Hi, this is Scott, a teacher from Roseville, California.

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And just a quick note that as a teacher, I can see firsthand that letting the testing

industry dictate national education policy by insisting on Common Core and then rushing

all districts into the online versions of their tests because they said standardized curriculum

and online tests are far cheaper to distributing grade is a great move for their profit margins.

And while those major publishers laugh their way to the bank, the prices of colleges and

student loans become ever more unaffordable.

It is one of the most confusing controversial issues in the entire nation and it's

circulating at the grassroots level, making its way onto the national stage.

It's the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for our kids and it sounds

benign enough, but to many on the right it is anything but.

Well Abraham Lincoln, a liberal, that's what one Common Core aligned math curriculum is

set to teach your kids.

I think it's one of the basic lies about Common Core that somehow it was state-led and voluntary.

It's insidious and we are not dealing with flesh and bone, we are not dealing with that.

We are dealing with evil.

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