tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post3946318174450778828..comments2023-10-27T03:41:13.171-07:00Comments on Warning Signs: Common Core and CommunismAlan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-3381537791322984812014-04-25T22:34:07.477-07:002014-04-25T22:34:07.477-07:00I just saw a commercial on TV promoting Common Cor...I just saw a commercial on TV promoting Common Core. As if the endless Obamacare commercials aren't bad enough, now they're going to propagandize us with our own money for this garbage. Here in Ohio, they put inserts in our property tax bills encouraging people to apply for all sorts of benefits too ...<br /><br />There should be some sort of law against using tax money to promote these government programs. If a program is worthy of the public's interest, they shouldn't need to be encouraged to use it. The least the entitlement class can do is make the effort to seek these programs out for themselves. Of course we all know why they're doing this ... the more people they can hook on these programs, the easier it is to buy their votes.Guy in Ohiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427016567260606130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-75513241909161073042014-04-25T18:15:13.507-07:002014-04-25T18:15:13.507-07:00As a retired public school teacher I am convinced ...As a retired public school teacher I am convinced that our only hope is to rescue our children from the public (government) schools and raise a godly generation. <br /><br />Please see "Call to Dunkirk" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRGZLSVph3A. <br /><br />Public schools cannot be redeemed. Saying we should not abandon them is like saying the passengers of the Titanic should have stayed aboard because the band was playing good music and the captain was a good man. <br /><br />Please also see IndoctriNation at http://indoctrinationmovie.com.<br /><br />Additionally, please see http://insectman.us/exodus-mandate-wv/index.htm.<br /><br />We must RESCUE OUR CHILDREN! <br />Insectmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08432644650873544733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-10343878087441315922014-04-25T10:55:05.318-07:002014-04-25T10:55:05.318-07:00The basics worked well for generations... Then the...The basics worked well for generations... Then there was *new math*, and it was a disaster.. I have managed quite well to not use algebra for the last 45 years or so, new math was a joke though...<br /><br />And asking questions like "If Tommy has 2 Mommies and they both get pregnant from a *donation* of an acceptable donor.." It's pure garbage... TexasFredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18008912292703416417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-49790414981527060352014-04-25T09:58:02.605-07:002014-04-25T09:58:02.605-07:00One size fits all has destroyed state education in...One size fits all has destroyed state education in the UK. Sadly, it's my generation, the 60s graduates, who are responsible for this. However, the Free Schools initiative launched by the Coalition is a fight back, handing education back where it belongs - to parents. Elby the Beserkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15060519682739666145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-37020266620551515432014-04-25T07:15:21.950-07:002014-04-25T07:15:21.950-07:00What is happening in education is we teachers are ...What is happening in education is we teachers are not giving the students the skills to problem solve. Reading is a perfect example. As the writer above said, memorizing is what is being taught, not the skill of deciphering. Couple no skills with students with little desire to work through a problem and you get chaos. <br /><br />But Common Core solves that by allowing more than one correct answer for a question. Now we have relativeness. Our recent training for Common Core explained that to us, at least until the computers crashed. 40 teachers in a room and technology stopped us short. What will happen to students?<br /><br />Some of the reasons I am retiring in six weeks after 31 years of teaching.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14202410717147326787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-71651823608482739082014-04-24T23:02:17.259-07:002014-04-24T23:02:17.259-07:00Well said, Alan.
One of the worst things we'v...Well said, Alan.<br /><br />One of the worst things we've observed in modern education is the failure to teach kids to read properly. Most schools ignore the phonetic basis of the English language and simply encourage the kids to memorize the most frequently used words in popular literature -- as if they were pictures -- and leave it at that. This causes severe under-development of the left side of the brain (the part that sequences, and scans, and puts one thought after another) and over-development of the associative right side of the brain, often resulting in dyslexia and ADHD. <br /><br />Imagine, for example, being presented with these 25 words as your first exposure to reading:<br /><br />the of and a to in is you that it he was<br />for on are as with his they I at be this have from<br /><br />What could you do but memorize whole words as if they were pictures?<br /><br />But now imagine being presented with these 25 words:<br /><br />cat hat rat pat fat sat at bat vat<br />ran man can pan tan van jan<br />bad fad lad had dad mad rad cad sad<br /><br />Almost immediately, with just a tiny bit of help from a parent or teacher, you'd be scanning from left-to-right, recognizing common word endings, sounding out unfamiliar words, etc.<br /><br />Two excellent books on the subject are Rudolf Flesch's "Why Johnny Can't Read and What You Can Do About It" (written in 1955) and "Why Johnny Still Can't Read -- A New Look at the Scandal of Our Schools" (written in 1982).<br /><br />My wife and I were so incensed when we saw what was happening in our local schools (and found that we, like Flesch, could do very little about it) that we wrote a do-it-yourself teach-your-kid-to-read course for any parent who wants to head off (or undo) what the schools are doing to their kids. It's free and it's here:<br /><br />www.rhymingreader.com<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08239884420687883840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-63800276172472661362014-04-24T17:22:59.122-07:002014-04-24T17:22:59.122-07:00The die is cast for America.
It's either revo...The die is cast for America.<br /><br />It's either revolution and civil war or death by Communism.Ronbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02767498198886077632noreply@blogger.com