Textbook publishers show their Marxist colors.
Dead white guys did not create this country, Video reveals anti-American agenda behind Common Core, by Bob
Unruh, 1/20/16, WND
Stating flatly, “Dead
white guys did not create this country,” an executive in the American school
textbook industry has been captured on undercover video confirming Common Core
pushes an elitist, progressive agenda of global warming, gun control and other
liberal-left positions on America’s children.
The investigation
by James O’Keefe Project Veritas features Kimberly Koerber, a former manager for Pearson, the
nation’s leading textbook publishing company. She now works for National Geographic.
O’Keefe reported her statements to Project Veritas journalists included, “Damn
the Second Amendment,” and, “People that are not educated, Fox TV viewers,
think that Common Core comes from the educated liberal groups, and that’s why
they are against it.”
Common Core has been a
flashpoint for conservatives for years, and lawmakers in some states have
started backing away from its Washington-mandated social viewpoints.
In this election year,
it's getting even more attention, with GOP front-runner Donald Trump warning:
"Nobody can win when you’re in favor of Common Core. It’s a
disaster."
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas,
has said, "I'll tell you this, as president, I will instruct the Department
of Education to end Common Core on day one." Former Sen. Rick
Santorum declared, "The real issues for Common Core is the elites in our
culture who want to indoctrinate our young people into a certain way to think,
a certain belief structure, and it’s all spread out through Common Core."
Pearson released a
statement disavowing Koerber's comments. "The comments in this video in no
way represent Pearson’s values or business practices. They are offensive to our
40,000 employees, many of whom are parents, former teachers, or students
themselves, and are dedicated to working each and every day to help people make
more of their lives through learning."
O'Keefe said the latest
video, the third in a series about Common Core, shows "there is truly an
elitist liberal agenda behind the destruction of America's public education
system."
"I am putting
everyone on notice, if you are using taxpayer money to brainwash our children,
I'm going to teach you a lesson and make you an unwilling Internet
sensation," O'Keefe said.
WND
reported a previous video
showed education book industry insiders who "hate kids" and push a
"bulls--t" system to "sell books." Dianne Barrow, a former
Houghton Mifflin worker, said: "You don't think that the educational
publishing companies are in it for the education, do you? … No, they’re in it
for the money."
When O'Keefe tried to
tell Barrow she seemed like a woman who is "in it for the kids," she
throws her head back, cackles and says: "I hate kids. ... I'm in it to
sell books. Don't even kid yourself for a heartbeat."
Project Veritas also
videoed a Brooklyn, New York, school teacher identified as Jodi Cohen talking
about Common Core standards, which are used in more than 40 states.
"It's a joke. ...
It's bulls--t. The thing is, what they do is they create some new f--king
system that f--king sucks to sell more books, and then we have to learn
something new with the students," Cohen said, the London
Daily Mail reported.
In the latest video,
Koerber said Common Core "doesn't put up with" Republicans who want
to get into the education system and talk about their priorities.
She said the strong
opposition comes because people "don't like being told what to do by
people they don't agree with." She said Common Core needs to teach
children about prostitution, citing the decades-old "Gunsmoke"
program and its "Kitty" character.
"Our kids need to
know that that's what it was like, you know," she said. On the
Constitution, she said: "Damn the Second Amendment. I don't think personal
handguns need to be on anyone except the government, the police."
Additional statements by
Koerber:
·
"People that are
not educated, Fox TV viewers think that Common Core comes from the educated
liberal groups and that's why they are against it. They don’t know anything
about it. They think it's liberal so they're against it. That's what I think it
is. It’s a knee-jerk reaction. My mother, oh my God, she's a Fox person. If I
could remove Fox from my television set, I would."
·
On the Constitution:
"It is being covered, but not the way they … cause they're idiots and they
don't know what’s in it."
·
On critics: "They
are people that don't really know what they are talking about. I … I can’t
stand it. If they talk to me one more time about … climate change not being
real, I'm just gonna scream."
·
On Christianity in
Common Core: "Yes it is [out]. Totally. It's not a core concept at
all."
·
On critics: "They
don't agree with Islam, so they don't want their kids to be taught it. They
don't agree with birth control so they don't want their kids to talk about it.
They don't agree with math because they don't understand it. It's not the same
math they did in high school. So they don't want their kids to know about
it."
See
the video:
http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/dead-white-guys-did-not-create-this-country/
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