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Sunday, November 17, 2013

White suburban dads: Wimps? | Reclaim Reform

White suburban dads: Wimps? | Reclaim Reform:

White suburban dads: Wimps?

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan blatantly declared to a meeting of school superintendetas that it was “fascinating” that so many opposed to the expensive high stakes testing of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were “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.”
Read the Washington Post article HERE.
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Needless to say, later that day all Hell broke loose.
“Hell hath no fury like a woman protecting her young.” – Billy Shakespearski III
Moms are supposed to protect their children – even white suburban moms. That is what moms do. Doesn’t Duncan know the divide and conquer strategy doesn’t work against moms? (Race, geographical location, perceived economic status, and anything else inferred by Duncan.) Mommies protect their children from injustice, unfairness, bullies and all those who serve the Corporate Education Industrial Complex. White collar child abuse is still child abuse as far as ALL mommies are concerned.
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