Common Core math was a joke.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3276888/posts
Common Core ties to Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
Anyone who opposes Common Core will be prosecuted and sent to prison along with the Climate Change Deniers. Anyone who challenges the Leftist dogma will be destroyed. Do you not understand who is running the country now?
The author is overly optimistic, in my opinion. CC is well funded and supported by very powerful members of the “establishment” on both sides of the political aisle
If Common Core is dead, it is only through the efforts of Donald Trump.
Likewise, the wall, of course.
It has been a huge success. The liberals and nwo crowd have made americans successively more stupid, yet again.
But it’s government product. A lot of dead things continue in use, from obsolete ordnance and vehicles to public school teachers to Democratic voters.
CC could be around for many years yet.
Common core will re-appear under a different moniker just like global warming morfed into climate change. The basic tenants of Common core are to important to the Marxist educational elite (information gathering, child tracking, and the social justice aspects). It will take a miracle to wrest this country back.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/killing_knowledge_in_k12.html
Article is about the deliberate dumbing down of America.
Since when does a government program end just because it is a complete failure?
On the contrary, not only am I happy to say “I told you so” I am eager to tie this (metaphorically) to liberals and idiots who supported common core like a dead and rotting albatross.
It will be an indicator of their lack of both judgement and intellect which I will have perpetually at hand.
Which is as it should be.
Wishful thinking.
Even New York is giving up on it.
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic. DISMANTLE federal agencies trampling state’s rights.
The most important question that was ever proposed to your decision, or to the decision of any people under heaven, is before you, and you are to decide upon it by men of your own election, chosen specially for this purpose. If the constitution, offered to your acceptance, be a wise one, calculated to preserve the invaluable blessings of liberty, to secure the inestimable rights of mankind, and promote human happiness, then, if you accept it, you will lay a lasting foundation of happiness for millions yet unborn; generations to come will rise up and call you blessed. You may rejoice in the prospects of this vast extended continent becoming filled with freemen, who will assert the dignity of human nature. You may solace yourselves with the idea, that society, in this favoured land, will fast advance to the highest point of perfection; the human mind will expand in knowledge and virtue, and the golden age be, in some measure, realised. But if, on the other hand, this form of government contains principles that will lead to the subversion of liberty — if it tends to establish a despotism, or, what is worse, a tyrannic aristocracy; then, if you adopt it, this only remaining assylum for liberty will be shut up, and posterity will execrate your memory.
Momentous then is the question you have to determine, and you are called upon by every motive which should influence a noble and virtuous mind, to examine it well, and to make up a wise judgment. It is insisted, indeed, that this constitution must be received, be it ever so imperfect. If it has its defects, it is said, they can be best amended when they are experienced. But remember, when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it again but by force. Many instances can be produced in which the people have voluntarily increased the powers of their rulers; but few, if any, in which rulers have willingly abridged their authority. This is a sufficient reason to induce you to be careful, in the first instance, how you deposit the powers of government.
So far therefore as its powers reach, all ideas of confederation are given up and lost. It is true this government is limited to certain objects, or to speak more properly, some small degree of power is still left to the states, but a little attention to the powers vested in the general government, will convince every candid man, that if it is capable of being executed, all that is reserved for the individual states must very soon be annihilated, except so far as they are barely necessary to the organization of the general government. The powers of the general legislature extend to every case that is of the least importance — there is nothing valuable to human nature, nothing dear to freemen, but what is within its power. It has authority to make laws which will affect the lives, the liberty, and property of every man in the United States; nor can the constitution or laws of any state, in any way prevent or impede the full and complete execution of every power given. The legislative power is competent to lay taxes, duties, imposts, and excises; — there is no limitation to this power…
And are by this clause invested with the power of making all laws, proper and necessary, for carrying all these into execution; and they may so exercise this power as entirely to annihilate all the state governments, and reduce this country to one single government. And if they may do it, it is pretty certain they will; for it will be found that the power retained by individual states, small as it is, will be a clog upon the wheels of the government of the United States; the latter therefore will be naturally inclined to remove it out of the way. Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over every thing that stands in their way. This disposition, which is implanted in human nature, will operate in the federal legislature to lessen and ultimately to subvert the state authority, and having such advantages, will most certainly succeed, if the federal government succeeds at all.
In a free republic…
Brutus #1 - Anti-federalist
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Declaration of Independence
Alter it. It’s easy to…
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