Did you see the parents from Utah whose kids got their lunches taken away because their parents hadn't paid, on the news the other night? What did you think about that? Certainly the school could have had a better plan- like just having the kids call home and say they didn't have a lunch that day- not serving them and then taking it away!! But- how about the parents? Whose responsibility is it to feed their children? Is it your responsibility? Is it my responsibility? NO - the answer is it is the PARENTS RESPONSIBILITY TO FEED THEIR CHILDREN!! But these parents have been indoctrinated, though they don't realize it, to believe that they aren't REALLY entirely responsible for their own children. They were outraged at the school - and looking for sympathy from the viewing audience!! It never even occurred to them that they are LAZY AND IRRESPONSIBLE !! Well, gee- it would take some effort and planning to go to the store each week and purchase food for lunches and then to prepare lunches for the children EVERY DAY ! It's so much easier to just LET THE SCHOOL TAKE CARE OF IT ! But, because the parents have been INDOCTRINATED TO IRRESPONSIBLE LAZINESS - they don't even recognize what they are not doing, and instead hold others responsible for what they should be doing themselves. This is the ADDICTION OF MARXISM. Everyone is a victim who NEEDS TO BE DEPENDENT.
Well, what about afterschool daycare? It's so much easier to just have the school do it- you don't have to find a good provider and transport your children. What about healthcare? Gee, if the school will do it you don't even have to find a good doctor and get off of work to get the child to the appointments. What a deal!! Now the schools want to take children as young as three years old!! What a deal- you don't have to pay for daycare- the taxpayers will just take care of it!! Yeah- what a deal. There's no downside here is there??
Well, whatever the government gives the government controls. They will decide WHAT AND HOW MUCH YOUR CHILDREN WILL EAT. They will decide HOW YOUR THREE YEAR OLD WILL BE RAISED. They will decide WHAT HEALTHCARE YOUR CHILD WILL GET. They will take over parenting and decide WHAT YOUR CHILD'S VALUES WILL BE. They will decide WHAT ACTIVITIES ARE APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR CHILD AFTER SCHOOL. Eventually they will drive other providers out of business and you will do and pay whatever the government decides. The government can then take away anything they give as well- rendering you dependent on the government's every whim. Your control over your life and your children will be lost because of your ADDICTION to government.
Americans should not compromise with this indoctrination of dependency and sloth- they should stand up proud with their ideas of freedom from government overreach and oppression. They should stand for the proud independent Americans that would rather pay their own bills today instead of paying the bills of others forever. We can have a proud industrious America where people work and invest for their futures instead of driving the government into ever more debt and leaving it to their children. We can have an America where our children inherit prosperity and strength and their parents retirement accounts when they pass, instead of having to pay for tragic ponzi schemes that are putting our country in peril.
One of the churches here in town has an add that says believing in Christ is just like making a wish when you throw a coin into a wishing well!! THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST RIDICULOUS THINGS I HAVE EVER HEARD!! NO, church is not all about YOU and what your are wishing for!! Church is about CONSCIENCE and MORAL RESPONSIBILITY and LOVE OF CHRIST. It's about living for something more than what your daily desires are. It's about your soul- your salvation and redemption.
Life is hard and will never be a panacea. Life is struggle for all of us. It is so easy for the left to sell ambrosia- just come along with us and we will pay your bills. Don't worry about a conscience- YOU AREN'T RESPONSIBLE- YOU ARE A VICTIM!! It's way past time for America to shake off these Marxist charlatans and turn to our true selves who know what our responsibilities are. It's time to start rebuilding America with people who have pride, respect and integrity. It's time to take back our lives
and our children. Shake off the ADDICTION America- it's a slow boat to hell.
Sunday, 2 February 2014
Friday, 24 January 2014
Knowing Doing B EL I E V I N G !!
KNOWING, DOING ,B E L I E V I N G--does this sound like indoctrination to you?No one should be FORCED to BELIEVE anything.This all sounds like the Hitler youth camps to me- you better get on board and BELIEVE- no dissent accepted! Our Helena teachers are being forced to buy that they need to COLLABORATE to be a good teacher. Their students are not their students- they belong to the whole school ( unless of course there is failure- then it must be the TEACHER'S FAULT AND HE/SHE WILL NEED REMEDIATION BY HER PRINCIPAL AND THE COLLABORATION TEAM!!). I looked up the bio on these two "geniuses" that thought up all this garbage and was not surprised to learn that Robert Eaker is a professor of "educational leadership" in Tennessee and his partner in crime, Janet Keating, is a deputy superintendent of schools in Washington. I guess it's not a great secret that Doctorates in Education are a JOKE. Administrators in Education are, for the most part, especially these days, scared rabbits that are puppets for higher authority and do no thinking on their own at all. Case in point- our superintendent here in Helena who has a doctorate in education, parroted the old stand by "Kids just don't need to learn so much today because they can look it up!", at a recent board meeting. It took a member of the audience, namely me, to point out to him that just because you look something up doesn't mean you know it! I pointed out (as readers of my blog already know) that he couldn't read an article on astrophysics and understand it because he doesn't know astrophysics- voila- more information being available our students need more of a foundation of knowledge than ever!!Kent doesn't even need to do the KNOWING and DOING- he just B E L I E V E S WHATEVER the bureaucrats tell him!! He just looked at me sheepishly and we moved on.
I don't know exactly how Keating and Eaker got on this train to success-making them the divine arbiters of what all educators must B E L I E V E, probably a lot of kissing up to Washington bureaucrats- but it's not by a lot of hard data and research. It certainly can't be common sense that brings these two to their great pinnacle of greatness that allows them to dictate to school districts and teachers across the nation. Teachers are individuals, as we all are. They have their own ways of doing things as we all do. No two parents parent exactly the same way and no two teachers teach exactly the same way. The best teaching happens, as I think we all know, when teachers are allowed to teach in their own style. We all had great teachers- and they were independent- not cowed by a collaborative group. As far as students belonging to EVERYBODY - One person is responsible for the learning in that classroom and it is the teacher. Opening the teacher up to "collaboration" that she/he may or may not want, brings on the bossy types, the kiss up to the principal types, that are in everybody else's business- and in my experience- usually aren't doing all that well with their own business. Hey NEA (the teachers "association") start earning your dues- what ever happened to the old academic freedom you used to SCREAM about?
Teachers have ALWAYS collaborated on some level, as all workers do- they give each other ideas and share materials and consult on problems. BUT- FORCED COLLABORATION IS FALSE AND INVASIVE AND TIME CONSUMING. Teachers are EDUCATED AND TRAINED PROFESSIONALS- they don't need these money mongering nobody's from out of state putting them in a Hitler straight jacket of vapid teaching ideas. Some teachers do struggle, and it IS in the principal's job description to offer help, though most of them can't teach themselves. The union has a negotiated agreement that protects teachers in these circumstances ,"planned improvement plans"- but the last thing that's going to make a good teacher is every teacher getting in on the act- they should be working on their own classrooms.
In the end this sounds like a lot of make work and hype that will try to force teachers to do things they don't want or need to do ,and will not improve education- but will deter the good educator from getting his/ her work done. The students are the ones that suffer from this. Like Bill Spady (Outcomes based education of the 90's) Eaker and Keating will have their money and be far down the road when all of this is deemed a failure. What bothers me most is the B E L I E V I N G part- maybe we could get some liberals in a forced environment and train them to KNOW conservativism- they would practice DOING common sense and then they would be forced to
B E L I E V E in it!!
I don't know exactly how Keating and Eaker got on this train to success-making them the divine arbiters of what all educators must B E L I E V E, probably a lot of kissing up to Washington bureaucrats- but it's not by a lot of hard data and research. It certainly can't be common sense that brings these two to their great pinnacle of greatness that allows them to dictate to school districts and teachers across the nation. Teachers are individuals, as we all are. They have their own ways of doing things as we all do. No two parents parent exactly the same way and no two teachers teach exactly the same way. The best teaching happens, as I think we all know, when teachers are allowed to teach in their own style. We all had great teachers- and they were independent- not cowed by a collaborative group. As far as students belonging to EVERYBODY - One person is responsible for the learning in that classroom and it is the teacher. Opening the teacher up to "collaboration" that she/he may or may not want, brings on the bossy types, the kiss up to the principal types, that are in everybody else's business- and in my experience- usually aren't doing all that well with their own business. Hey NEA (the teachers "association") start earning your dues- what ever happened to the old academic freedom you used to SCREAM about?
Teachers have ALWAYS collaborated on some level, as all workers do- they give each other ideas and share materials and consult on problems. BUT- FORCED COLLABORATION IS FALSE AND INVASIVE AND TIME CONSUMING. Teachers are EDUCATED AND TRAINED PROFESSIONALS- they don't need these money mongering nobody's from out of state putting them in a Hitler straight jacket of vapid teaching ideas. Some teachers do struggle, and it IS in the principal's job description to offer help, though most of them can't teach themselves. The union has a negotiated agreement that protects teachers in these circumstances ,"planned improvement plans"- but the last thing that's going to make a good teacher is every teacher getting in on the act- they should be working on their own classrooms.
In the end this sounds like a lot of make work and hype that will try to force teachers to do things they don't want or need to do ,and will not improve education- but will deter the good educator from getting his/ her work done. The students are the ones that suffer from this. Like Bill Spady (Outcomes based education of the 90's) Eaker and Keating will have their money and be far down the road when all of this is deemed a failure. What bothers me most is the B E L I E V I N G part- maybe we could get some liberals in a forced environment and train them to KNOW conservativism- they would practice DOING common sense and then they would be forced to
B E L I E V E in it!!
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
DOWN RIGHT DANGEROUS!!
Did you know that not using our schools to propagandize our students against the Constitution Of The United States is DOWN RIGHT DANGEROUS!! Yes indeed!! In our new Common Core Language Arts Document that was passed UNANIMOUSLY by our school board here in Helena, in the Reading Informational Text band, ENGLISH TEACHERS, will be guiding their high school ENGLISH students to "delineate and EVALUATE the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts.." they will "Analyze .. U.S. documents -including the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THE PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION, THE BILL OF RIGHTS... for their themes, purposes and RHETORICAL FEATURES". Meanwhile under these same learner targets, they will also be determining the credibility of an author and recognizing when an author introduces irrelevant evidences, false statements, and or fallacious reasoning. They will also "determine how the time period and point of view of an author affects his/ her perspective on a theme or concept". You don't think these ultra leftists are suggesting to our youngsters that our founding documents are old fashioned and need to be updated do you? Do you think they would do such a dastardly thing? I do. In fact I think that is their whole purpose in creating these standards. They are hoping that within a generation they can have a population of Americans that will be calling to replace our Constitution. I have never witnessed nor heard of such treachery in this country before. And just think, even after I read the document for them, that they did not read, our school board VOTED UNANIMOUSLY FOR TREACHERY!!!
I was told by one Don Pogreba (this is the high school english teacher with the blog who has people sending in rights to be added to our Constitution), that it was DOWN RIGHT DANGEROUS TO SUGGEST THAT SIXTEEN AND SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD STUDENTS SHOULDN'T TEAR APART AND CRITICIZE OUR NATIONAL DOCUMENTS!!! Yes indeed, why should our children learn loyalty and respect for the documents that built this nation? Seventeen year olds have the experience and background and knowledge to question the writings of our founders don't they? Their knowledge is the same as Thomas Jefferson who knew Greek and Latin and studied the classics in their original form isn't it? They know enough world history and law to hold court on our founders don't they? I question whether even the teacher, who is not a History teacher, and is not accredited by the state to teach our national documents, has the authority to tear these documents apart.
The Common Core starts propagandizing children in Kindergarten- making them believe that their opinions are as good as anyone else's ,even the teacher! In FIRST GRADE they will be telling what evidence the author presents to support the points in a text. Before they can even read they will be expressing their opinions and comparing full texts. Naturally by the time they are a teenager they will feel that all of their opinions have value and they know more than any author. The truth is this - OPINIONS OF CHILDREN WHO DO NOT HAVE KNOWLEDGE ARE NOT VALID- a five year old may have an opinion on what time he wants to go to bed- but bedtime is determined by his parents because they are OLDER, they are MORE MATURE, they HAVE MORE EXPERIENCE and they HAVE MORE KNOWLEDGE. These informational learner targets are not age appropriate for six year old children, but the people who wrote Common Core are intent on fashioning little individuals that will tear down our national documents and think it is THEIR IDEA.
Children can be used, and they are being used in the Common Core. The Common Core advocates pretend that "Gee, all we are doing is developing critical thinking skills-- gee whiz" yeah right . As Joe Wurzelbacker said, "Liberal Democrats wouldn't know a 'higher education standard' if it hit them in the face."Besides, don't you have to wonder why students have to do their critical thinking on our constitution? Couldn't they use some other material to practice on? Common Core advocates say teachers can pick their own materials to teach- why can't they pick their own critical thinking material when it comes to the constitution? Why is the constitution specifically named in the learner targets?
I could have named this blog TYRANNY AND BLASPHEMY because when the paper came out today the Language Arts Curriculum was praised and only the advocates got their testimony in the paper. I might as well have saved my energy and time- my testimony was completely ignored. Sometimes you feel like you're a freight train fighting an incoming ocean tide- but I don't get discouraged as they would love for all of us to do- I fight on because I know that freight train will find higher ground eventually- after all - the Communists started in back rooms and basements and look where they are now-- in the White House!!
I was told by one Don Pogreba (this is the high school english teacher with the blog who has people sending in rights to be added to our Constitution), that it was DOWN RIGHT DANGEROUS TO SUGGEST THAT SIXTEEN AND SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD STUDENTS SHOULDN'T TEAR APART AND CRITICIZE OUR NATIONAL DOCUMENTS!!! Yes indeed, why should our children learn loyalty and respect for the documents that built this nation? Seventeen year olds have the experience and background and knowledge to question the writings of our founders don't they? Their knowledge is the same as Thomas Jefferson who knew Greek and Latin and studied the classics in their original form isn't it? They know enough world history and law to hold court on our founders don't they? I question whether even the teacher, who is not a History teacher, and is not accredited by the state to teach our national documents, has the authority to tear these documents apart.
The Common Core starts propagandizing children in Kindergarten- making them believe that their opinions are as good as anyone else's ,even the teacher! In FIRST GRADE they will be telling what evidence the author presents to support the points in a text. Before they can even read they will be expressing their opinions and comparing full texts. Naturally by the time they are a teenager they will feel that all of their opinions have value and they know more than any author. The truth is this - OPINIONS OF CHILDREN WHO DO NOT HAVE KNOWLEDGE ARE NOT VALID- a five year old may have an opinion on what time he wants to go to bed- but bedtime is determined by his parents because they are OLDER, they are MORE MATURE, they HAVE MORE EXPERIENCE and they HAVE MORE KNOWLEDGE. These informational learner targets are not age appropriate for six year old children, but the people who wrote Common Core are intent on fashioning little individuals that will tear down our national documents and think it is THEIR IDEA.
Children can be used, and they are being used in the Common Core. The Common Core advocates pretend that "Gee, all we are doing is developing critical thinking skills-- gee whiz" yeah right . As Joe Wurzelbacker said, "Liberal Democrats wouldn't know a 'higher education standard' if it hit them in the face."Besides, don't you have to wonder why students have to do their critical thinking on our constitution? Couldn't they use some other material to practice on? Common Core advocates say teachers can pick their own materials to teach- why can't they pick their own critical thinking material when it comes to the constitution? Why is the constitution specifically named in the learner targets?
I could have named this blog TYRANNY AND BLASPHEMY because when the paper came out today the Language Arts Curriculum was praised and only the advocates got their testimony in the paper. I might as well have saved my energy and time- my testimony was completely ignored. Sometimes you feel like you're a freight train fighting an incoming ocean tide- but I don't get discouraged as they would love for all of us to do- I fight on because I know that freight train will find higher ground eventually- after all - the Communists started in back rooms and basements and look where they are now-- in the White House!!
Saturday, 4 January 2014
SCREAMING IN THE WIND
The conservatives are trying so hard to say something and they just aren't being heard- THEY ARE SCREAMING IN THE WIND. The so called "progressives" trot out their same garbage over and over and call it new. No one pays attention to the fact that their ideas are failures and have been failures for fifty years. No one listens to the fact that liberal ideas have DESTROYED public morals, public schools, government respect and integrity, and the public debt. The "progressives" ask the conservatives what their ideas are but when they answer the "progressives" are deaf and blind-they just won't hear them- the conservatives are SCREAMING IN THE WIND that our colleges are broken, our government institutions are broken. The conservatives are SCREAMING IN THE WIND that THERE ARE BETTER IDEAS, IDEAS THAT WORK AND HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO WORK. Conservatives are SCREAMING IN THE WIND as they try to get the press to recognize the failures of the liberal establishment, failures of liberal programs, lies and corruption. The press doesn't care, won't do investigative reporting, and is happy to be the shill for every liberal that knocks on their door. The newspapers that are going broke may want to think of this- MAYBE PEOPLE DON'T BUY THEIR PAPERS BECAUSE THERE IS NO NEWS THERE- EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS WHAT THEY WILL SAY AND WHAT THEIR PROPAGANDA WILL BE.
It is astonishing that people have reported corruption in government agencies- like the census bureau workers being forced to misreport labor statistics so that Obama could get elected- and the press just lets it go- lets it die- won't investigate. The press is complicit in letting this country die - letting corruption thrive and kill. Complicit in destroying freedom.
Good schools? Good schools are not hard to create- although the liberals make it harder and harder to educate youngsters who have no respect, no morals,no self discipline and an entitlement attitude. If liberals really wanted to educate instead of social engineer for the new socialist world order, they could educate- it's not rocket science. You see, time spent doing community service and learning about sex and doing art with the artist in resident, and exercising in class, and group projects, and snacks, and the bully program and the drug program and the endangered species program and all the other programs that have children not studying academics, is time spent not learning the foundation of information they need to become educated. It's really that simple. We all know what works. The KIPP Academies are the most successful in the nation - even according to Christopher Lohse of the Chief State School Officers Association. Direct instruction works- gee what a novelty.
Conservatives try to say- we built a successful nation- why are you dismissing everything that works?- But they are SCREAMING IN THE WIND- the liberals close their eyes and cover their ears- nothing was said!! Conservatives try to point out that colleges are failing us- our teachers are not trained well- not well educated- not experts in their field- but the liberals hum a tune -" I can't hear you!!" The conservatives are SCREAMING IN THE WIND! The liberals come back with MORE of the same old free school failed ideas and call them new- the conservatives say " Where is your research, your data?"- the liberals hum a tune " I can't hear you!". A Montessori teacher who raised both of her boys through the Montessori program was asked by a school board member if she would do it again- she wouldn't answer. We've had PUBLIC Montessori in Helena for 20 years and there is no data to prove that it has accomplished anything good - and yet it goes on and teachers in regular classes are pressured to do the Montessori mess.
The schools that sent us to the moon and built this nation are called "factory" schools. Children were trained to succeed in the workforce and that was "bad" according to liberals. And yet, the liberals call their new Common Core program "college and career ready". They want to bring the workforce into the classroom with their "School to Work" programs. School to Work programs take children from the task at hand- learning to read and write and do math so that they can SUCCEED in the world. Even more importantly, children need to learn to be "rugged individuals"- that's the work ethic that gets you out of bed in the morning and won't let you give up when the going gets tough. The ethic that creates motivation and hard work and self respect. You Teach that ethic by having children be RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN WORK. You teach that ethic by showing children that their parents have it when they make their breakfast and their lunch for them. You teach that ethic by showing children that hard work is REWARDED and they do not go to school to be entertained.
Nothing was ever perfect in "factory" schools but they built a great nation. Good schools today will focus on what worked and incrementally improve what didn't. New technologies certainly can have good use (at times) in the classroom. Colleges must quit letting professors teach their politics and instead make them teach GOOD teaching practices that are known to work. Colleges should prepare teachers to be experts in what they teach - real experts- Language Arts teachers that really know the classics and genres of literature- as well as grammar and syntax- and have the ability to organize a classroom and deliver GOOD instruction. A united effort to make our schools and our country SUCCEED will definitely work. Failed pie in the sky ideas of socialism need to be discarded. QUIT TRYING TO SOCIAL ENGINEER OUR CHILDREN AND INSTEAD GIVE THEM AN EDUCATION. TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF YOUR EARS AND HEAR THIS- CONSERVATIVES ARE TIRED OF SCREAMING IN THE WIND!!!
It is astonishing that people have reported corruption in government agencies- like the census bureau workers being forced to misreport labor statistics so that Obama could get elected- and the press just lets it go- lets it die- won't investigate. The press is complicit in letting this country die - letting corruption thrive and kill. Complicit in destroying freedom.
Good schools? Good schools are not hard to create- although the liberals make it harder and harder to educate youngsters who have no respect, no morals,no self discipline and an entitlement attitude. If liberals really wanted to educate instead of social engineer for the new socialist world order, they could educate- it's not rocket science. You see, time spent doing community service and learning about sex and doing art with the artist in resident, and exercising in class, and group projects, and snacks, and the bully program and the drug program and the endangered species program and all the other programs that have children not studying academics, is time spent not learning the foundation of information they need to become educated. It's really that simple. We all know what works. The KIPP Academies are the most successful in the nation - even according to Christopher Lohse of the Chief State School Officers Association. Direct instruction works- gee what a novelty.
Conservatives try to say- we built a successful nation- why are you dismissing everything that works?- But they are SCREAMING IN THE WIND- the liberals close their eyes and cover their ears- nothing was said!! Conservatives try to point out that colleges are failing us- our teachers are not trained well- not well educated- not experts in their field- but the liberals hum a tune -" I can't hear you!!" The conservatives are SCREAMING IN THE WIND! The liberals come back with MORE of the same old free school failed ideas and call them new- the conservatives say " Where is your research, your data?"- the liberals hum a tune " I can't hear you!". A Montessori teacher who raised both of her boys through the Montessori program was asked by a school board member if she would do it again- she wouldn't answer. We've had PUBLIC Montessori in Helena for 20 years and there is no data to prove that it has accomplished anything good - and yet it goes on and teachers in regular classes are pressured to do the Montessori mess.
The schools that sent us to the moon and built this nation are called "factory" schools. Children were trained to succeed in the workforce and that was "bad" according to liberals. And yet, the liberals call their new Common Core program "college and career ready". They want to bring the workforce into the classroom with their "School to Work" programs. School to Work programs take children from the task at hand- learning to read and write and do math so that they can SUCCEED in the world. Even more importantly, children need to learn to be "rugged individuals"- that's the work ethic that gets you out of bed in the morning and won't let you give up when the going gets tough. The ethic that creates motivation and hard work and self respect. You Teach that ethic by having children be RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN WORK. You teach that ethic by showing children that their parents have it when they make their breakfast and their lunch for them. You teach that ethic by showing children that hard work is REWARDED and they do not go to school to be entertained.
Nothing was ever perfect in "factory" schools but they built a great nation. Good schools today will focus on what worked and incrementally improve what didn't. New technologies certainly can have good use (at times) in the classroom. Colleges must quit letting professors teach their politics and instead make them teach GOOD teaching practices that are known to work. Colleges should prepare teachers to be experts in what they teach - real experts- Language Arts teachers that really know the classics and genres of literature- as well as grammar and syntax- and have the ability to organize a classroom and deliver GOOD instruction. A united effort to make our schools and our country SUCCEED will definitely work. Failed pie in the sky ideas of socialism need to be discarded. QUIT TRYING TO SOCIAL ENGINEER OUR CHILDREN AND INSTEAD GIVE THEM AN EDUCATION. TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF YOUR EARS AND HEAR THIS- CONSERVATIVES ARE TIRED OF SCREAMING IN THE WIND!!!
Saturday, 28 December 2013
TRY IGNORANCE
Have you ever seen that slogan that the education unions like to use " If you think education is expensive, TRY IGNORANCE"? At some point I guess the liberals understand, based on this slogan, that IGNORANCE can lead to tyranny. Ignorant people, people without education or information, will vote for dictators- Hitler was elected. What is used to propagandize and control these "ignorant" people? Class warfare is ALWAYS what is used. You see,the dictator says, the reason you are poor is that someone else has taken advantage of you and we are going to set things right by TAKING what these unfair people have, and GIVING it to you!! So- vote for us!! What a deal-of course the "ignorant" will vote for you! Why do people respond to sales at the store? There is something real cheap- getting two for one- getting something for nothing. But when it comes to voting for government- what the ignorant don't understand- is the consequences of what they are voting for.
Apparently Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin who stood up to the teacher's union, is all in on Common Core. Seriously Scott?!! The Federal government is promising big money to states that fall in line for the National Education Standards and Scott wants the money. States are cash strapped beyond belief with all the WELFARE they are paying out - Federal grants that have gone away leaving states to pay the tab for programs for everything from advertisements to brush your teeth to urban foresters and federal curbs- along with government unions that are sucking the life out of taxpayers. So Scott wants the money. Hey Scott- have you thought about the CONSEQUENCES of what you are giving up? Dear Scott, federal control of our schools takes away LOCAL FREEDOM AND CONTROL!! Federal government control of schools is what they had in the Soviet Union, what every dictatorship has. The Feds want this control so they can Propagandize our children- from environmentalism to sex to data collection- to whatever the latest lobby wants.
Now, maybe Scott just doesn't want to believe this- the money is so enticing. Here's a nice little example for you Scott. A lawyer in Helena had his daughter accused of bullying in school because she didn't want to play with someone- she wanted to choose her own friends!! Our children are now being bullied by the schools!! They will watch them interact in all these Common Core proscribed"diverse" teams and determine if they interact "effectively" and "respectfully". This is subjective and violates the constitution in so many ways it is hard for me to count- let's start with FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, THE RIGHT TO PURSUE MY OWN HAPPINESS- and so on. Maybe I'm a private person and I'd just like to do my own work. Maybe I don't want to share my answers. Just maybe I should be graded on the quality of my WORK and WHAT I KNOW ,not someone else's opinion of whom I should associate with and what I should say and how I should say it.
IGNORANCE is definitely expensive Scott. I believe many liberals are WILLFULLY IGNORANT. They will give up their freedom and the freedom of their children based on CLASS WARFARE IDEOLOGY. They need to quit blindly following this ideology, there is no panacea. The WAR ON POVERTY- has been going on for fifty years and it has created more crime, more drug use, a breakdown in morals, corruption in the courts (many judges get their jobs not because of their abilities but because they can be relied on to do what they are told), corruption in the government, more poverty, more unwed births, government imploding with debt,- no panacea at all. These people- IGNORANT BECAUSE OF IDEOLOGY- will continue to vote to give away all our freedoms without questioning what in the world they are voting for. The next time a liberal asks you what YOUR IDEA is tell them it is the rugged individual who has integrity and pride and can take care of himself. A government that is not in debt and not corrupt because it is so huge- oh yes, and FREEDOM FROM GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS!! Actually, we can brush our own teeth without a government sponsored billboard telling us to do that- we even know how to feed our own children without Michelle Obama telling us what they should eat.
Yes, IGNORANCE IS DEFINITELY EXPENSIVE. OUR LIBERAL FRIENDS NEED TO DROP THE IDEOLOGY AND WAKE UP AND SMELL THE NSA ROSES- GOVERNMENT IS OUT OF CONTROL FOLKS-AND IT ISN'T DOING YOU ANY GOOD EITHER.
Apparently Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin who stood up to the teacher's union, is all in on Common Core. Seriously Scott?!! The Federal government is promising big money to states that fall in line for the National Education Standards and Scott wants the money. States are cash strapped beyond belief with all the WELFARE they are paying out - Federal grants that have gone away leaving states to pay the tab for programs for everything from advertisements to brush your teeth to urban foresters and federal curbs- along with government unions that are sucking the life out of taxpayers. So Scott wants the money. Hey Scott- have you thought about the CONSEQUENCES of what you are giving up? Dear Scott, federal control of our schools takes away LOCAL FREEDOM AND CONTROL!! Federal government control of schools is what they had in the Soviet Union, what every dictatorship has. The Feds want this control so they can Propagandize our children- from environmentalism to sex to data collection- to whatever the latest lobby wants.
Now, maybe Scott just doesn't want to believe this- the money is so enticing. Here's a nice little example for you Scott. A lawyer in Helena had his daughter accused of bullying in school because she didn't want to play with someone- she wanted to choose her own friends!! Our children are now being bullied by the schools!! They will watch them interact in all these Common Core proscribed"diverse" teams and determine if they interact "effectively" and "respectfully". This is subjective and violates the constitution in so many ways it is hard for me to count- let's start with FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, THE RIGHT TO PURSUE MY OWN HAPPINESS- and so on. Maybe I'm a private person and I'd just like to do my own work. Maybe I don't want to share my answers. Just maybe I should be graded on the quality of my WORK and WHAT I KNOW ,not someone else's opinion of whom I should associate with and what I should say and how I should say it.
IGNORANCE is definitely expensive Scott. I believe many liberals are WILLFULLY IGNORANT. They will give up their freedom and the freedom of their children based on CLASS WARFARE IDEOLOGY. They need to quit blindly following this ideology, there is no panacea. The WAR ON POVERTY- has been going on for fifty years and it has created more crime, more drug use, a breakdown in morals, corruption in the courts (many judges get their jobs not because of their abilities but because they can be relied on to do what they are told), corruption in the government, more poverty, more unwed births, government imploding with debt,- no panacea at all. These people- IGNORANT BECAUSE OF IDEOLOGY- will continue to vote to give away all our freedoms without questioning what in the world they are voting for. The next time a liberal asks you what YOUR IDEA is tell them it is the rugged individual who has integrity and pride and can take care of himself. A government that is not in debt and not corrupt because it is so huge- oh yes, and FREEDOM FROM GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS!! Actually, we can brush our own teeth without a government sponsored billboard telling us to do that- we even know how to feed our own children without Michelle Obama telling us what they should eat.
Yes, IGNORANCE IS DEFINITELY EXPENSIVE. OUR LIBERAL FRIENDS NEED TO DROP THE IDEOLOGY AND WAKE UP AND SMELL THE NSA ROSES- GOVERNMENT IS OUT OF CONTROL FOLKS-AND IT ISN'T DOING YOU ANY GOOD EITHER.
Sunday, 15 December 2013
THE ARCHITECTS OF MODERNITY
Certain people among us who think of themselves as ha ha "progressives" - think that they and their movement are the ARCHITECTS OF MODERNITY. Actually they are not. They would like to be- and they would like to trick you into thinking that they are- but alas- THEY ARE NOT. They have a vision for sure- one that has people directed to their station in life "the poor", the "homeless", the "disabled" and so on. Conservatives don't divide people up that way- they see all people as equal and having the same opportunities.
A grandmother I know, who is raising her granddaughter, had her going to one of our "title" schools here- Federal Government delineated as "poor" school. The little girl started losing self esteem and self confidence. She moved her out of that school to a school that is not "title" and the child has voila!! self esteem again. Why is that? I think it's expectations. If you are told you are a victim and need free food all day long- you might start to think you ARE A VICTIM!!
When I was in school we were all the same. Oh, their might have been a kid whose parents could afford store bought goodies like Twinkies- but really- we were all the same. There was no dividing kids up- everybody was expected to be disciplined and to work hard if they expected to succeed. We were told America was the land of opportunity and we believed it. If your life got messed up it was because you messed it up. I graduated when I was 17 and I went to work- and college at the same time. I worked days and went to school at night. I shared an apartment with a couple of other girls. I never even considered government assistance- that was for welfare people- not me. No one took welfare- it just wasn't done. Now the people who think they are the ARCHITECTS OF MODERNITY, think there is a NEW WORLD ORDER ( same term Hitler used) that will have just about everybody on some type of welfare.
Instead of working two jobs people will just get food stamps. Instead of delaying gratification and staying off drugs people will just go to food share and label themselves "homeless". Instead of being a rugged individual who is proud and self reliant - a person will accept their status as an underachiever and lay around waiting for the next handout.
These people who think they are the ARCHITECTS of our FUTURE think project based learning will bring people out of poverty!! SERIOUSLY RANDI ? Randi Weingartner, the head of the teacher's union, was on the Megan Kelly show parroting this nonsense. Megan asked her what "project based learning" was, but when Randi said robots, she didn't probe further. Hey Randi, seriously, where's your data? Where's your research? How is this all going to happen? I'll tell you something Randi- JOBS ARE WHAT BRING PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY!! PEOPLE WITH EXPECTATIONS OF HARD WORK, DISCIPLINE, SELF RELIANCE, FORTITUDE AND DELAYING GRATIFICATION BRING PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY. JUST ASK ANYONE WHO HAS MADE ANY SUCCESS OUT OF THEIR LIFE- THAT IS HOW IT IS DONE!! Government programs and doing drugs in Denver just isn't going to get you there. But do these over stuffed government types who think they are the ARCHITECTS OF MODERNITY really want a free America that doesn't need them? I'm guessing not.
Conservatives have their own idea of "21st century skills" and this involves all the values listed above. It also includes learning real skills by buckling down to the books and taking personal responsibility- not visiting with your friends and doing only what you like, and what is "creative" and "exciting" and "fun".
The only thing the "progressives" have done is destroy this country with the old failed ideas of the Communists. They like to take credit for the Civil Rights movement- but sorry- the Democrats in the south fought Civil Rights as long as they could. No, these people can take credit for societal break down and economic implosion and debt. They can take credit for propaganda and lies that they use to try to get more and more control- like the Global Warming scam and the alternative energy scam.Community Centers are not the same as schools. They can drop the "nothing has changed" garbage- senior citizens going to schools to get healthcare is not the same as using the gym for basketball practice!! How stupid do they think or hope the American people are? They can take credit for the break down of our justice system and government corruption that we've never seen the likes of before. They can take credit for turning our public school system into propaganda centers where children learn to separate from their parents with their own opinions and points of view when they're five. Old Communist ideas are not a hold on our future. Liberals are NOT THE ARCHITECTS OF MODERNITY!!
I taught in low income schools and I taught children the values to climb the ladder of success.
A grandmother I know, who is raising her granddaughter, had her going to one of our "title" schools here- Federal Government delineated as "poor" school. The little girl started losing self esteem and self confidence. She moved her out of that school to a school that is not "title" and the child has voila!! self esteem again. Why is that? I think it's expectations. If you are told you are a victim and need free food all day long- you might start to think you ARE A VICTIM!!
When I was in school we were all the same. Oh, their might have been a kid whose parents could afford store bought goodies like Twinkies- but really- we were all the same. There was no dividing kids up- everybody was expected to be disciplined and to work hard if they expected to succeed. We were told America was the land of opportunity and we believed it. If your life got messed up it was because you messed it up. I graduated when I was 17 and I went to work- and college at the same time. I worked days and went to school at night. I shared an apartment with a couple of other girls. I never even considered government assistance- that was for welfare people- not me. No one took welfare- it just wasn't done. Now the people who think they are the ARCHITECTS OF MODERNITY, think there is a NEW WORLD ORDER ( same term Hitler used) that will have just about everybody on some type of welfare.
Instead of working two jobs people will just get food stamps. Instead of delaying gratification and staying off drugs people will just go to food share and label themselves "homeless". Instead of being a rugged individual who is proud and self reliant - a person will accept their status as an underachiever and lay around waiting for the next handout.
These people who think they are the ARCHITECTS of our FUTURE think project based learning will bring people out of poverty!! SERIOUSLY RANDI ? Randi Weingartner, the head of the teacher's union, was on the Megan Kelly show parroting this nonsense. Megan asked her what "project based learning" was, but when Randi said robots, she didn't probe further. Hey Randi, seriously, where's your data? Where's your research? How is this all going to happen? I'll tell you something Randi- JOBS ARE WHAT BRING PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY!! PEOPLE WITH EXPECTATIONS OF HARD WORK, DISCIPLINE, SELF RELIANCE, FORTITUDE AND DELAYING GRATIFICATION BRING PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY. JUST ASK ANYONE WHO HAS MADE ANY SUCCESS OUT OF THEIR LIFE- THAT IS HOW IT IS DONE!! Government programs and doing drugs in Denver just isn't going to get you there. But do these over stuffed government types who think they are the ARCHITECTS OF MODERNITY really want a free America that doesn't need them? I'm guessing not.
Conservatives have their own idea of "21st century skills" and this involves all the values listed above. It also includes learning real skills by buckling down to the books and taking personal responsibility- not visiting with your friends and doing only what you like, and what is "creative" and "exciting" and "fun".
The only thing the "progressives" have done is destroy this country with the old failed ideas of the Communists. They like to take credit for the Civil Rights movement- but sorry- the Democrats in the south fought Civil Rights as long as they could. No, these people can take credit for societal break down and economic implosion and debt. They can take credit for propaganda and lies that they use to try to get more and more control- like the Global Warming scam and the alternative energy scam.Community Centers are not the same as schools. They can drop the "nothing has changed" garbage- senior citizens going to schools to get healthcare is not the same as using the gym for basketball practice!! How stupid do they think or hope the American people are? They can take credit for the break down of our justice system and government corruption that we've never seen the likes of before. They can take credit for turning our public school system into propaganda centers where children learn to separate from their parents with their own opinions and points of view when they're five. Old Communist ideas are not a hold on our future. Liberals are NOT THE ARCHITECTS OF MODERNITY!!
I taught in low income schools and I taught children the values to climb the ladder of success.
Friday, 6 December 2013
CORRUPTION
Central planning always leads to corruption and the United States is no exception. When you hear about all the corruption going on - there is so much that they don't even become scandals anymore-just reports- you might feel like you are living in a banana republic.
Let's start with Carlos Slim- off and on the richest man in the world. He has made FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS off of the Obama Phone program. You see, you get charged a fee on your phone every month to buy cell phones for the "poor". For every cell phone that is given out the government pays Carlos $9.25 a month.What a deal- Carlos might even just give those cell phones away- in fact- you really don't have to prove your income in most cases and some people get more than one phone!! Carlos must be laughing his head off on his way to the bank- he's rich because they don't have much of a welfare system in Mexico where he is a citizen- that's why all the poor Mexicans come to the United States for services!! He doesn't have to pay the taxes and he collects all the telephone fees that the sucker Americans are forced to pay!!
The list goes on- today it was reported that the U.N. is giving low income reports to ambassadors so that they can sign up for medicaid- this qualifies them for welfare and they are taking vacations and buying cars on our dime! Forty nine ambassadors have been located so far- hmm- do you think it has stopped at forty nine? In the Wall Street Journal today it is reported that a judge gave her good friend a honey of a job- $1,000 an hour to investigate Apple- but whoops- the friend doesn't know how to investigate Apple so he takes his $1,000 an hour and then has hired someone else at $1000 an hour and sends the bill of $2,000 an hour to Apple. The consumer pays for all of this.
In schools we used to have fair competition among curriculum companies. There were so many curriculum companies to choose from- Silver Burdett, McGraw Hill, Houghton Miflin, Scott Foresman - to name a few. Then the Federal Government got involved- now it looks as if Pearson will just walk off with the prize. All schools have the same curriculum- which is copyrighted- and all books must have the same curriculum. No more need to compete or improve or innovate- Common Core has taken care of all that. Common Core tests will be on computers- schools better anti up to Microsoft or they won't be able to take the tests. No choice, no competition, no decisions to make - all taken care of in Washington. School administrators are not paid to think- they must go along- and they all do. Our schools have become corrupt power cartels dictated to from Washington. All they have to do is go along. Who really cares if the kids are learning anything or if all of these ideas are bad and destructive? You don't get paid for bucking the system- and the amount of money in that system is hard to fathom.
You know, since no one is thinking anymore, you just go with the flow and don't ask for proof either. Did you hear that they falsified the employment data right before the election? Another corruption report that just came and went into the ether. People from the census bureau were reporting that they were told to makeup positive data. In school employees just say programs work- like Montessori or Dare or the Gifted and Talented program- no data needed. When asked about conflicts- like" How come Montessori says every kid should learn at their own speed and Common Core insists that every kid will learn the same things at the same time in every grade?"- we are told Common Core doesn't have grade levels!! Common Core not only has grade levels it has a scope and sequence!!
The bigger the government in Washington gets the more corrupt and unaccountable they become- the more destructive and secretive they become- the more they need the press to be their pubic relations department and cover for them. We certainly see that in the paper here- they run a positive made up story about Common Core weekly - ON THE FRONT PAGE!! They bury the truth and won't do investigative reporting. If they DID do investigative reporting they might report that the Helena schools in following the Community Centers plan for "21st century schools" has every intention of closing at least two schools- though the superintendent has PROMISED NO SCHOOLS WOULD BE CLOSED.
All this sadness and lying and corruption which leads to public distrust and economic collapse has been brought on by the central planners. We can only hope that the American Dream will not die on the bed of these socialist nim com poops.
Let's start with Carlos Slim- off and on the richest man in the world. He has made FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS off of the Obama Phone program. You see, you get charged a fee on your phone every month to buy cell phones for the "poor". For every cell phone that is given out the government pays Carlos $9.25 a month.What a deal- Carlos might even just give those cell phones away- in fact- you really don't have to prove your income in most cases and some people get more than one phone!! Carlos must be laughing his head off on his way to the bank- he's rich because they don't have much of a welfare system in Mexico where he is a citizen- that's why all the poor Mexicans come to the United States for services!! He doesn't have to pay the taxes and he collects all the telephone fees that the sucker Americans are forced to pay!!
The list goes on- today it was reported that the U.N. is giving low income reports to ambassadors so that they can sign up for medicaid- this qualifies them for welfare and they are taking vacations and buying cars on our dime! Forty nine ambassadors have been located so far- hmm- do you think it has stopped at forty nine? In the Wall Street Journal today it is reported that a judge gave her good friend a honey of a job- $1,000 an hour to investigate Apple- but whoops- the friend doesn't know how to investigate Apple so he takes his $1,000 an hour and then has hired someone else at $1000 an hour and sends the bill of $2,000 an hour to Apple. The consumer pays for all of this.
In schools we used to have fair competition among curriculum companies. There were so many curriculum companies to choose from- Silver Burdett, McGraw Hill, Houghton Miflin, Scott Foresman - to name a few. Then the Federal Government got involved- now it looks as if Pearson will just walk off with the prize. All schools have the same curriculum- which is copyrighted- and all books must have the same curriculum. No more need to compete or improve or innovate- Common Core has taken care of all that. Common Core tests will be on computers- schools better anti up to Microsoft or they won't be able to take the tests. No choice, no competition, no decisions to make - all taken care of in Washington. School administrators are not paid to think- they must go along- and they all do. Our schools have become corrupt power cartels dictated to from Washington. All they have to do is go along. Who really cares if the kids are learning anything or if all of these ideas are bad and destructive? You don't get paid for bucking the system- and the amount of money in that system is hard to fathom.
You know, since no one is thinking anymore, you just go with the flow and don't ask for proof either. Did you hear that they falsified the employment data right before the election? Another corruption report that just came and went into the ether. People from the census bureau were reporting that they were told to makeup positive data. In school employees just say programs work- like Montessori or Dare or the Gifted and Talented program- no data needed. When asked about conflicts- like" How come Montessori says every kid should learn at their own speed and Common Core insists that every kid will learn the same things at the same time in every grade?"- we are told Common Core doesn't have grade levels!! Common Core not only has grade levels it has a scope and sequence!!
The bigger the government in Washington gets the more corrupt and unaccountable they become- the more destructive and secretive they become- the more they need the press to be their pubic relations department and cover for them. We certainly see that in the paper here- they run a positive made up story about Common Core weekly - ON THE FRONT PAGE!! They bury the truth and won't do investigative reporting. If they DID do investigative reporting they might report that the Helena schools in following the Community Centers plan for "21st century schools" has every intention of closing at least two schools- though the superintendent has PROMISED NO SCHOOLS WOULD BE CLOSED.
All this sadness and lying and corruption which leads to public distrust and economic collapse has been brought on by the central planners. We can only hope that the American Dream will not die on the bed of these socialist nim com poops.
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