Saturday 29 December 2012

PEOPLE WHO ARE WRONG

I had a wonderful Christmas party this holiday season, and as these parties do, it gave me a chance to talk with many informed and delightful friends. As I was talking to one friend about the Common Core push for the usual free school teaching strategies from the sixties "collaboration, projects and open concept", he nodded his head and said yes, "learning to get along with people that are wrong". YES!! THAT'S IT EXACTLY!! These irascible buffoons who are still convinced that they are arbiters of the future, are intent on using our schools to teach children to accept their ideas- their ideas that are totally wrong.

People that are wrong can do a lot of damage. Consider, seventeen trillion dollars in federal debt and a downgraded credit rating. How are we going to get out of this one? What will happen when the real fiscal cliff comes- when we can no longer service the debt and we can't print any more money because our inflation rate makes us Argentina? Consider the state of our society- unwed pregnancies,murdering innocent babies, drugs, dependency- people standing on street corners.When the crash comes, Consider that all the vast wealth of America may be gone and the standard of living of every American lowered drastically- perhaps a healthcare system like Europe where you get on waiting lists and many services are not available to the average person. This is real damage that has been done by these people who are wrong. These egotistical people who are going to TEACH US. These egotistical people who for some reason think they have a corner on what the future will be. Well, maybe not. Maybe they really don't know the future any more than anyone else and they just want to try to control you by convincing YOU that THEY are smarter than you.

Maybe the same people that have destroyed the country want to control the future.Kind of like the Clinton's Goals 2000 program for our schools. What a fiasco that was. It had the same strident claims as Common Core(our new national curriculum), all the students would be college and career ready, drop out rates would go down, children would be higher level critical thinkers. Oh yah, that really happened. Funny, they used the same teaching strategies as Common Core too- remember the teacher would be the "guide by the side", "cooperative learning"? There you have it, collaboration, open concept, project learning. It's no wonder Common Core is the same failed garbage from Goals 2000 that never worked- guess who wrote it? You're right- Michael Coehn, assistant secretary of education under Bill Clinton wrote it. He is the president of Achieve which wrote Common Core. Why do our legislators keep supporting the same failed junk? Why do they keep pouring the money we have so little of, down this rat hole?Why won't they get politics out of our schools by letting teachers, school districts and curriculum companies decide how best to teach our children? Why do they think the GOVERNMENT has to be involved in this?When Republicans go along with PEOPLE WHO ARE WRONG they ultimately are held accountable for all the failure and the PEOPLE WHO ARE WRONG think of another program with the same tired practices to try to do the same failed ideas.WAKE UP AMERICA.

I hate to listen to people who are wrong but sometimes you just have to aggravate yourself. I wandered into this den of thieves by picking up a TIME magazine (I was amazed at how light it was- more like a pamphlet than a magazine). It had an article by the lowest president on record, the one who admitted lying to the American Public, was impeached and disbarred and had an affair with a twenty-one year old intern, you know the one, the one who is a HERO, of all things, to the American left- Bill Clinton. He had an article about the "Five Ideas That Are Changing The World"- again, being from the left, he thinks he knows the future and he is implementing the change for us.Some parts really made my eyes pop!

Here's one for you-"We have to define the meaning of our lives as something other than our ability to control someone else's." !! And what does Bill Clinton think he and his friends have been up to? The people at the Gold Bar in Helena have to stand outside to smoke a cigarette!! He brags about getting "full calorie carbonated drinks" out of our schools. What's next- adults not being able to drink what they want like in New York? What do these PEOPLE WHO ARE WRONG such as Bill Clinton think control is if it's not forcing their ideas into our lives?

Pervert Bill went on to talk about a "global sustainability" conference he went to in Brazil ( these control maniacs want to control the world- sound familiar to you history buffs?).He described the room and it sounded for all the world like our "school planning" meetings in Helena "The delegates sat around small tables speaking to one another with great respect, believing if they could work together,they could find an answer." Oh yah- what version of the left's ideas do you want? It's worked well in the Obama administration foreign policy hasn't it? Well- what's a few nukes in Iran and North Korea, the Middle East going up in flames and a dead ambassador- otherwise he's doing great right?The point is - these little groups around tables- that's COLLABORATION- folks- that's what Common Core is about- it's about world dominance by PEOPLE THAT ARE WRONG- definitely not good education. Do you hear me legislators- The Common Core National Curriculum is not for good teaching practices and it is written by PEOPLE WHO ARE WRONG and also have not taught!!



Thursday 20 December 2012

C O N T R O L

Recently a wild leftist wrote a Your Turn in our newspaper here in Helena, the Independent Record. She was writing in response to a letter to the editor I wrote regarding all the psychotherapy going on in school by individuals who are not psychiatrists. I welcomed the Your Turn. I was very happy to see her admit to all the psychotherapy they were doing in school. I was happy to bring this subject to the light of day so that parents could hopefully become aware that their children were receiving psychotherapy in school without their permission and by unqualified individuals at that. But there was one thing that did bother me- besides the obvious obfuscation and lies that always go with these sorts of things from the rabid left- it was that she kept referring to me as Ms. Rush. I am not Ms. anything. I have been very proudly MRS. RUSH for more than forty years and before that I was very proudly MISS WORTH. Ms. is not a title.It is a made up reference borrowed from the business world which used it when they didn't know whether a woman was married or not.Does it bother you to let the liberal left make up new words and titles all the time and then expect the rest of us to follow like sheep? This is CONTROL. Every time I see those poor workers huddling outside because they want to smoke a cigarette I think of Bill Clinton saying he would make it so people could only smoke at the curb. Well there they are. Do you get tired of this kind of Control?

How much of school time is spent on academics and how much is spent on mind control? The answer to this is hard to say but one thing for sure is that it is becoming more mind control and less learning all the time. Our State Superintendent, Denise Juneau, who happens to be American Indian, has decreed that in the State of Montana Indian Education for all means teaching Indian Education IN EVERY SUBJECT!! Obviously this is mind control academics. I have been told by librarians that she or her people have been harassing the school libraries to take out books like Naya Nuki by Kenneth Tomasma and replace them with books by real American Indians she approves of. This is the real library purging that goes on and it's not the right that does it.This is CONTROL.

As mentioned on this blog before, chlldren are not put in groups to learn because it is best teaching practices. Best teaching practice is direct instruction and everyone in education knows it. The groups are for changing attitudes and supposedly teaching cooperation- the socialist village concept- we're all in this together. In other words, children should be SOCIALISTS when they grow up. They should feel responsible for others and not believe they are independent individuals who have a right to just take care of themselves (the old American idea that left charity to choice).Not only will they GET ALONG with others they will give up their independent thought and COLLABORATE ( which version of the liberals ideas do you want?). It is so inconvenient and frustrating to liberals to have people in their groups with INDEPENDENT THOUGHT. People who DON'T WANT ANY VERSION of leftist ideas. Believe me I've been there - "I'm just so uncooperative!!". These leftist ideologues are so egotistical as to think they REALLY KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR EVERYONE AND THEY ARE IN CHARGE OF CHANGING OUR SOCIETY sic.!!

We're all experiencing this constant liberal control from the assault on football to having to wear a seatbelt. We have to pay more for every service we get from heat to phones to healthcare to "pay for others" or to pay for "green energy" (what a corrupt fiasco green energy is- Solyndra is only the tip of the ice berg there !!).This vast government bureaucracy and media controlled by the socialist left is commanding the American people!!

In school under Common Core Twain is out and Executive Order 13423 for global warming is in (no matter that that the truth is that we haven't had any global warming for the last twelve years and they couldn't prove in a bucket that it has anything to do with hydro carbons from industry.) Another suggested text from these Common Core geniuses is a New Yorker essay on Obama's healthcare program. That's federal CONTROL of curriculum.I wish I could get the Republicans in the state of Montana to understand this.

Meanwhile these two bit counseling organizations that have taken over schools take no responsibility for classrooms but direct teachers on what they "must do" to handle students with various problems. The teacher is charged with controlling the classroom and actually preparing students for the constant testing- they get evaluated on this basis- meanwhile too often these pretenders to the throne are TELLING THE TEACHER WHAT TO DO AND GETTING ADMINISTRATIVE BACK UP!! Teachers are losing morale and giving up in many ways in public schools across the nation. I remember when one of these social workers told me I had to check a student's finger nails every day first thing in the morning as he came in and fill out a chart. I told her I wouldn't do it- I was responsible for 25 students who came in loaded for bear and I needed to be there for them- organizing and teaching not checking fingernails and filling out charts. I went on to class and of course the social worker who had no responsibility and lots of time went DIRECTLY INTO THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE !! That's how it goes at school these days.That's CONTROL folks.

From Bullying to Dare to School Nurses, interlopers are in the schools taking over classes and forcing social psycho babble down your children's throats-and if you don't agree with this? Why you just want to "ignore mental illness" or bullying or whatever- just ask MRS. Kathleen Shea who wrote the Your Turn.I suggested psychiatrists in clinical settings- but with the liberal left it is there way or the highway- conservative ideas just don't count!!That's CONTROL . If you don't agree with the socialist left you are ignorant and don't understand the 21st century!! That's CONTROL!! And now if they could just shut people like me up by getting control of the internet as the U.N. just advocated for in Dubai.

Monday 17 December 2012

LITERACY

What is literacy? Literacy is READING. Well, why are we calling READING literacy? Maybe it's because the liberal left does not want to take responsibility for all their FAILED TEACHING STRATEGIES that have FAILED TO TEACH CHILDREN TO READ!!

Under the new Common Core (which "The Federal Government had nothing to do with"- ho ho ho as Santa would say)"literacy" will be taught in EVERY SUBJECT!!Social studies teachers and Science teachers who always assigned reading and taught the basic subject now have to babysit the students through the reading of the material- apparently because the students they get in their classes can NO LONGER READ ON THEIR OWN!!

Under Common Core- which IS A FEDERAL PROGRAM DIRECT FROM THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION- teachers will be forced to use failed teaching techniques such as collaboration and project learning. They will also be forced to be in "Open Concept" teaching environments in many cases.There is ample evidence that this kind of teaching does not work- just consider that the new Common Core is having to require teachers of every subject to teach reading- kids can't read and don't know the reading vocabulary.

There was an article in the Wall Street Journal this week about open plan offices. As I read the article, I was amazed at how much it sounded like schools these days. People can't focus on their work so the article goes, because of CONSTANT INTERRUPTIONS IN THE OPEN CONCEPT ENVIRONMENT. If adults can't focus and concentrate in this environment how in the world are young CHILDREN supposed to be able to do this??

The truth is open concept environments and collaboration are not being instituted for good teaching practices and learning. They are being instituted by the one worlders who want a compliant populace that "gets along" and will be willing to be taxed to death to "help their neighbor". Their neighbor is the all powerful federal government that bestows goodies to stay in power.

Collaborative teaching is a form of psychological therapy that will supposedly create the perfect citizens for the New World Order. You just can't have "rugged individuals" that want to compete on their own- this just doesn't work under the U.N.'S plans for world government.Just stop all those questions, shut up the internet, and have "low information" voters who are willing to do what you want because everyone else is doing it.

The new Common Core Literacy was written by Achieve whose president is Mike Cohen. Mike left the Federal Department of Education and joined Achieve so he could look independent of the government- which was handing out federal grants to Achieve by the bucket loads.If it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, it's a rat alright.Mike realized our schools weren't teaching children to read. Instead of establishing best practices( he has no right to be establishing anything), he promoted very bad practices such as collaborative learning, project learning and open concept
classrooms, for political reasons as described above. His answer to all this bad teaching is to have children of all ages learn to read in every subject. This is literacy.

Wednesday 12 December 2012

BEING STRONG

Is there something wrong with being strong? If the immigrants that came to this country,like my grandparents, were not strong could they have succeeded? If the American Pioneers that conquered the west were not strong could they have conquered the land and built the farms and ranches that settled the west?Is there a doctorate student or a great inventor who was not strong- strong enough to keep going no matter what anyone else thought and no matter the hardship?

You'd probably agree with me that being weak is not such a great thing- and yet- what are we teaching our children in school? There was an article in our local newspaper yesterday about suicide prevention education. According to the article the sponsor of this program thinks that anyone who doesn't want to discuss suicide is a "cowboy" who thinks they can make it on their own.I don't think anyone should discuss suicide with a child of any age- if an individual is in such a mental state he/she should be receiving PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING WITH A DOCTOR.Meantime, there are so many testimonials of these programs CAUSING depression and suicidal thoughts where they were not there before- this is the POWER OF SUGGESTION (just think what the DARE program has done to drug usage). Is there something wrong with handling your own problems without government intervention?Is there something wrong with cowboys? We used to admire those straight talking , hardworking INDIVIDUALS who could TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.I still admire the cowboys and the pioneers and my grandparents- and all the hardworking INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS that built this country.

So what do we want the next generation to look like? Do we want them to be victims that can't do anything without a group?People who were raised in collaborative groups that couldn't possibly believe in their own ideas, initiative and LEADERSHIP?People who need a water bottle at their side at all times and look to the government to provide for their every need and to tell them what to think?People who get their security and self esteem by piggy backing on government control initiatives like getting rid of football because "someone might get hurt"? Government initiatives that always seek to regulate and control- initiatives to take away INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND CHOICE.

It's no surprise that the socialist left wants to get rid of football- after all football encompasses all the values that make America strong- competition and individual accomplishment that is rewarded on the basis of merit.Football doesn't need the government-oh my- we must get rid of that!The socialist left wants children raised to be compliant- easier for the government to control. Tell your children's teacher that your child doesn't need a free lunch or a water bottle at his/her side. You want them to work alone and think for themselves not depend on others for success. For one thing, very little learning goes on in those "collaborative" groups. You want a child who is independent and strong and can think for themselves.You want to raise a child that is independent of government thought and propaganda- a child that will lead America to freedom in the midst of all these control mongers and victims that bury their own initiative and talents.America is strong because of strong individuals not because of government. If government could make us strong all the communist regimes in the world would be whopping successes instead of WHOPPING FAILURES!!

Friday 7 December 2012

PROGRESS??

I was born in 1949- raised in the 50's and 60's. We didn't have people sitting on street corners begging in those days, Meth hadn't been thought of, people who got married generally stayed that way and unwed births were very low.Since the "progressives" have had their way with America we have not moved forward- we have been in major decline- right down to the 17 trillion dollars in debt that we can't pay. Our government has spent every penny of the social security fund they collected from the people- socialist promises gone awry. This is "progressivism". It is time to take the mantle of power away from these so called "progressives" who have moved our country into vast debt and social disarray.

Today 50% of white babies and a whopping 70% of Black babies are born out of wedlock."Sleeping together" without the benefit of marriage is the norm. God is being chased out of every public square and homosexuals want men in women's restrooms and locker rooms. Drugs are being legalized by petition and 49 million people are on food stamps- leading the parade of food share and free food at school people who think they never have enough dependent people. Programs that are redundant- but no one notices as they constantly advertise for more participants to grow their business- THIS IS PROGRESS??Moving America away from freedom and super power status- the hope of the world humbled and nearly destroyed- THIS IS PROGRESS?Public schools are having to close across the country because they are failing-THIS IS PROGRESS?

Today is December 7th, the day that went down in infamy. I wonder how all those boys who lost their lives on Omaha Beach would feel about all this "progress" America has made.America needs to change alright. America needs progress alright-but it's not from the communist left that we need leadership- they've done enough.The American people need to wake up and fight back- send these so called "progressives" packing and save America for real progress that will give our children freedom,prosperity security and a bright future. America can still fight back and it starts in our schools!!