PARENTS TAUGHT HOW TO GET KIDS OUT OF COMMON CORE
Public School teaching standards called 'threat to personal liberty'
by Bob Unruh, World Net Daily
The
Common Core school standards imposed on teachers by Washington
bureaucrats have been rejected by multiple states, targeted by lawsuits
and criticized as more indoctrination than education.
Now
parents are being given a turn to take a whack at the one-size-fits-all
program that relegates George Washington to a half a sentence and
compares the Declaration of Independence to a high-school romance
breakup letter.
The Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center is
urging parents to opt their children out of the restrictive regulations
and requirements, providing forms to make the process easier.
"The
opt-out form is based on the constitutionally recognized fundamental
right of parents to direct the education of their children and on
federal statutes which were designed to protect student privacy," said
Richard Thompson, the chief counsel for the organization.
"Our
Founding Fathers recognized the dangers to our freedoms posed by
centralized control over public education. However, today, all but a
handful of state governments, enticed by millions of dollars in federal
grants, are voluntarily inviting the federal government to take control
of our public schools, imposing untested educational standards and
obtaining personal information on children and their parents which would
make any totalitarian government blush with envy," he continued.
"We
must ever keep in mind, ‘The philosophy of the classroom in one
generation will become the philosophy of the government in the next.’
Clearly, Common Core is a threat to individual privacy and liberty, and
to our constitutional republic," he said.
His group has posted online a sample form to
help parents meet the requirements of Michigan state law, where Thomas
More is located. The group suggests it can be used as a template by
attorneys preparing similar forms in other states....
Op-out form at: http://www.thomasmore.org/
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