OBAMACORE PART IV

This is part IV of the essay on Obamacore by:

              Gamaliel Isaac

I do thank Memo for allowing me to publish his thoughts and research on Common Core.

I do believe that Common Core indoctrination is quite dangerous to our children and to the future of our Constitutional Republic.   Our very liberty is at stake.  

These people will stop at nothing.   The recent death of Mandela has made a hero out of a violent criminal.  Now our president orders all flags in this nation to be flown at half staff.   Please do your research on the evils of the ANC, the communist organization that Mandela formed.  They were known for "necklacing" people that disagreed with them. This was a procedure that involved putting a tire around the neck of an opponent, filling it with gasoline, torching it and thus burning the person alive.    This was to shut down any opposition to their tactics.   I do remember seeing photos of people burning.   His wife Winnie would justify this way of getting rid of opposition and using the fear to shut up any opposition.   She led this torture and death when Mandela was in prison.

Violence has been the way of fomenting change in many countries around the world.   It is happening all over Africa today.   It happened in Venezuela, Cuba and many other countries.   The majority of the people suffered while the leaders became rich.   Communism/socialism has never worked and it will NEVER work.   The redistribution process destroys all initiative to better oneself.  Why work hard if you will not gain anything from your effort?   

I know people who lived in and loved South Africa.   They tried to stay there, but the AIDS, crime and leftist hatred made it impossible to live there.   These people gave up everything and moved to the United States.  It was not worth living in a country that destroyed all initiative and where people live in fear.

Is Common Core Data Collection Dangerous?

                President Obama and Arne Duncan have both said they want a  cradle to career data system tracking kids.  Attitudes tracked by Common Core include:

1. Political affiliations or beliefs of the student or parent;

2. Mental and psychological problems of the student or the student’s family;

3. Sex behavior or attitudes;

4. Illegal, anti-social, self-incriminating, and demeaning behavior;

5. Critical appraisals of other individuals with whom respondents have close family relationships;

6. Legally recognized privileged or analogous relationships, such as those of lawyers, physicians, and ministers;

7. Religious practices, affiliations, or beliefs of the student or the student’s parent

These attitudes are stored in a central database.  The fact that Common Core collects a lot more information than could possibly be helpful for improving the curriculum is raising concerns that attitude modification plans of the Common Core creators are not limited to motivating students. 

A February 2013 USDOE report discusses measuring student attitudes, beliefs, and behavior.  In addition it lists desired competencies or improvement of attitudes such as “appreciation of diversity”.  One competency it lists is “recognizing bias in sources” which is a very subjective competency.

The Obama administration has already used the IRS to harass conservative groups, which raises the concern that parents of children who don't recognize conservative sources as biased might be harassed as well.   One can imagine a scenario where a child who has some reservations about Islam is labeled racist and his parents are determined to be the source of his racism.   Perhaps separation of the child from the negative influence of his parents might be seen as a solution to the problem.

 Common Core Literature and Writing books by Zaner-Bloser teach social activism to six year old children in first grade.   Children are taught how to manipulate others by getting them angry with emotional words.   Reading about this I can't help but think how the Obama administration manipulates Americans with emotional words to get them angry at Republicans.   An example that comes to mind is Obama's accusation against Republicans that they were holding the government hostage when they blocked funding for Obamacare.   A similar example of public manipulation was when the Obama administration blocked access to veteran memorials in order to make the public angry at the Republicans.

                

Studies have shown that students from fatherless parent families are less likely to be motivated to stay in school than those from two parent families.  If the government wants to motivate students they are more likely to accomplish their goal if instead of collecting personal data on students, they reconsider welfare policies that have been shown to lead to the proliferation of single parent families and antisocial behavior.

Is a Single Curriculum better than Multiple Curricula?

The final question I will consider here is whether one single common curriculum is a good idea.  Students have different abilities.  Some thrive in challenging environments while others perform better in more laid back environments. 

Problems of a single curriculum become problems for everyone and there is reason to believe that the experimental approaches of Common Core are problematic.  Another problem of a single common curriculum is that it makes possible indoctrination by the Federal government on a massive scale.  There are already signs of government indoctrination in Common Core texts that extol the virtues of Obama and Islam.  Common Core blames terrorism on low self esteem.

 The Common Core approved text book World History devotes an entire chapter to promoting  the virtues of Islam and has anti-Israel propaganda spread throughout the book.  State Rep. Ritch Workman told Fox News that  “kids are going to take this book as gospel and believe that Christians and Jews were murderous barbarians and thank God the Muslims came along and the world is great.” 

The Common Core approved book Barack Obama by Jane Sutcliffe indoctrinates children that whites mistreat black people and are racist and therefore didn't want to vote for 'Barack', and only Barack can make the country better.

The Common Core Science Curriculum teaches children that humans are dangerous to the planet, that man made global warming is an accepted incontrovertible fact even though it is not and that government action is required to fix global warming even though the taxes the Obama administration would like to impose on carbon dioxide producers would have a negligible effect on global warming. 

                The focus of a good curriculum should be to teach critical thinking instead of indoctrination.

How to Really Improve Education

Obvious steps are remove legislation that prevents discipline in the classroom and to not level the playing field.  Legislators should not impose a common curriculum that makes all schools the same.  Legislators should not interfere with school choice so that parents can use school vouchers to send children to the best schools for their children.  Legislators should reconsider welfare policies that lead to badly behaved youth.  Our government should step back and allow the free market of education to work without imposing restrictions on what teachers can teach and without passing laws that make it impossible for teachers and principals to bring peace to the classroom.