Common Core was supposed to be the vehicle by which all the “preferred” cultural values were to be transmitted. Almost universally condemned by anyone who has actually READ the curriculum, mostly this “guideline” is concerned not with imparting good useful knowledge abut how to engage the world, but with making sure the kids are properly prepared to accept the world as it is thrust into their hands.
Because someday all the old “liberal” fossils will die out, and there must always be a new generation dedicated to the principle (if there is such a thing) of “Gimme now, and gimme a lot!”
FDR’s advisor Harry Hopkins said it, “We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect.”
In other words, Hitler lives, ya think?