Reject Common Core business cards and an opt out form for parents is on the site: www.rejectcommoncore.weebly.com. Please feel free to download, print out and give to all the parents that you know. If we take action now we may be able to prevent the implementation of Common Core. If we wait, our children's/grand-children's future is doomed to be merely economic units for the government and slaves to the global market.
FIRST: Please BOMBARD your local School Boards, your Legislators (www.contactingthecongress.org) and your state's
Governor with emails and phone calls:Dear School Board Member/State Legislator/Congress Member/Governor:
The supreme law of the land, the United States Constitution, restricts the scope and function of the federal government and reserves all other areas of control to the States or the people. Thus, control over public education is vested in the authority of the States, with local Boards of Education answerable to the parents of the children in each school. The Constitution guarantees government by and for the people. However, President Obama campaigned on "fundamental change" and such change has included unconstitutional Socialist healthcare (Obamacare) and now Common Core. (See http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/ AND
http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/full-common-core-documentary-movie-now-online/)
The Common Core program is a business venture for many corporations such as Microsoft and the Bill Gates Foundation who hold the intellectual property rights (copyright, etc.) and who will be profiting from its use. There is also a built-in system of data mining which will benefit corporations soliciting (or stealing) such information for advertising purposes. Common Core establishes state databases which are identical to all other state databases (for future integration) and which collect comprehensive and biometric (i.e., identifying) data on every student from birth to death. Such data is claimed to be needed for workplace integration, such as in the fascists German education system. Such comprehensive data mining is an unreasonable search and seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Common Core also dictates which educational subjects are important in the global markets, mainly at present electronic technology, and labels students as economic units who either compete in these selective subjects or are irrelevant and destined to be slave labor. Common Core rejects and minimizes such subjects as art, poetry, creative writing, music etc., any independent analytical/esthetic areas of intelligence. Common core is set up to be standardized test-oriented in its selective subjects which funnels students to the major corporations who wrote the tests. For example, Microsoft will be assured that the best computer programmers rise up in the Common Core economic pool. The ignorant will say, "So what? Shouldn't children be taught to succeed in this global economy?"
The problem with Common Core is that it violates the very fundamental, basic, core values of individual liberty that is legally guaranteed by the United States Constitution. In this WE the People Republic, each individual is valuable as a human being with inalienable, God-given (thus inherent) rights which are NOT give to us by the government or by the economy or by corporations. The strength of this country has been its middle class wherein ANYONE could succeed in the area they choose to work hard in. Men and women could succeed -- and success does not necessarily mean being a millionaire -- as small business owners, teachers, doctors, fireman, construction workers, farmers, cattle ranchers, plumbers, writers, artists, etc., etc., etc. It was not a "government built that" economy, but an individual-run economy.
If you want to improve the educational system, restore the individual-oriented, small business/entrepreneurial, excel-at-what-you-are-good-at curriculum and get Common Core out of our schools! Let's stay true to our individual liberty heritage and built up LOCAL economies, instead of enslaving our children to global corporations. Ask one question, "Who is in all those slave labor camps in China who supply the global markets?" They are all those who the Chinese government deems not valuable as human beings, especially if they resist government control. (See http://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-china-blow-your-mind-2011-5?op=1 AND http://www.rense.com/general35/mobile.htm AND http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/blog-my-life-inside-chinese-labor-camp-20091207)
SECOND: Opt out of Common Core. Common Core Opt-Out Form Now Available:
http://truthinamericaneducation.com/uncategorized/ccss-parent-opt-out-form/
THIRD: Start a petition to your local School Board and State Legislators demanding that schools opt out of Common Core: http://exa.gmnews.com/news/2014-05-15/Letters/Schools_should_opt_out_of_Common_Core.html
Parents must unite and garner support from the legislators in their state. Together, Bills can be put before the governors for a repeal of Common Core. The Oklahoma State Legislature passed a law rejecting Common Core and restoring control over education to the people of Oklahoma: http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=hb3399 Governor Mary Fallin signed the bill repealing Common Core in Oklahoma: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/common-core-repeal-oklahoma-mary-fallin-107499.html
FOURTH: Scream it from the rooftops. Here is a website was created by Kathleen Jasper who is a former assistant principal in Florida. She left her position because of her objections to Common Core and started this forum for parents, teachers, students, etc. It is called ConversationEd: http://conversationed.com/
http://truthinamericaneducation.com/uncategorized/ccss-parent-opt-out-form/
THIRD: Start a petition to your local School Board and State Legislators demanding that schools opt out of Common Core: http://exa.gmnews.com/news/2014-05-15/Letters/Schools_should_opt_out_of_Common_Core.html
Parents must unite and garner support from the legislators in their state. Together, Bills can be put before the governors for a repeal of Common Core. The Oklahoma State Legislature passed a law rejecting Common Core and restoring control over education to the people of Oklahoma: http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=hb3399 Governor Mary Fallin signed the bill repealing Common Core in Oklahoma: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/common-core-repeal-oklahoma-mary-fallin-107499.html
FOURTH: Scream it from the rooftops. Here is a website was created by Kathleen Jasper who is a former assistant principal in Florida. She left her position because of her objections to Common Core and started this forum for parents, teachers, students, etc. It is called ConversationEd: http://conversationed.com/
