Wednesday 29 May 2013

THE M O N S T E R !!

Central planning does not work. Central planning has never worked. Central planning creates a nightmare in mismanagement. Central planning has created THE MONSTER!! in America's cities and schools. Every morning I look out my window at my street. I live on the upper west side of Helena, a very nice address. My street looks like a war zone. The pot holes can't even be patched to much effect anymore. We are on a 22 year turnaround now for street repair. My street is not unlike many others, it is symptomatic of what is happening to local governance.Local governance is servicing CENTRAL PLANNING and losing all sense of care taking for the management of their charge, be it schools or cities.

When you think about it there is so much that goes into planning just for your home and family. What will you have for dinner tonight? Did you go to the store? Did you shop the sales to get good deals and protect your family budget? How about the laundry- do you need clean sheets or have the towels been washed- do you have clean clothes for work and school tomorrow? Does your wardrobe need replacements? Have you weeded out old clothes? How about cleaning and maintaining your house? How about maintaining your yard? How about your vehicles-have they been serviced? Do you need gas?Have you paid your bills and managed your budget? The list goes on. Now think- what if Aunt Mildred moved in with her two kids and cousin Alfred took over the basement.More mouths to feed. More problems to solve. More needs to be met. Would you be able to manage it all? And then the kids bring home a stray dog and two stray cats. Hmmm- could you manage it all? Would you at some point have to say "I can't do all this!!". Probably. This is what is happening to your cities and schools.

In Helena our school district is under great stress- and the public- which was never brought into the decision of adding all these programs- is getting tired of the mess and confusion and cost. The public here just refused to pass the building levy- I think their message is "We can't do all this!!". There was an article in the local paper today that listed some of the programs that are being housed in distressed building arrangements- we now have our public schools responsible for making space for "Head Start", "Literacy Council", "Youth Connections", "Vista", "Safe School/Healthy Student grant","School aged child care" an Alternative High School and Montessori classrooms. Meanwhile we can no longer maintain our buildings out of our general fund, we have hired so much staff and raised salaries so much that we can't even operate our schools properly and we don't have money to operate new buildings. Students will have to be in larger class sizes so that the general fund can continue to service programs.

Meanwhile, we have boilers in our high school that are about to explode they are so old. INSTEAD OF REPLACING BOILERS OUT OF BUILDING RESERVE MONEY WE ARE BUILDING NEW TEMPORARY SPACE- $500,000 worth!! I envision our superintendent as the great juggler- he keeps smiling and jumping from one forum to the next assuring everyone he can do it all. NO HE CAN'T!!

We have a great historic school that one board member told me they are planning to raze to the ground. He wants to replace it because they are not in the business of "Historical Schools". O.K.- but what business are you in? Are you in the food business? The mental health business? The daycare business? The meet the needs of every non profit that comes in under a federal grant business?Maybe if you went back to the SCHOOL BUSINESS we could once again have sound buildings and teacher's that could teach school instead of giving up their classrooms to mental health and bully programs and food and every other darn thing than teaching their curriculum. Maybe space could be used for classrooms instead of offices for federal programs that need a home.Let's move cousin Alfred out of the basement and Aunt Mildred and her two kids out of our house and start managing our resources for what they were intended for- free basic education for children in K-12, then maybe the public would once again have faith in public schools.In other words- we need the FEDS OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS!! PACK UP YOUR PROGRAMS AND LEAVE HELENA ALONE!!

Tuesday 21 May 2013

GOLD MEDAL LIARS

I was raised as an AMERICAN. I'm not a fool and I know a liar when I see one. I just wish we could get this message to the political left- we are Americans and we don't truck with liars.

Somehow the political left has the idea that they can just manipulate and run over the American people. Any liar can get away with it for awhile- especially when they are working in secret. Heck, no one in this country knew the Common Core train was barreling down the track until they had blasted through our schools. That's what the GOLD MEDAL LIARS do- they sneak around until you find out- then they go to the obfuscation and manipulation tact- saying any ridiculous thing they think they can use.

The thing is, if you are an honest person with an honest agenda- you don't have to sneak around and you don't have to lie. There it is- these Common Core developers are playing the American people for fools. Does that make you mad? It should make you mad. It should also make you scared- look how far they have come OUTSIDE OF THE LAW, OUTSIDE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, AND OUTSIDE OF THE TRUTH. The Common Core dictators think, as the Obama Care dictators think, that once they've got their garbage in- YOU CAN'T STOP IT! But we've got news for them haven't we? There isn't anything under the sun that was started that can't be stopped, or put another way, everything ends eventually and Common Core will just end much sooner than they planned.

Let's talk about how they played like a mouse. The State Board of Education in Montana is REQUIRED BY LAW to hold public meetings- and these meetings are supposed to be publicly noticed- before they make a mandate that costs money. Heck, they aren't even supposed to mandate curriculums-our constitution says regulate K-12 education- not create it!! But back to the sneaky part- all the meetings these GOLD MEDAL LIARS held were meetings for teachers and administrators!! They don't consider the parents and taxpayers part of the public!! And public notice?? One lady from the Office of Public Instruction told us at a meeting in Big Sandy that we should have all just gone to the OPI website!! Well- the State School Board had the legal obligation- and the last I checked websites are not "public notice". They deliberately kept not only you and me out of the loop but all of our elected representatives ( except superintendent Juneau of course- she stated at a meeting at the Montana Club over two years ago - let it slip- that all our schools would be going to FEDERAL TESTS LIKE THE NAEP- NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS- but wait a minute- Common Core isn't Federal- but then again Denise- I guess it is- like I said-GOLD MEDAL LIARS.)

AND WHY DIDN'T THEY TAKE THEIR PROGRAM TO OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES IN THE LEGISLATURE? They didn't want it debated in the light of day. You may have found out about it!! The orchestrators of this grand design over our children did it this way in every state they could- just used State School Boards so they could get around the legal processes of every state-the legal processes that are controlled by state constitutions and laws and have representatives that are voted for by the people.Dictators find constitutions and legislatures so cumbersome- so restrictive- it stops them from just doing what they want.

I don't like to call people liars- but there comes a time. We are the American public and we ARE NOT STUPID!! Quit telling us these are standards- it's insulting to our intelligence. We know exactly what you're doing so give up the lie. Standards don't have tests. Standards don't have to train teachers for specific teaching strategies. Standards don't specify exactly what must be learned. Denise Juneau had the gall to say at a joint legislative hearing this session that "The old idea of teachers having control over their own classrooms is going by the wayside". Yep- teachers have to collaborate to make sure they are doing what they are told.

Another way to lie to a person is to OBFUSCATE. You see- you're just too stupid and you don't understand- just don't worry your pretty little head about it- we'll take care of everything because we know everything and you don't. We have control of the vocabulary too- so we can make up new words and you'll really feel like you don't know what's going on.TEACHING IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!! WE ALL KNOW HOW TO DO IT- EVEN US HICKS HERE IN MONTANA!!" Oh, but this is for the"21st century"- and so what do you know about the 21st century that no one else does? "But we're trying to make your children college and career ready." YOU THINK? What have schools been doing prior to the new Common Core if not making kids college and career ready?"Yes, but we have the secret on how to make kids higher level thinkers who can work on committees for the 21st century". Baloney- 1) you don't do higher level thinking until you know something and little kids need to learn A WHOLE LOT OF SOMETHING before they are going to be higher level thinkers- they also have to have brain maturity for higher cognition 2) you don't have to LEARN in committees to be able to participate on one !!!

Every American should be on alert about these GOLD MEDAL LIARS. Tell your friends and neighbors what is happening because- OUR UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION RESERVES CONTROL OVER EDUCATION FOR THE STATES!! These GOLD MEDAL LIARS are using bureaucracies to circumvent our CONSTITUTION- this is the road to tyranny.

Monday 13 May 2013

IS THE POLITICAL LEFT OUR GOD?

Many people on the left think that there is no God or that "God is dead". The truth is they think THEY are God. They know best what you should believe and how you should live your life.They know best what your CHILDREN should believe and how they should be raised!! Don't worry your pretty little head about it- they'll take care of everything. Just don't be one of those trouble makers- they will take care of everything because they know best and you should just shut up and follow. Their religion is to remake the world in their image- the new world order social democracy.

In following their religion they do not have to obey laws- they are above laws. The new Common Core was slammed in across the nation without having to worry about those pesky legislatures and all those pesky representatives that the inferior ones voted for. They just used the state boards of education to mandate it, and often those mandates didn't even follow the law! Laws are for us inferior beings that must be led to the light- not for these Gods who know what is best for EVERYONE.

But let's look at what kind of experts these wonderful Gods really are. The new push is suicide prevention. Who wants kids to commit suicide right? This is the perennial box they put people in - if you're not for my idea you want kids to commit suicide!! What elected representative wants to get tagged with that- so they give in. Who would want to be tagged with not caring about education or abused children or starving children etc.? To this date our elected representatives have given in to the point that this country is in seventeen TRILLION dollars of debt and has had its credit rating downgraded!!Even Randi Weingartner from the national teacher's union recognizes that we may be witnessing the distruction of public education in America, (glad you finally recognize this Randi).

But have these Gods created wonderful schools for our children? Have they eliminated hunger or poverty? Do you think they will prevent suicide? Reports are that as usual with these Gods- when the suicide programs come in the problem INCREASES. Suicide prevention classes in California have been reported to have depressed children and in at LEAST one case caused a child in a fragile state to commit suicide, and in one case to have caused a young child to experiment and to die as a result.And who are the experts they are hiring here in Helena to teach all the middle and high school teachers about suicide? At least one of the trainers, not very long ago, was our DRUG PREVENTION expert!! So- people jump around becoming experts wherever the Gods have placed the current money. And- after this training- will all our middle school and high school teachers be experts in suicide prevention? OF COURSE NOT- they will be fingering children as suicide risks when they don't know a thing about it- hmmm- sounds like lots of work for all those unqualified "mental health" counselors the schools are hiring.In other words- lots of work for social workers!! Meanwhile- the kids are out of class and are receiving care from people practicing without a license.

This country had a wonderful founding and is using every piece of ammunition our forefathers gave us in our constitution to fight these Gods who are nothing more than propagandized socialists with the usual vision of panacea that they will never create. The road these Gods have taken this country on has led us to disaster- culturally and fiscally. It's time to return to our founding and turn these Gods out- America will return to greatness when we return to our constitution and our founding principles of freedom. This can happen much easier than you think. In Montana we reduced the number of people who were registered users of pot by SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT just by enacting tougher laws and having the Feds arrest the perpetrators.We know what to do to stop these Gods- the question is- will we do it?? They will be turned out eventually- but how far down will they drag this country before they are turned out? Fight on America.

Friday 3 May 2013

DOWN WITH THE TRAITORS- LONG LIVE THE UNION

I just did the thing I should never do- I read a blog by a man named Don Pogreba. Don is against our American Constitution- but much worse- he is a school teacher!! I would hope he is not teaching his anti- Americanism to his students- but my guess is that he probably is.

Isn't it sad that we can't count on the teachers of our students to support and defend our Constitution? Don thinks our constitution had slavery written into it!! I wonder if he has ever even read the document. Our Constitution was written to defend the people from the government.Our wise founders knew that governments strive for power, that they are controlled by PEOPLE who have that natural urge to want to control, they divided up powers and gave us a vehicle for amendments to make changes where that became necessary. The 13th and 14th amendments add protections of rights because it became necessary- some PEOPLE in the country were not respecting the GOD GIVEN rights of all men.Don thinks rights are given from the GOVERNMENT!! He has a whole page for people to put in all the rights they want listed in the Constitution.

Our natural rights, as so eloquently written in the Declaration of Independence, are the right to LIFE,LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.The frame that holds those rights in place is our Constitution- as we ALLOW our government to move away from the restrictions in the constitution- we weaken the frame and risk losing our natural rights- our FREEDOM.

I was just sad after I read Don's blog. I used to think, a long time ago, that all American citizens believed in and loved their country as it was founded. This country is in a war today to save itself from people like Don who would destroy our constitution and put us at the mercy of a huge bureaucratic government.Most of these people have not seen what communism is, up close and personal, like I did. There was a lawyer, not long ago, that came up to a performer who was singing about the dictator Hugo Chavez, and asked her what was so bad about Hugo Chavez!! Kind of like wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt- the man was a MASS murderer!!

I've watched the attempt to compromise with Marxist's my whole life. I've learned one thing- there is no compromising with these people- you have to defeat them. Perhaps people like Don will never understand that government can not be used to make things fair. If you use government force to take from one to give to another,the first person has lost their right to their private property. If you use government force to make one person associate with another, you have taken away the first person's right to associate with whom they choose.As governments try to control economies they fail. As governments try to meet all the needs of individuals they go broke and collapse. All of Europe and America are on this course. As these governments fail they become totalitarian dictatorships- they consolidate their power as they try to control the people so that they can KEEP THEIR POWER in the face of defeat. This is history- and those that will not learn from it are bound to repeat it.

The first compromise was public schools- it seemed like a good idea- and for a long time it worked- but then when the Marxist/Communist/Socialist types took over in the sixties they wanted to use the schools for revolution (Bill Ayers is on record as saying "the revolution starts in the schools"). NEVER up front, NEVER telling their TRUE intentions- they were able to get a federal department of education.THEN they gradually consolidated their control. Today they have COMMON CORE- snuck in using the bureaucracies they have created- bypassing the people (the legislatures!!).

Their lies are continuous- there's no point in getting frustrated. We are in a war and they are lying- we will stop them- end of story.Common Core does cost money- lots of it- 125 million already in New York. Common Core IS a curriculum- obviously telling teachers what to teach, how to teach, and making them teach to the tests- they better teach to the tests because their job evaluation will depend on how their students do on these tests!!

The American idea has made us the richest, most successful and most powerful country in the world.We have fought for our freedom before and for our nation. We won the Revolutionary War and we won the Civil War- we will win this war too. Just recognize that it IS a war and that the Marxist/Communist/ Socialists are liars. Ignore the lies and stop them at every turn.The American dream will not die on this battlefield.Fight Obama's attempts at consolidating Federal power in your schools, in your cities, in your states and in your healthcare.No compromises- look where compromising has gotten us- failing schools and 17 trillion dollars in debt.We must consolidate our plans-like what good schools and good teachers colleges really look like. We must stand up for the principles of private property and capitalism. We must know who we are - AND NEVER BACK DOWN. It's not a Republican thing it's an American thing. We must stop our colleges from being reeducation camps that turn our citizens away from the principles of freedom. I believe in America and I see wonderful people everyday organizing and working hard. Maybe Don will never understand and love the freedom and God given rights that we enjoy in this country- but America will survive and the Marxist/Socialist/ Communists will lose in their attempt to take over this country.