FIRST REGULAR SESSION
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BAHR (Sponsor), JONES (110), KOENIG, FUNDERBURK,
SPENCER, LANT, SCHARNHORST, CURTMAN, BRATTIN, PARKINSON, FRAKER, MARSHALL,
CRAWFORD, FITZWATER, JONES (50) AND DIEHL (Co-sponsors).
AN ACT
To amend chapter 161, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the Common Core
Standards Initiative.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 161, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be
known as section 161.855, to read as follows:
161.855. Notwithstanding any other law, the state board of education shall not
adopt, and the department of elementary and secondary education shall not implement,
the Common Core State Standards developed by the Common Core Standards Initiative.
Any actions taken to adopt or implement the Common Core State Standards as of the
effective date of this section are void. Common Core State Standards or any other
statewide education standards shall not be adopted or implemented without the approval
of the general assembly.
Common core amounts to a educational plan based on a series of sweeping assumptions by people who have never taught a class, who do not understand the scope and sequence involved in planning and teaching a subject, who do not understand how people learn, and whose arrogance is sickening. Students across the nation who are disadvantaged will be lost and never found in this process. The common core and its assessment plans have never been piloted, never been field tested, or implemented by proven educators. Instead it has been trotted out as a magic bullet and is being promoted as such. In the meantime, students will be experimented with and their educational process can be compromised. Example: the assessment style of the CC is diametrically opposed to the ACT style of testing. By selling out to CC, we could actually be hurting ACT. Say goodbye to the themes taught through great literature. Say goodbye to right brain learners. Say hello to idealistic educational voodoo from inexperienced, know-it-all witch doctors.
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