WASHINGTON, D.C. – Some politicians are trumpeting the call to kill Common Core because many parents view the federal education standards as “a kind of metonym, for bungled government control of voters’ lives,” Bloomberg reports.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel spoke about the problems with Common Core in Washington, D.C. last week at the annual gathering of The American Principles Project, according to the news site.

Mandel talked about why he joined arms with disgruntled parents to oppose what he characterized as a “backdoor attempt at a one size fits all education policy.” He also talked about Tom Brinkman, an anti-Common Core activist who rolled over incumbent state Rep. Peter Stautberg by pointing out his reluctance to oppose the standards, according to Bloomberg.

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“Common Core is the number one issue,” Brinkman told Media Trackers in April.

Jindal, who is pursuing multiple lawsuits to block Common Core in Louisiana, told APP conference attendees “the idea that in the Common Core, we’d be allowing the federal government to be making education decisions, flies against the 10th Amendment,” Bloomberg reports.

He also talked about how Common Core could change the way students view the world.

“What happens when we stop teaching American exceptionalism to our students? What happens when American history they’re taught is not the one you and I were taught, but a history of grievances?” Jindal questioned.

Bloomberg pointed out that Common Core standards, which were incentivized by the federal government through President Obama’s Race to the Top initiative, have become increasingly unpopular with parents and educators over a wide variety of concerns – from student data collected and forwarded to the federal government, to massive costs associated with required technology upgrades, to a nonsensical approach to “critical thinking” in math, to concerns about left-leaning or sexually explicit “recommended” Common Core learning materials.

“Even in states like New York, where statewide elected Democrats survived the 2014 red tide, polling on ‘Common Core’ … has turned south,” according to the news site. “The term has become a kind of metonym, for bungled government control of voters’ lives.”

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Also at the conference was APP executive director for education Emmett McGroarty, who offered his take on how the Common Core issue could impact the presidential primary in 2016.

“If the anti-Common Core vote is split, the candidate who emerges from the primary will likely face Secretary of State Clinton, who has no Common Core baggage,” he said, according to Bloomberg.

“By then the movement will have grown so much that he will be unelectable.”

Jindal is regarded as a potential presidential candidate in 2016, and has been criticized for reversing his early support for Common Core. He wrote in a column for USA Today that Common Core was initiated by states as a means of raising the bar on education, but increasing federal involvement changed his mind, Heartland.org reports.

“I’m from the school that believes education is a matter best left for local control,” he wrote. “The notion of Washington determining curricula is something most states are simply not interested in. It’s a non-starter.”

Another potential Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, has meanwhile maintained his support for Common Core in the face of the growing opposition. It’s a stance that has earned him criticism from prominent conservative political commentators, particularly The Washington Post’s George Will.

“It is not about the content of the standards, which would be objectionable even if written by Aristotle and refined by Shakespeare. Rather, the point is that, unless stopped now, the federal government will not stop short of finding in Common Core a pretext for becoming a national school board,” Will opined in December.

“Bush says ‘standards are different than curriculum’ and: ‘I would be concerned if we had a national curriculum influenced by the federal government. My God, I’d break out in a rash.’ But standards will shape what is tested, and textbooks will be ‘aligned’ with the tests.”