Hat tip Gayle
A former marketing executive for textbook publishing giant Pearson Education reveals the anti-American agenda behind Common Core and the Advanced Placement U.S. History framework in the third video of a series produced by Project Veritas and focused on the corporate cronyism behind the education reform known as Common Core.
Kim Koerber, a former Pearson executive who now works as a sales consultant for National Geographic – another Gates Foundation-funded Common Core publisher – tells the Project Veritas undercover journalist that “conservative voters are afraid of everything,” and proceeds to say why Common Core is important in her view.
She explains that those behind Common Core and the new AP U.S. History framework have attempted to minimize the Constitution and remove Christianity from the core concepts, while they also stress the importance of teaching about Islam:
“The dead white guys did not create this country,” Koerber says. “They [presumably conservatives] want to talk about those dead white guys.”
Koerber continues that Common Core is necessary because “it needs to be come cohesion between the states.” She expresses frustration, however, that “Texas keeps screwing it up over and over again.”
“People who say they want to teach the Constitution, only want to teach the part of the Constitution that they like,” she tells the journalist, who then asks her about the Second Amendment.
“But yet they don’t want to teach all of it,” she replies. “Damn the Second Amendment.”
The discussion continues:
Kim Koerber (KK): People that are not educated, Fox TV viewers think that Common Core comes from the educated liberal groups and that’s why they are against it. They don’t know anything about it. They think it’s liberal so they’re against it. That’s what I think it is. It’s a knee jerk reaction. My mother, oh my God, she’s a Fox person. If I could remove Fox from my television set, I would…
I did a big presentation yesterday for AP US History and the AP US History agenda was set, until Texas got upset about it and they wanted to have their founders – they wanted founders in it. And it’s like – come on. The dead white guys did not create this country. It was a whole bunch of different kinds of people. And yes there were women, and yes there were people of color, and yes…you need to talk about them too. But they want to talk about those dead white guys.
And that’s the problem. You’re getting pushback, because there’s a bunch of Republican people, conservatives that don’t like being told what to do by people they don’t agree with. For example, in AP U.S. History a long time ago, Texas wanted to have U.S. History books, right? Pearson made them. And it talked about the Wild West and how there were prostitutes, right. And Texas was really upset. They didn’t want to mention…I’m like…You’re too young to… Did you watch Gun Smoke? It was a TV show, and you had Marshall Dillon and Ms. Kitty was his friend. She owned a bar and she was a prostitute. They never mentioned it but that’s what she was. It’s like who was Ms. Kitty? Who were these people who went out and serviced these men that went out in the world? That was real. The Wild West was not a nice place. And our kids need to know that that’s what it was like, you know.
Project Veritas Journalist (PV): But these people in Texas are really upset that the Constitution is not being covered.
KK: It is being covered, but not the way they…cause they’re idiots and they don’t know what’s in it.
PV: Is it covered as much as it would have been?
KK: In 12th grade government it certainly is, and in 5th grade it is. Yes.
PV: “It’s not a necessity for the kids.”
KK: You should know a little bit about it, you shouldn’t have to memorize the thing.
Republicans want to get in there and talk about stuff and change things about school stuff because they want to, they want to influence what is being taught. Common core doesn’t put up with that.
PV: Yeah. And, so it’s not really being… A lot of these complaints about it are not so much about the content yeah…
KK: They’re misunderstanding; they are people that don’t really know what they are talking about.
I…I can’t stand it. If they talk to me one more time about…climate change not being real, I’m just gonna scream.
PV: I am really glad I’m here in California, whatever religious affiliation you want to take is fine, but in Texas they want to push the Christianity.
KK: Because they think it’s the only one.
PV: They do, and I see that.
KK: That’s why it’s so offensive to have these prayers in the school board.
PV: Christianity is totally out of the common core?
KK: Yes it is. Totally. It’s not a core concept at all.
PV: But then there is a mention of other religions like Islam.
KK: Yeah well you have to because …
PV: So how did Islam get worked in?
KK: Islam…they said you have to talk about Islam, you have to talk about Judaism and you have to talk about Christianity and they wanted to make it big about Christianity; no it’s like, everybody needs to know about everything else…
PV: Is that one of the complaints, that common core does have a liberal bias?
KK: Yes, they feel like we’d be educating their kids to the world which they don’t want to do that. They want their kids to only know this… It’s like birth control. They don’t want their kids to know about it, yet Chlamydia is huge in Texas. So it’s like, you know…In the schools that have kids that, because the kids don’t learn about anything about what they’re doing and they’re messing around and they get in trouble because they didn’t get educated. So, I think the progressive bias is the more educated you are, the better you are, and the conservative bias is the less they know the better they are going to be. Yeah.
PV: What is it that they don’t agree with?
KK: They don’t agree with Islam, so they don’t want their kids to be taught it. They don’t agree with birth control so they don’t want their kids to talk about it. They don’t agree with math because they don’t understand it. It’s not the same math they did in high school. So they don’t want their kids to know about it.
It’s conservative push back, that, they are afraid. So these conservative, these conservative voters are afraid of everything.
PV: I’m just wondering why Common Core specifically…before Common Core kids were learning about math and science.
KK: Because it’s the government telling me what to do.
People who say they want to teach the Constitution, only want to teach the part of the Constitution that they like.
PV: Second Amendment?
KK: But yet they don’t want to teach all of it. Damn the Second Amendment. I don’t think personal handguns need to be on anyone except the government, the police. What is the purpose of having a gun?
The separation of church and state they don’t understand.
They don’t like that. They don’t like equal rights between all groups. The voter suppression that is going on in the south is just unbelievably awful.
People who are not educated are easy flim flam. And that they react by fear instead of by knowledge.
The Project Veritas journalist asks Koerber about the profits for textbook publishers with the Common Core reform.
KK: Anytime anybody changes something in a textbook its profitable for the textbook companies. So the textbooks have to change and the school district has to adopt the new ones, that’s profitable.
PV: Say that again.
KK: Anytime a change happens that has to be put in a textbook suddenly the school district has to adopt new books.
The video also includes footage of Project Veritas president James O’Keefe at the South Carolina Tea Party convention, during which Republican 2016 frontrunner Donald Trump told his audience Common Core is a “disaster,” and that no candidate can win who is in favor of Common Core.
“We spend more than anybody else and to a large extent that’s Common Core, because these people in Washington – the bureaucrats – are making a fortune,” Trump said. “They don’t give a damn about your kids in South Carolina.”
O’Keefe asked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) about the corporate cronyism behind Common Core.
“I’ll tell you this, as President, I will instruct the Department of Education to end Common Core on day one,” Cruz said.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum also asserted, “I am very much against Common Core, against any kind of federal intervention into our schools. That’s the big problem.”
Asked about the major issues surrounding Common Core, Santorum replied:
The elites in our culture who want to indoctrinate our young people into a certain way to think, a certain belief structure, and it’s all spread out through Common Core. I believe the best and safest way to maintain our values in this country is to leave it up to the people at the grass roots level.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s corporate cronyism or liberal ideology, if you are slipping your agenda into our education system, we are going to expose you, one by one, until the whole rotten system is revealed,” O’Keefe tells Breitbart News about his project on Common Core and education. “Corporate cronyism and underhanded political deals have contributed to Common Core’s massive disruption and the unraveling of America’s educational fabric.”
“I’ll tell you this, as President, I will instruct the Department of Education to end Common Core on day one,” Cruz said.
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The war on America through children in public schools =propaganda,dumbing down ,pop tart ,finger,picture guns brain washing,indoctrination.ONE SPOON POLICY.So we all know now the shadow run US gov is up too.So whats in the vaccines,food and water supply?
Creatures of chaos seek nothing less than the destruction of Western civilization.
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and , the creatures of chaos have infected the medical profession. No profession, organization or private business or career is safe from the overbearing influence of SJWs.
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Racism , Socialism, Communism and Cuntism are all forms of a collectivist effort to destroy traditional Christian family values and thus Western civilization….the darkness does not come calling uninvited.
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Washington (AFP) – Women in the United States are about three times as likely as men to say they are bisexual, and increasing numbers of them say they have had sexual contact with other females, new data showed Thursday.
More than 9,100 adults aged 18–44 took part in the 2011–2013 National Survey of Family Growth, conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics.
Respondents entered their answers on a computer instead of directly telling an interviewer.
““I’ll tell you this, as President, I will instruct the Department of Education to end Common Core on day one,” Cruz said.”
That’s weak-kneed bullshit. A good president would abolish the Department of Education on day one, and not give it any instructions.
Persnickety – I agree 100%. Our schools have gotten worse and our kids have gotten dumber each and every year as the federal government has gotten more and more involved in the educational system. You can track the correlation too. As the dept of educations budget goes up, test scores go down. It’s also a very simple constitutional argument to make. Since the enumerated powers given to the federal government do not include having anything whatsoever to do with schools or education, that entire department should not exist.
One of the things that’s always bothered me about the myth of Reagan too – he campaigned on ending the dept of education entirely, basically citing the reasons I listed above. But once he got into office, not only did he not abolish it, he have it a bigger budget and allowed it to play a bigger role every single year he was in office.
Flash. ” the four horses of the apocalypse”
Okay, here comes my Common Core rant:
I know first hand what Common Core propaganda is doing to the kids because I’m now homeschooling and it was the Common Core system that became the ‘final straw.’
I am in Virginia — Common Core has not been legislatively approved into Virginia public schools but it is here and most parents haven’t a clue what’s going on in class because all of the public schools are sealed tight (you know….school violence and guns and stuff). The textbooks used are few and they are NOT allowed to leave the classroom.
Within the public school system, the Common Core curriculum & propaganda are embedded into course work and some is VERY obvious. Most textbooks coming from Pearson, Houghton Mifflin, and the Macmillan/McGraw publishers are utilizing the Common Core curriculum. Too bad that most parents never get to see the textbooks, nor are they able to view the online work that kids are doing in school.
With Virginia homeschooling, we are forced to take the standardized testing every school year (because we do not opt out of public school for religious grounds). Therefore, because the standardized testing has already adopted the Common Core strategy, I must teach certain subjects that will cover Common Core strategies while also teaching the TRUTH and the correct methodology. I do this so that I can prepare my granddaughter to pass these yearly standardized tests.
Math is almost 2 hours a day because I am forced to work within the convoluted Common Core methodologies while also doing separate instructions that are the tried-and-true mathematical systems that all of us were taught.
In the Common Core curriculum, there isn’t much focus on advanced addition or subtraction. The Common Core curriculum is more focused on estimation and rounding…..no doubt dumbing kids down from having to actually perform TRUE math.
We are working with Grade 4 subject material and in Math, I have to teach her ALGEBRA — this is Common Core. It was a bit of a struggle because it is being taught mid-year before there is mastery of multiplication and division. Algebra has a basis in CONCEPTUAL math and not all children will understand how to perform these kinds of equations. No matter — in Common Core, it must be taught. So Common Core wants all 4th graders to understand how to solve-for-x or define equations instead of working deeply with all of the basic multiplication/division facts and then building from there. Solving for x and y simultaneously is an area that is also covered — I fear that most 9 year olds will NOT comprehend this type of math. And there is zero individualized instruction for kids in public schools. So they will fail and will learn to hate math. In elementary school, there is simply no real need for children to perform algebraic equations that can really only be defined via tables that are more akin to linear algebra than anything else. Math is great — it should be the one subject that provides a constant and a standard for elementary kids, and now Common Core has gotten to destroy the beauty of Math.
Last year, we enrolled in the Calvert School — a 90 year old homeschooling system that has been well respected. Well, they have adopted the Common Core system and even use some of the Pearson textbooks (along with the Houghton and Macmillan/McGraw Common Core textbooks). After paying quite a bit of $$ for that curriculum w/ books, this year I opted to go my own way, create my own curriculum and teach as an intelligent child SHOULD be taught. The worst and most offensive books that shove Common Core propaganda are: Reading, Math, Social Studies, and History. At the Grade 4 level, History is taught within the Social Studies books but I teach it separately.
I have used textbooks from the Macmillan and McGraw publishers and I cull the Common Core bullshit out. There is no need for a 9 year old to be given a Reading lesson on Cesar Chavez, boycotts, and the United Farm Workers. Mind you, this wasn’t a Social Studies lesson — this was READING!! This is how Common Core is weaving its agenda and propagandized instruction — all subjects are becoming VERY inter-connected.
The majority of Reading assignments are filled with names that are not easy for a child to know how to pronounce — but this is DIVERSITY propaganda so we have to train-up-the-kids so they’ll know that Mohammed and Javier and Mr. Changsen are ‘common names’ — which all of us know to not be true.
History via public school sucks. Period. I am using 5 different books and we have spent a great deal of time learning about the many discoverers and first settlers in America. We have spent even more time learning about the settlers need and overwhelming desire to migrate to America BECAUSE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. It saddens me to know that this one enormous truth will not be permitted inside a public school classroom or textbook. But that is part of the Common Core propaganda…
Social Studies stories are very heavy on the variety of ‘family units’ — not FAMILY. I have not yet come upon a story of trannies but if/when I do, the stories will be skipped. There is absolutely no reason that any 9 year old needs to know that Johnny’s daddy wants to be a screwed-up vamp…
In reality, Common Core isn’t about a “core” of basic skills and some wonderfully ideological FAIR educational system. Common Core is one of the means by which our oligarchy can destroy individualism, independence, and intelligence at an early age.
have seen the Progressive agenda in both homeschooling curriculums that
I think all homeschoolers and private schools will eventually be forced to submit to the CC testing program in order to stay legal. Low test scores will bring wrath.
Gator – “It’s also a very simple constitutional argument to make.” You’re forgetting that the constitution is just a goddam piece of paper.
That Kim Koerber is one fucked up liberal-commie bitch.
@I.C., thank goodness my son is out of public schools (graduated in 2012), but one way to get a peek at the books might be when they have back to school night or parent-teacher night.
God save us from the progressives before they indoctrinate every kid.
I’ll bet they aren’t teaching the kids about the islamic principles of takiyya, tawriya, kitman, and muruna.
Flash says, “caption this”: 3 Jews and a stooge. How’s that? God, what a bunch of hags. Is there a white Protestant on the Supreme Court of the USA? Nope not one. Ain’t that grand? I’d say this is a communist takeover, wouldn’t you?
Please Amurrica, die already. Die.
@Rise Up
There is a slight chance that textbooks would be available for parental ‘review’ on a back-to-school night. I think textbooks are kept elsewhere, not in a classroom — perhaps a repository room for “safe keeping” — I’ve not seen any of them and have gone to those back-to-school nights w/ my son. I did see reading zones with library books, computers, and subject areas — but no textbooks at all.
What always disturbed me when she was in public school were the unsourced handouts or work-sheets that came home. There wasn’t a single piece of paper that had a URL or textbook reference. Not one. Now think back to our educational experiences — we were always marked off if we left out source references. Times have changed, no one is accountable, everything is covert within the government that we are taxed on. UGH!
Does everyone know that Cursive Writing is no longer taught in school? We are doing it here and she loves knowing that she will be one of the only kids in America who can decypher cursive writing. I’ve already shown her how she will be able to read the hand-written documents from previous centuries and she thinks it’s awesome — like a secret code she’s learning. I guess it almost will be…
Why should men be responsible for doing something? Are men and women not equals in the eyes of the modern gender-neutral society? Don’t we incessantly hear the strong female roaring their independence on social media daily?
Get over it, patriarchy is dead, neutered and then murdered by feminism. No cavalry is coming to save the west.
60% of American women supported Obama and now that he, like Merkel , is aiding and abetting the foreign invasion of our American homeland via use of executive order, financial aid and international transport , many woman of both left and right -wing voting blocs will soon get to experience up close and personal just what this German young girl is suffering though.
For some reason, the old adage “be careful what you ask for,because you just might get it” comes to mind.
“Please, men of Germany. Do something!” German Teenager BANNED From Facebook For This Video Gives Horrifying Account Of Situation In Germany, Rips Merkel, Begs For German Men To Fight Muslim Invaders
“I cannot understand why they do this. But more importantly, I cannot understand why Germany is doing nothing! Why is Germany standing by, watching, and then doing nothing? Please explain, why. Men of Germany, these people are killing your children, they are killing your women. We need your protection. We are so scared, we don’t want to be frightened to go to the grocery store alone after sunset. The politicians live alone in their villas, drink their cocktails, and do nothing. They do nothing! I do not know what world they live in, but please, people, please help us! Please, do something! I cannot understand why this is happening. One day, my friend and I were walking down the street, and a group of Arabs were protesting and demonstrating. They shouted, “Allah! Allah! Allah is the one God! Kill those infidels! Allah Allah!” What should I do? Should I wear a burka? Why should I have to convert to Islam?
It’s fine if you believe in Allah, but why do you want to make everyone else believe in Allah too? I just think it would be better if there were no religion. Stop trying to make everyone else believe in your God when they do not want to.
Please, people of Germany. Do something!
When I try to tell the authorities about what has happened, they hold their hand up towards me and they say it is a problem and then ignore it. and they laugh. It is unfair. They laugh at us. They say we are dumb. They think this not only of me, but of the entire state of Germany. They don’t care about our fear. Please help us. This is an emergency! There are more and more of them.
One time in summer, the Muslims said we were sluts for walking outside in a t-shirt. Yes, we were wearing t-shirts. It’s summer!
Another day, I was wearing this. My friend and I purchased it while shopping hehe. If we feel like wearing it, we will wear it! And you Muslims have no right to physically assault or rape us for it! God willing, never in my life. You have no right to attack us because we are wearing t-shirts. You also have no right to rape.
The life of Germany has changed because these people cannot integrate. We give them so much help. We support them financially and they do not have to work. But they only want more babies and more welfare and more money. Men of Germany, please, patrol the streets and protect us. Do this for your women and your children. If you do that, I believe that we will have a chance.
This sort of action would be wonderful. We would be so grateful and thankful. So many thanks, if steadily, more men would come to protect us. We are so scared.
I am so upset about what Merkel has done.Thank you, Angela Merkel, for killing Germany! I have no more respect for you, Merkel. I do not think you know what you have done. You do not see how our lives have changed. Open your eyes! Is this normal? Should I, a 16-year old who is almost 17, be so scared to walk outside my house? No, it is not normal. You have killed Germany!
This is the truth. We are no longer allowed to walk outside. We are no longer allowed to wear our clothes. We are no longer allowed to live the German life. This is the sad truth.
I think it’s about time to end this video. I believe I have given a full account from a normal person. I hope others can see this and understand. I only want to end with one message:
Men, please, help your women. Help your children. I am so scared. My friends have the same fear. We are shocked that this has happened. I hope this video can convince you, and that this terrible events can stop.”
@I.C. I copied and sent your comment to a friend in Oklahoma (Jenni White of the Common Core Four) and she loved your rant. She plans to use it for her monthly newsletter. I identified you as a home-schooler from Virginia (actually, I just used your intro), but if you want me to give her your real name, let me know. Jenni is still active in the political sphere, but she is getting worn down by the continued battle with corruption.
Oklahoma’s Common Core Four
by Joel Gehrke June 18, 2014 4:00 AM @Joelmentum How a group of motivated mothers navigated a political swamp and repealed Common Core. How’s this for an in-kind contribution: “One time when we were in Canton, Okla., speaking to the PTO moms, they gave us a basket of homemade bread and jams and all kinds of stuff!” Jenni White, the leading activist calling for the repeal of Common Core in Oklahoma, told National Review Online. “We were in heaven!” White has spent the past four years telling Parent Teacher Organizations and anyone else who would listen that Oklahoma should not implement Common Core, the education standards that most of the country adopted in 2010. She hasn’t been working alone. “Our organization is made up of a board that just consists of four of us moms basically,” White says, referring to her cohorts Julia Seay, Lynn Habluetzel, and Joy Collins. “We have bankrolled the whole thing out of our poor husbands’ bank accounts.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/380633/oklahoma-common-core-four-joel-gehrke
@Ghost,
Jenny White is more than welcome to reprint my rant. If you have a means to contact her, I will do so. Maybe I could clean my rant up a bit. LOL I wouldn’t want my name used in an article, though, because I just don’t trust ANY government and we would probably become identified. To me, it is more important to protect my granddaughter’s right to a real education than putting my name out-there, even to legitimize that the rant came from a bonafide fed-up American.
I will say this — when my granddaughter was pulled out of public school in October 2014 (beginning Grade 3), she was reading on a First Grade level, and put into one of those Federal programs for ‘underpriviledged’ kids (her father/my son is a single parent) and she was not reading well. She hated the little books because they were boring (they were!). Her grades were B’s with some A’s but she clearly did not demonstrate to us that she understood subject material in the topics we learned of. But, oh, she was doing “just fine” — according to public school assessments. lol
After 1 year of homeschooling w/ me, using the Calvert School, she was tested in mid-July 2015 and passed with very high marks. She took the Stanford10 full battery and read on a 12th-grade level, received a 100% in both Math and Science, and only missed 1 question in the other subjects. In all, she placed in the 9th stanine in all subjects. Clearly, homeschooling has done wonders for her. That test was ‘proof’ to the State of Virginia, but her best achievements were the change in attitude to learning, and the depth of understanding in each subject — not just measured in multiple-choice questionnaires but in deep conversations.
I certainly never planned to use my retirement years educating a grandchild but I wouldn’t have it any other way, given what I know about Common Core and the propagandized system that’s been mandated. One thing’s for sure — that child is going to have some SERIOUS memories of her Grandma and the homeschool life she now has. We don’t just do ‘school’ — it has always been my belief that LIFE is one big lesson, if you choose to open your eyes and your mind to the continuum of learning. I am sure that you agree. Thanks, Maggie.
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I. C.
I am also homeschooling a grandchild.
I recently discovered a curriculum which he and I are both enjoying and which you might want to check out. It’s litersture-based, interdisciplinary, and uses project assessments instead of tests. Go to movingbeyondthebook.com and check it out, especially the parent comments, if you are interested.
I. C.
Sorry – it’s movingbeyondthepage.com not movingbeyondthebook.com.
flash, I suspect you are El Doggy incognito.
Caller, you say all women are bad..
El Doggy, I said most women, I did not say all women
not bad, EC, shallow, stupid and selfish amounting to about 60%
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He had a 10 point lesson this past week on how women should improve their husband’s home experience. I suspect he got it from a 1950’s women’s mag. He said they should be neat, quiet, bathed and perfumed…
The callers were in an uproar. He won’t yield or give them credit for working a job outside the home since he says his list was meant for homemakers…
I wonder if he wouldn’t get lynched if his show was meant for blacks, how they can improve a white man’s enjoyment of his country.
Gayle, thanks for the link, I will check this place out.
I’ve already purchased all of the textbooks for Grade 5 and am disappointed that the Science and Social Studies are pretty much a ‘repeat’ of the same lessons. This seems to be the methodology for public education. In fact, the Grade 4 textbooks I’m using in Sci and SS are repeating Grade 3 lessons, too, but in a bit more depth. We’re following along this year, and I’m adding in a bit more, but next year, I won’t follow it as intended. Since I don’t want to repeat the content yet again, I’ve already decided that we will do a great deal of Science experiments and will branch out in Social Studies. No point in wasting a student’s time with repetitive stuff.
Interesting that you are also homeschooling a grandchild. How did your decision come about? Is your grandson happy w/ homeschooling?