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#CommonCore: 10 Reasons To Oppose It

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Common Core is just plain wrong for tomorrow’s generation and wrong for America. It does not elevate the education standards, rather it dumbs them down to give the illusion of a flourishing education system. Listed below are 10 reasons why you should oppose Common Core.

  1. It further nationalizes our education system.
  2. It’s bad for students.
  3. It’s bad for parents.
  4. It’s bad for teachers.
  5. It’s bad for taxpayers.
  6. It violates privacy.
  7. It resembles No Child Left Behind.
  8. It is unConstitutional.
  9. It requires some states to move backwards.
  10. Have you seen the curriculum? i.e. math problems and reading assignments

h/t: @JulieBorowski w/ FreedomWorks

TSV006: Stand Up and Fight Cronyism

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In this episode, I discuss the toxic duo of ObamaCore and ObamaCare, Ted Cruz fighting Amnesty and if cops should be able to search your cell phone without a warrant.

Caution: Government Waste Ahead

Power Quote of the Week:

Robert Nisbet as he reflected on what the Framers would think after they saw the size and scope of the current government.

ObamaCore (Common Core) and Obamacare

Ted Cruz is Fighting Amnesty

Can Cops Search Your Cell Phone Without a Warrant?

  • http://freedomworks.org/content/supreme-court-decide-if-police-can-search-through-your-cell-phone-without-warrant
  • That’s the question that the Supreme Court is set to make a decision on
  • One side of the argument says the cell phone is no different than say your wallet/purse
  • The other side says it’s too intrusive
  • “A cell phone has the same contents that the home did in the founding era, it has digital equivalents of papers, letters, drawings, private financial documents, private medical documents,” said Jim Harper, an attorney with the libertarian Cato Institute.

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The New Common Core Tactic: Rename and Rebrand

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For good reason, parents continue to be in a uproar over Common Core. But with the new tactic to rename and rebrand is causing even more to voice their opposition.

With angry parents protesting the standards, and curriculum they say is tailored to it by writers of textbooks and lesson plans, several states have decided the solution is all in the name. Common Core is now referred to as “The Iowa Core” in the Hawkeye State. Florida calls it the tongue-twisting “Next Generation Sunshine State Standards.” Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer recently signed an executive order to erase the name “Common Core” for their new math and reading standards and Louisiana lawmakers are mulling a name change as well. – FoxNews.com

It has been said numerous times before that the only way to fix Common Core is to scrap it completely. This federally controlled top-down approach to education standards will do more harm than good.

Glyn Wright, executive director of the Eagle Forum echoes this saying, “Rebranding the Common Core does not change the fact that it is still a top-down, federally controlled approach to education that is untested and unproven. We know that Americans will not be fooled by dressing-up this failed initiative.”

Common Core is Fast Approaching

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You are probably familiar with names like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top but have you heard of Common Core? If not, don’t worry. You aren’t alone! One recent poll showed that almost 65% haven’t heard of it either.

So why should you be concerned? Education! It’s the backbone of everything. It seems like anymore you have to have a top notch education to get ahead.

Well, thanks to Common Core you don’t have to worry about that.

So what about No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top? Aren’t they still around? You bet! They have just been renamed and repackaged into some grand and amazing new government initiative called Common Core.

Like everything the government does, this will be good right? WRONG!!!

Common Core standards will not improve education, but will lower the standards to make schools and teachers score better. The kids were left out!

Look, here’s the thing: YOU need to do your homework and you are late getting started!

Start with this video and go from there:

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Obama math: 3 x 4 = 11 Under New Common Core

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Quick: what’s 3 x 4?

If you said 11 — or, hell, if you said 7, pi, or infinity squared — that’s just fine under the Common Core, the new national curriculum that the Obama administration will impose on American public school students this fall.

In a pretty amazing YouTube video, Amanda August, a curriculum coordinator in a suburb of Chicago called Grayslake, explains that getting the right answer in math just doesn’t matter as long as kids can explain the necessarily faulty reasoning they used to get to that wrong answer.

Watch:

via The Daily Caller.