Topic: Common Core sexualizes children

[LadyVirginia]

Someone just sent me this link.  I would argue that this has been going on for years but concern about common core has made some parents wake up.

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Newburgh New York school district yanked a ninth grade book considered by teachers to be “pornographic.”  An Arizona mother launched an avalanche of protest that forced Arizona schools to pull an eleventh grade book that portrays teens in a sado-masochistic relationship.  A Catholic school superintendent admits there were two first grade books about families—that included pictures of homosexual pairs—listed on the Common Core Catholic Identity Initiative website, a resource for Catholic schools nationwide. These “family” books—The Family Book and Who’s in a Family—were removed from the website after parental protest.

Across the nation, in public and Catholic schools, parents and teachers have found sexually inappropriate materials in the exemplars recommended by Common Core State Standards (CCSS).  In some cases the offending material is removed. In others, parents are offered “opt out” choices for their children.  However, the question that looms large is, why has so much disturbing material been systematically built into the CCSS recommended texts?   Should a small cadre of unelected ideologues have nationwide power to decide that American first graders should be exposed to homosexual “families,” or, that ninth graders be given pornography in the guise of literature?

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The most alarming CCSS selection by far is the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Toni Morrison. Bluest Eye, now banned from several school districts, is an explicit depiction of rape, incest, sexual violence and pedophilia.  The pedophile, named Soaphead Church, claims God as his inspiration, “I work only through the Lord. He sometimes uses me to help people.”

Worse, however, is that the novel is written with sympathy for the pedophile. Morrison defends her character, and reportedly wrote the story so the reader becomes a “co-conspirator” with the pedophile.  According to Macey France, co-founder of Stop Common Core Oregon, Morrison, “says she wanted the reader to feel as though they are a ‘co-conspirator’ with the rapist. She took pains to make sure she never portrayed the actions as wrong in order to show how everyone has their own problems. She even goes as far as to describe the pedophilia, rape, and incest ‘friendly,’ ‘innocent,’ and ‘tender.”

[IronDioPriest]

I have a question. If one googles "origin common core" a wiki page comes up explaining that:

The initiative is sponsored by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and seeks to establish consistent education standards across the states as well as ensure that students graduating from high school are prepared to enter two or four year college programs or enter the workforce.

Now, a link to the CCSSO brings you to about exactly what you'd expect: a "non-profit/non-partisan" (read: Leftist) organization of state DOE heads.

But the NGA is a known organization, populated by a lot of conservative Republican governors.

Why in the hell are they standing for this?

[Libertas]

I have a question. If one googles "origin common core" a wiki page comes up explaining that:

The initiative is sponsored by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and seeks to establish consistent education standards across the states as well as ensure that students graduating from high school are prepared to enter two or four year college programs or enter the workforce.

Now, a link to the CCSSO brings you to about exactly what you'd expect: a "non-profit/non-partisan" (read: Leftist) organization of state DOE heads.

But the NGA is a known organization, populated by a lot of conservative Republican governors.

Why in the hell are they standing for this?

Huh?  Like Christie?

[Weisshaupt]

If you didn't see it on your usual troll through the infowebs

Arkansas Mother Obliterates Common Core in 4 Minutes!

[LadyVirginia]

common core is a way to impose this nonsense across the nation--various school districts have been using these ideas for years

many parents have complained and no one listens--hence homeschooling