Thanks to the amazing reporting skills of News 9, the Common Core controversy is in the news again. This time around, it has to do with signatures collected for an online (keyword: online) petition drive in support of the educational standards.
Via News 9:
More controversy for Common Core. Common Core is a set of rigorous educational standards the Oklahoma legislature adopted in 2010 and is now considering repealing.
Now, some names on a petition, from a group hoping to keep Common Core, were faked. The group, Stand for Children Oklahoma, presented a petition to legislators in early March with 7,000 signatures, but many people whose names are on the list said they didn't sign it.
Whoa! Really?!? You're telling me some of the names collected in an online petition may be fake? Get out! Before you know it, they're going to tell us that Biggus Diccus from Rome isn't a real person.
Cue the angry anti-Common Core parent whose name just happened to be on the petition: