Arne Duncan Threatens Entire State Of Oklahoma Because State Backed Out Of Common Core

Common Core wasn’t originally sold as a social justice equalizer. It was sold as a basic set of standards, but the early proponents of Common Core knew all along that it would be an equalizer.

Obama spoke at a Black commencement a number of years ago, telling the graduates that the government had been throwing money at education for years and no matter what they tried, White students still out performed Black and Hispanic students on standardized tests. So, Obama said, We’re gonn’a try something different. Common core was that something different.

I had discussion about this with our superintendent of schools, who supports Common Core and making 11th and 12th grades optional. I said that what Obama said at that graduation was not much different than what Larry Summers said a year or two earlier, when he said that men consistently out perform women in math and sciences and that colleges need to try something different. Larry Summers lost his job at Harvard over his remark, but Harvard did try something different, Harvard now has feminized science courses in which the student doesn’t have to study any real science, just the history of science.

Because no one can learn without Common Core.

It makes perfect sense for the Feds to withhold money for school children just because the bureaucrats at the Department of Education don’t get their way.

I wonder if she was among the MANY Republican governors that LAUGHED at Rick Perry when he, essentially, said that Common Core would be a nightmare because Washington was running it? I mean, what could EVER go wrong when Washington sends you money?

Perhaps if she had listened to him and followed him, she wouldn’t be facing the WRATH of the Administration now, as Perry has not had to deal with this crap from DC.

(and yes, I still hate Perry’s guts, but he certainly got this one right)

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