DELPHI TECHNIQUE, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT CONVINCED THE GULLIBLE NATION TO BUY INTO COMMON CORE

So, what is the Delphi Technique? Let the Chamber of Commerce tell you.

According to Leadership and Project Management Training with its Chamber Series-- obviously a technique that one must consider the ethics of using. Possibly unethical?
















"The gist of it is that the technique is used to reach a predetermined conclusion. In other words, to manipulate the group. It has evidently become popular within politics to give the impression that public input is actually having an impact on decisions when in reality, the decision has been made already, and the group is being guided, unknowingly, toward that end."

That does sound unethical, and to be sure maybe we should look at the definition of 'ethical'. I think we all know and understand what is and isn't ethical behavior. It's doing the right thing for the right reasons. However, the actual definition of the word places it in the context of the standards of the profession.

There is an old axiom that the only difference between motivation and manipulation is intent, and I think that is the issue here. In our world of project management, we strive to act in the most ethical manner possible at all times. There are ethical ways to employ the Delphi Technique and there are unethical ways to use it to manipulate data and people. Therefore, the technique itself is neither ethical nor unethical. Techniques and tools do not differentiate between right and wrong, people do!"
Consider the difference between motivation and manipulation. But of course, the ends justify the means. Money was surely never the motivating factor...
That nearly $2,000,000 donated by Bill and Melinda Gates to the Chamber of Commerce Foundation to support the Common Core Standards had nothing to do with it their support and complicity in the adoption of Common Core!









They didn’t really process communities to support this agenda without knowing the results  of pilots and knowing the consequences of those Standards, Curriculum, and Assessments  on a trial group. Surely they would not make the entire nation of children guinea pigs,  would they?




















What!? The University of Florida might use the Delphi Technique?









The National Governor’s Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers only have the best interest of our children at heart and they would surely make sure there had been enough research done on Common Core before subjecting all children in this nation to a curriculum!  No? Gates money entered even here?

And who is Florida’s Chief State Officer? Pam Stewart. Oh, her B.S. degree in elementary education, her Masters in Counseling and certification in Educational Leadership surely qualifies her to determine the curriculum for all children in Florida. We know she is supported on the Board by the guy (Olenick) who headed the legal defense for Jeb Bush in the A-Plus (Goals 2000) Education Plan.











In Dothan, we were processed through Delphi at Northview High School 
and the eventual product wound up with hiring someone to rewrite the Board’s Bylaws and changing education from SEQUENTIAL learning as our local board then required to THEMATIC INSTRUCTION. Oh, yes, phonics was banned because it took drill and repetition to teach children phonemic awareness and as you can see, 21st century learners “balk at rote learning and memorizing.” Just in case you didn't know.And now, called "21st-century skills”, it is generally used to refer to certain core “competencies” such as “collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem- solving that advocates believe schools need to teach to help students thrive in today's
world.”







"Skills based" learning rather than knowledge based.

You must believe that “21st century learners” “balk at rote learning and memorizing…”

































This is why students do not learn to sound out words after learning Phonics rules or learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division tables. It is now against the rules to use DIRECT INSTRUCTION because they prefer INFERENTIAL-- guessing, estimating and risk taking are considered skills -- and they call that learning. Project based group “learning” is for sociologists to succeed in making us all a part of a co-operative (socialism) undermining individualism. It isn't for academic excellence.

Thank you Goals 2000. Thank you A Plus. Your PR and Delphi got the bylaws for our local schools rewritten and there went traditional education.



























They say that Interdisciplinary project-based, inquiry-based learning is evident throughout the school. Interpreting Eduspeak that means THEMATIC INSTRUCTION, with subjects
INTEGRATED into the lessons not SEQUENTIAL, yet sequential learning, direct
instruction and old methods of Mathematics got us to the moon.

Just so you see this is nothing new. The same complaints as met Walter Johnson and his Project Method are coming forth from conservatives today. They then claimed that the specter of colletivism was sneaking into the schools and they had to be “sentinels” to protect capitalist America.


Guess what? These collectivists now determine the Standards for your schools, write the curriculum, and administer the tests collecting data on your children. Who are you going
to believe? Bill Gates or your lying eyes?