[longfellowsmuse]

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.

[BlackElk]

Many parents of parochial school sudents fail to realize that the National Education Association termites are working their infernal leftist way into the parochial schools. They arrange to be hired as lay administrators (diocesan school superintendents and such) and then impose some or all of Common Core. Increasingly, the parochial schools are different from gummint skewels only as to discipline and who knows how long that will last?

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.