Yes, yes, yes, we all know — Common
Core is just a set of standards and not a curriculum.
That’s the cover the leftwing and
corporatist advocates of Common Core use every time anyone criticizes Common
Core. It is basically to blame the local school district for choosing poorly
when, essentially, Common Core by design has forced schools into a scramble to
find a new curriculum, all of which are terrible.
And it has also led a bunch of
leftwing groups to start pushing out Common Core materials on the cheap to
schools trying to save money.
The Common Core standards are, in
fact, being used for indoctrination. The latest example is a government
subsidized public radio station in California preparing materials that advocate gun
control and blame the NRA for gun violence
in the country.
A study guide
dubbed, “The Battle Over Gun Control,” authored by KQED, a northern Californian
affiliate of National Public Radio, and the nonprofit, taxpayer-subsidized
National Writing Project, states that “moderate gun control” measures
introduced following the Sandy Hook school massacre were deep-sixed by the
“powerful political influence” of the NRA. Second Amendment advocates say the
wording, in supplemental material designed to help teachers plan instruction,
frames the debate in a one-sided fashion aimed at influencing young minds.
More and more states, due to voter
outrage, are ditching the name Common Core, but keeping the Common Core
standards as if they think voters are stupid. But more and more we are seeing
Common Core states using the supposedly neutral standards as a means to
indoctrinate kids. Because those standards are now nationalized, it has become
very, very easy to produce one-stop-shop indoctrination tools with a liberal
federal Department of Education pushing school districts in that direction.
And, by the way, the picture at top
was my daughter’s Common Core math problem that year that wanted her to add in
order to subtract. Seriously.
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