‘Village idiot’? Hillary Clinton calls education the 'most important non-family enterprise in the raising' of kids

Greg P. | 12:16 PM on April 16, 2015

It looks like Hillary Clinton has updated her infamous “it takes a village to raise a child” line for 2016, and somehow makes it sound worse.

Now it’s education is the “most important non-family enterprise in the raising of the next generation”:

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/588727674216062977

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/588731509076582403

https://twitter.com/kspetzman/status/588734387056848900

@seanmdav they're all our (government's) children

— Matthew Dempster (@dempstermd) April 16, 2015

Scary. Plus she heaped praise on Common Core and standardized testing:

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/588728808867500032

Hillary calls kids’ education a ‘non-family enterprise’ — praises Common Core http://t.co/rqEf4Um2jF #StopCommonCore #sisterpatriots

— Bossy Brat (@JGalt09) April 16, 2015

#rsrh So, Hillary Clinton is in favor of #CommonCore. …Of course she is. https://t.co/scp7AEHXTK

— Moe Lane (@Ogiel23) (@moelane) April 16, 2015

Transcript via The Federalist:

And a lot of states, unfortunately, haven’t had that. They do not understand the value of a core in the sense, a Common Core, yes, of course, you can figure out the best way in your community to try to reach — but your question is a larger one. How do we end up at a point where we are so negative about the most important non-family enterprise in the raising of the next generation which is how our kids are educated?