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This individual constantly mocks others for their views, and doesn't seem to understand how absolutely dangerous it is for a parent to be taken away in handcuffs at the behest of a school board. She needs a lesson in what government control looks like. She's expecting a pension from the state, but seems to not understand that (a) it's not a guarantee and (b) she has NO recourse if it's taken away. If the state goes bankrupt, it goes bankrupt.

Now, if you are upset that local control is allowing bad books to be selected as the curriculum, you sound like you have no faith in local control over schools. If so, there's a big problem, because local control is also what you are arguing FOR. How can you argue both for and against local control?

Anonymous wrote:I still fail to see how this book and arrest are even remotely related to Common Core.

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You should not be teaching if you feel this is a good assignment in any way, shape or form. You would not DARE to write an assignment asking if slavery was a hoax.
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Did anyone else notice that the acting superintendent of that county had a Muslim name?

Yes. That is the real story. As I said, Common Core allows for this kind of interpretation. By design

So do you want that local control or not? You can't have it both ways hon.

Well, apparently local control over curriculum is fine, except if that control is by a guy with a Muslim name.

What fail to understand is that local control stopped this in its tracks. If this was approved federally, there would be nothing you could do, and trying would take years. On a state level, that time limit drops, but not by much.

What fail to understand is that local control stopped this in its tracks. If this was approved federally, there would be nothing you could do, and trying would take years. On a state level, that time limit drops, but not by much.

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You should not be teaching if you feel this is a good assignment in any way, shape or form. You would not DARE to write an assignment asking if slavery was a hoax.
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Did anyone else notice that the acting superintendent of that county had a Muslim name?

Yes. That is the real story. As I said, Common Core allows for this kind of interpretation. By design

So do you want that local control or not? You can't have it both ways hon.

Well, apparently local control over curriculum is fine, except if that control is by a guy with a Muslim name.

And yet you were blaming Common Core standards for not providing a specific topic.
What fail to understand is that local control stopped this in its tracks. If this was approved federally, there would be nothing you could do, and trying would take years. On a state level, that time limit drops, but not by much.

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I don't get it. I thought that the whole point of schools was to be a major influence on education.

That is why it needs to be at the local level where parents can control it.

Exactly. There is recent footage of a man in NH being ARRESTED for going over the 2 minute talk rule at a school board meeting at a library. They did not want him to talk about the book his 9th grade daughter was reading, which was on the list of advanced reading for Common Core. The book was Jody Picoult's "Nineteen Minutes. Want to read the passage he was objecting to? It's detailed here, along with the story and video: http://eagnews.org/new-hampshire-father-opposes-required-reading-of-pornographic-novel-in-9th-grade-english/

If you watch, you can see the policeman seemed hesitant and reluctant. He apparently told the man "He didn't want to do this".

It is INSANE a man can be ARRESTED at a meeting like this. Why does a school board need an officer there? Why are they feeling that parents will revolt against them?

If a school board in New Hampshire had a man arrested for talking too long about a book the school system decided to include in the curriculum, then obviously that must be the fault of the Common Core standards (plus also Arne Duncan and Pearson. Follow the money.)

As long as teachers aren't arrested, right? Arrested for speaking out about porn in books to 9th graders. Is that ok with you? You won't answer this with anything but snark , because you know I am correct. Whenever you snark, I know you are trapped. You know the school board was wrong to do this. Ipunless you want those pesky parents out of the way because you know what is best

My wish is for your pension to be unavailable to you when you retire, because there is no money for it in the budget. What, you have a contract? Doesn't matter. Who are you going to sue in the end?

You do sound deranged. And did you even read the article? The book has been part of the curriculum since 2007, way before common core. So....

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You should not be teaching if you feel this is a good assignment in any way, shape or form. You would not DARE to write an assignment asking if slavery was a hoax.
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Did anyone else notice that the acting superintendent of that county had a Muslim name?

Yes. That is the real story. As I said, Common Core allows for this kind of interpretation. By design

So do you want that local control or not? You can't have it both ways hon.

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You should not be teaching if you feel this is a good assignment in any way, shape or form. You would not DARE to write an assignment asking if slavery was a hoax.
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Did anyone else notice that the acting superintendent of that county had a Muslim name?

Yes. That is the real story. As I said, Common Core allows for this kind of interpretation. By design

So do you want that local control or not? You can't have it both ways hon.

Well, apparently local control over curriculum is fine, except if that control is by a guy with a Muslim name.

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I don't get it. I thought that the whole point of schools was to be a major influence on education.

That is why it needs to be at the local level where parents can control it.

Exactly. There is recent footage of a man in NH being ARRESTED for going over the 2 minute talk rule at a school board meeting at a library. They did not want him to talk about the book his 9th grade daughter was reading, which was on the list of advanced reading for Common Core. The book was Jody Picoult's "Nineteen Minutes. Want to read the passage he was objecting to? It's detailed here, along with the story and video: http://eagnews.org/new-hampshire-father-opposes-required-reading-of-pornographic-novel-in-9th-grade-english/

If you watch, you can see the policeman seemed hesitant and reluctant. He apparently told the man "He didn't want to do this".

It is INSANE a man can be ARRESTED at a meeting like this. Why does a school board need an officer there? Why are they feeling that parents will revolt against them?

If a school board in New Hampshire had a man arrested for talking too long about a book the school system decided to include in the curriculum, then obviously that must be the fault of the Common Core standards (plus also Arne Duncan and Pearson. Follow the money.)

As long as teachers aren't arrested, right? Arrested for speaking out about porn in books to 9th graders. Is that ok with you? You won't answer this with anything but snark , because you know I am correct. Whenever you snark, I know you are trapped. You know the school board was wrong to do this. Ipunless you want those pesky parents out of the way because you know what is best

My wish is for your pension to be unavailable to you when you retire, because there is no money for it in the budget. What, you have a contract? Doesn't matter. Who are you going to sue in the end?

What the what? Do you realize that you sound deranged?

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Anonymous wrote:When a worksheet says both EngageNY AND Common Core on the bottom, are we to assume that the worksheet has nothing to do with Common Core?

No, we're to assume that it is EngageNY's attempt to address the CCSS. We're not to assume that just because EngageNY attempted to address the standard in a certain way it was the correct way or the only way to do so.

Anonymous wrote:Whether the book was appropriate or not for a ninth grader, I don't know (never read it). But if every book with a passage about sex is suddenly considered porn, there is a lot of porn in our public libraries! Same with movies.