Comments on: Another Obama First: Uncle Sam to Create Education Curriculum

By: leehazel

leehazel — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:46:27 +0000

The camels nose, What could I have been thinking?

By: yoyo

yoyo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:56:45 +0000

MATH Standards? “Obama” and “Math Standards”!

Someone needs to tell that yahoo that $1.7T revenue – $10.2T cost = YOU DON’T HAVE THE FRICKIN MONEY TO DO THIS CRAP!

….math standards. whatever.

I would opt for a $10 tax increase if it would buy him $0.10 of common sense.

By: realskinny

realskinny — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:50:28 +0000

Camel toe refers to something else. It wouldn’t be surprising if “curriculum development” was being done by some ACORN like group specifically organized for this purpose. They can collect $millions for a few thousands worth of work. BHO is building multiple pipelines into the Treasury for the Left.

By: ohmom23

ohmom23 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:50:32 +0000

on Common Core. Where are you getting your information? Is there a really good website or two that I should be reading regularly? I try to stay up to date with education issues, but even Eagle Forum hasn’t mentioned the developments discussed here. How to we keep up with the latest machinations?

By: leehazel

leehazel — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:33:49 +0000

This bill should be no surprise at all, two reasons:
The Annenburg Trust. Money to the Chicago School System to promote Leftist educational goals and the Union.

1) This was Obama’s job as the Titular head of the Annenburg Trust in Chicago. His partner was none other than William (the bomber) Ayers whose career has been in promoting Left Wing education in the US.

2) Obama has made no secret that as soon as he gets “finished” with Health Care it is his intention to “nationalize” public education in the US.

What you see here is “The Camel’s Toe”.

PC is Thought Control
LEE

By: rangerwife

rangerwife — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:07:41 +0000

Two words people: Home School. Be involved. I constantly have to go through my kids books and decipher what is right and what is propaganda, it’s already out of control.

By: old1

old1 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:51:37 +0000

Give the evil in our country control of 51% of our children today, and they will own our country tomorrow. Be forever on guard. Our freedom is hanging by a thin frail thread.

By: monstermom

monstermom — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:40:59 +0000

committee drafting the national English and Math standards. A number of them took time off from their jobs to work full time for the campaign. The others work for textbook publishers and assessment companies. Few are mathematicians and English majors.

By: yoyo

yoyo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:24:18 +0000

Unless all of a sudden the Gov’t pulls a one-eighty and develops something of use (history tells a different story), this will be a non-starter. Plus, it isnt like ‘most’ kids listen that much in school, anyhow.

So, the leftist content that they develop would have to be interesting enough to keep a bunch of non-caring, attention-deficit jr. high and high schoolers involved.

I don’t know. Seems like a ‘Mountain Too Far’ to me. You cannot even teach them ‘Math’, nowadays.

Now, but seriously. This needs to be shouted down. “Public” education should remain at the state. NEA should not fall under the “General Welfare” clause.

By: Achance

Achance — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:32:05 +0000

By: mbecker908

mbecker908 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:30:21 +0000

Don’t be talking to your betters like that. You won’t survive the beatings. I checked your posting history and I notice two things, first that the content of your limited posts is just a tad better than a weak OK. Certainly nothing that would attract either particularly positive or negative attention. Second, this is your first “ALL CAP” post, although you do put the titles in all caps (which also is irritating) so it’s fair to say that a response like “Oops, I forgot the cap lock was on.” would have been accepted and folks would have moved on. Instead, you choose to act like a rightly offended jerk to a simple statement of fact. Keep this crap up and you better have asbestos underwear and body armor.

By: DONTREADONME

DONTREADONME — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:41:40 +0000

you may have already known that, but if you didn’t it mainly reserved for denoting yelling/angry.

By: rrlandis

rrlandis — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:37:55 +0000

IF YOU ARE ONLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE LETTERS, I HOPE THE BIG O’s AGENDA DOES NOT CATCH YOU UNAWARE.

By: Achance

Achance — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:53:49 +0000

By: rrlandis

rrlandis — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:49:41 +0000

AMERICA—DO NOT LET ANY GOVERNMENT CONTROL YOUR CHILDREN. I HAVE MY OWN THOUGHTS ABOUT THE BIG O’s LEGITIMACY TO BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE, BUT REGARDLESS OF THAT, HE IS NOT A TRUE AMERICAN AT HEART. THEREFORE, I REFUSE TO CLAIM HIM AS MY PRESIDENT AND WILL NOT GIVE IN TO HIS PROPAGANDA. I AM ALSO DOING ALL I CAN TO HELP MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS STAND AGAINST HIM.

STAND UP FOR THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. EXERT YOUR RIGHTS IN SUPPORT OF THE LOVE OF GOD, COUNTRY, YOUR FAMILIES, AND YOUR VERY LIVES.

By: Achance

Achance — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:13:14 +0000

By: Achance

Achance — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:12:31 +0000

By: seesalrun

seesalrun — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:07:36 +0000

this administration exudes, I thought in the Joint Session speech we were just promised no bill would be signed that would add to the deficit, I believe the quote was “Not one dime”

By: NH_GOP

NH_GOP — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:46:28 +0000

This happened long ago in the 90s. When I was teaching, Goals 2000 took over and suddenly we were pushing a ‘global’ education agenda per the UN. We stopped using sane methods for fad methods and everything was political.

Education is lost and gone to the Ayers types and the only way to get it back is to stop government from managing it.

By: monstermom

monstermom — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:03:28 +0000

The House Resolution is simply the legislative mechanism to allow the Secretary of Education to require states to adopt the national academic standards currently being drafted as part of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

The initiative is sponsored by the National Governor’s Association and backed by the US Dept of Education. They working group has been meeting since early this year and issued it’s first draft of college readiness standards in July. The draft of K -12 grade specific standards will be given to the states this week or next and will be issued in final in December.

Each state participating in the effort (and I believe 46 or 48 are) will be required to adopt at least 85% of the standards drafted by the CCSSI. Federal Education funds will only be given to states which have adopted at least 85% of the common core standards.

Secretary Duncan has already released $350 million in stimulus funds to support developing a common national assessment – though the date that will be available has not been released.

The entire effort has been cloaked in a veil of secrecy and getting people to pay attention has been a nightmare. I hope this bill finally gets people to wake up and realize that the public schools will have their standards and curricula set by the federal government next year unless we do something to stop it..