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 Florida 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 FCAT tests, they are a technical impossibility for many schools in our state who do not have broadband access to the internet. Governor Rick Scott hasn't even come close to providing the school districts with enough funding to support Common Core.
• 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.”
I'm afraid that we will end up with more children quitting school at 16 and teachers leaving the school system because they have no say in what they teach or how.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
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Common core actually takes the rights away from the parents to what is implemented in the current and future curriculums...in which the federal government will. The parents will have relinquished all rights to protest. Wake up America! The history classes that I subbed for last school year, didn't even know what a republic was, and the only reference in the new books they were given only had one reference: Plato's republic. Really? Take back your children!!! And hurry!!!
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Anita grimes
11 years ago
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Common core violates the constitution, and the FSA test violates my child's rights under IDEA. There is a listening assessment that is not suitable for children with disabilities yet no accommodations are being made, stop high stakes testing now!
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Anonymous
11 years ago
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Take out the Common Core from our schools throughout the US and teach our children the right way!
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Brenda Smith
12 years ago
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Common core is going to put our students more behind than they have ever been. Wrong answers means you miss the problem. Common core no wrong answers? These children have no writing to sign their names. No art, music, american history. Common core is wrong.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
Featured
Completely against Common Core - Children should be taught the same way they have always been taught. Making changes to the current curriculum will certainly cause more students to struggle and ultimately fail in they're attempts to understand the "new way" of learning and teaching, just makes no sense, DONT fix something that's not broken !! Students already struggle with not having enough one on one attention and teaching.
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elizabeth shell
11 years ago
I'm afraid that we will end up with more children quitting school at 16 and teachers leaving the school system because they have no say in what they teach or how.
R
rb
11 years ago
Common core actually takes the rights away from the parents to what is implemented in the current and future curriculums...in which the federal government will. The parents will have relinquished all rights to protest. Wake up America! The history classes that I subbed for last school year, didn't even know what a republic was, and the only reference in the new books they were given only had one reference: Plato's republic. Really? Take back your children!!! And hurry!!!
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 Florida 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 FCAT tests, they are a technical impossibility for many schools in our state who do not have broadband access to the internet. Governor Rick Scott hasn't even come close to providing the school districts with enough funding to support Common Core.
• 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.”
I'm afraid that we will end up with more children quitting school at 16 and teachers leaving the school system because they have no say in what they teach or how.
A
Anonymous
11 years ago
Featured
Common core actually takes the rights away from the parents to what is implemented in the current and future curriculums...in which the federal government will. The parents will have relinquished all rights to protest. Wake up America! The history classes that I subbed for last school year, didn't even know what a republic was, and the only reference in the new books they were given only had one reference: Plato's republic. Really? Take back your children!!! And hurry!!!
A
Anita grimes
11 years ago
Featured
Common core violates the constitution, and the FSA test violates my child's rights under IDEA. There is a listening assessment that is not suitable for children with disabilities yet no accommodations are being made, stop high stakes testing now!
A
Anonymous
11 years ago
Featured
Take out the Common Core from our schools throughout the US and teach our children the right way!
B
Brenda Smith
12 years ago
Featured
Common core is going to put our students more behind than they have ever been. Wrong answers means you miss the problem. Common core no wrong answers? These children have no writing to sign their names. No art, music, american history. Common core is wrong.
A
Anonymous
12 years ago
Featured
Completely against Common Core - Children should be taught the same way they have always been taught. Making changes to the current curriculum will certainly cause more students to struggle and ultimately fail in they're attempts to understand the "new way" of learning and teaching, just makes no sense, DONT fix something that's not broken !! Students already struggle with not having enough one on one attention and teaching.
E
elizabeth shell
11 years ago
I'm afraid that we will end up with more children quitting school at 16 and teachers leaving the school system because they have no say in what they teach or how.
R
rb
11 years ago
Common core actually takes the rights away from the parents to what is implemented in the current and future curriculums...in which the federal government will. The parents will have relinquished all rights to protest. Wake up America! The history classes that I subbed for last school year, didn't even know what a republic was, and the only reference in the new books they were given only had one reference: Plato's republic. Really? Take back your children!!! And hurry!!!
I'm afraid that we will end up with more children quitting school at 16 and teachers leaving the school system because they have no say in what they teach or how.