The Obama Administration has been busy. President Obama promised that he would "fundamentally transform" America, and he was dead serious. One of the latest moves has been largely ignored in the mainstream media. Common Core is the Obama Administration's overhaul of the public education system, and it's turning out to be just as much if not more of a disaster than even Obamacare. But unfortunately this goes way beyond just Obama and the American Progressive movement. Here I will attempt to follow the money and find out just what this new set of standards and curriculum is all about. Make sure to follow all the links provided here, as they can provide much more info than I can fit in this article.
For starters, the first question we must ask is "What is Common Core?" and how did it begin? Well, it goes all the way back to before Obama was even in office. In June 2008 The Hunt Institute for Education Leadership hosted a conference with the National Governors Association to discuss writing a common set of standards for public schools. This was funded by 2.2 Million Dollars provided by The Gates Foundation. Take note of that, because Bill Gates has his fingers all over this. Of course the stated goal was to "Make America a global leader in education", which just like any other progressive initiative sounds like a noble endeavor.
Following this conference, The NGA and the Council of Chief State School Officials (CCSSO) began accepting grants to fund the writing of the Common Core standards and curriculum. In December of 2008, during the transition of power from Bush to Obama, the NGA and CCSSO provided the Obama Administration with their plan. Titled "Benchmarking For Success", the plan outlined state adoption of a "Common Core" of international standards, and assured that state textbooks, curricula, and testing would reflect these standards.
In February of 2009, as part of The American Recovery and Restoration Act, Obama signed into law the "Race to the Top" program, and announced that 5 Billion Dollars had been allotted for these education incentives. Acceptance of Common Core was an "Absolute Priority" for states to get in on this funding.
Fast forward to the end of 2010, and 41 states and Washington DC had adopted the Common Core standards, with 5 more set to join by the end of 2011. So far as we've seen, this was all sugar coated with feel good language about "preparing our youth for the global marketplace of the 21st century". But as with anything the federal government does, the substance of how this all affects you is far beneath the surface of legalese and rhetoric. To date, The Gates Foundation has pumped $150 Million into the Common Core program.
As I briefly mentioned, Common Core is aligning our education system with a global set of standards. When anything is involved with international standards, obviously the UN is involved, and along with the UN comes their Agenda 21 program, which is much more of an involved subject than I can get into in this article alone. However I will attempt to connect some of the dots as to how Common Core relates to this
As much as this all has been buried by the mainstream media, those who have been paying attention have had some ample warning of this. Charlotte Iserbyt, who is a former high level employee in the Department of Education has done several excellent interviews on the subjects of education and how globalized standards will in reality serve to indoctrinate our youth to Agenda 21, and the leftist ideology.
Common Core may only be the tip of the iceberg of Agenda 21, but it is central to the movement towards global socialism. This is mainly because education is obviously compulsory for our youth, and if they can get a grip on our children in their youngest and most impressionable years, they will have a stranglehold on the future of our country. The higher education system in America has already become infested with thousands of professors who are spouting hard left communist ideologies on a daily basis, but this agenda seeks to begin the indoctrination from Kindergarten all the way through University.
In the interest of not getting too long winded, I will finish up part one with a few examples of how these standards are subscribing to an agenda of an all out assault on the moral fiber of America, with a goal of desensitizing our youth to the most radical fringes of society.
One of the most shocking things I have found in my research has been a movement toward the overt hyper sexualization of our children. Not just middle school and high school kids, but elementary and even as young as kindergarten students are beginning to see sexual indoctrination. In New York, there was an especially grotesque example of this, where children logging on to the Common Core test prep website were linked to a page with extremely vulgar sexual personality quizzes. While this was eventually pulled from the New York Common Core website, it just goes to show how the progressive movement is testing the waters and pushing the boundaries to see how much you will put up with.
This is obviously a large, in depth subject with a lot of moving parts, so this will probably end up being a running series of articles so we can attempt to cover as much as possible and hopefully educate ourselves together. There are many groups who are standing up and fighting back against this, and we are definitely not going to roll over to this agenda. The UN wishes to impose its will on us and establish global rule through fiat and backroom agreements and treaties. There is much to learn and they have a head start as they have been working this movement of globalization since its inception after World War 2. This just means that we have to arm ourselves to the teeth with knowledge. This is truly an information war, and truth is our main weapon.
Bringing all of this into the light of the public eye is our best defense. The social engineers can accomplish much by tucking these initiatives into the back pages of thousand page bills that Congress is not reading anyway. I will work to unmask the true intentions of the ruling class, and I hope you will stand with me.
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