LA Politics Jindal and Common Core

Jindal is the Republican version of Osama. In regard to this, his overreach exceeds the bounds of his constitutional authority.





exceeding the bounds of his constitutional authority.

 

Maybe that's why he always won

 

No, that was in the script

 

Texas never signed on to the Common Core Curriculum but it uses the same confusing teaching principles in Math and English. I guess Texas likes in independently decide to do the same thing. We had a 3rd grade math for parents night last year. It is nothing more than the old 'New Math' repackaged. Perhaps in 4th grade the correct answer will be important too. I had to listen to the great Tom Lehrer to understand it fully.

 

It might be stupid and yet I imagine it is true to his beliefs about government and personal responsibility.

Vitter? It looks like he has no standards other than re-election. His comments "have drawn responses suggesting he either lacks knowledge about the issues surrounding it or has made a fast political calculation, perhaps due to the promise of funding for his campaign from big business champions of the Common Core.....the senator again described the standards as “very strong, significant, positive standards."

So now they are strong and positive but he recently wrote, "I am prepared to lead on these issues as Governor – to get our economy moving, hold the line on taxes, and protect our citizens from ObamaCare, the president’s insane environmental regulations, heavy-handed big government education policies like 'Common Core,' and all the rest".

Additionally, his statements seem to belie the thought that it is a state's only failure in implementation...."he made a statement during the C-SPAN interview that suggests a lack of awareness of the issues surrounding the Common Core, including increased federal control of states through Race to the Top funding and No Child Left Behind waivers, as well as control of curriculum through the textbook companies" So like I keep saying, the Feds are in this all the way and it is their standards that are making the entire program a cluster****.

Our school district went from one standard to another over a summer with little communication to parents. We still get almost nothing in terms of what, how, evaluating progress, etc. It isn't that difficult to un-do.

 

You just described all politicians

 

Agree. Now if only we could get you to see that when Osama does it.

Sounds like he took a page out of Osama's book.

 

Except the outliers who just state their opinion and leave it up to voters to decide if it's what they want. Jessie Ventura comes to mind.