ranger1 - I predict that, if you persist in seeking justification for your belief that resistance to CC mainly comes from extreme types who see CC as a "commie plot", you may eventually get evidence sufficient to your need. However, it will take a lot of time/effort and your proofs of that theory are likley to be unimpressive to people who understand the situation by virtue of their long and deep experience with the issues involved.
The school situation where you are involved very well may have a sensible and workable means to implement its ideas and achieve its goals within the scope of CC "requirements". If so, great. However, any educated person knows that you cannot extrapolate from that specific and isolated situation to the immense whole of CC issues.
Likewise, the whole of CC will never be justified or validated because some excellent school district somewhere provided great programs within its scope. The devil is in the details.
The idea that school ratings/funding sensibly and fairly can be based on some "standardized" testing array in a political unit (state?) is ludicrous to anyone who knows the actual (not hypothetical) educational territory. That entire mess is a political/bureacratic disingenuous and crude tool designed to deal with political issues - playing on ignorance and misguided perceptions. That is a desired political end - and CC is one means to it. Does the end justify the means?
There is no better example of the the need for effective public school education than the above.
You seem like an earnest individual - stay with it - you will get the drift.
