Dear Conservative,

Our children are each unique and precious gifts. They deserve the absolute best, especially when it comes to their education.

For the longest time, local communities have been able to develop their own school curriculum based on the individual needs of the students. This made sense because school curriculum in a farming community would naturally have to be different than urban schools’ lesson plans.

Yet, over time, the Federal government (specifically the Department of Education) has attempted to standardize the educational materials used across the entire country. This transformation of education policy has been gradual, taking place over a number of years and different Presidential administrations.

However, under President Barack Obama, the push for a national and standardized “common core” has accelerated more than ever before!

Obama’s common core policies only serve to hurt our children, and they must be stopped before it is too late! Our children’s education belongs in the hands of our parents, local officials, and states, not some liberal bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.!

We cannot afford to have schools teach our children using a cookie-cutter educational approach designed by some liberal sitting high up in his or her ivory tower!

Fax Congress! Stop Obama’s Common Core from infecting our American education system!

Barack Hussein Obama has waged an all-out war on OUR right to choose the education best suited for OUR children.

Today, federal common core is at work in 45 states and the District of Columbia. Unfortunately, many states were coerced or blackmailed into adopting a standardized curriculum, often by the Obama administration threatening to withhold federal grant money if states refuse to comply.

The Obama administration has made the adoption of blanket education standards a prerequisite for receiving federal grants and waivers. Only in Obama’s America can a President bully and blackmail states into adopting a subpar education program and get away with it!

Luckily, Republicans in Congress are starting to take notice of this unjust overreach and have mobilized in opposition to the President’s heavy-handed education agenda.

A resolution was introduced yesterday by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) denouncing the President’s coercive common core agenda and moving to put an end to the standardization of American school curricula.

“This is simply not the way the Obama administration should be handling education police,” Graham said in a statement. “Our resolution affirms that education belongs in the hands of our parents, local officials and states.”

The “common core” is just another way that Washington, D.C. is trying to control all aspects of our lives. The Obama administration has moved on to trying to control the education and indoctrination of our children!

How can we just sit back and allow the liberal Obama administration to dictate what our children learn?

Fax Congress! Stop Obama’s Common Core from infecting our American education system!

The “common core” was designed to expand on the Progressive principles of uniformity and equity. Progressives want to treat every child equally, all the way up to what he or she is taught in school.

This is an absolute abomination! At some point, we have to put aside this ridiculous notion that all students are the same. They are not! Each student is unique and requires a personalized educational approach in order to reach their full potential!

Every individual student has a unique set of needs and personal experiences that determine how to best educate him or her. Curriculum design is the responsibility of the teachers and parents who know the student the best. Yet today, Obama’s liberal appointees in the Department of Education are force-feeding our children with one-size-fits-all educational materials.

Barack Hussein Obama and the Department of Education are so full of themselves that they actually believe that career bureaucrats know the best way to educate your children, without ever even meeting them!

Currently, 45 states (plus the District of Columbia) have adopted a common curriculum for Math and English. These standards were supposed to be developed by each individual state; however, the Obama administration has abused its authority by blackmailing states into adopting federal standards. The progressives’ next step is to implement a nation-wide social studies and civics curriculum to “teach” your children what it means to be an American, but more importantly, what it means to be a “Citizen of the World”

This isn’t a joke. Crack open your child’s history or social studies textbook and you will see that the indoctrination of our children has already begun…

Do you know what happens if Obama’s common core agenda is allowed to succeed? You’re going to see American school children being taught a Progressive curriculum glorifying Obama and his socialist policies!

Our children deserve better than this… Our children deserve more than just a cookie cutter approach to their education…

It is time to reclaim our right to choose what is best for our children! It is time to STOP the Obama administration from strong-arming states into complying with the President’s socialistic education agenda!

Fax Congress! Stop Obama’s Common Core from infecting our American education system!

Sincerely,

Joe Otto

Conservative Daily