Secretary of Education Arne Duncan dismissed growing protests over the federal government’s Common Core curriculum, attributing pushback against the curriculum to disgruntled “white suburban moms” whose children aren’t “as brilliant as they thought they were.”

Duncan, formerly CEO of the Chicago Public School system, knows plenty about underperforming students because he’s been responsible for so many of them during his career. For example, according to a 2012 report, only one out of five eighth graders in the Chicago public-school system can read at grade level.

But I guess, according to Arne Duncan, if you aren’t a “white suburban mom” you probably won’t be concerned about a statistic like that.

I wonder: Does Secretary Duncan care more about concerns of “black urban moms”? Or does he dismiss the opinions of all parents equally, regardless of skin color?