1. Education has long been federalized in this country and pretending it isn’t is just sticking your head in the sand. Advocate abolishing it. Fine. But I doubt that ever happens.
2. Oh the horror. Kids will be held to specific standards in reading and math. If there is liberal nonsense mixed in, get rid of it. But so what about the standards. Federal money comes with strings. At least make those strings guarantee your money is graduating kids that have strong English and Math skills.
3. There are about a million problems with the public schools bigger than English and Math standards.
4. Huckabee shouldn’t flip flop. but on this one, I really don’t care.
CONGRATULATIONS! You get an A in rationalization!
The “standards” are cr*p. The John Dewey socialists destroyed American “education” and put in indoctrination written by their Marxists buddies since 1930 with a monopoly on curricula.
We need to return to Classical Education ONLY——the TRUE education “standards” that were pre-Dewey. AND THEN, we need to have only EXIT EXAMS-—so that NSA and other data bases are NULL AND VOID. Any State or Federal agency shouldn’t be allowed to collect ANY data on our children unless they break the law —no “mandatory” education either like prior to the 1900s.
We DON’T ALLOW THE STATE TO TRACK CHILDREN-—they can know only if they PASS EXIT exams like was done in the 1800s and children weren’t conditioned and made into dependent, emasculated slaves of the State.
Today’s Prussian system is for “group think” and dehumanization ONLY!!! It destroys Virtue formation and autonomy. All children should be raised in the Natural Family and NEVER put into an institution until after age 7 if EVEN THEN-—to have individuality destroyed. Socialization should be done in families and neighborhoods like when autonomy and self-directed responsible children KNEW what was Good and Evil. Thinking outside the box (Creative play) was a normal American activity until the Prussia group think conditioning factories to create fear of disagreeing with the mob.
Virtue is essential for Freedom. (Socrates) Virtue is LEARNED and HABITUATED by REAL LIFE experiences and human interactions with MORAL, ADULT ROLE MODELS and mostly decent children (loved and directed by parents) or older, moral siblings/cousins——not immature peers like in public schools where there are LOTS of feral, immoral children today who have evil parents or no active parents....and filthy TV and radio raises children and posits their worldview.