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I have written columns about how public schools are sexualizing children at a younger age. Florida is leading in this area and the FL Department of Education and local school boards, like the Sarasota County School Board, are complicite. Eric Ernst from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports: When he picked up his son from Woodland Middle […]
Responding to Catholic families’ growing concerns about the controversial Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and their potential impact on Catholic education, The Cardinal Newman Society has launched the new “Catholic Is Our Core” project and issued a statement in support of greater parental involvement in the debate about the Common Core and advising caution before Catholic schools […]
For more than 237 years, America has been the most free, peaceful, prosperous, generous and yes, well-armed society on earth. Through most of this period, parents taught their children to pray, to honor thy mother and father, to tell the truth, to work, sacrifice, earn and own, to respect others and yes, to properly handle […]
The story of Common Core and data mining begins as most stories do, with a huge, unmet need. Self-appointed “stakeholder” know-it-alls at the federal level (also at state, corporate, and even university levels) determined that they had the right, and the need, for open access to personal student data– more so than they already had. They […]
“You are naïve if you think young people can read a dark and violent book that sits on the library shelves and not believe that that behavior must be condoned by the adults in their school lives.”
“In a universe of deceit, truth becomes a revolutionary act.” Often attributed to George Orwell, this statement is eerily appropriate in light of this latest revelation about the Obama administration. In Politico, Richard Williams reports: Earlier this year, the White House revealed that it is establishing a task force dedicated to studying how to motivate you—just as […]
American sociologist William Graham Sumner wrote, “We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.” Sumner’s quote is applicable to public education in America today. However, a look at the Common Core […]
On Thursday, Dec 5, there will be protests in more than a hundred cities across the nation directed at fast food chains, demanding an increase of the minimum wage to $15.00. Those who may be interviewed for radio and television will talk of receiving “a living wage.” In his 2013 State of the Union speech, […]
Not so long ago, American high-school students were educated in “sex hygiene.” They were told, “Save the conjugal act until marriage or you’ll get horrid diseases; if you’re a girl, you might become pregnant; and, boys, don’t marry an easy girl.” The lessons yielded low rates of STDs, illegitimacy, abortions, fatherless households, and welfare dependency. They saw high rates […]
The Home School Legal Defense Association recently filed a friend of the court (amicus curiae) brief with the Florida Third District Court of Appeal in Miami explaining the broad success of homeschooling, demonstrated not only through academic studies but also in social engagement. Why an Amicus Brief? In their fight to preserve and expand homeschool freedom, HSLDA sometimes […]
The larger the Common Core database becomes the more likely it will be target by those who would do children harm.
Today, the Florida Chapter of Americans for Prosperity (AFP-FL) launched a new effort in Florida Senate districts 2, 5 and 28 aimed at educating voters in those districts of their elected official’s poor votes on key common-sense reforms and economic freedom-related issues during the 2013 session. The multifaceted campaign will employ direct mail and television […]
We believe that implementing Common Core would be a grave disservice to Catholic education in America.
Maybe the Sarasota County School Board should realize this website is looking more like HeathCare.gov on steriods.
There is growing concern that the Florida Department of Education and Board of Education are turning a deaf ear when it comes to critics of Common Core State Standards. The interim Commissioner of Education was forced by Governor Scott to hold hearings on Common Core. Many have pointed out that opponents who are parents, teachers […]