Common Core English: Indoctrination, Pornography and Thought Control

Virginia Free Citizen ^ | June 4, 2014 | Celeste Busby

[RightSideNews]

It is no secret that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English will change dramatically what and how students are taught. There will be less emphasis on reading books that are fiction (the classics) and more emphasis on reading informational texts. In early grades, even elementary grades, 50 percent of reading material will now be informational text that can be anything from instruction manuals, Environmental Protection Agency announcements and Executive Orders to historical documents. In the junior and senior year of high school, that figure increases to 70 percent. How can reading instruction manuals promote a love of reading? It has been stated that reading informational text does not provide students with the deep cultural information that develops pride of ones heritage and also does not promote the critical thinking that promoters of the CCSS promise.According to the CCSS, an historical document like the Gettysburg Address is to be read without emotion and without any background knowledge as to why it was written. This presents a serious problem, as the lack of knowledge can negate the meaning of the document.

[bonehead4freedom]

But yet will preserve a child’s ability to read Presidential decrees from the President for Life by popular acclamation from the nation! (post 2016)

[sport]

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[Carry_Okie]

Common Core: twelve years of newspeak.

[Sicvee]

I had fairly high verbal aptitude when I was a kid and I read everything. My Dad used to criticize me for reading the back of cereal boxes at breakfast. I gobbled up kid’s fiction books and remained a heavy fiction reader into early adulthood. Now I read non-fiction, geology, science, history. But it must be written by non-academics or by academics with a common touch. Before I quit my government job I used to fall asleep reading any document in governmentese. I don’t know how lawyers can stay awake. Now I only fall asleep in the evening.

[gibsosa]

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