The images below are from real textbooks in use in a third grade classroom in Sarasota, Florida this very school year, sent to me by my friend Shannon (*)

World War I started in 1914.  Louisa May Alcott died in 1888 at the age of 55, however if she had lived to be a nurse during World War I, she would have been an 82 year old nurse at the beginning of WWI, and 86 by the time it ended.  Are you kidding me?  That is a glaring error.  Talk about “revisionist history”.  What nonsense!  But wait, there’s more…

Read the book “None Dare Call it Education”.  It is pretty sobering.  This is not carelessness.  It is deliberate.  Sadly, most teachers couldn’t begin to tell you what is wrong with this last excerpt.  Most home-schooled kids probably could.

In a socialistic society, individualism is frowned upon.  America is becoming more Socialist by the day.  My sophomore son just read Anthem for his English class.  Where we live, we are still backward enough to be pointing out the dangers of Socialism.  Imagine that!  (Anthem is a novella written by Ayn Rand, who experienced life as a Jew in Russia under Marxism.  She witnessed first-hand her father’s thriving pharmacy business confiscated “for the greater good”, and the dire change in their means and lifestyle which resulted.  Her most famous work, of course, is Atlas Shrugged).

I have spent very little time looking into the Common Core issue and the current outcry, knowing that it is merely a new stanza in an old song.  We have been on this continuum for a while now, here in America, and different folks’ eyes get opened to different pieces of this nations “transformation in progress” at different times.   For me, it’s “been there, done that” (while my kids were in elementary school) and moving on to the next thing.  I credit our old pal George Bush for leaps and bounds in that agenda, with No Child Left Behind, but even my beloved Reagan is not without culpability.  The older you get, the more of the big picture you can see, if you are an informed type to any degree whatsoever, and so comes understanding.   Common Core is no small issue, however, and there are many parents who are informed, and more waking up every day.  Unfortunately, this thing is deeply entrenched already, having been in the works for several decades already, and so much so, that along with the growing “police state” climate, it can result in things like this shocking incident that occurred recently.

Lynn Stuter wrote a great article on the subject: Common Core, New Name, Old Agenda

Karl Marx’ Communist Manifesto contains these famous ten demands that sum up his agenda (from Wikipedia):

• Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
• A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
• Abolition of all right of inheritance.
• Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
• Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
• Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
• Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
• Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
• Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of the population over the country.
• Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form and combination of education with industrial production.^[15]

And so, on it goes.    Why free education?  Why “it takes a village”, and the push to make the school year last “year-round”?  If they can indoctrinate them when they are very young, they can change the world in a generation or two.  First get mom’s out of the home, then let the government raise the kids.

It is all part of a much larger agenda, but it doesn’t stop with the transformation of America, it goes all the way back to the attempt to throw off the constraints of morality and of God Himself.

Now, that is why part of my tagline is “deep and wide”, because I’m a big-picture kinda gal.  It’s good to question, just don’t stop short of examining the broad implications.

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