I retired from teaching 7 years ago, after 20 years in education, for several reasons, one of which was that the Progressives had completely taken over public education. I taught American History to 11th graders. The textbook I was to teach from was ridiculously slanted left: half a chapter on the American Civil War, 1 chapter on WWI, 2 pages on the Spanish-American War, on 3 chapters on Progressivism, 3 chapters on the New Deal, 1 chapter on WWII, lots of information on LBJ, Nixon was the anti-Christ, the usual leftist views on Vietnam, etc.

I usually assigned the textbooks to the students because I was required to do so, then taught from my own notes and my own materials. Until the last few years, I had an assistant principal that did not concern himself with what I was doing and so I taught American History, not Revised American History. The last few years I taught, though, I had a new assistant principal who was a dyed-in-the-wool Progressive. The woman hounded me like a coon dog on the scent. I was reprimanded several times for not using the textbook, subjected to unannounced observations, and once suspended without pay for 2 days.

Common Core is the Progressive's wet dream. It does not teach any higher thinking skills, no extended thought processes, no critical thinking. It turns out nice, stupid automatons who will not question TPTB. It destroys any interest in life-long learning, because learning under Common Core is so tediously not fun.

I don't know how much this adds to the discussion, but I want to add my conviction that public education is broken ... has been broken for some time. There is no quick fix; I don't believe it can actually be fixed at all. At this time, charter schools or private schools are a parent's best bet.

As an ex-professional musician, I am offended. Especially my ears are offended. Even that old commie folk singer Pete Seeger who wrote the song is offended and spinning in his grave. There should be a law that anyone not able to carry a tune should not be allowed to sing in public!

Somebody needs to take a hammer to someones head and try to knock some sence in there, but liberal/union pukes are the same worldwide. They tell you what they want you to know and it usually is a lie, like Obama. If they really want to get to you, then its for the children and no-body denies the children. Then tried that lie last year in Arizona, but we knew better and voted them down..

Well will this reach a critical mass and cause people to fight back. My wife and I have a small 2 bedroom rental property. We pay over 2,000.00 in school taxes and a total of over 4,000.00 a year in total taxes. We had to fight to get it lowered to these amounts. I am in PA. and this is really getting me fired up.

As I am reading my way through "The Stones Cry Out" the question in the back of my mind is this: Why didn't this story of Pol Pot get pounded into my head when I was a student in public schools? I know all about Hitler. Pol Pot's reign of terror is almost a current event, relatively speaking, because it is so recent. And, in my opinion it is equally evil. Yet, not a peep on it. Why?

Last night I was discussing it with a Vietnamese friend of mine when it hit me. Perhaps the reason almost nobody seems to know this story is because it was perpetrated by Communists. The rhetoric Pol Pot subjected his people to - things they would say to little children while they literally starved them to death while having them build roads with their bare hands - is so much like things the left says today it gives me chills. I find it highly disturbing, actually.

Pete Seeger wrote that song, and he was a communist. I'm sure he's rolling in his grave with her rendition too.

whoa. Ohio is the fulcrum for this war

This is definitely representative of what is happening in Ohio schools (as well as across the country), and has been for 15 years or more. 15 years ago we had Maslow group therapy and group hypnosis on all classes in grade schools here, instead of academics. We had history teachers teaching kids they had "rights" with no mention of responsibilities. We have ongoing values clarification in required health classes. It leaves one asking, "Where's the academics!"
These teachers are brainwashed, either by the colleges where they get their free Masters degrees or by their unions. Our local union leaders once admitted to me they were turning children against their parents, because THEY thought it was best for them. Kids are taught, "There is no I in team." - at which point I gave our daughter "Anthm" to read. K just talked to the father of a 7 year old the other day, who said he could not understand why his daughter suddenly acted to disrespectful to her family - I filled him in..Teachers and even administrators are all in for this collectivist agenda. I thank Tom DeWeese (Ohio guy) of American Policy Center for letting me know 15 years ago.we were facing a nationwide agenda. Actually it is UN driven at this point. Kids will be taught to embrace UN Agenda 21, and already learn property rights must go.
Yeah, I too started out the 60s as an anti-Vietnam liberal, while my grounded brother told me another Civil War was in our future. He read history more than I did, but being curious, I started reading history. Mao did it for me, I began to see the agenda around me, I began to learn that McCarthy was right, there were commies in the government and other professions, trying to turn the US. I should have known, living in North Dakota in the early 60s, my Dad moved us to Texas, after he felt overwhelmed by the scope of an active CPUSA up there at the time. I hated Johnson, still do, and that also helped wake me up.
Believe me, what you see on the excellent post by overmanwarrior is not just Ohio, it is coming for your kids as well, and Common Core is their hammer.

why even bother staying there to hear anything she had to say much less record her.

My daughter and son-in-law began home schooling. My grand children are excelling. Just a little love and care is all it takes. I wish I would have started learning when I should have. Never to late.

A hammer can be a lethal weapon, and is certainly a symbol of force. These two ugly slobs, maybe unwittingly, are advocating the use of force on the American people.

I first read Atlas Shrugged in 1966, and twice since.
This gave me the ability to recognize the collectivist messages smuggled (Ayn Rand's term) into the minds of Americans using music. I notice just recently that the average American is becoming aware of this. The song "This Land Is
Your Land," Or was it "Our." Regardless, this song totally discredited the concept of private property.

Educationists are the most stupid people in the academic world. Add to this corruption and you get the picture.

OMG!!! Was she drunk???

She forgot to add at the end of, "If I had a hammer", the words, "And a sickle".....

Wow. I have not had nearly enough coffee to handle that debacle. She really subscribes to that whole philosophy of thinking that progressive education and methodology is what's good for our, (the Community's), children, and the union's coffers. Despicable.