Jebbie is horribly wrong on at least two very important issues, Common Core being one of them. It doesn’t even matter to me if he means well, because Common Core gives the federal government powers it should not have. Should it stand, those powers will definitely be used against us by leftists.
Like his brother, Jebbie may try to make the federal government more efficient. He may honestly want to use Common Core to produce better students. That is a fool’s errand, because power once seized is rarely surrendered. Even if Jebbie controls Common Core for the best—a dubious prospect given the unassailable education bureaucracy—Jebbie cannot ensure a leftist administration won’t later user those powers in the worst possible ways, like to indoctrinate our students more than they already are.
Moreover, the authority over education is a terribly important and powerful authority to give to people of dubious motives, and it tends to attract the worst people in the world: Nazis, Communists, mandarins and conspirators of every stripe.
Remember what the Sufis always taught: Never hire for any job, the guy who wants it in the worst way. Thus the Sufis.