Author assumes somebody actually wants it to work.....
The objective is control and liberal indoctrination.
A broad education, leading to productivity and self sufficiency is NOT the goal!
My theory is that programs like Common Core are deliberately designed to lower overall U.S. achievement relative to the rest of the world, to foster immigration of high-skilled people into the U.S. to the detriment of native-born Americans, to destroy the traditional American role as world leaders of technological and scientific advancement, to dumb-down the American public and erase our links to our own past, and to create a proletariat, replacing the idea of landed citizenry with the idea of subjects of the state.