Common Core and what you can do

I am in LA but great news that FL’s governor has pulled out of common core. Smart state! Hope our governor starts to listen…not going very well right now but we will keep fighting. 🙂

I’ll add a great link to your awesome list.  For checking out curricula and their stance on CC, whether you want aligned materials, independent, or anything in between, check out the database at http://www.theeducationalfreedomcoalition.org/ Very awesome website she has, and the FB page is just as awesome.  🙂

hiddenjewel, are you in Texas? It’s true, your state opted out, but the replacement is almost as bad. My state is trying to pull out. Our Gov. isn’t fully convinced yet, though he has signed Executive orders to pull us from the data gathering that’s beyond what has already been being gathered and one other thing, I can’t remember right now.

So, just like when throughout history (curretn, too) when despots are pulled from power, what usually takes their place is just as bad or worse; we need to keep vigilant. If you can get CC out of your state, watch out, as those who want to control the education from top-down, won’t give up; they’ll just call it something else.

Don’t really know how I missed this (maybe because I live in TX?) but I hadn’t heard of common core until just right now. So obviously I haven’t read much about it other than a quick preliminary google search. But as a former public and private school teacher, I am well aware the school system is sinking deeper and deeper into a hole and there sadly and honestly is no way out – that’s one reason why I am choosing to homeschool our children. But I have a question about Common Core for you all that are more informed about it than I am – why does it matter to us homeschoolers? I imagine it probably doesn’t with me living in TX (other than yet another thing in our daily lives being nationalized), but suppose I had to move to another state? What does this mean for homeschoolers? Thank you, and I hope this isn’t a stupid question!

Another view of this is the fear that colleges will start requireing CCC as a prerequisite for entrance consideration. If that happens our freedom as hsers able to choose what is best for our children go right out the window.

I’m going to be the voice asking for balance on this controversy … These are obviously my opinions and mine only.  However, my husband has and does work in public education.  This gives me insight in to the real applications of these issues, as well as some history on it.  I am no expert on public education of course, but I try to read a lot about it and I do have the benefit of great discussions with my hubby on the subject. 

I just think this debate needs balance.  If we don’t understand public education laws and programs before Common Core how can we truly understand the affects of Common Core?  I always like to try to read things for myself before making up my mind.  I’m not likely to listen to a political party or activist groups before I know something of the topic myself.  I learned a lot here at the Federal Government site and maybe you’d like to understand their role too?  Look around on there too … there were lots of links everywhere!

http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/focus/what_pg4.html

http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html?src=ln

I put in a search on their site for “common core” and got this list I linked to below.  I didn’t have a chance to read them yet, but I look forward to it. 

http://find.ed.gov/search?client=default_frontend&site=default_collection&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&q=common+core&sa.x=0&sa.y=0

I followed one link in the OP – http://www.stopcommoncore.com – I looked at some of the material and the sample problems that they showed.  The site showing them could not even state, without reservation, that they were truly from a Common Core text book.  So, why did they represent them as if they were?  That seems weird.  Here are links to the actual standards … read them yourself and see what you think.  Don’t rely on someone else to say “here is an example problem from common core” because it might not be right.  If you read them and dislike them then at least you know your decision was based in real facts.

http://www.corestandards.org/Math

http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy

@ susie in ms – could you please point to specifically where you found these things you mention in your post?  I would like to see that for myself.  It seems so outrageous.  Why would issues of sexual crimes be in an educational standard of any kind?  I’m intrigued. 

Oh goodness! That is the wrong link–though still very disturbing. It seems that all of my links on CCC I placed on FB have been deleated by the ptb. I had a hard time finding the above, but I will continue to look for the other you are asking about.