I was at a Meet the Candidates event last night and someone told me that Phil Daro, one of the writers of the math standards, said they wrote Common Core specifically for social justice. For those that don’t know, social justice is a buzz word that means redistribution of wealth or helping the poor at the expense of the wealthy. I did a couple of web searches and found a teacher’s website (who seems to get it) with this video where Phil says it right at the end.
Common Core set minimum standards for all students which means minimal learning for those who could accelerate. Thus social justice is achieved by holding down the achievers to the level of the lowest common denominator and by forcing them to learn what you want them to learn instead of letting them become individualized and accelerating their education as they can. Nowhere is this going to happen more than in Utah where we adopted math standards in an integrated fashion instead of discrete years. If you’ve not read about that problem yet please click that link. Otherwise watch Phil’s video clip. I’m not sure who he’s speaking to but they are an easily entertained bunch. :)
http://youtu.be/B6UQcwzyE1U
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Thank you for doing so much research on Common Core.
As Citizens we need to impeach the State and Local School boards that are leading us down this path and vote out of office the President, legislature and senate that are promoting the Federal Office of Education. Put the control back in our local schools.
Common Core is a foot-in-the-door to not just nationalizing our educational system, but internationalizing it. Common Core was born out of inter-mental copulation of those creating and supporting Agenda 21, a United Nations effort in creating the “New World Order.” These beginnings of using “Standard Testing” will not result in better education, but will only serve to further increase administrative costs, reduce effective educational time in the classroom, and provide those evil minds supporting the “dumbing-down” of America power to move forward in their agendas. There is also the risk of establishing test standards that will necessarily require more and more teaching of dangerous socialist and communistic principles and values. As test scores fail to rise, and especially if they fall, the clamor from the sponsors of Common Core and Agenda 21 will numb or lull the minds of people at the local and state levels into adopting even more of their destructive designs, until one day America will have a generation of socialistic minded robots under a type of bondage that only serves the elitists who deceived their parents and grandparents into accepting these initial subtle precepts of Common Core.
The use of standardized assessments is Constitutionally correct for the States to freely exercise their sovereign powers in choosing to develop and use standardized testing. But when a corrupt Federal Government is “in bed” with international entities supporting the advancement of global socialism , and uses Federal tax dollars as bait to entice the States into accepting/adopting such ideas, its parallel to getting into bed with a rattlesnake. All of the billions of taxpayer dollars spent on “innovative” educational experiments have netted ZERO improvement in academic achievement. The U.S. Department of Education is a financially bloated miscarriage of Constitutional powers, has shown to actually reduce some academic standards since its inception, and only serves to further socialistic agendas. If the American people fail to turn away from the Nationalization of Education in this country, they will eventually reap the putrid rewards of socialism, which is nothing more than a few well-placed pit-stops on the way to communism.
Phil Daro is a snake-oil salesman that we’ve been familiar with for years.