Dept. of Education: Collecting our children’s personal info
Politichicks – Karin Piper –
5/17/2013
McNeill’s question came during the during a hearing of SB 210 that would require the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to hold public meetings in each congressional district on the Common Core State Standards.
“Representative McNeill’s comment exposes a belief by the left that the government has a right to collect data on our children,” says Anne Gassel, co-founder of Missouri Coalition Against Common Core. “They may have a desire, but no such right exists. The data could just as easily be used to hurt our children as help. No government of today can guarantee how the government of tomorrow is going to use that data.”
Like Gassel, I question why the government needs to collect student information such as religion, family income, medical records, and nationality. Not only is collecting this information in direct conflict with anti-discrimination laws, but has little to do with actually educating children.
The rigor of Common Core Standards, it seems, lie squarely in gathering information on children, beginning in the mother’s womb.
Like many of the 46 states that have adopted Common Core Standards as state law, Missouri politicians have failed to disclose what the 61 data points are that they will be collecting from students, the purpose of such exercise, which entity shall be entrusted with the information, and most importantly- how student’s personal information will be protected.
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