Conform Quotes

“We spend more per pupil than any other country, but among industrialized nations, American students rank near the bottom in science and math. Only 13 percent of high school seniors know what high school seniors should know about American history.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“Many attempts have been made in the years since to adopt educational vouchers. With minor exceptions, no one has succeeded in getting a voucher system adopted, thanks primarily to the political power of the school establishment, more recently reinforced by the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, together the strongest political lobbying body in the U.S.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“It is time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy. It’s a bureaucratic system where everyone’s role is spelled out in advance, and there are few incentives for innovation or productivity. It’s not a surprise when a school system doesn’t improve. It more resembles a communist economy than our own market economy.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“Local control worked well enough to make America’s education system the envy of the world at one time. We started losing that advantage when local school districts started losing their autonomy. As Greene puts it, “The policies, practices, and funding of schools has increasingly shifted to the state and national governments and greater uniformity has been imposed by unionization. The enemy of high standards and improving outcomes is centralization.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“As Americans were debating bailouts, individual mandates, and Michelle Obama’s finely toned arms, progressives knew they had a golden opportunity to sneak Common Core through the back door. And that’s just what they did. Remember what Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s first chief of staff, said: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Common Core was that political philosophy in action. The controllists’ plan was almost perfect. They knew they didn’t have to sell Common Core to lawmakers in individual state legislatures, where citizens would find out about it and demand it be stopped. Instead, they could just go to the individual state boards of education—entities that most Americans don’t even know exist—for permission. In Wisconsin, for example, all it took was one individual, the state superintendent of public instruction, to adopt the standards. It was a devious and brilliant plan, but that didn’t make it foolproof. It wasn’t a given that state school board members would agree to Common Core. Some might sense that it was a ploy to slowly nationalize their state’s education system. To counter that possibility, progressives wrote special funding for the Common Core “initiative” into President Obama’s nearly $800 billion stimulus plan via the “Race to the Top” program. This gave the administration the ability to bribe cash-starved states into adopting Common Core by making it a prerequisite for states to compete for seven-figure education grants. In addition, they delayed the testing component of the standards for several years, thereby giving state bureaucrats several years of zero accountability. Many of these bureaucrats no doubt knew they’d be retired or in a different position by the time the real pain came around.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“Critics of home-schooling hate the idea of home-schooling and the freedom from the government school monopoly that it represents. Their attacks on academic success are just a transparent attempt to divert attention from their own failings.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“In fact, our government has been all too eager to encourage the continued deterioration of the family structure by assuming more and more responsibilities that should be dealt with at home. That’s particularly true when it comes to government schools.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“A 2008 study conducted by Specialty Research Associates shows that the rates of teen sex, pregnancy, and venereal disease, along with crime, illiteracy, drug use, and suicide, started going through the roof almost immediately following the 1962 Supreme Court decision that ended teacher-led prayer in public schools.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“It must be frustrating for decent parents to watch their children fall under the influence of radical educators, and sometimes make foolish decisions based on the predominant cultures in their schools. But no one should be surprised it happens—far too many educators are moral relativists who reject the notion of absolute right or wrong.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“Of course, figuring out what actually works in reducing childhood obesity is not really the point of these programs. (If it were, then the government might finally stop categorizing french fries as “vegetables.”) The real point is the same thing it always is: conformity, control, and eventually fundamental transformation.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“Sure, you can raise your speed limit to 80, but we’ll just hold on to that highway grant money next year. The states almost always cave; they can’t afford not to.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“Imagine our kids begging and pleading, throwing tantrums to get you to buy more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Yes, this is possible. It is possible to create this world!” And that’s what all of this is really about: creating a world that meets the approval of the Obamas and other controllists.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“late 2011, the U.S. Department of Education made a historic change to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act to allow schools to release student records to third-party organizations without parental consent.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“progressives wrote the Common Core standards, used money from the 2009 stimulus bill to bribe states into adopting them, and are now “vetting” the tests that will eventually shape the curriculum used by school districts all across the United States.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“Oh no, no, a state that adopts Common Core must adopt in its totality the Common Core and can only add 15 percent.” It was then that I realized that this initiative, which had been constantly portrayed as state led and voluntary, was really about control.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“The Common Core State Standards Initiative, as it’s officially known, is the product of three private organizations, two of which have official-sounding names: the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The third private group is Achieve Inc., which boasts on its Web page that it helped take the idea of nationalized learning standards from “a radical proposal into a national agenda.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“Our Founders explicitly designed our system so that all powers not delegated to the federal government (education included) fell to the states or the people; they believed that parents, not government officials, have the moral right to decide what their children are taught.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“(Economist Robert Higgs wrote a book about this phenomenon titled Crisis and Leviathan, in which he argues that government intervention inevitably creates future problems, which results in the government’s intervening even more in an attempt to correct them.)”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“Lou Kitchenmaster, a retired teacher from Michigan, wrote an editorial in 2012 that puts the progressive position in perfect perspective: None of us would expect our major auto makers to build a high-quality product given damaged or defective materials; however, too many unfairly expect our public schools to accomplish such, regardless of the inherent condition of the “product” they receive. So he considers poor kids to be “damaged or defective materials”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“Union leaders essentially want the public to believe that all teachers are equal and deserve to be paid and treated that way—but that’s clearly not the case. Some teachers are much more effective than others in helping kids learn, yet school policies and pay scales do little to recognize or reward their efforts.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“The typical mentality among the leadership of “less work for more money” is far too prevalent. Outstanding efforts by individual employees are frowned upon, because they give “management” a reason to expect better results without an increase in compensation.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“In the Westerville, Ohio, school district, for example, a union contract provision stipulated that a coin flip would be used to determine seniority if two teachers were hired on the same day. One might be a great teacher, the other awful; it makes no difference. That is how much importance unions place on teacher quality.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“In 2012 the NEA spent $18.1 million on political contributions (95 percent of it going to Democratic candidates) and another $5.9 million on lobbying. Without these payments it’s very possible that politicians might finally stop pretending that ideas like tenure and seniority pay make sense for our kids.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“We allow poor teachers to hang around and plague our schools until they choose to retire. That”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“Roughly two-thirds of educators wholeheartedly reject the new Common Core standards, or have reservations about them,” and it would be just as accurate as the way the NEA wrote it.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

“The controllists sometimes get angry when critics suggest that “state led” is a bit of a fabrication.”
― Glenn Beck, Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education