Are our children being monitored and tracked in school?

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The curriculum they describe sounds particularly ineffective (i.e, removing serious literature from the English program). However, as bad as the curriculum is, I don’t see anything in the article about people being monitored, with the possible exception of tracking their test scores.
 
Probably serious literature is not part of the plan.

When it comes to the state of education, this teacher’s retirement letter, posted on his blog, is worth reading.

A quote:

“I now find that this approach to my profession is not only devalued, but denigrated and perhaps, in some quarters despised. STEM rules the day and “data driven” education seeks only conformity, standardization, testing and a zombie-like adherence to the shallow and generic Common Core, along with a lockstep of oversimplified so-called Essential Learnings.”
 
I’ve heard of it and think most states are getting common core. Only a few opted out and I believe they lost federal money.

I know in our area they have been on the radio talking about it like it’s great but I have read that the concern is that the paperwork that each child fills out such as name, religion, etc and any question that is on their school records will be put in a federal data base.

Currently most schools are under local and state control with federal unfunded programs like NO Child Left Behind but really no total federal control.
 
Does anyone know if Catholic schools are adopting it? Common Core has kids reading EPA manuals and promotes communist ideas of social justice rather than justice within the framework of capitalism. I don’t know if I worded that right… it is true though, and yes it does track kids’ religion, parents’ political affiliation, income…I guess anything th e govt needs to know…when the time comes to use it.
 
I shouldn’t say this, I suppose, but there’s no way to stop Common Core, you know. They will just rename it and present it again or push it on through.

Like all things “progressive”, it has been an insidious worm crawling into the heart of education for decades until it finally became fulminant. But then its too late.

Just like healthcare.
 
I now find that this approach to my profession is not only devalued, but denigrated and perhaps, in some quarters despised. STEM rules the day
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I wouldn’t have a problem if they put more STEM and less humanities, but they haven’t traded humanities for STEM, just dumbed down humanities.
It looks like they will spend the same amount of time on humanities, but the time will be of lower quality.
 
YES YES YES YES YES.

And I watch their IQs DROP DROP DROP DROP DROP

I teach in special education, in public school. Everything that can be seen is tracked. Nothing that cannot be quantified is bothered with.

I must locate the article I found recently confirming that globalist BILL GATES and his money are funding a huge initiative to not only track your children (if you are not situated in the stratisphere like he is - his children don’t get tracked), but children with “special needs”… and every one of their “disabilities” will be included in what amounts to a public data bank. Parental rights will be gutted. But Gates and cohort will get to monitor and tinker with the herd.

Sorry to be so negative generally in my posts, but, I’ve studied the stuff I post about, or I’ve experienced it.

SO: have no doubt about it: the agenda is MUCH WORSE than you can imagine if you are at all naive, and it does not include Puppet Obama’s children.

Keep in mind that the health care program we are being forced to swallow doesn’t provide competition like the Congress has in theirs - instead of the seniors being competed for, which lowers the cost of insurance - they will be denied care by a panel of 15 people.

Every single aspect of our society, except going to church regularly, reading, praying and partaking of sacraments, is in free fall.
 
Another quote from the retiring teacher.

“My profession is being demeaned by a pervasive atmosphere of distrust, dictating that teachers cannot be permitted to develop and administer their own quizzes and tests (now titled as generic“assessments”) or grade their own students’ examinations. The development of plans, choice of lessons and the materials to be employed are increasingly expected to be common to all teachers in a given subject. This approach not only strangles creativity, it smothers the development of critical thinking in our students and assumes a one-size-fits-all mentality more appropriate to the assembly line than to the classroom.”
 
I’m finding more details on Common Core, such as gutting the math program.

More later.
 
I have a number of problems - one being the federal involvement in aspect of every child’s information. I prefer this at the local level.

I also prefer local control over all schools as they have first hand knowledge of the people in their community and what is going on. I do not like this leveling of everything to a regional control.

Last of all I don’t like it that catholic or any private school including home school families cannot opt out of the national testing. Say I don’t want to teach that humans come from apes or pond scum. Will my child then fail and would I have to go before a board on this.

This whole idea of federal involvement scares me.

I’ve heard that 46 states have taken federal money and are implementing “common core”.
 
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