If you have young children, grandchildren, nephews, nieces, are an educator, are a therapist, are a religious leader, are an elected official of any party, or care about very young children getting an excellent education in grades K thru 12, you should take time to listen to the below listed recordings by Dr. Duke Pesta, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, by clicking on the three below listed links.  Dr. Pesta’s discusses the indoctrination of students in the Common Core curriculum.  It will take about 6 years to fully implement the entire Common Core curriculum and the complex testing, they are starting with the math curriculum; the last curriculum and most controversial curriculum that will be taught will the sex education program.  Common Core does not encourage students to read the greatest novels in history, it’s not about teaching students to think outside of the box, nor is it about teaching students to excel beyond the capability of the fellow students in their grade, and it is not about mentoring gifted students like we do today in the GATE program.

 According to Dr. Petra, Common Core teaches students it is not fair for some students to highly achieve beyond the ability of their fellow students---it is about teaching students that everyone should achieve equally and collectively, resulting in students’ progressing at the lowest possible common denominator so no one is left behind.  Common Core is the plan by the federal government to take over the control of local school board’s educational programs, it pushes an agenda controlled and tested by the Department of Health Education and Welfare.  The results of the testing are recorded in specific detail for “each student’s” thinking, religious beliefs, patriotic beliefs, and family values, in violation of privacy laws. 

Common Core is much more than the new math.  For quite some time, I seriously tried to understand the new math without success (my math skills are excellent, I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering, a Master’s Degree in Operation Research, and an MBA in Finance).  All my grades in math were always straight “A”; I excelled in math in grammar school, in high school, in college, and in graduate school.  Common Core math is the worst thing that has ever happened to the math curriculum in grammar schools in the nation; that terrible debilitating math curriculum has now been in the public schools for 2 years, and many parents do not know how to help their children with the new math.

David Zimba who was responsible for developing the new math curriculum in Common Core, said Common Core math “will not” prepare students for college.  Common Core math is not about the right answer, it is about making the student comfortable with this new math---the teachers do not teach math any longer; the new math is programed in Common core, and tested by Washington bureaucrats.  Students “do not” know how to add and subtract in the 4th grade.  According to Dr Pesta, the students are taught that they “must” agree collectively on an answer with the students in their new teaching group (they must sit together in learning groups—individual desks are no longer encouraged), even if it is the answer is wrong it must be agreed to.   Because “individual” analytical thinking isn’t developed in early grades in students in the new math, algebra will be pushed into 9th grade, while the student is China, India, Europe, etc. begin algebra in the 5th grade.  The Common Core curriculum will result in students in the United States being left behind, far behind students in countries with much higher math and science achievement scores.  Please click on this short video with Dr. Pesta:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LZ_7Spjvho

This opposition to Common Core is not political, it is not Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or Conservative opposition; all members of the previous political groups have been expressing serious opposition to Common Core, it is an American problem where many Americans are concerned about the education of school children.  The most liberal teachers union in the nation, the NY States Teachers Union, and the most conservative organizations have opposed Common Core.   Texas, Virginia, Alaska, and Nebraska have already opted out of Common Core , and the states of Minnesota, Indiana, New York, and Washington are in the process of opting out. None of the educators in any state, nor any of the famous national educational organization, or varied groups of well-known educators, who are experts in certain subjects being taught by Common Core, were involved in scientifically developing the curriculum, nor was the curriculum tested by trial and error to determine the best educational curriculums that should be taught in grades K thru 12---only 5 people wrote the entire Common Core curriculum. 

Common Core was developed by David Coleman, and four of his associates; the development was funded by Bill Gates who spent $2.5 billion to sell it. 

Each state was provided with millions of dollars for their state education departments, long before the curriculum was written, they received the funds under the condition that they must incorporate Common Core into their educational system.  This Common Core curriculum has come about and has been driven by the Obama administration, and the Department of Health Education and Welfare who is now controlling Common Core testing for each state.  The education of students should be controlled at the state and local levels, not by Washington bureaucrats.  Please click on the below listed link to view and listed to a child psychologist responsible for all the students in a city School system who explains how students are reacting to Common Core and have been hurt mentally by the curriculum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3XcckJ3yTk

Common Core has eliminated the US history students once were taught in grammar and high schools.  Students once learned about the Pilgrims and how they came to the new world to seek religious freedom.  Students were once taught how the Founding Fathers religious beliefs provided the foundation on which the Republic was founded.  Students were once taught the value of US Constitution, the Bill of Rights & the value of each Amendment, the value of the rights of individual, and the importance of religious freedom.   Students are no longer taught why the Revolutionary War was fought, the reasons for the Civil War, how the US saved the world by mobilizing to fight in WWI & WWII, how the US saved the South Korean democracy from Communism, and how the United States preserved the freedom of the people in Kuwait from the dictator, Hussein Saddam.  The students were once taught to study the background of each of the US Presidents and their achievements.  They are not taught about the dangers of Communism and its demise, or how Socialism has never worked in any country it was ever tried in for the last 150 years, etc.  All those teachings were eliminated by the 5 peoples who developed the Common Core curriculum to the detriment of our Republic.  Those teachings must be reinstated without exception.

Common Core is not only the development of national standards for math, English, biology, and science it also includes teaching shocking sexual education courses for students in grades, kindergarten thru 12.  This is the most difficult program to get information on, and we can only go on the information provided by Dr. Pesta; I can’t verify his allegations.  According to Dr. Pesta, what will be taught are inappropriate sexuality skills, that shouldn’t even be taught in college. According to the child psychologists in the above video, the children are not mentally equipped to understand the sexual indoctrination that will begin in early grades of grammar school and will be indoctrinated in different sexual practices that they should never be exposed to.  According to Dr Pesta, students will be tested on their understanding of sexual issues every year for the 12 years they are in school, and the views of each student on sex issues will be recorded and retained by Washington bureaucrats.

According to Dr Pesta, there is a heavy socio political content of sex throughout the Common Core curriculum that will be taught in every grade and in every subject; the student will be taught that there is a sameness of gender, there is no longer simply boys and girls according to Common Core.  The sexual content of Common Core will eventually cross into every curriculums taught.   Eventually there will be sexual content included in the English curriculum, in the language curriculum, sex will be woven into the science curriculum, in the math curriculum, in the social studies curriculum, and of course in biology.    

According to Dr. Petra, since sexual content will be included in every subject taught, parents will no longer be able to request their children be opted out of the sex education course taught in Common Core, and assume that only they would be able to teach sex education to their children at home.  Dr Petra alleges that children will be taught that holding hands, hugging, kissing, is the same as every other deviate sex acts---they are taught there is a sameness to “all” sex---they will be taught that there is no such thing as normal sex in Common Core, sexual acts of every type will be taught as acceptable in Common Core.  Very young students will not be able to fully comprehend some of the practices they will be exposed to. . 

The sexual curriculum in Common Core, according to Dr. Petra, will be taught to students, working together in lab sessions. Students will not be able to opt out of sex education on their own, because sexual content will eventually cross into all of the Common Core curriculum and they would fail testing.  They will be taught by specially sex skilled teachers, and the students will be tested on the sexual skills and concepts being taught by the Department of Health Education and Welfare. 

According to Dr Pesta, teachers and parents may lose the ability to mentor the thousands of gifted children that are mentored today in public education, as the GATE programs are supported throughout the nation today.  Common Core will tend to dumb down students to the lowest leaning denominator.  Common Core is not good for the nation, for families, for children, for religious teachings, for colleges, for graduates schools, for research, for science, for States Rights, for teachers unions, and for the foundation upon which the Founding Fathers established the Republic.   The single biggest enemy of the Common Core curriculum are the Judeo Christian teachings student receive at home, in their houses of worship, and in religious books (the Old Testament, the Bible, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, etc.). 

Please watch the below listed video with Dr. Pesta, although it is long, it is an extremely important tape that is designed to save countless generations of students and the Republic, and should be listened to if you care about the education of future generations of young people.  Please pass this message on to all Americans who care about the future education of our youth.

Brilliant anti-Common Core Speech by Dr. Duke Pesta