Disecting Mike Huckabee’s Statement on the Common Core
Mike Huckabee during the monologue on his weekend show on Fox News addressed the topic of the Common Core State Standards and his position on it. I watched with interest and some hope as I heard from some of his supporters that he was coming around to our side. I left disappointed. Not to say everything he had to say was bad – there are some things within his statement with which those of fighting the Common Core can agree. What I was most disappointed by was the way in which he framed the debate. I think it further confuses the issue and does not help in advancing our attempt to root these standards out.
If I were to boil his statement down it would read: “I oppose what the Common Core has become, the Common Core as a brand is dead, but let’s keep the standards and the assessments.”
I wanted to provide an analysis of his statement below.
I don’t support what Common Core has become in many states or school districts. I am dead set against the Federal government creating a uniform curriculum for any subject. I oppose the collection of data on any student in order to identify them and then track them,