Just a few months ago I knew very little about common core. After learning what it was all about, I have vowed to do everything I can to stop it in Idaho. I decided to write a resolution against common core and present it to the Republican Party Central Committee. During my researching I found a resolution already written by Mary Adler from Idaho County, which she agreed to let us use. It passed at our Kootenai County Central Committee November meeting. It was then taken to the State Republican Party meeting where it passed and now it is going to the education committee of both the House and Senate of Idaho, where a bill needs to be presented against common core.

What exactly is Common Core? Due to the fact that it is unlawful to have a federal curriculum, President Obama's administration broke three federal laws when implementing Common Core.

The government's goal is to monopolize control of the children in order to train them to be good little global citizens. There will be a lack of control by local districts and parents. No one will be exempt: homeschool, private or charter schools. It will teach them what to think, not how to think. Standards will be 7th grade level, preparing them for a non-selective 2 year college, not a 4 year. They will be taught non-Biblical, anti-American, anti-Christian values. American history with the founding fathers and patriotism will be taken out. Planned Parenthood wrote the sex education part of common core. Blatant pornography and education on alternative sexual orientation is included in the curriculum.

Teachers will be given raises based on common core test scores. Data mining asks children for information on their parents such as political views, religious views and sexual habits. They are data mining our children in order to track and choose the career path and future job of every student. The S.A.T and other college entrance exams will be reset and based on Common Core teaching only. Students wanting to go to college will not be able to get good S.A.T. scores without Common Core teaching, thus eliminating Christian, private, and homeschool curriculum based on free choice. In teaching on religion, they are spending one day on Christianity, teaching that Jesus is not a deity and that the churches are divided.

There is much more to know about Common Core. More information is posted on the website at unitedconservativesofnorthidaho.org. I am posting the legislators in the education committees that need to be called.

Several other states have already taken it out, Indiana, Oklahoma and South Carolina, and 17 other states are in the process of doing so. I hope the citizens will get involved and help to end common core. Please make phone calls to the legislators, Governor Otter (208) 334-2100, and the Superintendent Sherri Ybarra (208) 332-6800. Our children should not be subjected to one more day of Common Core.

Melanie Vander Feer is a Republican precinct committeeman from Athol.