About the only thing consistent within the Obama Administration has been its use of the race card to defend policy failures.

The most recent example comes from the US Secretary of Education and his explanation for the troubles facing Common Core.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan insisted that “white suburban moms” are to blame for the unrelenting opposition to Common Core standards.

Duncan’s remarks came in a speech he gave at a meeting of the Council of Chief State Schools Officers Organization in Richmond, Va. on Friday, reports The Washington Post.

“It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were, and that’s pretty scary,” Duncan proclaimed. “You’ve bet your house and where you live and everything on, ‘My child’s going to be prepared.’ That can be a punch in the gut.”

This fall, for the first time, 45 states and the District of Columbia began implementing the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which attempts to standardize various K-12 curricula around the country.

Criticism of the Common Core has risen sharply. Opposition has brought together conservatives who are opposed to centralized, one-size-fits-all public education and leftists who deplore ever-more standardized testing.

Many teachers and school administrators hate it because, they say, implementation has been rushed and teachers have had no input concerning the material to be taught.

Some parents are not allowing their children to take Core-aligned standardized tests.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, has argued that the Common Core rollout has been worse than the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.