NEA wants teachers to pay a surcharge to support Common Core/call for Van Roekel's resignation

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5. Here's one of the speeches opposing CCSS

My name is Xxxxx Xxxxxx from CA and this is my first RA! I am speaking as an individual.

I strongly oppose NEAs support of the, Corporate, Privatizer, Education Deformer, Bill Gates-driven CCSS, which were NOT developed by real, certificated CLASSROOM teachers of child development experts.

Nationally reknowned ECE, Dr. Nancy Carlsson Paige's, research told us that out of the 135 people who developed the K-3 standards, there were NO classroom teachers or child development experts among them, resulting in standards that are not developmentally appropriate.

Dr. Stephan Krashen predicts that CCSS will increase testing 20 fold.

I predict that that our already narrow, boring curricula will continue to be so. I predict that we will continue to ignore the needs of the whole child. I predict that we will continue to waste months of instructional time on test prep and testing.

As our class sizes continue to grow, precious dollars will be used to buy technology to serve the Corporate Core. I've read the Finnish national education standards. They do not look at all like the CCSS.

My professional conscience leads me to support real, classroom teacher-driven change, not corporate driven change.

We are burning out and stressing out kids. Kids have become disengaged from learning.

I oppose having my union dues spent to support the CCSS and spread Corporate Core propaganda to our students, families, and colleague.

I urge you to oppose support for the implementation of these expensive, unproven set of standards.

I urge you, instead to support real classroom teacher driven change that will address the individual needs of all of our children.

Haven't we learned anything from NCLB?