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It’s #AboutTheChild – Not About the Money!

By Alice Linahan 

I am a ‎MadTexasMom‬

What the Veritas team has uncovered should make Parents in ALL 50 states LIVID! 

Links to 1st and 2nd videos released so far.

1st – www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8tZGl1SVs0

2nd – www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAcfuKbKqK8

School Board members who approve funding for these instructional materials and curriculum products and programs at the local level should be asking major questions. Schools boards should hold Consultants and Superintendents recommending these instructional materials and professional development accountable.

They know there is a transformation in education. And they know 21st Century Learning/Common Core is a push for globalism.

They know it is a shift away from Academics- reading, writing, and math to the 4 C’s Creativity, Communication, Critical Thinking and Collaboration.

As a Mom, it makes me livid Pearson is creating instructional materials and professional development and “employing the use of psychometrics” in all aspects of the common core agenda, that teachers are forced to use, purchased with my tax dollars that are in fact creating child abuse on my children.”

Let’s talk about what that means for our children.

This is what Common Core/21st Century Learning/ Project Based Learning is! It is all a very coordinated effort that is in All 50 States!! –

Need proof this is a short audio clip taken in Richardson ISD in Texas. A state that said NO to Common Core but YES to 21st Century Learning.

WHOEVER CONTROLS THE ASSESSMENTS, CONTROLS THE CURRICULUM AND HAS ACCESS TO THE DATA CREATED from it. 

 

The College Board’s SAT and AP (Advanced Placement) assessments and conceptual frameworks can be described as “Transdisiplinary” in their purpose. 

Transdisiplinary is when the function of the subject matter, concept themes in the syllabus, and course frameworks are all used to guide how a student views the world. The technical term most commonly used is lenses. Effectively these lenses become the values, attitudes, and beliefs the students are to be taking away from the curriculum. 

Let me give you a personal story as to what the College Boards transdisiplinary looks like in the classroom. 

received screen shots of a quiz given in an AP (Advanced Placement)/Duel Credit English 3 class.   The lesson plan for the class shows that they were working on group presentations on philosophy (in an English Class) and these quizzes were a part of the research each group was to do. Each group was assigned a Philosophy and after their research, each group gave a presentation to the class. The Philosophy’s the groups were assigned were…. 

1. Utilitarianism

2. Objectivism

3. Civil Disobedience

4. Existentialism

5. Categorical Imperative

6. Hierarchy of Human Needs

7. Social Contract  

Parents!! Would you want your child taking a quiz called ‘Philosophy Experiments,’ in high school, much less on their district issued Chromebook, that grades their answers, compatibility, and then gives the student a “tension score” on a bar graph. Whatever two answers contradict, it plays devils advocate and makes you question your beliefs. 

Here are some of the questions: 

* There are no objective moral standards; moral judgements are merely an expression of the values of particular cultures. Agree or Disagree 

* So long as they do not harm others, individuals should be free to pursue their own ends. Agree or Disagree

* It is always wrong to take another persons life. Agree or Disagree 

* The right to life is so fundamental that financial considerations are irrelevant in any effort to save lives. Agree or Disagree 

* Homosexuality is wrong because it is unnatural. Agree or Disagree 

* It is quite reasonable to believe in the existence of a thing without even the possibility of evidence for its existence. Agree or Disagree 

* There exists an all-powerful, loving and good God. Agree or Disagree  

* The second world war was a just war. Agree or Disagree 

* There are no objective truths about matters of fact; “truth” is always relative to particular cultures and     individuals. Agree or Disagree 

* Atheism is a faith just like any other, because it is not possible to prove the non-existence of God. Agree or Disagree 

* To allow an innocent child to suffer needlessly when one could easily prevent it is morally reprehensible.  Agree or Disagree 

* The holocaust is an historical reality, taking place more or less as the history books report. Agree or Disagree 

As I said, where there is a conflict with two answers, it analyzes the two and scores the student.  

Here is an example…… 

“Statements 5 and 29: Can you put a price on a human life?

28% of the people who have completed this activity have this tension in their beliefs.

You agreed that:
The right to life is so fundamental that financial considerations are irrelevant in any effort to save lives
But disagreed that:
Governments should be allowed to increase taxes sharply to save lives in the developing world

If the right to life is so fundamental that financial considerations are irrelevant when it comes to making decisions about saving human lives, then that must mean that we should always spend as much money as possible to save lives. If it costs £4 million to save a cancer patient’s life, that money should be spent, period. But if this is true, then surely the West should spend as much money as possible saving lives in the developing world. You may already give $100 dollars a month to save lives in the developing world. But if financial considerations are irrelevant when it comes to saving lives, why not $200, or $1000, or just as much as you can afford? If you do not do so, you are implicitly endorsing the principle that individuals and governments are not obliged to save lives at all financial cost – that one can spend ‘enough’ on saving lives even though spending more, which one could afford to do, would save more lives. This suggests that financial considerations are relevant when it comes to making decisions about saving lives – there is a limit to how much one should spend to save a life.”

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Transdisiplinary“28% of the people who have completed this activity have this tension in their beliefs.

You agreed that:
There exists an all-powerful, loving and good God
And also that:
To allow an innocent child to suffer needlessly when one could easily prevent it is morally reprehensible

These two beliefs together generate what is known as ‘The Problem of Evil’. The problem is simple: if God is all-powerful, loving and good, that means he can do what he wants and will do what is morally right. But surely this means that he would not allow an innocent child to suffer needlessly, as he could easily prevent it. Yet he does. Much infant suffering is the result of human action, but much is also due to natural causes, such as disease, flood or famine. In both cases, God could stop it, yet he does not.”

These responses and their data can legally be tracked for research purposes by 3rd party contractors because President Obama changed the regulation on the FERPA law. A students private data can be collected without parental consent.

Here is a link to the quiz yourself.  http://www.philosophyexperiments.com/health/Default.aspx  

After taking this quiz herself, Clinical Mental Health Councilor Joan Landes stated…. 

“It’s a classic psychological deconstruction technique to put a person in a double bind and collapse his cognitive framework. Then the “leader” picks up the pieces and reassembles them to order. This is an inappropriate use of psychological force on impressionable minds and unformed identities.”-

Now, you might say, what public high school teacher would think this is a good quiz to give and blame it all on the crazy teacher, but…..  

That local superintendent ultimately is in charge of curriculum, and the local school board approves funding for the professional development of both the teacher and the superintendent. 

Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, CommunicationThe challenge with 21st Century Learning/Common Core/College and Career Ready Standards transformation of education, is how teachers are being re- trained to teach. It is their professional development. In addition, administrators are being trained, through their professional development, how to deal with parents who complain. It is actually the teacher who is in danger, because they are many times used as the fall guy. It is No longer about reading, and writing in a 21st Century English classroom.  It is about the 4 C’s Creativity, Communication, Critical Thinking and Collaboration. 

In Texas we said NO to the Common Core National Standards, but we’ve said yes to our teachers being re-trained for 21st Century Learning using the InTASC Model CoreTeaching Standards; Learning Progressions for Teachers.  The Copyright for these standards is owned by the Council of Chief State School Officers, who as you will remember own the copyright to the Common Core National Standards. They are all aligned to a collectivist philosophy of education. Check out standard #5

InTASC Learning Progress #5“The teacher understands how to connect concepts and use differing perspectives to engage learners in critical thinking, creativity, and collaborative problem solving related to authentic local and global issues.”  

Clearly worded in the InTASC paper is states; “these standards differ from the original standards in one key respect: These standards are no longer intended only for “beginning” teachers but as professional practice standards.”  

 21 Century Learning

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