Saturday, December 30, 2017

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)



If I Ruled the Schools

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

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. 

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

The Tragedy of the Math Mess and Another Way

MATH WARS. ONCE AGAIN INTO THE FRAY

COMMON CORE MATH

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

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

The Tale of Last Hope for Local Control

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

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

THE CHICAGO CONNECTION TO COMMON CORE

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?

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

NOTE FROM ROBERT SWEET OF THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO READ FOUNDATION

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

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.

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

PEACE EDUCATION? CONFLICT RESOLUTION? TEACHING TOLERANCE? COMMON CORE 

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


RETARDING AMERICA THE IMPRISONMENT OF POTENTIAL

NOTE FROM ROBERT SWEET OF THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO READ FOUNDATION
DELPHI TECHNIQUE, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT CONVINCED A GULLIBLE PUBLIC TO BUY INTO COMMON CORE

COMMON CORE: PORNOGRAPHY 101

MIDDLE SCHOOL AGENDA FOR SEXUAL ORIENTATION AS A PART OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

BEHAVIOR MODELS ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS

CULTURE WAR AND COMMON CORE

SOCIAL STUDIES AND COMMON CORE

TEACHERS AS LIBERATORS PRODUCE STUDENTS AS REVOLUTIONARIES: Whole Language Live On!

RADICAL POSSIBILITIES: YOUR CHILDREN 
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/radical-possibilities-your-children.html

Response to AL.Com article "Alabama Superintendent Proposal to Raise Academic Standards."
SECULAR HUMANISM IS NOW THE RELIGION OF OUR SCHOOLS

COMMON CORE: THE EMPEROR IS WEARING NO CLOTHES

COMMON CORE=PETRI DISH FOR RADICALS
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/common-core-petri-dish-for-radicals.html

REVOLUTIONARY PEDAGOGY

Revolutionary Pedagogy: Or, so you thought reading, writing and calculating were why you sent your child to school?
EDUCATION TODAY:

Politics, Profits, Position, Power, and Prejudice published 1995

CAPSTONE EDUCATION (UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA) AND MY CONCERNS

CONFLICT RESOLUTION OR POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION?

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

WHO DO WE HOLD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE FAILURE OF OUR SCHOOLS?

PUBLIC EDUCATION SHOULD EMPOWER PARENTS

CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN EDUCATION

THE CIVIL WAR IN EDUCATION 

SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

TAKE A KNEE

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