A former marketing executive for textbook publishing giant Pearson Education reveals the anti-American agenda behind Common Core and the Advanced Placement U.S. History framework in the third video of a series produced by Project Veritas and focused on the corporate cronyism behind the education reform known as Common Core.
Kim Koerber, a former Pearson executive who now works as a sales consultant for National Geographic â another Gates Foundation-funded Common Core publisher â tells the Project Veritas undercover journalist that âconservative voters are afraid of everything,â and proceeds to say why Common Core is important in her view.
She explains that those behind Common Core and the new AP U.S. History framework have attempted to minimize the Constitution and remove Christianity from the core concepts, while they also stress the importance of teaching about Islam:
âThe dead white guys did not create this country,â Koerber says. âThey [presumably conservatives] want to talk about those dead white guys.â
Koerber continues that Common Core is necessary because âit needs to be come cohesion between the states.â She expresses frustration, however, that âTexas keeps screwing it up over and over again.â
âPeople who say they want to teach the Constitution, only want to teach the part of the Constitution that they like,â she tells the journalist, who then asks her about the Second Amendment.
âBut yet they donât want to teach all of it,â she replies. âDamn the Second Amendment.â
The discussion continues:
Kim Koerber (KK): People that are not educated, Fox TV viewers think that Common Core comes from the educated liberal groups and thatâs why they are against it. They donât know anything about it. They think itâs liberal so theyâre against it. Thatâs what I think it is. Itâs a knee jerk reaction. My mother, oh my God, sheâs a Fox person. If I could remove Fox from my television set, I wouldâŚ
I did a big presentation yesterday for AP US History and the AP US History agenda was set, until Texas got upset about it and they wanted to have their founders â they wanted founders in it. And itâs like â come on. The dead white guys did not create this country. It was a whole bunch of different kinds of people. And yes there were women, and yes there were people of color, and yesâŚyou need to talk about them too. But they want to talk about those dead white guys.
And thatâs the problem. Youâre getting pushback, because thereâs a bunch of Republican people, conservatives that donât like being told what to do by people they donât agree with. For example, in AP U.S. History a long time ago, Texas wanted to have U.S. History books, right? Pearson made them. And it talked about the Wild West and how there were prostitutes, right. And Texas was really upset. They didnât want to mentionâŚIâm likeâŚYouâre too young to⌠Did you watch Gun Smoke? It was a TV show, and you had Marshall Dillon and Ms. Kitty was his friend. She owned a bar and she was a prostitute. They never mentioned it but thatâs what she was. Itâs like who was Ms. Kitty? Who were these people who went out and serviced these men that went out in the world? That was real. The Wild West was not a nice place. And our kids need to know that thatâs what it was like, you know.
Project Veritas Journalist (PV): But these people in Texas are really upset that the Constitution is not being covered.
KK: It is being covered, but not the way theyâŚcause theyâre idiots and they donât know whatâs in it.
PV: Is it covered as much as it would have been?
KK: In 12th grade government it certainly is, and in 5th grade it is. Yes.
PV: âItâs not a necessity for the kids.â
KK: You should know a little bit about it, you shouldnât have to memorize the thing.
Republicans want to get in there and talk about stuff and change things about school stuff because they want to, they want to influence what is being taught. Common core doesnât put up with that.
PV: Yeah. And, so itâs not really being⌠A lot of these complaints about it are not so much about the content yeahâŚ
KK: Theyâre misunderstanding; they are people that donât really know what they are talking about.
IâŚI canât stand it. If they talk to me one more time aboutâŚclimate change not being real, Iâm just gonna scream.
PV: I am really glad Iâm here in California, whatever religious affiliation you want to take is fine, but in Texas they want to push the Christianity.
KK: Because they think itâs the only one.
PV: They do, and I see that.
KK: Thatâs why itâs so offensive to have these prayers in the school board.
PV: Christianity is totally out of the common core?
KK: Yes it is. Totally. Itâs not a core concept at all.
PV: But then there is a mention of other religions like Islam.
KK: Yeah well you have to because âŚ
PV: So how did Islam get worked in?
KK: IslamâŚthey said you have to talk about Islam, you have to talk about Judaism and you have to talk about Christianity and they wanted to make it big about Christianity; no itâs like, everybody needs to know about everything elseâŚ
PV: Is that one of the complaints, that common core does have a liberal bias?
KK: Yes, they feel like weâd be educating their kids to the world which they donât want to do that. They want their kids to only know this⌠Itâs like birth control. They donât want their kids to know about it, yet Chlamydia is huge in Texas. So itâs like, you knowâŚIn the schools that have kids that, because the kids donât learn about anything about what theyâre doing and theyâre messing around and they get in trouble because they didnât get educated. So, I think the progressive bias is the more educated you are, the better you are, and the conservative bias is the less they know the better they are going to be. Yeah.
PV: What is it that they donât agree with?
KK: They donât agree with Islam, so they donât want their kids to be taught it. They donât agree with birth control so they donât want their kids to talk about it. They donât agree with math because they donât understand it. Itâs not the same math they did in high school. So they donât want their kids to know about it.
Itâs conservative push back, that, they are afraid. So these conservative, these conservative voters are afraid of everything.
PV: Iâm just wondering why Common Core specificallyâŚbefore Common Core kids were learning about math and science.
KK: Because itâs the government telling me what to do.
People who say they want to teach the Constitution, only want to teach the part of the Constitution that they like.
PV: Second Amendment?
KK: But yet they donât want to teach all of it. Damn the Second Amendment. I donât think personal handguns need to be on anyone except the government, the police. What is the purpose of having a gun?
The separation of church and state they donât understand.
They donât like that. They donât like equal rights between all groups. The voter suppression that is going on in the south is just unbelievably awful.
People who are not educated are easy flim flam. And that they react by fear instead of by knowledge.
The Project Veritas journalist asks Koerber about the profits for textbook publishers with the Common Core reform.
KK: Anytime anybody changes something in a textbook its profitable for the textbook companies. So the textbooks have to change and the school district has to adopt the new ones, thatâs profitable.
PV: Say that again.
KK: Anytime a change happens that has to be put in a textbook suddenly the school district has to adopt new books.
The video also includes footage of Project Veritas president James OâKeefe at the South Carolina Tea Party convention, during which Republican 2016 frontrunner Donald Trump told his audience Common Core is a âdisaster,â and that no candidate can win who is in favor of Common Core.
âWe spend more than anybody else and to a large extent thatâs Common Core, because these people in Washington â the bureaucrats â are making a fortune,â Trump said. âThey donât give a damn about your kids in South Carolina.â
OâKeefe asked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 97% about the corporate cronyism behind Common Core.
âIâll tell you this, as President, I will instruct the Department of Education to end Common Core on day one,â Cruz said.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum also asserted, âI am very much against Common Core, against any kind of federal intervention into our schools. Thatâs the big problem.â
Asked about the major issues surrounding Common Core, Santorum replied:
The elites in our culture who want to indoctrinate our young people into a certain way to think, a certain belief structure, and itâs all spread out through Common Core. I believe the best and safest way to maintain our values in this country is to leave it up to the people at the grass roots level.
âIt doesnât matter if itâs corporate cronyism or liberal ideology, if you are slipping your agenda into our education system, we are going to expose you, one by one, until the whole rotten system is revealed,â OâKeefe tells Breitbart News about his project on Common Core and education. âCorporate cronyism and underhanded political deals have contributed to Common Coreâs massive disruption and the unraveling of Americaâs educational fabric.â
Source: Breitbart