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    Jeb Bush Still Loves Common Core, Blames Obama for 'Co-Opting' It

    The wrong Top. Men. are in charge of it, is all.

    He loves it because it is making the Bush family a fortune, the filthy fascists.

    http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/13/je...on-core-blames

    Jeb Bush has distinguished himself from other potential Republican presidential candidates by remaining steadfastly supportive of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. The former Florida governor likes the standards and thinks that if states have a problem with them, they should propose something even better.

    However, just like other supporters of Common Core on the right, Bush recognizes that federal involvement in the issue has given the standards a bad name (deservedly or not). In an interview with Education Next, Bush blamed the Obama administration for all the bad PR Common Core has received:

    States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative of the states.

    The opposition to the common core has been mostly fueled by President Obama and his administration attempting to take credit for and co-opt a state-led initiative.
    I don't know if "mostly" is a fair description. Many teachers now oppose Common Core because of its standardized testing requirements. But it's certainly true that federal involvement has fueled hostility toward the standards on the right. That's because the Obama administration issued waivers and grants to states in exchange for becoming Core-compliant, effectively ending their ability to decide this important education matter for themselves.

    But there is hope! A Republican-controlled Congress could pass an amendment to federal education law prohibiting the federal Department of Education from issuing such bribes to states. This would mean advocates and critics of Common Core could again argue over the actual standards, rather than concentrate on the Obama administration's creeping curriculum nationalization.

    It's a reform that both sides could—and have—agreed on.

    For more on this subject, read "How a Republican Congress Could Kill Common Core."
    Fat chance.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock



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    But there is hope! A Republican-controlled Congress could pass an amendment to federal education law prohibiting the federal Department of Education from issuing such bribes to states. This would mean advocates and critics of Common Core could again argue over the actual standards, rather than concentrate on the Obama administration's creeping curriculum nationalization.
    WOW!! We can switch from one reason for knock-down-drag-out hissy-fits between "top down" educrats to some other reason for knock-down-drag-out hissy-fits between "top down" educrats ...

    With hope like that, who needs despair?
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    Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)

    • "When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law."
      -- The Law (p. 54)
    • "Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
      -- Government (p. 99)
    • "[W]ar is always begun in the interest of the few, and at the expense of the many."
      -- Economic Sophisms - Second Series (p. 312)
    • "There are two principles that can never be reconciled - Liberty and Constraint."
      -- Harmonies of Political Economy - Book One (p. 447)

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    Tyranny isn't a bad thing in and of itself; it's just a matter of whether or not the right team has the ball.

    Except under tyranny, the right team never has the ball. Only liberty gives the ball to the right team.

    They keep trying to distract us from this simple fact...
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    We believe our lying eyes...

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    How is Jeb Bush even in the most remote consideration for the presidency? What kind of a bizzaro world is this? I almost can't believe it.

    Things like this really make me open my mind to conspiracy theories about how presidents are selected not elected.

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    The Bushes love campaigning on education....I remember Bush Sr. trying to dodge some questions by trying to change the topic to education when Walter Cronkite started pressing him about Iran Contra about 25 years ago.
    "He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
    "dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
    "You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
    "When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q

    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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    What a bunch of weirdos we have running this country (into the ground). There is not one thing that progs (red and blue) have touched in this country that hasn't gone to $#@!.



    h/t http://www.theburningplatform.com/20...ite-privilege/
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock



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