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It is the Mission of the Nebraska Family Forum (NFF) to promote education policies in our state that preserve and protect parental authority and the integrity of the family. In so doing, we will preserve the cooperative and respectful relationship between school authorities and parents, preserve a family-centered community, and provide a well-rounded education for our kids.

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Common Core: A scam on the American public

This is a fascinating article about the deceit, cronyism and politics involved with the implementation of Common Core.

http://www.arizonadailyindependent.com/2014/06/01/truth-behind-arizonas-sudden-withdrawal-from-parcc/

I suspect this Arizona story is just a small sampling of what's going on nationwide.

Common Core is an enormous scam on the American public. Pearson, with the help of its political allies, is making millions. Our children are Pearson's unpaid guinea pigs, worker bees, data gold mines, and victims. Americans' tax dollars are being used to victimize their own children in a money making scheme so enormous that it should have the suffix "-gate" after it.

Nebraska parents, we must remain vigilant in our fight against Common Core in our state, and we must join with other parents nationwide who are fighting to get rid of this atrocity in the states that have already implemented CC. Common Core is doing enormous harm to children throughout this nation and it is our responsibility to stand up and save them.

I encourage you to join nationwide groups to get more information about Common Core: Parents and Educators Against Common Core, Left-Right Alliance for Education, Dump Duncan, Common Crud, Badass Parents Association, and Badass Teachers Association are a few of the groups with good information.

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MARK TRAINAJune 08, 2014

COMMON CORE is EDUCATION without REPRESENTATION:
A smiling school board member, tired of me and unwilling to fight the Common Core monster, advised me to do what she does: focus on the positive parts of Common Core. Be an optimist, she said.
“The positive parts? –You mean the lies?” I thought, because I’ve not seen positive parts unless you count the positive-sounding parts.
There are lots of those– the Common Core advertisements, the school board’s website promotions and newspaper quotes.
To the non-researcher, the Common Core sounds completely positive– but this “initiative” turns out to be very bad when the naked facts are revealed, about how it’s controlled, whom it pays off and what it robs.
Because the smiling board member knew many of these unsavory facts that she wished not to know, her advice reminded me of the part in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when Dr. Jekyll tells Utterton not to worry about Mr. Hyde. How illogical, dangerous and self-defeating. But to some, it seems that being an optimist requires putting ourselves at the mercy of bullies and pretending to agree to things that are clearly not so.
This conversation exposed the wide gap between the pretty surface language versus the ugly facts under the belly of Common Core.
COMMUNIST CORE STANDARDS: http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/tag/bill-gates/

LISTEN to this SENIOR: http://www.ronliskey.com/yourtv/high-school-seniors-testimony-devastates-common-core-scam

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MARK TRAINAJune 08, 2014

GATES

BILL GATES

COMMON CORE GATES

BILL COMMON CORE GATES

BILLIONAIRE COMMON COREGATES

NAAWP - 2014
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Melanie Williams-SmothermanAugust 10, 2014

Here is also a great article showing how many big money/corporate interests (both right and left) are behind the Common Core:

http://ringoffireradio.com/2013/09/alec-behind-common-core-education-standards/

And here is an NPR story that outlines the depth at which Bill Gates is involved (and how he got involved and help spread the interest):

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/06/09/320041096/tough-week-for-the-common-core

Here is a flow chart of corporate interest behind the CC (including the Walton Foundation (WalMart), ALEC, etc...):

http://www.truth-out.org/images/images_2013_09/2013_0906-1_chart-lg.jpg

I also appreciate how NPR is transparent in revealing that the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation sponsors NPR, including its coverage of education), and this is an excellent example of how a news source can (if willing) accept general sponsorship while still providing objective reporting. It doesn't happen often, though:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/06/09/320041096/tough-week-for-the-common-core
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Melanie Williams-SmothermanAugust 10, 2014

Here also is a really good Washington Post article outlining how Bill Gates got involved with a subject he arguable knows relatively little about:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulled-off-the-swift-common-core-revolution/2014/06/07/a830e32e-ec34-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html
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It may seem by the district by district breakdown that the law has impacted Millard Public Schools the most, but it is important to note that the Nebraska Family Forum grew out of the Millard Parent Society and therefore the awareness within Millard Public Schools is longstanding.

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