We have tried to mirror the state and federal standards as much as possible."
This is a very damning statement for a state that boasts it did not adopt the Common Core Standards Initiative. But the problems dont end there.
In Part 1 of this series I exposed Hillarys master plan for the Clinton Administration to seize the entire U.S. Educational System to serve national economic planning of the workforce. The plan is to remold the entire American system into a seamless web that literally extends from cradle to grave and is the same system for everyone coordinated by a system of labor market boards at the local state and federal levels where curriculum and job matching will be handled by counselors accessing the integrated computer-based program. Public schools have been gradually changed from teaching academic basics and knowledge to training for the global economy in jobs selected by workforce boards training for American collectivism. This has required radical changes in attitudes values and beliefs. When Texas legislators passed HB 5 they placed Texas in lockstep with Hillarys plan for America. As for our mathematics standards shipwreck merely stripping out the Common Core process standards wont really cure the problem. But it will halt teachers from using idiotic Common Core methods for teaching math and placing emphasis on the process of solving a math problem rather than finding a correct math solution. To create superior math standards Texas must at some point return to the drawing board as recommended by Dr. Milgram and write new math standards that will prepare our students for an America that is competing in the world market against highly achieving nations with world class math scholars. Texas cannot integrate both Common Core Standards and Classical Academic-based Standards. The philosophies are so radically different that it is impossible to merge them. The Classical Academic-based platform highly successful for centuries is designed to prepare students broadly for life as well as for fields of study that require mathematics in their work. The Common Core Progressive philosophy focuses on non-academic social/emotional learning that now uses mathematics education for social justice goals. The focus on feelings emotions and opinions causes students to believe that right or wrong is relative only to ones perceptions. This leads into anarchy and lack of respect of authority figures. (See the differences in the two philosophies.) This is a critical junction for Texans.- What is the purpose of Texas education? Is it to provide an academic education or to conduct social justice and political engineering?
- How can the ban on Common Core be enforced?
- Has the TEA forgotten it is beholden to the taxpayers who fund the organization and the salaries of their employees?
- How are the actions of the TEA and the Education Service Centers any different from the deceit and corruption of Washington?
- Why is the Texas Legislature adopting curriculum standards? Why are they passing left wing education policy revising our Texas Education Code to implement Common Core?
- Call or write your SBOE representative and tell them you expect them to uphold Texas law and remove the Common Core Process Standards from our Math TEKS during upcoming meetings.
- Call or write your representatives in the Texas House and Texas Senate to:
- Stop violating the Texas Education Code
- Stop passing education policy that implements the social justice agenda of Common Core away from an academic-based education
- Penalize districts that use Common Core and
- Rein in the subterfuge of TEA employees and hold them accountable for their actions in adding Common Core to our math standards.
- Part 2: COMMON CORE MATH IN TEXAS? DID THE TEA OVERSTEP ITS AUTHORITY ON MATH CURRICULUM STANDARDS?
- Part 1: COMMON CORE MATH IN TEXAS? WHY TEXAS SCHOOLS SHOULD NOT USE CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT CONTROL
- WHY TEXAS MUST START EDUCATION SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
- WILL TEXAS STATE BOARD OF ED ADOPT COMMON CORE-COMPLIANT STANDARDS?