Shit! I had barely gotten used to the WorldNetDaily idea that tofu makes you gay, only to learn that Common Core does pretty much the same thing:
Replacing Florida’s Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) with a new statewide school exam based on the Common Core standards is part of an agenda to turn kids gay, according to one Florida lawmaker.
In video published by Think Progress on Monday, State Rep. Charles Van Zant (R) warned the company hired to produce Florida’s next statewide exam, American Institutes for Research, had a secret agenda to transform straight youths into homosexuals.
I’ll just bet.
Because, as all anti-gay so-cons know, no one is ever born gay. Which by logical implication also must mean no one is ever born straight, right? People are only turned into these things by outside influences.
IMO, the nutjobs are helping Common Core.
The more I try to take such people seriously, the more I can’t. They are unable to realize that their nonsense is unpopular. Only gay activists and and anti-gay activists like it.
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Evidently the anti-gay vote is still up for grabs in this guys district. Why else would anyone say such stupid things?
Common Core itself isn’t problematic, anyway.
Bad curricula notionally-or-actually conforming to it are.
I’ve looked at the Standards, and there’s nothing glaringly wrong with them.
watching sean hannity makes you gay So doe s listening to rush limbo!
Sigivald:
Common Core is No Child Left Behind, except worse. It’s true that if we’re going to keep the public school system as it currently exists (with unionized teachers, credential requirements for teachers and administrators, and top-down control of the curriculum), then something like this will be required. Otherwise, the bureaucrats in charge would be completely unaccountable.
The specific problem with Common Core is that the curriculum is asinine. It doesn’t teach anybody anything; the kids who can do the reading and arithmetic work are the kids that are naturally gifted at the subjects. Nobody else learns anything.
The fact that it is imposed nationwide just means that there’s no escape from the idiocy, except by pulling your kids out of school.
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure…everything about such schools is compulsory, not free.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
Isabel Paterson in <The God of the Machine 1943
Three threads of philosophy weave through the Common Core—statism, moral relativism, and progressivism, which are revealed both by what is proclaimed and what is omitted. The statist goals of the Common Core are implicit in the lockstep uniformity that is the central thesis of the program. All children in all states will learn the same content in the same manner so that the children may become useful workers.
From Home Schooling Legal Defense Association. http://www.hslda.org/commoncore/topic4.aspx
Our school system as it currently exists is unsustainable. “Common Core” is just another marker on the path to extinction.
Frank,
Thanks for the Paterson quote and linking it with the hslda policy point.