Indoctrination in Common Core ELA Texts

Have you heard the notion that Common Core standards don't indoctrinate? Well they don't. It's the curriculum that is susceptible of indoctrinating. Here's an example of social justice activism for 1st graders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGph7QHzmo8&feature=youtu.be

Amazing video.

In a collegiate course on "logic and argumentation" I was taught that emotonally neutral language was the only pure way to present clear and unbiased information. That made sense, but it was from a traditonally philosophical perspective on truth and decency. Now, at least in Utah, just the opposite is being taught as early as First Grade. Argumentum ad misericordiam here we come!

No wonder the voters of this country have filled Washington, DC with those who occupy the offices there.

"As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation. ~ Adolf Hitler

Public education is not education ... it is schooling.


A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body." - John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." - Joseph Stalin

"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." - Joseph Goebbels


Posted this in another Thread and got quite a Brow-beating from a Progressive!

I tried to find this quotation from the Elizabethan period in England. I thought it was Sir Walter Raleigh, but I couldn't locate it. Anyway, the quote was about "university men," and the statement was that they are "bottled men gone putrid and spreading like mold on cheese." How true today in US universities and it looks like in grammar school now too.