May 25, 2013

Texas CSCOPE quiz on 9/11 should outrage us all

A Corpus Christie mother is outraged after she found the quiz on “Remembering 9/11″ her 5th grade son was given. Apparently the quiz followed a video the students were shown in class. Take a look at a section of the quiz and see if you can spot which is disturbing:

That’s right folks. This is America, not a Muslim country where a question of this nature could be expected. To even suggest our country may have brought on or caused 9/11 is what we hear from conspiracy theorists, and certainly is NOT appropriate curriculum for ANY school, ANYWHERE.

But then this happened in Texas, the state where the controversial CSCOPE curriculum system is used and has come under fire recently. CSCOPE also asked students in the past to design a new “socialist flag” and taught the Boston Tea Party “was an act of terrorism.”

You get the picture and why so many parents are becoming outraged with the system.

The mother of the student who complained to her son’s principal about the test, Kara Sands, reports to the Texas media the principal told her the video was from Safari Montage and CSCOPE was using the company to supplement the curriculum. But then the public information officer for the Texas System of Education Service Centers, Mason Moses, stated to The Blaze CSCOPE is not affiliated with Safari Montage.

But the fact the quiz was given in Texas is still gives one reason to pause.

I’ve always advised people when you read a story, to always at least skim the comments. It’s amazing the juicy little tidbits of info you can find. Like the email address of  the principal of Four Bluffs, the school where the “quiz” was given.

I’ve already done my duty, readers. You know what to do. The Blaze has a lot of information on CSCOPE. It’s well worth a read.

Crossposted at Grumpy Opinions

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Debunking the Common Core “The Emperor’s New Clothes” Narrative….

and why are education reformers/politicians ascribing to fairy tales for policy?

Should Common Core State Standards be considered an educational version of the story “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?  The standards are the promise of  new clothes for education but is there basis for believing there are any clothes at all?  From Wikipedia:

The Emperor’s New Clothes” (Danish: Kejserens nye Klæder) is a short tale byHans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, a child cries out, “But he isn’t wearing anything at all!” The tale has been translated into over a hundred languages.[1]

Christopher H. Tienken, Editor of AAASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice provided commentary in the Winter 2011 publication entitled Common Core State Standards: An Example of Data-less Decision Making.

His research may just expose the standards to be unfit and fallacy to those who are critical thinkers asking for data determining their stated validity. This article should be studied by educators, politicians, taxpayers, to understand the colossal farce Common Core standards are in terms of providing promises of educational improvement for American students as they are unproven and untested.

READ MORE AT GRUMPY OPINIONS

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