U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) has followed the lead of liberal U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (RINO-S.C.) in sponsoring a non-binding congressional resolution condemning Common Core.
Duncan’s says his resolution stems from “concerns I hear from parents when I’m traveling across (South Carolina’s third congressional) district.”
“Parents and teachers alike are alarmed by this top-down approach to education that wrongly ties education money for states to the adoption of academic standards that do not fully reflect the values of South Carolina,” Duncan said. “Beyond the most important constitutional issues with federal education standards, many education leaders have been raising concerns with the content of the standards themselves.”
“Common Core” is an ostensibly a “voluntary” and “state-driven” process of setting new academic benchmarks for America’s school children. In reality, though, it is a massive federal overreach – one foisted on states under the guise of competing for federal education dollars.
So what’s the point of a non-binding resolution? Well … other than Duncan tapping into GOP activist angst, obviously.
“Congress can’t pass a law banning states from taking up voluntary standards,” Duncan’s spokesman Allen Klump explained. “We want to get involved in encouraging states not to adopt these standards – while eliminating the federal coercion that strong arms them into adopting them.”
According to Klump, Duncan is also working with lawmakers in Washington to zero out funding for U.S. Department of Education programs that are contingent on states adopting Common Core.
State leaders have also been adamant in their opposition to Common Core.
“New Common Core educational standards are being implemented in South Carolina and in 44 other states this year,” S.C. Sen. Larry Grooms wrote recently. “Under the Common Core Initiative we abdicated our state’s responsibility to our children by giving unelected Washington bureaucrats the right to decide what is taught in our schools. A progressive liberal worldview permeates the Common Core standards which will now be used to indoctrinate our kids. We must stop the Common Core and restore educational responsibility to the states.”
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Good job…It is IMPERATIVE we STOP Common Core. It’s the people vs the corrupt government education industry, trying to take our children…
Common Core is the Obamacare of education. FAILED-ON-ARRIVAL!!!…
If the Liberal-Tarians want to save any face, after they caved on the debt-ceiling, they BETTER get behind the fight against Common Core…
A fine example of why we need Common Core. Thanks, GT.
Why, because you’re a F*#kin Dumb@$$, too vapid to express your reasoning…and you think Common Core will cure your abject ignorance…????
He means that unless we educate children to live in the 21st Century they will end up as ignorant fucktards like you, you miserable shit-eating piece of white trash.
And the only way to do that is w/ Common Core????…
The national education industry (like Common Core) are the people who F*@ked the education system up to this point, you ignorant B@$*ard.
You have had education for 30 years or more…All you’ve done is spend more money and young people are so stupid they vote for that American-Hating piece of $#!* named Obama, who is F*#King up the country, like YOU have F*#ked up education….
You always KNOW better, yet it just gets worse and worse, and you are So F*#king Stupid you think people are going to let you keep screwing it up….
One thing you prove, is that the only way to fix this country…is Slap the P!$$ out of punch-drunk idiots like you. You fail, then point to yourself as the solution, over and over…
What in the name of WTF are you talking about? 30 years of what??? Please give us ignorant folks a clue and cite some of this shit you can’t seem to reference. Thanks.
Dick Riley…D!*k head…
Dick Riley’s still governor? Wow!!
He also left The U.S. Department of Education in 2001…hmmm…served eight years…so what happened during Bush’s reign?? That’s right, crazy happened: Spellings!
You asked about 30 years…you ignorant piece of leftwing $#!t
Stopping Common Core and keeping the feds from influencing our education process is fine and all, but I really don’t see anyone trustworthy or capable enough in this state to actually make changes to our education process that will dig our state out of the bottom-of-the-barrel status we’ve been stuck in for years.
If states want to adopt Common Core, fine. If states that perform well refuse, fine, but really, something needs to spur states that refuse and that have terrible performance to actually try some kind of alternative to improve things.
I’m just saying that it looks really dumb for Jeff Duncan to stand there telling the feds that our state knows best when we are essentially in last place and aren’t doing anything about it ourselves. Maybe if we said “Hey, we have a plan, let us implement it,” we would have something to fight with.
Until the democrat pockets of the state stop F*#king like rabbits, and producing children they don’t care about giving an education…blaming the SYSTEM is indictment of you….not the legislators…
Hillary told yall it takes a village. But when the village is “Gettin’ Busy” with girls as soon as they are Blank-able..and the churches in certain communities care about a welfare check, and nothing else., except getting busy, too..When the politicians ride just as dirty as Bill Clinton, you’ll have ignorance and democrat failure, generation after generation…
YOU are the BLAME…and until you get off your @$$ and tell your constituents that your sin is visited upon your children, nothing changes…of course you humpity-dumpity jockeys will stay fat and happy…as your stupidity-based drones just get poorer, and more ignorant…
gettin’ Busy…ride just as dirty…
You mean black people?
Bill Clinton is white, Dumb@$$…
Why then are you using black slang?
“I was not Gettin’ Busy with that woman” would have sounded a lot better than “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
It’s American English, you Racist @$$hole. And I’m an American…
Stop them before they get wise to us!
Keep SC uneducated and ignorant and they will continue to vote for Duncan. To their detriment.
Stupid is underrated. It worked for the church in the dark ages… it’ll work again, if only given a chance! All this modern stuff hasn’t done a thing for South Carolina, except put a bunch of people with strong backs and weak minds out of work!
We don’t need computers, we don’t need maryjewwanna, we don’t need pornogra… well, anyway… we don’t need liberals tellin’ us how to live.
You are truly the master of hyperbole, as such, I will from now on refer to you as such. Being lazy, I will shorten it to “MOH”, and being respectful, make it “Mr. Moh”.
I’d prefer “The General”.. but failing that, you can just refer to me as god.
Ignorance got Oblamo elected twice. Don’t knock it SCBlueWoman, it seems to be helping to spread the cancer you call progress.
What values would those be, Duncan? Having one of the most corrupt state governments in the country? Leading the country in women killed by their husbands/ live-ins, etc.?
Evidently, women and children are still property in SC.
“Why should some towns and cities and states have no standards or low
standards and others have extremely high standards when the children
belong to all of us”- Paul Reville, Common Core supporter and believer that children are communal property.
You’re right. Fuck the kids, they don’t belong to us.. they’re on their fucking *own*.. and if, well, *if* our state beats out Mississippi for the most stupid.. well, we’ll just be proud of the little bugger’s patriotic sacrifice and elect them as tea party representatives.
“You’re right. Fuck the kids, they don’t belong to us.”
I have the audacity to suggest they belong to their parents. I’m sorry that is upsetting to you.
So they *are* property – my bad.
Isn’t that what Mr. Reville said? You do agree with the concept Common Core, do you not?
Now I’m confused.. are children property, or not?
How am I supposed to know what Republicans believe if they won’t say?
I’m sorry you are confused. It would appear most on the both sides of the Democrat and Republican paradigm view kids as property.
The question appears to be, “Who owns them?”. I hope I’ve been helpful to you.
I’m sorry you are confused. It would appear most on the both sides of the Democrat and Republican paradigm view kids as property.
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ok, so SCBlueWoman was right… er… left.
If you really want to see something great happen in ed. give the parents a voucher for all the money they would get from the govt. school. Let the money follow the child. Not the other way around. Competition and free enterprise would turn SC ed. around in five years.
voucher! Voucher! VOUCHER!
(homeschool)
They do not get any money from a public school. They are offered an education. They are free to take it or leave it. But money is what they want from the taxpayers. That way we can pay for their private school and mom does not have to get a job and help pay the bills, or dad can keep his club membership, they can go on their family vacations, drive their expensive cars; while the rest of us foot the bill.
Sounds like doubling down on welfare to me.
All that would be doubling down if it were true. How about the single mom working two jobs to put food on the table as she watches her child struggle in a failing govt. school ? How about the parents working day and night to provide for their children who can’t get out of a bad school ? Competition would not solve all the problems but would certainly help. As it is now the govt. school gets a check per child to do with as they see fit. It might not fit the child but with no choice we are looking at failure. As noted by the 60% drop out rate for govt. schools. All I have ever said is give the parents a real choice. It is easy to sit and say they can go to whatever school but in reality without a voucher it isn’t happening. So the kid is stuck in a failing govt. school and turns into another ward of the state whether through crime or welfare. It could be prevented by a voucher.
There are no Republican plans that would help any of the people you describe. All the voucher and tax credit plans would hurt those people. They would be left behind in underfunded schools, while the children of the most affluent and most educated take their kids out of the public system and put them in Private schools that take government money plus charge more to keep the rift raft out. But I guess that is how the free market decides who gets educated.
I bought my wife and my tractor forty + years ago. I’ve gotten good service out of them both. It pays to have a wife with a sense of humor.
Because SC is the shining beacon of education in this country with its best-in-the-nation ranking, right?
Oh, wait.
Not to defend Common Core, but fuck, Duncan, it’s gonna take a helluva lot more than that buddy.
South Carolina knows that the government is why everyone is so stupid.. and they aren’t going to let one more child graduate with government influenced R’s… how many R’s? We don’t know, and we don’t fucking CARE!
“Going After”?????. Take cover, Duncan’s firing up…uh…nothing.
No need to do what getting paid to do – ‘go after’ anything with tenacity, competency, and committed course of action. Research, analyze, perform thoughtful trade off, and publish work. Like, put samples from CCcrap curricula teachers must use as so called ‘math’ next to real math (basic addition,multiplication fluency for instance, not tested under CC) and show failure.
Oops. Sorry, forgot you’re a politician salesman Duncan, not competent to do anything except garner emotional support based on nothing. Analysis beyond your capacity.
The Common Core debate should happen on two levels, political and educational. On the basis of the complexity of the debate alone I have no hope for the common man, which is about 90% of the population.
Aside from the propaganda about “voluntary” participation without regard of funding predicated on implementation of DC driven standards, the fact is and always remains that the central issue is one of control and who will get to have it, DC, States, or parents(and it will never be the latter).
I pledge allegiance to the dumb asses for which it stands…
Just more proof that Duncan, indeed, did play football at Clemson…….without a helmet.
Jeff Duncan was my Dummy. Not really. Duncan apparently was never issued a helmet or “game uniform”, as this clown who claims that he “played football at Clemson under Danny Ford” was only on the scout team for only a year. So forget the helmet. This guy not only does represent the people in the 3rd District, but is a BIG FIBBER.
Someone is not taking their meds.
I think it’s a matter of avoiding overdose…
“We must stop Common Core and restore education responsibility to the states.”
Indeed. And in the case SC that would be the much-admired and emulated “minimally adequate education.”
That would be “in the case of SC
Unless you are a minority or poor, then an even lesser education than afforded the whites or financially secure.
Now THAT comment IS racist.
Phffffffft! Oh, racist one.
What’s really amazing is that you think you just wrote a retort.
There goes SCBlueWoman with the race talk again.
The Pea Baggers know that the Home Schoolers and Mark of the Beast Baptist Schoolers will be thrown under the bus by Common Core. Those erstwhile teachers look at a Common Core lesson plan and are completely befuddled by the stuff they don’t know.
Wow – you haven’t looked very hard at the Common Core curriculum. Very few “home schoolers” make it up as they go. Most follow any of a number of quality curricula – ever wonder why it is that home schoolers destroy “mainline” educated children in spelling bees, science fairs and math Olympics?
“ever wonder why it is that home schoolers destroy “mainline” educated children in spelling bees, science fairs and math Olympics, show up with maxed out SATs and generally do so well in later life?”
That doesn’t fit with Easy’s world view, so the answer to your question is “No”, it doesn’t wonder…it just blathers on with stereotypes having no basis in reality.
Best wishes for sucess in your homeschooling supplies business.
Hah! I wish I had been that clever. All three of my boys are public schoolers my friend. My friends with “unsocialized home schooled children” are all doing quite well with the curricula they have and frankly writing two lesson plans a year for my college students is taxing enough…
Common Core is DC based. DC spends more money than maybe any district in the country…and has the WORST outcomes of maybe any district in America…
And we’re going to Hand over the education of our children to Washington DC…???
And Remember: Liberals (democrats) are the Same stupid MotherF*#kers who told us Obamacare would cost less and provide a better healthcare product…They support Common Core…
MotherF*#kers
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so, did you learn this in public school, or were you homeschooled by C#r!stian parents?
I take it he has removed Hillary’s footprint from his asscrack.
GrandTango USC • a month ago ?
Dey done Smoked dey degree at Clemson…
Hey, we beat Mississippi without the feds. We must be doing something right.
why are the terms voluntary and state-driven in quotes? common core is voluntary and state-driven. it was voted on and passed by the SC legislature. if you’re suggesting the feds can force SC to pass legislation and/or force us to accept federal money…..well you’re a fucking idiot. and we know thats not true.