My Children are not Guinea Pigs!
It is true. Unelected organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Achieve, Inc. (funded by Gates), NGA, CCSSO and MANY more are dictating how and what your children will learn. None of these organizations are elected or accountable to the public. What gives Bill Gates the authority to dictate what our children are learning or how they should learn it? He is obviously brilliant, but has no background in education or child development.
Mr. Gates, (a man that dropped out of college) is calling the shots regarding our children's education. It's also important to note that he is peddling something he won't subject his own kids to. A few quotes from Gates:
Our children are Bill Gates experiment in his eyes. Data. Profit. Not children. He doesn't sit with them and dry their tears and console them while they are doing homework. He doesn't see them struggle with spelling, despite the fact that these kids are bright. He doesn't see the weight of the world on their shoulders when they are dropped off at school. School once was fun and exciting, but now our children are developing anxiety and physical symptoms because of the damage Gates little project is doing to them.“It would be great if our education stuff worked, but that we won’t know for probably a decade.”
More quotes from Gates...
"This is encouraging—but identifying common standards is not enough. We’ll know we’ve succeeded when the curriculum and the tests are aligned to these standards."
"to create just these kinds of tests—next-generation assessments aligned to the common core. When the tests are aligned to the common standards, the curriculum will line up as well—and that will unleash powerful market forces in the service of better teaching."
"For the first time, there will be a large uniform base of customers eager to buy products that can help every kid learn and every teacher get better."
In an interview, Gates said his role is to fund the research and development of new tools, such as the Common Core, and offer them to decision-makers who are trying to improve education for millions of Americans. It's up to the Government to decide which tools to use, but someone has to invest in their creation.
It's up to the Government? What?
There are three federal laws that prohibit federal departments or agencies from directing, supervising or controlling elementary and secondary school curricula, My Children are not Guinea Pigs! My battle against Common Core.:
There are three federal laws that prohibit federal departments or agencies from directing, supervising or controlling elementary and secondary school curricula, My Children are not Guinea Pigs! My battle against Common Core.: