{"id":5910,"date":"2014-05-26T15:52:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T22:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=5910"},"modified":"2014-05-26T15:52:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T22:52:16","slug":"common-core-at-451-degrees-fahrenheit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/05\/26\/common-core-at-451-degrees-fahrenheit\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Core at 451 Degrees Fahrenheit"},"content":{"rendered":"

     While the examples of Common Core insanity have typically involved simple math, since they are the most blatant example, the mutation of standards as they apply to reading<\/a> have been most insidious.<\/p>\n

     How insidious?\u00a0 A wholesale condemnation of books.\u00a0 That is how insidious<\/a> it has been.<\/p>\n

     What is Common Core, has shown rather explicit examples of books<\/em> being condemned as “dangerous,” as well as being inferior with their chronological tyranny that “under-stimulates” the senses that are “barren strings of words on a page.”<\/p>\n

     This\u00a0exactly<\/em> the warning<\/a> that Ray Bradbury gave in\u00a0Farhenheit 451<\/em>. \u00a0His book was not about censorship, but about mindless new methods of communication crushing the ability of individuals to\u00a0think<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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“Bradbury imagined a democratic society whose diverse population turns against books: Whites reject Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em> and blacks disapprove of Little Black Sambo<\/em>. He imagined not just political correctness, but a society so diverse that all groups were \u201cminorities.\u201d He wrote that at first they condensed the books, stripping out more and more offending passages until ultimately all that remained were footnotes, which hardly anyone read. Only after people stopped reading did the state employ firemen to burn books.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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     The future is now\u2026<\/p>\n

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     While the examples of Common Core insanity have typically involved simple math, since they are the most blatant example, the mutation of standards as they apply to reading have been most insidious.      How insidious?\u00a0 A wholesale condemnation of books.\u00a0 That … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[22,24],"class_list":["post-5910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-fail","tag-leviathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5951,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions\/5951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}