Eight grade students attending Novi Middle school were asked to write an essay on whether they would rather be a slave or a factory worker. The majority chose a slave. 7 Action News talked to Kaya James, a student at the school.
Kaya told 7 Action News her teacher asked the class a question that shocked her.
“He asked us whether we wanted to be a factory worker or a slave,” said Kaya.
The 8th grader at Novi Middle School said she could not believe the majority of the class, including some African American students, said they would rather be a slave.
Parents are outraged. However, Danial Coupland, Professor at Hillsdale College, warned us that this would be the result.
“As long as students are told that the end of education is a job or a career, they will forever be servants of some master…”
“…If education has become –as Common Core openly declares– preparation for work in a global economy, then this situation is far worse than Common Core critics ever anticipated. And the concerns about cost, and quality, and yes, even the constitutionality of Common Core, pale in comparison to the concerns for the hearts, minds, and souls of American children.”
Parents it is time to stop the nonsense and stop common core.
Update: The dehumanizing effect of Common Core is actually a positive in the mind of Bill Gates
“Gates compared such national education standards to the establishment of global Internet software conventions and the standardized gauge of American railroads and configuration of electrical plugs. Once you set the plug size, he said, people can go about the business of creating appliances to connect to the grid.
It’s a logical, if mechanistic and quantified, view of education that gives many dedicated teachers and educational philosophers the willies. But it is the world Gates believes in.”
Our children are NOT widgets, electrical plugs, and cannot be standardized like “gauge” on a railroad. Our children minds should not be reduced to an appliance to “connect to the grid.”
Governor Snyder believes this is raising the bar. He couldn’t be more wrong.