Social Studies and Common Core

Look at this Map of Time. Is this your version of American History? If this was what you learned would you value our country and its rich heritage? Just what is the purpose here? Look through this stuff and ask yourself, is it any wonder our children are now committing suicide in large numbers?





REWRITE THE BILL OF RIGHTS. Have these students have already mastered the history of the world the led up to the War of Independence and the efforts to secure these liberties? Are they building support for a Constitutional Convention to rewrite our Constitution? They teach that the Constitution is outdated. Remember, many states are now calling for a Constitution Convention (CON CON). What do you think would happen there after this stuff has been drilled into your child’s head?
You can see below that many parents are concerned that this Common Core curriculum is actually more about indoctrination than education.


There has been a lot of controversy lately surrounding the War on Terror. Many Americans feel as though the Patriot Act is infringing upon our privacy and other individual liberties while others feel protected by it. The government of the United States is currently revisiting the Bill of Rights. They have determined that it is outdated and may not remain in its current form much longer. 
TRULY? What is the purpose of having children rewrite the Bill of Rights? Have they been taught the world situation when this Constitution and its Bill of Rights came to be? Been introduced to the Federalist Papers? History? Literature? What ARE the purposes for these selections?


MULTICULTURALISM AND SOCIAL STUDIES

Perhaps you should read what was UNDER REVIEW for this school district to understand the purpose for all of this.

Objective: To introduce to students the conflicting narratives of different American groups (cultural/racial/religious/political/etal) in concert with the framework and foundations of traditional history to make relevant and authentic the real life experience and application of the American ideals of liberty, equality, and justice. America's conflicting narratives are inherent in a pluralistic, multicultural and evolving nation where the established and dominant interests (major political parties, with majority, males, corporations, property owning and wealthy elite and political leadership supported by a compliant middle class, traditionalists) are dedicated to maintaining a status quo that preserves their interests but is fundamentally in conflict with its national commitment to the American ideals of "liberty and Justice for all." It is only by contrasting the real with the ideal, by matching calamity with inspiration, suffering with outrage, and the worst of human indignities with the demand for utilizing fully all of our nation's potential, that students will understand and appreciate the complexity and challenge of the "American Experiment." This class is inspired by the words of Howard Zinn, "If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something If we remember that those times and places--and there are many--where people behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. Knowledge, inspiration and the capacity to exercise our human potential is a compelling basis for the study of our nation's history.

Teachers should use a wide variety of resources that include but are not limited to primary source documents such as the memoirs, letters and documents excerpts from the works of multicultural educators such as Zinn, Takaki, and Nash, materials available from top-notch online resources such as Teaching Tolerance, Digital History Reader, History Teaching Institute, PBS, A & E biography, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution and the Constitutional Rights Foundation, and music and art that gives voice to these traditionally excluded or minimized traditional history books. Such varied resources enable students to find the study of our nation's history as an inspirational, provocative, challenging and useful discipline for 21st century students. 

So, who is Howard Zinn mentioned in such glowing terms above?

http://drrichswier.com/2014/08/08/com...and why would people (like the Illinois Council of History Educators be concerned:  http://www.ilche.net/documents/ILCHE%... https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/20...

PLEASE NOTE. This is taken from ABOVE: 
"HEADED BY DAVID COLEMAN, WHO MOST CONSIDER THE ARCHITECT OF COMMON CORE, THE COLLEGE BOARD IS A PRIVATE, NONPROFIT THAT FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY HAS SET STANDARDS FOR COLLEGE ADMISSIONS. IT ESSENTIALLY DICTATES WHAT HIGH SCHOOLS NEED TO TEACH THEIR STUDENTS IN DISCIPLINES FROM MATH TO HISTORY TO ENGLISH IN PREPARING THE FOR COLLEGE. TEACHERS WHO USED TO TEACH FROM A FIVE-PAGE FRAMEWORK, NOW RECEIVE A 98-PAGE, DETAILED SET OF INSTRUCTIONS ON WHAT HISTORY SHOULD BE TAUGHT. "
Now, who is David Coleman and why is he important to Common Core and Social Studies Education? Other than now being in charge of the College Boards ($750,0000 per year) and aligning them to the "Standards" he wrote for Common Core? 


David Coleman, known as the architect of Common Core, is the son of the former president of Bennington College, Liz Coleman, graduate of the University of Chicago, a big proponent of big government and Marxist ideology. Coleman’s prior association with Bill Ayers, Barach Obama and Arne Duncan probably helped his appointment. 
Or it could be Coleman’s philosophy: “These standards are the most serious attempt this country has yet made to come to grips with those early sources of inequality.” 
He has no background as a teacher. He is a Sociologist and also president of the College Board (yearly salary $550,000 total compensation $750,000).  He will make changes to the SAT to make it more "socially just". (This should set up red alert warning flags for Home and Christian schooled children who will need to pass these tests to get into college.)
Coleman and Zimba, co-founders of the New York based GROW network, came to Chicago to produce data studies for the Chicago Anenberg Challenge (CAC) at the time Barach Obama was on the CAC Board-- brought on board by Bill Ayers and Chicago’s Superintendent of Schools, Arne Duncan--later U.S. Secretary of Education. CAC paid $2.2 million for the services of Coleman and Zimba in data studies.
Bill Ayers' was a domestic terrorist and co-founder Weatherman Movment who founded the Small School Movement. Ayers is also past vice-president of the curriculum studies division of the American Educational Research Association. Ayers’ articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, Rethinking Schools, The Nation, Educational Leadership, the New York Times and the Cambridge Journal of Education. So now you know what is going into and coming out of colleges of education.
Why would the connection to Bill Ayers be important? He and his wife, former domestic terrorist Bernadine Dorne continue writing radical manifestos and promoting their radical ideology through now mainstream education journals


Despite the terrorism


 and admitted (boasted) radicalism (anarchy)


Ayers and his wife continue to promote their ideology, writing books and speaking throughout the country


and now through their associate, David Coleman, architect of Common Core, they have achieved domination of America's education system.


Ayers hired Barach Obama to supervise $110 million for the Chicago Anenberg Project that admittedly achieved no academic improvement for the school children of Chicago. 

 Where did the money go? Chicago Public Schools where barely 1 in 4 read at grade level?







Government is a family that is meant to take care of you.











Apparently it is important for the HR department to know that you are a History/Social Justice Teacher.

You will have been prepared for equity pedagogy.



 Advantages of Multicultural Education: Teach students to critique society in the interest of social justice.
This Multicultural (socialist) Agenda is taught as righteous in colleges of education. Affective means attitudes and beliefs. “Where an affective variable refers to systemic evidence regarding individuals’ different degrees of emotions, interests, attitudes, and values affect is a fundamental aspect of being human because it plays such an integral role in human motivation and behavior...” Their intent is quite clear here that the colleges of education intend to modify your child’s attitudes and beliefs to their standards.



The Marxist Hugo Chavez is a hero of the Left. And now, he will be your child's hero as well. Under the guise of multiculturalism. 

People worked together to change this. Workers like Cesar Chavez organized the workers. People all over the country marched with them. The farmers listened. They gave the workers more pay and better homes. It is possible to improve our lives if we work together! Make connections:How are the animals in Click, Clock Moo: Cows that type like the people in "March On!"



What background information on Communism accompanied this lesson? What opinion would a child develop when exposed to this leading and biased question? What attitude will they grade on his/her psycho-social assessment?


Texas online progressive curriculum Cscope from K-12 is pushing a progressive ideology that undermines America’s Heritage while promoting a positive view of Islam and Communism. Above is a question from a High School World History Assessment Test.
A-is to be the correct answer.  I never thought I would live to see the day where our Texas schools would promote the idea in our children minds that the proven failure of a Totalitarian Communist form of  governing as something to be viewed as a SUCCESS.
Not only have the Communist takeovers proven to be TRAGIC AND EVIL, but the fact that you have those in our Texas education system promoting this ideology as something positive is also TRAGIC and EVIL.
Communism has contributed to the death of up to 100 Million people.  There is no FREEDOM under Communism. Will they be taught this?


Does this sound like an open minded discussion of Immigration? What is so difficult to understand about the term ILLEGAL immigrants? Who controls the wealth and resources of a society?


Group Identity and Social Class


Do you remember politics being a part of your curriculum? I read sweet little stories and went home happy. What is this doing to our children? 5th grade???????


Liberal or Conservative?  




Righty or Lefty? Lifeboat exercise. Don’t you love it that your child must think about who should live and who should die.




What is the real purpose of this text?
For others, opportunity means the chance to reunite families, get an education, or live in peace. For all Americans the ideal of opportunity raises important questions. Has the United States offered equal opportunity to all of its citizens? Or have some enjoyed more opportunity to pursue their dreams than have others? Is it enough to “level the playing field” so that everyone has the same chance to succeed in life? Or should special efforts be made to expand opportunities for the least fortunate among us?


Political Spectrum Practice Questions

How well did the German scientists in the 20th century adhere to the key habits of scientific thinking?


So you see how children are mobilized as social activists and teachers will actually encourage them to march and protest (time out of the classroom) on social issues they approve.



Students will present the project to the appropriate authority agency or board.

9/11 Homework  Morbid?



Read this First Grade Reading assignment.









Your children are trained to become social activists. They are trained through this Voices Democracy series to advocate solutions to social problems beginning in the first grade.
First Grade engagement in social activism.

Social values that unite us as a country. Then you identify those social obstacles and with group problem solving and social justice address those issues. Use Emotional words when they write a call to action.
They should include emotional words to get readers to feel so strongly about the problem that they want to do what is being asked of them.
Parents may be upset or angry by this sentence?
So how does one GRADE these attributes: Social Viewpoint and Social Problem Solving? Or are these questions to guide one in how to adjust those attitudes?
Pearson owns these business and publishers. If you have books by these publishers you have Common Core. Whoever controls the textbooks and the curriculum controls the future of our country.



And what is the ultimate Agenda here?