Sunday, December 14, 2014

Common Core Bad Idea


Governors Closing Barn Doors After Horse has Bolted! Posted on December 13, 2014 Written by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, abcsofdumbdown.blogspot.com
or… BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!

The above cited arti­cle by Dr. Susan Berry, pub­lished on Dec. 6, 2014, went on to report the increas­ing unpop­u­lar­ity of Jeb Bush’s con­tin­ued drive for Com­mon Core:
“With polls show­ing Repub­li­can sup­port for Com­mon Core plum­met­ing, com­mon sense would dic­tate that Bush call it a day with the nation­al­ized stan­dards, as has been done by other Repub­li­cans, such as Maine Gov. Paul LeP­age…”

Bush is also the founder and chair­man of Foun­da­tion for Florida’s Future, a statewide group that says its mis­sion is to “make Florida’s edu­ca­tion sys­tem a model for the nation.”

Those famil­iar with Com­mon Core will note that FEE’s “reform agenda” includes col­lege and career readi­ness; dig­i­tal learn­ing; effec­tive teach­ers and lead­ers – a goal that observes the need to elim­i­nate tenure and uti­lize stu­dent assess­ments to deter­mine teacher per­for­mance rat­ings; K-3 read­ing assess­ments; outcome-based fund­ing; school choice; stan­dards and account­abil­ity – which includes “high aca­d­e­mic stan­dards with their progress mea­sured,” and grad­ing schools on an A-F scale.

Not sur­pris­ingly, the reform agenda for Foun­da­tion for Florida’s Future is nearly iden­ti­cal to that of FEE.

Addi­tion­ally, Bush has joined with for­mer pres­i­dent of the pro-Common Core Ford­ham Insti­tute Chester Finn and the U.S. Cham­ber of Com­merce in Con­ser­v­a­tives for Higher Stan­dards, a group that pro­motes the Com­mon Core stan­dards but whose sup­port­ers still call them­selves “con­ser­v­a­tives.” Among the organization’s sup­port­ers are Sen. Lamar Alexan­der (R-TN), soon-to-be head of the Sen­ate com­mit­tee that over­sees edu­ca­tion; for­mer Mis­sis­sippi Gov. Haley Bar­bour ®; for­mer U.S. Sec­re­tary of Edu­ca­tion Bill Ben­nett; Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad ®; Ten­nessee Gov. Bill Haslam ®; for­mer Arkansas Gov. Mike Huck­abee ®; and New Mex­ico Gov. Susana Mar­tinez ®. [links removed, all empha­sis added]

Maine Gov­er­nor Le Page called me one day before his inau­gu­ra­tion four years ago (he was re-elected last Novem­ber!) to ask why I dis­ap­proved of char­ter schools which is the major part of Ex-Gov. Jeb Bush’s Foun­da­tion for Excel­lence in Edu­ca­tion (FEE) agenda.

[Steve Schran, pub­lic school teacher, and I attended a Governor/Maine Commissioner-approved FEE (Bush/Levesque/Jeanne Allen, for­merly with Her­itage Foundation/former Florida Ed, Supt. Tony Ben­nett) road show con­fer­ence that came into Maine with all its bells and whis­tles two years ago to push for tax-funded pub­lic school choice and char­ters with no elected boards. Steve and I tried to speak against this tax-funded school choice agenda, but were not allowed to do so; in other words we were told to “shut up.”]

Con­tin­u­ing with my con­ver­sa­tion with Gov­er­nor LePage:

GOVERNOR: “Mrs. Iser­byt, what prob­lems do you have with char­ter schools?” And then he gave all the rea­sons naive Amer­i­cans have bought into on why char­ters will save Amer­i­can edu­ca­tion from catastrophe.

CHARLOTTE’S RESPONSE: “Char­ter schools are pub­lic schools, Gov­er­nor. The only dif­fer­ence between a char­ter school and a pub­lic school is that pub­lic schools have a school board elected by all the tax­pay­ing vot­ers of the munic­i­pal­ity. Char­ter schools are run by unelected boards/councils. There­fore, they do not rep­re­sent the tax­pay­ers who are pay­ing for the schools. They do not allow taxpayers/parents a say in what goes on in the school. This is tax­a­tion with­out representation.”

GOVERNOR: “Oh, well, we will have to do some­thing about that.”

CHARLOTTE’S RESPONSE: ” Gov­er­nor… if you do some­thing about that, you will be right back where you are now with a pub­lic school with an elected school board.”

So, four years later, Gov. LeP­age who became so famous across the coun­try as the con­ser­v­a­tive Repub­li­cans’ sav­ior, push­ing Com­mu­nist Core and Tax-Funded School Choice and Char­ters (with unelected boards) is with­draw­ing from com­mu­nist Core?

I have one ques­tion left for him, and all the anti-Communist Core tax-funded/ pro school choice Gov­er­nors, although I doubt he or they will want to talk to me:

“Mr. Gov­er­nor, do you really believe that your with­draw­ing Maine from the Com­mu­nist Core stan­dards is going to get rid of the Com­mu­nist Core Stan­dards? Don’t you real­ize that stu­dents in tax-funded char­ter schools, which you sup­port, will have the federally-funded Com­mu­nist Core once they move out of the pub­lic school sys­tem and into a tax-funded pub­lic char­ter school?”

The rea­son for that is very sim­ple: Com­mu­nist Core is not new it is just the lat­est label for the national/international cur­ricu­lum nec­es­sary for the Marx­ist brain­wash­ing of stu­dents for life in a total­i­tar­ian global sys­tem and for lim­ited learn­ing for life­long labor.

DO THE GOVERNORS NOT UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT THE GOVERNMENT FUNDS THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLS?

SINCE TAX-FUNDED SCHOOL CHOICE/CHARTERS ARE GOVERNMENT FUNDED, COMMUNIST CORE, ALTHOUGH UNDER A NEW LABEL, MUST BE USED, AND WILL BE USED.

And the par­ents of those stu­dents in the long-planned new form of edu­ca­tion (tax-funded char­ter schools run by unelected coun­cils which is being used in Rus­sia and many other schools inter­na­tion­ally as well) won’t have any­where to go to com­plain about the Com­mu­nist Core since char­ter schools do not have elected school boards.”

Is it any won­der Jeb Bush, part of a famous CFR-connected inter­na­tion­al­ist fam­ily, would sup­port this long-planned Com­mu­nist Core (Marx­ist planned econ­omy) curriculum?

One almost has to give him credit for stick­ing to his glob­al­ist COMMUNIST CORE principles.

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