This takes me back to my high school economics classes, where we learned about the superiority of the “co-operative”.
The Common Core State Standards Initiative was devised by an association of the nation’s governors and backed by the Obama administration in 2009 with the goal of setting a uniform standard for grades K-12 nationwide.
I’d say BTFO but it may be too late. The socialists have won. Didn’t have to fire a shot either.
I thought most of the examples were predictably anodyne. Schoolbooks and primers have always touted the pollyanna civic vision of their time in some way or another.
However, there’s no doubt at all that Question 5 is deeply, deeply sinister in tone:
“5. The commands of government officials must be obeyed by all.”
This crap is being heavily promoted by the Gates Foundation. Nothing like a billionaire socialist. On the bright side, they just suffered a major defeat in Colorado. The school board has disengaged with common core, and forced a superintendent that was pushing it to resign.
four legs good , two legs better
people good , gubmint better
JJM, yes, 5 is typical of the left.
Instead of saying “the law must be obeyed by all,” they give government officials the authority to do as they wish.
Numbers 4, 5, and 6 could have been written out by a Supreme Soviet apparatchik.
It seems that every day it becomes more apparent that the future of liberal democracy in North America is in big trouble. Stalin’s fifth column has done its work well. John would approve.
“A totalitarian regime attempts to control virtually all aspects of the social life including economy, education, art, science, private life and morals of citizens.”
Considering the current situation in the USA, the government controls the economy, science, and art by regulating out of existence those it disapproves of and granting largesse from the treasury to those it approves of.
“Land of the free” is starting to have a very hollow sound.
Of course, one of the reasons that this sort of nonsense gains traction is that for 50 years our educational establishment has maintained that understanding the use of the possessive is unimportant, and I see each year a growing number of otherwise intelligent prospective teachers have no idea of how to distinguish plurals from possessives.
“He imposes the National Defense Authorization Act and has the power to detain American’s indefinitely without a trail”
I like how it reads like Buffalo Bob in Silence of the Lambs – “She puts on the lotion”.
Progressive Nouns.
Fixed that for you!
“The wants of an individual are less important than the well-being of the nation” and “the commands of government officials must be obeyed by all.”
Abraham Lincoln did it one time during the Civil War,
(War of Northern Aggression) as we call it in the South.
Proclamation 113 –
Declaring of Martial Law and a Further Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus in Kentucky
July 5, 1864
But being a (True and Honest President) he loved the Union more than his own life and family,
After the Civil War he immediately reversed his decisions.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=69993
Tends to give one the impression that these Common Core Assholes are trying to prepare our children for another Civil War,
Bring it On.
I suspect that “except if it’s George Bush” is there in white ink.
In Alberta high schools, we learned about the entire range of economic and political systems.
That may help explain why the kids who were educated in Alberta made the choice for a free market of individual choices.
And soon enough, Obama will be referred to as “Dear Leader”.
turn the page in the guide and . . .
Four legs good, two legs bad.
Some animals are more equal than others.
(They forgot) All pupils must educate their parents about saving the planet. Now.
As was pointed out in the linked article, #4 is not even factually correct; ensuring the laws of the country are fair is the job of the Supreme Court, not the President.
In not too distant future, The Communist Manifesto is going to be the main handbook of the ruling class of the USA.
That does not mean that they will follow it, obviously there is no money in it for the socialist aristocrats. It will be ever so gently forced upon the plebeians. Once they wake up to reality, who knows what will happen.
There will, again, sometime, somewhere rise from the ashes of socialism/fascism/communism a new leader, the like of Reagan that will catch the imagination of those to whom freedom and liberty is more important than the comfort of their tee vee chair.
Unfortunately, there are few in the history that managed to get into position of power that had interests of the everyday people living well, on their own, rather than being directed by those of dictatorial, totalitarian mind, that for yet unknown reason think that they consumed the wisdom of the world and there was nothing left for the rest.
Though there is some lingering sense that because they went to school for a long time and remained in it for lack of real world knowhow, somehow they may get the idea that they got it. It must frighten them to death, to think that they don’t know anything else other than rhetoric.
Could be they would end up on food stamps.
Note that there are few in congress of the US that are engineers, technical people of any branch. They are mostly the types that use too far, too much oxygen in their blowhard speeches.
Note also that Reagan’s administration had secretaries mostly of engineering background, hated by the sociologist and justice industry, from Bechtel Corp.
Perhaps a good start would be as simple as what the governor of Wisconsin put into law. Make the unions collect their own dues, not to be collected by the school, city and state paper pushers. Let us see how much they would collect when each union member has to go and give them money on their own.
See if the house of cards would go flat earth in no time.
The natural consequence, Libtards will say unintended consequence, of lying to children.
Is unruly, rebellious, contrary children.
Trust cannot be imposed, instilled or bought.
Educrats using this disinformation are losing ground, we now have the low information voter,citizens who trust very little that comes from official sources.
They are not listening, feel no obligation to prolong the system that uses them.
So who is gonna pay the taxes needed to pay the pensions of the Kleptocracy?
A website’s launch can become a comedian’s daily bread.
An impeachment’s necessity is too infrequently discussed.
The ultimate end of modern education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtYsGvPpd1A