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Common Core lessons blasted for sneaking politics into elementary classrooms

Ahhhhhhh....probably because they are, I don't know....uh.....educated!!!! Doh!

Only somewhat plausible, on a limited number of things. The rest of it is persuasion and atmosphere.
 
States and districts can add or subtract from the offered curriculums. Did your district or state do that?

We cannot subtract unless it's not essential to Common Core. If we feel a standard on Common Core is way too difficult for our students (as rabbit has pointed out), there's nothing to be done about it. The school board can't change it, the administrators can't change it..... it's taking education out of local hands.
 
We cannot subtract unless it's not essential to Common Core. If we feel a standard on Common Core is way too difficult for our students (as rabbit has pointed out), there's nothing to be done about it. The school board can't change it, the administrators can't change it..... it's taking education out of local hands.

There is a 15% rule (guideline, no one is enforcing it) that a state can make changes.

“States can do whatever they want and always have been able to,” writes Chad Colby in an email to StateImpact. “There is no limit to what changes, additions or subtractions a state wants to make.”

Colby says as a rule of thumb, states are encouraged to add no more than 15 percent to the standards. Otherwise, he says it would negate the ““States can do whatever they want and always have been able to,” writes Chad Colby in an email to StateImpact. “There is no limit to what changes, additions or subtractions a state wants to make.”

Core Question: Does Copyright Mean States Can't Change The Common Core? | StateImpact Indiana

That site has a lot of information. Because of fair use I cannot copy in more but it says that the standards can be shifted, delayed. Most states are adding to rather than subtracting and it does make sense not to subtract too much or the kids won't reach the standard.

I'm sorry. I'm on my phone and cannot easily find what rabbit had to say. Could you help me out?
 
Ahhhhhhh....probably because they are, I don't know....uh.....educated!!!! Doh!

Really, what your education level? Let's compare, go ahead.
 
Common Core = Hitlers/Stalin Youth....

Teach the kids their morals and faith are to the government - not their parents or to one another...
 
So the OP started an anti-Common Core thread... looks like he's taking his right-wing marching orders seriously:

Fierce opposition to the standards looks like a grassroots movement, but a deeper look is revealing. In the Politico story, Stephanie Simon and Nirvi Shah write that Common Core opponents, "project an image of scrappy grassroots gumption: One rancher in Alabama said he would sell off a cow to cover the costs of an anti-Common Core town hall. But they’re backed by an array of organizations with multimillion dollar budgets of their own and much experience in mobilizing crowds and lobbying lawmakers, including The Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, the Pioneer Institute, Concerned Women for America and FreedomWorks."​

Well looky here... surprise surprise surprise.

Koch brother organizations say jump and all the sudden we have conservatives jump.

Actually its no surprise.

Oh please....:roll: You have in the past dismissed people including myself, for bringing up how Soros, Think Progress, Centers for American Progress, Media Matters, DailyKOS, etc are involved in stirring the pie on the liberal side, how they say jump to you and you say 'how high'?

Now you want us to take your 'boogieman' post seriously? :roll:
 
Hmmm, interesting since Common Core is being supported by corporations and many who will profit off of education.
Corporations are all part of the NWO conspiracy along with both parties.

Why the surprise? 8)
 
So, Godwin's law and my law are both proven correct in this thread. Way to go, guys!
 
Common Core = Hitlers/Stalin Youth....

Teach the kids their morals and faith are to the government - not their parents or to one another...

You do know that idea you're using came way before Hitler or Stalin, right?
 
Common Core = Hitlers/Stalin Youth....

Teach the kids their morals and faith are to the government - not their parents or to one another...

wow nick
please show us some common core documentation which evidences such ideology is behind this move to common core standards
and if you cannot do so, shed all tin foil
 
Really, what your education level? Let's compare, go ahead.

by comparing the posts in debate politics forums, there is no comparison
i would hope you would rescind such a challenge
 
Oh please....:roll: You have in the past dismissed people including myself, for bringing up how Soros, Think Progress, Centers for American Progress, Media Matters, DailyKOS, etc are involved in stirring the pie on the liberal side, how they say jump to you and you say 'how high'?

Now you want us to take your 'boogieman' post seriously? :roll:

Yes, because I'm not just throwing names out there. I back mine up. Unlike u guys who just scream names of people u don't really know and throw out curses of political ideologies u don't understand.
 
You do know that idea you're using came way before Hitler or Stalin, right?

Absolutely - it's called authoritarianism/totalitarianism....

Problem is that our government is attempting to brainwash children with communist (totalitarian) nonsense....
 
Yes, because I'm not just throwing names out there. I back mine up. Unlike u guys who just scream names of people u don't really know and throw out curses of political ideologies u don't understand.

Unlike u guys?

Democracy Alliance -

Founding Directors:

Rob McKay, Chair - Mother Jones, Salon, etc.
Anna Burger, Vice Chair, SEIU
Drummond Pike, Treasurer Tides Network, major funder of education based curriculum
William Budinger
Robert H. Dugger
Al Dwoskin
Dr. Gail Furman, ACSW, PhD
Robert A. Johnson
Steven Phillips
Charles Rodgers
Deborah Sagner
Michael Vachon - personal spokesman and advisor to George Soros
Rob Stein, Founder

Annenberg Learner

Part of Annenberg Foundation - Progressive Group partners with Soros and Peter Lewis, billionaire head of Progressive Insurance

Mission and History

Mission
Annenberg Learner's mission is to "Advance Excellent Teaching in American Schools." We have pursued this mission for more than three decades by funding and distributing multimedia resources for teachers (K-12 and college levels) to teach their subjects and to stay up-to-date in their fields. As our name Annenberg Learner implies, we focus on the teacher as a learner, as well as the student as a learner. In fact, all adults who are lifelong learners have enjoyed and benefited from using our resources.


This list of Progressive Machine forces, who are currently inside our Nations Public Schools can go on and on.

Here's a sliver of the list of causes the Progressive Machine support financially

ACORN
Air America Radio network
America Votes
AmericanForeignPolicy, [5]
Catalist, [6]
Center for American Progress
Center for Community Change
Center for Progressive Leadership
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CREW
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, [7]
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, [8]
EMILY's List
Kirwan Institute
Media Matters for America
New Democratic Network, [9]
People for the American Way, [10]
Progress Now
Progressive Majority, [11]
Secretary of State Project
Sierra Club
USAction
VoteVets, [12]
Young People For, [13]
Women's Voices. Women Vote., [14]
 
Absolutely - it's called authoritarianism/totalitarianism....

Problem is that our government is attempting to brainwash children with communist (totalitarian) nonsense....

Why would our government, which is thoroughly against communism, be brainwashing our children with "communist nonsense"?
 
wow nick
please show us some common core documentation which evidences such ideology is behind this move to common core standards
and if you cannot do so, shed all tin foil

High school textbook rewriting the Second Amendment distributed to hundreds of schools nationwide

How's that for starters...

According to common core our Second Amendment reads: “The people have the right to keep and bear arms in a state of militia.”

Really?

Of course progressives have absolutely no problem with such ignorance if it pushes their pathetic authoritarian agenda...
 
Why would our government, which is thoroughly against communism, be brainwashing our children with "communist nonsense"?

Yeah right - communism is every progressives dream in the United States....

The same clowns that were defending the Vietcong (along with Mao and Pol Pot) and their communist state(s) in the 60's/70's are now teaching kids k through college....

Furthermore, the only people that makeup our government that are against communism are non-democrats/progressives.
 
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Yeah right - communism is every progressives dream in the United States....

The same clowns that were defending the Vietcong (along with Mao and Pol Pot) and their communist state(s) in the 70's are now teaching kids k through college....

Furthermore, the only people that makeup our government that are against communism are non-democrats/progressives.

Progressivism was in direct response to the perceived dangers of socialism, mate.

It'd help if you actually knew what you were talking about.
 
Progressivism was in direct response to the perceived dangers of socialism, mate.

It'd help if you actually knew what you were talking about.

No you're absolutely wrong....

Progressivism was in direct response to theocracy and monarchy - not communism..... If anything both ideas were opposite to communism or socialism....

Not to mention "communism" or "socialism" didn't have a name until Marx wrote about it and that was in the mid to late 19th century and thoroughly not embraced until the early 20th century.
 
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No you're absolutely wrong....

Progressivism was in direct response to theocracy and monarchy - not communism..... If anything both ideas were opposite to communism or socialism....

Not to mention "communism" or "socialism" didn't have a name until Marx wrote about it and that was in the mid to late 19th century and thoroughly not embraced until the early 20th century.

In the United States, progressivism was not in direct response to theocracy and monarchy. Yes, socialism wasn't in the American consciousness until the late 19th century. Hence why progressivism in the United States was quite aware of the lurking possibilities.

Now, again, you're wrong. CC is not communist propaganda or indoctrination. Go elsewhere with the tinfoil hat.
 
High school textbook rewriting the Second Amendment distributed to hundreds of schools nationwide

How's that for starters...

According to common core our Second Amendment reads: “The people have the right to keep and bear arms in a state of militia.”

Really?

Of course progressives have absolutely no problem with such ignorance if it pushes their pathetic authoritarian agenda...


now tell us, exactly how is that second amendment text excerpt guilty of moving our youth in the direction of communism

[this should be 'good']
 
In the United States, progressivism was not in direct response to theocracy and monarchy. Yes, socialism wasn't in the American consciousness until the late 19th century. Hence why progressivism in the United States was quite aware of the lurking possibilities.

Now, again, you're wrong. CC is not communist propaganda or indoctrination. Go elsewhere with the tinfoil hat.

Everything you just said is completely wrong....

Why the hell do you think people came to the "New World"?

What do you think classical liberalism is?

What chapter of history did you ignore or just fail?

Remember the whole part about kings and queens and religious persecution?

Hell, the Magna Carta was wrote in 1215 - what was the intent of that liberal (progressive) document?
 
Everything you just said is completely wrong....

Why the hell do you think people came to the "New World"?

What do you think classical liberalism is?

What chapter of history did you ignore or just fail?

Remember the whole part about kings and queens and religious persecution?

Hell, the Magna Carta was wrote in 1215 - what was the intent of that liberal (progressive) document?

I'm not going to argue with you anymore on the start of Progressivism, nor will I bother to ask your own level of historical education (I'm pretty sure I do not need to).
 
now tell us, exactly how is that second amendment text excerpt guilty of moving our youth in the direction of communism

[this should be 'good']

For starters the book didn't even accurately print the Second Amendment as it reads...

Do I really need to say anything more than that??

I don't even see how you find that NOT to be a problem (actually I do because you're a progressive and just don't care)....
 
I'm not going to argue with you anymore on the start of Progressivism, nor will I bother to ask your own level of historical education (I'm pretty sure I do not need to).

LOL....

What period would you like to discuss??

You do realize that all "progressive" means is progress???

Progress from what to what tho???

If it matters I'm anti-authoritarian and I'm far from an anarchist....

I don't believe in telling others what to do, but at the same time I don't believe in doing crazy **** just because I can....
 
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