The argument is that the Common Core is something worse than even education done by educators and accountable only to educators. Common Core is a system designed by bureaucrats entirely. Hence its emphasis on standardization, utilitarianism and tests.
I worked in several large organizations (for-profit high tech corporations all). Invariably there is a dynamic that kicks in when a project goes off-schedule: the corporate bureaucracy takes over. Now, the engineer’s time is no longer consumed by engineering: most of the time he is reporting on his work in a way a corporate bureaucrat can understand. Books can be written on that, and probably have been: schedule items that only exist to justify late milestone delivery; tighter and tighter time granularity of reports, so that in the end you produce one or more reports per day. In short, a productive atmosphere is replaced by socialist make-work and the project that had difficulty even before is hopelessly late and barely inching along. Now, that is in a for-profit business where top management is directly invested by their jobs in the product success. The bureaucratic spreadsheet-pusher component in a for-profit business is limited: there are also entrepreneurs and engineers, both determined to bracket the corporate bureaucrats. Imagine the nightmare that results when everyone is either a professional bureaucrat or a politician with 4-year time horizon, or, at the bottom, a teacher on a union job. That nightmare is Common Core.
Excellent observations! I’m reminded of something in “The Black Swan,” the book about probability, not the dance movie. The author said that once a project is running late and/or over cost, it will continue to grow later and later, more and more costly. The Sydney Opera House was an example.