Education? Yes; Common Core Standards? No Way!

36 States and the DC have signed on for Common Core Standards,  They have been seduced by all that "Federal Money" (yours) some $4.35 billion dollars of Race to the Top money and Title 1 funding.

But let me point out a very important fact that is ignored at every turn by the present Whitehouse.  Nothing in the U.S. Constitution authorizes the Feds. to exercise any authority over education.  This limitation is enforced by a long standing federal law forbidding the feds "to mandate, direct, or control schools curriculum, program of instruction, or allocation of state or local resources."

One example of a Common Core approved History textbook, "The American Experience" published by Prentice-Hall: In the chapter on WWII in which 16 million Americans served, on two fronts for four years, the war seems to be just about the pictures of the rubble of Hiroshima.  Hardly an accurate account of  the "greatest generation" as they lived it...........and died.

Those arguing for Common Core Standards tell us that we are so different from European Schools with our decentralized system.  Well isn't that too bad?  We cherish our individualism and don't want to be made into an European-style socialism!

There are many other things about Common Core to dislike and I urge everyone to tune into what is happening to our schools under this administration.  Parents MUST stay on top of their kids education or find out too late that what you did not teach them someone else filled the gap, perhaps with garbage you do not approve of.