. . . Raising Up Compliant, Non-Thinking Citizens . . .

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Common Core: A Lesson Plan for Raising Up Compliant, Non-Thinking Citizens

Putting aside the profit-driven motives of the corporations and the power-driven motives of the government, there is also an inherent arrogance in the implementation of these Common Core standards that speaks to the government's view that parents essentially forfeit their rights when they send their children to a public school, and should have little to no say in what their kids are taught and how they are treated by school officials. This is evident in the transformation of the schools into quasi-prisons, complete with metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, and surveillance cameras. The result is a generation of young people browbeaten into believing that they have no true rights, while government authorities have total power and can violate constitutional rights whenever they see fit.
-John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute

Read on:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/john-w-whitehead/common-core-for-state-subservient-drones/

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And the process has been ongoing for decades... as evidenced by some, even here, who always seem to jump at the chance to defend and/or champion anything government undertakes.