Rally to stop Common Core Sept 17

This poster was sent to me via Twitter. I copied it and pasted it here. This is a link to a Facebook page about the rally. There are many reasons to dislike the nationwide educational concept of Common Core. I have written three blog pages that list reasons to home-school your child.  Common Core is one of these reasons.

Here are clickable links to these essays, all on my "I have to say this" blog:

Reasons to Home-School your Child

More Reasons to Home-School your Child

Videos of Reasons to Home-School your Child (19 YouTube videos)

Note:  I have already begun writing a fourth essay about bag public school policies and teachers.  One news article is included about a satanic group that wants to distribute literature inside a Florida public school.

This essay will be published on my "I have to say this" blog when there are a lot of news articles that are quoted and linked on it.

A description of what's in the first essay

Reasons to Home-School your Child

Opposition to prayer in a public school

The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations opposes permission slips for Bible Study during school time.


Muslim Prayer in a Public School

The same Michigan chapter of the same Council on American-Islamic Relations now demands that Muslim students in an American public school be granted time away from their classes in order to pray.  Two news articles are quoted and linked.


The Pledge of Allegiance is taught in Arabic in a Colorado high school
An article is quoted.


Students in Texas were told to recite the Mexican National Anthem

An article is quoted from The Blaze.  There is also an update to this story, and also from the Blaze, dated two years later.


A school district in Southern California hired a company to spy on students

The company was specifically hired to read what the students posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.


A teenager was suspended and arrested for wearing a t-shirt with "N.R.A." on it

A Breitbart article is quoted and seven other news sources are linked.


Sex between grade-school teachers and students

There are links to 12 news stories about teachers being convicted for these crimes, plus links to 19 news stories about other teachers who were accused of these crimes.  There is also a link to a news story about a teacher who was accused of having sex with at least five students at the same time.


Public School Overreaction to Toy Guns and Imaginary Guns

Students who played with toy guns or who made their hands into gun shapes and said "Bang" were suspended.  Two news stories are quoted and four others are linked.


The Wrong Reaction from a School to a Real Gun

A student who was riding a school bus saw another student carrying a gun.  He and a friend disarmed the gun-carrying student and were suspended.


Condoms Given Away in Public Schools

Four news stories are linked.


Inaccurate Textbooks

A high school class that offered Advanced Placement credit towards college credits used a textbook that inaccurately summarized the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  As I stated in the essay, no summary is necessary because the second amendment is only one sentence.

... and yet, the summary was inaccurate.  It stated that people who wanted to own a firearm had to be in a state militia.  This statement has been explicitly denied by the U.S. Supreme Court.


Inappropriate reading material

Literature approved by the Common Core educational standards for first graders taught them how to write like a political activist.  One paragraph of an article written by Michelle Malkin is quoted and linked.

Also, a book that is approved by the Common Core educational standards includes explicitly graphic written descriptions of rape, incest, and pedophaelia.  One paragraph of a blog post is quoted and linked, but I cautioned the readers of my essay that the whole blog post quotes some of those explicitly graphic written descriptions of rape, incest, and pedophaelia.


The Middle School Teacher in Connecticut

He encouraged his students to be workers instead of thinkers.  I quote and link an article in Breitbart.


One Piece of Good News

Some of the buildings that are used by the New York City School System are owned by the Catholic Church, which, in accordance with their first-amendment religious beliefs, is refusing to allow those buildings to be used for teaching sex education.  A news article is linked.


Indoctrination disguised as a grammar lesson

A third-grade English textbook taught students how to use possessive pronouns, like "Steven's apple" or "Maria's pocketbook", but all the examples referred to employees of the Federal government.  This gave these third-grade students the mistaken idea that the government possessed all these objects.  Individual ownership of property was not mentioned much.  A blog article on the subject was linked.


An Alternative Lifestyle for the Young and Impressionable

The Milwaukee Public School System encouraged all the students to dress like a member of the opposite sex for one day.  A news article is linked.

A male student at a Texas high school was allowed to attend the prom wearing a dress, a wig, and makeup.  A news article is linked.

A man who works at a cafeteria in a California public school is allowed to wear women's clothing, a wig, and makeup while he works.  A news article is linked and a photo of the man is included.

An after-school program at a Philadelphia public school allowed a man wearing women's clothing, a wig, and makeup to read a book to children.  A news article is linked and the entire article is quoted verbatim.


Criticism of Educational Materials Used by Home-Schoolers

A blog article is linked.  This article states that the College Board will attempt to link their tests, including the Scholastic Aptitude Test (and others) with Common Core's educational standards.

Link to the 35-page PDF document published by the College Board.