Common Core Uses SEIU Protest To Teach 3rd Graders About 'Rights and Responsibilities'

Common Core Uses SEIU Protest To Teach 3rd Graders About 'Rights and Responsibilities'

by Dr. Susan Berry 11 Oct 2013, 10:50 AM PDT

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/11/Common-Core-Teacher-Guide-Uses-SEIU-Protest-To-Teach-3rd-Graders-About-Rights-and-Responsibilities

A new report from Education Action Group Foundation, Inc. (EAG) indicates that a Common Core-aligned teacher guide encourages third graders to learn about “rights and responsibilities” through a story about a 1985 SEIU-led janitors' strike in Los Angeles.

Kyle Olson of EAGnews.org wrote that textbook publisher Zaner-Bloser includes, in its Common Core-aligned third-grade teaching guide, a book entitled “Si Se Puede/Yes We Can!” The book is included in Zaner-Bloser’s unit on “Rights and Responsibilities.”

Olson wrote that the goal of the Zaner-Bloser guide is to have eight and nine year-old children consider the “central question” of “How can we work together as a community to stand up for our rights?”

In “Si Se Puede,” third-graders learn that in 1985 janitors went on strike “for more money because their wages [were] too low to be fair.” In the guide, Olson says teachers “are told to introduce students to the vocabulary word of the week--‘protest.’”

According to Olson, who reviewed the teaching guide:

The book instructs the teacher to “remind students that a protest is an event in which people publicly show their strong disapproval of something. Discuss protest throughout the week. Challenge students to use the word while speaking and writing.”

After students read the book and learn about underpaid janitors and protests, the guide tells teachers to help students apply these concepts to their lives.

They do that by brainstorming about problems they believe exist in their school.

In case the kids can’t identify any problems worth protesting, the Zaner-Bloser authors helpfully offer an example: “No talking allowed in the lunchroom.”

The authors even suggest a solution: “Protest by making signs and marching.”

“So here you have a Common Core-aligned lesson instructing third-graders how to stage a public protest against their adult school leaders,” Olson said. “They’re essentially being groomed to be future members of labor unions, or at least to sympathize with the organized labor point of view.”

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Jeb Bush is a supporter for Common Core educational standards, and a member of the Alfalfa Club.

Note: Mark R. Warner was the president of the Alfalfa Club, and is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), the American Constitution Society, the Alliance for Justice, and the Center for American Progress.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was a supporter for the Center for American Progress.

Judith Scott is a director at the American Constitution Society, a director at the Alliance for Justice, and the general counsel for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Robert Raben was a director at the American Constitution Society, the assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice, is a director at the Alliance for Justice, and the president of the Raben Group.

Janet Reno is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society, and was the attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Eric H. Holder Jr. was a board member for the American Constitution Society, and is the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice, for the Barack Obama administration.

Melody C. Barnes was a principal at the Raben Group, the domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration, the SVP for the Center for American Progress, and is Barack Obama’s golf partner.

Raben Group was the lobby firm for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Stephen Lerner was an organizer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and organizer for the Janitors for Justice campaign.

Tom Daschle is a director at the Center for American Progress, was a director at the CBRE Group, Inc., and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Frederic V. Malek is a director at the CBRE Group, Inc., and a member of the Alfalfa Club.

Richard C. Blum is the chairman for the CBRE Group, Inc., and married to Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Dianne Feinstein is married to Richard C. Blum, a U.S. Senate senator, and a member of the Alfalfa Club.

Jeb Bush is a member of the Alfalfa Club, and a supporter for Common Core educational standards.