Mick Zais, outgoing SC Superintendent of Education, said Common Core Standards will not be re-presented and used in the state.
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| There are pro-child groups in the state vehemently opposed to Common Core. |
It is a major development for parents who say they don't want education-industry indoctrination and an alien values system being imposed on local public school children.
Zais is emphatic in his opposition to referencing CC.
“We’re not going to repackage (Common Core). We’re not going to rebrand. We’re not going to tweak the Common Core ... and we’re not even going to have a copy of Common Core state standards in the room for the writing panels,” Zais said to Jamie Self, a reporter for Columbia's The State newspaper .
Zais said education standards will be written by South Carolina education leaders, and Common Core (CC) will not be used as a base from which to expound.
A Common Core (CC) essay was given to eighth-grade students at Meadow Glen Middle School (MGMS) in May. The persuasive essay gives a litany of reasons why the US Constitution should be changed to allow Naturalized (non-soil-born) citizens to become US president.
Another CC easy used at MGMS admonishes President Abraham Lincoln for not being anti-slavery enough, and sooner, in his presidency. The Emancipation Proclamation was not issued until 1863, two years after Lincoln's inauguration, the paper laments. Lincoln lost his life to a pro-slavery assassin, but that fact is left out of the essay.
“We like our heroes to be clear-cut “good guys” but that is not always the case,” the essay begins in its criticism of Lincoln.
Republican SC Superintendent of Education Candidate Molly Spearman said she agrees with Zais about departing from CC.
“To gain the confidence of the community and the Legislature, we probably need to keep Common Core out of the room as much as possible,” Spearman said.
Gov. Nikki Haley opposes CC. And some other state have repealed it.
Supporters of CC had hoped to keep much of the unpopular – among parents and education specialists – as a starting point for SC standards that are coming next.
With Zais' order, education expert teams teams writing the new math and English standards, that the legislature mandated to replace CC, will start with South Carolina’s homegrown 2007 standards.
The new standards will be in place by the start of school year 2015 and comply with the new law, passed in May.
The State newspaper often used the term “critics” - not naming them - in reference to opposition to Zais using local standards, instead of CC. One source The State cited is Columbia Democrat Tom Thompson, who is known for his radical liberal views.
Other named sources were sitting members of the education establishment who will have to fight our legislators to force CC.
The State said the law for new, local standards that many parents desire was a reaction to anger that peaked this year over the state’s 2010 adoption of Common Core.
The State did not cite a source for the claim that the move against CC had peaked.
The State newspaper reporter also attacked Conservatives, saying “Common Core is politically toxic in South Carolina’s right-wing Republican circles.” Other Common Core News:
Obama's U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan caused outrage in No. 2013, when he told a gathering of state schools superintendents that he found it “fascinating” that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from “white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were.”
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