For decades, America’s educational standards have been in decline, with each generation of leaders being less prepared and less educated than the ones before it. And the downhill spiral started when the federal government first started interfering.
Please sign the petition below and demand that our state legislators support legislation to end Common Core in West Virginia.
Whereas: Determination of educational testing standards and curricula has always rightly been a function of local school boards and parents; and
Whereas: The federal government has made many failed attempts over the years to control different aspects of public education with dismal results; and
Whereas: Common Core would establish a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach to educating children, which would remove any and all local control; and
Whereas: The various states were bribed into accepting Common Core, being promised federal grant money if they complied; and
Whereas: Common Core creates a new vehicle for gathering sensitive data on West Virginia students and their families, which will follow them throughout their school years and beyond.
Therefore: I demand that our local school boards immediately suspend all activities related to the development and implementation of the Common Core Standards Initiative; and
Therefore: I demand that our state legislators support legislation eliminating the implementation of the Common Core Standards Initiative in West Virginia.