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Why are Common Core math problems like this? $$$$$$$$$$

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This is probably one of the best posts so far bluntly telling the real $tory behind the corporate takeover of public education, via Charters.

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Why are Common Core math problems like this? $$$$$$$$$$

2+2=4 cannot be copyrighted, sold, and re-sold.
The CCSS formatted math being published in print and online is copyrighted, sold and re-sold.
It’s not about kids, parents, teachers or schools. It’s all about the money.

As a matter of fact making and copyrighting lousy CCSS products online or in print is much more lucrative than producing good ones. Next year school districts nationwide will have to upgrade to the “improved” products – lots of money for an update. (Sound familiar?)
Of course next year the product may have a different label on it – FCAT, FLAT, ISAT, USAT, Pearson, Beersome, etc. It doesn’t matter. It’s all profit to the multinational investors and the fund managers. And it’s all poison for our children.

CCSS reason

Even affluent and middle class parents are being scapegoated for the Common Core math that children are having trouble…

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Unauthorized Teaching Activities

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They must eliminate playgrounds, too. Too much fresh air (minus chemtrails), physical exercise, creative play are detrimental to Common Core.

gfbrandenburg's avatarGFBrandenburg's Blog

A satire from Susan Ohanian. She has bureaucratese jargon down pat.

An excerpt:

“It has come to the attention of the US Department of Education, Bill and Melinda Gates Substation that there has been recent unauthorized activity preceding the above referenced Common Core test. You have been identified as the for-hire person responsible for the classroom containing the following unauthorized materials

construction blocks;

finger paints and paper;

sand table;

play house with kitchen utensils and costumes;

piano;

improper ratio of fiction and non-fiction books. (See Guidelines 723.94A)”
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“Through the work of our research partners and poll results showing the skills most in demand from the Fortune 500, the US Department of Education, Bill and Melinda Gates Substation has determined that the activities resulting from these materials is in violation of Part 276, of the CCSS Pre-Test Plan for Preparing Workers for the Global Economy, Sections 218.27634 to 218.27686 of…

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Pope honours Holocaust survivors in Israel

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It’s interesting that in the movie “five broken cameras” the Palestinians’ olive trees were torn down…when planting them is a sign of peace.
Also–the writer irks me by saying the Pope changed his speech to “our brothers” …once again leaving women out of the equation…when in fact, he said, “brothers and sisters”….quite a difference.
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“May we respect and love one another as brothers and sisters!” he said. “May we learn to understand the suffering of others! May no one abuse the name of God through violence!”
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Amen to that.