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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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".
I totally agree with your post. Get rid of Common Core which is confusing and dangerous to our nation.
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?
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.
What are the odds of politicians will even recognize that as replacement and not as destruction?
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.
Jindal has hit home runs in consecutive at bats. So to speak.
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.
I’d still rather have him for Governor of my state than Jerry Brown.
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.
Destruction is fine too.
Maryland has less fun then DC “Freak State” PING!
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?
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