“So why do 62 percent of parents think it’s [common core] a bad idea? For one, they can count. But their kids can’t.” ~ Joy Pullmann
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I have been talking with students, teachers and parents about Common Core and the increased requirements for testing. My goal is to try to discern the real goals behind common core.
We have created a system in which the average American student moving through K-12 and graduating from a college program is carrying a handicap of potentially 20-30,000 hours relative to a student who is free to craft their curriculum to the skills they want and need to be successful in their chosen field.
That 20,000-30,000 hours is the time spent digesting disinformation, spent in academic activities that produce no productive or useful result or working to pay off student loans that financed these activities.
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This means if a teacher and a group of children in a remote Asian village simply access the Kahn Academy, online curriculum provided by top US and European universities and numerous rich, amazing on line resources now available to them through tablets and smart phones, they will be far more intelligent and well educated in a far shorter period than their American counterparts.
There is also a reasonably good chance that they will still love to learn, unlike their American counterparts.
The only logical explanation I can think of is that Bill Gates and his network of business leaders want to be free to access emerging markets labor at low cost and have no obligation politically or economically to hire Americans. The easy way to do so is to simply make sure they have no qualifications.
Children of the rich will simply rise up a private school line that will value their time and energy at great expense to their parents. They will land at the top.
At some point American parents are going to realize that they and their children are being asked to waste a significant amount of time and money – time and money they can not afford to lose in an increasingly competitive environment.
Certainly, some already have. The number of children who are homeschooled is growing steadily.
I am quite curious to see what happens when the realization dawns on them that they are being taxed at great expense to pay for an exceptionally expensive educational system which is intentionally destroying their children’s ability to compete successfully in a global economy.
There is no fiercer political force than a loving mother and father who want the very best for their children.
That means something’s got to give.
