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Bobby Jindal on Common Core: Trust Moms, Not Bureaucrats
CP ^ | February 6, 2015 | Samuel Smith

Posted on 02/07/2015 7:54:55 AM PST by george76

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.

Louisiana Governor and potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal is continuing to voice his growing outrage over the Common Core state education standards, which the federal government played an influential role in encouraging most states to adopt.

Speaking at a Thursday luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. hosted by the American Principles Project, a conservative organization rallying opposition to Common Core, Jindal argued that the Common Core standards stand against American values and causes local communities to lose control over how they educate their own children.

Although Jindal initially supported the Common Core standards when they were first introduced in 2010, in the last year he has flipped sides and now strongly opposes it

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Louisiana; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bobbyjindal; commoncore; election2016; jindal

1 posted on 02/07/2015 7:54:56 AM PST by george76
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To: george76
Although Jindal initially supported Common Core...

Jindal is really impressive these past few weeks. He seems to have his own voice, instead of waiting for opinion polls and focus groups to tell him what to say. We need a candidate with good instincts and principles.

Originally, Common Core was presented as a reasonable way to set a guideline for what a student should be expected to learn. Once the special interests got ahold of it, it became Big Brother telling people how and what to think. The federal government needs to GET OUT of education standards....not "repeal and replace".

2 posted on 02/07/2015 8:02:37 AM PST by grania
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To: grania

I totally agree with your post. Get rid of Common Core which is confusing and dangerous to our nation.


3 posted on 02/07/2015 8:23:36 AM PST by kitkat (STORM HEAVEN WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
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To: grania
not "repeal and replace"

There's nothing wrong with "replace"...it depends on what it is.

What if it's; Total return local to control, or a massive home-schooling federal deduction...or tuitional credits on property tax?

4 posted on 02/07/2015 9:02:06 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
I wouldn't want the "replace" as part of the repeal, same as with Obamacare. It will just all get muddied up with stuff people want to save. As far as some of your suggestions for a replacement to common core are concerned, nothing is the best replacement. The federal government should BUTT OUT of education! Anything about credits or tax breaks or whatever belong on the state and local level.

If the federal government did nothing, education would naturally revert back to where it belongs constitutionally. A home-schooling federal deduction would just get the feds involved with what and how it's taught. Some states such as OH already have a vigorous public home school option. States and communities are better off on their own. The nearer any form of government is to the people, the more control we have over it.

I suspect that what would happen if the feds weren't involved is that there'd be a lot more vocational and other job skill education, and less paranoia about everybody taking advanced math and science courses.

5 posted on 02/07/2015 9:34:40 AM PST by grania
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

What are the odds of politicians will even recognize that as replacement and not as destruction?


6 posted on 02/07/2015 9:39:39 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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To: grania

Good for Jindal....again!

He needs to straighten out Bill Bennett and Huckleberry on this CommieCore cr@p. Hopeless causes, I’m sure, but Jindal is showing how it’s at least done.


7 posted on 02/07/2015 9:43:56 AM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jane Long

Jindal has hit home runs in consecutive at bats. So to speak.


8 posted on 02/07/2015 10:35:49 AM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: Jane Long

LITTLE BOBBY INTRODUCED THIS CRAP SYSTEM IN LOUISIANA AND NOW IS PRETENDING THAT HE DIDN’T. Please people, wake up to the fact that Little Bobby is a con artist and a liar. He was a bad choice for governor and will be real bad as president.


9 posted on 02/07/2015 11:15:33 AM PST by nanook (Thomas Jefferson had it right.)
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To: nanook

I’d still rather have him for Governor of my state than Jerry Brown.


10 posted on 02/07/2015 12:22:09 PM PST by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: grania

I think I said that:

Return to local control. Tuitional tax credits on property tax by definition would be local.

How about if “replace” were: Abolish the Dept of Education?

Regarding deathcare:

In addition to a return to the previous 50 various state health insurance experiments, high risk pools, portability and buying across state lines are great free market improvements.


11 posted on 02/07/2015 2:54:12 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Balding_Eagle

Destruction is fine too.


12 posted on 02/07/2015 2:56:05 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: george76; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Maryland has less fun then DC “Freak State” PING!


13 posted on 02/07/2015 10:16:16 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Je suis Charlie, you miserable Islamist throwbacks!)
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To: george76; All
potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal

as much as I love Jindal and would love to run him for President, I thought he was not eligble.

Mother or Father not US citizen when he was born?

14 posted on 02/08/2015 2:47:57 PM PST by The Bat Lady (Ask Yourself This, Are You More Likely to be Infected or Beheaded Today Than You Were 6 Years Ago?)
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