Big Brother is Going to Monitor Your Kids

From The Blaze.com (March 27):

TheBlaze has been at the forefront in uncovering the disturbing details of the nationalized curriculum standard known as Common Core. One of the most troubling aspects of this federal program is that government bureaucrats are currently mining sensitive and highly personal information on children through Common Core’s tracking system.

The data will then reportedly be sold by the government to outside sources for profit.

According to the conservative think tank American Principles Project, Common Core’s technological project is “merely one part of a much broader plan by the federal government to track individuals from birth through their participation in the workforce.” As columnist and author Michelle Malkin has pointed out, the 2009 stimulus package included a “State Fiscal Stabilization Fund” to provide states incentives to construct “longitudinal data systems (LDS) to collect data on public-school students.”

In other words, an aggregation system to mind personal data on children including information about their health, family income, religious affiliation and homework. [read more]

The article goes on to say one data mining in the future could use fMRIs and “cameras to judge facial expressions, an electronic seat that judges [a child's] posture, a pressure-sensitive computer mouse and a biometric wrap on kids’ wrists.”

That’s just plain unnerving. The old Soviet Union would have loved this kind of monitoring. The Soviet Union determined from mandatory tests what job you can have and where you can work. You couldn’t quit or even retire until the State gave you permission. After all being employed was a right.

I wonder if the powers-that-be have the same thing in mind for education. The State will decide what universities or trade/tech schools you go to if the State determines you worthy of further education. The powers-that-be will probably even choose your curriculum for you too. After all they know what’s best for you.

A mother called up the Glenn Beck show on Friday and said her child’s school wouldn’t even tell her what they are teaching her child. Basically, told her it is none of her business.

Welcome to the brave new world America.