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Last Thursday in Towson, Maryland,
concerned parent Robert Small was physically
removed from a public forum for daring to interrupt
Baltimore County Schools Superintendent Dallas Dance during the
so-called question-and-answer portion of a school board
meeting. …When
Small stood up to tell the audience that he believed the
introduction of the new Common Core curriculum would compromise
education standards, he was approached by an off-duty police
officer working as a security guard and forcibly removed from
the auditorium. He was subsequently handcuffed, and
charged with second-degree assault of a police officer. Though
the charges have reportedly been
dropped, the incident remains a shocking reminder of the
oppressive nature of Common Core and
the liberal educational establishment charged with enforcing it.[Please
see this
video] … As he is being
taken out, Small says, Dont stand for this. You are sitting
here like cattle. You have questions. … Just before being
removed from the room he asks… Is this America?Its certainly what passes for
America when those in authority want to control the flow of
information.
Examiner.com writer Ann Miller,
who was present at the meeting, described the
process as one in which Superintendent Dance added insult to
injury by screening, omitting, and editing parents
questions.…Another parent in attendance sent
columnist Michelle Malkin an email corroborating
that assessment, insisting the meeting was little more than a
rah-rah session touting the greatness of Common Core,
followed by the pre-selected questions. … The description of
Small and the incident?He was just a dad
trying to get some information about his childrens
education and ended up in jail for not sitting down and
shutting up. I was there and it was absolutely chilling to
watch this man silenced.Chilling might be an
understatement. Small was held until 3 a.m. after being charged.
He faced a fine of $2,500 and up to 10 years in prison
for the alleged assault, as well as a fine of $2,500 and up to
six months in jail for disturbing a school operation. The police
report contended Small attempted to push the officer away when
he was first confronted.On Friday, Small spoke with
the Baltimore Sun. Look, I am being manhandled and shut
down because I asked inconvenient questions, Small told the
paper on Friday. Why wont they allow an open forum where there
can be a debate? We are told to sit there and be lectured to
about how great Common Core is.The greatness of Common Core
deserves to be questioned…. Common Core was created
and copyrighted by two Washington, D.C., lobbying
organizations. …. Most of the creative work was implemented by
ACHIEVE, Inc., a progressive non-profit group largely
underwritten by uber leftist
Bill Gates,
via the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The series of
educational standards was put together without any input from
state legislators, teachers, local school boards or parents….The standards themselves are
equally dubious. Cursive will no longer be taught. … Rote
memorization will be greatly reduced. Great literature will be
eliminated in favor technical material, such as manuals, that
enhance the computer-centric method stressed by Common Core….
Social justice will be stressed, along with redistributionist
economic theories and radical environmentalism.Yet the most disturbing aspect of
the program by far is the reality that it paves the way for the
acquisition of an unprecedented level
of personal information by schools.… Once the program is
fully implemented, those sensors will be used to
provide constant, parallel streams of data used with data
mining techniques and self-report measures to
examine frustration, motivation/flow, confidence, boredom, and
fatigue of children….Its gets worse. … A November
2010 report released
by the Institute of Education Sciences as guidance for the
aforementioned State Longitudinal Database Systems revealed that
Sensitive Information will also be acquired from children….
[“political affiliations or beliefs”, “religious practices”,
etc.]The data mining of Sensitive
Information ostensibly requires written parental consent. But
as Mary Black, curriculum director for Freedom Project
Education explains,
that requirement can be circumvented…..Yet getting parents on board may
be even simpler than that. The extraction of such information
could be heavily sold to unsuspecting parents under the auspices
that it constitutes a critical component of their childs
educational development and success….Perhaps all of the above
explains why Superintendent Dance required pre-submitted
questionsand why Robert Small was hustled out of the meeting
when it became apparent he had the potential to steer it
dangerously off-script. It is a script largely designed to
obscure the reality that the Common Core is not merely a
one-size-fits-all effort to federalize education. It is arguably
one of the most egregious invasions of
personal privacy ever perpetrated by the federal government, in
collaboration with duplicitous state officials and profit-hungry
businesses.
Article printed from FrontPage
Magazine:
http://frontpagemag.com
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/challenge-common-core-at-your-own-peril/See also
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