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    Obama’s Education Secretary: Common Core Opponents Are White Suburban Moms with Dumb Kids
    Michael Schaus | Nov 19, 2013


    Obama’s Education Secretary recently said that opponents to the Administration’s “Common Core” Standards are merely “white suburban moms” who are, all of a sudden, learning that their kids aren’t real bright. Arne Duncan (wow. . . Perfect name for a 1970’s sitcom) made the degrading remarks to a group of state school superintendents on Friday. According to the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ent-brilliant/

    .S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a group of state schools superintendents Friday that he found it “fascinating” that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from “white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought it was.”
    First of all, Arne, what does race have to do with anything? For that matter what does the socio-economic status of parents have to do with anything? (How would such a comment have been received if it was regarding single black mothers with less-than-brilliant kids?) Arne’s complete dismissal of opponents to the Federal Government’s takeover of education is typical of the Washington Statists who have been running things for the last several years. It’s as if he meant to say, “Opponents can’t be taken seriously. . . After all, they don’t agree with me.”

    The insinuation that parents are raising concerns over the federal education standards because they would rather their kids have their ego’s artificially inflated, is both insulting and indicative of his overwhelming sense of self-righteousness. Perhaps we should just be happy Arne didn’t employee the typical MSNBC argument that his opponents are merely redneck-racists who despise the color of our President’s skin.

    Forgetting for a minute about the horror stories regarding Common-Core-approved teaching material (promoting communism http://finance.townhall.com/columnis...2453/page/full and downplaying wrong answers http://finance.townhall.com/columnis...7595/page/full as two examples) there are still plenty of reasons to harbor sincere reservations about the federal intrusion on local education efforts.

    At heart of Common Core is the liberal’s statist notion that only they are capable of running our lives. Arne, and his central-planning buddies in the nation’s Capital, think parents, school boards, and classroom teachers are incapable of providing children with adequate education standards. Does this remind you of any other Obama Administration initiative? (Ahem*Obamacare*Ahem) At least Common Core doesn’t mandate free access to contraception. (Yet.)

    According to people like Arne Duncan, only the folks who brought us healthcare.gov can bring some degree of competency into our American education system. (Stop laughing. That really is what he’s suggesting.) In the real world, however, the Federal government’s incompetence has managed to raise red flags among a bipartisan swath of the American public – including the Administration’s staunchest allies. That official “white suburban mom” activist group, known as the American Federation of Teachers, even raised an eyebrow at the failure of Common Core implementation. Randi Weingarten, the head of this radical tea-party group (sarcasm) even said that if you thought Obamacare’s implementation was bad, then just wait. . . “The implementation of the Common Core is far worse.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...are-gov-launch

    The primary objection to more federal government involvement in education has been a usurpation of local school board decisions, and a politically driven curriculum for education. Which only makes sense given the political nature of everything that comes out of DC. Isn’t it amazing how we are all told that DC is run by lobbyists and special interests? . . . But then we are expected to hand over something as valuable and precious as our child’s education to those very narrow minded con-artists?

    The standards themselves were the first casualty of DC politicization. They were not, despite what Duncan would like you to believe, written by teachers, school boards, or even elected representatives. They were not approved or written by the states that adopted them, or by the education professionals who will be implementing them. . . They were written (I know this will be shocking) by bureaucrats.

    But let’s not let these little concerns get in the way of calling Common Core opponents “white moms” with dumb kids. Such insults are nothing new to Duncan. According to the Washington Post, he told a convention of newspaper editors in June that Common Core critics were “misinformed at best and laboring under paranoid delusions at worst.”

    Well. . . It’s easy to start wearing tin-foil hats when Florida schools begin scanning student’s retinas http://michellemalkin.com/2013/05/29...ut-permission/ and kids are being taught that private enterprise is unfair and discriminatory. http://finance.townhall.com/columnis...2453/page/full

    Then again, maybe Arne is speaking from personal experience. . . His mother, after all, might be a white suburban mom who believes her son is much brighter than he actually is.


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    Common Core Teaches Second Graders to be Good Union Comrades
    Michael Schaus | Oct 28, 2013

    Aside from the obvious objections to allowing the creators of Healthcare.gov to get more involved in the education of America’s youth, a new reason to resist the creepily altruistic “Common Core” curriculum has surfaced. New Common Core teaching materials instruct second graders that land owners are intrinsically evil, that business owners are inherently greedy, and Saul Alinsky radicals are the saviors of the everyman. (Besides – and I know this should seem pretty obvious – do you really want the architects of a 17 trillion dollar debt teaching our kids things like basic math?)

    According to Fox news, a textbook company contracted to produce materials under Common Core State Standards is trying to teach students as young as second grade about economic fairness by praising unions, protests and labor leader Cesar Chavez, according to an education watchdog group. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/23...cmp=latestnews

    Cesar Chavez is one of the liberal movement’s most recent heroes to be considered “in vogue”; as was evidenced by Google’s decision to honor the Labor activist instead of Jesus last Easter Sunday. Chavez’s Saul-Alinsky-inspired-radicalism should put him firmly on the fringe of mainstream Americanism. (A great read on Chavez can be found here. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...f-Cesar-Chavez ) But, believe it or not, the textbook’s mention of Chavez is only a minor portion of the indoctrination “lesson” plan.

    In addition to reading a glowing biography of the Marxist labor leader, students will be asked to evaluate the “scales of fairness” between wealthy landowners, and lowly [non-union] workers.
    “Fairness and equality exist when the scales are balanced,” teachers are prompted to instruct the students. They are then supposed to ask the students whether both sides, as presented in the plan, are equal, providing a correct answer of “no” in the teachers’ guide.
    See? According to Common Core standards, the fact that wealthy business owners have more than the people they hire, is “unfair.” (Although, in all fairness, second grade might be the right age group for liberals to share their ideas. This could be an honest attempt to keep the left engaged with a demographic that has an equal grasp of market forces and economic theory.)

    Although I have not flipped through the comprehensive list of teaching materials tied to this disturbingly Leninist interpretation of economic “fairness”, I can make a safe assumption that the impressionable second grade economists will not be taught about the prosperity generated by business owner’s wealth; or the natural fairness of private ownership and free market.

    After all, it’s kinda tough to get a job from a poor farm worker who rents his property.

    Economic theories, wealth creation, John Smith’s concept of private property, market forces, and Chavez’s radicalism aside. . . There is still a pretty big question regarding why second graders would need to wrap their young brains around the concept of labor unions and so called “scales of fairness.” Quite frankly, putting any organized bureaucratic government agency in charge of disseminating such information to young children is chilling. And given the government’s tendency to view wealth creators merely as untapped tax-revenue sources, it’s unlikely that such lesson plans would be presented without anti-capitalistic bias.

    Once again the common core standards illustrate a decidedly creepy intrusion of politics into education from the highest levels. While education has been largely consumed by leftist philosophies for some time, the danger of Common Core is that this absorption of political activism in the classroom will now be pushed from the Federal level. . . A painfully intense infringement on local control will await any districts that decide to adopt the Fed’s centrally planned concept of “education”.

    While Karl Marx is not yet required reading under the Common Core curriculum, this latest example of the Fed’s ideological intrusion into education should set off some alarm bells. Aside from the laughable notion that a greater Federal influence in local schools will benefit the system, it makes the perversions of our kids’ worldview that much easier.

    And this, comrades, concludes today’s lesson on Common Core radicalism.

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    Common Core implementation called ‘worse’ than Healthcare.gov launch
    By Valerie Strauss ~ November 8 at 6:00 am

    Whether you support the Common Core State Standards or don’t, it’s hard to argue that the implementation so far has been smooth. I’ve posted some pieces about just bad the implementation of the Common Core State Standards and related testing has been going in New York (for example, here http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...first-graders/ ) but here’s a comparison that will make it easy to understand just how badly it has gone: http://www.capitalnewyork.com/articl...macare-rollout

    You think the Obamacare implementation is bad? The implementation of the Common Core is far worse.
    That’s what American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten said this week at a National Education Writers Association in Washington D.C., according to the online Capital publication — and it’s important to remember that she has been a supporter of the standards initiative.

    Weingarten said that education officials in New York have done a terrible job helping teachers prepare to teach lessons based on the standards and, in a rush to implement the Core and give students Core-aligned standardized tests, provided packets of lesson plans, while some districts bought material from corporations rushing to get it on the market. Capital quoted Weingarten as saying:

    “Here’s 500 pages. Just do it,” Weingarten said, mimicking what she argues is superintendents’ message to teachers in New York.
    In a column published this week in Huffington Post and the New York Times, Weingarten expanded on this:

    Last Sunday, I spent the morning with some Long Island public school teachers who made this crystal clear. Fifth-grade teachers, for example, have been told to follow a new, scripted 500-page curriculum pretty much to the letter. It’s an inexcusable information dump that, without time and training for teachers to absorb, adapt and apply the new material, won’t improve student learning. As Linda Darling-Hammond has written, the Common Core standards should be “guideposts, not straitjackets.”
    Weingarten said this about the standards:

    They’re not a silver bullet, and they’re not the only thing kids need for a great public education. But they have the potential to disrupt the cycle of increasing poverty and economic and social stratification by making essential skills and knowledge available to all children, not just some. That’s why civil rights groups that see public education as an anchor of democracy and a great equalizer have embraced these standards.
    This past spring, Weingarten called for a moratorium on the consequences of high-stakes testing aligned with the Common Core because teachers haven’t had time to absorb them. In June, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said he would give a one-year reprieve to states who want to postpone using the student scores of Core-aligned standardized tests to evaluate teachers.

    In New York, there has been tremendous controversy over the first administration of a Core-aligned standardized test. In August, results were released and it turned out that just as education officials had predicted before the tests were given, the scores fell by 30 percent.

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    The implementation in Mont. Co., MD--one of the best public school systems in the nation--is a fiasco. However admirable the goal, they handed the development of classroom curriculum to a for-profit company that apparently didn't include anyone who had ever taught children. None of the materials are reading-level appropriate, and many are cut & pasted from the internet. Teachers are told to fix it, and then share their "experiences" so that the company can improve the incomplete product, peddle this nationwide, and make more money.
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    From the common core lesson plan "“... the commands of government officials must be obeyed by all.”

    Just another, in a multitude of examples, of government out of control

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    Moms have awakened. There is a product at the end of the Assembly Line of the Common Core and it is not a healthy happy student. It is a test that is so high stakes it has eight year olds vomiting all over it and bright A/B students thrown out of high school. Ever heard what happened with Mothers Against Drunk Driving? This is a new kind of MADD and woe to politicians who can't see it is women on the right and the left. Why? We will stop the harm just like we needed to to our teenagers from drunks that crowded our roads. We will stop this whacky crazy no basis in reality mess. Don't think so? Women are 55% of the voters. We can and will end this insanity

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    Weingarten's claim--that the Common Core Standards "have the potential to disrupt the cycle of increasing poverty and economic and social stratification by making essential skills and knowledge available to all children, not just some"--is ridiculous. No set of standards can do that. The CCSS are only modestly different from most previous sets of standards and it's not even clear that the differences move in a better direction. She needs to get off the Gates Gravy Train and speak the truth

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    Your comments are ironic, to say the least, since Gates is perhaps the #1 sponsor of CC$$ and stands with R Murdoch and Broad as perhaps the wealthiest men in the world who stand to get even wealthier due to CC$$ ripping the soul out of American education. August 4 - you following why Sweden's gone from the top to the sewer of Europe? I'll give you a hint: YOU are drinking the same Kool Aid.

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    ChicagoMusicTeacher , I work on the issue everyday for the past few years and Bill Gates has invested more money than anyone in the structure and implementation of Common Core!! I try not add to much contention to the subject especially when this article was written by Randi "I will sell you out and reverse course midstream" Weingarten!! This issue can only be resolved by congressional investigations of serious misconduct/ criminal actions by educational ,government, media, union and business officals nationwide. This Scandal will soon surpass Obama- Care
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    You have to see these unintelligible Common Core assignments posted by angry parents

    http://twitchy.com/2013/11/22/you-ha...angry-parents/

    Twitchy’s CEO Michelle Malkin has been one of the more vocal critics of the imposition of Common Core standards on our schools. One of the controversial issues has to do with the emphasis on unorthodox (often unclear) paths to solutions, rather than simply asking kids to solve problems. Some parents are taking to Twitter to register their anger and confusion over the weird instruction their children are receiving, reportedly from Common Core-aligned curricula:

    Gary Rubinstein @garyrubinstein



    My daughter's kindergarten common core workbook.

    8:51 PM - 16 Nov 2013
    I don't get what the book wants a student to do....

    nicole @NicoleAgonicole

    kids can't learn 6x8= 48 anymore its now 6x8=(5+1)x8
    Why the confusing work
    pic.twitter.com/FNs9Anp8zc



    9:11 AM - 17 Nov 2013
    e @TheeErin

    1st grader's common core homework scanned with family commentary added


    Colette Moran‏@ColetteMoran

    Here's a screen shot of the answer key for a questionable homework assignment from Common Core for 3rd grade grammar.



    12:37 PM - 31 Oct 2013
    Ann Meyer @annmeyer

    No wonder I can't help my daughter with her homework! Apparently 15-4=9 Gotta love @engageny quality



    8:19 PM - 30 Oct 2013
    Shawna Coppola @ShawnaCoppola

    Attn. Parents: Common Core homework makes it necessary to keep a supply of brass fasteners on hand @ home



    2:15 PM - 25 Oct 2013
    Kęrrÿ @mom2lexcole

    Coles homework tonight. No explanations. Just this. #CommonCore #neveraskizzytohelpwithhomework



    7:37 PM - 22 Oct 2013
    Jon Hickey @jhickey62

    Poorly worded #commoncore homework question or are we overthinking? What's your answer?


    lea @mrs_flyboy

    The flags in my kids math homework look a lot more like a Chinese flag then a us one. Its a common core worksheet.



    4:03 PM - 10 Oct 2013
    Is this really what should be taught in the schools? Be careful how you answer, or Secretary of Education Arne Duncan might accuse of being opposed to it just because you’re white and from the suburbs. Whether you are or not.
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    6TH Graders Told Not To Tell Parents About Political Classwork Assignment
    Posted on 24 November, 2013

    While it is unclear if this is explicitly a Common Core assignment or not, a group of students today in Tupelo, MS had quite an interesting assignment. The sixth graders at Milam Elementary were given an assignment to do in class, and they were not to discuss this assignment with their parents.

    Naturally, telling a group of kids between the ages of ten and eleven to not tell their parents about an assignment is probably the surest way for them to tell their parents. In fact, it is typically a way to ensure a student sneaks a copy home.

    The reason why this is so concerning is that Tupelo prides itself on data driven instruction. Now, data is nice if it helps you figure out if a student needs extra help in a particular area. However, what if that effort is aimed at monitoring the political views of a student? What if there is a shift in student opinion to say, the wrong opinion on gun control or say the wrong opinion on right to life issues? Is the school collecting data toward that end to monitor the political beliefs of these young children?

    As you check out the school district’s video on data driven instruction, ponder for a moment where does monitoring education end and monitoring indoctrination begin?



    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfZnm...layer_embedded

    Then, consider the assignment below. According to a local clergy, this is the assignment that one of these young sixth grade children was given in class. They were told not to tell their parents about the assignment. I find that part disconcerting right there.

    The next is the topic: Are you a Republican or a Democrat? I wonder what ever happened to teaching children that they were Americans? Why is there an effort to monitor political opinions so early in a child’s life?

    Do the parents in Tupelo, MS need to have a conversation with the school board about monitoring for indoctrination versus education? Why were the children told NOT to tell their parents about the assignment? Is this a pre-test of attitudes with another test to be given later? Is this part of the data driven education, to monitor the attitudes and beliefs of students?

    While it may seem far fetched, parent political views are part of the P-20 data collected in data driven schools. Why not the child’s political views?

    In the era before “data driven instruction” an assignment like this might have been received differently. In light of “data driven instruction,” are student opinions on this assignment part of the “data?” After similar incidents with surveys in Maryland and other places, it does prompt one to wonder if this is now part of the data.



    As a side note to the teacher, she doesn’t quite have Republicans corrected stated, unless one is going strictly on party platform. For example under abortion, there are quite a few Republicans pro-choice Republicans. I am not one, but I have met many who are, and I have met many Democrats who keep trying to change their party platform on the matter. Abortion is one of those issues that is difficult to draw a partisan line upon. Even so, I am rather shocked that a teacher is discussing it with ten and eleven year olds.

    Further, gun control is another issue that is not strictly partisan. In the part of the world I live in, there are Democrats with a stronger commitment to the second amendment than some Republican Governors, like Chris Christie.

    As far as gay marriage is concerned, this teacher has apparently not heard of Log Cabin Republicans. But what I find even more troublesome is that gay marriage is being discussed by a teacher in the classroom. I find it disturbing that a government employee, which is what a public teacher really is, is having a conversation with children of this age on this topic.

    Quite frankly, wouldn’t classroom time be better spent teaching something like, math, geography, science, art, or music? Maybe it is just me, but I have to wonder political affiliation of 6th graders is a priority in this country? Perhaps more of the basic and less of the politics would bring about higher test scores that these politicians seem to expect from our nation’s youth.

    http://gopthedailydose.com/2013/11/2...rk-assignment/
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    Forced Reading: 4th Grade Common Core Book
    Tells Kids Why Obama is Rejected by White Voters

    Posted date: November 21, 2013



    As Common Core continues to concern parents across the U.S., a book that includes drugs, drinking, racial stereotypes all wrapped up in a political agenda has made its way into the Common Core curriculum.

    Fourth graders in Dupo, Illinois are reading a biography of Barack Obama entitled “Barack Obama”, written by Jane Sutcliffe and published by Lerner. The book contains very mature content and highlights the problems Obama has faced while growing up, all while blaming the color of his skin.



    http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/.a...7277970b-500wi

    The book is part of Scholastic’s “Reading Counts” program acceptable to the controversial Common Core curriculum standards.

    One group, “Moms Against Duncan – MAD” Facebook page, which was created in response to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s “white suburban moms” comment, has brought attention to the book and voiced outrage over its installment.

    The biography goes on to say that white Americans were hesitant to vote for a black president, and that Obama pushed the race issue to bring the nation together, according to the Illinois Review. http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/il...illinoisreview)

    Excerpts from the unbiased book seem to praise Obama while demonizing the white majority.

    “But some people said Americans weren’t ready for that much change. Sure Barack was a nice fellow, they said. But white voters would never vote for a black president. Other angry voices were raised. Barack’s former pastor called the country a failure. God would damn the United States for mistreating its black citizens, he said.”


    The Illinois Review reported that Bluffview Elementary students were told the book’s content would be tested for grades. That brought outrage among parents just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, one “MAD” mom said.

    Read an online sample of the book “Barack Obama” here. http://books.google.com/books?id=-PE...page&q&f=false

    http://freepatriot.org/2013/11/21/fo...-white-voters/
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    Educators Threaten Removal of Kids from Disobedient Parents
    Posted by: Rick Wells Posted date: November 23, 2013

    More evidence has arisen as to why many people fear the controllers which used to be their government and question the relationship between the government and the family unit.

    In their assault on the family, Government at all levels is increasingly behaving as if they are the parents and the parents are more of a caretaker, providing daily supervision of the government’s children; a glorified babysitter.

    Unless, of course, that care taking isn’t done in accordance with government mandates, at which time the babysitters could lose their job.

    The latest example in an endless stream of government interference is the threatening letters being received by parents regarding mandatory medical and dental examinations for their children. These are routine exams, but there is nothing routine about the threats.

    It’s always for our own good, security or safety when our rights are usurped. We aren’t really properly qualified to function for ourselves in the complicated, modern police state. We need our controllers.

    A parent in New York State received the following letter requiring that his child be taken to compulsory doctor visits. The letter states:



    “NYS Education Law (Section 136.3) requires students to get medical exams when they start school and at certain grades. Exams may also be needed at other times chosen by your school.

    To keep healthy, your child needs a complete physical at least once a year and a dental exam every six months.

    Notice how the state justifies its intrusion in advance by volunteering a justification that bad teeth can hurt school work. Okay, so can bad food, are they coming into the house to check my refrigerator? Do I need my grocer to fill out a form as well?

    Never one to shy away from the opportunity to create files on someone, New York State makes sure they are in the picture forever. Once the exams are completed, the State of New York is forwarded the results, which are kept as part of the child’s cumulative school record, and built upon year after year.

    Loss of children for dental infractions does happen. I’ll be writing an article within the next two weeks regarding a couple in Texas who lost their children based upon that false premise. Police states find whatever tools are available to engage in their evil doing. Besides, no respectable autocrat wants a slave with bad teeth.

    This problem is not restricted only to the liberal big city thugocracies, heartland thugocracies have their own versions of police state parenting.

    Fond Du Lac Social Services recently sent a parent a letter in regards to the parent allowing the child to miss dental appointments. The parent was given one week from the receipt of the letter to make a dental appointment. If no appointment is made, the controller will contact another controlling bureaucrat and make “a report.” A threat of involving CPS is made for non-compliance.

    We all know what that means; the first step in a legal fight against the government to keep your children, and all over the kids’ teeth. Not that they are falling out, decayed or anything else, necessarily, but just that they haven’t been to a dentist as dictated by the offending authorities.

    While the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is an Indian Reservation and as such a separate legal entity, it is just more evidence that the police state knows no borders or jurisdictional distinctions in the U.S. A. All of us are fair game. The author of the letter is Cindy Pattison, 218-878-2178. Apparently she is secure enough in the belief in her authoritarian position that she is welcoming phone calls to discuss the policy.

    435 minnesota letter fond du lac chippewa

    All of this is more evidence of the multi-front attack on America being conducted from within in order to overwhelm us to the point that we simply can’t handle everything that is being thrown our way. Their plan is to win whatever victories they can, in whatever manner is effective, and return to those areas in which they suffer defeats until they succeed there as well.



    The state threatening to kidnap someone’s children under color of law is a crime of unimaginable evil. The precursors to that reality are the incremental control they are attempting to exercise. They are called progressives for a reason. They do things in small steps, working progressively towards a larger goal. That goal is the takeover of America and the destruction of the American family.

    Child Protective Services and their associated system of kangaroo courts are creating compliant baby sitter parents under the threat of loss of their children. They have no right to do this under the Constitution. They are assuming powers which are beyond the scope of their mission and authority.

    Bad teeth may be unattractive, they may be unhealthy, and they are undesirable. They are not criminal.

    Child abduction or threatening to do so for the purpose of controlling the parents is criminal. We need to start addressing the actual criminality instead of simply complying with self-aggrandizing control system bureaucrats.

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    Common Core-aligned lesson plan for third-graders casts Obama as modern messiah
    Posted By Eric Owens On 9:50 AM 11/28/2013

    Another biography of President Barack Obama is making waves.

    This one is entitled “Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope.” The author, Nikki Grimes, paints the 44th president as nothing short of a messianic figure. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...0/thedaical-20

    Eagnews.org has found a language arts lesson plan for third-, fourth- and fifth-graders revolving around the book at the website TeachersPayTeachers.com. The description of the $3.60 lesson plan by Sherece Bennett boasts that it is officially “aligned” with the Common Core State Standards Initiative, an attempt to standardize various K-12 curricula around the country. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/P...d-Prezi-856562

    The book treats Obama as sort of a modern combination of Moses and the Joseph of the Old Testament—with a bit of Johnny Appleseed thrown in for good measure.

    Early in the book, Eagnews notes, a young, hopeful Obama notices some homeless people and asks, “Will I ever be able to help people like these?”

    As the future president grows, his mother teaches him “English grammar and the Golden Rule.” “Be honest, be kind, be fair.”

    Later in the story, Obama dramatically changes his name from Barry to Barack.

    “One morning, he slipped on the name he’d been born with. The name of his father, Barack. For the first time in his life, he wore it proudly–like a coat of many colors.”
    The allusion is obviously biblical. In Genesis 37:3, Joseph, the favorite son of Jacob, receives a “coat of many colors.”

    Still later, the “Common Core aligned” book dramatically describes Obama’s work as a community organizer in Chicago.

    The work was grueling, with stretches of failure, and puny patches of success. Door-to-door Barack went, early mornings, late nights, pleading and preaching, coaxing strangers to march together, to make life better for everyone.
    He worked as hard as a farmer, planting the words “Yes, we can!” like seeds in spring.
    The TeachersPayTeachers.com lesson plan for the book includes a number of exciting activities including a collage containing “pictures and words about Barack Obama,” according to Eagnews.

    Also included is a “comprehension quiz.”

    “Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope” receives an average rating of three stars (out of five possible) at Amazon.com.

    As with many politically-charged books, this one has mostly five-star and one-star reviews. Only about 15 percent of the reviews are somewhere in the middle.

    Five-star reviewers are effusive.

    “My 5 year old can read it and wants to because she loves BARACK OBAMA!” raves reviewer L. Tyler.

    “It is a must for every library and a nice addition to home collections,” insists D. Simmons.

    Many of the negative reviews on Amazon point to the religious and quasi-religious elements of the book.

    “There is something seriously wrong with any parent that would give this god-king worship book to a child,” observes reviewer Eli Corte.

    Just last week, a different Obama biography made the news after parents in Dupo, Ill. alleged that fourth-graders were required to read it. (RELATED: Obama biography tells fourth-graders that white Americans are racists http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/22/ob...s-are-racists/ )

    The book, called simply “Barack Obama,” appears to cast white Americans who disagree with Obama’s politics as racist.

    A local school board member contacted The Daily Caller to insist that the book is not required reading among schoolchildren in Dupo.

    http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/28/co...ssiah/?print=1
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    .Arkansas Mother Obliterates Common Core in 4 Minutes!




    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZEGijN_8R0

    Published on Dec 16, 2013

    Karen Lamoreaux - Arkansas State Board of Ed - 12/16
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    No books, no clue at city’s worst school
    By Susan Edelman January 12, 2014

    This principal runs a school of “no.”

    Students at PS 106 in Far Rockaway, Queens, have gotten no math or reading and writing books for the rigorous Common Core curriculum, whistleblowers say. The 234 kids get no gym or art classes. Instead, they watch movies every day. “The kids have seen more movies than Siskel and Ebert,” a source said.

    The school nurse has no office equipped with a sink, refrigerator or cot.

    The library is a mess: “Nothing’s in order,” said a source. “It’s a junk room.”

    No substitutes are hired when a teacher is absent — students are divvied up among other classes.

    A classroom that includes learning-disabled kids doesn’t have the required special-ed co-teacher.

    About 40 kindergartners have no room in the three-story brick building. They sit all day in dilapidated trailers that reek of “animal urine,” a parent said; rats and squirrels noisily scamper in the walls and ceiling.

    And the principal — Marcella Sills, who joined PS 106 nine years ago — is a frequent no-show, sources say.

    Sills did not come to school last Monday. On Tuesday, she showed up at 3:30 p.m.

    On Wednesday, The Post found her at home in Westbury, LI, all day before emerging at 2:50 p.m. — school dismissal time. Wearing a fur coat, she took her BMW for a spin.

    She showed up at school Thursday, but not Friday.



    When Sills, 48, does go to work, it’s rarely before 11 a.m. — and often hours later, say sources familiar with her schedule. “She strolls in whenever she wants,” one said.

    The school hasn’t had a payroll secretary in years.

    A Department of Education spokesman said Sills was required to report her absences and tardiness to District 27 Superintendent Michelle Lloyd-Bey but would not say whether Sills did so last week. Lloyd-Bey did not return a call. Sills hung up on a reporter.

    When she is out, an assistant principal is left in charge. Yet Sills, who gets a $128,207 salary, also pockets overtime pay — $2,900 for 83 hours in 2011, the latest available records show. “This school is a complete s- -thole, but nobody in a position of power comes to investigate. No one cares,” a community member said.

    PS 106 families hope their cries for attention bring newly installed Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to the rescue, saying they can’t recall any prior DOE leader visiting the remote school. She would find it sinking, they say.

    The isolated building sits a block and a half from the beach, surrounded by vacant, weed-choked lots, the road behind it strewn with trash bags and broken TVs. The floods of Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 wrecked a hangar-like annex, called the Early Childhood Academy, which housed pre-K, kindergarten and first and second grades. It has not been repaired.

    Two kindergarten classes moved into “temporary classroom units” in the yard. The other children moved into the main building, forcing some classes to squeeze into small offices and storage rooms. The pre-K class sits in the auditorium, but has to move to the cafeteria during the movies.

    Kids in several grades said that last week they watched “Fat Albert,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks” and “Monsters, Inc.,” but did not relish the downtime. “I like gym. I like to draw,” said Charm Russell, 10, who added her peers are too restless and bored to watch the screen. “They’re always making noise, and there’s nothing entertaining going on. No art, no gym, no music class.”

    More alarming, the teachers have gotten no curricula since Sandy. Last February, the DOE announced several new options, including “Go Math” for grades K-5, and “ReadyGen” or the state Education Department’s “Core Knowledge” for English language arts. The books cover the Common Core standards, skills that kids should master at each level. But five months into the school year, PS 106 classes still don’t have the books or teacher’s guides. “They have no reading program, no math program,” a source said, adding Sills blames outside administrators for not sending materials.

    Teachers muddle through by printing out worksheets they find online, buying their own copy paper.

    The DOE gave no explanation for the missing curricula but said it’s “working with the school to provide students with physical education.”

    A spokesman denied the trailers are rat-infested.

    Staffers won’t speak up or even file a grievance with their union because Sills will retaliate, a source said.

    Parents wonder if higher-ups know what’s going on. “Why don’t they get on them? I don’t understand that,” said Michael Moore, father of a second-grader.

    Another father, Roland Legions, added. “They’re not doing right by the kids.”

    One mom said she couldn’t get a meeting with Sills to discuss concerns. Another said Sills is “just not professional.”

    “She should be here,” the mom said. “How is she going to run the school if she’s not here?”

    PS 106 is allocated $2.9 million to serve a low-income population with 98 percent of its students eligible for free lunches. As a Title 1 school, it gets extra federal funds, but community members say they’ve never seen a budget tracking the income and spending.

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