ABC has an AP article up called Buyers Remorse on Common Core for Policymakers. “Buyers Remorse” On Common Core? Years after adoption and after a slew of slick presentations and truckload of education buzzwords, the reality of Common Core is coming home to roost — but only after citizens stood up and made noise. Our policymakers were all to comfortable to just nod and pat each other on the backs over Common Core. There is the lesson learned here: don’t take your eyes and ears off the powers that be.

Go read the ABC/AP article.
It repeats several of the Core supporter talking points like the one about the Core being voluntary yet doesn’t mention Obama’s Department of Education led by Arne Duncan going after Oklahoma to punish them for dumping Common Core.

No, the article is focusing on Ohio’s fight. Ohio — the land of President makers. I submit that the fight against the Common Core just took a Left turn into the 2016 race and it’s being steered that way by the ‘mainstream’ media.

Food for thought: What is happening to Oklahoma right now can happen to any state attempting an unblessed rewrite or rebrand.

For example, North Carolina is about to undertake a replacing of Common Core and the powers that be here in North Carolina think they can just keep what they want. Who cares that the standards are copyrighted, right? The CCSSO and NGA, who hold the copyright on Common Core, might just let them get away with it, but for how long? What if North Carolina wants to go in a totally different direction in the future? By meddling and not truly replacing, North Carolina is legally on the hook should those the CCSSO and NGA wish to enforce that copyright down the road.

By the way, I left a comment on the ABC/AP article (below). You should go leave one too.

“But states led the Common Core movement that really took off in 2009 and that effort was voluntary.”

Sure. If you consider adoption by stealth and the coercion of states by dangling millions of Race To The Top dollars tied to NCLB Waivers and ESEA implications “voluntary”. Is it still voluntary with Arne Duncan going after Oklahoma for pulling out?

The Core is copyrighted by two D.C. trade groups which are not accountable to voters and which leaves any state adopting it at their mercy. States like North Carolina who think they can re-write or pick and choose from common core as they wish are leaving themselves open for the CCSSO and NGA to assert their copyright rights. Just like Duncan is doing with Race To The Top in Oklahoma.

Common Core is a fundamentally flawed experiment.
It was created by educrats with no regards for the end user – the child. No where is this more clear than in the k-3 standards which are age and developmentally inappropriate.

The standards drive the tests and curriculum. The tests and curriculum are big money. Big money to be made with the push for more and more technology in the classroom too.

The list of problems with Common Core is long and made up of debunking much of what supporters claim is “good” about the standards. At the end of the day, what matters most is that no matter how you dice it, Common Core is the opening move to nationalize education and remove control from state and local entities.