You Have to See These Unintelligible Common Core Assignments Posted by  Angry Parents

Now that Common Core curricula is finding its way into use across the nation, we’re beginning to see that our suppositions and fears about it are panning out.  Parents in every kind of educational environment are becoming bemused, bewildered and beangered at what their kids are showing them.

A Common Core "Math" Workbook

Michelle Malkin, who is the “CEO” of a website called Twitchy, has amassed a collection of examples that are beyond explanation.  If you have a child now being taught with CCSS, or if you are homeschooling a student hoping to meet CCSS testing standards, it behooves you to take a closer look.   Click Here!

Civil War? What Civil War?

Does context mean anything at all?

If not, we might try studying the immigration of Oklahomans to California without even glancing upon something called the great Dust Bowl or the wider economic conditions of the country during the ’30s.  If we did ignore these things, how much would we really have learned?

Or perhaps we could try looking at World War I without taking into account the entangled alliances, arms races, and social changes that preceded it.  I suspect if we tried that, we might well scratch our heads and ask ourselves “How in the world could this have happened?”

Of course nothing in our history happened in a vacuum.  We live in a world of cause and effect, and nothing teaches us the truth of that more than an examination of the string of events that got us to where we’re at now.  Not only must events be considered in the light of the circumstances leading up to them, but the same also holds true of the famous words, both spoken and written, that are our shared legacy.

Well, hold on –  everything just got a lot simpler.  The architects of Common Core have decided that such immortal words as the Gettysburg Address should be taught with nary a mention of the Civil War, or for that matter even a nod to the Battle of Gettysburg!  (Of course, if you mentioned the latter even a Common Corer would feel obliged to mention the former.  Maybe.)

The Battle of Gettysburg- Irrelevant?

So what gives?  If you think that the Dumbing Down of America has already happened, you’re horribly mistaken.  Read more HERE.

Who Needs Words Anyway?

A Common Core Book for 3rd Graders