Posted on 03/11/2016 6:29:05 AM PST by Academiadotorg
Establishment Republicans are always mystified when they embrace Democratic Party policies and get hammered for it, particularly, as is frequently the case, when those programs don't work particularly well.
"It was everyday moms who shamed the Republicans into abandoning Common Core," syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin averred at the Conservative Political Action Conference. "There are three reasons why Jeb Bush failed: his last name; his support for amnesty; and his cheerleading and cashing in on Common Core."
The National Governors Association devised Common Core with Clinton era appointees, Malkin explained. In 2009, 25 people in the room devised Common Core including 6 from the College Board, 5 from ACT and 4 from Achieve, Inc., according to Malkin.
Currently other supporters of Common Core aren't doing particularly well either. Ohio Governor John Kasich has bellowed his enthusiasm for it at the expense of other, arguably more efficacious, school reforms. "This is a man who smeared homeschoolers," Malkin reminded her audience at CPAC.
Malkin, the senior editor at Conservative Review, is the author of six books, including, most recently, Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers , written with John Maino, and Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs.
Donald Trump scored major points by being anti-Common Core.
Kasich is nice to democrats. Does that count?
My daughter teaches in Ohio. She loathes and detests Common Core.
Don’t be so cynical, you just need a hug.
This is true. Common Core is about selling textbooks and data mining. It is a large reason I am home-schooling my now 3rd grader next year. She has been at a Catholic Elementary School that has adopted some of the Common Core Curriculum. This is done because they get text book donations from the public schools and good Christian curriculums such as home-schoolers use are expensive. Follow the money, it’s all about cash and has been since Dick first met Jane.
This is true. Common Core is about selling textbooks and data mining. It is a large reason I am home-schooling my now 3rd grader next year. She has been at a Catholic Elementary School that has adopted some of the Common Core Curriculum. This is done because they get text book donations from the public schools and good Christian curriculums such as home-schoolers use are expensive. Follow the money, it’s all about cash and has been since Dick first met Jane.
Absolutely. It shows he can be “The Maverick Part Deux”.
Republicans are always mystified when they embrace Democratic Party policies and get hammered for it
Yeah, no.
Time for a new party.
But, but...without Common Core edjumakashun, how will gummint skewel alums and other victims of Common Core attain even the minimal competence necessary to fill out their welfare, food stamp, housing, Medicare and other gummint assistance applications?
He was anti-Common Core but he danced around the issue when asked specifically by Jake Tapper twice why he was against it. It would have been nice if he had given just one concrete example of how it “is a disaster.”
Anyone who has been exposed to Common Core and isn’t a complete meathead is anti-common core. If your goal is to raise a generation of mushminded idiots who can’t understand basic math and english, Common Core would be your blue print to accomplish it.
my youngest boy7 heard that Trump was against common core and said right away I want him. He now has his 13 year old friends in agreement, LOL.
Seems trump is even getting the young teens involved.
If we want anything worth having, we have to do it ourselves. Either homeschool or create parent-controlled academies (Catholic or interdenominational) that teach high quality academics, morality, theology specific or general, first rate history courses, with all extracurriculars and sports strictly secondary. Keep tuition as reasonable as possible and remember that education is primarily: God, students, texts and teachers. Raise a generation of leaders to lead those unfortunates who can only be led.
Good post. In addition to discipline I would add the ability to pray and regular school mass. There is an effort however to limit the masses offered to students out of deference to those students who attend but are not Catholic and might be offended. You hit on something important which is the number of lay people as administrators in Catholic Schools, historically when this happens Catholic Schools become prep schools only interested in accumulating many dollars to pay teachers and build new buildings.
I’m curious. How does she feel about the governor?
For the future of your kids and our nation, become familiar with Young Americans for Freedom (still worthwhile if not what it used to be) and introduce them to it and through it to a world of movement conservatism and opportunities to become familiar with the accumulated wisdom upon which it is based: Buckley, Burnham, Kendall, Kirk, Meyer, von Mises, von Hayek, Nozick, Hazlitt, Reagan, Kemp, Scalia, Thomas, and many, many more. That also leads to such groups as the Foundation for Economic Education and the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists (open to younger students as well) and similar groups.
Uh, huh.....and don/t forget, Michelle.....Jeb-You/re-Next was the most incompetent candidate we/ve seen in a long time. The masterful Trump elbowed the unsuspecting Jeb out of the race and had the little Bushie crawling back to his mommy.
Look at that puzzled expression on his face.....Jeb still doesn/t know what hit him.
From what I have read, the original “Common Core” concept was to have it run by states and local communities. It was well regarded then. When the Federal government took it over it became an instrument to promote liberal causes.
Am I correct??
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