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The Common Core Curriculum Meets The GED

)".But what if the source text is wrong on facts and presents a narrow set of partisan political beliefs - in addition to being poorly written and downright confusing?Below is an excerpt from a larger Social Studies Extended Response, found on page 52 from Writing Across the Tests: Responding to Text on the Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science Test, entitled, "Does Foreign Aid Really Help?"Those who support sending aid to poor countries do so because poor countries often have high levels of poverty, poor educational systems, an ineffective police and judicial force, and limited public services such as healthcare, transportation networks, and banking systems. They believe that when living conditions are this poor, crime levels tend to be higher. Poorer countries, because they have weak governments, often have areas that attract terrorist groups because no one is there to stop them from pursuing those types of activities. Thus, poor countries are often home to terrorist groups that are free to plan and carry out attacks on the rich, industrialized nations, without fear of being stopped. This is in fact[italics mine] what happened on 9/11 when terrorists from Afghanistan hijacked planes and carried out attacks on the United States.  In this case, the terrorists originated in a country that had received large amounts of foreign aid from rich countries. Apparently, it didn't work.And here is the following test prompt:Should rich countries continue to give aid to poor countries, or should they stop giving aid? Develop an argument that supports your position, and make sure to use specific details to help develop your ideas.The dictionary definition of "indoctrinate" is "to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle." This is exactly what will happen when GED students are required to generate ideas, attitudes, and cognitive strategies based on the above misleading and purely sectarian "progressive" worldview, which disregards the proven beneficiary power of the free markets, misconstrues the motivation of Islamic terrorists, and misrepresents the identities of the 9/11 hijackers, who were, for the most part, educated Muslim Arabs from well-to-do families in oil-rich countries that, in fact, send plenty of foreign aid to support Islamic extremism around the world.The source text on Global Warming (Page 54) provides a statement that global temperatures are increasing, followed by two theories that explain it -- the use of fossil fuels and deforestation -- both of which attribute Global Warming to human industrial activity and population growth.Omitted in this "scientific text" is the existence of other scientific data and theories, for example, the cyclical nature of the planet's climate and the impact of solar activity on Earth's temperatures. Nor does it mention the fact that the concept of man-made global warming is most actively promoted by those politicians who have a vested interest in imposing government regulations, which would allow them a greater control over the economy and people's lives.The students are then asked to write a short essay, within approximately ten minutes, with a "correct" explanation of "how human activity has directly contributed to the rise in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere," using "multiple pieces of evidence from the text to support their answer."A dictionary defines "leading question" as "a question phrased in a manner that tends to suggest the desired answer, such as What do you think of the horrible effects of pollution?" They may as well have used this new GED workbook as an example.

Once Common Core is nationally implemented and federally enforced, public education will become just another word for a forcible indoctrination of our children to induce them to give up their parents' political, social, or religious beliefs and attitudes and to accept contrasting regimented ideas. This is the dictionary definition of brainwashing.
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