”… including the fact that it is being quietly implemented in apparent defiance of state law."
With all due respect to mom & pop, please consider the following. As a consequence of the parents of this Oklahoma teacher evidently not making sure that their daughter was taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, their daughter is not able to argue the following against Common Core.
Simply put, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to decide policy, regulate, tax and spend for intrastate schooling purposes.
In fact, regardless that federal Democrats, RINOs, activist judges and indoctrinated attorneys will argue that if the Constitution doesn’t say that the feds can’t do something then they can do it, the Supreme Court has addressed that foolish idea too. Politically correct interpretations of the Constitution's Supremacy Clause (5.2) aside, the Court has clarified in broad terms that powers not delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to dictate policy for intrastate schools in this case, are prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Yet, we have these days a SCOTUS that ‘reads the nuances’ or ‘defers to the govt INTERPRETATION of their own “Laws”’....good luck if you get through the ‘standing’ requirements.
Was it not Bush whom signed into Law saying (paraphrasing) “let the Courts figure it out”?? Or, “I had to break the Constitution to support it”? Uh..WTF?!?
Our Republic died over 100 years ago. I’m hoping, with the current crop of GOP (some -e), are starting to wake up and realize the truth.