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Common Core Symposium in Ottawa, IL This Friday

Joy PullmannDebra Wenger shared this information with me via Facebook so I wanted to highlight it for our Illinois readers.A Common Core Symposium, expounding the hazards and truth about Common Core, with Joy Pullmann from The Heartland Institute, along with an Open House for Ottawa Christian Academy, will be held at Heritage Christian Center 900 Hitt St. (Rt. 71) in Ottawa, IL. on Friday June 6th

by Shane Vander Hart / 34min 

Parents Are Not Helpless

Filed in Common Core State Standards by Shane Vander Hart on June 3, 2014 • 0 Comments

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Laurie H. Rogers yesterday wrote a piece entitled “The Myth of the Helpless Parent,”  she discussed how schools impress upon students “I can” statements, but that parents need to vocalize “we can” statements in light of schools that sometimes lack accountability and abuse our trust.

We need to remember that we, as parents, are not helpless.

She writes:

Clearly, the American government no longer knows how to educate a child. That’s been proved in 10,000 ways. It has ceased to hold itself accountable, and it now works collaboratively to skirt laws and protect itself. This isn’t a left/right issue. This simply is “in” or “out” of the government/corporate Network. If you’re “in,” you’re taken care of. If you’re out, well, good luck with that.

But we aren’t stuck in this machine. We’re helpless only when we agree to it. My first “We can” statement is this: “We can say no to the K-12 government education system.” Here are some more:

• Opt out of programs: We can opt out of failed academic programs, and out of excessively mature sex education classes and materials. We can find solid math and English curricula online, buy them, and start teaching them to our children.
• Leave the system: When a school mistreats, abuses, blames, mocks, neglects or refuses to educate our children, we can walk out of that school and never look back.
• Opt out of testing: We can opt out of state and federal testing that sucks up class time; tells us nothing of value; collects intrusive and flawed data on us; is manipulated to show success where none exists; and forces our children to either take math tests Parents Are Not Helpless | Truth in American Education: