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no common core cookies for me
Yes, common core cookies taste terrible, too much trans fat. I especially detest the data bits, they get stuck in my teeth.
Girl Scout cookies are trans fat free and made from sustainable palm oil. You should consider trying Girl Scout Cookies, they make an excellent alternative to common core cookies.
Alas, they are the same: http://www.girlscouts.org/program/national_program_portfolio/curriculum/
GSUSA's website makes them an easy target for common core haters. But, there is a bigger global picture that we miss if we just look at Girl Scouting.
GSCB, Delaware's local council, like all other councils in the US have aligned their programming to state curriculum guidelines. They are not alone. Museums and other attractions like the Grand Opera House have aligned their offerings to local curriculums in order to become a field trip destinations for hundred of students every year. This alignment is older than dirt. Iron Hill Museum was even mentioned by name in DOE guidance as a field trip location under Delaware's old state standards.
On the local level, GSCB built a Green Lodge several years ago. The theme of the programming that occurs there is STEM. And their lodge and camp location predate Common Core and Race to the Top. Girls as young as kindergarten have been exposed to STEM and engineering - outside of schools - because GSCB believes in green sustainability.
So now, GSUSA has adapted its national programming to teach to some of the common core standards. It's not any different than the local businesses aligning their field trip programming the previous standards.
So, here's the question - Girl Scouting and any common core exposure that occurs at a GS event is optional. We don't require our scouts to participate in anything - it's by choice. Schools on the other hand are required by their Department of Education to implement common core. Should a local charity, GS, Iron Hill, or the Grand be punished for offering great events to children who want these experiences outside of the school day? Should Iron Hill, the Delaware History Museum, the Grand, and other field trip destinations be punished for altering their programming to dovetail with the curriculum standards of the time? Which rather disappointingly happen to be Common Core?
If you believe they should, then by all means, boycott cookies, museums, theaters, and all the other venues that enrich the educatio of our children. They are all equally guilty in Common Core Compliance.
But, if you want to make a difference in a girl's life, if you want to support a troop's community service goal, or send cookies overseas to our soldiers serving our country, help maintain our camps where girls have experiences that leave indelible memories, we'd love to sell you a box of cookies Thin Mints or Tagalongs.
The choice is yours. All we ask is that you treat every organization with parity.
Stop Common Core madness and the resulting tests. GS are complicit. No cookies.
No cookies, museums, galleries, theatres, nature centers, zoos, or aquariums for you.
no, just cookies and shipping.
Keep making excuses for CCSS, you are a high stakes test ENABLER then..all the while seeking to opt-out.
Actually, what you don't know is that while I believe in supporting my troop - which existed before GSUSA aligned to common core - I am not an enabler. I have already resigned my volunteer position of Service Unit Manager (two years short of my term) effective June 30, 2014. I made a commitment to the girls in my SU to see them through this school year. And will continue to support my daughter's particpation in Girl Scouting as long as she is interested because there are times when the benefits outweigh the negatives - such as creating social opportunities for a special needs child to bond with other girls, to explore environments such as camps that she wouldn't otherwise have access to, and to participate in adult monitored healthy social opportunities in a time and place where adults are often blind to the behavior of their own children.
I am not making excuses for CCSS. And it's rather unkind for you, one who knows better, to go after me personally on this issue.
You didn't like my vote. That doesn't mean that I am any less committed. It means we simply diverged on an unusual set of circumstances that presented themselves at the time.
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