The Rotten Core of the Common Core: Part Nine

The Rotten Core of the Common Core: Part Nine

 

As expected, the rotten core of the Common Core gets more rotten by the week, if not by the day.  That’s the bad news.  The good news is that Lincoln has been proven absolutely right in saying, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” 


Parents and elementary school kids have almost become accustomed to Core’s Byzantine solutions to simple math problems; parents of high schoolers are regularly shocked with the trashy novels their tenth graders are required to read; educators are bewildered as to the necessity of the constant testing and their resulting need to “teach to the test.”

Now comes verification of the reality many of us have been saying all along, namely that the basic principles of the Common Core State Standards Initiative were not state initiatives at all.  They were not hatched in America’s 50 states, nor by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers but were in fact the misbegotten brainchildren of President Barack Hussein Obama’s liberal-leftist White Houses coterie who are using arm-twisting to coerce states to adopt the rotten Core.

Last week, Andy Smarick at Core-supporter Thomas B. Fordham Institute complained that Obama’s education budget proposal gave the administration credit for so many states signing on to Common Core not because it was untrue but because, “The anti-Common Core forces will likely use this language as evidence that Common Core was federally driven,” which it obviously is.

Furthermore, according to the Cato Institute, President Obama is not only now taking credit for the idea but “almost certainly wants to make the Core permanent by attaching annual federal funding to its use.”  That would be the aforementioned federal coercion cudgel employed to keep cash-strapped states and school districts obsequiously in line or risk being denied access to the fed money pot.  


When your enemies attack you, it’s anticipated.  When your friends attack you, it’s either a sign they’re not true friends or that they don’t like what your saying or doing.

The National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union in America, is one of the truest friends of the federal government and the president so when the NEA turned on the Core, it means trouble in River City and across the nation. . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36137.)

Public Schools: Lechers, Diversity, Nudists

Public Schools: Lechers, Diversity, Nudists

 

Recent stories leaking out of public schools, which go out of their way to avoid such leakage since the leaks often reflect badly on school administrations and administrators, demonstrate once again that something is rotten in the formerly great state of education in America. 
With the Third World rapidly catching up and surpassing us in the art of educating children and with our educational establishment–led by left wing extremists in the National Education Association–far more concerned with diversity and propagandizing than learning, it’s no surprise our nation is on a slippery slope toward the scrapheap of history. 

The following only touch on some of the problems facing our kids, our schools, and our country, simply a few illustrations of the gross and systemic failures in our public schools.

For example, in Houston, Pasadena Memorial High School history teacher, 36 year old Paul Edward Tate, is obviously an incurable romantic.  His romanticism, though, wasn’t focused on women his own age but rather on a 16 year old female student on whom he lavished gifts and with whom he was so enamored that he stupidly and repeatedly took her on public dates to his version of fancy restaurants, including a local Olive Garden. 

Someone noticed the two lovebirds at the Olive Garden walking arm in arm and a Pasadena Memorial High assistant principal watched as the teacher bought the student a purse and  a $200 Pandora bracelet, which the girl was wearing when police interviewed her and which Tate told police was a gift for his mother.

Tate is facing felony charges for indecency with a child, having an improper relationship with a student, and carrying on a sexual relationship with a minor.  Depending on the outcome of the investigation, he may soon be joining the ranks of the hundreds of teachers, male and female, heterosexual and homosexual, who are arrested and convicted of similar crimes every year in the United States, almost all of whom were smarter than Tate. (http://tinyurl.com/k9tprvv)

Most of them conducted their private sex-ed classes a tad more discreetly, like at their homes or in the back seats of their cars.

Continuing the dumbing-down of public education in America, a gifted-and-talented program at New York City’s PS 139 elementary school is going the way of most programs designed to raise the ed-bar by challenging brighter kids so they can reach their highest potential instead of burying them in classrooms filled with current and future miscreants.

Last month, PS 139 Principal Mary McDonald sent a letter telling parents that Students of Academic Rigor, or SOAR, would no longer accept applications for incoming kindergartners because SOAR is being phased out–in the interests of educators’ favorite buzzword, diversity.  As Ms. McDonald wrote, “Our Kindergarten classes will be heterogeneously grouped to reflect the diversity of our student body and the community we live in.”

Suspicions are rife in that Flatbush, Brooklyn community that SOAR is being grounded due to the fact white kids comprise the majority in the program.

Principal McDonald subsequently advised parents in another letter dripping with hypocrisy, “At PS 193, we believe that all children can learn and achieve high standards. We also know  that we want all children at PS 193 to have equal access to high quality, challenging curriculum, . . . We also want our classes to reflect the diversity of our community.”
Ironically, P.S. 139′s Mission Statement says . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=35549.)