Ginni Thomas
The Daily Caller
4/14/2013
Will Estrada, the director of federal relations for the Home School Legal Defense Association, says classics are being abandoned in the standards of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
“We’ve started seeing what is in this Common Core curriculum, and it’s not good, Ginni,” the 29-year-old told The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas.
“I mean, you have the classics being abandoned for instead reading executive orders from President Obama. What is up with this? Why are we leaving ‘Grapes of Wrath’ and, you know, ’1984′ to instead read executive orders from the president.”
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Related: Children Belong to Parents, Not Government
…Well, if MSNBC’s latest offering is any indication, it appears the left feels that the need for subtlety has passed. Last week, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor at Tulane University, said in a network promotion spot: “We haven’t had a very collective notion of, ‘These are our children.’ … We have to break through our … private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it’s everybody’s responsibility and not just the household’s, then we start making better investments.”
So we go from telling the small-business man that “you didn’t build that” to telling parents that “they don’t belong to you!” It harks back to Marxism’s trumping of the family in favor of the state. It’s only a matter of time before we hear another MSNBC promotion message advocating the construction of collectives for children to be properly indoctrinated…
Update: On her Facebook page:
