Common Core-Free Day
Bringing Common Core State Standards out from the shadows and exposing its ills to busy parents and sidelined lawmakers has become my night and day concern to the point of a religious calling. I mean no disrespect it’s just that it is the second reason I get out of bed every morning. The first reason is my children. But Common Core State Standards has taken such a chunk out of my daily life that I have to verbally promise my daughters, “Today is a Common Core-free day” and then act on that promise. Last Thursday was a Common Core-free day. We hopped in the car and sang country songs for the two hour drive to a small desert town in Arizona, visited used book stores, and ate at a favorite diner. It was a good day and I kept my promise.
On Monday July 21, 2014 Truth in American Education published a guest post by Laurie Rogers,The Myth of the Helpless Parent, which shined a bright light on the government’s stealth maneuvering of parents out of the decision making in the educational arena of our own children.
In an opinion piece entitled All your Children Belong to Us, published earlier this month in a local Las Vegas paper, writer, Glenn Cook, covered bigger government and the continued and more frequent interference in our personal lives. Cook shared that Scotland is a blink away from every child being appointed a state sponsored guardian and isn’t it just a matter of time before our Nanny state here in America takes over parenting for us as well.
Not that I’m counting but these issues represent two more bricks in an ever growing big fat government wall that stands between us and our children.
Let’s recap, ever so briefly, why we’re told we need Common Core State Standards – The United States of America has been a huge failure for 238 years and Common Core is here now to save us Common Core-Free Day | Truth in American Education: