Parents ...Urge Donald Trump: Return ‘Control Over Education of Children’ to Us

Breitbart ^ | Susan Berry

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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the fact that our individual and group research, writing and lobbying efforts have caused Common Core to be either repealed or modified via law and/or policy all across the nation.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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[CAluvdubya]

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.

Dumbest thing I've ever heard!

I'm in education. There are some of us that don't agree with Common Core, zero Tolerance, and many other namby pamby daffodil policies!

I also believe that kindergarteners should be allowed more good old fashioned playing and less "They need to be able to write a 5 paragraph essay before 1st grade" attitude.