It's interesting how every new program creates experts like leaves falling from the trees in the fall. Common Core, which has only been around for a couple of years, has more superior experts than you can even imagine. I met one today. Unfortunately, she doesn't use a mike and had her face right in the face of the school board- standing right at their name plates ( I wonder who taught her that technique?).
So I only got to hear a small portion of Janel's schtick because the superintendent, once again, changed the printed agenda. I begin to wonder if this disrespect and disservice and violation of the open meeting laws is planned. But, I did get to hear her, though I had to strain to do so, and I did get to talk to this self proclaimed superior teacher trainer. The first thing that impressed me was her total disrespect for and trust of TEACHERS. You see, our teachers are just not good teachers and they don't make kids college and career ready. I questioned her about this. Was not college and career ready always the goal of our schools? Well--- no, she said. I was astonished. Then what would the goal of schools have been? Well-- the teachers just weren't doing it or couldn't do it- so she- the expert- is making sure they get in Professional Learning Communities so she can MAKE them do it!!
"Any time you have change there will be push back", she said. Here we go again- if you don't think I'm right all the time it's just because you're afraid of change!! I asked her about her "guaranteed and viable" curriculum . How could she guarantee a curriculum and what made it viable? Her curriculum is guaranteed and viable because it matches the test!! I wonder if she has ever heard of "garbage in garbage out"? Well, she said, students were dropping out before, but now everyone will leave school college and career ready, and that will prove the viability of Common Core.
Do you think 100% of students will walk out into this world and be successful under any curriculum? If you do, I have a bridge to Hawaii to sell you. This is nonsense. It makes about as much sense as Obama being able to settle all our foreign affairs problems just by talking to people! It's about as destructive too. She said when these (inferred inferior people afraid of change), come up to her with objections she just says " What can I do for you?". Let me answer that question for all these misused and frustrated teachers- Lady, you can quit being so damn superior and try working in the trenches yourself!! You can quit wasting our time and let us do the job we know how to do and you don't!! YOU CAN QUIT SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF OUR TEACHERS!!
I went to what I, and many others , call the "dog and pony" show at one of our schools the other day. This is when the school board forces schools to show them their stuff every year. This is an advertisement for school reform-makes the board feel good- even if most of it is wrong, mischaracterized or just plain terrible. The board is told everything is wonderful and THEY FEEL PROUD OF THEMSELVES. They are suckers. This presentation was so bad, I would have cried or laughed, if it just didn't make me so downright mad!! The teachers sat there in a row looking terrified and the principal and one other teacher did the show. This principal, with this very southern accent, that was continually addressing herself "I said SarahBeth"- you get the idea, was not even in school for at least part of the first week of school!! She was on an airplane going to Texas!! She made sure the kids got their charm for showing up though. Do as I say not as I do. Meanwhile we'll be out 45 minutes early every Monday, but darn it, you take attendance seriously when we are here!!
Meanwhile the students and teachers spent the week doing disaster drills and orientations!! By the way, just to ease your fears about all these starving children, apparently 100% of the kindergarten parents showed up for home visits at school. My, my- they won't feed them but they all show up- hmmm.
But here's the really sad part. I listened to all this crap and I realized why I had to leave that district. I just couldn't be treated like these teachers are being treated. I'm way too much of a self directed proud individual to subvert who I am, humble myself ,and submit to the treatment these teachers are being subjected to. One Common Core video I watched said the teachers had to find their "niche". REALLY? The teachers are just a niche now? I'll show you some of the ways teachers are being put into a little subservient niche.
First of all, this school just got it's vaunted Title I status recently. The superintendent was so proud and he just smiled and practically gave them a medal last year at a board meeting for getting it! Whoopee- the secretary made a mad dash to the phone when she realized that they had over 40% free and reduced lunch -at least for one day!! Remember, they prove income by having the secretary check up on a few, not very exact. So now they are a "poor" school and the teachers are pressured to go to a "book club" !! Yes indeed, they are reading "Framework for Poverty" !! I could get an A+ in that class- we've all done it in college- just tell them what they want to hear folks!! Don't spend your time on your work-like grading papers or doing lesson plans- go to the "book club" so they can tell you what and how to think.Meanwhile one of the board members I really do enjoy, asked if the school had changed now that they are Title. Answer- "no".
Moving right along, the teachers are forced to give up their classes to psychs and social workers teaching "empathy" skills. They used to do this when I taught too- a real barf session. Just teaching the kids what the teachers are supposed to be learning in the "book club". I guess parents can't be trusted to teach their kids not to be sociopaths.
Now, when the teachers do get a little time to teach- that will be directed too. Not only do they have to teach to the test, teach the units in the order proscribed by their "professional learning community" and report, and teach in the manner proscribed by said community, they have to give their teaching over to para professionals who are usually not even college graduates much less credentialed!! That's right, the teachers will work with a student or two who is struggling and the para will take over the teachers" class!! If that isn't bad enough, the school is working on empowering the paras to grab kids out of class if they think they are misbehaving!! The teacher's authority over the classroom is being undermined.
We are all individuals with different teaching styles and different ideas about classroom discipline. Just as we are individuals in our parenting we are different teachers. Teachers are not robots. There is no panacea in this world. Common Core is SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF OUR TEACHERS AND SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF EDUCATION!! This unproven experiment is single handedly DESTROYING EDUCATION in America - just as the teachers union president Randi Weingartner predicted.
I went away from this meeting sad and mad- it appeared to me that every bit of joy in teaching- from personal motivation, personal ingenuity, personal creativity, personal pride, individuality, spontaneity, and originality, was being sucked out of these teachers and the teaching profession. The bureaucrats, who do nothing, have taken over.
And if you want to see how these government programs work out, look no further than the military's RCI program ( we don't have enough forces in the field but we have troops to be nannys to wayward youth). I saw them up close and personal at the skateboard park by the YMCA where I work out. Some were skateboarding, some were making out with their girlfriends, some were smoking, and the military personnel in charge of this mess (soldiers) were in the lobby of the YMCA chatting with the desk clerk. Hey Janel, these are not "guaranteed and viable" curriculums. And one last shout out to the teachers union- what are you getting paid for? Have you ever heard of ACADEMIC FREEDOM?!!
Monday, 29 September 2014
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
TRUST
Trust, an interesting thought. Whom do you trust? Do you trust your government? Do you trust your school superintendent not to lie to you? Do you trust that your school board is doing what's in the best interest of your child? When you think about it, there's not really a lot of trust out there anymore.
Why can't you trust your superintendent of schools not to lie to you? Maybe it's because this country was FOUNDED on TRUST and the superintendent is trying to pretend that nothing has changed, but it has. This country was FOUNDED TO PUT TRUST IN THE PEOPLE. That is why we have a vote. Many people at the time did not trust that people could govern themselves. If you think about it, liberals, still today, do not believe that people can govern themselves. They TRUST the government, not you. So, your superintendent has to lie to you. He has to tell you that the building programs he is representing are a LOCAL idea. He has to tell you that Common Core does not take away LOCAL CONTROL. You see, our Federal Government is not supposed to be involved in Education at all. They have no mandate to do what they are doing so your superintendent has to lie to you, AND in most cases, to bring the school board along with those lies ( Believe it or not, there actually are many school board members that don't realize they are being directed from the Federal Government).
As the programs go forward the LACK OF TRUST IN THE PUBLIC gets worse and worse. We are told that schools need 100% free and reduced breakfast, lunch and snacks because "People just won't feed their children". Do you believe that, or do you think this is a MANUFACTURED CRISES to get you to support FEDERAL TAKE OVER OF FOOD AT SCHOOL? I can tell you that I went to school in the 50's and no one was starving. I can tell you that I never, not even one time, had a student pass out from hunger at school in all the 30 years that I taught.
We used to TRUST teachers. If the English teachers at a high school gave a student A's in English we believed that that student could write and the colleges accepted that. We believed that our elementary and middle school teachers were able to teach writing without Federal intervention. Today we have Common Core and writing programs and tests because there is no TRUST that the teachers can do this on their own. Under the TRUST system (otherwise known as freedom), we built this great country that people from around the world want to come to and that the "dreamers" from Mexico and Central America enter illegally. We went to the moon and developed an amazing industrial complex. We didn't need a Federal Department of Education to do these things. Freedom actually does work.
Our grand experiment with freedom is being destroyed by people who put their TRUST in the Federal Government and can't believe that we don't need standardized health (government controlled) and standardized curriculums and standardized welfare and standardized child rearing and standardized everything else. These people just can't believe that our states, counties, cities and school boards can operate without the Federal Government controlling them. They can't believe that parents and teachers can do their jobs without the help of the Federal Government. We are on the road to tyranny because we are letting these nonbelievers turn our successful nation into huge bureaucratic interventions that never work and always destroy.
The schools have not improved under Federal Government Reform that started with Goals 2000 in the nineties. Our test scores are flat. In my hometown of Helena our scores have deteriorated. FREEDOM actually does work folks. Put your TRUST back in yourself and your local governance and maybe we can begin believing and respecting our representatives once again. Maybe school boards and school superintendents will begin doing what is right for their local district again, instead of what the Federal Government wants, and they won't have to lie to you. The Federal Government is a wasteland of ineptitude and their march to control you has got to be stopped. STOP THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND YOU CAN STOP THE LIEING. WE CAN START TRUSTING ONE ANOTHER ONCE AGAIN.
Why can't you trust your superintendent of schools not to lie to you? Maybe it's because this country was FOUNDED on TRUST and the superintendent is trying to pretend that nothing has changed, but it has. This country was FOUNDED TO PUT TRUST IN THE PEOPLE. That is why we have a vote. Many people at the time did not trust that people could govern themselves. If you think about it, liberals, still today, do not believe that people can govern themselves. They TRUST the government, not you. So, your superintendent has to lie to you. He has to tell you that the building programs he is representing are a LOCAL idea. He has to tell you that Common Core does not take away LOCAL CONTROL. You see, our Federal Government is not supposed to be involved in Education at all. They have no mandate to do what they are doing so your superintendent has to lie to you, AND in most cases, to bring the school board along with those lies ( Believe it or not, there actually are many school board members that don't realize they are being directed from the Federal Government).
As the programs go forward the LACK OF TRUST IN THE PUBLIC gets worse and worse. We are told that schools need 100% free and reduced breakfast, lunch and snacks because "People just won't feed their children". Do you believe that, or do you think this is a MANUFACTURED CRISES to get you to support FEDERAL TAKE OVER OF FOOD AT SCHOOL? I can tell you that I went to school in the 50's and no one was starving. I can tell you that I never, not even one time, had a student pass out from hunger at school in all the 30 years that I taught.
We used to TRUST teachers. If the English teachers at a high school gave a student A's in English we believed that that student could write and the colleges accepted that. We believed that our elementary and middle school teachers were able to teach writing without Federal intervention. Today we have Common Core and writing programs and tests because there is no TRUST that the teachers can do this on their own. Under the TRUST system (otherwise known as freedom), we built this great country that people from around the world want to come to and that the "dreamers" from Mexico and Central America enter illegally. We went to the moon and developed an amazing industrial complex. We didn't need a Federal Department of Education to do these things. Freedom actually does work.
Our grand experiment with freedom is being destroyed by people who put their TRUST in the Federal Government and can't believe that we don't need standardized health (government controlled) and standardized curriculums and standardized welfare and standardized child rearing and standardized everything else. These people just can't believe that our states, counties, cities and school boards can operate without the Federal Government controlling them. They can't believe that parents and teachers can do their jobs without the help of the Federal Government. We are on the road to tyranny because we are letting these nonbelievers turn our successful nation into huge bureaucratic interventions that never work and always destroy.
The schools have not improved under Federal Government Reform that started with Goals 2000 in the nineties. Our test scores are flat. In my hometown of Helena our scores have deteriorated. FREEDOM actually does work folks. Put your TRUST back in yourself and your local governance and maybe we can begin believing and respecting our representatives once again. Maybe school boards and school superintendents will begin doing what is right for their local district again, instead of what the Federal Government wants, and they won't have to lie to you. The Federal Government is a wasteland of ineptitude and their march to control you has got to be stopped. STOP THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND YOU CAN STOP THE LIEING. WE CAN START TRUSTING ONE ANOTHER ONCE AGAIN.
Sunday, 7 September 2014
F O C U S
Thomas Jefferson had F O C U S when it came to our country. He had a VISION. He knew what he wanted for America and how he would get there. He wanted a strong and free America. To this end he wrote the Declaration of Independence, participated in the Constitutional Convention and, as president, accomplished the Louisiana Purchase. Many of America's leaders had this kind of F O C U S. George Washington fought the Revolutionary war against all odds and Abraham Lincoln never gave up on the Civil War. General Dwight Eisenhower fought his way across Europe. These people didn't lose their
F O C U S in what they wanted for our country. They weren't distracted by every faction, every squabble, every problem, every special interest group. They fought for our American ideals and built a great nation.
Today our Common Core educators mock anyone wanting to teach an accumulation of events and facts. They claim that students can just look things up!! This is the kind of distracted learning that leads to a lack of F O C U S. I wonder, how can anyone have any clarity of thought about events, when they do not have the continuum of historical facts IN THEIR MIND. You might be able to bake a cake by referring to a recipe, one step at a time, but you can't think that way. YOU HAVE TO KNOW THINGS. The Common Core folks love to say that they are teaching "higher level thinking skills" and "critical thinking". Yeah right, critical thinking by children who do not have an accumulation of events, facts, and information in their brains. This is indoctrination, not "higher level" thinking.
Our great nation is under attack from these non- thinkers. They have broken our country into a thousand special interests and factions and in the process our leaders have lost all F O C US on what is in America's interest, what we need to do to protect our country and our future. From terrorism to open borders to financial crisis, this country goes forward with no F O C U S on what is right for America. We are supposed to care more for the needs of the illegal immigrants than for the security and defense of our own country.
It's my suspicion that the great propaganda artists somewhere have a design to dismantle the American dream by turning our people into factions that lose all vision, all F O C U S of what we need to do to protect, maintain and build our great country which is built on FREEDOM- THAT MEANS PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS AND FREE MARKETS.
Any thief in the night knows that they have to distract the guards to get to the compound. Let's quit being distracted. Let's quit electing leaders that have no F O C U S on America's interests. Let's get rid of this ridiculous education philosophy and centralized Common Core that is distracting our schools from teaching full curriculums of real information that builds real knowledge. Our children will only be able to F O C U S on what is right for our great country when they know REAL PROVEN SCIENCE and FULL HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS. Let's F O C U S on what we want and need , let's F O C U S on our nations vital interests and make a better tomorrow for all of the citizens of this great land.
F O C U S in what they wanted for our country. They weren't distracted by every faction, every squabble, every problem, every special interest group. They fought for our American ideals and built a great nation.
Today our Common Core educators mock anyone wanting to teach an accumulation of events and facts. They claim that students can just look things up!! This is the kind of distracted learning that leads to a lack of F O C U S. I wonder, how can anyone have any clarity of thought about events, when they do not have the continuum of historical facts IN THEIR MIND. You might be able to bake a cake by referring to a recipe, one step at a time, but you can't think that way. YOU HAVE TO KNOW THINGS. The Common Core folks love to say that they are teaching "higher level thinking skills" and "critical thinking". Yeah right, critical thinking by children who do not have an accumulation of events, facts, and information in their brains. This is indoctrination, not "higher level" thinking.
Our great nation is under attack from these non- thinkers. They have broken our country into a thousand special interests and factions and in the process our leaders have lost all F O C US on what is in America's interest, what we need to do to protect our country and our future. From terrorism to open borders to financial crisis, this country goes forward with no F O C U S on what is right for America. We are supposed to care more for the needs of the illegal immigrants than for the security and defense of our own country.
It's my suspicion that the great propaganda artists somewhere have a design to dismantle the American dream by turning our people into factions that lose all vision, all F O C U S of what we need to do to protect, maintain and build our great country which is built on FREEDOM- THAT MEANS PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS AND FREE MARKETS.
Any thief in the night knows that they have to distract the guards to get to the compound. Let's quit being distracted. Let's quit electing leaders that have no F O C U S on America's interests. Let's get rid of this ridiculous education philosophy and centralized Common Core that is distracting our schools from teaching full curriculums of real information that builds real knowledge. Our children will only be able to F O C U S on what is right for our great country when they know REAL PROVEN SCIENCE and FULL HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS. Let's F O C U S on what we want and need , let's F O C U S on our nations vital interests and make a better tomorrow for all of the citizens of this great land.
Friday, 29 August 2014
HOW TO DESTROY A POWERFUL NATION
Well, the first thing you have to do if you want to destroy a powerful nation is to destroy its CULTURE, this includes its religions , traditions, and languages. You do this by undermining the peoples beliefs. This you can do by changing school curriculums to teach the children to question their countries beliefs and founding. You have to look no farther than the current Common Core "Next Generation Standards" for history to see how America is being destroyed. Teachers who teach real facts and events are dismissed, those that "evaluate the accuracy of current and previous schools of historical interpretation to develop a personal philosophy of the past" are promoted.
America has sat by while actual communists and radical murderers like Bill Ayers were hired to teach their children in colleges across the nation. We, as a nation, believe in free thought and speech, we are extremely tolerant, so we were easy game. But the Communists that wanted to destroy this country were not satisfied with just taking over the colleges, it must not have been working WELL ENOUGH, so they had to centralize and take over every little school in America- voila- Common Core.
One high school history assignment from StudySync, a private corporation that provides teachers with "assistance" for Common Core requirements, requires students to offer a critical response to Ronald Reagan's address to the students at Moscow University. They must argue in 300 words why Reagan's speech was ineffective and/or false. They must cite specific points and arguments from Reagan's speech and offer counterarguments against each. This is teaching liberalism folks. This is teaching children to question free markets and freedom. And I do say children, high school students are not adults. They aren't old enough to drink but, according to Common Core ,they are old enough to be propagandized AGAINST their country and what it stands for. Is anyone surprised that American children are joining the terrorists in their fight for an Islamic Caliphate?
If you want to have a strong country you must fight for the right to teach your children to love it. That's called patriotism and loyalty to your country. That's why we say the Pledge of Allegiance and have a national anthem. People have the right to raise their children as they choose, but do they have the right to use our public schools to teach children to criticize and ultimately not believe in their own country? Do they have the right to lie and obfuscate information, telling children that slavery was the defining character of our founding fathers when children probably don't know that slavery was almost universal at that time and our constitution was written to end slavery within 20 years, because they couldn't end it immediately? Do they teach children that we are the only country that fought a civil war to end slavery, that white men died to free their Black brothers and sisters? Meanwhile, are our children being taught about the wonder of the first nation to define universal human rights FROM GOD? Are they taught about our leadership of the free world that stopped Hitler, a brutal dictator, and freed the Jews from concentration camps?
Students are taught about the internment of the Japanese here. This was obviously an overreaction to the Japanese attack, it was wrong and unfair. But the children are not carefully taught THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND WHAT HAPPENED IN AMERICA. Disloyalty against our nation could not be taught better in our public schools if it was taught by any of our enemies, including the Communists from Russia.
And let us be clear about the so called "Communists"- these are brutal dictators not altruistic Marxists that make everything fair- Marx's ideology has never worked anywhere, anytime.
America is a nation of immigrants so it is doubly important to teach our culture and our ideas to our young. America needs to stand up to Howard Zinn and his shaming of America- this man writes textbooks!! America has laid down for a long time and allowed our enemies to freely try to destroy us, from taking away our right to use our natural resources to actually destroying our forests with fires, to destroying our American spirit with drugs and dependency programs, to destroying our national beliefs.
Our last chance to fight back, the last battle for our country, might be right here, right now, in our public schools.People come to America from all over the world because of our ideas, our ideas of freedom that have built a prosperous, safe, and free America that believes in the rights of the individual. We MUST DEMAND THAT THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA'S SUCCESS BE TAUGHT TO OUR CHILDREN. We no longer have the luxury of sitting by, we must fight back and stop our enemies, we must keep our enemies out of the White House. We must vote for people who ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN AND LOVE OUR COUNTRY. We must stop this DESTRUCTION OF A POWERFUL NATION- ours.
America has sat by while actual communists and radical murderers like Bill Ayers were hired to teach their children in colleges across the nation. We, as a nation, believe in free thought and speech, we are extremely tolerant, so we were easy game. But the Communists that wanted to destroy this country were not satisfied with just taking over the colleges, it must not have been working WELL ENOUGH, so they had to centralize and take over every little school in America- voila- Common Core.
One high school history assignment from StudySync, a private corporation that provides teachers with "assistance" for Common Core requirements, requires students to offer a critical response to Ronald Reagan's address to the students at Moscow University. They must argue in 300 words why Reagan's speech was ineffective and/or false. They must cite specific points and arguments from Reagan's speech and offer counterarguments against each. This is teaching liberalism folks. This is teaching children to question free markets and freedom. And I do say children, high school students are not adults. They aren't old enough to drink but, according to Common Core ,they are old enough to be propagandized AGAINST their country and what it stands for. Is anyone surprised that American children are joining the terrorists in their fight for an Islamic Caliphate?
If you want to have a strong country you must fight for the right to teach your children to love it. That's called patriotism and loyalty to your country. That's why we say the Pledge of Allegiance and have a national anthem. People have the right to raise their children as they choose, but do they have the right to use our public schools to teach children to criticize and ultimately not believe in their own country? Do they have the right to lie and obfuscate information, telling children that slavery was the defining character of our founding fathers when children probably don't know that slavery was almost universal at that time and our constitution was written to end slavery within 20 years, because they couldn't end it immediately? Do they teach children that we are the only country that fought a civil war to end slavery, that white men died to free their Black brothers and sisters? Meanwhile, are our children being taught about the wonder of the first nation to define universal human rights FROM GOD? Are they taught about our leadership of the free world that stopped Hitler, a brutal dictator, and freed the Jews from concentration camps?
Students are taught about the internment of the Japanese here. This was obviously an overreaction to the Japanese attack, it was wrong and unfair. But the children are not carefully taught THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND WHAT HAPPENED IN AMERICA. Disloyalty against our nation could not be taught better in our public schools if it was taught by any of our enemies, including the Communists from Russia.
And let us be clear about the so called "Communists"- these are brutal dictators not altruistic Marxists that make everything fair- Marx's ideology has never worked anywhere, anytime.
America is a nation of immigrants so it is doubly important to teach our culture and our ideas to our young. America needs to stand up to Howard Zinn and his shaming of America- this man writes textbooks!! America has laid down for a long time and allowed our enemies to freely try to destroy us, from taking away our right to use our natural resources to actually destroying our forests with fires, to destroying our American spirit with drugs and dependency programs, to destroying our national beliefs.
Our last chance to fight back, the last battle for our country, might be right here, right now, in our public schools.People come to America from all over the world because of our ideas, our ideas of freedom that have built a prosperous, safe, and free America that believes in the rights of the individual. We MUST DEMAND THAT THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA'S SUCCESS BE TAUGHT TO OUR CHILDREN. We no longer have the luxury of sitting by, we must fight back and stop our enemies, we must keep our enemies out of the White House. We must vote for people who ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN AND LOVE OUR COUNTRY. We must stop this DESTRUCTION OF A POWERFUL NATION- ours.
Thursday, 21 August 2014
WHAT IS THIS ALL REALLY ABOUT?
Like most of you I suppose, I am dead tired of politics. Like you, I remember the days when we only thought about politics right before we had to vote. It did not consume our lives everyday. I was just wondering if the reason Barrack Obama is in Martha's Vineyard golfing is because he just - aw shucks- thinks we need to share our wealth? Is he buying land in Palm Springs while in office just for fairness?Have the Clinton's become multimillionaires because they are passionate for the poor? Or just maybe, is this about what it is always about, POWER AND MONEY.
These communist wannabes may have started out ardent about social justice, but I don't see them practicing it today. When Harry Truman left office he got in the car with Bess and went home. We never heard from him again. He didn't die a millionaire or go on the speaking circuit to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a speech. He had served his country and then he went home.
So why do the communist wannabes want to control the schools and the voting booth? Is it to make a "better America", or is it like every tinhorn dictator that ever lived, to gain and keep control over the "masses". Dictators like Hitler or Mussolini were rather crude about it, they didn't have a constitution to frustrate their move to control. They just killed people who spoke against them and went right into the schools and took over. The communist wannabes have to be a little more clever, they have to obfuscate their moves- you see- Common Core "is not really a curriculum" and "it's not from the government- after all, the STATES HAVE THE RIGHT OVER EDUCATION!" Yeah right, the states rights over education is no longer anything but a pretense. Common Core is the nail in the coffin, Common Core even controls national testing and college entrance exams.
If you want to take control, you have to change things. You have to have people listening to you so that you can control them. What shall I believe master? What shall I do master? You are always right master and I am just waiting to be your servant. The communist wannabes know what we should eat or not eat, they know how we should sit in our car, they know what kinds of cars we should be able to drive, they know that we can't burn leaves in our gutter anymore or throw rice at weddings. They know that we shouldn't be able to smoke even in our own homes. They know everything and all they need is an ad campaign to make their desires become public policy. To keep this going they need control of the masses. They need to control minds. They don't want children that question them, they want children that LISTEN TO THEM.
Our children are having "information taken out" of their curriculums. They are being taught that the most important thing about our founding fathers is that they had slaves. They are being taught to "have opinions" before they have any information to make opinions with. Our children are being raised under Common Core to have the opinion that everything is relative and that their country and its founding beliefs are flawed. These dumbed down individuals are being primed to believe whatever the communist wannabes need them to believe at any moment.
People with power want to keep it and that is what Common Core is all about- creating a future generation that will submit and allow the power brokers to continue their corruption, graft and pilfering. If you make waves you are an extremist according to these very corrupt people. America needs to break away from all of this propaganda and rely on the wisdom of their founding fathers in the Constitution of The United States of America. This document frustrates the accumulation of power as its PLAN. It protects the people from the power of government- very frustrating for communist wannabes.
Who among us was not a "liberal" at one time? Not too many I guess. People need to think straight and break away from the confusion and disarray of the present day power brokers that are trying to undermine everything this country stands for. I broke away a long time ago. People who have been taken in by the propaganda that keeps the present power mongers at their dynastic peak need to break away- there's no shame in it- as I said, most of us had to break away at some point. Some of the greatest intellectuals among us - like David Horowitz- were taken in by this high powered propaganda at some point. We can't save our children until we save ourselves.
This is all really about power and money and taking our constitution and our country from us - the jig is up- don't let them.
These communist wannabes may have started out ardent about social justice, but I don't see them practicing it today. When Harry Truman left office he got in the car with Bess and went home. We never heard from him again. He didn't die a millionaire or go on the speaking circuit to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a speech. He had served his country and then he went home.
So why do the communist wannabes want to control the schools and the voting booth? Is it to make a "better America", or is it like every tinhorn dictator that ever lived, to gain and keep control over the "masses". Dictators like Hitler or Mussolini were rather crude about it, they didn't have a constitution to frustrate their move to control. They just killed people who spoke against them and went right into the schools and took over. The communist wannabes have to be a little more clever, they have to obfuscate their moves- you see- Common Core "is not really a curriculum" and "it's not from the government- after all, the STATES HAVE THE RIGHT OVER EDUCATION!" Yeah right, the states rights over education is no longer anything but a pretense. Common Core is the nail in the coffin, Common Core even controls national testing and college entrance exams.
If you want to take control, you have to change things. You have to have people listening to you so that you can control them. What shall I believe master? What shall I do master? You are always right master and I am just waiting to be your servant. The communist wannabes know what we should eat or not eat, they know how we should sit in our car, they know what kinds of cars we should be able to drive, they know that we can't burn leaves in our gutter anymore or throw rice at weddings. They know that we shouldn't be able to smoke even in our own homes. They know everything and all they need is an ad campaign to make their desires become public policy. To keep this going they need control of the masses. They need to control minds. They don't want children that question them, they want children that LISTEN TO THEM.
Our children are having "information taken out" of their curriculums. They are being taught that the most important thing about our founding fathers is that they had slaves. They are being taught to "have opinions" before they have any information to make opinions with. Our children are being raised under Common Core to have the opinion that everything is relative and that their country and its founding beliefs are flawed. These dumbed down individuals are being primed to believe whatever the communist wannabes need them to believe at any moment.
People with power want to keep it and that is what Common Core is all about- creating a future generation that will submit and allow the power brokers to continue their corruption, graft and pilfering. If you make waves you are an extremist according to these very corrupt people. America needs to break away from all of this propaganda and rely on the wisdom of their founding fathers in the Constitution of The United States of America. This document frustrates the accumulation of power as its PLAN. It protects the people from the power of government- very frustrating for communist wannabes.
Who among us was not a "liberal" at one time? Not too many I guess. People need to think straight and break away from the confusion and disarray of the present day power brokers that are trying to undermine everything this country stands for. I broke away a long time ago. People who have been taken in by the propaganda that keeps the present power mongers at their dynastic peak need to break away- there's no shame in it- as I said, most of us had to break away at some point. Some of the greatest intellectuals among us - like David Horowitz- were taken in by this high powered propaganda at some point. We can't save our children until we save ourselves.
This is all really about power and money and taking our constitution and our country from us - the jig is up- don't let them.
Wednesday, 13 August 2014
DOES IT HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS?!!
The answer to my question "DOES IT HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS?!!" is no, it does not. Our liberal friends who hate our country from its founding think of themselves as positive. They claim that conservatives are "negative". Well, not so fast my friends. Conservatives BELIEVE in this country. They UNDERSTAND what a wonderful country this is and how our SUCCESS has improved lives here at home and around the world. Conservatives BELIEVE in the goodness of this country and that we can over come FRAUD, OBUSE AND CORRUPTION to get our country back on the right track. That is optimism folks. The negativity comes from the left.
The other day we got a message from the city, never a good thing, and I opened it immediately. Wonder of wonders- the city wants ANOTHER non-motorized district (Open Spaces Bond and Complete Streets is not enough for these always invasive and intrusive folks with their noses stuck smack in the line coming straight to them from Washington D.C.). That was bad enough, but here's how the vote goes down-you see the vote they were asking for to get more property taxes from me was a "protest" vote. That way- ALL BALLOTS NOT RETURNED ARE COUNTED AS A YES VOTE!! Just think of it- opt out voting- everyone is in unless they OPT OUT!! This is how they do it these days in the schools too- you are automatically OPTED IN for all their garbage and testing unless you OPT OUT. Since most people have a life and can't follow every single thing that is going on, they don't know when to opt out so these leftists get everything they want almost universally. My husband called the city attorney and he was very happy to tell him that this law had been passed by the Montana legislature in 2009 and was reenacted in 2013. Do you know what this is? Our legislature is heavily REPUBLICAN. People do not vote for REPUBLICANS to get bowled over and abused like this. What this is, is our REPUBLICANS getting USED by the left. The lefties laugh all the way to the bank too - ha - ha "Don't look at us (though the whole thing was their plan and proposal), the REPUBLICAN majority passed it!!Republicans DO NOT HAVE TO BE THIS STUPID, Republicans DO NOT HAVE TO BE USED BY THE LEFT.
If you show up at the legislature you will run into the "alphabet soup". This is the MTSBA (Montana School Boards Association), the NEA (National Education Association), the MEA (Montana Education Association) and the MREA ( Montana Rural Educators Association). THESE ARE ALL LOBBYISTS FOR EDUCATION TAX MONEY AND THEIR VERY LIFE IS PAID FOR BY YOU. That's right- you pay taxes to pay for these groups to lobby for their interests- often opposed to your interests. Tax payer funded lobbying. Do you think that is fair? Of course they win all the time because you are as I said, living your life, and these peoples full time job, paid for by you, is to lobby for what they want. If you wonder "DOES IT HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS?!!", you have to look no further than Scott Walker in Wisconsin. His teacher's unions have to collect their own dues now and teachers are dropping out of the union like flies.
Every time you see people being registered to vote on the street with no need to produce a birth certificate, or NINE HUNDRED absentee ballots being sent to the Democratic headquarters, or a crucial precinct not having ONE Republican vote, or recounts over and over until a Democrat gets the most votes, REMEMBER YOU CAN CHANGE THIS!! You can change this by voting out corrupt and inept politicians. You can vote for people who will turn this government around. You do not have to put up with people with absolutely no qualifications or proven abilities (like Hillary Clinton or Barrack Obama). Hawaii just voted out their incumbent governor in a primary for the first time ever. He had ten times the money and Barrack Obama's endorsement, but he lost.
In Helena we have allowed the lobbyist for the Police and Fire union to be our Mayor for 15 years!! We have the president of the teachers unions wife on our school board!! Things do not have to be this way. You have to live your life, but you can pay attention and vote these people out. Vote for people that don't believe in opt out voting. Vote for people that will represent the interests of the people not the government. Vote for people who will stand for the interests of our country and not the interests of POWER. WE CAN CHANGE THIS IF WE PAY ATTENTION AND VOTE. There is not enough corruption out there to overcome the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of the people. It can happen folks, it's happening right now in Wisconsin.We have a right to protect our borders and our laws. We have a right to expect fiscal responsibility in our government. WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN AND WE WILL. FUTURE GENERATIONS ARE DEPENDING ON US. WE WON'T LOSE THIS COUNTRY ON OUR WATCH!!
The other day we got a message from the city, never a good thing, and I opened it immediately. Wonder of wonders- the city wants ANOTHER non-motorized district (Open Spaces Bond and Complete Streets is not enough for these always invasive and intrusive folks with their noses stuck smack in the line coming straight to them from Washington D.C.). That was bad enough, but here's how the vote goes down-you see the vote they were asking for to get more property taxes from me was a "protest" vote. That way- ALL BALLOTS NOT RETURNED ARE COUNTED AS A YES VOTE!! Just think of it- opt out voting- everyone is in unless they OPT OUT!! This is how they do it these days in the schools too- you are automatically OPTED IN for all their garbage and testing unless you OPT OUT. Since most people have a life and can't follow every single thing that is going on, they don't know when to opt out so these leftists get everything they want almost universally. My husband called the city attorney and he was very happy to tell him that this law had been passed by the Montana legislature in 2009 and was reenacted in 2013. Do you know what this is? Our legislature is heavily REPUBLICAN. People do not vote for REPUBLICANS to get bowled over and abused like this. What this is, is our REPUBLICANS getting USED by the left. The lefties laugh all the way to the bank too - ha - ha "Don't look at us (though the whole thing was their plan and proposal), the REPUBLICAN majority passed it!!Republicans DO NOT HAVE TO BE THIS STUPID, Republicans DO NOT HAVE TO BE USED BY THE LEFT.
If you show up at the legislature you will run into the "alphabet soup". This is the MTSBA (Montana School Boards Association), the NEA (National Education Association), the MEA (Montana Education Association) and the MREA ( Montana Rural Educators Association). THESE ARE ALL LOBBYISTS FOR EDUCATION TAX MONEY AND THEIR VERY LIFE IS PAID FOR BY YOU. That's right- you pay taxes to pay for these groups to lobby for their interests- often opposed to your interests. Tax payer funded lobbying. Do you think that is fair? Of course they win all the time because you are as I said, living your life, and these peoples full time job, paid for by you, is to lobby for what they want. If you wonder "DOES IT HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS?!!", you have to look no further than Scott Walker in Wisconsin. His teacher's unions have to collect their own dues now and teachers are dropping out of the union like flies.
Every time you see people being registered to vote on the street with no need to produce a birth certificate, or NINE HUNDRED absentee ballots being sent to the Democratic headquarters, or a crucial precinct not having ONE Republican vote, or recounts over and over until a Democrat gets the most votes, REMEMBER YOU CAN CHANGE THIS!! You can change this by voting out corrupt and inept politicians. You can vote for people who will turn this government around. You do not have to put up with people with absolutely no qualifications or proven abilities (like Hillary Clinton or Barrack Obama). Hawaii just voted out their incumbent governor in a primary for the first time ever. He had ten times the money and Barrack Obama's endorsement, but he lost.
In Helena we have allowed the lobbyist for the Police and Fire union to be our Mayor for 15 years!! We have the president of the teachers unions wife on our school board!! Things do not have to be this way. You have to live your life, but you can pay attention and vote these people out. Vote for people that don't believe in opt out voting. Vote for people that will represent the interests of the people not the government. Vote for people who will stand for the interests of our country and not the interests of POWER. WE CAN CHANGE THIS IF WE PAY ATTENTION AND VOTE. There is not enough corruption out there to overcome the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of the people. It can happen folks, it's happening right now in Wisconsin.We have a right to protect our borders and our laws. We have a right to expect fiscal responsibility in our government. WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN AND WE WILL. FUTURE GENERATIONS ARE DEPENDING ON US. WE WON'T LOSE THIS COUNTRY ON OUR WATCH!!
Saturday, 2 August 2014
S T A N D A R D S
Now that the National Curriculum, Common Core,is being thrown out across the nation, many states are saying ,"Our STANDARDS were better than Common Core". Well, that's true, but why do they need STANDARDS ? We had better schools than we have now without these invasive STATE STANDARDS, for hundreds of years in this country. When the Carnegie Standards came about long ago they were very simple, they were graduation standards. Students would be expected to complete a certain amount of English, Math, Science, and History to graduate. How well a student should be able to write was left up to the English teacher. We didn't need the government to make this determination. Students wrote very well in those days, much better than they do today with all the government intrusion and forced testing.
STATE STANDARDS came about in the early nineties as a precursor to our NATIONAL CURRICULUM. The STANDARDS were the result of a FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM CALLED GOALS 2000. Since we got the FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION we have had the ESEA- NATIONAL SECONDARY AND ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT. The ESEA is reenacted every ten years with loads of money. This money becomes grants that DIRECT EDUCATION IN THIS COUNTRY. Do you want this? Do you think the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS IMPROVED EDUCATION IN THIS COUNTRY? If the Federal Government has improved education in this country why is homeschooling now almost a norm and the charter school movement expanding aggressively?
National Curriculums allow FEDERAL AUTHORITIES to put political agendas into schools. That's it - over and out. The high schools in Helena now offer "genre" English classes- Women's Rights English and Holocaust English. I thought "genres" were fiction, nonfiction, adventure, fantasy, and so on- types of literature. Since when is "genre" political activist agendas?!! This is what happens when we allow FEDERAL TAKE OVER of our schools. The STANDARDS are in place to put GLOBAL WARMING and ENVIRONMENTAL activism into our science STANDARDS. They put SEXUAL AGENDAS into our health standards. They put political agendas into our English classes. The STANDARDS put revisionist history into our history classes. And so it goes- the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT injects all of this garbage into their STANDARDS. But each state writes their own standards don't they? They may physically write them but they don't come up with the ideas. Phyllis Schlafly compared STATE STANDARDS and found the states "amazingly" the same. It was all a ruse that states had their INDIVIDUAL STATE CREATED STANDARDS, just like it is a ruse today that Common Core is not a curriculum.
The Common Core advocates are screaming from the top of their lungs that "Common Core is not a curriculum" BALONEY!! THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!! Common Core TRAINS TEACHERS ON HOW TO TEACH, Common Core TELLS TEACHERS WHAT BOOKS TO PICK FROM FOR ENGLISH CLASSES and TELLS TEACHERS EXACTLY HOW TO TEACH EACH BOOK. Common Core TELLS SCIENCE AND HISTORY TEACHERS HOW TO INSERT "READING INTO THEIR CLASSES ( What!! Students never read in History and Science classes before??) Common Core HAS ALL THE TESTS AND REQUIRES THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO ALIGN THEIR CURRICULUMS TO COMMON CORE AND THEN TO SELECT TEXT BOOKS THAT ARE COMMON CORE ALIGNED!! Common Core EVALUATES TEACHERS AND COLLECTS PERSONAL DATA ON OUR STUDENTS!! Common Core is not just a curriculum- it is a controlling and invasive social engineering machine being directed from Washington.
Common Core reads like a textbook telling teachers exactly how to act and what to say. Here's an example :
STATE STANDARDS came about in the early nineties as a precursor to our NATIONAL CURRICULUM. The STANDARDS were the result of a FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM CALLED GOALS 2000. Since we got the FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION we have had the ESEA- NATIONAL SECONDARY AND ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT. The ESEA is reenacted every ten years with loads of money. This money becomes grants that DIRECT EDUCATION IN THIS COUNTRY. Do you want this? Do you think the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS IMPROVED EDUCATION IN THIS COUNTRY? If the Federal Government has improved education in this country why is homeschooling now almost a norm and the charter school movement expanding aggressively?
National Curriculums allow FEDERAL AUTHORITIES to put political agendas into schools. That's it - over and out. The high schools in Helena now offer "genre" English classes- Women's Rights English and Holocaust English. I thought "genres" were fiction, nonfiction, adventure, fantasy, and so on- types of literature. Since when is "genre" political activist agendas?!! This is what happens when we allow FEDERAL TAKE OVER of our schools. The STANDARDS are in place to put GLOBAL WARMING and ENVIRONMENTAL activism into our science STANDARDS. They put SEXUAL AGENDAS into our health standards. They put political agendas into our English classes. The STANDARDS put revisionist history into our history classes. And so it goes- the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT injects all of this garbage into their STANDARDS. But each state writes their own standards don't they? They may physically write them but they don't come up with the ideas. Phyllis Schlafly compared STATE STANDARDS and found the states "amazingly" the same. It was all a ruse that states had their INDIVIDUAL STATE CREATED STANDARDS, just like it is a ruse today that Common Core is not a curriculum.
The Common Core advocates are screaming from the top of their lungs that "Common Core is not a curriculum" BALONEY!! THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!! Common Core TRAINS TEACHERS ON HOW TO TEACH, Common Core TELLS TEACHERS WHAT BOOKS TO PICK FROM FOR ENGLISH CLASSES and TELLS TEACHERS EXACTLY HOW TO TEACH EACH BOOK. Common Core TELLS SCIENCE AND HISTORY TEACHERS HOW TO INSERT "READING INTO THEIR CLASSES ( What!! Students never read in History and Science classes before??) Common Core HAS ALL THE TESTS AND REQUIRES THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO ALIGN THEIR CURRICULUMS TO COMMON CORE AND THEN TO SELECT TEXT BOOKS THAT ARE COMMON CORE ALIGNED!! Common Core EVALUATES TEACHERS AND COLLECTS PERSONAL DATA ON OUR STUDENTS!! Common Core is not just a curriculum- it is a controlling and invasive social engineering machine being directed from Washington.
Common Core reads like a textbook telling teachers exactly how to act and what to say. Here's an example :
students analyze the first impressions given of Tom and Aunt Polly
in the opening chapter of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer based on
the setting and how the characters are introduced. By comparing
these first impressions with their later understanding based on how
the action is ordered and the characters develop over the course of
the novel, students understand the impact of Mark Twain's choices
in relating elements of the story........................................................
You can't be more of a curriculum than that!! This excerpt was taken from Terrence O. Moore"s book The Story Killers, which I highly recommend. Terrence calls the Common Core creators the arch testers and points out how terrible their curriculum is. But more importantly, we're being lied to and our right to our control over our schools, our children and our privacy is being taken away. I will call the Common Core creators the arch liars and manipulators.
In 1979 the radicals in this country were S C R E A M I N G that our schools were failing and they needed to SAVE US!! We didn't need them to save us then and we don't need them to save us now. They have ruined our schools and even worse- have destroyed our children's right to be proud of their country and their heritage. Children aren't learning the songs of their forefathers , or their stories. They aren't learning to be proud of the great people that came before them and built this great nation.
Today, young adults from counter culture are often confused and upset. The other day I saw an obituary of a young man who had committed suicide - in his life he had been doing art for revisionist history. Not having pride and sustaining values of your country and faith in your heritage can leave you lost and in a very bad place. People have a right to raise their children as they see fit- BUT DO THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO IT TO OUR CHILDREN? We can write curriculums without STATE MANDATED STANDARDS in every subject and grade level. School should be about learning basic TRUE information and building literacy- AGENDAS HAVE NO PLACE IN SCHOOL!! AMERICA TAKE YOUR SCHOOLS BACK!!
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