Petition to Repeal Common Core in Georgia

To: Your State Representative, State Senator, and the Governor

WHEREAS: Common Core is a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach to educating children which removes any and all local and parental control, and which does not allow for an atmosphere conducive to learning; and

WHEREAS: Common Core is a system where children are preyed upon – where sensitive and highly personal data is gathered that will follow the child throughout their school years and beyond; and

WHEREAS: Common Core is a system where teachers are not treated as professionals, but are instead treated as facilitators that are evaluated and paid based upon faulty standards and skewed state assessments; and

WHEREAS: The estimated cost to maintain Common Core continues to be a heavy burden on the taxpayers of our state.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: I demand that our state legislators and the governor actively oppose and repeal Common Core and the implementation of the Common Core standards, withdraw from the testing consortia, and end the collection of student data via the Longitudinal Data System.