Author: Sharman Burson Ramsey: Common Core, Sylvia Plath, and Death Education

The other day, my 15 year old, extremely precocious granddaughter, got in the car with me and began a discussion on Sylvia Plath. Now, I have told you that she is precocious and I have given her great works of literature to read from my own library. A couple of years ago she read F. Scott Fitzgerald, O. Henry, and George Orwell, among many others. But I would never have given her ANYTHING by Sylvia Plath. Because the most important thing Sylvia Plath did was be depressed and -- commit suicide. I had the opportunity to discuss this with my grandchild. But the image had already been planted in her brain and there is nothing I can do to erase it. As they say, you cannot unring a bell.

I wonder how many children have not had a grandmother/mother/father to be on guard as to the consequences of group psychotherapy practiced by untrained teachers.

The suicide rate for girls ages 15 to 19 doubled from 2007 to 2015 when it reached the highest point in 40 years. That is about the time COMMON CORE (Progressive Education on Steroids) entered the scene. The article below relates the suicide rate to Death Education in our schools.

As a former secondary teacher, I will tell you that Middle School and High School students like to talk about death. And that is one excellent reason NOT TO. NOT SO WITH COMMON CORE. Apparently they enjoy the therapeutic classroom and their call to practice psychotherapy without a license through "lesson plans" like this in "Health Education." Right up there with the DARE program.

I understand "Integrating the curriculum." Death Education can very well be "integrated" into the English Language Arts curriculum so parents cannot "opt out." Guess who appears in the curriculum with COMMON CORE STANDARDS.

I think we read the Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner at that age with all of its classical allusions and imagery. But now, with Women's Studies being a part of Multiculturalism, we have reinvented our curriculum to fit the Feminist agenda.

Sylvia Plath is a vehicle for both Death Education and Feminism.

Fits in quite well with the philosophy of exposing students to Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and its nihilistic world view.

And Maybe there’s a God above

All I’ve ever learned from love

Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you

It’s not a cry that you hear at night

It’s not somebody who’s seen the light

It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah.

Over 50,000 American teenagers have committed suicide since the introduction of death education in America's public schools in the early 1970s according to the 1990 article written by Samuel Blumenfeld. The number is oh so much greater now!

Look at the jump in suicide rates in the 10 to 24 age group.

I have already brought to your attention the increasing use of drugs AFTER the DARE program came into use in our schools. Let me also suggest to you that using children for projects meant to save the world intrudes upon their opportunity to be children and contributes to depression and hopelessness.

Let me also draw your attention to the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, a favorite in California for 4th graders. Your librarian and teacher will tell you it is a Newberry Award winning book. But, I have never taken the chance of letting my children read something I had not read. Unfortunately, I am now just the grandparent and do not have access to their ONLINE books. Be on guard parents!

Now read where this began and compare it to where we are now.

Parents have rights Against Intrusive Surveys PROTECTION OF PUPIL RIGHTS AMENDMENT and SEL (Social Emotional Learning)

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2018/01/parents-have-rights-against-intrusive.html

FEMINISM
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2018/01/feminism.html

If I Ruled the Schools

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2018/01/i-guess-it-is-because-it-is-new-years.html

FREE OUR CHILDREN FROM THE OPPRESSION OF COLLEGES OF EDUCATION. CHICAGO. TWO DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES.

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/free-our-children-from-oppression-of.html

Common Core, Sylvia Plath, and Death Education

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/common-core-sylvia-plath-and-death.html

Tales from the Crypt. True stories of our Dead Schools.

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/tales-from-crypt-our-dead-schools.html

The Truth about Phonics that will Help You Help Your Child! Whole Language: A Fraud Perpetrated upon Our Students. One of Many?

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-truth-about-phonics-that-will-help.html

The Tragedy of the Math Mess and Another Way

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-tragedy-of-math-mess-and-another-way.html

MATH WARS. ONCE AGAIN INTO THE FRAY

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2014/06/math-wars-once-again-into-fray.html

COMMON CORE MATH

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/common-core-math.html

The Reality of Bay District Schools. Only Fifty Percent Read Proficiently. Is there hope?

 https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-reality-of-bay-district-schools.html

The Four Period Day: Students as Guinea Pigs and Professional advancement for "innovators"

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-four-period-day-students-as-guinea.html

The Tale of Last Hope for Local Control

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-tale-of-last-hope-for-local-control.html

DEMONIC ROOTS TO COMMON CORE? VISIT YOUR CHILD'S THERAPEUTIC CLASSROOM.

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/demonic-roots-to-common-core-visit-your.html

THE GENEALOGY OF COMMON CORE: BILL GATES/UNESCO/ROBERT MULLER//ALICE BAILEY/LUCIS TRUST

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-genealogy-of-common-core-bill-gates_5.html

THE CHICAGO CONNECTION TO COMMON CORE

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-chicago-connection-to-common-core.html

does anybody really believe anymore? does anybody really care?https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/does-anybody-really-believe-anymore.html

Sounding the Alarm! Today's Therapeutic Classroom. What are you going to do about it?

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/does-anybody-really-believe-anymore.html

Spalding Writing Road to Reading and John Winston of Parks Elementary Natchitoches, Louisiana

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/spalding-writing-road-to-reading-and.html

RETARDING AMERICA THE IMPRISONMENT OF POTENTIAL

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2014/12/retarding-america-imprisonment-of.html

NOTE FROM ROBERT SWEET OF THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO READ FOUNDATION

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2014/10/note-from-robert-sweet-of-national.html

The DARE PROGRAM 20 years later.

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-dare-program-20-years-later-more.html

Merry Christmas! Meet Alliwishus, The Elf Mother Met at the Battle of the Bulge

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/merry-christmas-meet-alliwishus-elf.html

My Mother. My hero who won a Battle Ribbon at the Battle of the Bulge. December 16, 1944. A SCRAPBOOK LOOK FROM JEAN BRONSON GILLIS BURSON.

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-mother-my-hero-who-won-battle-ribbon.html

LEONARD COHEN HALLELUJAH PROJECT AT BAY HIGH SCHOOL AND ESTABLISHMENT RELIGION, SECULAR HUMANISM, IN OUR SCHOOLS

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/leonard-cohen-hallelujah-project-at-bay.html

WHY SHOULD CONSERVATIVES, CHRISTIANS AND THE THE FAITH COMMUNITY BE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS? SUBSCRIBE TO THE PANAMA CITY NEWS HERALD AND GET WASHINGTON POST FREE

http://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/why-should-conservatives-christians-and.html

PEACE EDUCATION? CONFLICT RESOLUTION? TEACHING TOLERANCE? COMMON CORE

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/peace-education-conflict-resolution.html

TRADITIONAL OR PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION. DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE? HAS POLITICS AFFECTED YOUR CHILD'S MATH EDUCATION?

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/look-at-this-headline-and-now-according.html

RETARDING AMERICA THE IMPRISONMENT OF POTENTIAL

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2014/12/retarding-america-imprisonment-of.html

NOTE FROM ROBERT SWEET OF THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO READ FOUNDATION

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2014/10/note-from-robert-sweet-of-national.html

DELPHI TECHNIQUE, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT CONVINCED A GULLIBLE PUBLIC TO BUY INTO COMMON CORE

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/so-what-is-thedelphi-technique-let.html

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