Wednesday, December 18, 2013
"Mississippi families need to know that their children's education is not going to be turned over to an outside authority, and I thank Gov. Bryant for this order."
—State Rep. John Moore, R-Brandon, supporting Gov. Phil Bryant's executive order affirming the federal government would not take over the function of educating Mississippi students.
Why it stinks: Gov. Bryant seems to be continuing a bizarre trend of going on record to say Mississippi would disobey federal laws it disagrees with. Last year, it was the idea that President Obama and the feds wanted to take Mississippians' guns. This time around, it's the implementation of Common Core state standards for math and English, which some 40 other states have already adopted.
But if Rep. Moore, who serves as a chairman of the House Education Committee, believes Mississippi parents are concerned that an outside force might usurp their kids' education, he's way off base. Based on lawmakers' refusal to fully fund the public-education funding formula to the tune of more than $1 billion and growing, Mississippi parents should be concerned about internal forces—namely, the Repbulican-led Legislature—more than outside authorities.
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Scott1962 10 years, 3 months ago
Phil Bryant is a slave to his own election campaign rhetoric and attempting to stay in office using the Kenneth Stokes method. That would be where they pretend to support the lower classes in order to prevent themselves from becoming part of it no matter how ridiculous. Stokes appeals to the most basic hate aimed at white citizens while Bryant goes after the rednecks and the uneducated Baptists. Any voter with any sense would realize that Bryant does not have the powers to end abortion, overturn federal gun laws, put prayer in schools etc. Surprisingly enough we find more times than not that they really are that stupid. It's an endless cycle that never ends. Politicians, both black and white, using buzz words in order to know that they will do all they can to stop the other race from rising up. You can't rise up when you're too busy keeping others down. Phil Bryant by the way is also a joke to the entire nation. He is yet another ineffective southern politician who just loves Jesus and small towns making self serving choices for he and his friends. The corruption of people like him, Jim Hood, and the original Teflon criminal Ed Peters is astounding.
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