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After studying Common Core I realized that it is a last ditch effort to make public schools start teaching instead of dumbing down students. All Common Core does is set standards. We need standards. Much opposition comes from Hispanics who have been getting an easy ride through K-12 by choosing the option of bilingual education. A student that takes a full course of bilingual education is not only programmed to be functionally illiterate in English at the finish, but most likely to have an accent that will make him/her seem to be a foreigner for their entire lives.
Joel Garreau, senior fellow on the Council of Foreign Relations (a think tank dedicated to a global, no-border, one-world, government) stated recently on C Span that ten years from now (2025), they will no longer teach reading and writing in public schools, and he talked about it as if it were a triumph. Socially engineered illiteracy will fulfill the implied prophecies of George Orwell's classic novel, "1984." If you have read it, you will remember that the first chapter describes a society that relies on audio-visual indoctrination of the public and mandatory attendance to these sessions. It is not education, it is pure propaganda where the citizens are taught what is politically correect, what is politically incorrect, who our international enemies are, who our friends are, etc. Does that sound familiar?
When our founding fathers established our Government, literacy in Europe was still a privilege of the upper, mostly noble, class. We established out government on the premise that a literate, educated society is necessary for freedom to prevail. The only way we can have a literate society is to set standards and enforce them. Up to the 1960s there were no substitutes for standard performance. If you did not pass a grade, you stayed there until you did, or until you gave up and dropped out. That is the way it should still be.
Social promotions and declining standards have made a mockery of our public educationl system. Demagogues that want an illiterate sub-class are attacking Common Core; they want a class dependent upon social welfare programs to create a facade of "equality" from cradle to grave. Egalitarianism did not work in the USSR's 70-year experiment, and it will not work in this country. A government cannot legislate equality, except at birth. After that, it is a competitive society and if you are not properly prepared, you should be prepared to take a back seat to leaders who excel not only in academics, but in leadership.
Socially accepted mediocrity is taking its toll on our society. That is the reason we see elected mayors of large cities that say things like "For those that want to destroy, we will give them space to do that." It is time to reverse the trend and see to it that only the educated, the intelligent and the properly prepared citizens assume leadership roles in our society. If the present trend continues, we cannot continue as a free democracy.
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