I have been following this school transition for about 20 years now. It began in earnest with Outcome Based Education, the non-computerized version of Common Core. Bill Clinton had the Governor's School for gifted students in Ark. They were fed the one world socialism crap. They were manipulated in psychological ways, leading to at least one suicide while he was Governor. England was into it big, and warned that it had created a "brain drain" there, and urged Clinton not to go down that path as President. Of course, the Clintons embraced it. Kindergarten kids here were taken out of classes to a room with one teacher and a stuffed dolphin, where Duso the Dohphin told then what to think and not to trust or accept parental values, and not to tell parents. Parents were not told of this, I found out two years after the fact, and I was a room mother! By 5th grade, I was alert, and found some classes having group hypnosis, all 6th grade classes having Maslow group therapy, which Maslow late in his career said was dangerous and should not be done outside a professional's office. Here was a teacher, taking over each class each week, putting 9 year olds in a circle and telling all the other kids to say whatever they wanted to him, but the center child had to remain silent. One in my daughter's class tried to kill himself. We fought the principal, school board and superintendent, but, because of tenure, could only get her moved to the high school! We found this was not isolated, but was common across the US, and similar techniques were used at Columbine. In high school there was values clarification, which students were again forbidden to take out of the classroom, for fear parents would find out. I had a lesson stolen so I could review it - and it was bad. All this time, how much academics was lost?
Now, students will not have textbooks to take home, it will all be on tablets with Gates' software, to which parents will not have access. The same Gates who stood before a group on video and told by how many million people the world population had to be reduced to get zero CO2 growth! During that talk he said, vaccines were the way to go. He also had stock in the vaccine company.
Common Core is not about increasing academic achievement, although more may go to college, but not college as we knew it. The plan is to bring the academic level of all to a more closely equal level across country borders. Dumbing down and brainwashing. During the Clinton years, the NEA had a took for teachers only, "The Change Agents Guide", I had to lie to get it, It taught teachers about disarming parental issues with curriculum changes. During that time, in some schools, Nevada was one, students who wanted to go to college, were told they needed casino workers and they should go in that direction instead. In Ky., a 15 year old wanted to date on school nights, courts ordered her parents to allow it, she got pregnant, parents were ordered to pay for an apartment for her. Kids are told to use the threat of children's services against their parents. A neighbor's girl, 13, was sneaking out to meet boys at night. They grounded her. She had been trained at school that parent's don't know best. She called children's services from her bedroom phone in her room overlooking the swimming pool. They were forced to endure weeks of investigation because of what the school had taught her. Of course the UN is involved, they are mostly communists. Dumb down and control, that is the goal and academics is the last thing they want. They want a few elite to have the leaning and the rest will be worker ants. That is the fate quiet parents are helping create for their children.

Evil..The Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff presently being embraced...

What Common Core does not allow for is the late awakening for the human mind, spirit and intellect.

In England, students are categorized on how they will be productive functioning units in their society at a early age.

America is going down that road, and when we do, many of the 'late bloomers' will be denied that opportunity excel and reach their greatest potential and move themselves and mankind forward.

The alarming thing for me is that my father, mother, step-mother, sister, and sister-in-law, are all teachers and lots of them don't see these things.

I get into arguments with my dad (and my step-mom, but don't get me started) because I'm against Common Core and he has read the government provided talking points and says how good it is. It's hard for me to convince them to really take off the blinders and see what is going on there. I don't know if it's because they are teachers or what, but if they don't get it, how do we get everyone else to get it.

I know as a Parent I get alarmed reading about all of this and worry about my kids. I try to get as much information out of them as I can about school. Unfortunately I'm not in a position to home school or private school or I would do it in a heartbeat!

Gives a whole new potential for the Blue Screen of Death! If a kid doesn't fit into their cookie cutter mold what will happen?
We need to push back and encourage Open Source learning and Creativity.

What is he saying without speaking? Here's the guess I'll venture: We have tomorrow's leaders, people like me. All we need now is people to follow those leaders.

Puppet-masters...

yes. what's with glenn beck's outfit?