COMMON CORE...a courageous decision (Best news I've heard all day! ~ Storm'n Norm'n)

The following from Buzzpo.com

280 High Schoolers Just Told Obama to SHOVE IT in Epic Fashion

280 high schoolers – the entire junior class of Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Washington – have effectively told President Obama and his band of progressive buffoons that they can take their Common Core and shove it.

When state testing began on Tuesday, not a single junior showed up on campus to participate, as the entire student body had collectively decided to exercise their legal right to opt out of the ‘Smarter Balanced’ exams

“They didn’t skip school all day,” commented district spokeswoman Stacy Howard, according to the Seattle Times. “They just didn’t show up during the testing period.”

The Nathan Hale students weren’t the only ones to deal this massive blow to the liberal establishment, either. According to early district estimates, about half of the juniors at three other Seattle high schools have also opted out of the Smarter Balanced testing.

“Students voted with their own feet,” remarked Doug Edelstein, a history teacher at Nathan Hale and opponent of the Common Core testing. “They felt like they knew the facts, and made their own decisions.”

Give the junior class at Seattle’s Nathan Hale High two thumbs up for taking a stand against Common Core by sharing this report!

The following from: I am an educator.com

 

Doug Edelstein is a teacher at Nathan Hale High School

Doug wrote the following announcement of Nathan Hale’s courageous decision to take a stand against the testocracy:

This afternoon the Nathan Hale Senate (functions as Building Leadership Team) voted nearly unanimously not to administer the SBAC tests to 11th graders this year.

The Senate also recently voted not to administer the PSAT test to 10th graders at all in the future.

Reasons for refusing the SBAC for 11th graders included (summary):

1. Not required for graduation

2. Colleges will not use them this year

3. Since NCLB requires all students pass the tests by 2014, and since few if any schools will be able to do that, all schools will therefore be considered failing by that standard. There is thus no reason to participate in erroneous and misapplied self-labeling.

4. It is neither valid nor reliable nor equitable assessment. We will use classroom based assessments to guide next instructional steps.

5. Cut scores of the SBAC reflect poor assessment strategy and will produce invalid and unreliable outcomes.

6. Student made this point: “Why waste time taking a test that is meaningless and that most of us will fail?”

7. The SBAC will tie up computer lab time for weeks.

8. The SBAC will take up time students need to work on classroom curriculum.

This is an important step. Nathan Hale is asserting its commitment to valid, reliable, equitable assessment. This decision is the result of community and parent meetings, careful study of research literature, knowledge of our students’ needs, commitment to excellence in their education, and adherence to the values and ideas of best-practice instruction.

This resolution does not mean NHHS will refuse the 10th grade SBAC assessments, sorry to say. But the way the school went about the decision is a powerful model for other schools, and means that anything is still possible in that regard.

Yay.

Doug Edelstein

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Note: I ran across this statement not long ago:

Lenin understood that in order to increase the effectiveness of his propaganda, the cultural level of the Russian people would have to be raised by bringing down the illiteracy rate.

Similar things are going on here in America as we speak.  Political correctness has brought down the American culture where it is no longer recognised.  It is so diverse now than it ever has been and the politic elite have encouraged it almost to the point of no return; when it reaches that point, you can kiss your red, white, and blue banner of freedom goodbye.  Obama and his ilk understand that in order to increase the effectiveness of their propaganda, the cultural level of the American people would have to be changed (Remember, "Hope and change.")  by bringing down the intelligence quotient with such tools as Common Core.  Lenin may have had success by bringing down the illiteracy rate whereas the Obama and the Democrats have done just the opposite (today, most kids entering college do not have the reading skills necessary for their grade level).  Its called, "The dumbing down of America."  ...and it appears your elected officials are very effective at it.

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