Education in America

Finally There Is A Textbook Publisher That Promises To Publish Comon Core Free Cirriculum

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Common Core so toxic that one education publisher is now marketing ‘Common Core-free’ materials
Most educational publishers are still toeing the line when it comes to the Common Core Curriculum Standards, which are in effect in 43 states and the District of Columbia. But cracks are beginning to appear in the once-impenetrable superstructure of the government program, and some textbook companies are beginning to retreat from the CCCS market.
Education Week reports that Discovery K12, which bills itself as “an online homeschool platform and curriculum for students from kindergarten through twelfth grade,” also advertises that it is now proudly “non-Common Core”:
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Center For Disease Control Issues New Report on % of Gay People in the USA

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Gay Leaders Upset by Low CDC Population Numbers: ‘Political Influence Matters’

Gay leaders are expressing alarm at the just-released numbers from the Center for Disease Control that place the percentage of Americans identifying as homosexual at only 1.6% of the adult population.  That would mean the total number of gays in American is roughly 3.8 million, roughly 1.5 million less than the total number of American Methodists.  Scout, who goes by one name, a spokesman for CenterLink’s Network of LGBT Health Equity, told the Washington Post, “The truth is, numbers matter, and political influence matters.”  Most Americans believe the population of gays is exponentially larger. For almost half a century, Americans believed a number produced by disgraced sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, who claimed 10% of the population was gay. In recent years, Gallup found that a majority of adults believe the percentage of gays in the population is 25%. The same poll found younger people put the figure at 30%.  Ellyn Ruthstrom, president of the Bi-Sexual Resource Center in Boston, said, “It’s just going to make it harder for us when we’re going out and talking to people about the bisexual population. We have a real hard time already with people not taking the bisexual identity seriously.”

Admin’s Note:

For the last 30 years the education system in America has been adopting the politically correct line of “B.S.” that the LGBT community was much larger than it is and therefore our children need to be taught to be more tolerant of them. For example at the University of Wyoming, students who work as Dormitory attendants are “REQUIRED” to spend at least one day walking around the UW campus holding hands with a member of the same sex. The exercise is supposedly designed to make them feel more sympathetic to the feelings of this very small group of students. Even in the elementary education levels kids as young as third grade are required to read books with titles like “Sarah Has Two Mommies.”

It is time for descent moral adults who are tax payers, voters, parents and contributors to their local community to wake up and take our schools back from the LGBT community and community organizers like the criminal in chief Barak Obama and his evil henchman Eric Holder. Notions like Gay marriage have grown out of the falsified data regarding how many gay people live in the USA, and I expect that after they have trashed the institution of marriage they will find another previously sacred part of American life to destroy. Or maybe legalizing pedophilia and beastiality are next, who knows. Maybe they will get these definitions re-defined so they can justify in a court of law just like they have done with family and marriage. One thing I do know is that an immoral society can not and will not survive and our children and grand children are depending on us to do what is right not what feels good to the LGBT community.

Common Core Cirriculum in California Teaches 8th Graders the Holocaust Was A Hoax

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As a parent who has educated and raised three children to be happy, productive, responsible contributors to the American way of life I have to take issue with the Common Core Standards that educators across the nation are beginning to adopt without using any real critical thinking on their part. For one thing I know that given an opportunity the average teacher will resort to pre-printed, pre-designed educational materials rather than use their own critical thinking to develop a lesson plan that actually instructs the students they teach in how to become well rounded adults. I make this point because it lies at the heart of the reason I educated my three children in private schools even though I was a property owner who paid thousands of dollars in property taxes to support public education, I knew that the only chance my children had of getting a good education was to pay double and send them to private schools. At that time there was no such thing as a “Charter school” or “school vouchers” that returns a portion of the money set aside by government to the parent so they can make their own school choices without paying double the amount of other taxpayers whose kids went to public schools. But that didn’t matter to me, my kids education was all I cared about and at that time I had plenty of reason to be concerned because public education in America has been on a downhill slide for a long time.

 

I thought I had it tough when my kids were in school and the new wave for education was to teach reading by the use of “whole word recognition” instead of phonics. My oldest boy was failing miserably in 1st grade because of this new standard of teaching and the school systems solution was to label him as a child with special educational needs. They refused to teach phonics in any capacity in spite of the fact that phonics had produced tens of millions of well educated students in America for well over a hundred years. The local school systems solution was to label him as learning disabled and get Federal money to provide him with special education. I fought them because once a label is applied to a student they have to live with it for their entire education and my kid was just in 1st grade. I lost that battle after sitting through multiple IEP meetings designed to justify the Federal funds request the school system succeeded and they got their extra money and continued to teach whole word recognition to my son but this time they separated him from the class and treated him like a dummy. My solution was to hire a tutor and buy a program called “hooked on phonics” and use it to teach all my children how to become better readers instead of leaving it up to the school district to decide their fate. To make a long story short my son returned to school in the 2nd grade after a summer of learning how to read with phonics and soon rose to be the best reader in his class although his “special education” designation remains to this day (he is 28 and serves in the US Navy onboard a submarine as an electronic warfare/ship to ship communications specialist).

 

Why, you might be wondering, did I go to the trouble of telling this story about one of my kids educational experience and what does it have to do with Common Core? There are few responsibilities a parent has that are more important than the raising of children to be normal, healthy, happy and productive adults. The Public Education school system in America has been working harder and harder every year to undermine the best efforts of parents to accomplish this task and Common Core is the best most recent example of how organized educators have become in their efforts to teach their ideals to our children and they intentionally teach methodology, history, reading, writing and arithmetic in ways that serve little to no useful purpose in a child’s education. Often times the things being taught will work against the child as they proceed throughout their life. That is why you should read this article  about how Common Core is being used to teach children that the Holocaust was a hoax and maybe you’ll get a better understanding of the kind of perversion being forced upon parents of school age children in America through a National program called Common Core.

 

One final note regarding the article referenced above, notice the copy of the students essay at the end of the article. This was written by an 8th grade student and their penmanship is worse than a 3rd grader from the days when I was in school. Now days, dare I say that a 3rd grade student or an 8th grade student for that matter, can hardly write intelligibly and writing skills are getting worse at all levels of public education.