There Are No Free Bones

[Flanders]

It is stuff like Common Core that makes me wonder why anybody who is not raking in tons of tax dollars would vote for the parasite class. Notice that the very name of a private company —— College Board —— conveys the image of a government agency working for the best interests of all Americans:

David Coleman, known as the architect of the Common Core national standards and its chief pitchman, is the president of the College Board, a private company based in New York that owns the SAT and ACT exams as well as the Advanced Placement, or AP, exams and curriculum.

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The College Board not only owns the AP curriculum but it administers the AP standardized tests nationwide to K-12 students, measuring their readiness to attend college. Coleman’s ties to the controversial Common Core national education standards and the AP course’s new take on American history has come under fierce criticism.

The College Board is the best example of the entire upper echelon of the parasite class (the education industry) throwing American parents a bone for their silent submission. The bone is not free. The bone is paid for with lost control over their own children, with loss of choice, and brainwashing so successful generations of Americans had no idea of the cost they paid for receiving nothing of value. Loss of country is the highest price every American is paying:

National Review reported the College Board under Coleman is “politicizing” the teaching of American history. The course aims to teach history from an internationalist perspective, in line with the views of NYU professor Thomas Bender.

“Bender is a thoroughgoing critic of American exceptionalism, the notion that America is freer and more democratic than any other nation, and for that reason, a model, vindicator, and at times the chief defender of ordered liberty and self-government in the world,” writes Stanley Kurtz for National Review.

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“Instead of focusing on actual U.S. history, for example, critics say the radical new Advanced Placement (AP) history curriculum represents hard-core Marxist indoctrination. Among other concerns, a growing roster of opponents argue that the new scheme hypes and exaggerates real or imagined wrongs while presenting everything in a collectivist mold. Meanwhile, it downplays and ignores virtues and goodness in America’s historical development and its experiments with liberty and self-government.”

State Rep. Jeff Collins, R-Nash County nails the very thing the parasite class hates the most about America’s Founders:

Collins said he always encourages people to read original documents such as the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and Constitution to view in the Founding Fathers’ own words what they believed.

Common Core architect's history 'deeply biased' against U.S.
School district delays implementation
Published: 9 hours ago
LEO HOHMANN

Common Core architect 8217 s history 8216 deeply biased 8217 against U.S.

America’s Founders believed that parasites should never get their hands on the public purse. T.J. even called them parasites:

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, September 6, 1824

Thomas Jefferson said that in 1824; so it is not hard to understand why education industry parasites do not want American children learning the beliefs of America’s Founders.

Incidentally, what do you think T.J. would say today? If Americans want to turn their country away from Common Core’s internationalism they cannot do better than apply his words to the parasites throughout the education industry.

Let me close with one more observation that applies specifically to Common Core:

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson

 

[Flanders]

I’d like to know how much money taxpayers are paying to litigate Taqiyya the Liar’s legal problems? He may very well be the legal profession’s greatest benefactor:

Gov. Bobby Jindal to sue Obama administration on Common Core
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times - Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal to sue Obama administration on Common Core - Washington Times

 

[Flanders]

Common Core math problem​

I can only hope that parents with children in school read Bob Unruh’s informative piece:

The Common Core school standards imposed on teachers by Washington bureaucrats have been rejected by multiple states, targeted by lawsuits and criticized as more indoctrination than education.

Now parents are being given a turn to take a whack at the one-size-fits-all program that relegates George Washington to a half a sentence and compares the Declaration of Independence to a high-school romance breakup letter.

The Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center is urging parents to opt their children out of the restrictive regulations and requirements, providing forms to make the process easier.

I wish I could tell you how this final excerpt:

“The opt-out form is based on the constitutionally recognized fundamental right of parents to direct the education of their children and on federal statutes which were designed to protect student privacy,” said Richard Thompson, the chief counsel for the organization.

squares with this onerous ruling. My emphasis in red:

The Newspaper of Education Rights
Number239
December 2005

Ninth Circuit Decision Denies Parents' Rights

Parents and politicians alike were shocked when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Nov. 2 that parents' fundamental right to control the upbringing of their children "does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door," and that a public school has the right to provide its students with "whatever information it wishes to provide, sexual or otherwise."

The Ninth Circuit decision in Fields v. Palmdale School District upheld the lower court's broad ruling that the fundamental right to direct the upbringing and education of one's children does not encompass the right "to control the upbringing of their children by introducing them to matters of and relating to sex in accordance with their personal and religious values and beliefs." A three-judge Ninth Circuit panel unanimously ruled against the parents. One judge had been appointed by Jimmy Carter, one by Bill Clinton, and one by Lyndon B. Johnson.

Ninth Circuit Decision Denies Parents Rights

Bottom line: Common Core and everything like it must be abandoned.

Here’s the link to Unruh’s great article:

Parents taught how to get kids out of Common Core
Teaching standards called 'threat to personal liberty'
Published: 12 hours ago
BOB UNRUH

Here 8217 s your ticket out of Common Core