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U.S. Military Supporting Common Core? Look To Your Own Problems Before Blaming the U.S. School System

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Retired Lt. General Marvin Covault was quoted in a piece by Freedom Outpost as supporting common core. He and a number of other retired generals were recruited by a group called Mission: Readiness in North Carolina to speak out against legislation working its way through the legislature there that would pull the state out Common Core.  Given some of his on-line statements, Covault could be considered a country loving patriot who is opposed to big government and desires to bring jobs back to America. He says in the FO piece that that the federal government has, ““zero track record” of effectively running anything at a large scale. His goal is to bring production of PopUp Towels, a company he has partnered with, to North Carolina so they can put “Made In America” on the packaging.  Yet he still thinks Common Core is not only a good idea, but is absolutely necessary for the nation’s defense interests.

Covault did not get a lot of support from commenters on the FO piece. Perhaps that is because the general American public is not quite as easily duped as he thinks they are. In a piece he wrote inThe Pilot he talked about the current culture of blame. He sites that culture as the major reason congress and the US President have become disfuctional, because they are so busy passing the blame on to someone else that the real problems never get fixed.

Strange then that he plays the same blame game by blaming the public education system for the lack of qualified candidates for the U.S. Military.  He claimed that 20 percent of applicants are unable to pass the Army’s entrance exam and said, “I’m telling you, that’s not a very difficult exam.” If all students were asked to take the military’s standard entrance exam I guarantee you more than 20% would fail. That is the nature of the bell curve of performance. Without knowing the fullU.S. Military Supporting Common Core? Look To Your Own Problems Before Blaming the U.S. School System | Missouri Education Watchdog: