The Rotten Core of the Common Core: Part Ten
It’s no secret that President Barack Hussein Obama is a United
Nations’ globalist and not a patriotic nationalist. He has said that our
country is no more exceptional than France or England or Germany–or Burundi or
Algeria or Myanmar, for that matter–since a claim of national exceptionalism
would smack of elitism, superiority, and arrogance.
Obama is well known for his personal senses of elitism, superiority, and arrogance but he viscerally abhors any perceptions that America should share those traits.
So, to accomplish his goals of equality, he and his henchmen created the Common Core State Standards Initiative with the complicity of the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in order to dumb-down American education and level the educational playing field with those Burundians, et al.
That, of course, is a contentious allegation. However, as shown in previous posts in this series, there can be little doubt the Obama administration has been the guiding force behind the educational abomination known as the Common Core.
As with any other radical, revolutionary movement, (pre-Communist Czarist Russia and pre-Nazi Germany in the last century), intimidation of opponents is a requisite to shutting them up.
Twenty-year Missouri kindergarten teacher Susan Kimball represents a case in point: a veteran teacher bullied by her bosses. And here I foolishly thought bullying was unacceptable in schools!
Unlike countless others, Ms. Kimball refused to be bullied. She bravely testified before the Missouri Senate Education Committee in support of a bill that prohibited implementation of Common Core State Standards in Missouri’s public schools. She swore under oath that she and other teachers have been intimidated ever since they began voicing opposition to the Rotten Core.
As she testified, “I have been strongly discouraged from saying anything negative about Common Core by my administration and some School Board members.”
Ms. Kimball added the chilling note that, “In a professional development meeting, um, in-service in November, and at a faculty meeting in January, we were told in my building, and I quote, ‘Be careful about what you post on Facebook, or talk about in the public regarding Common Core. Don’t say anything negative. It could affect your job.”
On the bright side, at least she wasn’t threatened, so far, with consignment to a gulag or a gas chamber for her intransigence.
On the dark side, a leaked email from the deputy executive director of the aforementioned CCSSO, a “non-profit” corporation that owns copyrights to the Common Core standards, indicates the CCSSO is trying to mobilize Common Core supporters . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36581.)
Obama is well known for his personal senses of elitism, superiority, and arrogance but he viscerally abhors any perceptions that America should share those traits.
So, to accomplish his goals of equality, he and his henchmen created the Common Core State Standards Initiative with the complicity of the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in order to dumb-down American education and level the educational playing field with those Burundians, et al.
That, of course, is a contentious allegation. However, as shown in previous posts in this series, there can be little doubt the Obama administration has been the guiding force behind the educational abomination known as the Common Core.
As with any other radical, revolutionary movement, (pre-Communist Czarist Russia and pre-Nazi Germany in the last century), intimidation of opponents is a requisite to shutting them up.
Twenty-year Missouri kindergarten teacher Susan Kimball represents a case in point: a veteran teacher bullied by her bosses. And here I foolishly thought bullying was unacceptable in schools!
Unlike countless others, Ms. Kimball refused to be bullied. She bravely testified before the Missouri Senate Education Committee in support of a bill that prohibited implementation of Common Core State Standards in Missouri’s public schools. She swore under oath that she and other teachers have been intimidated ever since they began voicing opposition to the Rotten Core.
As she testified, “I have been strongly discouraged from saying anything negative about Common Core by my administration and some School Board members.”
Ms. Kimball added the chilling note that, “In a professional development meeting, um, in-service in November, and at a faculty meeting in January, we were told in my building, and I quote, ‘Be careful about what you post on Facebook, or talk about in the public regarding Common Core. Don’t say anything negative. It could affect your job.”
On the bright side, at least she wasn’t threatened, so far, with consignment to a gulag or a gas chamber for her intransigence.
On the dark side, a leaked email from the deputy executive director of the aforementioned CCSSO, a “non-profit” corporation that owns copyrights to the Common Core standards, indicates the CCSSO is trying to mobilize Common Core supporters . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36581.)
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