Any brain washing or propaganda being administered here?
Hat tip Boston Bob.
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3RD GRADE COMMON CORE GRAMMAR ASSIGNMENT
Any brain washing or propaganda being administered here?
Hat tip Boston Bob.
https://twitter.com/ColetteMoran/status/395967716382629889/photo/1
Common core math assignment.
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Maybe this will be my next observational piece about life in Dallas.
My wife and kids are currently in El Paso, until the end of the school year. In selecting a community in the metroplex for us to call home, my wife has the criteria of “good schools.”
I sense a battle coming. She & I will vehemently disagree when it comes to that. I don’t see that any of the government run schools are “good,” although there may be some that are “less bad” than the others.
Maybe I’ll start making my rounds and talking to administrators and principals and seeing what role common core plays in the various school systems around here.
After hearing the communist claptrap coming out of my brother’s mouth, and witnessing the generational conflict here on TBP, it’s obvious to me that our nation’s schools are a clusterfuck and unlikely to improve with crashing. My wife is hanging on to some traditional ideas that are not valid anymore.
This could get interesting.
I can’t help but draw historical comparisons… kids 9 and under right now are the “Homeland” generation, a new version of the Silent Generation. When Silents were young, similar patriotic propaganda was everywhere in schools. My mother and her childhood friends have talked about how they stood next to their desks and repeated patriotic teachings, beyond just the Pledge of Allegiance. They also bought war bonds and stamps because it was “the right thing to do.” My mother tells a story of being late to school because she went to the Post Office with a friend to buy war savings stamps; the friend bought stamps and was excused for being late, but my mother, who was just with her, had to sit in the hallway all morning for being tardy.
Muck, Dave L, SSS, do you have any memories of war-era propaganda? Was it anything like what they’re teaching in this Common Core example?
I also wonder if the Lost generation parents (akin to Gen X today) had a problem with it, like we do now.
Is this confirmed real? Its so over the top it almost seems like troll-bait.
#5 is absurd. Laws should be obeyed (if they are constitutional and valid), but not “government officials’ commands”, which could be anyfuckingthing they say.
Such brainwashing. And if you try to teach your kids to reject it, all you will accomplish is to raise kids who don’t fit in anywhere and may even wind up in jail.
Don’t have kids.
This is actually a 5th grade assignment that goes along with a reading of part or all of a book titled Hold the Flag High by Catherine Clinton, published in 2005. It’s the story of a particular Civil War battle and thus drives the context of the questions. Pearson has had to defend itself already on the questions in the exercise. It claims the exercise was developed in 2007, long before Common Core was being implemented.
This is a good example of the power of textbook writers and publishers to extend their biases and agendas no matter which standards rule the day. As long as local school boards are still allowed to exert any control, parents have to hold their feet to the fire regarding curriculum. You parents reading this can add this to your ever-growing To Do list to try to protect your children.
Gayle, who/what is Pearson?
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Pearson is to Big Education what Monsanto is to Big Agriculture. If you look back at the exercise in question, you will find it is a product of Pearson Education.
Here’s a mom holding feet to the fire. 4 minutes is all it took her.
Tim you will do exactly what your wife tells you to do.She will pick the right school for your children and a white neighborhood for you to live.Why ,because as you said she still has traditional values.
Tim ,you’re a wimp.
Oh, I see it now Gayle–I looked for reference to Pearson on the screen shot and completely overlooked the watermark. Thanks.
so…. everyone wants to live in a white neighborhood. Especially blacks. It is a target rich environment and safer for blacks.
“Muck, Dave L, SSS, do you have any memories of war-era propaganda?”
—-Thinker
You’re starting to get on my nerves, Thinker. I was born near the end of WWII. My only memories of that time are wet or squishy diapers, sometimes both. Helluva mess.
Gayle – good video you posted. Thanks.
Wendy McElroy wrote about that assignment (and the “Star Citizen” one) recently:
US Schools Go Full-Bore Soviet
http://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2014/3/2/us-schools-go-full-bore-soviet.html
“The sentence-compression exercise is not merely pro-statist bias, it also factually false. For example, it is not the job of a president to ensure the fairness of the country’s laws; that is the Constitutionally established and clearly-stated role of the judiciary, not the executive branch. In addition, the exercise contradicts not merely the Constitution but also the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights by placing the well-being of the nation above that of the individual.”
My background is Engineering and Comp Sci. What I’ve noticed is that gubmint scrool tests are more like riddles. At 64, I have no time to fuck with riddles. If you have a real problem, I’ll solve it.
Maybe the top third will get it, the middle third that struggled with real math are going to be fucked up, and the bottom third will be even more beat down.
SSS, sorry, man… I knew you were young, but thought you may have some recollections anyway.
Didn’t realize HOW young. Guess the guys here commenting on your age got to me.
Not to get too far off-topic, but…
Why the hell did they bother to copyright that shit? It’s not worth fucking stealing.
@Thinker: I was born in 1938 (back when the glaciers were melting!). At the end of WWII I was 7 years old. All I remember of it is that we had a lot of service men (no women) over to dinner throughout the period. I was, at the time, not even aware of any propaganda or campaigns or much of anything else as far as war was concerned.
I was a lot more interested in Korea (born a few years too early to get sucked up in that) and the Vietnam mess (born a few years late for that one) as they tried their best to suck me up in 1963 by offering me a commission in the Navy if I’d only come join the Naval Reserve.. I was way to damn smart for that, told them no thanks. I did serve in the Navy from 1956 to 1958 (via the Reserves as an ET) but got out ASAP.
So I can’t help you much with your query. I just know that war is something you do not want to happen to you or participate in.. I got shot at alright, by drunken Arabs shooting Lee-Enfield rifles with WWI loads. I was in the Red Sea when the Brits jumped into Suez and got my fill of Shit on a Shingle (6 weeks of it) and refueling my destroyer by helicopter from Karachi..
Thence to Lebanon where we loaded all the US citizens aboard (along with a dozen other 6th Fleet boats) and evacuated them. Got shot at there too.
That’s as close as I ever want to be to war. There’s nothing like sitting on a tilted chair on the main deck outside the ET Shack of a tin-can reading a book and hearing “Twangeeeeeee” as a slug smacks the hull about two feet over your head, causing you to fall on your ass and convince you to “duck more”…
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Muck, thanks. Amazing story. Good thing you were able to stay out of the worst of it.
My father was born in ’29 and mother in ’34, so they experienced the key propaganda years as school children. I’ll have to ask my mother to write some of it down so I can share it. I really think we’re headed toward a similar period here, where government tries to keep much of what is going on hidden. Even more so than now… just look at how AP is already claiming that they’re “losing access” in the White House and won’t get it back, once lost.
Back to Common Core… the liberal Brookings Institution released its 2014 Report on American Education. Part III of the report provides a progress report on Common Core. Read the whole thing at the link below, but here’s a crucial paragraph:
The progress report proceeds along two lines of inquiry. First, a ranking system crafted by researchers at Michigan State University is employed to evaluate progress on NAEP from 2009-2013. The MSU experts found that states with math standards that were similar to the Common Core in 2009 scored higher on the eighth grade NAEP that year compared to states with standards dislike the Common Core. The current study examines data from the NAEP tests conducted in 2011 and 2013 and asks whether the same finding holds for subsequent changes in NAEP scores. Have the states with CCSS-like standards made greater gains on the eighth grade NAEP since 2009? It turns out they have not.
Somehow, the link to the report got deleted during posting. Here it is:
http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2014/03/18-brown-center-report-loveless
a TBPer , I presume..
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Achieve, Inc. has to do with the creation of Common Core. BUT Pearson has the biggest contract for the development of this program. That is not surprising since it is based on a program initiated in the UK about 12-13 years ago. The United States does not need companies with a monopoly on what students learn and think and we certainly don’t need to be told what to think by a semi-socialist country like the UK and its big business.
Pearson is a big, British based company that has a stranglehold on U.S. state, local and federal evaluation and testing. The armed services use Pearson tests, they have a myriad of educational tools and testing for public, private, secondary, colleges, universities, graduate and trade schools. Just about any standardized test taken in this country is a product of Pearson.
Texas paid Pearson initially a half-billion dollars for the STAAR Test alone, including the other expenses of training teachers, study materials, etc. Texas schools are overloaded with standardized tests. Finally, they have started on the road to eliminating some of this and getting back to education rather than robotization .