Like
Obamacare, Common Core is another government debacle, being pressed by far the
far left as legislation that, in Nancy Pelosi’s vernacular, “needs to be passed
so we can learn what is in it.” Once supported by leading teacher’s unions, such
as the National Education Association (NEA), American Federation of Teachers
(AFT) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), many union officials
are now questioning its merits. They are also concerned, among other things, of
another Obamacare “train wreck” rollout, (see We're Flying the
Common Core Airplane as We're Building It and Union Joins
Opposition to Common Core National Standards and
Tests), as well as its merit as an education model.
Despite early union support, it appears some union members are beginning to wake
up and realize that Common Core may not be what they bargained for, specifically
after the Obama Administration had the Department of Education (DOE) publish the
draft of this new program.
Titled
Promoting Grit,
Tenacity and Perseverance, the DOE’s draft, in fact,
promotes just the opposite! The program promotes control rather than
individuality and achievement.,. In this case, instead of controlling our
health, it is intended to brainwash the minds of future generations to continue
down the “progressive” path. In essence, they want to make us all sheep - easy
to herd and easy to control! This is further expressed in Common Core Uses
SEIU Protest to Teach 3rd Graders about 'Rights and
Responsibilities', where SEIU tactics were taught to
young elementary students. It is astonishing to see the lengths this
Administration and its union buddies, especially the SEIU, will stoop to try and
bring down capitalism and impose it’s socialistic and communist viewpoints
(see Communism at the
Highest Levels).
Common
Core promotes neither grit, nor tenacity, nor perseverance, but rather
compliance and subservience. A friend’s quote is on point regarding Common
Core:
“Grit,
tenacity, and perseverance' were things I thought were developed in the home, in
church or on the playing field and often translated into the class room or board
room. The thought of institutionalizing the concept, while well intended,
strikes me as quite a challenge. Kind of like a government trying to instill
morality and ethics into a society while mocking God as having anything to say
on the subject.”
Additionally,
there is much speculation about whether the Common Core standards do anything to
advance the modern student. See the Common Core
Standards’ Devastating Impact on Literary Study and Analytical
Thinking; Is Common Core
Leaving Students Unprepared in Math and
Science?; Doubts about
Common Core ; video of an Arkansas Mom
Destroying Common Core.
The
preceding press on the subject, along with the questions by teachers’ union
leadership, are strong arguments for states to reject Common Core and the
federal money the Obama Administration has dangled in front of them to embrace
these standards. However, there is something even more persuasive that should be
acknowledged . . . the loss of something through Common Core which made this
nation great - promoting self determination, self reliance and self esteem… none
of which are taught within Common Core (see Common Core
Indoctrination: “The People Must Obey The Government’s
Commands”).
It
is Us vs
Them and time for all Americans to come together,
whether liberal, conservative, union, non-union, regardless of ethnic or
religious background. We must join forces to reject this Administration’s agenda
of control in time to reverse the The Decline of
American Exceptionalism. America needs a resurgence of
common sense, not the tyranny of Common Core!
