McQueen is an outspoken critic of Common Core State Standards and penned the book The Cult of the Common Core: Obama's Final Solution for Your Child'es Mind nd Our Country's Exceptionalism. Goldwater attorneys claim Arizona officials mistreated McQueen when he was employed as a teacher within that state and that the poor treatment stemmed from his views:
In February 2014, Brad McQueen, a Tucson elementary public school teacher, courageously spoke out against the new Common Core standards that are being implemented in Arizona. McQueen, an insider to the new Common Core standards, had participated in numerous Common Core committees. Over time, McQueen grew skeptical about Common Core and began expressing his concerns publicly.
Courtney Van Cott and Kurt Altman, McQueen's primary legal representatives in the suit, also claim "an increasingly militant ideology has developed around Common Core. The retaliation against McQueen illustrates efforts to silence dissent,"
Unhappy members of the Arizona Department of Education swiftly retaliated against McQueen by removing him from all teacher committees, even those not related to the new Common Core standards. They disparaged McQueen inside the Department along the way.
As a result, McQueen lost a source of supplemental income and other teachers have witnessed the consequences of speaking out against the Common Core. This Goldwater Institute lawsuit seeks to end the retaliation against McQueen and to ensure that teachers’ free-speech rights are protected.
Or at least an effort to define the term "f*cktard." Seriously. Read * here * to get more details on the case, how and why McQueen might have met oppressive opposition, and just how deeply-rooted a corporate-political entity Common Core is in American public education.
Good luck to the plaintiffs, and why do I get the feeling this is among the first of many lawsuits to be filed somehow connected to the Common Core State Standards?
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