Video: Who REALLY wants to know ALL about your kid? Opt-out
Apparently, there’s a new Bill Gates’ funded video circulating. It’s all about making sure parents don’t opt out. Oh Please. Rather than promote the paid advertisement for Gates’ Common Core tests and data collection, I am instead going to ask you to watch this short 4 minute little videoabout children and data collection. Enjoy.
If you watched the video above, (and rally, I hope you did) it’s enough to make you consider why the reformers push ONLINE everything and why they spend so much time and money (WestEd, Chamber of Commerce, Children Now, PTA, Learn Zillion) convincing you that somehow this movement is about kids. Not buying it.
Speaking of not buying it: Remember this video entitled Granddad learns about Common Core allegedly from the pro-Common Core, Pro-testing crowd? The video disrespects and makes fun of elderly people. As so many (here, here, here) reported, this was a feeble attempt to shame those who oppose Common Core and who opt out of the mandated Common Core assessments. As Diane Ravitch pointed out,Common Core has an image problem. YEP.
Apparently making fun of people didn’t gain Gates and the reformers the #CommonCoreLove they were looking for. Instead, they are now putting their advertising dollars ( here, here, here, here … of course, there’s more) into organizations who are using pictures and Video: Who REALLY wants to know ALL about your kid? Opt-out – Missouri Education Watchdog: