it's the Gestapo -- Yikes!!! "suspended the mom" = overreaching crap.

I went to the Common Core website and searched for materials used in support of common core standards. On the surface, the standards seem OK. However, we really need to see what supporting materials are going to be used by teachers. Already the collective consciousness is apparent when the opening statement of CC reads that parents, educators and students MUST. . . That is ominous in itself.

However a random reading at the third grade level gave the following:

Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

exindigo comment: All this is fine and quite traditional. It will depend on the text used because the text can be propaganda.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2
Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

exindigo comment: This also is pretty traditional. However, it means adopting a "meaning" in stories and tales. It is unclear what stories will be selected and when elements appear in stories that are in contradiction to religious or other systems of knowledge.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3
Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events

exindigo Comment: The same as the other comments. All this would depend on the source materials. If we take current history books and even some English language books, we see a lot of anti-American (As a system.) trends. With CC, this could become institutionalized in the same way that alternative history has become institutionalized in our educational system.

I wouldn't focus on the idea of Core Standards but on the materials used to support these standards.

Remember New Math? What a colossal failure was that? I went to a Southern California teacher's conference some years back and was surprised to hear the state head of CA education state: ". . .Schools are not primarily places of education but of social experiment."

Many teachers found this intolerable. Other, younger, teachers found the idea exciting. Younger teachers are more inclined to propagandize and use specifically slanted materials to influence students.

Excellent point. What a waste of their time. They should bill the principal. Make her think twice about acting like a dictator.

Snort!

the problem is the police department, they should have told the school that this wasn't a crime that involved the police department.

Just right click on the post title and click on "open in new tab". That should get you the page. 8-)

lol OOps disregard...I'm on the wrong post.

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I just see a 404 error

Creepy ass creeps who feel they have a right to intrude on others, 'for their own good'.

You bet! I know the school and I know the district. I've been in the admin headquarters building years ago and it was a bunch of bloated, uneducated morons with food all over their blouses.

Another adjacent district sent police officers to knock on the doors of home-schooled children to administer vaccines about two years ago. That made national news too when one scene showed a mother saying, "Get the f*ck off of my property!" and slamming the door on them. The local liberal news didn't really know how to report that...a lot of hemmin and hawin...

The left wants your kids. The MUST have them.

Yeah! Go mom for giving to cop some forms, but a huge raspberry to the Mark Twain school's principal! (Mark Twain must be rolling in his grave to have his name on such a school).

This is what I will expect if I keep pushing back on the CC bull$hit agenda. Can't wait..... }-)

The cops came to her house... holy hell. Scare tactics and silencing others. Bullies!