Anti-Common Core Lawsuit Filed in Utah
A lawsuit has been filed in Utah against the Alpine School District. This is the second lawsuit related to the Common Core that I am aware of. The first was in Kentucky. The petition contains:
- Allegations of sustained emotional abuse towards mother and 11-year old son.
- Allegations of retaliation for exercising parental right of participation in Public School
- Allegations of retaliation for utilizing professional help linked to “Anti-Common Core” advocacy.
- Allegations of unethical and invalid use of psychological testing to conform to predetermined outcome.
- Allegations of ignoring parent’s desperate pleas for assistance for son.
- Allegation of callous attitude towards parents as exhibited in 50 pages of “obtained” Alpine District inter-office/district emails.
- Forwarding files/petition and evidence to Utah Attorney General’s Office for investigation.
- Civil Suit for Tort damages pending.
- Obtained District Email Thread over past 8 months.
Oak Norton of Utahns Against Common Core is more familiar with the case, but I was emailed last night about it as well. Here’s an excerpt from Oak’s article on it.
In this instance a child in Alpine School District who is very bright and academically advanced, was prevented from advancing to his appropriate skill level and has been psychologically damaged as a result of the public education system’s insistence on pounding square pegs into round holes to make all children common. Common Core hurts children both at the upper and lower end of the learning spectrum by forcing them to advance at the pace of the group. It is true conveyor belt education in the worst possible way. In speaking with Dr. Gary Thompson (this family’s psychologist) and Ed Flint (their attorney), about their 45-page