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!
