The state has officially withdrawn from these standards. I am drained from this fight but the outcome makes the long struggle worth it. Keep your eyes open to ensure the local school boards stay in control.
May 30, 2014
Final supporters
THE PETITION
We reject the Federal Government's intrusion into our education system and want control over what is taught in our classroom returned to our state and local school boards.
• Common Core removes control of our state k-12 education standards from New Hampshire and puts it in the hands of private trade organizations who wrote and copyrighted the standards and who are not accountable to the public which pays for their implementation.
• It allows the federal government to dictate the terms of our teacher evaluations.
• It makes it practically impossible for local school districts to control their costs because independent consortia develop assessment tools which our districts must use. These on-line assessments are not only many times more expensive than our existing tests, they are a technical impossibility for many schools in our state who do not have broadband access to the internet.
• Common Core Standards are not internationally benchmarked as marketed, nor have they been tested and found to be superior to existing state standards. They have never been tried before. Their implementation in 45 states amounts to a massive pilot program that uses our children as test subjects.
• Common Core assessments ramp up the collection of personally identifiable data on our children. Through various agreements this data will be sent directly to the US Department of Education who has changed the Family Education Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) to allow this data to be shared with other government agencies and third parties without our knowledge or consent.
• The architect of the Common Core Standards has vowed to align the SAT tests to these standards thereby pressuring homeschoolers and private schools to teach to these standards as well. Millions of children will be lost inside a one size fits all system designed to create equal mediocrity among the new “global citizens.”
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Updates
April 29, 2014
We hit one thousand signatures today and the exhaustion is catching up to me. This fight is draining but seeing this many people recognize the danger to our schools keeps me moving forward.
Reached 1,000 supporters
April 27, 2014
April 22, 2014
The silence from the department remains deafening but we are not going anywhere. I am exhausted by the constant uphill battle against these mandates yet your stories keep me focused on what brought us here in the first place.
Reached 100 supporters
April 2, 2013
722 Comments
For one example.. MATH! The length of time it took for my child to complete one problem the common core way was such a waste of time and more confusing! I showed him the old school way and he was done in seconds! such a waste of time and money!
Common Core is nothing more than a complete federal takeover of our public schools which effectively takes both parents and taxpayers out of the equation. Education has become indoctrination with the insertion of the federal government in local school systems.
We have been following the literature closely because our two Grandsons (3rd and 5th grade) are in a Charter School that is going down the common core path so we’ve been learning about it. Common Core students are homogenized into a nondescript mass.
While I served on the Pittsfield School Board in 2010, we wrote a formal letter to our representatives opposing the Common Core. I, also, composed the adopted New Hampshire School Board Association resolution to oppose the Common Core then. Get us OUT!
NH Legislators must pass HB 1508. Our children deserve better. Please adopt the Massachusetts proven #1 Standards (before Mass. Signed on to Common Core) signed off on by Dr. Sandra Stotsky for ELA and Dr. James Milgrim for Math Standards.
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The state has officially withdrawn from these standards. I am drained from this fight but the outcome makes the long struggle worth it. Keep your eyes open to ensure the local school boards stay in control.
May 30, 2014
Final supporters
THE PETITION
We reject the Federal Government's intrusion into our education system and want control over what is taught in our classroom returned to our state and local school boards.
• Common Core removes control of our state k-12 education standards from New Hampshire and puts it in the hands of private trade organizations who wrote and copyrighted the standards and who are not accountable to the public which pays for their implementation.
• It allows the federal government to dictate the terms of our teacher evaluations.
• It makes it practically impossible for local school districts to control their costs because independent consortia develop assessment tools which our districts must use. These on-line assessments are not only many times more expensive than our existing tests, they are a technical impossibility for many schools in our state who do not have broadband access to the internet.
• Common Core Standards are not internationally benchmarked as marketed, nor have they been tested and found to be superior to existing state standards. They have never been tried before. Their implementation in 45 states amounts to a massive pilot program that uses our children as test subjects.
• Common Core assessments ramp up the collection of personally identifiable data on our children. Through various agreements this data will be sent directly to the US Department of Education who has changed the Family Education Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) to allow this data to be shared with other government agencies and third parties without our knowledge or consent.
• The architect of the Common Core Standards has vowed to align the SAT tests to these standards thereby pressuring homeschoolers and private schools to teach to these standards as well. Millions of children will be lost inside a one size fits all system designed to create equal mediocrity among the new “global citizens.”
Please visit us on facebook:https://www.facebook.com/StopCommonCoreInNH?ref=hl
Updates
April 29, 2014
We hit one thousand signatures today and the exhaustion is catching up to me. This fight is draining but seeing this many people recognize the danger to our schools keeps me moving forward.
Reached 1,000 supporters
April 27, 2014
April 22, 2014
The silence from the department remains deafening but we are not going anywhere. I am exhausted by the constant uphill battle against these mandates yet your stories keep me focused on what brought us here in the first place.
Reached 100 supporters
April 2, 2013
722 Comments
Get NH out of Common Core. Equal mediocrity is correct, assuring children who can't afford other options are stuck in a failing public system and the public schools do not have to answer to parents, instead are accountable only to the Federal government.
For one example.. MATH! The length of time it took for my child to complete one problem the common core way was such a waste of time and more confusing! I showed him the old school way and he was done in seconds! such a waste of time and money!
Common Core is nothing more than a complete federal takeover of our public schools which effectively takes both parents and taxpayers out of the equation. Education has become indoctrination with the insertion of the federal government in local school systems.
We have been following the literature closely because our two Grandsons (3rd and 5th grade) are in a Charter School that is going down the common core path so we’ve been learning about it. Common Core students are homogenized into a nondescript mass.
While I served on the Pittsfield School Board in 2010, we wrote a formal letter to our representatives opposing the Common Core. I, also, composed the adopted New Hampshire School Board Association resolution to oppose the Common Core then. Get us OUT!
NH Legislators must pass HB 1508. Our children deserve better. Please adopt the Massachusetts proven #1 Standards (before Mass. Signed on to Common Core) signed off on by Dr. Sandra Stotsky for ELA and Dr. James Milgrim for Math Standards.
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Get NH out of Common Core. Equal mediocrity is correct, assuring children who can't afford other options are stuck in a failing public system and the public schools do not have to answer to parents, instead are accountable only to the Federal government.