Common Core Gag Order: Teacher Told to Not to Question Common Core Implementation
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| Teacher not allowed to question CCSS implementation in Wyoming |
Following is an amazing story from Truth in American Education and a Wyoming teacher who was threatened by her administrator for questioning the CCSS implementation and ramifications of the standards in terms of privacy and loss of local control.
Please share with other teachers and parents. Where is the "critical thinking" allegedly present in CCSS?
From A Wyoming School's Common Core Gag Order:
I received this email from a 6th grade teacher in Wyoming whose school placed a gag order on her regarding her opposition to the Common Core State Standards. I’m withholding her name to protect her privacy (and career).
I am currently a teacher in a smaller district in Wyoming. I attended a Wyoming
Tracking Students: Remember Parkway School District and the Polar Go Fit Bracelets?
We wrote a story last year about Parkway Schools wanting to use student tracking devices to measure sleep patterns and academic achievement via Polar Go Fit bracelets.
We highlighted a video from the school board where a district employee explains the tracking and the information to be gathered from the data obtained while the students wore them home. The video has now been pulled from the internet and "made private by the owner".
This video is from a school board meeting. Would someone from the Parkway School District contact the superintendent/board members and ask why a video from a public meeting has been pulled from the district website? Aren't the owners of this video the taxpayers?
Here's the link showing the video has been pulled:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120118111401/http://www.pkwy.k12.mo.us/boe/archive/boe120711.cfm
Here's the rough transcript I typed from the speaker's presentation:
We highlighted a video from the school board where a district employee explains the tracking and the information to be gathered from the data obtained while the students wore them home. The video has now been pulled from the internet and "made private by the owner".
This video is from a school board meeting. Would someone from the Parkway School District contact the superintendent/board members and ask why a video from a public meeting has been pulled from the district website? Aren't the owners of this video the taxpayers?
Here's the link showing the video has been pulled:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120118111401/http://www.pkwy.k12.mo.us/boe/archive/boe120711.cfm
Here's the rough transcript I typed from the speaker's presentation:
Notes from the video:
Video of the School Board Meeting December 7, 2011