Common Core: Bad Math meets Radical Politics
It's like Global Warmism, but inflicted on kids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSHoxWaVeto
First grade kids are being taught in their English classes that they need to appeal to emotions when making persuasive writing, to make people want something even if there’s no facts or logic for it.
One example in particular tries to pit kids against their parents, teaching them to try to manipulate their parents to get what they want.
Here’s a great sample sentence: “My mom always [blank] me to clean my room.” The kids are given a choice to fill in the blank: tells or nags. Nags is, of course, given as the correct answer.
I think any elected official who goes along with this must be scrutinized closely. Democrats of course won’t see the problems here, but there are some Republican governors who have attempted to rename Common Core in order to deflect criticism, instead of rejecting this agenda.
http://www.redstate.com/2014/04/02/c...medium=twitter