Rotten to the Core.

That CORE learning plan is. Interesting developments Nationwide as the true grip of this ridiculous money train, because that is essentially what it is, becomes apparent. And it's not just in the test scores that administrators poo pooo even the very brightest learners with an official wave off and a " don't worry over your children's seemingly lower scores, that's the adjustment period, it will get better". No, it's even more evident at the homework tables across America. where parents are engaged in evening classes that they neither enrolled for or would have chosen to do at dinner hour every night.....and I know I am not the only one.

I agree with the campaign today to keep your children home if you disagree with the CORE and would like it and all of it's shackles removed from the arms and legs of our teachers and children.  I disagree with naysayers of the movement who tried to point out the hypocrisy of the children missing a day of "instruction" or participating in something adults need to work out. Uhh, I guess the irony fails them that our children and schools are all paying the price of adults who flipped the classroom around to make money or the fact that you can sit in school all day and not learn a damn thing as long as a certain percentage pass that standard test in April....which is our point. And furthermore, if I am going to have to teach my children at home every night just to keep up with those tests, then you better believe I can do it during the day, on our time, and take out of the coffers the federal funding this district receives every time they report my child as attending.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/53586365/ns/local_news-rochester_ny/t/common-core-opponents-keep-children-out-school-monday/#.UopnTHn9zng

See I take the message of the movement and reflect on the fact that at the end of the day, I can decide whether or not the CORE affects us.  See, I know that change or no change from the State Ed. Dept., I can take back control on my own. Any Parent can, and many do. Home Schooling and Schools with out walls or nontraditional classrooms for educating our children have proven their own success, and Pre-date the school houses of today by centuries in some cultures. Un Schooling your children, simply put is to not educate them the way the new Federal Institution of Learning would have done. Beating our kids into monosyllabic robot carbon copies of each other. So their teachers keep their jobs, so the school keep & gets more dollar$ and All to make them the best students in the World! Better than China says their test results are....

Well you know what? I could care less what a country that manipulates it's own currency, government, and people says. A country that decides how many children you can have and which color jumpsuit and factory those kids will work in is not who Team Reid is competing with. I find it fascinating that the supporters of "competing with the world" argument for the Common CORE forget that all the WORLD continues to send their youth here on Student Visa's to get their degrees from our shitty schools...go figure.

Secondly and more importantly, Making My Child the BEST? Let me set you straight, and let you know THAT is not your job - I don't recall you creating nor birthing these children, so you need not fret over their position in the World. Unless you plan to fund their journey....Thought so.

Point. Let Parents worry over their kids futures and Worldliness, Let Teachers worry about Teaching, and State and Federal legislators....go back to what ever it is you say you do that you are in effect, not doing or voting on not doing. Because we surely are not coming in your office and redesigning it for you based on our standards...resulting in your own dismissal :)



But this kid makes a great point too! 4:00 in is my favorite part!

http://youngcons.com/legit-tennessee-high-school-senior-decimates-common-core/