Dept. of Education Stifling Regulations of Teachers

People often forget that the children are not the only people being used as pawns in this new education reform called Common Core.

The teachers are being data mined and have so many regulations put on them they can barely breathe on their own in the classroom without some sort of measured assessment to make sure they are doing what the powers that be want them to do.

Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University outlines those regulations in an article on Huffington Post. Although HP is not where I get my news, most days, it has had some thoughtful pieces on the Common Core.

The second paragraph of her very interesting piece presents an Orwellian nightmare:

The proposed regulations on Teacher Education released in December by USDE are the latest example of federal over-reach into the nation’s classrooms at all levels of education. Through 75 dense and difficult pages of reading in the Federal Register, a picture emerges of a federal bureaucracy obsessed with controlling and measuring virtually every aspect of a teacher’s work. Despite my own legal training, parsing the Fedspeak of the proposed regs was a turgid slog through too much jargon. Rules that are this long and so obtuse cannot be good. I found myself wondering how many teachers are actually able to read and understand what is about to happen to them. Even more, I found myself asking the unthinkable: who would even want to enter a profession that has so little freedom and so much governmental oversight?

Read more:  https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/12/03/2014-28218/teacher-preparation-issues

Macey France

Oregon PolitiChick Macey France is co-founder of the Stop Common Core in Oregon and is working with parents across the state to educate and help them to learn how to advocate for their children's education. Macey has spoken at many Common Core informational meetings across the state of Oregon. Macey's articles on Common Core have been picked up by various news outlets and she has been a guest on many radio shows across the nation. Macey's article about The Bluest Eye was featured on a panel on Al Jazeera America and was nominated for a CPAC Blogger Award for Best Sunlight Post of 2013. Macey is a strong conservative with libertarian leanings, making her more of a "conservatarian." Preserving the constitutional and moral values of that this great nation was founded on for her children is her priority. She is a stay at home mom of two boys who are now in elementary school. As a mom who has always been interested in politics, religion and all of the taboo subjects, she has always had a lot to say about the state of the nation. When she realized the Common Core Standards were not only bad news for children but a government coup over education, she decided to fight back and is now considered one of the nation's leading experts on all-things-Common Core. When she's not having uncomfortable arguments with strangers on Facebook she can be found spending time with her husband of 15 years and two sons. Find Macey France on Facebook and Twitter: @MaceyFrancePC

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