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• Common Core removes control of our state k-12 education standards from Illinois 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.”
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 15, 2015
September 13, 2015
The steady growth of this movement demonstrates a profound commitment to restoring local authority over our classrooms. Reaching one thousand signatures will serve as a clear signal to our elected officials that the current trajectory of education policy is unacceptable. Please help us cross this threshold so that our message reaches those with the power to return control to our communities.
Reached 100 supporters
March 29, 2013
311 Comments
Please combine ALL groups opposed to Common Core and Federal Government control and get this out of our schools. It is much more than dumbing down kids. It's indoctination and brainwashing as to what the State wants them to think. Say NO THANKS to Bill Gates et. al.
It is beyond ridiculous!! These kids are taught growing up, before entering grade school, how to add/subtract by parents that learned the old fashion way (9+7=16, not 9+1+6 ->10+6=16) and it causes both the child and parent(s) to become frustrated and upset!!
We do not need to make everything so complicated! There is no reason the schools need to BUY tools to teach & test our kids. They are already cash-strapped. And the "dangling carrot" of cash from the Federal Government is laughable, to say the least.
I was born and raised in Indiana where Common Core is not in affect. I have a kindergartener that I'm very concerned about,becuase we do live in Illiniois. My husband and I will seriously consider relocating if we feel this new Common Core is not benefiting our child.
Why would any parent or teacher want something that is untested. No one knows if this works! All I know is that my kids are frustrated & being discourage from learning with this common core. I myself find it difficult to help my own child with there homework. Stop common core!
How do we convince people that this program is an attack on our youth. Its a baseball bat to the legs in terms of their education. We need to throw that away and give power back to the teachers so they can mold to our children and teach proficiently.
Stop trying to DUMB our children down. Why do you get some much money to teacher this BS. Math is math and not this BS so stop trying to manipulate the children's minds. Math is the real form of learning Thank you in advance Myra L Ellis
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• Common Core removes control of our state k-12 education standards from Illinois 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.”
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 15, 2015
September 13, 2015
The steady growth of this movement demonstrates a profound commitment to restoring local authority over our classrooms. Reaching one thousand signatures will serve as a clear signal to our elected officials that the current trajectory of education policy is unacceptable. Please help us cross this threshold so that our message reaches those with the power to return control to our communities.
Reached 100 supporters
March 29, 2013
311 Comments
My daughter struggled with common core for nearly 3 hours her entire 3rd grade year...I tried to help as much as possible...but to no avail...it absolutely makes no sense...people will move to the states that do not use common core...have some COMMON SENSE
Please combine ALL groups opposed to Common Core and Federal Government control and get this out of our schools. It is much more than dumbing down kids. It's indoctination and brainwashing as to what the State wants them to think. Say NO THANKS to Bill Gates et. al.
It is beyond ridiculous!! These kids are taught growing up, before entering grade school, how to add/subtract by parents that learned the old fashion way (9+7=16, not 9+1+6 ->10+6=16) and it causes both the child and parent(s) to become frustrated and upset!!
We do not need to make everything so complicated! There is no reason the schools need to BUY tools to teach & test our kids. They are already cash-strapped. And the "dangling carrot" of cash from the Federal Government is laughable, to say the least.
I was born and raised in Indiana where Common Core is not in affect. I have a kindergartener that I'm very concerned about,becuase we do live in Illiniois. My husband and I will seriously consider relocating if we feel this new Common Core is not benefiting our child.
Why would any parent or teacher want something that is untested. No one knows if this works! All I know is that my kids are frustrated & being discourage from learning with this common core. I myself find it difficult to help my own child with there homework. Stop common core!
How do we convince people that this program is an attack on our youth. Its a baseball bat to the legs in terms of their education. We need to throw that away and give power back to the teachers so they can mold to our children and teach proficiently.
Stop trying to DUMB our children down. Why do you get some much money to teacher this BS. Math is math and not this BS so stop trying to manipulate the children's minds. Math is the real form of learning Thank you in advance Myra L Ellis
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My daughter struggled with common core for nearly 3 hours her entire 3rd grade year...I tried to help as much as possible...but to no avail...it absolutely makes no sense...people will move to the states that do not use common core...have some COMMON SENSE