I emailed the Governor!

I totally just emailed the governor of Utah. That is not the kind of thing I typically do. Ever. And I totally just did it. I guess I'm a little worked up about this Common Core thing.

I believe in education. And I believe in having high educational standards. And I REALLY feel strongly that, if the Federal Government takes control of public education, having and meeting high educational standards will not be possible. The Federal Government is too massive to meet the needs of individuals in different areas. Think about it, does anyone writing the core curriculum in Washington DC give two craps about what the educational needs of my specific three children in the small town of Springville, UT are? I don't think so. And how am I, the mother, supposed to communicate my children's needs to an entity so large, let alone come up with a plan to meet those individual needs?

In my opinion, having the state control the educational decisions and setting the standards is good, local control is better, and parents who have educational expectations setting standards for their own individual child in the home is best. Our country's educational crisis is not going to be solved by big government or any amount of money we can throw at it...if the crisis is going to be solved it will have to be from the bottom up, by parents, stepping up and starting to do the job they should have been doing all along...being actively involved in the education of their children. And whether that education be public, private, charted, or at home, parents CAN and SHOULD be an active participant with their children.

So that's what I think. And I totally emailed the governor. Ha! Look at me go.