Posted on 11/18/2016 10:23:08 AM PST by blam
Susan Berry
November 18, 2016
An organization of parent activists, retired teachers, and other professionals from around the nation has released an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump, urging him to do all within his power to return control of education to parents. Parents Against Common Core, which consists mainly of the heads of state groups that have been fighting for repeal of the controversial standards, writes:
Though primarily parents and not policy experts ourselves, there is no escaping the fact that our individual and group research, writing and lobbying efforts have caused Common Core to be either repealed or modified via law and/or policy all across the nation. It is also an inescapable fact that the majority of our success in opposition grew spontaneously and fully from the interactions with our own children and schools and therefore hold specific and direct experience no mere “policy expert” could possess.
In the letter, which can be signed by others at its website, the parents ask Trump to consider them as the key “forgotten” group in education, and to do all within his power “to see that control over the education of our children is returned to us – PARENTS and GUARDIANS – those best suited to advocate in deference and defense of those being educated at the hands of the taxpayer.”
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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Here in NYS, kids get up at 5:30 am to get to school at 7:00. They eat lunch at 10:30. The whole thing is ridiculous.
Repeal and replace public schools.
All Trump can legally do is abolish the DOE and return education to the states. He can’t legally interfere with state school systems.
Other than the DOE, the fight is at the state level where parents must rise up and force NUKING THE UTTERLY CORRUPT STATE TEACHER UNIONS and bring education back to the local/neighborhood level giving parents free options about where and how to educate their kids. The feds have no constitutional say in this matter.
If stupid school districts would STOP taking Fed $$$$-they could have all the autonomy they want!
Well said. Common Core is an abomination to trick kids in becoming more stupid, and the dumber they are, the more they vote Dummycrat.
Sorry, you're not qualified. Shut up, hand over your children, and pay your taxes.
Give teachers more control of classrooms. Discipline should be returned. This business kids knowing they won’t or can’t be punished needs to stop.
If parents don’t like punishments then let one of them attend class and do the correction...( but the correction MUST work). This in itself would be a lesson for some parents.
And while your at ging control back to the parents, please, please, please return sanity to the schools and get rid all all that zero-tolerance BS. No kid should be punished for shaping a pop-tart into a toy gun or using a plastic toddler knife to cut a piece of fruit to share with a friend.
Just eliminate the Department. It is just one big boondoggle. Should be in hands of each State. And not the federal government.
> Here in NYS, kids get up at 5:30 am to get to school at 7:00. They eat lunch at 10:30. The whole thing is ridiculous.
My 5 yo grandson brought home a note 2 weeks ago instructing parents to send their kids to school even if they are sick so that their class can have a shared illness experience.
This tells me the funding they get for attendance is more important than the health of the children and the health of the families of the children whose parents have to work.
In every rally I’ve watched he has said “we’re getting rid of common core and bringing education back local”.
And then send them home with 2 hours of homework.
I’m guessing it would require another act of congress to adios DOE.
Noting that I gladly voted for Trump and do not regret doing so, Trump and Congress actually have no constitutional choice in returning control to schools.
More specifically, no Congress, POTUS, FLOTUS, or justices ever had the express constitutional authority to dictate what goes on in INTRAstate classrooms (or cafeterias). This is evidenced by the excerpts below.
In the first excerpt, Thomas Jefferson indicated that the feds couldn’t get involved in INTRAstate classrooms without express constitutional authority to do so, the states having never amended the Constitution to expressly delegate such power to the feds.
“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.
In fact, previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified the following about the fed’s constitutionally limited powers. Powers to regulate, tax and spend that the states have not expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds, the power to decide intrastate school policy in this example, are prohibited to the feds.
“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.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Patriots need to get president-elect Trump up to speed on the fed’s constitutionally limited powers.
In fact, if patriots can work with Trump and state lawmakers to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the feds cannot justify under their constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, then the states would probably find a tsunami of new revenues to improve schools and many other things.
Well it is clearly a constitutional issue. A good President would site constitutional-based rationales for extinguishing the DOE - in essence not executing Congressional law if there is one, regarding the DOE. This would hold true for all unconstitutional cabinet departments and bureaucracies which are the majority of the cabinet.
I’m not sure Trump has to have Congressional approval to nuke the DOE. But if he does, if Trump argued sound constitutional reasoning for extinguishing the DOE, he’d be OK and everyone would be better off.
Heck Obama has regularly ignored Congress and has remained unscathed - and his defiance was generally unconstitutional. Here, Trump’s defiance, if that’s what it would take to remove the DOE, would be constitutional,
Sorry...I used DOE(Energy) and should have used DoED
Dept. of ED was created by an act of congress. Not sure the president can do anything alone to adios it.
OK, DoED then - Dept. of ED.
Same rules that I laid out apply. The Constitution does not authorize the feds to have a DoED. Trump should take it from there.
I have read several speeches/articles of his, and he loathes public education, especially the Fed Dept of Ed.
So much so that Hillsdale accepts NO fed money in any manner.
Don't know how to shake the bushes for him, but it needs to be done by someone.
I believe he is friendly with Pence, so there is that connection.
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