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That America has become passively obedient to the national government can be seen throughout the
20th and the 21st Century in that Americans sit passively by or actively cheer when: Congress passes
laws violating the Constitution, Presidents exceed their limited authority by issuing orders not
supported by any law passed by Congress and the Supreme Court, when asked to interpose on behalf
of we the people, uphold these things through the most ridiculous, convoluted, humanistic and illogical
arguments a human mind can conjure. One only need compare the grievances listed in the Declaration
of Independence to similar modern occurrences to see contemporary American society does not have
the political will of its forefathers.
For America, that was founded on and has celebrated its diversity of ideas, extensive government
control and standardization of any kind seems counter intuitive. The framers of the Constitution were
careful to preserve the independence of the States by only delegating finite powers to the national
government. This allowed the citizens of each State to preserve their cultural diversity and pursue
their own happiness.
Now, control over students in what and how they learn has been institutionalized in America by Mann
via public schools. Mann, through his Common School system, was able to undo what so many sacrificed
in the War of Independence to acquire and the founders carefully guarded in both the Articles of
Confederation and the Constitution. This centralized control over public school students continues to
grow and its latest adaptation is the voluntarily imposed Common Core curriculum.
Strips parental oversight of what children should be taught
Common Core is rotten to the core, because no one can justify its expense by any potential gains in
scholastic improvement, it strips parental oversight of what children should be taught, and it is a
one-size-fits-all program that will not serve any child to their maximum potential.
First, according to the Pioneer Institute and the American Principles Project, which conducted a state
by state comprehensive cost analysis[1] of implementing Common Core, in Pennsylvania alone the extra
cost of implementation was estimated to be $645 million. As of January 2012, Pennsylvania was set to
receive only $40 million in Obama’s Race to the Top funds, which were contingent upon adoption of
Common Core standards, student Longitudinal data collection, and a teacher evaluation program.