Tuesday, November 25, 2014

JEB!'s solution to Common Core: bash teacher's unions!

The Bushes have always taken the deflection route in politics. Wimp factor a problem? Show your opponent riding in a tank, and not enjoying it, and then imply he deliberately unleashes dusky rapists on the public. Now comes the latest iteration of a tired old Bush playbook staple. Everyone knows the Crown Prince has a "Common Core" problem with the far right, and he needs gullible far right votes in order to buy the White House for himself and the crony class. Solution? Forget Common Core teabaggers, JEB! will break those godless unions for you!

As pitiful as it might seem to anyone else, this appears to be the route JEB! will take to try and deflect disdain for his educational cronyism.  Instead of god-hating teachers unions sucking down your tax dollars, let god-loving JEB! and his brother Neil, and all his business buddies do it instead. 

While Common Core standards may be a good thing in the right hands, JEB!'s motive with Common Core is profit at parents and children's expense. He does need to break unions, because they are the only organized force standing in his way to an educational kleptocracy. He's already personally invested in privatization of schools, so he stands to profit greatly, as do his friends and business associates. Undercut the system, destabilize it, then give it to private companies and consultants to make millions---and unleash cartel corporatist and cronyism forces on the public school system nationally. JEB!'s version of Common Core will enrich brother Neil's company Ignite! Learning, and other for-profit contractors that support JEB! and his family politically. 

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