Liberals And Conservatives Join Together To Fight Common Core

Much of the most recent backlash against Common Core is coming from conservatives, particularly parents who send their kids to Catholic schools or who home school their children.

Many of these parents have begun to learn that their children will be subjected to the Great Common Core experiment too - just like public school children.

Catholic schools that take money from the federal government must have their students take the Common Core-aligned state tests.

Homeschooled children may receive Common Core-aligned instruction because some of the companies that create and sell home school curricula are, you guessed it, aligning to the Common Core.

The reach of the Obamacore is far and wide indeed.

But that may be the seed for its own destruction.

So long as reformers aimed at urban districts, they pretty much could do whatever the hell they wanted in ed policy.

But now that they've taken their reforms to the suburbs, to rural America, to Catholic schools and to home schooled children, they are getting pushback from all angles.

I've been reading some of the conservative blogs and articles lately about Common Core.

I posted yesterday about a Maggie Gallagher piece in National Review on Indiana's halting of Common Core implementation in the state.

There's a lot more bubbling up around the country in states that were expected to meekly go along with the ALEC and Chamber of Commerce-endorsed Common Core.

Liberals and conservatives alike are joining together to fight the Core.

Common Core proponents tend to be an arrogant, delusional bunch (see here), so they may not realize just what a favor they have done for us all by promoting these standards for children everywhere and for aligning the SAT to the Core as well.

If they had kept the Core implementation to public schools, they might have had an easier time with their agenda.

But now that they've awoken Catholic school and home school parents to the dangers of the Federal Core, they are having a much more difficult time sliding these standards into place.

Indiana has halted implementation.

Other states may follow suit.

The Great Common Core experiment is at a crossroads.

And the Common Core proponents have their own arrogance and hubris to thank for that problem.

We'll see if they can overcome this.

They have a lot of money to burn (Gates put $150 million alone into the fight.)

Bloomberg, Broad, Walmart and other corporate proponents are funding it as well.

But now that they've got people on both the left and the right suspicious and/or outright hostile to the Federal Core, it's going to take all that money and more to complete their agenda.