Common Core requires that students learn how to "Kill the baby"

http://eagnews.org/middle-schoolers-shake-babies-until-they-die-in-lesson/

Today my 12 year old son came home noticeably upset. In school they learned about Shaken Baby Syndrome. Not a new topic for him as we have many little ones and we have explained how dangerous it is to shake a baby even playfully.
The students were asked to do a worksheet on the subject. They were then shown a video of a father explaining how he shook his baby because it wouldn’t stop crying. The video showed the baby in the hospital hooked up to wires and life saving measures. The video also stated the father was in jail for his actions.
The teacher demonstrated shaking and killing the baby. Once done, she told the students they were going to take turns killing the baby and then warned, “Just don’t go crazy, the doll is heavy”. They were instructed to shake it continuously as the ‘baby’ screamed and screamed until all the parts of the ‘brain’ had lit up indicating which part of the brain was being injured. They were instructed to shake the ‘baby’ until it was quiet. Until it was dead. My son was the first to refuse to participate. He said his teacher was shocked. Others followed his lead.

It is pretty sick for schools to simulate killing a baby. But drawing a picture of a gun will get a student expelled for a week.

 

Is this a unionized government-run school?

 

Please show me where in common core that this is required.

Here's the link to common core standards:
http://www.corestandards.org/read-the-standards/



Please show me the standard number that is part of.

I don't deny that a stupid teacher did that, but it's not common core (yes, they claim it is, but it's not)

Also, reading the standards and the lesson plan in YOUR link, there is nothing about demonstrating how to shake a baby in the actual lesson plans. That teacher is deranged, and needs to be fired yesterday.

 

These are the teachers righties want to arm in the classroom?

 

And want to be able to use corporal punishment.

I get the point of the lesson though, to show how much/little force it takes to cause brain damage or death to a young child from shaking it.

Perhaps a bit to young for such a demonstration though.

 

Yup! You sure nailed it......chew a poptart into a 'gun' and the kid is suspended, draw a pix of a gun - suspended, a Kindergarten girl says she's going to 'shoot' someone w/her HELLO KITTY BUBBLE GUN, that's in her HOME....the 5 yr old is suspended and the list goes on and on and on and on......

But this teacher is shocked b/c a student refused to participate in the demonstration of killing an infant....... God Almighty - how sad and sick this once great country has become.

The liberals now has their twisted Common Core educational system and they're happily running w/it, indoctrinating the students into little liberal robots......as this incident clearly shows.

 

Showing how little force it takes to cause damage to a child is a bad thing?

 

Do they have vocational abortion training classes?

 

Seems like a lesson gone wrong or not really well explained. I'll wait for the superintendent to reply back before I make any more judgments.

 

or an article reported using choice words to make it seem much worse than it really is.

 

Yeah, I can't seem to find any news agency reporting on this so I'm questioning how accurate this is.

 

Call Fox news, this could be a good one.

 

It was the OP's son's report of what happened to him.

 

Yeah but how accurate is that?

 

I have no idea. I don't know the OP. I was just explaining why there wasn't a link. The thing is, it sounds stupid enough for someone to actually teach.

 

Of course not and what's wrong w/the teacher to expect the kids to take this matter seriously since she wants her students to understand the severity of shaking a baby? At least, I'm assuming she does......

Did you read the last paragraph of the article, where around 6 of the students - 4 of them boys - picked up the 'baby' and threw it against the wall, smashed it into a desk. Why those kids were just having a gay old time learning about the dangers of shaking a baby, weren't they?.... and the teacher did nothing about it, but was shocked that one of the boys didn't want to participate in her little demonstration......

 

Nice flamebait. No one said arm all the teachers.. Now run along.

 

How is this part of Common Core?

 

Why too young? They are being taught younger than that how to procreate.

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Why don't we leave that to the parents?

 

Now that is a fair question. I did not see the reference.

However, the moderation staff here seems to permit misleading thread titles. You should see the volume of titles referring to the TEA Party that has zero to do with the TEA Party. I guess this is just evening the very titled scales of misleading titles. I for one, am for accurate titles that reflect the actual O.P.

 

It's not, strictly speaking. However, if you look towards the bottom of the article, it is part of the Common Core Alignment, meaning this teacher could teach this within the parameters of Common Core.

 

From the link...

Target Audience
Anyone who cares for an infant or trains future parents, babysitters and/or child care providers. Suitable for child abuse prevention, maternal and child health programs, and public or school health programs.

I don't think that 7th graders having this knowledge is a bad thing at all. It is the way in which a teacher chooses to demonstrate and do so with sensitivity so that is the issue. Not being there and witnessing how the teacher presented this, I really cannot form an opinion about the teacher's style of teaching and I also don't know if this one particular kid is just super sensitive, overly dramatic or just plain squeamish.

 

So they are probably only enough than.

And at around 12 is when most kids start babysitting or looking after younger siblings. It is a good thing to know.

 

Indeed. However, I still think the parents should teach prospective baby sitters. We've pushed too much into the purview of elementary - high school education.

 

I get the logic behind it, but I don't know if the source is trustworthy. If the kid saw this, and some of his classmates weren't taking this very seriously, then where was the teacher for this? Also, what else were they doing? I doubt they were spending all of class shaking babies around.