know what a pimp is.”

Badeaux was helping her 9-year-old son with his homework when she heard him say the words “Po Pimp” and “mobstaz.” “I couldn’t believe it at first – hearing him read it to me,” she told Fox News. “So I looked at the paper and read the entire article. It was filled with Ebonics.”

Vermilion Parish School Superintendent Jerome Puyau told Fox News the “po-pimp” assignment was aligned to a fourth grade English Language Arts standard for Common Core. “Out of context, this word is inappropriate,” Puyau said. “However, within the Common Core standards, they do want us to discuss real world texts.”

The Common Core State Standards initiative is a plan devised by the nation’s governors and backed by the Obama administration to set a uniform standard for grades K-12. In practice, it will ensure that every child in the nation reaches the same level of learning. So far, 45 states have agreed to use Common Core – including Louisiana.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: commoncore; education; publicschools

1 posted on 09/19/2013 6:07:22 PM PDT by massmike
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"it will ensure that every child in the nation reaches the same LOW level of "learning"."
2 posted on 09/19/2013 6:10:07 PM PDT by Paladin2 (h)
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Fourth graders taught about ‘pimps’ and ‘mobstaz’ in Louisiana

Just preparing them for life in the Marxist workers' and peasants' paradise. We don't need no stinkin' constitutional republic!

3 posted on 09/19/2013 6:12:28 PM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: massmike

“And now my son wants to know what a pimp is.”


A left-winger would tell the kid that a pimp is someone to be admired.


4 posted on 09/19/2013 6:13:35 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: massmike

Get your kids out of public school. Grandparents, you may have to help.


5 posted on 09/19/2013 6:19:14 PM PDT by marron
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To: massmike

In accordance with Common Core Standards.


6 posted on 09/19/2013 6:26:37 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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“They do want us to discuss real-world texts,” even when those texts are dreck.


7 posted on 09/19/2013 6:27:48 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Think of Christ's suffering.)
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To: massmike

I had never heard of the word mobstaz before this.


8 posted on 09/19/2013 6:30:40 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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I said the same thing about the word “twerking” a few weeks ago!


9 posted on 09/19/2013 6:31:46 PM PDT by massmike (Why doesn't Obama just declare Syria a "chemical weapons-free zone"?)
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To: massmike

COMMON CRAP EJOOKAYSHUN STANDARDS


10 posted on 09/19/2013 6:32:25 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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“The Common Core curriculum, like it or not – we have to make our students successful,” the superintendent said. “We know that in New York proficiency in state testing was very low. We foresee that our students will not be successful unless with align everything to the common core standards.”

Another real world example of Common Core's "high standards" for writing. Unbelievable!

11 posted on 09/19/2013 6:34:35 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Putin has demonstrated just how flexible Bend Over Barry really is.)
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an education website affiliated with Common Core education standards.

The 'New Math' of Progressive political indoctrination.

12 posted on 09/19/2013 6:35:51 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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“I said the same thing about the word “twerking” a few weeks ago!”

You just made me look that one up too.


13 posted on 09/19/2013 7:02:46 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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They offer courses in journalism that young?


14 posted on 09/19/2013 7:27:20 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Excessive numbers of coincidences are known as patterns.)
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To: Proud2BeRight

Mobstaz is not a word


15 posted on 09/19/2013 8:18:34 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: chessplayer

Tell him that’s what some teachers do on their time off.


16 posted on 09/20/2013 4:49:15 AM PDT by goldi
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Mobstaz is not a word

You ol'skoo. This is new skoo.

17 posted on 09/20/2013 8:37:40 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Putin has demonstrated just how flexible Bend Over Barry really is.)
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"...And now my son wants to know what a pimp is.”

Give him the FReeper definition; one who shamelessly promotes his own website by excerpting the article unnecessarily.

18 posted on 09/20/2013 12:28:31 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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