Posted on 11/19/2013 8:33:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Obama’s Education Secretary recently said that opponents to the Administration’s “Common Core” Standards are merely “white suburban moms” who are, all of a sudden, learning that their kids aren’t real bright. Arne Duncan (wow. . . Perfect name for a 1970’s sitcom) made the degrading remarks to a group of state school superintendents on Friday. According to the Washington Post:
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a group of state schools superintendents Friday that he found it “fascinating” that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from “white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought it was.”
First of all, Arne, what does race have to do with anything? For that matter what does the socio-economic status of parents have to do with anything? (How would such a comment have been received if it was regarding single black mothers with less-than-brilliant kids?) Arne’s complete dismissal of opponents to the Federal Government’s takeover of education is typical of the Washington Statists who have been running things for the last several years. It’s as if he meant to say, “Opponents can’t be taken seriously. . . After all, they don’t agree with me.”
The insinuation that parents are raising concerns over the federal education standards because they would rather their kids have their ego’s artificially inflated, is both insulting and indicative of his overwhelming sense of self-righteousness. Perhaps we should just be happy Arne didn’t employee the typical MSNBC argument that his opponents are merely redneck-racists who despise the color of our President’s skin.
Forgetting for a minute about the horror stories regarding Common-Core-approved teaching material (promoting communism and downplaying wrong answers as two examples) there are still plenty of reasons to harbor sincere reservations about the federal intrusion on local education efforts.
At heart of Common Core is the liberal’s statist notion that only they are capable of running our lives. Arne, and his central-planning buddies in the nation’s Capital, think parents, school boards, and classroom teachers are incapable of providing children with adequate education standards. Does this remind you of any other Obama Administration initiative? (Ahem*Obamacare*Ahem) At least Common Core doesn’t mandate free access to contraception. (Yet.)
According to people like Arne Duncan, only the folks who brought us healthcare.gov can bring some degree of competency into our American education system. (Stop laughing. That really is what he’s suggesting.) In the real world, however, the Federal government’s incompetence has managed to raise red flags among a bipartisan swath of the American public – including the Administration’s staunchest allies. That official “white suburban mom” activist group, known as the American Federation of Teachers, even raised an eyebrow at the failure of Common Core implementation. Randi Weingarten, the head of this radical tea-party group (sarcasm) even said that if you thought Obamacare’s implementation was bad, then just wait. . . “The implementation of the Common Core is far worse.”
The primary objection to more federal government involvement in education has been a usurpation of local school board decisions, and a politically driven curriculum for education. Which only makes sense given the political nature of everything that comes out of DC. Isn’t it amazing how we are all told that DC is run by lobbyists and special interests? . . . But then we are expected to hand over something as valuable and precious as our child’s education to those very narrow minded con-artists?
The standards themselves were the first casualty of DC politicization. They were not, despite what Duncan would like you to believe, written by teachers, school boards, or even elected representatives. They were not approved or written by the states that adopted them, or by the education professionals who will be implementing them. . . They were written (I know this will be shocking) by bureaucrats.
But let’s not let these little concerns get in the way of calling Common Core opponents “white moms” with dumb kids. Such insults are nothing new to Duncan. According to the Washington Post, he told a convention of newspaper editors in June that Common Core critics were “misinformed at best and laboring under paranoid delusions at worst.”
Well. . . It’s easy to start wearing tin-foil hats when Florida schools begin scanning student’s retinas and kids are being taught that private enterprise is unfair and discriminatory.
Then again, maybe Arne is speaking from personal experience. . . His mother, after all, might be a white suburban mom who believes her son is much brighter than he actually is.
Arne is the survivor of a botched partial birth abortion. They sucked out his brain and left his worthless shell.
Arne works for the Obamaedork.
The Obamadork only hires people less intelligent than he.
The Obamadork is a cretin, at best.
Which makes Arne....
P.S. Arne - I’m ready to match wits with your uneducated little liberal pea brain anytime you’d like. And I hate, loathe, despise, and f*rt in the general direction of any educational process pushed by our loathsome gubmit. (Exception is our military Academies.)
They really don’t have a clue that it’s patriotic people that have figured out that Common Core is being funded by progressive leftists with overseas connections have they? We’re onto their indoctrination scheme.
Where do they find all of these arrogant dimwits?
That arrogant pos occupant of the Spite House intelligent? Now that is funny
Well, you have to understand that "racist" means "shut up! I can't argue the issue, so shut up!"
Apparently, Obumbles’ lackeys have caught his malignant racism.
Where do they find all of these arrogant dimwits?
They are all “Progressives” and so enlightened./s
Old school worked.
And did the Putrifacting President happen to mention just how appropriate the eductation might be for his intended United States of Zimbabwe?
Anyone whose kid is Common Core learns one thing, how not to think for himself, and how to march in lock step and take orders.
How is it that the Secretary of Education is considered such an authority on education??
After all, his only experience was as the Superintendent of Education for the Chicago school system, one of the worst in the nation. He drove those schools into the ground - disastrous. His only credential, IMO, was in knowing Obama, another Chicagoan.
Welcome to arnie's army of robots !
The intent is to dumb down suburban education where parents are concerned about 'learning',
and make them the equivelent of inner-city kids where parents are not even concerned about 'attending' .
It is intentional regimentation and conditioning of youth into a common non-thinking population of conformity ,
to prevent rebellion, and perpetuate "leveling the field "
by State issued fiat !
I hereby proclaim Common Core: OBAMACORE!
0’CommieCore.
Fits right in with omitting “under God” from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address!
Arne's from Hyde Park in Chicago - I'm sure he agrees with everything the filthiest creep on MSNBC says... These people hate middle class white people ...
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