By Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil -
Author Patrick Wood warned us that America’s schools were in danger back in 2005. In his article "Global Schooling: The Hijacking of American Education", he equates the virtual takeover (or hijacking) of American education to that of seizing control of a moving vehicle by use of force, in order to reach an alternate destination. The time period for this hijacking coincides with the economic plundering of America. According to Patrick Wood, the takeover started roughly in 1973 and is still in progress today.
The success of this globalism agenda rides on the back of manipulating the minds of students to reflect patterns of global dogma. The students may be academically inferior to their 1970 counterparts, but scholarship was easily traded for the globalist-friendly character traits of a globalized citizen, one who will not question the globalist agenda but instead welcome it as an inevitable evolution of civilization.
Wood's article takes the reader through the timetable of Phase 1 for executing the Plan: the PREPARATORY PERIOD, 1980 to 1995, when the Globalist Plan went into high gear with the establishment of the Center on Education Policy (CEP), which was founded and financed by Globalist foundation money and staffed by operators who would carry out their elite wishes. Its Statement of Purpose has the audacity to proclaim “We do not represent any special interests." What follows, however, doesn't jive with the previous Statement's denial of special interests representation: “We try to help citizens make sense of the conflicting opinions and perceptions about public education and create the conditions that will lead to better public schools.”
On the surface, President George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind Act” passed in 2002 seems to address turning the education system around, but instead it was the capstone of an effort stated in the 1980s to federalize education for all students. NCLB achieved two major goals for global education operatives: For the first time in the history of the U.S., all education standards fell under the umbrella of the federal government. Second, it created a mechanism for mandatory national testing and data collection for children in public schools.
Through the monetary bribery of states, the Common Core curriculum had its beginnings in the Obama administration in 2010. States were permitted to drop the highly unpopular "No Child Left Behind Act" (NCLB), if they agreed to accept Common Core. Most states signed on sight unseen and before the new education program was even tested.
Presently, Common Core curriculum has been accepted by most states. Cause for great concern is warranted, because Common Core specifies the textbooks and curriculum that must be used in carrying out the Common core lesson plans, curriculum that contains the indoctrination material of the Global elites. Common Core's “recommended” reading list originated from one centrally controlled location.
Why would Global elitists, through the ACLU, want all vestiges of Judeo-Christian tradition removed from the classroom? Their Global education agenda would not and could not work as long as students could compare the elitists' propaganda to the uncompromising Judeo-Christian ethic. In Communist Russia, Lenin and Stalin’s solution to Christianity and Judaism was simple: kill the Christians and Jews.
The Deceptiveness of Common Core
Dr. Sandra Stotsky, an EducationViews Contributor, was the only English Language Arts “content expert” on the Common Core Validation Committee, She and her teammate, retired math professor John Milgram, have now become critics of the merits of the Common Core State Standards. Stotsky claims that the Common Core writers were not qualified. Although the states that adopted Common Core’s standards did so legally (usually by a vote of their State Board of Education), many state policymakers deliberately minimized public awareness and discussion of the standards' academic deficits in order to ensure the passage of Common Core and its continued usage.
Some State officials chose to deceive the public about aspects of Common Core in outright defiance of the expressed will of State Legislators, who wished to revise or eliminate Common Core’s standards. This was the situation in South Carolina, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Louisiana, and New Jersey.
Dr. Stotsky's article of Dec. 24, 2015, explains how State Departments of Education deliberately deceived parents about Common Core, apparently using a common excuse that "the end justifies the means." Following are some of the popular ploys used to deceive the public:
- Giving PARCC, a national Common Core-base test, another name to minimize Common Core’s involvement.
- Using restricted review methodology that inhibits statewide reviewers from a standard-by-standard review.
- Stacking review committees with Common Core partisans and giving them limited purview to minimize participation by undergraduate teaching faculty in Mathematics and English.
- Skewing public discussion with unbalanced public forums that used speakers who were biased for Common Core.
- Relying on rigged external reports, seemingly unbiased external reports by groups such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Achieve, Inc., both of which are funded by the Gates Foundation that had supplied millions of dollars in the Common Core project.
Common Core given new life by a bi-partisan Congress
Lest anyone think that acts of deception about Common Core have come only from one side of the political aisle and/or specific State Departments of Education, perhaps the greatest act of deception is the preposterous claim about the thrust of the recent re-authorization of ESEA by its major author Senator Lamar Alexander.
In an op-ed in The Tennessean on December 12, 2015, Senator Alexander implied that he had “repealed the federal Common Core mandate and reversed the trend toward a national school board.” Instead, as Peter Cunningham, a former official in the USDE pointed out, “the new law that the Senator from Tennessee is so proud of, the Every Student Succeeds Act, now mandates the very thing he rails against."
Under the new law, every state must adopt “college-and career-ready” standards. Thus, the new law all but guarantees that Common Core State Standards—or a reasonable imitation under a different name—will likely remain in place in most states.” Senator Lamar Alexander, former president of the University of Tennessee, has managed to deceive not only his constituents in Tennessee and the entire country but also himself.
See here Thorner's published article of January 11, 2016, at Illinois Review: "Republicans Accused of Cynical Scheme that Led to Odious Education Law" (the “Every Student Succeed Act” or S1177). Common Core activists tried for months to warn Congress that the new Federal Education Bill was a disaster that would cement, not overturn, the odious progressive-education philosophies of the Obama Administration, Except for 64 House members (click here to see how your member voted) and 12 senators (click here to see how your senators voted) who were brave enough to buck Republican leadership, their warnings were dismissed.
Is Common Core a ruse to sell books?
A recent article dated January 12, 2016, defined Common Core as a disaster in terms of delivering quality and meaningful education. Instead, it's a system designed for Sustainable Development and Technocracy. Nevertheless, bookmakers and publishers are raking in money hand-over-fist as they replace virtually every book in the U.S. school system with the new curricula. The same publishers will sell another round of books to put things back where they were when Common fails. Purchasing Common Core material is a must, as testing is geared to the Common Core Curriculum.
The West Coast sales manager from one of the nation’s biggest school book sellers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, told an undercover muckraker with Project Veritas that "I hate kids. Don’t even kid yourself for a heartbeat." She added that "it’s all about the money. What are you, crazy? It’s all about the money. You don’t think that the educational publishing companies are in it for education, do you? No, they’re in it for the money." Naturally the sales manager was fired when her remarks reached her employer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
States Common Core standards exist
This map shows the state level adoption of Common Core with its progressive and brainwashing curriculum.
States that have withdrawn: Indiana, South Carolina.
States that never adopted Common Core: Virginia, Texas, Nebraska, and Alaska.
Partial adoption state: Minnesota.
The most recent polls indicate Common Core is becoming more and more unpopular, as parents experience it and the public becomes more knowledgeable about it. Whether you are a parent who has concerns, or a citizen who objects to a federalized education system conceived and initiated by suspicious sources with an agenda, it is important for you to speak out and let your voice be heard.
Join the fight with millions of concerned citizens and parents who realize the new national system is not right for America. Attend school board meetings to make public statements; contact your local, state and federal representatives to express your concerns. Oh, and tell all those officials that our forefathers specified education was exclusively the responsibility of each State government and they need to take back their job and keep control at the local level. That might frustrate those who promote Global education and a one-World government, but for those of us who value our local sovereignty, we will fight back against the wealthy elitists’ agenda, because we love the U.S.A.
