Posted on 05/27/2015 10:53:44 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
My husband and I attended a small meeting in 2011 when Sen. Ted Cruz was running for his U. S. Senate seat. As a retired classroom teacher, my plan was to explain to Cruz how the Obama administration planned to take over the public schools of America through the Common Core Standards Initiative (CCSI).
Thinking Cruz would be just like so many other politicians who have been asleep about CCSI while it has been sweeping over our country since 2009, I started in on my explanation. Almost immediately Ted Cruz began to agree with me vociferously and quickly let all of us know that he was totally familiar with CCSI and its damaging effects.
As a man whose father was imprisoned and tortured under a Cuban dictator, Ted Cruz recognized way back in 2011 that CCSI was unconstitutional and was an attempt by the Obama administration to steal the hearts, minds, and souls of America’s youth.
Through his father’s experiences, Ted Cruz understood what indoctrination by a dictator does; and he grasped personally how important it is for politicians to honor and listen to the genuine concerns of grassroots citizens. Ted Cruz would never make fun of the “soccer moms” the way the Obama administration has done.
What we so appreciate about Ted Cruz in comparison with the other potential and/or announced Republican Presidential candidates is that Cruz knew almost instantaneously upon learning about Obama’s Common Core Standards Initiative (CCSI) that it had little to do with academic achievement and all to do with the indoctrination of America’s school children:
[The arrows mean “lead(s) to.”]
National standards → National assessments → National curriculum → National teacher evaluations with teachers’ salaries tied to students’ test scores → Teachers teaching to the test each and every day → National indoctrination of our public school children → National database of students and teachers containing personally intrusive information
When weighing Presidential candidates against one another, we have always found it best to research candidates’ positions BEFORE they decided to run for President. Unfortunately, many of them seem to have “epiphanies” once they start to build their base of potential voters. We have learned not to trust these sudden “epiphanies” which many times seem to vanish once these politicians get into office.
BOTTOM LINE: Ted Cruz intends to repeal the CCSI once in office, and he will not settle for a watered-down, compromised version. Cruz has the “fire in the belly” to complete this task, and it is this type of deep commitment that it will take to pull CCSI out by its insidious roots.
OTHER POTENTIAL AND/OR ANNOUNCED CANDIDATES
Hopefully most alert voters know by now that Hillary Clinton is the one who helped birth the CCSI way back in the 1980’s – no doubt about where she stands.
Rand Paul is against CCSI, but I do not remember his publicly railing against it way back in 2011 the way Ted Cruz has done.
Mike Huckabee, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Scott Walker, Mike Pence, and Chris Christie have all publicly supported CCSI presently and/or in the past.
Marco Rubio is much too close to Jeb Bush’s vested interests in CCSI to be trusted to take a principled stance against it.
Carly Fiorina has made a half-hearted effort to oppose CCSI once she started her run-up to 2016.
Bobby Jindal is opposed to CCSI now, and I so appreciate his concerted efforts. However, he is a “late comer” on this issue when compared to Ted Cruz. For years Jindal ignored the cries of the anti-CCSI Louisiana citizens and only began to listen when his own second-grade son was confronted with CCSI math in his school.
Rick Santorum seems to be opposed to CCSI now, but he is another “late comer” to the battle and certainly has not led out in an effort to confront CCSI.
Ben Carson appears to “get it” but does not seem to have the political stamina to pursue a repeal of CCSI.
Lindsey Graham is against CCSI, but he only started involving himself in the issue in 2014 when it became apparent that the general public was turning against it. This was probably about the time he started testing the waters for a Presidential run.
TED CRUZ – THE ONE
The person we want as President is someone who has the discernment to see almost instantly that CCSI is unconstitutional, someone who has the moral compass and the “fire in the belly” not to compromise or back down on repealing CCSI. Ted Cruz has proved himself over and over to do the right thing even though it may be unpopular with the Washington establishment.
We believe on this CCSI issue and on so many other issues that Ted Cruz is the only candidate with the gut-level commitment to bring America back from the slippery slope. This vital change of direction must begin with making sure generations of school children learn to love America – its Constitution, its rich heritage, and its City on the Hill position in the world.
RESOURCES ON HILLARY CLINTON’S BIRTHING OF COMMON CORE
4.30.14 – “Hillary Partnered with Radical Alinsky Group” – by Aaron Klein – World Net Daily — http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/hillary-partnered-with-radical-alinsky-group/
4.8.15 – “Hillary Clinton Found at the Rotten Center of the Common Core National Standards” – by Bob Kellogg – EAGNews.org — http://eagnews.org/hillary-clinton-found-at-the-rotten-center-of-the-common-core-national-standards-initiative/
3.12.15 — “Hillary Clinton Tied to Common Core” — by Donna Garner – EdViews.org — http://www.educationviews.org/hillary-clinton-tied-common-core/
Donna Garner
Good Job!
Again....thanks for all you’re doing on this Arabic Immersion Magnet school...and other things.
Is your flyer posted on your website?
I posted on FB Stop Common Core-Houston but I can e-mail it to you...if I have an email address. It’s a great line-up on June 13
Home School. Seriously find like minded parents and form your own curriculum there is plenty of options online that help you get started. It will take more than you lifetime to undo what has come about in education. I started High School in 1952 an already standards were being lowered and discussions on minimum common curriculum were in motion.
MY kids are all out ... home schooled by their mama, now in heaven .... praising her Lord.
I was a Ted Cruz supporter until today, when his campaign posted that Ted Cruz supports TPA and TPP. They couldn’t say why, all they did was post what Boehner said about it.
Cruz has made statements about his support for the trade bills. He says that he voted in favor because 2.2 million jobs in his state depend on exports. Exports are key to building businesses and growing jobs.
Ever wonder why Dems who voted against it and conservative Republicans voted for it? I think we need to let this develop a little bit to see how it plays out. The public has not yet seen the content of the bill. Congress still has an up or down vote on any trade deals Obama proposes and I won’t be surprised if the House version has Cruz’s wording on immigration in the bill they send back to the Senate for reconciliation.
The coal terminala in WA State are counting on the trade deals to push the coal. Obama made a deal with Peabody to facilitate the terminals. They are terrible for WA State. We don’t need to turn rural WA into Perth Amboy, New Jersey. There is nothing in it for WA State, but destruction of our coast. Republicans think that they are creating jobs, but for WA, those jobs are only temporary, short term jobs, the damage is the only thing that will be permanent.
I thought that coal extracting technology had come a long way in being cleaner. I read that the real issue of pollution in Perth Amboy was oil refineries.
It is not the mining that is the problem, they don’t mine the coal in WA State. It would be a problem if they did.
The problem is that the metallurgic coal that they are mining is literally cheaper than dirt and any safety precautions to protect residents around the terminal would put the producers in the hole, so we get 250 ft tall piles of coal with no wind screens and nothing but water to keep down the coal dust, which is alleged to spread over a three to five mile radius around the terminal. But that isn’t the biggest fear, the biggest fear are the endless coal trains which will cross the whole state and run along the whole coast, below the picturesque high but unstable waterfront cliffs and mountain passes. Property owners are already experiencing some slippage from the mike long, heavily loaded coal trains . It is very possible that we could see another landslide like the one out in Oso last year, only with a lot more homes being damaged. There was one family who had built a gazebo at the back of their yard to take advantage of the view, who got up one morning and the whole gazebo was gone.
The only jobs for Whatcom County are the construction jobs and even those are unlikely to be local because we don’t have the type of heavy construction companies that do that kind of work and the Union labor to force to go with it. ...and we don’t want the ILWU trouble makers, either.
I forgot to mention that when the coal prices fell the developers of the terminal lost their backer, Goldman Sachs, who advised that new coal infrastructure was a poor investment. The only backing that the developers could find was a Mexican financier, who just happens to be the top lieutenant of Carlos Slim.
But hey, the Republicans don’t care, they think they are fighting Obama’s war on coal. Give the drug cartels their own terminal, anything to support those coal jobs.
Good Grief. That does sound like a mess. What must be even more frustrating is there are ways to prevent those problems and still keep the jobs and the resource of coal. It costs more, but I hope the communities keep raising sand until something is done.
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