OAK NORTON, of Utahns Against Common Core, examines in this video a current language arts textbook for first graders in public schools. The book, published by Zaner-Bloser and recommended by the federal Common Core program, explicitly urges children to become social activists and instructs them how to engage in emotional rhetoric to further collectivist goals. It is truly unashamed political indoctrination. As a commenter at Youtube said, “When I was 6 in Yugoslavia, we had to learn much less about glories of socialism then kids in Utah nowadays.”

At the blog Invisible Serfs Collar, Robin Eubank, a lawyer, writes of the goals of Common Core curricula. Children are to become social change agents. The writer Kenneth Minogue wrote of the advent of “the servile mind.” It can be found at a public school near you.

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Alex, who sent the video, writes:

The cover of the textbook is just as interesting. Of course there is no white boy among the children pictured, but that’s to be expected now, as is the homosexual propaganda (a rainbow umbrella). What’s more interesting is that the umbrella is in the hands of a black child (who wears a hooded coat to boot). The public education arm of the revolution has quickly set to work on mending the newly identified crack in the Democratic coalition – blacks’ discontent at having been dumped as the Left’s most preferred group in favor of homosexuals. It is doing this by directing its propaganda of homosexualism at six-year-old black children.

Pure, monstrous evil.

Jane S. writes:

As a commenter at Youtube said, “When I was 6 in Yugoslavia, we had to learn much less about glories of socialism then kids in Utah nowadays.”

I’ve heard from many Russian immigrants that the indoctrination in American public schools and universities is far worse than it was in the Soviet Union.

 Laura writes:

In the Soviet Union, people at least recognized that government propaganda was everywhere. Here it is not even acknowledged.

Jane writes:

Right. And I don’t think the Russians enjoyed it. Whereas Americans love political correctness, as long as it makes them feel like they’re cocking a snook at “the system.”

Allan Bloom once said, it is perfectly easy to sell Americans on nihilism, as long as it’s tarted up to look like a trip to Disneyland.

Karen I. writes:

The comments about Common Core were interesting.

There is another aspect to Common Core that concerns me. From what I read, it will allow for more mobility between levels. If a child is doing very well, he or she can go up an instructional level, and if they are doing poorly, they can go down. That way, children are not stuck at a level in which they don’t belong. It sounded good to me.

However, my daughter reported what the policy looked like in action yesterday and it wasn’t good. She is in an accelerated math class, which is the highest in her grade (fifth). A number of factors go into deciding which children are in the accelerated math class, and the teacher told me before the school year started that things are going to move very fast now, due to Common Core expectations. My daughter told me that is the case, and she has a lot of difficult homework.

Apparently, several children who were in the accelerated class last year were already struggling with the new expectations this year. The teacher informed the class Friday that struggling children were going to be moved down this week. She told them, “You know who you are.” They were not offered tutoring or any sort of help at all, even though they were considered bright students who tested very well the year before. My daughter saw the demotions happen Monday, as five children were called to the front of the class and given orders to move out to a lower class, in front of their classmates. As the struggling students moved out of the class, a little star from the lower classes was moved into the higher class while the teacher heaped praise on her.

I felt terrible for the five children who were demoted in front of their peers, but my daughter did not see the problem. To her, it was business as usual in the public school system. She told me the demoted children did not seem bothered. I find that hard to believe.

Paul writes:

Surely I would be a problem for the dictators. I would not stop talking in class, and therefore, I was always sent into the hall in front of everyone. I cared to a degree, but I was well liked, so it did not matter to me. They could put me in a D class, and I would not reform. Of course, I would never allow myself to attend summer school.

Maybe things have changed, in which case my parents would have done whatever was necessary, such as living in a lesser neighborhood and home schooling me. That is the way parents should be thinking. They should not succumb to tyranny.

Maybe educated traditionalist retirees should volunteer their time to home school a few students at a time. Formal schools exist not just for learning but for day care. Doesn’t everyone know this? Home schooling year round is what I would have preferred if not excelled in. Spend a half day in class followed by two hours of monitored studying, followed by joy with athletics or play or helping with the family.

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