09-26-13 — Ginger Taylor – John Whitehead – LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EDT)

By John W. Whitehead

September 23, 2013

“A fool with a tool is still a fool.  A fool with a powerful tool is a
dangerous fool.”—Michael Fullan, international school reform authority,
on the powerful “tool” that is Common Core

As I point out in my new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State,
there are several methods for controlling a population. You can
intimidate the citizenry into obedience through force, relying on
military strength and weaponry such as SWAT team raids, militarized
police, and a vast array of lethal and nonlethal weapons. You can
manipulate them into marching in lockstep with your dictates through the
use of propaganda and carefully timed fear tactics about threats to
their safety, whether through the phantom menace of terrorist attacks or
shooting sprees by solitary gunmen.  Or you can indoctrinate them into
compliance from an early age through the schools, discouraging them from
thinking for themselves while rewarding them for regurgitating whatever
the government, through its so-called educational standards, dictates
they should be taught.

Those who founded America believed that an educated citizenry
knowledgeable about their rights was the surest means of preserving
freedom. If so, then the inverse should also hold true: that the surest
way for a government to maintain its power and keep the citizenry in
line is by rendering them ignorant of their rights and unable to think
for themselves.

When viewed in light of the government’s ongoing attempts to amass
power at great cost to Americans—in terms of free speech rights,
privacy, due process, etc.—the debate over Common Core State Standards,
which would transform and nationalize school curriculum from
kindergarten through 12th grade, becomes that much more critical.

Essentially, these standards, which were developed through a
partnership between big government and corporations, in the absence of
any real input from parents or educators with practical, hands-on
classroom experience, and are being rolled out in 45 states and the
District of Columbia, will create a generation of test-takers capable of
little else, molded and shaped by the federal government and its
corporate allies into what it considers to be ideal citizens.




 

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