About a year I got accused of being chicken little in here as well... My reply? "The sky IS falling!!" If people would open their eyes ALL THE WAY... they'd see it too. sigh.

They do the same thing with "comprehension" reading exercises...use a leftist topic in the script. I work with great teachers..they care, but here's my problem...they don't research common core, they just believe what the spoon fed and accept it as good. (Most of them as far as I can tell aren't bucking any of it.) They won't KNOW what they're dealing with until it's in their lap and if they realize at that point that some of this stuff is instilling liberal think, but keep doing it because they want to retire soon... is that principled? Can you still say they 'care' about teaching? Seems like a huge conflict to me unless they speak out against it and refuse to do those assignments. Time will tell but I'm not holding my breath.

:) ha!

I was having one of my semi-famous (in the family) debates with my brother around Thanksgiving and I said something Obamacare or something, and my brothers girlfriend butts in and says, "But you are in favor of Public Schools right?" I laughed and told her No. Everyone was rather shocked. It was rather entertaining after that.

Most teachers can't see past their pensions. Having a government, ANY government, in the business of teaching kids is lunacy. But until more parents wake up and start screaming (and teachers too) we're on the fast track to socialism.

First, when Duso came to our schools, it was little about breathing and a lot about setting kids apart from their parents, telling them they did not have to accept their values, yet keeping it secret from parents. Something similar was done to students at Clinton's Governor's School, but at an older age. We are talking little kids, being made to feel a dolphin wants them to think certain things.
Nest to the Change Agent's Guide, Second Edition is what i have here, obtained from the publisher after they refused to sell to a friend who was not a teacher. I was on the Strategic Plan Team, which made a small stretch for me to get it. It was NOT on Amazon in those days.
The book is based on Hegelian principles of education, those embrace by Dewey, who literacy was the greatest obstacle to socialism. The book guides teachers in how to sell the curriculum, so parents will accept social programs as replacements for academics.
Ron Havelock did indeed write it, with Steve Zlotolow, releasing it in 1973 and again in 1995 In fact, he wrote two books, "Training for Change Agents" and "Change Agents Guide to Innovation in Education." The problem is, that innovation is code for change to socialism.
As the school administration uses the Delphi Technique, this book leads teachers in subtle methods to marginalize and neutralize parental objections to the predetermined outcome of socialistic changes in the schools. Saul Alinsky used the similar Alinsky Method in community organizing to sell Marxism. One of our group back then was actually from Missouri and in touch with parent there, who found precisely the same programs and exercises there as in Ohio, Florida and Kentucky. It was nationwide, we soon found, as Colorado was into this stuff big time.

I would believe my parents' words before any professor's. That's sad.

gah!

Dear Robbie, Competency in what ? A professor at
Oregon University was quoted as saying: "Give me
any student, and within an hour I shall have made a
socialist out of him." (And that is from a very
reliable source.)

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.

My mother was a 5th and 6th grade teacher during the Clinton years in Iowa, but also developed math and science curriculum for Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas. She did not see any "change agents guide." stormi, you are going to have to back up your assertions here.
here is the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Change-Agents-Guid...
I will say the author graduated from American University as did the Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack...and his wife who was my teacher.
here is an article about the dolphin-deep breathing exercises? what's that about?
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993...

point for stormi?

Whoa.

It may just be an anecdotal observation, but haven't almost every one of the spelling bee champs been home schooled? Isn't home schooling on the chopping block under common core? Can't have any free thinkers out their going against the system! Giving your child the intellectual tools to survive is the greatest responsibility a parent has. Unfortunately, many parents just want to be a child under the custody of the state.

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.

The unions line the pockets of politicians (the prez) and the prez is on board with common core...it's tied together (cronies). It must be some teachers banning together and being outspoken forcing the unions to make a stand, but that's a whole 'nother conflict. Probably they have no intention of anything changing, as this CC crap seems to be carved in the Agenda 21 stone so there's little threat to the unions even if they do play the roll of defending the teachers actively. That's the only way I can that scenario to add up.