Ladies & Gentlemen of the Arkansas State Legislature                March 22, 2012

Have any objections been raised by any of you to engage in a debate re: Common Core Education which cedes to the federal government all remaining vestiges of public education while creating an Egalitarian Society, and all is supported, praised, and directed by Gov. Mike Beebe…who is and has shown an affinity for Marxist-Communism?—$110 million Medicaid increase, $100 million schools, Obamacare, ad infinitum.

The state of Arkansas will become the administrative agent for a national curriculum devised and administered by faceless D.C. bureaucrats through the adoption of nationalized standards…and who picks up the expensive tab?

Educational bureaucracies, all failed, act as if they are the 4th branch of government, and in the main is nothing more than a featherbedding criminal cabal destroying the abilities of our young to function objectively and academically. To make the point, here is a quote from one of the many Fort Smith Assistant Superintendents, Barry Owen Assistant Superintendent of Instruction regarding Common Core Standards-comprehend if you can…”We aren’t teaching them to be reservoirs of knowledge anymore, we are teaching them to put things back out there and to change things”.

A hands-off approach to K-12 educational policy is an abandonment of the Legislature’s Constitutional duty to keep the agencies of state government accountable to the people.

It does not appear that you understand the failures of public education. It is a squalid state of affairs with the teaching community mum on the federal government takeover, making them accomplices to the crimes against our children.

Common Core Standards is a criminal project being foisted on our citizens, most particularly our children, and you ladies & gentlemen of the State Senate and House of Representatives are shirking (for whatever the reason) your constitutional obligations of protecting our children and taxpayers.  It is obvious you are allowing our bully-boy governor to hold forth without a modicum of resistance.

NEVER FORGET, FUNDING FOLLOWS FAILURE.

Joe McCutchen

P.S.  Texas, So. Carolina, Oklahoma, Georgia, etc. are in the process of removing themselves from this hideously expensive and destructive program.