Posted on 06/11/2014 1:34:19 PM PDT by PoloSec
When Oklahoma asserted its Tenth Amendment rights by signing legislation making it the third state to ditch Common Core education standards, it was only a matter of time before the federal government pushed back.
Common Core standards are an attempt by the Obama administration to push further into the education system and eventually create a nationalized curriculum designed to transform children into wards of the state.
Many states have recognized the danger these standards pose both to freedom and the quality of the education their children receive and have began creating legislation that allows them to come up with their own standards.
Indiana was the first state to give Common Core the boot, followed by South Carolina, and then Oklahoma.
Now U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has unleashed a veiled threat of punishment against the state during a press briefing delivered earlier this week.
via Daily Caller:
In a press briefing at the White House on Monday, though, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan struck back by vaguely suggesting that the federal government may now punish Oklahoma.
Duncan asserted that “40 percent of high school graduates” in Oklahoma “have to take remedial classes when they go to college” and only “25 percent of Oklahoma’s eighth-graders in math are proficient.”
The Obama administration education chief declared that the Common Core Standards Initiative is a panacea for this problem.
“We got a dropout problem we got to deal with,” Duncan said. “We want to make sure our high school graduates aren’t having to take remedial classes, burn up Pell grants, burn up student loans taking non-credit bearing. And right now, roughly 40 percent of those graduates in Oklahoma are having to do that. We don’t think that’s good for those young people, their families, or for the country.”
Duncan had ominous words for states that buck the Common Core trend.
“We partner with states whether they’re in Common Core or have their own high standards. But where we will challenge status quo is when states dummy down standards,” he warned.
It’s obvious that the federal government is licking its wounds at not being able to bully states into accepting their liberal education standards. The truth of the matter is that as long as Oklahoma stands its ground, there is little the White House can do.
The government needs to be reminded that it’s power is derived from the people, and the people have the constitutional right to take that power back, as they did so in this particular case. More states need to get on board in the fight against Common Core and send a strong message that states will not be bullied by the federal government.
No it is not. But just understand at this point, they will take us there with them.
I am becoming convinced that even if armed resistance and a violent struggle to regain our liberty happens, many in the government would not have a problem using nukes to keep the deal going for themselves and their buddies They would have no problem incinerating Oklahoma or Texas or a bunch of other “flyover” states, as bad for business as that would be.
That jumped out at me as well.
If those were his actual words, then he is operating at maybe an 11th or 12th grade level himself.
Dude, man. One word for ya’.
ABC After School Specials...
It reads like satire.
Bttt.
“We got a dropout problem we got to deal with,” Duncan said.
Educated words from the Education Secretary. /sarc
Correct the above mistake-filled sentence, students. Begin.
How about this?
We have a dropout problem.
Wow, that was hard.
The Governor of OK should reply” “Arne, we will simply not allow our educational system to become like Chicago’s.”
“The feds frequently punish states by withholding highway funds. This is why we have a seatbelt law here. The feds said we implement it or lose funds. I understand there are a lot of laws like that. I’d imagine there are federal lunch funds or after class care and the like that would put pressure on the state from voters if suddenly people had to feed or care for their own kids.”
It’s long past time when the blue states told the Fed Gov to piss off. This idea that they use tax dollars that they’ve taken from the state taxpayers then threaten to not return any of the money unless the state does what it’s told is simply blackmail.
“we got a dropout problem we got to deal with...”. Nice grammar miss education chief...idiot
You said it all. Thread closed.
Sounds like a problem school vouchers could fix. I wonder what the Admin position is on those?
-——Duncan appears to be male in gender ———
my bad.......
~~~Mr Duncan...... it ain’t none of your business.~~~
We gots dis close to are dreamz.
But dem Bush playaz dint dig are gruve.
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"And we ain't got no dropout problem nowhere, wherever we done did do-ed the Common Core Crapola, so, we gots to deal with that too."
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