NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal implored newly elected Republican members of Congress to keep their promises to voters to turn back the Obama agenda, putting an emphasis on repealing Common Core not just Obamacare.
“The Democrats in Congress think we’re not smart enough to exercise our own free religious rights,” he said. “They think we’re not smart enough to own guns, and, if you live in New York City, they think you’re not smart enough to drink Big Gulp.”
It is the same with Obamacare and Common Core, he argued, in that Democratic legislators in Washington do not think the American people are smart enough to choose their own health care or the best educational options for their children.
“In Louisiana, we trust parents not bureaucrats, and we believe the dollars should follow the child instead of making the child follow the dollars,” he said. “Whether it’s public schools, or charter schools, or home schools, or parochial schools, or Christian schools or online school programs, we trust the parents, not the teachers’ union.”
He said the Common Core debate is really about teachers’ unions not believing parents "are smart enough to educate our own children,”
“The teachers union thinks that if the federal police in D.C. don’t force us to adopt Common Core – their standards, their curriculum, their tests – we’re not smart enough to educate our own children," he said.
“The Founding Fathers got it right,” he said. “They knew the purpose of a limited federal government was to secure but not create our God-given rights.”
Jindal stressed he opposes the standards set by the federal government in the Common Core curriculum, which were sold to the nation as being necessary to upgrade the educational levels of students nationwide.
“What I object to is the second half of the math test in Common Core where the students are forced to explain to the teachers not that their answers are mathematically correct but why they are correct,” he said, building to strong applause.
“You have to draw squares and rectangles, and it takes about six steps to explain your answers. So that’s why my 7-year-old responded to every single question that his answer was right, 'just because it is.'"
But, he warned, it will get worse.
“You think the math standards are bad, what will happen once the federal government starts setting the standards for how American history is taught to our kids?” he asked. “Under the Obama administration, the instruction would not be about American exceptionalism; it would be all about how the United States causes victimization.”
Jindal said the U.S.“must win the war against radical Islamic terrorism.”
He charged that President Obama has “disqualified himself, shown himself incapable of being our commander in chief” because of his reluctance to honestly acknowledge the U.S. faces a national security threat from radical Islamic terrorism.
“We don’t need a jobs war on international poverty, we need a military war on the evil that is radical Islamic terrorism,” he insisted. “It is up to Muslim leaders and clerics to condemn specifically by name these barbaric terrorists who kill in the name of religion.”
He concluded with a word for Obama.
“President Obama, I have a deal for you. I’ll keep an eye out for the medieval Christians and the Crusades. Why don’t you do your job and win the war against the radical Islamic terrorists?”
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