Posted on 07/06/2014 6:41:38 PM PDT by kingattax
Where states are failing to repeal the controversial Common Core standards, many parents have decided to take matters into their own hands and petition their local school districts to drop the nationalized standards and replace them with others of their choosing.
In Rhode Island, Smithfield parent Rema Tomka has organized a group of other local concerned parents who have joined a larger anti-Common Core group called “Collapse the Core.” Tomka and her group have signed almost 200 people to a petition calling for their school district to opt out of the Common Core standards.
The petition reads as follows:
We, the undersigned taxpayers of Smithfield, Rhode Island, demand that the Smithfield School Committee as the legally elected local education authority:
Vote to eliminate use of the Common Core State Standards in the Town of Smithfield, Rhode Island.
Vote to adopt/develop new and stronger standards in ELA and math for the district by the start of the 2014-2015 school year.
Authorize the superintendent and teaching staff in ELA and math to use as working blueprints for new standards the free ELA standards written by Sandra Stotsky and posted on her University of Arkansas webpage (based on the former Massachusetts ELA standards) and a set of math standards chosen by the high school mathematics staff from the following: Minnesota, California 1997, Indiana 2006, or Massachusetts 2000.
Vote to direct the superintendent, all school administrators, and all teachers to adjust their K-12 curriculum to address the new standards for the 2014-2015 school year.
Once new standards are developed and adopted, vote to refuse to administer any Common Core-aligned state tests on the grounds that they are incompatible with the locally adopted or approved standards and curriculum.
Signatories: The taxpayers or residents of Smithfield, Rhode Island.
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If you modify it slightly to "artoh" then there can be no misreading.
If you had to look it up, then it's not a matter of *misreading*. It's a matter of spite.
I can't believe that it's anything other than intentional.
And this thread is in News and Activism. Why was the RM dragged into it from the RF?
I'm sure that many words could be found to have nefarious meanings if someone looked hard enough.
People who are looking for trouble will find it. Even if we changed the acronym, the next thing we picked would also be found wanting because some people will just never be happy unless they are making someone else's life more difficult.
I feel like I came back from vacation and stepped into the Twilight Zone.
Really?
Someone clearly has too much time on their hands.
Thanks for pinging out the list while I was gone.
It was a great vacation.
Welcome back. :-) Glad you enjoyed your vacation.
Maybe someone just wasn’t familiar with the keyword. I know I added “arth” to several articles within one day. When the person who reported it saw the keyword, maybe that person thought someone here was abusing the keyword function.
It’s good that we had the opportunity to clear up the matter.
BTW, there were many articles about teachers abusing students while you were gone. I pinged to some but not all of them. I merely tagged the rest with “arth”.
Come to think of it... Considering the nature of those stories, that could be the reason why someone out there thought one of us was just trying to be funny with that keyword.
P.S. (I still don’t know what the word means in slang... and I don’t ever want to know.)
Well, I googled ARTH as well and came up with a movie, a NASDAQ link, a college course for SUNY Oneonta, a link for a site selling hats, some guy’s last name, a medicine that contains some hidden ingredient.
It took three pages of searching to find a dictionary on, and it means *bear*.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arth
And this one for acronyms.
http://www.abbreviations.com/ARTH
Any other meaning is so obscure as to be meaningless. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone made that definition up and added it themselves and then said, *Oh look. We found homeschoolers using a bad word. Let’s blow them in and get them banned*.
Good post.
I guess if someone has the time they could write those dictionaries and express dismay and of course, tell them of the real meaning of ARTH
Another Reason to Homeschool
It is amazing how many government school defenders ( many are government teachers) use liberal debating tactics and claim to be conservative.
It’s scary. These are the people teaching the nation’s children.
It’s scary. These are the people teaching the nation’s children.
And if this is what's happening on FR, just imagine what it's like in places that AREN'T conservative.
Just ARTH. They're putting nails in their own coffins.
yep!
Some folks object to Wintertime because she calls their kids communist faggots.
Sorry, but you just don't walk away from that.
How about instead of banning wintertime for using the acronym, the instigators get told to get over themselves and stop being so easily offended?
She ain't banned. And when she insults families she knows nothing about, she'll get some backlash.
Trouble with that?
I never saw her post those words or use that kind of language.
Do you have a link to the post?
Or they could just be adults about it and ignore it.
Sweetie, we're looking at years worth of material.
I'll bet you can dig it up much faster that anyone here at the Soros Cubicle Farm.
Really?
Tell me, what insults will you ignore about your children?
If I call them Communists, will that be fine?
How about if I call them queers? Is that alright?
YOU go ahead and ignore some nutball making accusations against your kids.
Not me.
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