Posted on 05/12/2014 11:44:01 AM PDT by Whenifhow
A year ago I wrote about how extreme right-wing rhetoric against the Common Core State Standards was clouding a substantive debate about the Common Core State Standards initiative. Now a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center details how right-wing extremists are using Core opposition are using conspiracy theories and misinformation to undermine the very notion of public education.
The report, called “Public Schools in the Crosshairs: Far-Right Propaganda and the Common Core State Standards,” distinguishes between legitimate criticism of the standards — which comes from various points on the political spectrum — and the right-wing campaign to cast the initiative as a “nefarious plot” by liberals “to turn public schools into anti-American, anti-God indoctrination camps that churn out submissive automatons who will unquestionably serve the interests of the government and big business.”
This campaign, it says, is really “a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself” and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, “vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other ‘school choice’ measures.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Common (Obama) Core Criticism - Report Ignores Political Left’s Dissent - Trouble With Schools - F&F
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iYk0m8MD6w
“right-wing extremists” They just love saying that don’t they. People who are against communist indoctrination centers posing as public schools are “right wing extremists”. People are against teaching homosexuality to school kids are “right wing extremists”. Practically anyone and everyone who doesn’t bow down and submit to the left are “right wing extremists”.
Common core will brain wash students and make them like stupid zombies which is what the leftist’s want, ignorant voters.
They are quoting the SPLC and have the gall to call someone else "extremists"?
“Now a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center “
No credibility whatsoever.
At some point, the left will drop its “need” for the legitimacy of popular elections.
Extreme left-wing rhetoric is destroying the Washington Post...
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SPLC Launches Hysterical Attack on Common Core Critics
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LOL liberals just can’t admit how horrible Common Core is..”Right Wing Extremists” gee, how about “Left Wing Extremists” ya know, the ones who take craps on sidewalks and attempt to blow up bridges in Ohio
Can anyone explain how federalization of the entire country’s education system helps “public education” in any way whatsoever?
The Federal Government autocrats and their boot-licking lackeys in the media have become the domestic enemies spoken of in the U.S. Armed Forces Oath of Enlistment.
No credibility whatsoever.
That is all the further I needed to read to know this "report" is a mountain of dung.
They should have just saved the effort. The department of education, unions, school boards and dumbass soccer moms have managed to auger govermnet school into the ground a long time ago. And the brainwashing part has been happening in schools for the better part of a century.
Common Core should be renamed to :
Uhh....Right wing Extremist.......isn’t that term kinda wore out from over user ?
Geez, lets just say “Americans” when its what we mean.
Undermining public education hardly requires attacks of any kind. You just sit back and watch it implode. Common Core is just another attempt to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.
And what about the Left Wing Common Core attacks, which are even more numerous?
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