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Title: Straight A Students Being Held Back a Grade for Refusing to Take Common Core Standardized Tests
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Activist Post
URL Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/06 ... n-core-standardized-tests.html
Published: Jun 6, 2016
Author: Melissa Dykes
Post Date: 2016-06-07 09:08:30 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 450
Comments: 5
Parents across the country are revolting against an obviously agenda-driven brainwashing system that is our nation’s modern public schools, while the system is doing everything it can to force compliance. Parents who opted their kids out of Florida’s standardized state tests at the end of the year as an act of civil disobedience are now being told their children, despite some having straight A’s, are going to be held back a grade as punishment … once again proving that America’s public school system is not about educating smart future leaders of tomorrow, but dumbing kids down and forcing them to obey and conform. Welcome to Common Core math. Any questions? Via The Orlando Sentinel: The parents, part of the “opt out” movement opposed to high-stakes testing, are furious. They are convinced school districts are not following state law and are instead retaliating against families who refused to take part in the Florida Standards Assessments. They did so as an act of civil disobedience to protest what they view as the state’s over-reliance on an unproven standardized test. “There’s no reason for a third grader with straight As to be retained,” said parent Rhonda Nickerson, whose 9-year-old daughter may be barred from fourth grade at a Seminole County elementary school. “What are they going to do with her in third grade again?” Rhonda’s daughter’s report card shows straight A’s but also reads “Student Retained in Grade 3.” Makes sense right? What is the goal of school again? Sounds like she’s being set up to get in trouble out of boredom for a year, then be labeled in her permanent file as one of those smart troublemaker throwaway kids for the rest of her public education career. “It’s force by the government as government grows incredibly large and far more dangerous,” the Independent Sentinel reports. Florida is not the only state penalizing kids for not taking unproven standardized government tests. WND reports that at least a dozen students in Greenville, South Carolina were officially disciplined for “refusal to obey” because they would not take the new standardized ACT test. Parents told the newspaper their kids were pressured by school officials – in front of their classmates – to take the tests. When they refused, they were removed from class and taken to another room, where the principal again pressured them. Ultimately, they were accused in an official discipline referral of “refusal to obey,” the parents told the newspaper. Refusal to obey. Wow. Is the ACT even required unless a student is going to go to college? The school must be getting some kind of kickback. The biggest argument against what many parents see as the excessive standardized testing that has been put in place nationally ever since No Child Left Behind began is that these tests are high-stakes for the children and the teachers and, ultimately, unproven. Simply put, these tests are not “evidence-based.” Neither is Common Core. The whole thing is a giant social engineering experiment which treats American students like lab rats. As previously reported, some kids have gotten so stressed out over these high-stakes, mind-melting tests that they literally wet themselves and throw up while having to take them. Independent journalist Dave Hodges summed Common Core up nicely: Common Core is a simply a regurgitation of Bloom’s Taxonomy combined with some very clever propaganda interwoven into the fabric of every course which embraces social justice, collectivism, the eventual deindustrialization of America through the acceptance of climate change theories, and the resulting carbon taxes and cap and trade policies which will follow. For the people at the top who put such a system in place, it is working to create generation after generation of just the kind of gullible, obedient citizens an authoritarian system wants to control. Just look around. Our public education system is producing a nation of politically correct whiners who shrink from critical thought, trusting everything their government and mainstream media tells them, and crying for microaggression-free safe spaces at the slightest hint that someone disagrees with their politically correct position on anything. The public education system in this country is doing exactly what it is meant to do… adjust children to accept a maladjusted society, no questions asked. As professor Patrick Deneen wrote, We have fallen into the bad and unquestioned habit of thinking that our educational system is broken, but it is working on all cylinders. What our educational system aims to produce is cultural amnesia, a wholesale lack of curiosity, history-less free agents, and educational goals composed of content-free processes and unexamined buzz-words like “critical thinking,” “diversity,” “ways of knowing,” “social justice,” and “cultural competence.” … Our education system produces solipsistic, self-contained selves whose only public commitment is an absence of commitment to a public, a common culture, a shared history. They are perfectly hollowed vessels, receptive and obedient, without any real obligations or devotions. They won’t fight against anyone, because that’s not seemly, but they won’t fight for anyone or anything either…
Also Read: Common Core Opt-Out Movement Growing
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Then let the parents perform their own act of civil disobedience and not use kids as pawns. If passing the test is an established measurement to advance to the next grade, as it obviously is … then not taking the test is the same as failing the test. There are ways to protest without consequences and there are ways to protest that have consequences … one should chose wisely. This was not a wise choice.
Attaboy! Typical response from an apologist for the State. The kids had straight A's - yet you would have them held back. Hey - do some research on Common Core jackass. I find no reason to support Common Core. That is not my point here. The parents have a right to protest and they can use civil disobedience to do so. But when they engage in civil disobedience they cannot presume to avoid punishment. This is how civil disobedience works. Civil disobedience has consequences and parents who use their children in civil obedience must be prepared for the consequences to their children. These parents obviously had not thought the process through and were not prepared. There is a way to stop the use of Common Core. Some states have successfully done that. Parents who want to do away with common core should follow the pattern use by those states and not use their children as pawns. The next logical step for theses parents and students is to lawyer up and challenge the law.
I already see the results of this from many of those students, some of them in high school, when they tell me they do not know how to balance a checkbook, write a business letter, or even use a typewriter when typing manuscripts or research papers. The common core method of teaching is not only wrong but the teachers who subscribe to this method, including holding those students back a grade level for refusing to comply with this core requirement, should have their teaching licenses revoked.
Yes, and the school board members should be voted out of office. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Parents who opted their kids out of Florida’s standardized state tests at the end of the year as an act of civil disobedience …
#2. To: Gatlin (#1)
If passing the test is an established measurement to advance to the next grade, as it obviously is … then not taking the test is the same as failing the test.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
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#4. To: Deckard (#0)
#5. To: goldilucky (#4)
" the teachers who subscribe to this method, including holding those students back a grade level for refusing to comply with this core requirement, should have their teaching licenses revoked. "
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