Another day, another attempt to politicize Common Core from someone c0mplaining people are politicizing Common Core….

Facts, not fiction, on Common Core –  By Fannie Flanno Charlotte Observer

I was on the edge of my seat, waiting and hoping for a Candy Crowley moment in the first TV debate Tuesday of the front-running Republican candidates for Kay Hagan’s U.S. Senate seat. In the 2012 presidential debates, CNN journalist Crowley, who was the moderator, corrected erroneous information that was being stated as fact.

Alas, no moment of clarity came from the moderator at Davidson College as all four of the GOP candidates perpetuated the falsehood that the Common Core standards program is a federal initiative taking away control of education from the states. Not true, not true, not true. Did I say not true? It’s not true.

But based on that demonstrably untrue premise, conservative critics are in full force attack mode. Some are now calling it Obamacore to conjure up the Affordable Care Act’s alternate moniker of Obamacare, and to more deeply foster the ruse that the idea and implementation is out of an Obama administration “federal takeover” playbook.

GOP N.C. Sen. Jerry Tillman spouted the same nonsense Thursday as a state legislative panel recommended that the state ditch Common Core for its own education standards.

I’m not quoting any more of it — Flanno is a Core Believer. Her attempt to smear opposition to it and politicize it in this article is beyond disgusting. I was seriously waiting for her to call Common Core Opposition racists. Facts not Fiction is a hilariously hypocritical title since Flanno really is the one spinning the fiction.  Her diatribe is utterly useless in furthering debate. Perhaps that’s the point… because, Shut up!

At the end of my column yesterday I asked a question:

Bottom line,  North Carolina is choosing to lead, not fall in line with the herd and Replace Common Core To Meet NC’s Needs.  What needs to be questioned here are those trying to stop that and why.

This question applies to Ms. Flanno now too.

Anyway, I left a comment. I hope she reads it and reads the Common Core Committee’s report. Then I hope she takes the time to watch the two-thirds of the 60 people who testified at the Committee’s hearing list very valid complaints about Common Core. Our defense of our children and schools is not political, it’s imperative.

Here’s my comment:

Dear Ms. Flanno,
I’ve watched a few of your opinion pieces in the last few months. You seem to be unable to write a Common Core commentary that uses actual facts, while decrying your target for not using facts. It’s been a slew of pro-Core talking points. You’re hypocrisy and shameful politicizing of this topic has been absolutely astounding.

Your tie in between Obamacare and Common Core is just that, YOUR tie in.
The moms on the front lines have been calling out the litany of flaws in the standards, the roll out, the high stakes testing, horrifying curriculum examples, data collection and federal dollar coercion that is the reality of this failed experiment called Common Core. We’ve been doing this for years now, you’re 30,000 foot politicizing drive-by look at it is positively insulting.

There have been over 6 months worth of meetings, hearings, testimony and presentations on Common Core to the Legislative Research Committee. Perhaps you should take a few minutes and go check out their findings report and read the actual proposed bill.

 http://www.ncleg.net/documentsites/committees/BCCI-6614/LRC%20Committee%20on%20Common%20Core%20State%20Standards%20Report-2014.pdf

I think the readers might want to step back from Ms. Flanno’s rush to judgement here.

LadyLiberty1885 – A.P. Dillon