“Porn at Buena High School in Sierra Vista: Common Core”
by Donna Garner
9.11.13
The following e-mail was sent to me yesterday:
Subject: Porn at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Arizona
Below is a picture and an excerpt out of the book Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia.
This is a 10th grade literature book that was used in my son’s class at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Arizona. The whole class read this book out loud during class. Everyone in the class had a copy of this book.
Notice the Buena High bar code on the cover.
This book was recommended by Common Core Curriculum.
The following excerpt is taken from page 80 (screenshot of page shown above):
“Dreaming in Cuban”
by Cristina Garcia
PAGE 80
Hugo and Felicia stripped in their room, dissolving easily into one another, and made love against the whitewashed walls. Hugo bit Felicia’s breast and left purplish bands of bruises on her upper thighs. He knelt before her in the tub and massaged black Spanish soap between her legs. He entered her repeatedly from behind.
Felicia learned what pleased him. She tied his arms above his head with their underclothing and slapping him sharply when he asked.
“You’re my bitch,” Hugo said, groaning.
In the morning he left, promising to return in the summer.
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9.11.13 — COMMENTS FROM DONNA GARNER:
Yes, Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia is indeed recommended in the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects.
Because the Common Core Standards Initiative ties teachers’ evaluations to the scores their students make on the Common Core assessments, teachers are pressured to teach the Common Core Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks (Appendix B).
Dreaming in Cuban is found on page 152 of this recommended list: PAGE 152 — Garcia, Cristina.Dreaming in Cuban. New York: Random House, 1993. (1992) — From “The Languages Lost: Six Days in April”http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_B.pdf
Along with this information in Appendix B is a link to which teachers and students are to refer:Media Text — Portal to selected interviews with author Cristina García:
http://www.cristinagarcianovelist.com/index.php?page=selectedinterviews
By directing teachers and students to the interview with Cristina Garcia, it is easy to see that Common Core becomes basically a marketing tool to launch Cristina Garcia’s latest book – King of Cuba – which undoubtedly has more pornographic, raunchy, inappropriate, lascivious, prurient, and sexualized language in it.
Common Core recommends that teachers teach many multicultural, politically correct books and gives teachers and students web links to authors’ sites, thus influencing students to purchase more books by these same authors.
With Common Core demanding that teachers teach informational text from 50% to 70% of the time, the time-honored, character-building classics will be dropped because they take large blocks of time to teach. In their place, offensive, sexualized books such as Dreaming in Cubanwill take over students’ classrooms (and their minds).
Not only are such books highly offensive to those who hold traditional values (e.g., belief in personal responsibility, self- discipline, respect for authority, self-control, a solid work ethic, respect for other people), but they also serve a purpose for those who are trying to indoctrinate this and future generations to hate America and to trash American exceptionalism. A steady diet of portraying ethnic/racial characters always as victims and saturating these books with gutter language is bound to warp students’ minds.
Please go to the following two articles to learn more:
The first link is to an article written by Dana R. Casey, a high-school English teacher, who explains exactly how the Common Core Standards can warp vulnerable teenagers’ minds, setting them up to accept the next wave of anti-American sentiment.
8.18.13 – “A Monstrous Story for a Monstrous Curriculum: The Ugly Heart of Common Core” – by Dana R. Casey — http://dcclothesline.com/2013/08/25/a-monstrous-story-for-a-monstrous-curriculum-the-ugly-heart-of-common-core/
The second article is to a similar one that I wrote: “The Perfect Plan To Destroy America: Nationalize Education” — http://educationviews.org/the-perfect-plan-to-destroy-america-nationalize-education/
Donna Garner
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