Duncan Takes Heat Over Description Of Common Core Foes As ‘white Suburban Moms’

 

 

 

 

” Education Secretary Arne Duncan faced heated criticism Monday for reportedly dismissing foes of so-called Common Core standards as “white suburban moms” who are worried their schools or children don’t measure up to the new benchmarks. 

Duncan made the comments on Friday in Richmond, Va., discussing academic standards which have become highly controversial at the state level. 

“It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were, and that’s pretty scary,” Duncan said, according to an account from Politico. “You’ve bet your house and where you live and everything on, `My child’s going to be prepared.’ That can be a punch in the gut.” “

 

   Everything is about race with this “first post-racial” president .

   Divide and conquer is a political tool as old as organized society itself . Throughout history whenever a king , tyrant  or dictator faced unrest on the home front the usual response has been to deflect public criticism from himself by pitting diverse segments of the population against each other . That is the Obama method of governance and has played a major role in most things that he has done since January of 2009 .

 

 

 

 

 

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