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Re: Common Core-aligned writing lesson on gun debate - political agenda?
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 10:57 am
by VMI77
AndyC wrote:Common Core backers are sneaking a social and political agenda into nationalized curriculum, say critics, who now have new ammo in a writing lesson plan for teachers that they say gives a slanted perspective of the gun debate.
A study guide dubbed, "The Battle Over Gun Control," authored by KQED, a northern Californian affiliate of National Public Radio, and the nonprofit, taxpayer-subsidized National Writing Project, states that "moderate gun control" measures introduced following the Sandy Hook school massacre were deep-sixed by the "powerful political influence" of the NRA. Second Amendment advocates say the wording, in supplemental material designed to help teachers plan instruction, frames the debate in a one-sided fashion aimed at influencing young minds.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/15/co ... al-agenda/
Common Core in it's entirety serves a collectivist left-wing political agenda.
Re: Common Core-aligned writing lesson on gun debate - political agenda?
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:05 am
by baldeagle
AndyC wrote:Common Core backers are sneaking a social and political agenda into nationalized curriculum, say critics, who now have new ammo in a writing lesson plan for teachers that they say gives a slanted perspective of the gun debate.
A study guide dubbed, "The Battle Over Gun Control," authored by KQED, a northern Californian affiliate of National Public Radio, and the nonprofit, taxpayer-subsidized National Writing Project, states that "moderate gun control" measures introduced following the Sandy Hook school massacre were deep-sixed by the "powerful political influence" of the NRA. Second Amendment advocates say the wording, in supplemental material designed to help teachers plan instruction, frames the debate in a one-sided fashion aimed at influencing young minds.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/15/co ... al-agenda/
Here's what chaps my jaws. Common Core = paid for by taxpaers. KQED = paid for by taxpayers. National Public Radio = paid for by taxpaers. National Writing Project = paid for by taxpers.
We are funding our own demise. There should be a constitutional amendment that bars the expenditure of public funds on anything that is even the remotest bit partisan. The government should be strictly and aggressively neutral. Issues like gun control, abortion, affirmative action and taxes should be banned completely from being funded by the government.
Nothing angers me more than paying for stuff I vehemently disagree with.
Re: Common Core-aligned writing lesson on gun debate - political agenda?
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:28 am
by VMI77
BTW:
There is an article in NR about it but for some reason I can't access their website.
Wyllie, like many others, claim Jeb Bush is so supportive of the measure is because his brother Neil would profit.
“Neil Bush has a vested interest in one of the two providers of curriculum, textbooks and so forth that are authorized under Common Core,” Wyllie says. “It’s just another example of the corporation, the cronyism, the good ol’ boy network they have in Tallahassee.”
http://michellemalkin.com/2014/03/21/ge ... overlords/
Jeb Bush’s “Foundation for Excellence in Education” is also saturating the airwaves with ads trying to salvage Common Core in the face of truly bipartisan, truly grassroots opposition in his own home state of Florida. As I’ve reported previously, the former GOP governor’s foundation is tied at the hip to the federally funded testing consortium called PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers), which pulled in $186 million through the Obama administration’s Race to the Top program to develop Common Core tests.
Re: Common Core-aligned writing lesson on gun debate - political agenda?
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 1:13 pm
by n5wd
Aren't y'all glad that the Common Core curriculum has not been adopted in Texas?