To her credit, Gov Fallin rejected CC.
There were several reports on CC in the media, but what scares us is what this could mean to local schooling and local control of our kids education. Here are just a couple of the quotes I've seen that on face a lot of low information voters won't pay attention to:
"CC are standards . . . that coordinate what students should know." That sounds fine if you aren't skeptical of govt intervention in our lives. So here's what it "can" mean. Govt will be in charge of what your children "should know" and you no longer will be.
"Is an attempt to ensure consistency across the country". This might be fine if it is done in math, science, language only. But very few of us skeptical folks out there think it would stop with "just" those courses. We don't need someone in DC politically endoctrinating our kids with "their" ideology, morality in my view. Thats the parents job and the parents can speak eye to eye with their teachers at this point, but not after CC.
But the radical Obama adm is basically holding states that push back on CC, hostage with funding. That is how DC penalizes the states that don't toe their line.
And for those of you that don't think this can happen?
I found a "Map Of The Presidents" (while cleaning out the attic) that had been part of a textbook approval committees display to parents back in 1988. This was at the end of the Reagan adm. The "guide" gave a short overview of each President from GW to RR.
BTW, this was one reason that text was not approved, but does show how biased a text and the lesson plans can become. It also reveals how the govt can endoctrinate and "mold" young children to their thinking and away from their parents if they force their "standards" on the schools.
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Rand McNallyGuide To The Presidents 1988
Jimmy Carter - 39th President (1977-81) Jimmy was governor of Georgia, with international experience as a member of the Trilateral Commission, when he won the presidency. Carters major achievements were in foreign relations. He arranged the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. He brought together the state leaders of Israel and Egypt at Camp David and got them to agree to conditions of peace. Carter extended the first White House welcomes to Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and papal leader Pope John Paul II. But his popularity dropped when Iranians seized American hostages at the embassy in Teheran and rescue attempts failed. In technology, however, the journey of Voyager I rewarded Americans with photographs of Saturns rings nearly a billion miles away.
Carter lives in Plains, Georgia.
Ronald Reagan - 40th president (1981-88) At age 69 Ronald Reagan became the oldest man ever to be inaugurated. Previously he had served two terms as governor of California and made over 50 movies as an actor.
President Reagan resisted increases in taxes and social welfare funding. During his administration inflation decreased, while defense spending increased. In 1987, following years of sustained growth, the stock market crashed at home and the dollar declined abroad.
In foreign affairs Reagan authorized the invasion of Grenada and maintaining a peace keeping force in Beirut. He reacted to acts of international terrorism by approving the bombing of Libya. In 1986 members of the Reagan administration created a scandal by selling arms to an unfriendly regime in Iran and using the proceeds to support rebels in Nicaragua.
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Now is that a fair asessment of those two presidents? If you were a 6th grader in Civics class, who do you think you want to vote for?
This post was edited on 6/6 12:23 PM by rabidTU
There were several reports on CC in the media, but what scares us is what this could mean to local schooling and local control of our kids education. Here are just a couple of the quotes I've seen that on face a lot of low information voters won't pay attention to:
"CC are standards . . . that coordinate what students should know." That sounds fine if you aren't skeptical of govt intervention in our lives. So here's what it "can" mean. Govt will be in charge of what your children "should know" and you no longer will be.
"Is an attempt to ensure consistency across the country". This might be fine if it is done in math, science, language only. But very few of us skeptical folks out there think it would stop with "just" those courses. We don't need someone in DC politically endoctrinating our kids with "their" ideology, morality in my view. Thats the parents job and the parents can speak eye to eye with their teachers at this point, but not after CC.
But the radical Obama adm is basically holding states that push back on CC, hostage with funding. That is how DC penalizes the states that don't toe their line.
And for those of you that don't think this can happen?
I found a "Map Of The Presidents" (while cleaning out the attic) that had been part of a textbook approval committees display to parents back in 1988. This was at the end of the Reagan adm. The "guide" gave a short overview of each President from GW to RR.
BTW, this was one reason that text was not approved, but does show how biased a text and the lesson plans can become. It also reveals how the govt can endoctrinate and "mold" young children to their thinking and away from their parents if they force their "standards" on the schools.
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Rand McNallyGuide To The Presidents 1988
Jimmy Carter - 39th President (1977-81) Jimmy was governor of Georgia, with international experience as a member of the Trilateral Commission, when he won the presidency. Carters major achievements were in foreign relations. He arranged the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. He brought together the state leaders of Israel and Egypt at Camp David and got them to agree to conditions of peace. Carter extended the first White House welcomes to Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and papal leader Pope John Paul II. But his popularity dropped when Iranians seized American hostages at the embassy in Teheran and rescue attempts failed. In technology, however, the journey of Voyager I rewarded Americans with photographs of Saturns rings nearly a billion miles away.
Carter lives in Plains, Georgia.
Ronald Reagan - 40th president (1981-88) At age 69 Ronald Reagan became the oldest man ever to be inaugurated. Previously he had served two terms as governor of California and made over 50 movies as an actor.
President Reagan resisted increases in taxes and social welfare funding. During his administration inflation decreased, while defense spending increased. In 1987, following years of sustained growth, the stock market crashed at home and the dollar declined abroad.
In foreign affairs Reagan authorized the invasion of Grenada and maintaining a peace keeping force in Beirut. He reacted to acts of international terrorism by approving the bombing of Libya. In 1986 members of the Reagan administration created a scandal by selling arms to an unfriendly regime in Iran and using the proceeds to support rebels in Nicaragua.
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Now is that a fair asessment of those two presidents? If you were a 6th grader in Civics class, who do you think you want to vote for?
This post was edited on 6/6 12:23 PM by rabidTU