Sunday, June 8, 2014

Nebraska Family Forum: Common Core: A scam on the American public

Nebraska Family Forum: Common Core: A scam on the American public: This is a fascinating article about the deceit, cronyism and politics involved with the implementation of Common Core. http://www.arizona...







COMMON
CORE is EDUCATION without REPRESENTATION:


A smiling
school board member, tired of me and unwilling to fight the
Common Core monster, advised me to do what she does: focus on the positive
parts of Common Core.  Be an optimist, she said.


“The positive
parts?  –You mean the lies?” I thought, because I’ve not
seen positive parts unless you count the positive-sounding
parts.


There are lots
of those– the Common Core advertisements, the school board’s website
promotions and newspaper quotes.


To the
non-researcher, the Common Core sounds completely positive–
but this “initiative” turns out to be very bad when the naked facts are revealed, about how it’s controlled,  whom it pays off and what it robs.


Because the
smiling board member knew many of these unsavory facts that she wished not
to know, her advice reminded me of the part in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when Dr. Jekyll tells
Utterton not to worry about Mr. Hyde.  How illogical,
dangerous and self-defeating.  But to some, it seems that being
an optimist requires putting ourselves at the mercy of bullies
and pretending to agree to things that are clearly not so.


This
conversation exposed the wide gap between the pretty surface language
versus the ugly facts under the belly of Common Core.




 






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