Southwest Washington Education (K-12)

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”– Socrates

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Number 12 looks like you – Twilight Zone and Common Core

One of the things that we find troubling about Common Core is the intent to make sure that everyone is taught the same thing, following the same schedule to make sure that children are all alike, make everyone equal and conform. Those who support Common Core want everyone to be the same. In 1964 Rod Serling produced an episode of the Twilight Zone called "Number 12 looks like you". In this episode an 18 year old girl/woman is pressured to follow the norm and undergo a change to her looks - "The Transformation". In her society everyone chooses an image from a catalog and have themselves transformed into that image. Everyone is beautiful. Everyone looks alike. Everyone is equal...and … [Read more...]

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7×13=28 Common Core – Wrong gets credit

For those of you who follow the premise of the Common Core approach to may have noticed that you can now have the wrong answer but that if you can show how you got to the answer you can get credit.   Click on the picture and a link to a short comedy video clip from Abbott and Costello should open. If this wasn't so serious it would be funny.     … [Read more...]

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Former Stanford dean explains why helicopter parenting is ruining a generation of children

From a story at The Washington Post To play the video click on the link above that takes you to the main story. If just want to read the story here it is...... Julie Lythcott-Haims noticed a disturbing trend during her decade as a dean of freshmen at Stanford University. Incoming students were brilliant and accomplished and virtually flawless, on paper. But with each year, more of them seemed incapable of taking care of themselves. At the same time, parents were becoming more and more involved in their children’s lives. They talked to their children multiple times a day and swooped in to personally intervene whenever something difficult happened. [Helicopter parents … [Read more...]

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Who REALLY wants to know ALL about your kid?

From Missouri Education Watchdog  .............. If you've been wondering why to Opt-Out your child/ren from the SBAC or PARCC or other high stakes testing you may want to spend a few minutes watching the video that opens when you click the picture. It's about 4 minutes long. Apparently, there’s a new Bill Gates’ funded video circulating. It’s all about making sure parents don’t opt out. Oh Please. Rather than promote the paid advertisement for Gates’ Common Core tests and data collection, I am instead going to ask you to watch this short 4 minute little video about children and data collection. Enjoy. If you watched the video above, (and really, I hope you did) it’s enough to … [Read more...]

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History of Common Core – What is it and how did we get here?

There are a series of six (6) video's produced by a group out of Georgia that walk the viewer through Common Core. These were made a couple of years ago so there are some changes (nothing positive) that need to be factored in. The video's collectively will take a little less than 30 minutes to watch. If you have a genuine interest in getting background on Common Core please take the time to watch these. After you are done drop me a note and tell me what you think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coRNJluF2O4&list=PLWqL2Og4ICdvllViIJu00MBc15yaXp2UH    … [Read more...]