Hey White Suburban Soccer Moms: Quit Yer Complaining!

Duncan tries to quell uproar over Common Core comments

Education Secretary Arne Duncan tried Monday to quell the outrage sparked by his comments that injected race and class into the debate about theCommon Core academic standards taking root in classrooms across the country.
Duncan said Friday that he was fascinated by the fact that some opposition to the standards was coming from “white suburban moms” who fear that “their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were.”
The remark lit up social-media sites, prompting pointed responses from bloggers, an open letter from a school superintendent, digital images of Duncan’s official federal portrait with the word “bigot” emblazoned across it, and one congressman’s call for Duncan’s firing.
Duncan, whose office declined interview requests Monday, posted astatement late in the day on his agency’s Web site.

“It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were, and that’s pretty scary,” Duncan said, according to media reports. “You’ve bet your house and where you live and everything on ‘My child’s going to be prepared.’ That can be a punch in the gut.”

While I'm generally opposed to centrally managing education for a nation of > 300,000,000 people, it's good to see that we have such well thought out leadership :-|

Why are you dragging up news from 1.5 years ago? Is there some new development, or are you just trying to stir the pot?

It's good to know that there's a PARCC even my dog isn't excited about.

"By Lyndsey Layton November 18, 2013"

Not exactally hot off the presses.

meganlibrarian said:
Why are you dragging up news from 1.5 years ago? Is there some new development, or are you just trying to stir the pot?

No Reason. I just like doing things like that.