Here are a few videos (below) to help those who are asleep about the trouble with our education system. These are videos about its effects on children. Also please be careful about the Parental Rights Amendment--here is a warning on it.
Here is a brochure/flyer that you can use. There is room on bottom left of outside page to enter your contact info for your group or state or self--please feel free to use and help educate.
To sum it up the educational systems being touted such as the Common Core Standards, Charter Schools and School Choice are all very dangerous for they all are built on an unconstitutional foundation of taking away parental authority and local control. The founding fathers had set up a great system of local control as we saw with local elected officials such as school boards, accountable to the people in their communities. But alas there is a change in the making to erode the power of WE the people right smack under the disguise of making our kids College and Career Ready. Listen to the interview of Mona Lisa and Kip Harding and realize the failure of our education system when compared to the Founders system of PARENTAL AUTHORITY over their children's education.
Those touting Common Core uses the military problem of moving place to place as the mantra for the Common Core and this is debunked early in the conversation with this family.
More parents are waking up as we are hearing the cries of the children. We hope you will join us and make a stand. Here is a petition written up by Mrs. Barbara Moore (historian) we hope you will bring to your legislators as they come to your community:
We, the undersigned, exercise our 1st Amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances by placing our signatures to this document. We oppose all attempts by the government to authorize the Common Core Educational System, School Choice and Charter Schools. All of these undermine parental authority and local school boards. We support defunding Common Core, School Choice, Charter Schools, and the Dept. of Education. The 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people". No power is delegated to the U.S. regarding education so it is clearly unconstitutional for the national government to be involved in it, dictating standards and policies. We uphold parental authority and respectfully require our government to do likewise.
Please copy and paste above and get people to sign on.
Make a statement and maybe even inform them as some may not realize the bottom line is that we will not tolerate the loss of PARENTAL AUTHORITY. We who know where our blessings come from, also know we have a God-given responsibility to raise the children. Those who want to take that authority away should hear from you. Please take this petition with signatures to your legislators and impress upon them the importance of your PARENTAL AUTHORITY.
Click on video where you hear Professor Jim Milgram (top Math expert that was on the National Validation Committee), Professor Sandra Stotsky (top English expert that was on the National Validation expert) and Charlotte Iserbyt who is the whistle-blower on the manipulation of the minds of America's children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZCGK2trgOI
Stop this trend now--we can't afford for parents to lose out--because
"Interview with a Clinical Mental Health Therapist"--on YouTube -Excerpts on Common Core :
Risk of this type of approach could seriously set the mental health resilience of children back 50 years because the concept they advocate are opposed to the research used now.
Children are being taught to think and use words that have high emotional impact that gives biggest reaction creates anger, competition, resentment (negative).
Children's reasoning abilities won't be finished 'til age 24. What is finished is their primitive part, the limbic system, part that engage when we feel threatened, shamed.
What we should be doing for children is not training them in the limbic system with emotionally charged activity.
Greatest fear with this curriculum is they are teaching children in the emotional activity part of the brain which doesn't think. The person who is there most of their day is very emotionally reactive and will therefore be easily manipulated and all one has to do is trigger their fear, anger, resentment and they react because there is not great thought process there (it is fight or flight).
The idea that students should get together and that group think is source of truth--a real problem as group think is extremely volatile. Group think is extemely pressurizing and give great value to conformity than independence and individual thought.
We need to use the research we know and not ignore it or trash it as Common Core is doing as these facts are important to the teaching of children.
We will rear generation that is not just more vulnerable to emotional stress, emotional challenges but is very easily manipulated. It just takes one trigger and you have a national mob-that is being motivated by anger and revenge-very easily manipulated.
In contrast a generation that knows how to think independently--they are free because they aren't easily manipulated.
Common Core can destroy our freedoms from within. Please act--start by researching yourself and then ask your Pastors, Churches to share knowledge and may God help us all. Mathew 18:6 But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in and cleave to me to stumble and sin-- who entices or hinders him in the right conduct or thought—it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be sunk in the depth of the sea. Ezekiel 22:30 states: “And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before ME for the land, that I should not destroy it; But I Found NONE… Hopefully you will help and stand in the gap...please share that others will too.
Hear interview with Christina Michas who shares what's behind Common Core. Also hear the heart-wrenching story of a mother who has seen a child's confidence and happiness destroyed by the one-size fits all mentality. God created each of us as unique individuals.
Tommy Bice who is leading the charge to keep Alabama in Common Core is misrepresenting Alabama Common Core Standards as not the copyrighted Common Core--the application for No Child Left Behind Waiver show the truth. It is Common Core Standards (copyrighted) plus the portion he is allowed to add. Alabama not allowed to change it but can only add up to 15 %--let's get the truth out!!!
Study the link for yourself--here are excerpts:
Copyright
This website and all content on this website, including in particular the Common Core State Standards, are the property of NGA Center and CCSSO, and NGA Center and CCSSO retain all right, title, and interest in and to the same. http://www.corestandards.org/
The NGA Center for Best Practices is the only policy research and development firm that directly serves the nation’s governors by developing innovative solutions to today’s most pressing public policy challenges. http://www.nga.org/files/live/sites/NGA/files/pdf/CBPBROCHURE.pdf
E S E A F L E X I B I L I T Y–R E Q U E S T F O R W I N D O W 3 U . S . D E P A R T M E N T O F ED U C A T I O N iii June 7, 2012 INTRODUCTION The U.S. Department of Education (Department) is offering each State educational agency (SEA) the opportunity to request flexibility on behalf of itself, its local educational agencies (LEAs) , and its schools, in order to better focus on improving student learning and increasing the quality ofinstruction. This voluntary opportunity will provide educators and State and local leaders with flexibility regarding specific requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State-developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction. This flexibility is intended to build on and support the significant State and local reform efforts already underway in critical areas such as transitioning to college-and career-ready standard and assessments; developing systems of differentiated recognition, accountability, and support; and evaluating and supporting teacher and principal effectiveness... Prior to submitting this request, Alabama teachers, leaders, college and university faculty, and lay citizens reviewed the Alabama standards and the Common Core State Standards and compiled the best of both into the Alabama College-and Career-Ready Standardsfor Mathematics and English Language Arts, reflective of the aspirations Alabamians hold for allpublic schools students to be prepared for college, careers, and the workforce. On November 18, 2010, the Alabama State Board of Education formally adopted these college-and career-ready content standards that meet the definition of ―college-and career-ready standards‖ in the document titled ESEA Flexibility, as Alabama has adopted content standards that are common to a significant number of states (see Attachment 14, Evidence of Adoption of Standards)as noted in Alabama‘s approved AMO Freeze Request(see Attachment 15 for the letter from Deborah S. Delisle)and in doing so affirms this as a voluntary decision by our Alabama State Board of Education and further affirms Section 9527 (a) of ESEA ---------------------------- --on page 22
On November 18, 2010, Alabama joined 40 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands in adopting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in Mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA). The adoption by the Alabama State Board of Education (SBOE) incorporated selected Alabama standards with those in the Common Core to create a set of internationally benchmarked college-and career-readiness standards that will prepare students for a future in the ever-expanding global environment. These standards are known as the Alabama College-and Career-Ready Standards (CCRS).
Here is a flyer to distribute re: Common Core to churches and friends and family in Alabama. Information is useful for anyone that want to study common core.
Video of Georgia Press Conference as to why they are pulling out. Common Core was not pilot-tested. You can really say Georgia and Kentucky were the places it was pilot tested and it failed their students. They were some of the first states to implement it and the fruits are rather ugly. This is what happens when there is no criteria to the standards as the interview with a city school superintendent in Alabama clearly indicates.
Former Tx. State Sup. of Ed. Robert Scott Testimony on video of Common Core not pilot-tested and not yet written yet he was asked to sign on to Common Core Standards.
Alabama education wasn't working so get Common Core (cost no matter-untested no matter etc)
This morning (03-19-13) on a local talk radio program the Dothan City Schools Superintendent of Education, Tim Wilder, was being interviewed. He had previously and publicly stated his complete support for Common Core Standards in Alabama. I called in and praised his leadership, the accomplishments in our local schools, and the achievements our state recently announced about our increased graduation rates and higher test scores brought about through the hard work of the Alabama Board of Education, Alabama educators and students. My questions to him were: 1. Where have the Common Core Standards been tested 2. What were the results of the testing 3. Where are the test results published for parents, grandparents, teachers and citizens to analyze for determining the effectiveness of the Common Core Standards 4. Who specifically in Alabama wrote the the Common Core Standards for Alabama children. Superintendent of Education for the Dothan City Schools Tim Wilders answered: 1. I don't know 2. I don't know 3. I don't know 4. I don't know.
He declared that the reason Alabama adopted CCS was that "we" (never identifying who "we" are) had been told that Alabama education wasn't working - that improvement was not taking place. "We" were sold Common Core (never revealing who did the "selling"). He also said that Alabama was one of 45 states that adopted the Common Core Standards,has invested a lot of money into textbooks, teacher training, etc., and that Alabama's CCS have absolutely nothing to do with the Obama Administration.
I couldn't help thinking back to the Education Policy Committee Hearing last week in Mtgy. when we were told by an un-named legislator that legislators listen to and heed Superintendents of Education much more than their own constituents. We certainly saw evidence of that when the superintendents were given about three times the amount of time to speak over those who opposed Common Core.
Based on Tim Wilders lack of knowledge about Common Core which he supports whole heartedly, is it possible that our state adopted this controversial plan (copyrighted) from the federal government without the slightest empirical evidence that the plan has been tried, tested, and successful, thus supporting all their hopes, promises and claims? Would Alabama really conduct a costly experiment on our children without any proof that it's good for them in every way?
A Very Concerned Grandmother,
Barbara
(Please note the higher graduation rates were for work done before Common Core.)
Page 10 of Fordham Institute's Finding--Alabama Standards compared to Common Core was marked as "Too Close To Call" in both English and Math
THOMAS B. FORDHAM INSTITUTE • THE STATE OF STATE STANDARDS—AND THE COMMON CORE—IN 2010 (July 2010) Executive Summary Table 1: State English Language Arts and Mathematics Standards Compared to the Common Core Jurisdiction English Language Arts Math Alabama Too Close to Call Too Close to Call
----It does seem like they jumped the gun to put us under the Common Core Standards that were "untested" in spite of the fact that we really didn't need to change. After all --the change to Common Core is going to run us approx. $282 million. Why?
We hope and expect this Legislature to do the right thing and cut off something which was founded on sand before everyone sinks. Common Core Standards is not worth having. It is not worth losing the rights of parents to have input over their children's education.
Standards of What Will Be Taught Your Child No Longer Has Parental Input--Get Informed
This is about how teaching standards--called the Common Core - is being promoted in states such as Alabama. There is now a battle to get rid of Common Core as more states are finding the truth that these take away parental input and are untested. Remember how parents could go to local school boards to effect change--no more. Because Common Core is copyrighted many states are shackled with it and can only add 15% (which will not be tested). On top of that states have added the shackles of NO Child Left Behind waiver ( and Common Core Standards is part of the requirement to get the waiver). States like Vermont are saying no to the NCLB waiver which is proving to be more troublesome.
The truth must come out for states and parents in order to again--truly have input over what will be taught their children. Educators promoting the common core standards have failed to realize (or are they ignoring it?) the first point most voters/parents know--that education will never get better when you take away parental input and accountability to "we the people".
This is a Q&A session of how standards are pushed and touted in Alabama.
Here are some of the Pros and Cons and Myths and Facts to the Common Core Standards.
Proponents of Common Core says they are rigorous, tested, internationally benchmarked but contrary to that --states are finding they are a "dumbing down" .
Race To The Top Applications which were the federal incentive for states to sign on to these standards (for federal grants) were given out in Nov '09 yet the applications were signed by states such as Alabama within in two months--Jan '10. The final drafts of the standards were not written til March '10 and its publication was not 'til June '10. Standards normally take a year to be studied before adoption according to Alabama State Superintendent yet we signed on to these before they were even written--(see video of testimony from Tx Super Robert Scott on it and why he said no). Is it any wonder that many parents believe their State Boards did not do their job? And they also tout that these standards were tested and internationally benchmarked-- and all because-- they say so! These are the talking points or mantras you will hear over and over--tested, internationally benchmarked, rigorous as if saying it will make it so.
State Sup Tommy Bice calls it Alabama's --yet these standards are copyrighted and cannot be changed. States can only add 15% but that 15% will not be tested.
States with Common Core Standards are committed to Common Core Assessments. Even ACT who Alabama is choosing will be aligned to Common Core.
Many are concerned about "Data Mining" where information from your student will be part of a database--use and availabilty to who?
But in Alabama there will also be additional information gathered: "Another component of ACT’s K-12 tests, called Engage, examines “academic behaviors.” These ask students to report whether they can manage their feelings, work well with others, and finish what they have started, for example. Teachers also rate students on these same qualities (here’s ACT’s teacher guide to rating students this way), such as “being willing to experience new things” and “listen to others’ points of view.” It’s currently for grades 6-9, but ACT is working to apply it to younger grades, too, Weeks said". The big$$ jumpstart came from Bill Gates and all sorts of entities he has been able to influence or get to invest in this new goldmine (Common Core) for computer information,hardware and software along with the textbooks, e-books,testing, data gathering and training that will be required all under the guise of improving education.
But most troubling are the people who are planning and influencing what will be taught your children and your input will not matter other than maybe choosing which of their chosen "list of aligned textbooks" to use. People such as terrorist Bill Ayers. Ayers was a keynote speaker at conference sponsored by the Renaissance Group in Oct 2009 along with Secretary of Education Duncan and U.S. Under Secretary of Education, Martha Kanter. At this three-day conference, Mr. Nevin Brown of Achieve, Inc., made a presentation on the “Common Core State Standards” Initiative. Hence, Ayers was a major speaker at a conference that was involved in developing Common Core Standards (friends do matter).
Bill Ayers also close friend Linda Darling Hammond who share his philosophy on education is who is in charge of Common Core specifications as well as the controversial CSCOPE which Texas parents exposed as teaching the "allah is god curriculum". Other teachings include--"those who died at WTC on 9/11 died in hands of freedom fighters" and that "Boston Tea Party was a terrorist act."
Important--must read excerpts:
Both Ayers and Darling-Hammond were leaders in the small schools movement. She has published in a collection edited by Ayers. Both have been advocates of ending funding disparities between urban and suburban schools, ending standardized testing, and attacking “white privilege.” She has been a board member of CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), a group housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago, that provides studies of, and services for, Emotional Intelligence in schools—but really emotional manipulation aimed at making students global citizens.
Both also failed to improve schools or test scores. Ayers’ Annenberg Challenge failed miserably. The school created by Darling-Hammond, Stanford New Schools, which targeted low-income Hispanic and black students, had the distinction of making California’s list of the lowest-achieving five percent. Much of the reason may be her “five-dimensional grading rubric” of personal responsibility, social responsibility, communication skills, application of knowledge, and critical and creative thinking.
In the August 2009 Harvard Educational Review, Darling-Hammond gave a preview of new standards as she argued for “deep understanding” and advancing beyond “the narrow views of the last eight years” by “developing creativity, critical thinking skills, and the capacity to innovate.” New assessments would use “multiple measures of learning and performance.” These would presumably emulate “high-achieving nations” that emphasize “essay questions and open-ended responses as well as research and scientific investigations, complex real-world problems, and extensive use of technology.”
In an April 28, 2010, Education Week article, “Developing an Internationally Comparable Balanced Assessment System,” Darling-Hammond claimed that the new assessment system is “designed to go beyond recall of facts and show students’ abilities to evaluate evidence, problem solve and understand context.” Bill Ayers, throughout his writings, likens the testing for “facts” to a factory or prison system, and agrees with Darling-Hammond’s emphasis on criteria like “student growth along multiple dimensions.” Such buzzwords thinly disguise an agenda of replacing the objective measurement of knowledge and skills with teachers’ subjective appraisals of students’ attitudes and behavior.
You must study, pray and then act. Apathy and lack of knowledge will not be excused when the minds of America's children lead to a darker America.
"But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea." Matthew 18:6
All including homeschools and private schools will have to be aligned to Common Core unless you the parents and your churches do something uncommon --share the truth and make a stand. Start by contacting your legislators to repeal Common Core for it is a wolf in sheep's clothing and will dumb down the children. States can and should do better but truth must be shared for legislators to realize the dire situation and they must do their job for such a time as this. Let them know "WE the people" do matter and our children matter very much!
Monday, July 29, 2013 at 05:43PM