Will parents do anything? /rhetorical question
"Communist Core Curriculum", eh? Yes, they're inching toward letting us know where they're coming from.
Happiness is never having to explain 100,000,000 corpses.
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This was mentioned on FR. If only everyone read FR, they would not be taken by surprise by this and by the other things Obama has sneaked into bills.
Rudy Crew, former Education Commissioner of NYC and now in Florida, if he’s still there, talked about the supposed need for a national curriculum years ago at a book signing in NYC. I saw the dangers then. His justification was that other countries were “eating our lunch” in science and math.
An increased emphasis on science and math is not a bad thing, but not as a law, which is unconstitutional in the extreme, and only with the will of those involved and affected.
The de-emphasis on literature is sinister, as our culture is transmitted through literature. It is not just pretty poems and engrossing stories. I’m sure some literature will be allowed: prison writings and the voices of the “oppressed.” The great works of world literature will be a loss not only for their beauty and power to ennoble the mind but for their continuity with the world of our fathers as well.
I hadn’t heard that he had the educational testing services on board. That is the final nail in the coffin. They should soon be talking about PQ, progressiveness quotient, instead of IQ.