Well as regard to her comment of racists, i say Hate On!

I am happy for you. Way to go, waytodude.

I wish we had the luxury of homeschooling our little girl. I do have some advantage in that we live in a very rural setting with my work on the farm I'm able to be home when she gets home and De - program the liberal agenda that are being pushed. I'm having so much trouble trying to keep her ahead while the system keeps trying to hold her back because it don't fit the norm. Funny how special class for the kids behind but nothing for advanced students in a rural school then hear on the news about urban advance kid get get special classes because their skin is a different color and only one parent in a high risk neighborhood. Still I plug along glad I'm where I am in life.

So why can't evolution have been designed? No proof of it, of course;^)

Well said, waytodude. That's also why more and more families opt for homeschooling, and those kids that I've met are remarkable. The only drawback there is when the homeschooling is religiously motivated and promotes intelligent design and denies evolution.

This all reminds me of reading Plato the Republic where they talk about how parents are not equipped to raise and educate and the state should take the children at birth and put in a nursery to be raised by the state. Look how close we are to that now. The more I've read about Plato and Kant the more their philosophy scares the daylights out of me with the road we are on now.

Ah, dude, if only! How to "wake people up" when they have been habituated for generations to letting the bureaucracy dictate to them to stay out of the way, when they have no frame of reference of how to be a positive example. If only we could just snap our fingers and everyone would be instantly rational.

Evolution is a long, incremental process, and each individual's mental framework is built one idea at a time. How to beat back the dominant bad ideas that have hold of them now? How to prove that our propaganda is better than theirs? Even the best-intentioned parents don't have the "intellectual ammunition" with which to guide their children, let alone choose their politicians.

OMFG! The doors on both of our Prius cars auto-lock! Who would have thought THEY could be racist!!!!?

Spot on puzzle lady. The only thing that I could add would be if parents would wwakeup and became more involved and not expect the schools to educate their children but be the example to their child's learning process.

It doesn't matter to most blacks, but a few will Always say whites are racist! When will we get White Pride Day?

The important parts on defense of individual liberty and restricting central government power are in the Anti-federalist Papers. The Federalist papers are statist propaganda from the Hamilton banksters.

Right back at you, Thor!

well, they soak up $$ and slow the economy....... -- j

It's worse than that. In SJW newspeak, "racist" means you judge people by the content of their character. A "non-racist" regards being white as a "privilege," for which he owes something to every black person, all of whom are "victims" even though none of them have actually suffered discrimination in 50 years.

I sure wish MLK were still around. He would have declared victory long ago. Maybe that's why they killed him.

Because the Supreme Court has a bunch of New Dealers who haven't read the explanations of the Constitution in the Federalist Papers.

it is impossible not to love you PuzzleLady!

Here in southern Florida, most stores and offices (and phone messages) have both English and Spanish, and some even add Creole. Official documents have all three. Some places have dispensed with English altogether. This is the natural process of evolution. The government can mandate that schools must teach in English only, but it can't force people to actually speak only English.

Legislating that all children must master the same scholastic program is a last-ditch effort to homogenize the population and make the herd easier to control. What we're really seeing is a battle of memes.

The marvel is that kids already have a common core of knowledge and culture through the Internet and their music and entertainments. Just look at how values can be changed by making brainiacs heroes, like NUMB3RS and Big Bang Theory, where math and geeks are cool. It's kids who are the self-taught computer experts anymore. Kids can figure things out for themselves, like the Hole-in-the-Wall project, http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_sh... and many excellent on-line learning programs. It's the government's test authors who are the real racists.

It would be interesting to make a list of all the reasons the left has accused the right of racism. It should be a rather extensive list like the reasons for what causes global warming (see link below). It will likely turn out that any disagreement with the left has a racist component, at least according to them. Why do they do it? Because it works. Until we start ridiculing them every time they pull the race card, they will use it forever as history has shown.

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLE...

By George, you've got it!

So, i opted my kid out and my wife (and his mother) is of a different race, and I am a racist. Ok. And please don't tell me one party or the other is behind this outrage of Common Core and state testing. Both parties suck and must go. VENTURA/SANDERS 2016

Sad but true:-(

"Bipartisanship".

As a former Detroiter who returns there a lot and still has family there, I can tell you for sure that there are such things as "charter schools" in Michigan, which are organized by private organizations but are funded with public school funds. They don't get "everything", like buses, school lunches...but they get enough to compete, and they are quite successful. To the point of "racism", there are many of these school within Detroit itself (my sister teaches in one) started by black parents and organizations, and they are doing quite well in terms of drop-out rates, students going on to college, etc., in particular vs. the Detroit Public School system. And no, most people I've talked to associated with those schools, including my sister, staunchly oppose Common Core.