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Top 20 Reasons Clancy Dubois Thinks I’m an “educational knuckle dragger” | Crazy Crawfish's Blog

Top 20 Reasons Clancy Dubois Thinks I’m an “educational knuckle dragger” | Crazy Crawfish's Blog:

Top 20 Reasons Clancy Dubois Thinks I’m an “educational knuckle dragger”

Posted on September 26, 2013

For those of you other Knuckle Draggers out there, here is the amazingly patronizing and ignorant rant by Clancy Dubois, which inspired this post.
“Now, Gov. Bobby Jindal and some lawmakers are sheepishly retreating from that bold step, because a vocal minority of educational knuckle-draggers is making noise about a federal takeover of local education” Clancy Dubois
  1. I believe that just because 46 states were bribed into accepting a set of “Standards” with many millions of dollars in incentives before they had ever seen them, this is not a reason to adopt them. I also do not jump off of bridges just because everyone else does. This makes me a knuckle dragger.
  2. I think elementary and secondary educators; child psychologists and developmental specialists; (not Governors, private companies hoping to reap large profits off them and liberal and conservative think-tanks) should have been involved in drafting and approving the standards. This