Curriculum is a program from a PRIVATE BUSINESS. It is not your local School Board and local district's curriculum like it used to be when you went to school. The curriculum, for many years in the past, was decided on by the residence of your community and approved in its professionalized form by the state education agency-New Mexico Education Agency.
What is happening is mostly due to the State and National Level Chambers of Commerce promoting private business deal with private schooling firms to come in and take over, setting the state up, for the complete takeover and transfer of public education, first though curriculum changes, then vouchers, then ALEC proposes the legislation necessary for State Senators and House Members, mostly Conservatives, to vote to destroy Public Education. It has already happened in Louisiana.
Who owns stock in these private schooling firms and Charter Schools? Corporations and Conservative business owners and government officials on the all levels, city, county, state, and federal. Sorry to say that Secretary Duncan is promoting Common Core. In my opinion, Common Core is promoting the privatization of public education at the expense of the students. Were you ever divided up to go to college or off to war based on the results of some private firm grading a Common Core Type of test? That would have NEVER EVER been allowed in the past. The US is being destroyed by extremist Tea Party/John Bircher types/Dominion New Apostolic Reformists. Teachers are being evaluated on the results of these test so they can be fired and replaced by someone making minimum wage, leaving more for a private business's profit account. In some programs like Jeb Bush sold in Texas, professional teachers and therapist were replaced with a computer with one program covering the hard drive; very expensive. And it was a failure. Once your money is sent to private businesses, they do not care if it is a failure; they are in it for the money.
Privatization means that there is no accountability by Education Code law over a business. You do not get your money back if you child is dismissed from a Charter School. Charter schools must trigger some kind of failure in the System in order to get your child and the state's money for your child, so they use privatization techniques of all kinds. I have only listed a few. Everybody needs to wake up and take a very close look at what is going on. Texas tried machine teaching, then tried to start vouchers, and Common Core, which failed, then Home Rule, now it is back to vouchers again in the 2015 Texas Legislature.
Testing for the wrong reason, is the easiest way to destroy students and teachers. Wishing all of you the best (for your kids, educators and communities and our nation).
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