Posted on 10/22/2013 9:11:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
Have you checked your kids' school assignments lately? You might be shocked if you do.
Sixth-grade children in a history class in the Bryant School District in Arkansas (whose website brags that the district "has embraced" Common Core standards) were assigned a project to update the U.S. Bill of Rights because it is "outdated." They were instructed to "prioritize, revise, omit two and add two amendments."
The written assignment is full of lies, such as "the government of the United States is currently revisiting the Bill of Rights"; that "They (presumably the government) have determined that it is outdated and may not remain in its current form any longer;" and that our Constitution can be changed by a "National Revised Bill of Rights Task Force (NRBR)" (to which students could be appointed).
St. Joseph-Ogden High School, a public school in St. Joseph, Ill., gave its sophomore class an assignment to choose which of 10 people were "worthy" of getting kidney dialysis when the hospital had only six machines. The assignment instructed the students, "four people are not going to live. You must decide from the information below which six will survive."
The students were given the list of the 10 who desperately needed kidney dialysis with identification about their occupation, age and ethnicity, and told to give each a score. The instructions stated: "Put the people in order using 1-10, 1 being the person you want to save first and 10 being the person you would save last," with the assumption that those getting scores 7 through 10 would be marked for death.
Since when are high school students allowed to judge who may live and who must die? Is this to prepare us to accept death panels from Obamacare?
Unfortunately, such public school class assignments are not new. A Department of Education hearing in Seattle on March 13, 1984, heard a parent describe the health class in Clackamas High School in Oregon.
Students were presented with the "lifeboat situation": too many people are in the sinking lifeboat and the students were ordered to choose whose lives are not worth saving and should be thrown overboard so the lifeboat won't sink. Variations of the lifeboat situation have been widely used in public schools for many years.
A drama teacher at Cactus Shadows High School in Cave Creek, Ariz., had his students perform a play in which one of the characters falls in love with a goat. The play includes sexually explicit content and vulgar sexual terms.
At Lucy Elementary School near Memphis, Tenn., an assignment required each student to pick an idol and write an essay about him or her. A 10-year-old girl chose God as her idol, but the teacher found this unacceptable and demanded that the girl write about someone else.
The girl then wrote about Michael Jackson, which the teacher accepted. After the girl's mother spoke out against this in the local media, the school apologized and gave the girl credit for her original work.
Fourth graders in Gilbert, Ariz., and third graders in Louisiana were given a lesson on adultery that included specific questions designed to make the child curious about what adultery is and how it affects relationships. The teacher said it came from approved Common Core materials for third graders.
Glenn Beck reported that Poolesville High School in Montgomery County, Md., which is Common Core compliant, administered an intrusive survey to students that included personal questions about family, religion, income, political identification, illegal drugs, Obamacare, guns, and same-sex marriage. Go to The Blaze to be entertained by the conflicting responses that school officials gave to parents who complained and to reporters.
The question that parents found particularly obnoxious and troublemaking was, "If President Obama were caucasian how much more or less criticism do you think he would receive?" The multiple-choice answers were: "A lot less; Somewhat less; No difference; Somewhat more; A lot more."
Fifth graders in North Bellmore, N.Y., spent several weeks studying the United Nations. One mother was highly offended when her daughter received full credit for writing that our human rights come from government (instead of from God, as our Declaration of Independence proclaims).
At Alliance High School in Nebraska, the principal announced on Oct. 7 that, because of the government shutdown, he was shutting down the usual morning recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. After public protest, he reversed his ban.
None of the above assignments are quoted directly from a Common Core curriculum, but some claim to be "aligned with Common Core" or "Common Core compliant." It's beginning to look like such assertions are a cover to fill the minds of public school students with all kinds of inappropriate, left-wing notions, while erecting a Common Core "wall" to prevent parental oversight.
The biggest problem with the Bill of Rights is that they didn’t define their terms. If I were revising them, I’d add a glossary.
IOW, it seems like potentially a worthwhile exercise.
But if for some reason you have trouble with "what does it mean?" read the other writings of the time. They covered everything very extensively.
Toss the 5th Amendment and then drag the authors and implementors of Common Core and this assignment off to jail.
“No person shall .... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; ....”
That is the end goal of Common Core and I wish I were joking.
Common Core is from the pit of hell.
“The biggest problem with the Bill of Rights is that they didn’t define their terms. If I were revising them, I’d add a glossary.”
If we had/have honest people in government, then we did not even need a 1st , 2nd, 3rd, 4th Amendment... as they are simply restating rights we were already given by our creator and not assigned to the Feds.
There was considerable debate among the Founders as to the wisdom of itemizing SOME of our rights because they KNEW scum of the earth people would get elected and say well this and that are not listed as rights. (that’s the old Soviet Union constitution where you only had the rights which were listed)
But we live with people trained by communists to be deceitful in our law and journalism schools and all too many of our politicians are lawyers. That is our fault for electing a hugely disproportional number of lawyers to elected offic.
Just one more example of why government schools have been a bad idea since the very beginning.
In the words of Rudy Giuliani, “Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America.”
Their purpose is train citizens to think and behave according to the requirements of the State. That is precisely what Common Core is all about. Sure, Common Core inculcates children with new myths, but it is in the State’s interests that a large majority of Americans believe these myths. The main reason that many conservatives object to Common Core is that the new myths conflict with the old myths that were taught in government schools a couple of generations ago.
It’s surprising that most readers fail to understand what’s behind such activities in every part of business and government (government, including academia). Spoiled children do whatever they can to provoke anger in others. Spoiled children grow up to be spoiled adults, who do the same.
They won’t stop, unless they’re punished severely. Others are too cowardly to stop them. Like most children trying to stay out of contact with bullies, adults try to stay in the social woodwork and away from the attentions of authorities working for local bullies. So they’ll continue, until they’ve robbed and/or physically injured or falsely imprisoned all of the cowards. They’re into much more than crazy socialist policies.
Folks, including local public officials here and there, say that there’s corruption everywhere (corruption also known as “politics” or white collar crime). Okay. Your local kingpin family will be regarded as a pillar family of the community. They may or may not be publicly involved in local politics (easy enough to control as constituents lurking in shadows of their pocket politicians).
They’ll be very generous in some ways (charitable giving being a big tax writeoff). They’ll be “untouchables” (in this sense, immune to prosecution or lawsuit). They are behind most officious, surprising robberies of better neighbors. They’ll be involved in fronting big money to a local drug dealer for incoming shipments. Know who they are. Make sure that others know who they are and what they’re doing.
Replacement 1st Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, including at government facilities; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The government may in no way recognize Islam as a government, rather as an opposed government type forever at war with it.
2nd:
“The government shall in no way limit the ownership, or capabilities, of guns and ammunition by citizens.”
I am sure there are better. I also agree that the common core is simply a smoke screen for the teachers to do as they wish. We did have exercises like this 40 years ago, but they were more on the lines of, “How would you have written the Bill of Rights,” or something similar.
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Wierd; under Lib doctrine, value judgments are verboten, so "prioritizing" on this list of criteria is not valid. Therefore:
A) draw lots, and let the dialysis nurses only work their half-shift resulting from the Obamacare employer mandate guidelines;
B) run 5 machines twice a day, with one machine in reserve; and schedule (as is normal) each patient 2 or maybe 3, times per week: plenty of excess capacity to still treat other, less critical patients once a week to supplement their peritoneal dialysis. Very few dialysis patients get daily treatments.
Bet I'd get an "F" for turning in that!
"Is" is a pretty simple word, too; but we all know how that played out in court.
The problem is Lib lawyers, and the Lib "living document" theory, where the words mean what they want them to mean, as interpreted by modern (mis)usages, where 'original intent' and 'original usages' have no bearing when argued in front of Lib judges.
They have managed to throw out the idea of "common man law" and replaced it with gobbledygook.
Laws should be written in plain common language and it should be possible for any reasonable person (not a lawyer) to know what they mean.
As I dug deeper this year at my son’s former school, I learned that we as parents could not expect schoolwork to come home and we would only be told an extreme minimum about what was being taught at school. I pushed hard and I was told that I could “spend a day” at the school. I could go on and on about how bad the instruction is...in the “award winning” school.
They really wanted to delay our removal of our son from public school so that they could count him on the big enrollment day and get the money for his warm body being in a seat. We didn’t fall for it. Homeschooling now. Glad we found out how bad it was when he was barely starting first grade.
From what I have seen, I believe that the legal system is so corrupt that it cannot be salvaged. Issues appear to be resolved based on cronyism and money. I cannot believe that even 10% of lawyers can be seen to be honest.
I’ve thought that for years about law schools.
They also need to do away with case law, and stick to statutory law. However, case law is the key to job security for the High Priests of the Altar of Just Us, so isn’t going to happen peacefully.
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