here are some of Huckabee's "clear" statements supporting ('came out swinging') Common Core:
Huckabee, however, has a history of supporting Common Core. As late as August of 2014 he called on conservatives to “stop the fight” over Common Core and, instead, consider the positive effects the nationalized standards might have on students in poorly performing schools.
In June of 2013, Sunshine State News reported that Huckabee “came out swinging…in defense of Common Core Standards in education,” and “sent a letter to lawmakers in Oklahoma, urging them to support Common Core.”
“It’s disturbing to me there have been criticisms of these standards directed by other conservatives including the RNC,” Huckabee wrote to the lawmakers. “The truth of the matter is, these criticisms are short-sighted.”
And yet, Huck's spokesperson has the audacity to say this now ....
Now that he’s a candidate for President, there will be countless efforts to try and misrepresent the Governor’s clearly stated and well-documented position against Common Core. This is just simply another one of those election year lies.
Governor Huckabee believes education is a family function, not a federal function – period. Anyone who says otherwise is either misinformed or not telling the truth.
Huckabee is pissing on the GOP base and telling them it's raining. Don't believe him.
Walker has a similar problem due to early support for common core.
I've seen a lot of attacks on the common core math standards and frankly Huckabee is being generous calling the attackers "shortsighted". Stupid and unlearned would be better. Usually the critizers are putting up a math problem they don't understand that's designed to teach a technique they don't understand.
In most cases it's not the standards themselves that are the problem. Most of the standards are just what has been taught for decades. They've just been codified into a national standard that puts the Feds in control and Fed control is bad.
The criticisms that seem to be valid include the following:
We've always had to keep a close eye on the materials that get used, and we'll continue to have to do that. But the Fed involvement needs to end.
You jumped threads on me.
This thread is a good example. The very first question in the main article is a problem designed to teach advanced addition principles.
Sure the problem 7+7 should have been learned and probably was learned by memory in the basic addition table. But knowing that you can split an operand and then use the associative property to make the math easier, is important. I use that all the time dealing with much larger numbers.
I’m in the top 1% of the nation in math. But that is a really basic arithmetic principles that should be taught probably in the 2nd or third grade. It worries me when people who can’t even understand the importance of what is being taught in that example are trying to weigh in on the direction of our education.
Not only Walker but Jindal did the same thing too.
Initially common core was a state led initiative by the governors. And it had a lot of support. But then the Fed's got involved. And now it's toxic as it should be.
All you've shown is that Huckabee can change positions when he should.