Common Core Repeal Thwarted in West Virginia; Students Lose . . .
. . . Warning to Other States Especially Arkansas!
by Jim Mullen, Contributing Author: Once again, the education of West Virginia’s young people has fallen victim to political chicanery and collusion between some of the state’s representatives in Charleston and the educational hierarchy.
Despite a spirited effort by dedicated legislators to repeal the destructive Common Core federal standards in West Virginia, six Republican turncoats in the state Senate betrayed them.
Aptly dubbed "The Spineless Six" by writer Shane Vander Hart, these so-called conservatives abandoned their constituents, and fellow Republicans. Consequently, they cheated West Virginia’s children of a chance to escape the latest effort by the federal government to tighten its unconstitutional grip on our public schools.
Here are the six notorious leaders of this backroom conspiracy to protect Common Core and continue the destruction of West Virginia public education:
West Virginia voters should have short fuses and long memories when it comes to these six sad sacks, and likewise, for State Senator Robert Plymale (D-Wayne) who carried the water for Gayle Manchin and the rest of the bureaucrats responsible for the abysmal condition of West Virginia education.
Joe Manchin delivered this Common Core albatross to our state and hung it unceremoniously around the necks of our young people. Additionally, Gayle Manchin ran interference for Joe’s federal boondoggle from her position on the state board of education by launching malicious attacks against Common Core opponents. Her prevarication that West Virginia teachers wrote these standards was so blatant that she lost all credibility; if she ever had any.
These Republicans are members of a majority in the West Virginia Legislation for the first time in over eighty years. Subsequently, they acted like Democrats at the initial chance for positive change in the beleaguered, educational behemoth.
Voters expected something much different from this group when they cleaned the slate in the last election. If citizens wanted the same slimy backroom dealing and go-along-to-get-along shenanigans, they would have left Democrats in command.
The establishment bureaucrats in the bloated Department of Education and the WV Board of Education use the Alinsky tactics of ridiculing opponents of Common Core. The previous State Superintendent of Schools, Dr. James Phares traveled the state telling teachers and administrators; those Common Core opponents are idiots, and many other choice epithets.
The state, and indeed, the nation is abuzz with anti-Common Core activity. Some of the original people involved with this ruinous program are now traveling the country warning of the evils of this federal takeover of schools. The longer the roots grow, the harder it will be to replace and rid our schools of this leftwing monstrosity. Similarly, the more harm we do to our children. Even Dale Lee, of the West Virginia Education Association now says that, “Common Core is a mess.”
The entire state of West Virginia owes special thanks to Angie Summers and David Flynn for their tireless work in fighting this latest blight on education by the intelligentsia. Likewise, kudos go to State Senator Donna Boley for her dogged determination in educating the legislature about Common Core and pressing for its repeal in the legislature.
Please help rid the state of West Virginia of Common Core and check out their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WVAgainstCommonCoreStandards/ and join in the fight for our children and our schools.
We need to apply the old-fashioned approach to education, which recognized that qualified; dedicated teachers, attentive students, and supportive parents educate children. Tell the federal government to get out of our schools, and slash the bureaucratic wasteland in Charleston. Teachers spend so much time following government rules that they have little time to teach. Additionally, government is pushing a far left agenda and indoctrinating, not educating. One fact we must remember; accepting federal government money means accepting tyrannical federal rules. The federal government does few things well and nothing efficiently.
Is it any wonder that less than half of our young people can read or do math at grade level when we have these incompetent bureaucrats and double-dealing politicians in Charleston? If West Virginians crave real improvement in education, we must demand accountability, dump Common Core, and embrace common sense!
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Jim Mullen is a West Virginia conservative Republican activist writing articles at Freedom For US Now and a contributing author to the ARRA News Service
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by Jim Mullen, Contributing Author: Once again, the education of West Virginia’s young people has fallen victim to political chicanery and collusion between some of the state’s representatives in Charleston and the educational hierarchy.
Despite a spirited effort by dedicated legislators to repeal the destructive Common Core federal standards in West Virginia, six Republican turncoats in the state Senate betrayed them.
Aptly dubbed "The Spineless Six" by writer Shane Vander Hart, these so-called conservatives abandoned their constituents, and fellow Republicans. Consequently, they cheated West Virginia’s children of a chance to escape the latest effort by the federal government to tighten its unconstitutional grip on our public schools.
Here are the six notorious leaders of this backroom conspiracy to protect Common Core and continue the destruction of West Virginia public education:
- Senate President Bill Cole (R-Mercer)
- Senator Mitch Carmichael, Majority Leader (R-Jackson)
- Senator Mike Hall, Finance Chairman (R-Putnam)
- Senator Dave Sypolt, Education Chair (R-Preston)
- Senator Jeff Mullins, Finance Committee (R-Raleigh)
- Senator Greg Boso, Education Committee (R-Nicholas)
West Virginia voters should have short fuses and long memories when it comes to these six sad sacks, and likewise, for State Senator Robert Plymale (D-Wayne) who carried the water for Gayle Manchin and the rest of the bureaucrats responsible for the abysmal condition of West Virginia education.
Joe Manchin delivered this Common Core albatross to our state and hung it unceremoniously around the necks of our young people. Additionally, Gayle Manchin ran interference for Joe’s federal boondoggle from her position on the state board of education by launching malicious attacks against Common Core opponents. Her prevarication that West Virginia teachers wrote these standards was so blatant that she lost all credibility; if she ever had any.
These Republicans are members of a majority in the West Virginia Legislation for the first time in over eighty years. Subsequently, they acted like Democrats at the initial chance for positive change in the beleaguered, educational behemoth.
Voters expected something much different from this group when they cleaned the slate in the last election. If citizens wanted the same slimy backroom dealing and go-along-to-get-along shenanigans, they would have left Democrats in command.
The establishment bureaucrats in the bloated Department of Education and the WV Board of Education use the Alinsky tactics of ridiculing opponents of Common Core. The previous State Superintendent of Schools, Dr. James Phares traveled the state telling teachers and administrators; those Common Core opponents are idiots, and many other choice epithets.
The state, and indeed, the nation is abuzz with anti-Common Core activity. Some of the original people involved with this ruinous program are now traveling the country warning of the evils of this federal takeover of schools. The longer the roots grow, the harder it will be to replace and rid our schools of this leftwing monstrosity. Similarly, the more harm we do to our children. Even Dale Lee, of the West Virginia Education Association now says that, “Common Core is a mess.”
The entire state of West Virginia owes special thanks to Angie Summers and David Flynn for their tireless work in fighting this latest blight on education by the intelligentsia. Likewise, kudos go to State Senator Donna Boley for her dogged determination in educating the legislature about Common Core and pressing for its repeal in the legislature.
Please help rid the state of West Virginia of Common Core and check out their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WVAgainstCommonCoreStandards/ and join in the fight for our children and our schools.
We need to apply the old-fashioned approach to education, which recognized that qualified; dedicated teachers, attentive students, and supportive parents educate children. Tell the federal government to get out of our schools, and slash the bureaucratic wasteland in Charleston. Teachers spend so much time following government rules that they have little time to teach. Additionally, government is pushing a far left agenda and indoctrinating, not educating. One fact we must remember; accepting federal government money means accepting tyrannical federal rules. The federal government does few things well and nothing efficiently.
Is it any wonder that less than half of our young people can read or do math at grade level when we have these incompetent bureaucrats and double-dealing politicians in Charleston? If West Virginians crave real improvement in education, we must demand accountability, dump Common Core, and embrace common sense!
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Jim Mullen is a West Virginia conservative Republican activist writing articles at Freedom For US Now and a contributing author to the ARRA News Service
Tags: Jim Mullen, Freedom for US Now, Common Core, West Virginia twarted, students lose To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
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We have a lot of spineless RINOs in Kansas on the House Education Committee.
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