We the citizens of North Carolina 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.
WHERE AS, Common Core removes control of our state education standards from North Carolina 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.
WHERE AS, It allows the federal government to dictate the terms of our teacher evaluations.
WHERE AS, 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.
WHERE AS, Common Core Standards are not internationally benchmarked as marketed, nor have they been field 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.
WHERE AS, 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.
WHERE AS, 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.”
THEREFOR, BE IT RESOLVED, that we the undersigned, for the reasons listed above, sign this petition in opposition of Common Core State Standards.
Updates
December 5, 2013
The feedback I continue to receive from across the state reinforces the necessity of our efforts to regain control over local education. I am currently coordinating with a group of parents and educators to present these concerns directly to the state board.
December 5, 2013
The momentum behind this initiative continues to grow as more residents recognize the importance of restoring local authority to our classrooms. This development confirms that our concerns regarding federal intrusion are shared by a significant portion of our community.
25 Comments
We don,t need the Federal Gov"t in our education. If we drop CC the only thing Feds can do is not give us any more money. WOW we don,t need title I --We need smaller classes --curriculum based academic facts not social agendas-sounds,spelling,reading, writing, and math facts for grades 1-4 -no computers till 5th grade. Lets plan what we need to do now!! Bring control to local level and raise teacher salaries. Just a few suggestions
Give us back our education system. Get rid of this crap! Look at how our kids are doing. As college professors how the new arrivals are doing in regards to spelling and writing.
As a retired teacher, I think that it is imperative that control of state public education should remain under state control, not federal government!
Appaling that our elected officials have allowed this curruculm to move forward in the schools. The attack on students, burdensome homework on busy work, math solutions that are time consuming and more than confusing, dumbing down curriclum, no assistance nor curriculum for special education students and brain drain of the kids. We will see that kids are taugtht only to the test, yet they are learning nothing at all. NO history of the United States, no balance, only attack of sound principles and moral values. Kids are also taught about sex and gender far too young. The National Sexuality Standards are another attack on the children. WE need new leaders in Raleigh given that th current elected officials have left the citizens to fail in the "new economy".
I ask our NC legislators to stop, or at least delay more implementation of Common Core, allowing more input and evaluation from our teaching professionals.
If ts not broken don’t fix it
END COMMON CORE MATH!
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We the citizens of North Carolina 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.
WHERE AS, Common Core removes control of our state education standards from North Carolina 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.
WHERE AS, It allows the federal government to dictate the terms of our teacher evaluations.
WHERE AS, 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.
WHERE AS, Common Core Standards are not internationally benchmarked as marketed, nor have they been field 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.
WHERE AS, 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.
WHERE AS, 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.”
THEREFOR, BE IT RESOLVED, that we the undersigned, for the reasons listed above, sign this petition in opposition of Common Core State Standards.
Updates
December 5, 2013
The feedback I continue to receive from across the state reinforces the necessity of our efforts to regain control over local education. I am currently coordinating with a group of parents and educators to present these concerns directly to the state board.
December 5, 2013
The momentum behind this initiative continues to grow as more residents recognize the importance of restoring local authority to our classrooms. This development confirms that our concerns regarding federal intrusion are shared by a significant portion of our community.
25 Comments
If I can't understnd this nonsense, how can I help my child that doesn't understand this nonsense?
We don,t need the Federal Gov"t in our education. If we drop CC the only thing Feds can do is not give us any more money. WOW we don,t need title I --We need smaller classes --curriculum based academic facts not social agendas-sounds,spelling,reading, writing, and math facts for grades 1-4 -no computers till 5th grade. Lets plan what we need to do now!! Bring control to local level and raise teacher salaries. Just a few suggestions
Give us back our education system. Get rid of this crap! Look at how our kids are doing. As college professors how the new arrivals are doing in regards to spelling and writing.
As a retired teacher, I think that it is imperative that control of state public education should remain under state control, not federal government!
Appaling that our elected officials have allowed this curruculm to move forward in the schools. The attack on students, burdensome homework on busy work, math solutions that are time consuming and more than confusing, dumbing down curriclum, no assistance nor curriculum for special education students and brain drain of the kids. We will see that kids are taugtht only to the test, yet they are learning nothing at all. NO history of the United States, no balance, only attack of sound principles and moral values. Kids are also taught about sex and gender far too young. The National Sexuality Standards are another attack on the children. WE need new leaders in Raleigh given that th current elected officials have left the citizens to fail in the "new economy".
I ask our NC legislators to stop, or at least delay more implementation of Common Core, allowing more input and evaluation from our teaching professionals.
If ts not broken don’t fix it
END COMMON CORE MATH!
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If I can't understnd this nonsense, how can I help my child that doesn't understand this nonsense?