Posted on 03/11/2015 10:52:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Maybe we could write a book,,,,
Or, start a religion.
excellent!
BTW, after watching this mom’s brilliant speech on youtube, I watched one that came up on the same page: Brilliant anti-Common Core Speech by Dr. Duke Pesta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si-kx5-MKSE
I have watched quite a few presentations on CC, but this one the most informative and frightening.
This, however, is what the Common Core Standards expect our fourth graders to do. If they solve it in those two steps they get it marked wrong. They are expected to draw 18 circles with 90 hashmarks solving this problem in exactly 108 steps. Board members, this is not rigorous. This is not college ready. This is not preparing our children to compete in a global economy.
It's what LTjg Holden said:
"In confusion there is profit."
Did you watch the video? It was public comment time. The board allotted only 3 minutes per commenter. Obviously, there is only so much you can say in 3 minutes. In my opinion, she made a far greater impact with her brief statement than the one you suggested she should have said instead.
Every teacher who cooperates with this, establishes this in the classroom, and supports its implementation is committing malpractice. They are HURTING children!
No one is holding a gun to the heads of these teachers and principals. They willingly seek work in the government schools and they willing go to work every day and then hurt children through serious malpractice. They do it for money, generous vacations, and a pension.
Every other American has figured out how to make money without hurting kids. Teachers could, too.
It is time we stop thinking of teachers in the nation's single-payer and socialist-entitlement schools as overworked, underpaid, resurrected Mother Teresas. They aren't. And....If your schools don't have Common Core, government teachers are hurting children in many other ways.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/11/common-core-co-author-admits-wrote-curriculum-end-white-privilege/
Indeed! It is the same malpractice. They has just given it a different name.
By the way, it is government teachers who are hurting children every day with this malpractice. They do it for money. No one is holding a gun to their heads forcing them to cooperate with malpractice.
1) All government schools are godlessly secular in their worldview. The children will learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the godless classroom! How could it be otherwise?
2) All government schools are a single-payer, compulsory-funded, compulsory-use, and price-fixed and socialist-entitlement monopoly. The children in these schools risk learning that the same voting mob that gives them tuition-free schooling can also give them **lots** of “free” stuff. How can that be good for the child or our nation? It can't!
3) All government schools trash free speech, press, assembly, free expression of faith, and subject to the children to non-stop godlessly secular indoctrination. They abuse the children's God-give First Amendment Rights and freedom conscience. In many ways, children ( who have committed no crime) are treated like prisoners. Children in these schools risk learning to be comfortable with government oppression of their rights.
Teachers and principals in government schools across this nation WILLING seek work to do this malpractice to children. They do it for money.To further scramble the children's brains, they tell the kids its “good” for them!
Sorry, about the grammatical errors. I just got in from my work. I am tired and I didn’t proofread the posts.
I read that article the other day. Well worth the time to read it.
When are conservatives going to wake up? Government schooling is fundamentally evil because it is built upon a foundation of single-payer, compulsory-use, compulsory-funded, and godless socialist entitlement. Nothing good can come from that for our nation, even if some children manage to overcome the toxic influence.
It is time also for conservatives to see government teachers as very willing accomplices in the delivery of this evil. They do it for money.
I homeschooled my kids and used graph paper in late elementary, for a while, to help them learn to keep their columns aligned.
Lots of profit. The companies producing the curriculum and the tests for this are making a fortune, and so are the legislators they’re buying off to get the contracts.
To be fair.
I agree with your assessment of why ALL government schools are bad.
However.
In certain communities, there are parents that actually teach their kids. They teach them to think for themselves regardless of what their teachers tell them. These parents are highly involved with every aspect of their child’s upbringing. They teach their kids that there are BAD people out there and some of those bad people are those that try to tell them what to think.
If you look at the upper middle class suburban schools around the country, you will likely find these parents that are overly protective, highly engaged regardless of what indoctrination that is being fed to their kids.
Their kids are taught, by their parents to recognize when their teachers are trying to advance something other than the subject matter.
This is what my wife and I did.
My daughter can identify even the most subtle attempts at liberal indoctrination because we taught her to recognize it.
Objectively, it is only because she was exposed to indoctrination attempts that she can appreciate the lessons we taught her and the greater challenge ahead.
To tell a child that “it is what it is” because I say so, or because the “bible says so”, without context or experience is worthless. They will rebel against that projection of authority and be susceptible to alternatives.
My daughter, a vocal and hard-core conservative, was asked to edited a book being written by one of her self proclaimed socialist professors. She took on the task and she gained a much deeper understanding of how insane these people are. The concepts the professor was trying to advance where not only completely illogical, but his basic grammatical skills where so bad that she almost quit the project.
At the end of the day, it comes down to the foundation of how anybody knows what is right or wrong.
Well?...I see this as sending a kid to a government school where they are fed poison. Then at home the parents give them an antidote? Does this make sense?
Congratulations to you are your wife for doing such a good job with your child but,...but...but......Your child will occupy a nation filled to the brim with children for whom an antidote was not given or for whom it was not successful.
Regardless of whether or not any individual child survives the indoctrination, this godless,single-payer, and socialist-entitlement schooling is a serious threat to our continuing freedom as a nation.
Lots of profit.
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Yep! Follow the money!
Yes it is real. My one daughter could memorize her math facts and didn’t get the “investigative” method (drawing 18 circles, etc.) My other daughter could do it both ways, and would do the circles and stuff. The daughter that only did the math facts would get marked down. We told her that was okay, and told the teacher that too when he asked her to redo work.
The quote by the Japanese teacher doesn’t make sense to me - the teacher is talking about this investigative stuff. My kids were not allowed to be taught math facts - it was all this questioning and figuring out stuff (circles, tic marks, etc.)
My wife and a few other moms taught all the kids going over flash cards in the hall way. It was still against the rules, but the teachers and principal knew it was for the best.
And looking at the work they do now in High School, I keep reminding them “just think what this would be like if you didn’t have 7*9 memorized!”
Instead of having students memorize and then practice endless lists of equations — which Takahashi remembered from his own days in school — Matsuyama taught his college students to encourage passionate discussions among children so they would come to uncover math’s procedures, properties and proofs for themselves. One day, for example, the young students would derive the formula for finding the area of a rectangle; the next, they would use what they learned to do the same for parallelograms. Taught this new way, math itself seemed transformed. It was not dull misery but challenging, stimulating and even fun.
It’s as good a way as any to look at it. Works on “global warming,” too ;-).
. It was not dull misery but challenging, stimulating and even fun.
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And... an extremely inefficient use of limited time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXf91AGW2QA
Hour-long slideshow by Joy Pullman, School Reform News.
Gives background, who financed it, who is pushing it, how many states have adopted it, effects on education, problems with it.
Info at noted times in the lecture:
Publishing house Pearson has monopoly on textbooks @ 14:01
Affective testing, intrusive @ 16:40
Data tracking; dossier being gathered @ 48:32
Psych profiling; harmful if gets out @ 51:15
Link to other lectures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxoopxbaIA0
15 year old demolishes Common Core.
He was asked to research it and develop a web site for the Arkansas Against Common Core.
He did such a terrific job that he was invited to speak to the House and Senate Joint Education Committee Interim Study on Common Core.
The vid linked above is that presentation; he connects the dots and follows the money.
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