Elementary school parents aghast at Common Core homework. Kids are coming home with worksheets full of undecipherable nonsense (for the one pictured above, the father couldn’t even figure out what his daughter was supposed to do), authoritarian propaganda, and squirrely problems that look like they will do more harm than good to a student’s learning process. In other words, just what you would expect from an education system designed by liberals.
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All the Common Crud Curriculum is teaching is socialism.
Time to home school your children or place them in private schools where the parents have the right and ability to challenge the curriculum with out being threatened with jail and losing their children. Joseph Goebbels would be envious of such a program.
Home schooling, yes. Private schools, no. Catholic schools are adopting Common Core because they feel they need to keep up with the public schools, which is just about the dumbest thing I ever heard. Why would you need to keep up with someone headed off a cliff?
Giving in?
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I noticed when I changed the size, it was a bit too big for Gravatar, the lettering isn't sharp. I'll try to fix it in paint and see what happens.
Accreditation?
Passing gov't standardized tests?
Thankfully, not all private schools are Catholic.
I sent my younger daughter to Catholic elementary school. I thought it was a great place because of the difference in quality of the students and parents compared to public schools. It's basic human nature for people to pay more attention when they're writing a monthly check for something than when it's "free." But recently I read an article about a Catholic diocese up in arms about Common Core and the Catholic hierarchy basically telling the parents to get lost, the decision was made.
Amen.
What's good for the propagoose is good for the propaganda?
"Government officials' commands must be obeyed by all."? They sure are doing all they can to ensure the next generation is an obedient and subjugated population.
Time to challenge the indoctrinators. If more parents would do this, they would stop with this bull shit. If not challenged now, they will push even further.
I was hoping that was a True/False question. Seems it was just an exercise in finding multiple ways to state Communist propaganda.
Man, if I saw that sentence on my kid's worksheet I would go ballistic. And trust me, I can really go ballistic.
My daughter, when she was a fourth grader, brought home convoluted and nonsensical long division-type problems. Too confusing to explain but when I asked her teacher why not just teach long division the way it was taught for the last 150 years, she explained that this would make learning "regular" division easier. She added that regular long division could not be taught until fifth grade. I was indeed aghast. I immediately taught my daughter the correct way to do long division and attached a note to her homework saying that she will do the problems the right way only. She got an A and I never heard from the teacher on the subject.
I had this crap with both sons. My oldest came home in tears because he couldn't get long division. I calmed him down and then spend a whopping 5 minutes showing him how to do long division. No problem after that. I sent that teacher a note asking what her problem was that she couldn't get a kid to learn long division. Never got a replay.
Then a couple of years later, same with my youngest. It took another whopping 5 minutes to teach him long division. Same teacher. I sent her a second note to the effect that after two years she couldn't figure out to teach long division that perhaps she get another career like perhaps a geek in a circus. Never got a reply to that one either.
Then a few years later my eldest came home having a fit about an algebra problem. I did it several times and came up with the same answer but not the same answer in the school book. I emailed it to a friend who came up with the same answer I did. This is because the school book was wrong. I sent that teacher a terse note asking him why he didn't check the problems before teaching them and that perhaps he should be teaching first graders how to use paste. Never heard back from him either.
Seriously, it's like they are purposely trying to keep kids from learning. Not every teacher, but the education establishment itself.
Good for you!