"This is what commies do. When are Americans who care going to understand exactly what we’re facing here. The article states that teachers are upset about this. I’m confused;
the vast majority of public school teachers (unionized) voted for Obama.
NOW they’re upset? The only solution to this is to allow
parents to get vouchers for the cost of public school education that
they can use to get their children out of these government propaganda
factories. It is the single most important policy change possible to stop the Marxist takeover of America". MC
The Obama Administration has launched its newest campaign to
confiscate the minds of our children. To qualify for federal grant
funds, Obama is requiring states to adopt a new program called Common
Core State Standards In English. The program would wipe great works of
literature from English curriculums across the country. And replace
them with “information text”, such as “Executive Order 13423:
Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation
Management”, an Order, of course, favorable to the Liberal
environmentalist movement.
Via Lucianne, Powerline reports,
Controversy is brewing over new Common Core State Standards in English that call on public schools to emphasize the reading of “information text” instead of fictional literature. According to the Washington Post, English teachers across the country are upset by what they consider the government’s effort “to drive literature out of the classroom.”
English teachers are right to be upset, but they shouldn’t take it
personally. The government has nothing much against literature, per se.
Rather, this initiative is driven in large part by the desire to promote political propaganda in the classroom. The study of literature is being downgraded in the process, but for a good cause.
Consider that one of the “informational texts” recommended as a replacement for, say, Great Expectations is
“Executive Order 13423: Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy,
and Transportation Management.” Students would thus study government
propaganda in English class (this Executive Order was issued under
President Bush, but it is still propaganda — a political sop to the
environmental left, as Stanley Kurtz shows).
Another Common Core’s non-fiction exemplar is an excerpt from a 2009 New Yorker essay by Atul Gawande on health care. This too is propaganda – an effort to show that Obamacare is wise policy.
Proponents of downgrading the teaching of literature claim that their
goal is to make sure U.S. students can read and understand complicated
texts. But there are plenty of complicated texts that don’t amount to
political propaganda, much less propaganda relating to current
hot-button policy issues in which the Obama administration is heavily
invested. If teaching students how to read such texts were the only goal
here, the list of exemplar tests wouldn’t include one-sided political
tracts about health care and the environment.
Consider also where the Common Core comes from? The Washington Post
tries to make it appear that the new curriculum percolated up from the
states. But at the back end of its story we find that “the Obama administration kicked the notion into high gear when it required states to adopt the common standards — or an equivalent — in order to compete for Race to the Top grant funds.” (emphasis added).
The Common Core, then, should be viewed, at least in part, as an
attempt by the Obama administration to gain control of what is taught in
public schools for the purpose of indoctrination. As Stanley Kurtz puts
it, “Obama has managed to press direct support for his most cherished
and controversial policy initiative onto your local school district.”
I wonder if Obama will be obvious enough to begin his order of mass removal with
1984?
This egregious scheme of Obama Think indoctrination on our current and
future generations of children has English teachers furious. The rest
of the country should be, as well. And states should refuse to
participate.
