Comments about ‘Letters: Coercive Common Core’

When anyone reads this and then must decide how valid it may or may not be, there is one very important thing to note.

Those two small words: Heartland Institute

At least this author was honest enough to disclose that she is pushing an extreme agenda.

"When the federal government taxes a state's citizens but will not provide a state with those tax dollars unless it does what the federal government wants, the justices said, that action is unconstitutionally coercive."

-Updated building codes based on “Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy".
-Federal matching funds for Medicare.
-Seat belt Laws: Highway funding
-Student drug testing: Federal law enforcement funds
-.08% Blood alcohol limit: Federal law enforcement and highway funding. Most states had a more reasonable 1.0%.

These are a few of the many programs that the federal government requires compliance. If this is the key point to your argument you might want to find one that actually works.

Also, your web site describes you as: “The world’s most prominent think tank promoting skepticism about man-made climate change.” Your research is based on a foregone conclusion. This means it's worthless.

The fact that most teachers support the Core Curriculum says something. The fact that staunch conservatives and anti-government yayhoos are the only ones critical of it, says another.

So why would we listen to these folks? If you were experiencing chest pain, would you go and see a lawyer for medical attention? If you had legal concerns, would you go visit a doctor?

So why is anyone giving these Core Curriculum critics any time?

Lets rely on the experts, those who are in the trenches, and ignore the annoying static (who haven't been in a classroom in years) that has no idea what it is talking about.

Typo correction: The previous BA limit was .1% not 1.0%. 1% is way past lethal...

The Real Maverick:

Don't you know that these "yahoos" teach Sunday School and therefore they are true experts in the field of education. Don't you know how hard it is to teach Sunday School to 5-7 12 year-olds. Come on, let's give these "yahoos" credit where credit is due.

You should trust the Heartland Institute to speak the truth about education with exactly the same confidence that you trust tobacco manufacturers to speak the truth about smoking and coal companies to speak the truth about air pollution.

Why? Because shilling for tobacco and coal companies is a big part of what the Heartland Institute does.

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RE: One old man

When call conservatism extreme and try to mock the messenger you lose all credibility.

Your failure to address his arguments speak volumes.

Please explain why federal government will not tie federal money to this when they have tied dollars to everything else they have done.

Even worse is the extreme left here wanting to give complete power over local education to a few elitists, and even worse you want even more federal involvement in education, even though they have made it worse since they've gotten involved

Common Core = i.e., teaching the same standards nation wide.

You know,
So 3rd graders in Iuka Mississippi learn the same things as 3rd graders in Spokane Washintgton.

So when Mommy and Daddy switch jobs and move from State to State,
Billy and Suzy's education is not used as a political battering ram for paranoid Anti-government Right-Wing Extremeists who believe that all Evil in the world exists because of the Government - which is Controlled by the very Devil himself.

So if I give myself a title and give my opinion as a fact does it then become a fact?

The only excuse for not adopting the Common Core is too put in place a higher, more difficult regimen. What about the declining results of USA school kids vs. those of anywhere else in the developed world isn't a giant red flag of serious danger ahead in competing in a global economy?