…but the simple fact is we need higher standards; they need to be state-driven.
The federal government should play no role in this – either in the creation of standards, content, or curriculum…”
...too late Jeb, therein lies the problem. No one has a problem with standards except for the fact that with em or without em, the results are usually the same and states may have said they were theirs and theirs alone, but we all know where “they” came from.
...and no one with a brain can deny that Government is where all of this got started. If not directly then indirectly with Government the top down driver. Without government, common core would still be only one of the many points in the Communist Manifesto.
“Without government, common core would still be only one of the many points in the Communist Manifesto.”
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Without the education-industrial complex’s system of socialist-entitlement and single-payer schools, common core would still be a plank ( among many other planks) in the Communist agenda.
The reason the Communists have made such progress is that for several generations now they have been indoctrinating the nation’s children.