Common Core For Louisiana Kids Is Rotten To The Core

Just when you think it is safe to once again trust the government of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal’s BESE & School Superintendent John White go and do something so mind numbingly arrogant, Narcissus would blush. The latest aristocratic insult is the force-fed adoption of what are called Common Core Standards. Common Core is a We are the World scheme dreamed up by the kleptocrats at the U.N. to “standardize testing” among schools because only a global standard for overpriced public education can keep the well-head of tax dollars flowing to the planet’s governments. For his part, White has intimated that anyone opposing Common Core is uncommonly stupid and un-American to boot. (1)

White seems to believe that taking local then state control of “education” requires the U.N. to sanction the “standards”, then have them adopted by the Federal Leviathan, then transmitted to White & the BESE board, then transmitted to the Parish school boards then transmitted to some teachers who then begin this mystical process by forcing kindergartners to sit motionless for 2 hours (2) while their “educator” lectures them on the merits of learning 2 + 2 = 4; because someday they will compete with their Finlandish counterparts for jobs at KFC.

Then there is the real hulking elephant in the room: is “public education” now just the bureaucrats way of saying “cradle to career continuum” (3)?  Education, in the classic & cultured sense of the word, is the enrichment of the human mind and spirit by acts of devotion, discipline and rigorous study. Jindal, as a Rhodes Scholar should know this. Though Jindal claims to “share teacher and parent concerns” (4), he must agree with White that Louisiana’s kids must “compete internationally” (5) though our aristocratic, bayou overlords never explain precisely why Louisiana kids benefit from comparing their test scores to kids in New Delhi, unless we hope to relocate customer service call centers to New Iberia.