The Rotten Core of the Common Core--Part Three
HuffingtonPost.com recently posted an article titled, “Tennessee
Firearms Association Claims Common Core Standards Promote Anti-Gun Agenda,” and
then subtly ridiculed that contention in its introductory sentences, “Do the
Common Core State Standards promote an anti-gun agenda? That’s what the
Tennessee Firearms Association apparently thinks.”
HuffPo followed that sly put-down with distinctly unsubtle praise for the “set of education benchmarks designed to emphasize critical thinking and deeper learning, and which has been adopted in 45 states and the District of Columbia.”
As examined in the first two parts of this series, whether those benchmarks actually do “emphasize critical thinking and deeper learning” is highly disputable and the widespread adoption of Common Core, nicknamed Obamacore, is misleading since the federal–not state–standards are still being debated in many state capitals and has yet to be fully implemented anywhere.
The liberal-leftist HuffPo cites a written statement issued by John Harris, executive director of the Tennessee Firearms Association that takes issue with the way the new standards represent the Second Amendment to the Constitution: “We are already seeing textbooks and teaching assignments that are a part of Common Core intentionally or recklessly misrepresenting the Second Amendment in schools across the country. And we want to insure [sic] that the liberal anti-gun agenda is not allowed to invade Tennessee schools.”
Not mentioned in the Huffington article–since a mention would severely undermine its basic premise that the Tennessee Firearms Association is a fanatical group of gun-loving crazies–are two Common Core-approved high school “history” textbooks, “United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination” and “The Americans.”
The former text includes a bizarre summary/interpretation/paraphrase of the Second Amendment (“the right to bear arms” not the right to “keep” and bear arms) and compares the “American mobs” who fought in the Revolutionary War to the “guerrilla bands that fought in such countries as Cuba in the 1950s and Vietnam in 1960s and points out that the Boston Tea Party was “far too radical.”
The latter textbook oddly integrates the Second and Third Amendments and falsely suggests the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is somehow linked. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=33795.)
HuffPo followed that sly put-down with distinctly unsubtle praise for the “set of education benchmarks designed to emphasize critical thinking and deeper learning, and which has been adopted in 45 states and the District of Columbia.”
As examined in the first two parts of this series, whether those benchmarks actually do “emphasize critical thinking and deeper learning” is highly disputable and the widespread adoption of Common Core, nicknamed Obamacore, is misleading since the federal–not state–standards are still being debated in many state capitals and has yet to be fully implemented anywhere.
The liberal-leftist HuffPo cites a written statement issued by John Harris, executive director of the Tennessee Firearms Association that takes issue with the way the new standards represent the Second Amendment to the Constitution: “We are already seeing textbooks and teaching assignments that are a part of Common Core intentionally or recklessly misrepresenting the Second Amendment in schools across the country. And we want to insure [sic] that the liberal anti-gun agenda is not allowed to invade Tennessee schools.”
Not mentioned in the Huffington article–since a mention would severely undermine its basic premise that the Tennessee Firearms Association is a fanatical group of gun-loving crazies–are two Common Core-approved high school “history” textbooks, “United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination” and “The Americans.”
The former text includes a bizarre summary/interpretation/paraphrase of the Second Amendment (“the right to bear arms” not the right to “keep” and bear arms) and compares the “American mobs” who fought in the Revolutionary War to the “guerrilla bands that fought in such countries as Cuba in the 1950s and Vietnam in 1960s and points out that the Boston Tea Party was “far too radical.”
The latter textbook oddly integrates the Second and Third Amendments and falsely suggests the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is somehow linked. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=33795.)
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