Posted on 03/08/2015 9:43:34 PM PDT by Nachum
Supporters of Common Core have encountered a public relations nightmare recently thanks to technical glitches, student boycotts and a slew of irate parents who are refusing to allow their children to sit for standardized tests.
However, last week marked the first time officials at a taxpayer-funded school have allegedly attempted to confine a student for a Common Core standardized test after her parent arrived on campus to remove the child from class.
The incident occurred at Brookshire Elementary School in Winter Park, Fla., reports the Orlando Sentinel.
The unidentified mother showed up at Brookshire Elementary to pick up her daughter because she wanted to opt the fifth grader out of a Common Core-aligned writing test.
School officials informed the mother that they would not allow her daughter to leave, according to the mother as well as a second parent, Jacqui Myers, who was at the school.
Myers, the parent of
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I fail to see what the problem is the standardized testing.
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Teaching Islam in schools and Muslim Brotherhood connection:
Go to this link - hypertext links in the article
http://bwcentral.org/2015/03/the-betrayal-papers-part-iii-of-v-obamas-scandals-and-assaults-on-freedoms-explained/2/
Common Core: Even classroom education has not escaped the tentacles of the Muslim Brotherhood. The connection between Common Core and the international terror group is through, once again, Qatar. The Connect All Schools initiative is a program to promote “One World Education.” It is aligned to Common Core State Standards, and is funded by the Qatar Foundation International (QFI). The director of QFI’s Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics is Tariq Ramadan, grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder, Hassan al-Banna.
According to WND, in 2011 QFI “partnered with the Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to facilitate matchmaking between classrooms in the U.S. and international schools through … the “Connect All Schools” project.” QFI explains on its own website that the initiative was founded in response to Obama’s infamous 2009 Cairo speech, during which Obama had the Muslim Brotherhood seated in the front row.
Participation of the Qatar Foundation International puts in proper context the ever more prevalent cases of Sharia (i.e. Islamic law) incursions into American schools, such as: girls forced to cover up like devout Muslims on school sponsored trips to mosques; Islamic vocabulary lessons in high school; the teaching of Islamic culture; teaching the five pillars of Islam and “A call to jihad;” and Qatar investing $5 million to teach Arabic in schools.
Finally, any treatment of Common Core would not be complete without mentioning the involvement of another one of Obama’s mentors, domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Ayers received $49.2 million from Vartan Gregorian, a board member of Qatar Foundation who is also part of Obama’s White House Fellowships Commission. Gregorian is an integral part of Connect All Schools.
Also see:
Islam is being taught in US schools through common core.
Allah in our schools ( Common Core )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3241438/posts
See list of recent reports of Islam in schools here MA, MS, MD, TN, CA, etc.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3227490/posts?page=19#19
From Maggie’s Notebook:
http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2013/08/common-core-the-qatar-connection-a-wahhabi-state-skypes-with-your-children/
Common Core – The Qatar Connection
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3058348/posts?page=19#19
“Common Core started out as a simple standards as to what American kids should know at each grade level”
That is the major deception of Common Core as far as public relations go. Schools, nationwide, have ALWAYS HAD STANDARDS as to what kids should know at each grade level. That has always amazed me. You hear proponents of Common Core laud the initiative, and they always bring that up - “These are standards every student should know” as if there have NEVER been standards.
I posted the links and instructions for anybody who would like to take the PARCC practice tests: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3265858/posts
I'll give it a shot,
Q) A single college graduates 400 education majors a year. Calculate, by skip counting the hundreds place, the number of schools capable of filling a number line, by the number bond method, the required pool of McDonald's clerks.
A) Once unionized, the vector is zero and the number is infinite.
When you had the Leftists, whom SCREAMED ‘bout ‘teaching to the test’, started harping in support of C.C....that’s when I knew, for sure, it was sh!t.
It is not 'standardization of testing". It is a grinding down of the average intelligence of public school attendees. It is according to all testimony including that of its creator to make everyone 'equal'.
*An individual student is prohibited from moving faster than the class.
*The testing is redundant and causes severe mental distress in students.
* It discourages freedom of thought and seeks to encourage group think.
*It intentionally omits American history and classic literature for impossible to digest government publications and certain ideological attacks on classical American thought-
Ant THAT is just for starters.
It is an abomination.
When I went back to school to chase my MBA, except for a small geology dept., my school concentrated on "Education" and Nursing certification. The ED majors were barely bright enough to remember to breath regularly. It was a standing joke.
Later, my totally worthless lump of protein S-I-L spent 12 YEARS taking classes like how to teach camping, ballroom dancing, fishing. This to a guy that, seriously, didn't know the difference between Groucho and Karl Marx. Total Socialist who was smugly certain that Communism failed because the Russians didn't know how.
Perhaps it was because he wanted a degree in Phys Ed, but I like to presume that coaches are not measurably more stupid than a regular teacher...
Thank you for the Enlightenment. My only exposure to this program is through my science teacher friend. She teaches high school science and tells me the amount and type of information her students have to learn, and it is curriculum that I didn’t cover until college. I know she works very hard to see that the students learn this information. I want to read more on this subject since I hadn’t heard any of these other issues, but I’m not surprised.
I’m embarrassed not to have been better informed, but since the last presidential election I have tried to stay away from politics. I have been so disgruntled and discouraged. in fact, my husband who continues to inform himself of current events, will ask me “do you want to know what’s going on” and I usually say no.
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