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If It Weren’t So ‘Sad’ It Would Be ‘Hilarious’: Educators Continue to Reveal and Blast ‘Common Core Standards’

Mar. 18, 2013 3:00pm Tiffany Gabbay

Last Friday evening, Glenn Beck continued his in-depth look into the disturbing Common Core Standards implemented in America’s public schools as well as the controversial curriculum management system sweeping Texas schools dubbed CSCOPE.

With a Common Core language arts program that has, as Beck noted, included lyrics alluding to San Francisco’s federal reserve bank and a stated goal of “strengthening federal, environmental, energy and transportation management,” it is no wonder parents and teachers alike are up in arms about the contentious program.

So is Common Core “dumbing down” students? Beck unequivocally believes it is and quipped that “the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has little or no more value than the phone book in Common Core.”

“The curriculum should not be the coverage of content, but rather the discovery of content,” said one Common Core spokeswoman of the system.

Watch below as Beck looks into some of Common Core’s leadership, including someone actually endorsed by former Weather Underground leader, domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.

“This just looks insane to me,” Beck blasted.

He continued the program by hosting a panel of educators who are currently struggling against the system.

“They are trying to put the roof on before the foundation is even laid,” one teacher noted.

“When student-centered learning takes the place of instruction from a teacher you are simply playing around in the sandbox,” another educator pointed out as she explained Common Core’s “fuzzy” method of teaching.

The panel also said that if it were not so “sad” it would be “hilarious” as Common Core is forging ahead without offering any empirical evidence that the system works. “And we are buying it,” one educator said.

The teachers expressed their upset over the fact that government has forced on faculty and students to adopt Common Core. They maintain that the executive branch is to blame and that state legislators were not included on votes for Common Core.

Another disturbing element of Common Core can be found in its data collecting. So what exactly is data collecting and how does it effect those subjected to Common Core?

The panel of teachers and Beck explained that, ultimately, the Department of Education is gathering information on, aside from test scores, student’s “nicknames, religion, political affiliation, address…extracurricular activities… and bus stop times.”

The teachers feel like they are simply “data drones” one teacher said soberly. The teachers also said that they have felt intimidated by government officials pushing Common Core.

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squatch6
Posted on April 23, 2013 at 10:05pm
In depth research by Karen Bracken. Common Core: Subversive Threat to Education presented by Karen Bracken http://youtu.be/0X0EFeH25bw

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LandNSeaTours
Posted on April 12, 2013 at 2:37am
Instead of taking our kids out on fishing charters, it appears we should be loading them up and moving them out of the USA! As if the world isn’t difficult enough…..we had to vote Obama in again! Sounds to me like there has been some dumbing down going on in this country for quite some time.

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uscollins
Posted on March 26, 2013 at 10:25pm
Hope a panel can debate the published content of Common Core standards below. My kids school directed me to this…not.

http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/download-the-standards

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- Anamah
  Posted on March 28, 2013 at 7:09pm
  Am I wrong or Heritage Foundation is totally for Common Core Standards implemented in America’s public schools? Maybe I have something wrong on this…
  
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G-WHIZ
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 10:21am
COMMOM-CORE means your kids are OWNED BY THE FED-GOVT!!

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kathy@49
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:13pm
Last year for my 15 year old grandson in public schools. Home schooling for him from now on. He has not bought into the indoctrination so far and I don’t want him to be exposed to it anymore.

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- Xanderson
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 11:58pm
  You have a very fortunate grandson, Kathy! He will be better off for your love, interest and time!
  
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freedom_gurl35
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:37pm
I agree that teachers feel like data drones. I do. The big push this school year is “data”: data to determine how students have mastered a skill, data to determine how quickly students catch on to something, data to determine how effectively I have facilitated yes, facilitated – not taught) a skill, etc. Not to mention, the End of Course and “Common Exam” tests required as part of the Race to the Top money my state was granted by the federal government. I don’t have time for anything else, because I have to collect, analyze the data, and then determine what I must do to amend activities to ensure students “get it”.

I didn’t sign on to this when I started teaching.

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MarvinMr
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:26pm
And pi equals 3. It’s not fair that our students should have to remember all them decimal numbers. It’s not like it’s needed for anything important.

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TEXASCHEESEHEAD
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:05pm
My teacher friend in a San Antonio, TX school district told me how his department was tasked to review the CSCOPE program. Over a dozen teachers, all in the department, voted against it. The principal overruled them and is moving to implement for next year. This is education tyranny and must be stopped! Texans need to contact their state legislators now!

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- Bikkiboo
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:25pm
  I often volunteered to review books when our school system adopted new ones. They chose new ones in different subjects each year on a regular cycle. Teachers and parents all reviewed the books from various book companies. We rarely got the ones we voted on either. I never saw the final votes to know who actually picked the winners.
  
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repairsea
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:34pm
That is why I worked two jobs to put my son through a private Catholic school. BTW – the muslims and hindus sent their children to the same private Catholic school. They knew their children would get the best education the world has to offer.

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- Melika
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:12pm
  Whoa there buddy, I’m not sure you’re allowed to post pro-Catholic propaganda on this site.
  
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- Worldsapart
  Posted on April 9, 2013 at 4:01am
  Lol, Melika. It’s ok, I’m anti-Mormon as a religion, but my kids will one day be going to what basically amounts to Mormon schools, even though they’re public, they’re still pretty great schools. Fair and Balanced, and all that jazz. ;)
  
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- Gennie Raider
  Posted on April 12, 2013 at 12:19am
  I have two children in a Catholic school and common core is moving right in next year. I am exploring my options now.
  
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denkat56
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 5:42pm
Hitler once said give all your children and by the age of eight they will all be mine. Now here comes Obama with his core teaching plan. What’s the difference, its our own government teaching socialism, and communism in our schools, not the real lessons of math, reading etc.. an uninformed public is the same as clay in the hands of Obama, Mao, Lenin, hitler, and Ayers and his wife.

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dosdelgados
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 5:15pm
DoD schools are adopting common core. I drove over to the administrative offices and told them my kids will attend private school or home school.

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MistyMountainGranny
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:34pm
Bill “I wake up everyday saying, this will be the day we start the revolution. This will be the day we end Capitalism” Ayers has his communist hands all over this. It is flat out brainwashing. And progressive agenda. Our schools are for learning. Not so the far left, who is in control of our schools to push their agenda.

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RAGEAGAINSTTHEMACHINE
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:11pm
This is neither hilarious or sad. It is absolutely maddening AND it’s illegal! Lots of info out there Glenn’s show is not providing. People, this is THE most important thing we need to address NOW!

http://www.aim.org/special-report/terrorist-professor-bill-ayers-and-Obamas-federal-school-curriculum/

http://www.scribd.com/doc/93067101/controlling-education-from-the-top-why-the-common-core-is-bad-for-America

http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/13412-whos-behind-the-common-core-curriculum

I could continue…
GET INVOLVED! Your kids are out of school? What about your Grandkids? This is YOUR future, this is America!

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- RuthAnn
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 12:27pm
  Thank you for the sites. They were great information and the footnotes at the end were unbelievable. Scary stuff to say the least! We all need to share what we learn, the more we know the easer it will be to can change things!
  
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762x51
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:04pm
““They are trying to put the roof on before the foundation is even laid,” one teacher noted.”

A more accurate analogy would be they are building the walls, guard towers, concertina wire fence and minefields before the prisoners are transferred in.

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Hmschlmom
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:47pm
Reason 7,406 to homeschool…

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- DEConservative
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:56pm
  Our older kids are finishing their last year in public schools and our youngest will never see the inside of one.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:00pm
  Better start looking at the IB, International Baccalaureate, program. It is a socialist indoctrination program partnered with the U.N..
  
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- Caniac Steve
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:01pm
  but remember with this common core work it also requires states to force it on the homeschoolers as well..so they can control ALL students and kids…hmm remember when that happened last ? like in Nazi Germany,japan,china,Vietnam …they indoctrinate the children…
  
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swampthing
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:43pm
“If we continue to send our children to Caesar for their education, we need to stop being surprised when they come home as Romans.” – Voddie Baucham, ‘Whoever Controls The Schools, Controls The World’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L4dR-A5nj8

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rp454
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:34pm
The more I hear about this CSCOPE program the more evil it sounds. I live in Texas, but all my children are grown. However, I fear for the kids currently receiving this indoctrination. Some of the examples I have heard are; referring the Boston Tea Party members as terrorists, referring to the 9/11 hijackers as “freedom fighters” and having some girls dress in Hijabs and Burkas. I mention the last item because talking about Christianity in school curriculum is strictly prohibited. Another thing that smells is the parents are not allowed to view the lesson material in direct violation of Texas law. If I currently had a little one in school, you better believe my wife and I both would be screaming bloody murder.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:31pm
  “…referring to the 9/11 hijackers as “freedom fighters” and having some girls dress in Hijabs and Burkas”
  
  You don’t see the ACLU filing suits, or the Atheists threatening anything when that happens either.
  
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dmforman
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:34pm
Wish the Blaze would interview the college professors who are on the common core committee who refuse to sign off on it, instead of just giving Beck’s opinion and that of the four guests. We need to arm people with understanding why the Common Core Standards are bad, because at many local levels, people are being sold a bill of goods at how great Common Core is for their child. I heard it this weekend while at a homeschool conference from publishers of curriculum that also sell to schools. Not one of the people touting the good had read the standards, but are telling people how good they are.

Please give other opinoins other than Beck’s as we have already heard his fears. Citizens need to be armed with facts and not just what Glenn Beck says.

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MistyMountainGranny
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:33pm
Bill “I wake up every day thinking, this will b the day we start the revolution. This will be the day we bring down Capitalism” Ayers has his communist hands all over this and yet he is still as stealth as ever. This is flat out brainwashing. Our schools used to teach reading, writing and arithmetic. Now they teach polical correctness…. communism in disguise.

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- 762x51
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:07pm
  Absolutely right Granny.
  
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- happ77
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:19pm
  I wake up every day thinking this will be the day
  American tanks will be circling the White House.
  
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Sharon Rose
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:30pm
I tink these evil libs lay awake at night thinking up more crap to destroy our great country, enough is enough.

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marybethelizabeth
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:26pm
Mr. Beck is lying about so much of this.

The data is collected in aggregate. It’s not individual.

He’s wrong about the math.

He’s wrong about language arts.

What’s wrong with providing real world education? Eventually children need to get jobs.

The tests are difficult; more like the tests you see in those articles about what school was like 100 years ago. Children will have to be very knowledgeable to be able to score high on them.

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- Granny67
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:47pm
  Is he lying about paarents not being able to view it? Because if they don’t have full access, nothing else matters, it’s evil.
  
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- COFemale
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:48pm
  Since Glenn has a 99% successful rate in predicting what things will happen, but not necessarily when, I think I will go with Glenn’s truth instead of some lame paid hack from Media Matters or other Soro’s funded stealing organization.
  
  If you think you are making one iota of a difference in people’s views on this site, you are more arrogant and a moron than I first thought. I really don’t know why you bother.
  
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- John655
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:48pm
  So you are a teacher? (God help us all) Please explain how Glenn is wrong. You are just making assertions without providing any data.
  
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- DEConservative
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:54pm
  That’s so untrue. I have seen the data collection and it is indeed individual. And the tests, what garbage. They’re “difficult” because you test kids on things they haven’t even learned yet. Case in point, the Delaware DCAS system, which is heavily embedded with Common Core, uses a system that gets progressively harder as the test moves along and actually finds the failures in the kids…then it determines whether the child is “proficient”. Neither here nor there, it’s not about the mechanics of the test or how “difficult” it is, it’s about what children are learning. Today’s schools are HEAVILY invested in ignoring history prior to the 1900′s. They throw the obligatory nod to the Founders and they cover slavery of course…but there is little if any discussion of any history beyond that until late in High School. Instead, they focus on current events and massive unwieldy testing instead of concepts.
  
  They try to cram as much as they can into the kids without establishing any kind of structural foundation and NOW, they want Kindergarten too…because “parents aren’t teaching kids well enough”…sorry MarybethElizabeth but you are completely full of crap.
  
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- Obama Snake Oil Co
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:36pm
  The teachers were the messagers, Beck was the reporter.
  
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- 338lapua
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:07pm
  It just amazes me marybeth, you drop in here, drop a bomb and then drive away. Why do you even bother? No one in here thinks you are anything other than a FLAKE. Why don’t you tell us all what EXACTLY Mr Beck is lying about? I would love to check the facts with an objective source. It sounds like you have an agenda, prove me wrong….
  
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- freedom_gurl35
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:18pm
  No, the data collection is designed to track students from kindergarten through high school graduation. I should know: I teach Common Core ELA.
  
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- freedom_gurl35
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:28pm
  Plus, there’s a big difference between real world education, and dumbed down education. Common Core doesn’t provide a solid learning foundation in reading and mathematics, so learning “real world” stuff in high school doesn’t matter because the students don’t have the fundamentals.
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:26pm
Common core is straight socialism in action. The government is pushing a curriculum that will make worker-bees out of American school children and dumb them down until manual labor is their only recourse. Meanwhile the elite’s children will be learning the correct way and they will maintain the family’s leaderships. Propaganda will come with Common Core’s curriculum. A communist murderer has promoted (Ayers) this curriculum so you know automatically that it will not be good for American kids. Obama is moving his socialist agenda a little faster now.

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- MistyMountainGranny
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 5:52pm
  Bill Ayers…One of the most dangerous men in America. He really needs to be exposed. Thanks for trying Breitbart, rest in peace…. He never should have gone to dinner with that snake
  
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SteelJewel
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:16pm
I watched this show, it moved me to action, I hope it moves you too.

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- Sharon Rose
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:31pm
  All parents should see this and act!
  
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