Common Core Sticker Fail The following “math” problem based on the Common Core curricula has been uncovered:
@michellemalkin a great common core question a friend,who is a teacher, posted. Cc @TwitchyTeam pic.twitter.com/LUxlyMEG3k
— Kevin (@kevinpost) December 6, 2013
Sadly, this badly worded question was by one of the more respected schoolbook publishers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt…
The obvious problems with this are many.
There has been rumblings, as of late, from the Democratic Party over political direction: The “moderate” 3rd Way vs. the “Elizabeth Warren is a great tonic for the Democratic Party” that is far more open about being for socialism and statism.
The battle is between “true believers” and the old guard that likes wielding a bit of actual power:
“Leaders of the center-left ‘Third Way’ think tank put out an op-ed this week that threatens to turn into a full-blown Democratic Party war. Jon Cowan and Jim Kessler warned their fellow Democrats that the hard-left style of new electeds like Elizabeth Warren and Bill de Blasio has no sustainable future. The lefty blogger community has turned on the centrist Democrats and is pushing elected Dems to disavow the sensible advice.
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“Actual elected Democrats have been pressed by the Salon/Kos crowd to denounce Third Way. Those results are mixed. People like Rep. Joe Crowly (N.Y.) and Allyson Schwartz (Pa.) are ‘co-chairs’ of Third Way and don’t want to give up the prestige of those positions.”
The future fight between these two opposites ought to be… interesting Slap Fight!!1!:
News of the Week for December 8th, 2013
Obama has decided to host a “Youth Summit” for his little cyber foot-soldiers. The hash tag that was chosen to popularize this shindig for 18–35 year old “youths”? #WHYouth.
Meh, it was catchier in the original German. As Charles C. W. Cooke notes:
Just spoke to someone in the White House. Apparently #WHYouth was a typo. It’s actually supposed to be #WHJugend
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) December 2, 2013
Those with a totalitarian mindset certainly think alike, don’t they?
Meanwhile… auf die Weiße Haus Jugendkonferenz…
Just who is developing “Common Core” curricula and where is that money coming from?
The Washington Post has some answers for New York state:
“The New York State mathematics curriculum was developed by an organization located in Washington D.C. known as Common Core, Inc. According to reporter Jessica Bakeman of Capital New York, Common Core Inc. was awarded three large contracts from the New York State Education Department: $3,323,732 for K-2 curriculum, $2,715,958 for grades 3-5, and $8,108,919 for grades 6-12.”
Interestingly enough, Common Core Inc. was founded and funded years before the standards had been adopted by the states… or even released! Interestingly enough, it was funded by Bill Gates:
“[D]espite Bill Gates’ claim that there was no need to build national Common Core curriculum, he has, through his grant program, quietly funded its development in excess of $10 million, with Common Core Inc. being the first to receive a grant. According to authors Gigante and Archbold, ‘Despite the overlap between corporate branding, mission, funding and leadership, Common Core Inc. claims that it is “not affiliated with the Common Core Standards”.’ The article suggests that although some advocates of the Common Core claim that they want to only nationalize standards, their true intent is to nationalize a still experimental curriculum.”
The female CEO of Archie comics is being sued by male employees for gender discrimination after she repeatedly referred to them as “p*nis”. Her defense is simply that they couldn’t have been discriminated against because they are White men and that White men aren’t “a protected class.”
This ignores the obvious that “protected class” refers to aspects such as gender and race, and not to any particular gender or race. Theoretically, such anti-discrimination laws protect everyone. However, the argument of the CEO’s lawyer that anti-discrimination laws don’t apply to Whites and males is not an unusual one.
The public schools are becoming increasingly more politicized. They are used to teach obedience to the collective, the evisceration of the Bill of Rights, the fight for “social justice,” and even how to inform on their parents political views to the state.
Yet another example of the state “nudging” vulnerable kids to think correctly and help transform society has been uncovered. The assignment presents various either/or political questions and labels them “Democrat” or “Republican.” The problem lies in how those differences are expressed.
For example, in many of the questions, it becomes a choice of “do what you want = Democrat” vs. “you will be told what you can or can not do = Republican” such as is seen by the questions involving abortion, gay marriage, and flag burning.
The “Democrat” position on “Healthcare” is everyone gets free stuff, while the “Republican” position is that if you are poor you will be denied care. Un-coincidentally, the following question states that the Democrat position on “Taxes” is “[m]ake the wealthy people pay more than the poor or less fortunate.”
Daniel Hannan, M.E.P., recently spoke on origin and spread of the principles and values that made America great, and how those principles and values are in danger. Further:
“Hannan argues that the ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms — individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and the institutions of representative government — are the legacy of a very specific tradition that was born in England and that we Americans, along with other former British colonies, inherited.”
A “Professor of English and African diaspora” at a Minnesota community college was recently reprimanded for pushing, in class, the idea of “structural racism” and upsetting some White students enough that they lodged a complain for the racially directed derogatory rant.
“Structural racism” is basically “institutional racism” and part of Critical Race Theory that declares that all of society is an invention by the White man to keep his unearned privilege by oppressing others, and that society is thus only defined by that oppression. The consequence of that is article of faith that anything done by a White man is racist and oppressive, so the opposition to racism and oppression is defined, in part, by the defeat of White people and the evil the somehow effuse. When “Whiteness” is somehow false and oppresive, the existence of White people is an evil to be corrected, and “anti-racism” becomes racism itself.
So, a professor who believes in and teaches an innately false and oppressive ideology throws a tantrum when the targets of her hate complain about it? It is a sad ideology that only thinks of people in terms of race, or other simplistic categories, and then declares that unequal treatment to be good when it is targeted at the “bad” race/gender/&c. It is an ideology that labels the attributes of one race evil and others to be innocent.
The truth of the matter is that America has as its basis a heritage that originated with the Anglo-Saxons, but was at its core not a heritage based not on race, but on civic values and institutions. Since this country was based on that, of course in that regards it is at it’s core something derived from “White” culture, though it transcends the limitation of blood to become something that everyone can embrace and become part of.
It is this innate sense of inalienable rights, the rule of law, and the concept that the law ought to apply equally to people that defines America. It is not some crazy conspiracy of “Kyriarchy“. This civic basis of our American heritage is not at its core defined by oppression of others, but stands quite independent of it and actually conflicts therewith.
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