Dirty
Books and Corporations in the Classroom – Thomas
More Law Center Fights Common Core with Resource
Page for Parents and
Teachers
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From
recommended literature that celebrates pedophilia, and
math standards that ignore simple arithmetic, to “new”
history, and the infiltration of corporations and
advertisers in the classroom and student records, the
Common Core aligned curricula, tests, and data are
filled with horror stories.
In an effort to empower parents and concerned teachers, the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, MI, has launched a Common Core Resource page which combines commentary and analysis from leading experts along with documentation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) worst offenses. These offenses include “grooming” children by presenting graphic descriptions of pedophilia, incest and rape as literature, selling American education to the highest bidder, and turning students into lab rats whose data can be shared with any agency using the right code words.
Richard
Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of TMLC,
commented: “Our resource page is only a
start. And I invite concerned parents and teachers
to check it out and notify Catherine McMillan at cmcmillan@thomasmore.org
if we have left out an important resource. It goes
without saying, I’m grateful to the parents and teachers
who have preceded us in this particular fight for the
future of our children and
nation.”
The
resource page also includes the Law Center’s
comprehensive Student Privacy Protection Request form to
assist parents in opting-out of Common Core aligned
curricula, data mining and the release of student’s
personal information including test scores, religious
and political beliefs, biographic, biometric, and
psychometric data, such as fingerprints, DNA and
information related to children’s personality and
aptitude. The form is available as a general reference
and guide for all concerned
parents.
In
addition, for parents seeking to network with others in
their state who are also working to eliminate Common
Core and its effects, the resource page contains a
listing of Stop Common Core groups by
state.
As
documented in TMLC’s resource page, since its inception,
the CCSS have come under heavy fire, from parents and
educators, for a variety of grievances including:
political, inappropriate, and incomprehensible
assignments; costly ties to big corporations; in-test
advertising; the elimination of locally appropriate
standards; and the emphasis placed on standardized
testing.
Additionally,
concerns about the alarming explosion of data mining
within the classroom have been raised in connection with
Common Core. State databases, often referred to as
P-20 systems, are designed to gather information and
follow students from their entry into pre-Kindergarten
up through entry into the workforce. These databases,
through a complicated network of contracts and
agreements, can then be shared with the federal
government, contractors, researchers and other outside
agencies. In some instances, these databases can contain
over 400 individual data points per student including
health-care histories, income information, religious
affiliations, voting status, blood type, likes and
dislikes and homework completion.
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