Common Core Curriculum

Community members attended SOC912’s meeting last week to learn about Common Core Curriculum. An attendee said, “This federal takeover is devastating to education and it undermines families. If this program is foisted on students, their parents will revolt. Wait until they find out their children are learning in first grade how to be manipulative. The instructional materials and textbooks encourage rebellion and angry attitudes in children.”

Attendees also learned how Common Core lowers academic standards. Twelfth-grade reading requirements diminish to 7th-grade level. The objective of preparing students for college refers only to junior college with nonselective standards.

Gloria Pruyne of Orange County Common Core Concerned Citizens and Jeanne Goodin of Eagle Forum of CA spoke during the meeting and encouraged community members to take up the issue with their school boards. As additional information, SOC912 lists the video http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/it-begins-communist-indoctrination-included-in-common-core-literature-for-first-graders-video/

From Eagle Forum: “Common Core means federal control of school curriculum, i.e., control by Obama Administration leftwing bureaucrats. Federal control will replace all curriculum decisions by state and local school boards, state legislatures, parents, and even Congress because Obama bypassed Congress by using $4 billion of Stimulus money to promote Common Core.

“It’s not only public schools that must obey the fed’s dictates. Common Core will control the curriculum of charter schools, private schools, religious schools, Catholic schools, and homeschooling.” http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/column/backlash-against-common-core.html

All school districts in Orange County are set to implement Common Core, but most people haven’t heard of it. Schools were bribed to participate, and state legislatures were bypassed. Many states that signed on are now withdrawing from Common Core or taking steps to reverse their decision to participate.