Posted on 04/25/2015 10:05:42 PM PDT by Nachum
Education Secretary Arnie Duncan is reminding parents in America “that all your children belong to them”. In a not-so-very veiled threat Secretary Duncan states the Federal Government will step in if parents continue to opt their children out of Common Core testing. (Via Doug Ross Journal) Secretary of Education Arne Duncan issued a veiled threat to the parents and students who choose to opt out of Common Core testing – The Feds “have an obligation to step in.” Federal law, under No Child Left Behind, requires 95 percent of students in a state to take the annual standardized tests in reading
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Check out what is happening in Florida: in order to “restore teaching time” and “respect the educational environment.”
When Common Core is mandated...only children of outlaws will be literate.
I think all the kids should sit for the tests and then doodle on them.
President Cruz could hire Donald Trump to get rid of useless agencies and departments.
Education was always a state or local matter up to the 1950s. When the Soviets launched Sputnik Americans were told we didn’t have good enough school science & math programs and the federal government “helped” with money and curriculum studies.
Federal rules and federal mandates came with the federal money. Every president’s administration has grown the intrusion into state & local schools. Our present problem is not just control, but outright liberal/socialist mind washing—they want to grab your kids to become loyal, obedient serfs.
The Education Secretary is probably clueless that the states have never delegated the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate schooling purposes. This is evidenced by the following Supreme Court clarification of Congress’s limited power to lay taxes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The reason that 17A is a large part of the problem is this imo. When low-information voters go home after voting for their favorite federal senators, they watch football, oblivious to the idea that their corrupt senators are not only working in cahoots with the corrupt House to bills like the House appropriations bills that fund intrastate schools, but consider this.
The corrupt Senate is not finished with its dirty work after passing unconstitutional laws. This is because it then approves of activist justices who rule that the unconstitutonal laws that the Senate has helped the corrupt House to pass are constitutional.
What a racket!
Lawless presidents aren’t the main problem with the country. The real problem is the lawless, Constitution-ignoring Senate imo.
Thomas Jefferson had put it this way.
"In every event, I would rather construe so narrowly as to oblige the nation to amend, and thus declare what powers they would agree to yield, than too broadly, and indeed, so broadly as to enable the executive and the Senate to do things which the Constitution forbids." --Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
Bushie ramped up Federalization of Edumacation, any Repub President in 2016 will continue that process.
And Pubbie rank-and-file will be vigorously pressured to support more of the same.
Either party, Dummocrat or Repub, the Federal leviathan continues to grow and exert more control over individual American...
sheeple.
NWO. It’s here. They want you dumb, poor and dead.
To deny the charge of racism just proves how racist one really is.
One of Common Core’s architects proudly admits he helped write it in order to end “white privilege:”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Nr3_2724
Arnie Duncan, your time in the limelight is soon to be up. I would start thinking about getting your household in boxes. You can take your Department of Education with you.
Arnie, you ignorant slut.
Another reason to home school!
How dare you racists we want your kids just as stupid as ours. These parents are stupid and the parents that go along are just as........
Thanks for the post; ping.
Federal Indoctrination Secretary: “Feds Will Step In” If Opt Out Continues…
You say: “There are persons who lack education,” and you turn to the law. But the law is not, in itself, a torch of learning which shines its light abroad. The law extends over a society where some persons have knowledge and others do not; where some citizens need to learn, and others can teach. In this matter of education, the law has only two alternatives: It can permit this transaction of teaching-and-learning to operate freely and without the use of force, or it can force human wills in this matter by taking from some of them enough to pay the teachers who are appointed by government to instruct others, without charge. But in this second case, the law commits legal plunder by violating liberty and property.
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.
/Bastiat - The Law
(caps mine)
Another reason to home school!
The Federal government has no legitimate role in this matter. The Federal Dept. of Education needs to be dissolved, abolished, and legislative attempts to re-create one criminalized to the point of capital punishment.
“...The Feds “have an obligation to step in.” Federal law, under No Child Left Behind, requires ...”
I haven’t noticed overmuch concern on the part of the administration for “the law” up till now...so...no sale there...
Fixed it. Every time they do this, and we sit on our thumbs, they win and we lose a bit more Freedom and the thought/hope of returning to Freedom becomes a bit dimmer.
Cruz would be the only candidate with the cajones to do so.
“It is for your own good” suckers. We homeschool and it has paid off significantly in the preservation of truth and faith. The public schools are a lost cause— and have been for thirty years.
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