Common Core Humorous Hypocrisy
Do you want a laugh to get your weekend started? Take a look at this tweet:
I was holding my sides laughing as I replied:
@NOLAnews Hilarious! Irony at its finest! CCSS adoption/implementation worst overreach ever! Bypassed voters/legislatures. #stopcommoncore
Can you believe these groups actually believe what they have signed on to? Do they know that the CCSSI violates three Federal statutes? From Louisiana business groups call Bobby Jindal’s plans to scrap Common Core an ‘executive overreach’:
In a letter to Jindal Friday (June 13), 44 business leaders and groups contended the governor’s plan to scrap Common Core and PARCC would be an executive overreach, since the Legislature and the state school board have backed both.
“Certainly, every governor has been invested with some degree of executive authority, but it should only be used as state law clearly states, ‘to see that the laws are faithfully executed.’ It was not created to make end runs to void the policies of established constitutional bodies,” states the letter signed by many of the most powerful business groups in the state.
Among those signing the letter were Baton Rouge Area Chamber, Greater New Orleans, Inc., Louisiana Association of Business and Industry and Chamber Southwest Louisiana.
Oh this is just too rich. Louisiana businesses representing the chamber and special interests are all of a sudden worried and concerned about “executive overreach”. They have Common Core Humorous Hypocrisy | Missouri Education Watchdog: