Good points, but common core is evil. The schools have been going down hill for forever, but now that there's the fed and UN nudge is in play...it needs to be called what it is and stopped. Finally!

Trust me, I was aware. If I said that everyone here should write paragraph on what liberty means to you, wouldn't they all be different? Now, what values does your child's teacher exhibit and support?

Yeah, but it's the TEXTBOOK, not the Common Core. Common Core is the scapegoat. The textbooks have always taken liberties. Personally, I didn't rely on them during the last almost 10 years of teaching. (I just recently shrugged.)

"CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.:
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literac...

The standard isn't the problem. It's all in the application. Which text do you give children (grade 4)? Which inferences do you draw from the text?

They helped write it.

To paraphrase Matthew - Blessed are the collectivist idiots for theirs will be the kingdom of education.

Hello j_IR1776wg,

Okay… I read it and I am glad I did for the knowledge, much like reading the Communist Manifesto… but it was as I thought. It is a ridiculous piece of drivel and should be renamed “How to turn your child into a brainless automaton serving the greater good of the socialist state.”

“I believe that every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling; that he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of proper social order and the securing of the right social growth.” Absurd! By whose standard?!
Don’t get me wrong; the teacher should recognize the dignity of his calling, but the rest is pure social engineering nonsense…

I believe, I believe, I believe…
On this subject the man was benighted…
Regards,
O.A.

Yeas it is. In one of my posters, I wrote "Most people grow up with the desire to be productive. Some desire only to control other people. They are the most destructive on earth."

So.... these text books aren't in the schools? What did I fall for?

review:
all of John Taylor Gatto's books on the genesis of public/gov schooling.
"Lincoln's Marxists"
"Hologram of Liberty" and other anti-federalist writings (Lysander Spooner et al)
all of the recent books on Utopianism and the decendants of Plato (communists/progressives/socialists, etc) to understand that the public schools are working perfectly and doing exactly what they were set up to do by John Dewey and his fellow travelers, including the groups that funded the transformation, etc., to create a nation of mostly zombies. Note the culture's recent fascination with fictional zombies - they parallel the feelings of the crushed.

Granted all the approvals, a Thumbs Down here. Ayn Rand explained how emotions are based on ideas. Your emotions are the sum total of your value-judgments. Conservatives get all weepy when they see an American Flag or hear about military martyrs. Liberals cry when stimulated by baby penguins or other icons. The rational person has an emotional response to pro-life ideas, such as the moment when Jobs and Wozniak agreed to call their computer "Apple."

I got emotional (no tears) watching a not-very-good history of the Medici.

But, you know I actually choked up when in NATIONAL TREASURE when Benjamin Franklin Gates unfurls the Declaration in Independence Hall and says, "The last time it was here, it was being signed." I mentioned that to another patrol officer in a cruiser one night and when I looked over, he was suppressing a sob. So, we all have our emotions.

The problem is not that "Johnny" (or "Mary") have them, but that they lack the introspection to know where they come from.

It's all about control.

You fell for it. Yes, so called "social justice" crap and indoctrination is out there, but this link isn't for the standards. It's for a textbook company. How many of you have opened your child's textbook this year? If you find something offensive, get ready to fight the principal who will direct you to the central office, who will finally blame a publisher and the school board. Get ready for a fight and gather your forces.

Many do. They're just threatened with their jobs and instead decide to infiltrate the system the best they can and do what they can when the classrooms doors close.

What an interesting statement. It corrects the premise I assumed of how, many progressives think; which explains my inability to understand the basis for their position on a myriad of topics.
I realized, I think differently when I’m emotional. I practice not acting when something gets me upset.
A good friend of mine who has a very high IQ said
“Your emotional quotient is more important than your Intelligence quotient.”
He’s a large man who has no aversion to intimidation or violence. He went on to explain how much that has cost him in his life.
Why do people hate Ayn Rand or Sarah Palin for that matter? There’s no logical conclusion, just fear.

Point taken. I like his columns.

You have to be aware of it's existence before you can see it.

His My Pedigogic Creed is only 11 pages lond. Surely one of the best minds in the Gulch should not be offput by the length. Even if his words are not readily definable or comprehensible by anyone using Aristotle's logic. http://dewey.pragmatism.org/creed.htm

No. The individual teachers might want them to think but not the "people in charge of education..." Please read the following 4th paragraph from John Dewey's My Pedigogic Creed.
"I believe that knowledge of social conditions, of the present state of civilization, is necessary in order properly to interpret the child's powers. The child has his own instincts and tendencies, but we do not know what these mean until we can translate them into their social equivalents. We must be able to carry them back into a social past and see them as the inheritance of previous race activities. We must also be able to project them into the future to see what their outcome and end will be. In the illustration just used, it is the ability to see in the child's babblings the promise and potency of a future social intercourse and conversation which enables one to deal in the proper way with that instinct." He is preaching instinct not thinking.

which of these guys is from africa? please don't extend them or their ilk any credibilty by buying into their newspeak.

Dewey's influence is like Chicken pox. Later you might get shingles... I have read his contributions to philosophy in four general philosophy books I own. That was too much. Some of his pragmatic approach in other fields are quite interesting, but once he delves into the "Progressive education" field...exit stage left!

Pretty revealing.

Why don't teachers see through this propaganda?

... who doesn't? lol

he thinks your hero is a traitor for one

Name some please.

http://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com/public/...
watch the video.