Posted on 02/10/2015 5:14:09 AM PST by Ray76
Conservatives have been fighting Common Core national education standards for two years at the state level, but a massive bill steamrolling through Congress has the potential to cement some of the most despised elements of Common Core into federal law.
The re-authorization and rewriting of No Child Left Behind – also known as ESEA, or the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 – has been placed on a fast track in the House and Senate. The remaking of No Child Left Behind will chart the course of the federal role in education for years to come.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., is sponsoring the bill in the Senate, and Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., has a companion bill in the House. Both bills are extremely complex and lengthy. A draft bill in the Senate is nearly 400 pages, and the companion bill in the House is 597 pages long.
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This only applies to children where the mother declines to abort them, an act the federal government actively protects. So, in this way, the federal government has now inverted the idea that the people are free and the government’s powers are limited.
I already thought this was the case. I guess they’re just going to formalize and contractalize it, eh?
Next up, brain stem compliance implants mandatory for all children born in in U.S. hospitals. Sold as a way to discipline children. Secret override function built in with other unjnown command modes...
Yet another reason to home school...
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