Fight Against Common Core - For Your Children

By dangling federal funds in front of the states, the federal government has circumvented the law and the Constitution and is binding most of the states into following the same academic standards, using standardized assessments funded and reviewed by the Department of Education, and building the most expansive data collection system on our children in American history. Here again is a case where the federal government is taking control, in this case education, and most importantly the minds of our children. They use all the feel good and sound good words, but what in effect they are doing is, step by step, taking power away from the states and the local school districts. Common Core is a set of nationalized educational standards that are really the first step toward a national, federally controlled curriculum.

The approach is simple, but very devious:

1) Entice states to sign up by dangling large sums of (taxpayer) money in front of them. Use "sound good" words to describe Common Core in kind of general and nebulous terms. Amazingly, just like with the Affordable Care Act a majority of states have signed up for Common Core without realizing what is in it!

2) The states and the schools over time will become dependent upon the money from the federal government and will not want to lose it. They will be "hooked". And that is the intent.

3) The federal government will take complete control over what children are taught in school. The worst possible outcome.

4) The federal government will establish a "program officer", and most likely a board that oversees compliance through the Department of Education. This office will have the power to redirect consortia activity and (money) if "outcomes are inconsistent with intended project outcomes". In other words complete control.

Common Core has nothing to do with education. It is all about power and control by the federal government. Control over the minds of our children.

The United States and our citizens were taken by all the lies and deception of the Affordable Care Act, where the federal government now has complete control over our healthcare. Common Core will now give the federal government complete control over what is taught in our schools and the minds of our children. This is very, very dangerous for our country.

Fight it! For our country and for your children....FIGHT IT!