This is part 13.
Here is a post from an Ohio anti-Common Core group:
Hi [Name withheld]! I have contacted you in the past regarding common core. We have opted our son hunter out of all common core testing since 3rd grade. He is now entering 6th grade and it doesn’t seem education is on the political agenda yet. My question is if we continue to opt him out are there any repercussions for him with graduation or SAT/ACT tests?
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Here is a post that was shared in the Utah anti-Common Core group:
Why your tax dollars go to support positions you might disagree with.
“Earlier this month, the Utah School Boards Association (USBA) voted to support a change in state law to allow teachers to “incentivize” students to take the statewide RISE test (formerly called SAGE). It also stated its view that parents shouldn’t be able to opt their children out of tests but that all students should be required to participate.
Alpine School District (ASD) taxpayers fund USBA’s lobbying efforts every year through tax funds the district uses to pay dues to the organization. This year, USBA dues cost ASD taxpayers over $56,000”
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A 10-year old student was punished in North Carolina for calling his teacher “ma’am”:
https://www.10tv.com/article/parents-say-their-son-was-punished-his-teacher-calling-her-maam
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Here is another post from the Utah anti-Common Core group:
I have seen a HUGE backlash against opting out this year! Ever since the law change in March, teachers and schools are pressuring me and my kids to take the tests. One of our charters bought their own software to replace the federal one as a way around the opt-out of state-required testing. “It’s not a state test” they told me. I don’t care! I don’t want my kid analyzed!
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And another post from this group:
I work as an aid at my kids’ school. Last year I was in a class as a teacher told the kids that SAGE testing isn’t bad and how parents are confused. I just sat there silently, but screaming in my head “YOU are the one who is confused.” If I come across that again, I doubt I’ll be able to stay quiet. But I have emphasized to my kids that they are not to take any test that even smells like SAGE (or RISE)
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Wonderful news! Parents are fighting back against the school that had dropped the Pledge of Allegiance, supposedly to be more “inclusive”, and had replaced it with a pledge to “global society”: http://eagnews.org/parents-fight-back-after-school-drops-pledge-of-allegiance-for-student-authored-oath-to-global-society/
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Here is a post from Alice Linahan:
THE STORY IS ACTUALLY MUCH BIGGER THAN THIS!
What was not covered in this segment, is the fact that private psychological data is collected, and handed over to 3rd parties, when students are forced by the state via their local schools, to take the College Board’s PSAT, TSI or SAT assessments, in order to graduate or go to college. It is beyond unethical, a complete violation and wrong.
The psychological data that is collected is available because the assessments are NOT academic knowledge-based, but rather behavioral. The mined student data collected, by third parties, is collected in order to create software programs to modify student behavior. Not to sell products to students, but the students are the product. Students are the investment vehicle for what is known as Social Impact Bonds (SIBS) ALSO KNOWN AS PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS!
In addition to being a national security issue because of who has access to this mined student data.
Where are the Bathroom Bill Republicans when it comes to protecting our children’s privacy in the classroom? Oh, I forget, their campaign donors are profiting from the data in the classroom, so that’s okay.
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Here is a post from an Arizona anti-Common Core group:
Do you recognize the clenched fist in the picture? This information is on the AZ Department of Ed website. Where is Diane Douglas?!? This is another reason why we need a true leader like Frank Riggs! The following excerpt is from a letter submitted on July 4, 2018 to the AZ Attorney General’s office.
“This ADE program…is called “Excellence in Civic Engagement.” It encourages children to immerse themselves in various social, economic, and political “causes” via youth street activism, political lobbying efforts, get out the vote initiatives, community organizing, and connects youth with radical political groups promoting mobocracy. Among its many politically motivated aims are voting initiatives – lowering the voting age to 16, get out the vote drives, and changing the voting rules related to the electoral college in favor of the popular vote.
Diane Douglas was made aware of this program months ago and has taken no action.”
https://cms.azed.gov/home/GetDocumentFile?id=58e2c4e66f53b71b787231df
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And another post from said group:
Question: are schools allowed to give an extra lunch hour to achievers on 2017-18 AZmerit and make everyone else take classes? This is high school. After 9 weeks this year they can earn the longer lunch hour with benchmarks. This high school changed their day schedule to start at 730 instead of 830 to accommodate this special reward. 😡
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And here are the replies to this post:
Wow!! No idea but that’s ridiculous. But that just seems to punish kids who don’t measure up and single out those who struggle.
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Wow, just wow. Garbage policy. I’d spread word fast and raise hell. Which school or district? Also willfully blind to the multidisciplinary consensus regarding high school start times and adolescent sleep needs/biorhythms. Way off trend to start earlier. Ignorant and even dangerous.
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Not to mention extending the school day with no added downtime for those that probably need it most.
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Its Round Valley school district in north eastern az. I homeschool for reasons just like this but I thought I remembered this being illegal. There was mention of some sort of approval so I’m guessing they get a pass, but yeah I feel it’s immoral.
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I have no idea of the legality. But I can’t believe parents aren’t fuming.
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it’s so frustrating. Those who have a say tend to have achievers.
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At ALA on the 202, they gave my son an early class to do computer math (for the test) and he still does a normal math during the day. So that sounds very similar.
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they did the same to my son this year!! Instead of having an elective!!! He’s at ALA on C.H. & Hawes. 😡😡😡
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Just another reason why high stakes testing is so absurd. This is a direct result of increasing federal intrusion into state/local K-12 ed since 2002, the first year No Child Left Behind (NCLB) took effect. NCLB & Common Core prioritize student performance on standardized tests above all else. That’s what we currently have in AZ: Teaching all students to the same standards (CC 3.0!) & requiring all students to take the same test (AzMERIT) aligned to those standards; & then using the test results to evaluate teachers & administrators & rank schools on the “School Report Card.”
The ill-conceived consequences of high-stakes testing & results-based funding mandate teaching to the test & penalize schools serving the most challenged & disadvantaged segments of the student population who make up the “Achievement Gap” (minority, low-income, Limited English Proficient & special needs students). The purpose of testing is to provide teachers & parents with feedback on student achievement & progress. Tests are supposed to be an evaluation & diagnostic tool, not an autopsy!
Standardized testing is a low priority for the overwhelming majority of parents as the attached PDK/Gallup Annual “Back-to-School” Survey of parents shows. They rank standardized test scores as the least important factor in judging school quality! Perhaps it’s time for those of us in educational leadership to start listening to what parents really want & adapting our educational system accordingly!
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Here is a post from Alice Linahan:
As reported by Lynne M Taylor over at Common Core Diva:
Below are the millions/billions of dollars being earmarked for
NATIONAL DATA COLLECTION in 2019 BY THE GOVERNMENT.
HR 6470 and S 3158 are simply a beginning point for Congress in relation to the Fiscal Year (FY) Finalized 2019 Budget. Both these Bills cover ONLY the Depts of Labor, HHS, Education, and ANY related Agency.
However, by knowing WHERE the money goes, we can track how it ends up in the FINALIZED version.
The fiscal Year 2019 begins 10/1/18.
Career Aligning Data Mining:
*From HR 6470, $6 million to enlarge and innovate the Workforce Quality Data Initiative (WQDI) uses personal, private data from those in post-secondary schools and the job market to streamline back down to the Student Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) used in any K-12th-grade education tracking system (all ed choices).
In S 3158, $6 million for WQDI is also set aside.
*YouthBuild (HR 6470: $92, 534,000/S 3158: $93,079,000
*Expanding Apprenticeships (dovetails directly into the new CTE law and Exec Order for expansion) HR 6470: $150 million/S 3158: $160 million
*State grants for 1 Stop Job Centers, National Data Systems, Vets, etc. HR 6470: $3.47 billion; S 3158: $3.5 billion
*Health Care Data collection S 3158: $21 million
*HR 6470’s Health Care Data Collection is lumped in with Substance Abuse Mental Health Service Admin. (SAMHA) funds for ‘early intervention evidence-based research), $1.4 billion
*HR 6470 Health Surveillance/Research (ties to the Freedom of Information Act) $467 million; Data Collection for Substance Abuse: $79 million. Similar to this in S 3158 is the $60.3 million in funds for Health Information Technology upgrades.
*In Education, NATIONAL DATA COLLECTION VIA “SAFE SCHOOLS”
(HR 6470: $5.2 billion; S 3158: $5.3 billion)
*HR 6470 has $6.5 million set aside in education for the Census Bureau and Education Data, S 3158: $5 million
*Career Tech Ed (CTE) HR 6470, $1.9 billion (will use SLDS and WQDI among other DATA RAPE information)
S 3158 for CTE: $1.8 billion
Institutes for Educational Science (IES), USED research arm totally dependent on massive amounts of data)
HR 6470: $613 million, S 3158: $615 million BOTH these amounts carry the mandate that they MUST connect Pre-K to adult education/workforce data.
Most people believe that an IEP is only for students with special needs, as referenced in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). But the fact is, an IEP (Personalized Learning) will soon be, for every American citizen in this new P-20W system. P-20W meaning from Prenatal through the Workforce, and is a part of a much bigger plan. It is a controlled workforce for a controlled global economy.
When the money follows the child, state or federal Education Savings Acts (ESA)s, via government, regulated “School Choice”, the access point is established to reach every citizen, no matter what education choose is used.
A computer has the ability to track everything a student knows, thinks, and does.
https://commoncorediva.wordpress.com/…/a-matter-of-trust/
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Here is a post from a friend of mine:
We share these resources not because we agree but to keep you abreast of the Full speed Freight train…moving ahead in NYS with experimentation and of what is for now “voluntary adoption of social emotional learning SEL” not only is it experimental manipulation of emotions to alter behaviors for conformity but also to emulate “restorative justice” like that in Parkland Florida where there are no consequences for bad behavior, not safe schools for majority of students and instead is a social justice approach that guinea pigs children in “kumbaya circles”
*notice in the links CASEL and Linda Darling Hammond are the driving force. Also note the Democrat pending legislation federally.
Commissioner MaryEllen Elia press release. http://www.nysed.gov/…/back-school-season-approaches-new-so…
50 pages, what did this cost taxpayers? The promotion and selling of whole child experimental SEL http://www.p12.nysed.gov/…/SELEssentialforLearningandLife.p…
Benchmarks for emotions?! http://www.p12.nysed.gov/sss/selbenchmarks.html
So much for high quality knowledge based education.
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Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
The charter school that I selected specifically for their math program has sold out to a common core program to seek a better grade on yearly assessments. Additionally, they are holding back 25%of the advanced kids to repeat a grade in math because they find the transition to the new curriculum hard for the kids.
Those of you who have found a solution besides full-time homeschool, what have you done? Are there affordable private school options? Arrange release time to do another math program?
Thanks in advance for your ideas!
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And here are the replies to this post:
Liberty Hills Academy is a small private school in Bountiful that doesn’t use Common Core anything. Saxon is their math curriculum.
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I am not saying the commenters are wrong but every time I try to do an internet search on Saxon and Common Core I keep reading that Saxon sold out to Common Core several years ago, so I am confused.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Saxon
Is Saxon Math Common Core aligned?
Saxon Math was not designed as Common Core material. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions (from K-Calculus) are completely Common Core ‘free.’ The newest editions of Saxon adapted to align with Common Core.
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I have purchased Saxon math books on ebay and I just make sure to get editions that have been published in 2006 or before. So far, so good.
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A California high-school student was kicked out of class for wearing a NRA t-shirt: http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/08/08/california-high-school-student-booted-class-wearing-nra-t-shirt
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Here is a post from a California anti-Common Core group:
THIS IS GOOD! REALLY GOOD!
Just a few notes from “Creating Emotionally Safe Schools by Jane Bluestein, Ph.D.
Writer Larry Lashway says,
“One might wonder at the potential gap between what is being assessed and what is actually being taught – and learned – in any given classroom. Even districts that boast rising test scores may have little actual learning to back up numbers. Such increases may simply reflect the alignment of the district’s curriculum with the tests or local spending in improving test taking skills. Research in one state suggests that test-score gains simply indicate that students are getting better at test-taking, rather than offering evidence of increased learning.”
Principal Aaron Trummer cites an Irish proverb that warns, “You can’t tell the quality of a sheep by weighing it.” Even the best interpretation of a student’s scores doesn’t do justice to his or her talents.
Teacher Mary O’Brien Merrigan remarks, “standardized tests measure only the bottom line, NOT the learning process.
“We can kill children’s enthusiasm for learning with pressure to perform well on these tests,” says New Jersey educator Bonnie Ann McLain. And if students are feeling “panicked” or “under constant jeopardy” because of standardized tests, what is this stress doing to performance, not to mention learning?
In some corners, even the idea of teaching to the test is considered a form of cheating, although there are those who defend this practice as a positive education strategy.
Longtime education reformer Theodore Sizer claims that tests are an easy way out, a popular way to judge a school’s effectiveness because “people are lazy. They are not asking questions.” Tests, he claims, “have this facade of toughness and objectivity.” And regardless of the impact these exams might have on kids and educators, they “PUT NO BURDEN ON THE PEOPLE WHO MOST OFTEN DEMAND THEM – THE POLITICIANS.”
A BIG “thank you” to Beth Swan for finding this book and sharing it with me!
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And another post from this group:
Parents can make a difference!
Today, a bi-partisan group of the Michigan State Board of Education (SBE), voted down a grant program authorized by the Michigan legislature for Competency-Based Education (CBE).
According to the State Superintendent, this is the first time State Board of Educaiton has not approved a grant program.
The STOP COMMON CORE in Michigan and MICHIGAN PARENTS INVOLVED IN EDUCATION leadership thanked the Michigan State Board of Education for taking this bold step. We agree with the concerns expressed by Board members. We hope Michigan leadership will move ahead with a better strategy, engaging parents and teachers, before launching another faddish experiment on Michigan’s public school children.
California WAKE UP!
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And yet another post:
When we say there is too much data collection going on with students we are not making up this stuff. This is the next iteration because now they want to track them through life.
Just say NO to SBAC testing, surveys, and if your children are taking SAT, AP, or ACT tests make sure they are not filling out the “optional” data because they are collecting that data. The only reason to collect it is to share it or sell it.
Beware please.
Hat tip to John Walker
Modesto School Board
https://edsource.org/2018/californias-schools-and-colleges-show-varying-degrees-of-support-for-data-system-linking-student-information/601026
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Here is a post from someone on Alice Linahan’s FB page:
It’s a shame most Texans don’t know that we’ve already had our education commission hearings on Next Generation Assessments in 2016; and that the invited guests (ed tech providers) referred to our children and their data as “human capital, the new gold, a gold mine, a treasure trove”! It’s just a disgusting that it’s all being perpetrated under the FALSE guise of “It’s for the kids”! Makes me SICK!
Somebody needs to tell Sen. Larry Taylor (who was Chairman of the NGA hearings): We KNOW what you’re doing. CAPITAL-izing off of our kids. Somehow, he’s capitalizing off of the new “human capital.”
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Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
My son couldn’t go to advance math they said because we didn’t do SAGE testing. So I need to find some online stuff for him to do. He wanted to skip to the next grade level on Math but the teacher told him without his scores they can’t do it.
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And another post from said group:
Governor Herbert is in complete lockstep with everything Common Core. He promised Utahns that Utah was not required to abide by federal mandates, but he failed to tell us that he would voluntarily live by those mandates because he is a Common Core promoter at heart.
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And yet another post from said group:
Please excuse my lack of knowledge, but can anyone explain what the scenario looks like/options when a child has been educated using non common core standards and then wants to go to college and the SAT and ACT have common core on it? My kids are young so I am just trying to think of things we would encounter long term. Thank you!!
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And the replies to this post:
I have home schooled since 1983. This argument is not new. Even before common core, moms feared if they did not play school at home, their kids could not possible pass the ACT. But must did and they did better than those who went to school.
I have a son who decided that instead of taking the ACT he would take the GED even though he did not need to. The GED has just been recently recreated in common core fashion. In our state the GED is a state issued diploma. He had zero common core. He passed he GED with Honors.
Common core is not a curriculum it is a set of standards. The curriculum that some who promoted common core came up with is crazy, propaganda. But common core were the standards.
Just give your child a rich quality education, ignore common core. When they are about 13 or 14 let them take a practice ACT. Find what ever holes they might have and design a path to fill the holes. ACT takes your highest score and there is no limit on the numbers of tests. Taking it at 14 lays a benchmark. Colleges know that every time a student takes the ACT they can gain 2-3 points. Most take it, polish up on what they did not know and take it again. A son in law got a 27 as a junior in High School, he self corrected or improved and took the second time. On his third try he got 34 of 36 and earned a full ride scholarship.
Don’t settle for common core out of fear, your children deserve better. Education can be a fabulous adventure that will bless them the rest of their lives.
HEADS UP.
There is talk of abolishing our ELECTED State School Board again. This would mean an APPOINTED Board, which would mean parents would LOSE their voice COMPLETELY.
Start talking to your legislators NOW to let them know this would be a horrible mistake.
It was defeated last year, but they are trying it again this year.
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And another post from this group:
What I just texted to the reporter who trashed State board member Lisa Cummins.
“I just listened and read your piece on Lisa Cummins…and it took me all day to find someone who knew your number.
I am a precinct leader in my city of Saratoga Springs and helped support representative Jefferson Moss to get him into office. He works with the districts closely and the state education board. He is a good guy. Listens to every side of every issue involving education at the state level. He is kind to everyone, and thoughtful, even when he disagrees, he never has a negative thing to say publically, including about Lisa Cummins…however, I think you should know why. He knows she represents constituents who hate the 6% federal monies…being dangled like a carrot to force the obnoxious annual state wide testing, and data mining…by all students including those with disabilities that should not be being tested for hours on end for days.
He knows parental rights laws in Utah to opt out of state testing are being challanged by the Federal mandates of common core.
Utah parents make and contribute 94% of the money used on education in this state.
And 5.7% of those parents that use the public education system… currently opt out of testing.
That is .7 percent more than the federal government wants to allow…and that 6% of funding they threaten to pull… if Lisa Cummins does not stand up for them.
You did not represent parents in your piece who want parental rights laws…upheld…
When you trashed the woman who is fighting for them.
A total hit piece, destruction of a conservative leader. (zero positive statements from supporters…only statements by people who hate her and want to see her fail).
I get that she is not a PR scrubbed fake version of a politician. And that she has reposted articles on facebook that maybe she should have researched more first before posting (who hasn’t?)
She is not perfect…but she is perfectly willing to at least stand up, volunteer, and serve the parents and kids of Utah.
There are people who wanted someone on that board to ask the hard questions, who was an outsider, to make sure there was not federal over reach into Utah state education.
She is many peoples hero.
And I am re posting what I just wrote about her, to you… on the Utah delegate facebook group pages… so 5000 political influentials in Utah state…understand the other side of a coin…
You failed with severe BIAS-
to tell.”
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And some replies to this post:
Everything you need to know about the media was on full display today.
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Another State School Board Member Alisa Ellis
Just posted this in response to the news story:
“One View… Is that really what we want?
KUTV is seemingly on a witch-hunt. Last night they singled out one of my colleagues, board member Lisa Cummins. They combed through old meetings, took statements out of context, and made it sound as if she was the lone voice in every one of her votes.
The government, as designed by our Constitution, is messy and slow. And this is a really good thing. It protects us. Do we really want one person to hold the power to push through their point of view without allowing others the opportunity to be heard? KUTV is insinuating that Board Member Cummins holds that type of power. She does not. She is one board member who is powerless without a majority vote. Each different perspective presented on the board adds value to the discussion and helps us make better decisions as we look at all angles. Do we really want to silence someone? Is that the America you want?
The Constitution set up a system of government that has checks and balances. It prevents not only one branch of government from being too powerful but also individuals from being too powerful. The claims that KUTV is making are unfounded. One board member simply does not have enough power to make any type of changes within education. Anything that gets changed has to be voted on by a majority of the board.
Our board is very diverse. We have very liberal voices as well as very conservative voices on the board. As one of those conservative voices, I suspect that I’m on the chopping block next with KUTV.
The question is —
Will they look at the liberal voices and everything they’ve ever said or done as well? I hope not because I value their voices on our board.
Would it be easier for me if everyone felt and thought like me? Yes, it would be. Would I be able to push things through and get the kind of government and education system that I value? Yes.
But is that the right thing to do? NO
We are better and stronger when we are represented with different viewpoints and perspectives. I don’t have to agree with them and I don’t have to like them. But they’re voices are valuable and necessary and needed.
I hope that the good people of Utah will look beyond a news story and recognize that all voices matter. I would hope that the adults in Utah would be better examples for our children.
I do believe that public officials should be held accountable for their votes but it can be done in a respectful and kind way. KUTV is looking to damage and wound someone. It’s simply not right.”
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It was a total trash piece. I saw it last night on the 10 o’clock news. Absolute unabashed biased reporting. It made me sick. Lisa does the right thing, asks the hard questions and votes her conscience even when she stands alone. We need more like her.
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The whole situation is maddening! Why does it feel we’re always playing a losing game?
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Because parents of the past fell asleep and let liberals take over most institutions.
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The Mark Tucker letter was written in 1992, they’ve have a decades long headstart. I think we’re doing pretty good.
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Here is a post from the anti-CBE group:
I’ve been searching Achieve3000 on Twitter and I thought I’d share this for the horror of the image. No desks with kids bent over small screens in a crowded room forced to read AP articles for data collection. How is this not child abuse?
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Here is a post that was shared by Alice Linahan:
Oh look. Project Unicorn is showcasing Reasoning Mind. And don’t miss the “Take always from the recent IMS Global Learning Institute”
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https://mailchi.mp/9…/project-unicorn-august-newsletter-2018
Case Study Reasoning Mind
Is Meaning Lost When Data Is Exported? Why Reasoning Mind Takes a ‘Wait And See’ Approach
EdSurge
Marisa Kaplan
If you take data out of context, does it lose its meaning? This question constantly plagues Steven Gaudino, VP of Product Management at Reasoning Mind.
The Houston-based nonprofit organization develops online blended learning programs that can be used as core or supplemental curriculum in math classrooms, or to guide small group work in after-school programs. The nonprofit has been researching and iterating its math methodology since 2000, and its products have been used in classrooms since 2005. Currently, Reasoning Mind offers five programs that serve over 140,000 students in Pre-K through seventh grade and provides professional development to help teachers understand the organization’s approach to mathematics.
The programs collect a variety of data, from usage to performance, which Gaudino believes can guide instruction to target specific student needs. But he worries that data loses its meaning when it is shrunken down, exported and fed into other systems. He realizes that some administrators desire to see the data in a single dashboard, but questions whether combining it will help students learn. “Centralizing information in itself is not necessarily going to improve educational outcomes for students,” he says.
Read The Story Here
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And another post by Alice Linahan:
Interestingly, I pulled up what I wrote about SB 1882 at the time.
http://www.voicesempower.com/the-facts-behind-ed-reform-te…/
“Republicans and Democrats alike are working in coordination to strip Texans of our personal liberties and rights.
Case in point – SB 1882 Relating to a school district contract to partner with an open-enrollment charter school to operate a district campus and it’s companion bill HB 3439 .
As you can see, these bills are clearly a bi-partisan effort which will remove the authority of education from locally elected school boards.”
This is that stupid bill Rep Linda Koop got hoodwinked into sponsoring:
Texas teachers unions sue education agency over charter partnership law
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, two teacher groups argue Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath exceeded his authority and weakened protections for public school employees.
The lawsuit also argues that two of the guidelines Morath set out for SB 1882 violate existing state education law. One of the guidelines require the low-performing campus to be exempt from all district policies, beyond those agreed to in the partnership. The other gives Morath the authority to approve a partnership request if he determines it will “improve student outcomes” at the campus.
“It is an invalid rule that illegally usurps the authority of local school districts to apply their own local policies to SB 1882 arrangements and illegally subjects the rights and benefits of the plaintiff’s members, as provided for in local district policies, to unwarranted control by the commissioner,” the lawsuit says.
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Here is a post from the Utah anti-Common Core group:
Question for those of you in Utah with High Schoolers-I’m wondering if others are experiencing this and also wanting to give a heads up to those who will be dealing with this in the next few years. I recently got my daughter signed up to do some concurrent enrollment college classes through UVU at our local high school. Everything seemed fine. She had to take the accuplacer, but she scored great in both math and English. She was fully registered and ready to start classes when they told me that because she is a homeschooler, she isn’t allowed to take any concurrent enrollment classes unless she has taken the ACT and scored a 22 or higher in all sections or has an acredited GPA of 3.0 or higher. I explained that I can provide a transcript and a GPA but they said that because I’m just the mom, it doesn’t count. (Ok- they didn’t exactly word it like that but still…)
This all happened just a few days before these classes were starting so there was no possible way for her to even take the ACT. The public school kids don’t have to take the ACT to take concurrent enrollment classes and it’s just not right to make the homeschoolers jump through an extra hoop. They stated that they want to make sure the kids are ready for college classes because its permanently on their transcript etc. (Isn’t this the parent/college kids job? Why does the state think they get to decide when kids are ready anyway? ) To this I asked what the purpose of taking the accuplacer is then. Apparently they are planning to start phasing that out because of some decisions that were made at a meeting that happened in the beginning of August. Well- that gives nobody any notice or warning or any way around it! It’s not even possible to jump through this new hoop they’ve just created in time for classes this semester. These requirements aren’t listed on any of their forms, on their site, nothing. They don’t even ask for a GPA when you register or enroll and there is no place to enter an ACT score.
The worst thing was that their suggestion was to have her take 3 high school classes of any sort this semester instead so that she can have a GPA through a real school. *eyeroll* and then start concurrent classes after that. If their goal is to educate kids, why would they suggest she take 3 classes she doesn’t need, doesn’t want, won’t help her towards anything other than jumping through this new hoop? There are so many regulations and rules! They are actually preventing kids from learning.
Take math for example. You can’t take math 1050 unless you have taken math 1, 2, and 3. Even if you can easily test into it, you still have to take the classes before that. At least this rule is the same for PS and Homeschoolers. But it’s lame anyway. My daughters thoughts were, well- since I’m doing math every day anyway at this level, I may as well get college credit for it. But since they won’t let her take the class, she’ll keep studying math but end up having to repeat stuff once she does get to take a college math class. Ummmmmm-This system is seriously flawed…..
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Here is a post from a Breitbart article on what is going on Utah with the DOE sttrong-arming the state and schools:
My kids go to a charter school in Utah where many parents opted out of the SAGE Test. Why? Because it is a standardized test for Common Core. The test is awful. My kids who are great academically hate the SAGE Test. As the article states, common core is still hard at work in public schools. The Department of Education has not replaced it with anything better. The problem here is that the state of Utah now looses a lot a federal money because so many parents opted their children out of the test. So for all of you Constitutional Conservatives out there that believe in state’s rights you better be paying attention.
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And some other posts from this article:
Devos’ family owns an accreditation business. The scum had used common core as a guide to build an accreditation program.
DeVos had been pushing vouchers for “charter schools”, but only if those schools are accredited would a parent be able to use vouchers to pay for their childrens education.
Guess how the schools are accredited? The accreditation company owned by Devos’ family provides accreditation and curriculum, for a fee.
DeVos and its family is absolute scum, ripe for culling.
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I got so sick of the Common Core BS, especially in math, that I took my daughter our of public school after 2nd grade, and she has never been back. I could not afford a private school for a long time, so I homeschooled her until then. Don’t regret it for a second. Who would regret their kid taking Latin in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade? That’s why it used to be called “grammar school!”
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The Scamway queen DeVoss was one of Trumps worse picks. All but 2 repubs voted in favor of her, Collins of Maine and Murkowski of Alaska did not. DeVoss had a clearcut conflict of interest as she and her Billionaire family have tons of stock in the student loan collection industry and are heavily invested in sally may and Navient and many student loan collection companies. Pense voted to break a tie. DeVoss is 100% pay to play, and her only work experience is marrying into the billionaire Scamway family. I tend to be conservative and agree with many of Trumps policies and picks but he really made an error by selecting DeVoss.She is a total dud and just as bad as Obama’s Dept of Ed pick, Art Dunkme.
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Catch up with current events. In classic communist style, the Deparment of Education being merged with the Department of Labor. It’s been a long time coming. Now class rooms are junior corporate job TRAINING camps instead of education centers. All with the use of taxayer money. Research has shown federal common core standards are very often above children’s development levels, resulting in nothing less than child abuse to require kids to successfully complete tasks they simply haven’t the brain development to accomplish.
Watch and learn: https://vimeo.com/108856538
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Here is a post that was shared in a Utah anti-Common Core group:
I don’t even know what to say….
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And some replies to this post:
WoW!
Just another confirmation our feelings to leave SoCal thirteen years ago when we still had five kids left to get thru school, was the right decision.
I stood before the school board in Huntington Beach regarding an issue of parents rights, threatened to pull my kids out to home school, and voilà! Just like that, at the threat of a family pulling 6 kids from their public school, and loosing ALL that funding they receive for each of my kids, and I suddenly had their cooperation.
Of course that was back in about 1994ish.
Now that seems to be the least of my worries, we’re I still there with my last two still in school! (14 & 16)
You couldn’t pay me to move back there with my kids still in school. And I was born and raised there!
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Sounds like a concentration camp invitation letter.
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Right?!?
I do not think we live in the Land of the Free anymore.
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Mind blown. I’ve been saying this was coming for 10 years and my church laughs at me. “The state doesn’t think they own our kids!”!
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Omg… considering I was born and raised in that county I can safely say I’m glad I got the hell out. Wait until someone from Newport or Laguna gets arrested for taking their kids to Maui for 10 days 😂😂😂 this is a ticking time bomb…
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With what I had uncovered in the he FY 2019 Fed Budget bills, this school law enforcement partnership is not only part of the national tracking plan, it is on our dime as well as the P3s. Get the kids out
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Well, the are many reasons we choose the relative quiet of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, I shall add this to the list this morning 🙂
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WA state has very a very similar law, called the BECCA Law. Parents will be taken to court after so many absences….so glad to be out of there!
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Nope nope and hell no. So, keep your kids attendance up and they get more money. Hmmmm……No Don’t comply…you’re a criminal. Super👍🏻😁
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This was the law in Ohio when I went to school. If we missed 3 days, unexcused, the sherif would show up at our house… so it doesn’t shock me.
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The real reason is right there…school funding. You go on vacation, we lose money. Plus, we get paid to arrest…so there you go.
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Send your child to day prison or go to prison, so sayeth the state!! No child will be allowed to learn. They will only be educated. PEOPLE, this is what happens when you allow your enemy to take custody of your children for the purposes of state propaganda. Once they have them they claim to own them and have say above you. Maybe it was a bad idea to register your child to the state when they were born.
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They want to charge parents with the crime yet they’ll let out all the drug dealers and now considering letting people out of jail and let them go free from death row. All in the same state
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This is just an illustration of how American education has been designed to support “State as Absolute.” Citizens exist for, and are therefore, to be dependent on (and subservient to) the State. The citizens are not to rely on their individual faculties.
John Dewey, the father of American education, held the concept of “education for social change.”
Note the complete LACK of ACADEMICS in the following statement by Dewey: “The school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
Andrew Sutton commenting: Education is not CHILD centered, but STATE centered, … Parents believe a child goes to school to learn skills to use in the adult world, but Dewey states specifically that education is “not a preparation for future living.” The Dewey educational system does not accept the role of developing a child’s talents but, contrarily, only to prepare the child to function as a unit in an organic whole – in blunt terms a cog in the wheel of an organic society. … the values of the school system are rooted in the Hegelian concept of the State as the absolute.
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Many parents don’t know this, but the school actually “owns” your child from the moment s/he steps out your front door until the moment s/he steps back in your front door. Yep. Walking, busing, biking to school… The school owns them the whole way. I was a public school teacher when this policy was implemented.
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This explains a lot of the evil behind this letter. https://www.ocregister.com/…/state-watchdog-to-fine…/
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I was threatened with jail when I lived in Sacramento and took my daughter out a week early for Christmas break to attend her sister’s wedding in another state. They tried to force me into counseling and to sign a contract that she would not miss any more school and I refused. I knew that she would be moving back to Utah by the end of that school year so I had no qualms about standing up to them, but I feel bad for parents who have to deal with that kind of intimidation and abuse of parental rights long-term.
They also stated in their letter that they could have my welfare benefits removed…. I think I was more offended at that sentence than anything else and gave them a piece of my mind when I wrote them back and said how dare they assume that I might be on welfare and that I had never received a single dime of government help ever in my life.
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Welfare is proving more of a control mechanism than a charitable one.
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And another post from the Utah anti-Common Core group:
I know removing kids from public schools is not a possible scenario for some families, but can I admit that sometimes I fantasize about a huge tidal wave of parents saying ‘enough is enough, that was the last straw’ and collectively pulling their kids from the system, rather than staying to be boiled alive?
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And hare are the replies to said post:
Homeschooling is a great answer for a lot of people on an individual level, but it distracts us from the bigger problem: federal overreach. We can homeschool all we want but they are still going to come after us in the end. To announce we homeschool so it doesn’t apply to us, and then sit back and watch our public school friends fall subject to the whims of federal overreach is ignoring the real problem. We homeschoolers need to stop making excuses and fight alongside our public school friends, because we know the federal government is going to come for us next.
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Amen! I personally homeschool, but am very involved in this fight!
But the truth is there is power in the masses, but we are controlled by the few. It reminds me of Bug’s Life. There are far more ants than grasshoppers, but those who control do so because we allow it. My point is that only a huge mass exodus may be enough to force those who make the decisions to rethink their path.
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It would if those people didn’t already have plans to control homeschoolers too. They don’t care because it’s not about responding to our needs but achieving their own ideal. They are completely remodeling the education system and are convinced that we don’t like it because everything is not perfectly in place yet. Once it’s perfect everyone will love it.
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Yes, I was just going to say… if everyone pulls out to homeschool, they will just come for our kids there. We need to reclaim our liberty and our rights. Governmental overreach, usurpation, and oppression. They think we are their property, or at least that our kids are their property. We need to push back government. (Also, I do homeschool and I love it.)
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I didn’t think you were, and I totally get your point. We do need to be reminded that we have power and rights. I think I’m more just despairing this morning. I didn’t mean to be argumentative. I’ve just spent the morning chatting with people who think “what’s so bad” about federal overreach, as long as it’s what they want or agree with or can put up with. I’m shocked and depressed that people think it’s “okay” or “not that bad.” I commented out of a feeling of hopelessness, which is still bad. Just discouraged about it today.
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Too bad there aren’t some billionaires out there willing to save our children from the horrors of what Bill Gates has brought down on our nation.I know there are people on the front lines helping to fight to stop the progression of this nightmare, but is there any heavy financing and pushing going on to prepare better curriculum that our reps and leaders who will listen can get into schools to get the ball rolling on something else now or in the near future?
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I removed mine and placed them in a private, Christian school and it was the BEST decision I have ever made. The system is broken beyond repair. Our teachers are being used and I refuse to have to fight the school for the right to opt my children out of the sham standardized testing. I will never return to public school, I would homeschool first. The whole thing is tragic. I went to public school in a rough area and did just fine. I had always planned on having my kids attend public school but 2 years (Kinder and 1st grade) was all I needed to see that it was not what it used to be 😦
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My words on another post are applicable here…so I repeat:
Its not the child’s welfare or education that is in focus here… It is the funding a school receives when their butts or in a seat. The government pays a school for each child each day. This is what is wrong with our “education” system…. Our children are no longer a means to a better society… Its a means to make sure every little “subject” or citizen is in a seat ready for todays indoctrination. This is also how a forced vaccination system is controling the little subjects.
I have seen so many things. In the past 35 years that scare me. I am not a conspiracy theorist but the changes I have seen since my children were in school to todays grandchildren is obsolutly a controlled system creating a sickly and obident future class of people.
Sorry if that was long and scary but I see how life in America has changed over my 60 years.
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Here is a post from a Washington anti-Common Core group:
I happen to be scanning Craig’s list–came across a job ad for a tutor. Below is part of the job description. “Pre-elementary” test prep classes. What is wrong with people?
“Teach our test preparation class to multiple small pre-elementary and elementary level classes in a consecutive manner”
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Here is a post that was shared in the Conservative Hammer Facebook group (by a student that I will keep the anonymity of to protect her from possible backlash, as I do many others on here by removing their names.)
Hey everyone, as a student from Parkland I just wanted to share a bit about my experience in politics these past couple weeks.
So I’m sure many of you know the tragedy that took place here on Feb. 14 that took 17 lives at Stoneman Douglas High School. As a result, the media started pushing a heavy gun control narrative with the help of students from MSD like David Hogg, Emma Gonazlez, and others.
These kids have obtained quite the platform, speaking out to over millions of people on Twitter daily. So we had asked them if they’d be able to do us a favor: help endorse two candidates who were running for the Broward School Board election. You see, many people dropped the ball which gave the ability to let the shooter waltz into the school. The FBI, the Broward Sheriff’s Office, etc. And one group of the many was the Broward County School Board.
In 2014, they had allocated 100 million dollars from taxpayers to increase security measures in all Broward schools. Part of that money was suppose to go towards Stoneman Douglas to fix the fire alarm system which was going off from a very low level of smoke (as low as a candle), but the incompetent board members and the superintendent failed to use the money in time.
Four years later on Valentines Day, a gunman started to open fire onto the first floor of one of the schools buildings. Eleven died on the first floor, six more on the third, but none on the second floor. “How come no one died on second floor?” you may ask.
The fire alarm was set off by the gun smoke. Everyone on the second floor had heard the gunshots so they had retreated into their classroom closets and hid against the walls, but because of the loud ringing of the fire alarm- no one on the third floor had a clue there was a gunman. This caused students and teachers to pour out into the halls, killing six more and injuring many others.
It would be a different story if the superintendent had been transparent and honest with the residents of Broward, but they have failed time and time again to do that after many confrontations. That’s why we wanted to get new board members to get a majority vote on ousting the superintendent.
Families of the victims, myself and few others have had multiple meetings with these March For Our Lives students who had promised to help us out with anything we needed- but they didn’t knock ONE out of the 40,000 doors we knocked. They didn’t go out sign-waving with us, or come to the polls and hand out flyers with us.
Instead they went on a road tour plugging their stupid book, and their excuse was that they didn’t endorse candidates running for office. Both candidates we were campaigning for were the father of one of the students killed at their school, Ryan Petty, and the other was Richard Mendelson, best friends with a teacher killed at the school.
They both lost to the corrupt incumbents, one of those incumbents being the daughter of ex-Democratic senate member Nan Rich.
We fully believe that if David Hogg and his pals had helped endorse our candidates that they would have won. But instead they wanted to push an agenda nationally that is unachievable and neglected their home.
Just wanted to highlight the stupid people we deal with here in Parkland to you guys. Now we are stuck with these corrupt monsters in charge of my safety and education instead of genuine, kindhearted people for another few years.
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When I asked this student the following question, wondering if my hunch, based on research, was correct:
Am I also right in believing that this March for Our Lives thing is also a youth voter registration drive attempt, particularly to try and flip the Florida governor’s race? I did notice that the Socialist candidate did win there, which even more makes me think this is likely.
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I received this reply:
Yes, you’re 100 percent correct.
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Here is a post from the anti-CBE group:
I think I’m gonna vomit.
Literally.
This posted by our WA PTSA state legislative liaison.
The importance on assessing “soft skills”.
https://www.nwea.org/content/uploads/2018/08/NWEA_Gallup-Report_August-2018.pdf
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And another post from this group:
Our State changed to CBE off Chugach, Alaska. Below is a snippit of FAQ provided to parents of one locale. Buck got passed in the face of reasonable questions towards competency without compromise. Its more of an integrity issue among leadership than lack of knowledge. Most School Boards and leadership know exactly and precisely what they are intentionally accomplishing with youth, and they’ll champion denial of free will of our children to their grave. Below is “One” School Board’s message to parents about thrusting CBE on them.
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And yet another post from this group:
Do you know if these are private/charter or public preschools? Are they SIBs related? $800,000 for TFA to study something it knows nothing about. How does one get on this gravy train? So many problems with this.
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And here are some replies to this post:
Colorado has a little thing called Pay For Success. In years prior, the same bill –titled Social Impact Bonds, failed. But we passed it in great bi-partisan fashion in 2015 with the simple name change to PFS. I do not know the preschools receiving the TFA teachers/funding. From the initial Chalkbeat article: “the Denver-based Gary Community Investments, which gives grants and makes for-profit investments to help low-income children and families, funded a feasibility study to determine whether Teach for America should try early childhood placements. (Gary Community Investments, through the Piton Foundation, is a Chalkbeat funder.)
The study delivered a favorable conclusion and Gary subsequently awarded Teach for America a grant of nearly $800,000 to launch a two-year pilot program. …early childhood corps members will work at five preschools across the city — three operated by Mile High Early Learning and two operated by Sewall Early Child Development Center, which serves students with disabilities and typically developing children together.” https://chalkbeat.org/…/with-preschool-teachers-in…/
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Teach for America … camp counselors without the pine tree logos on their shirts. Know-Nothings.
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As my son’s class went through different graduation honors ceremonies, they included a moment for each student to stand on stage to say their name, their next step, and something they look forward to….
I almost shouted “No!” when a young woman said she was going to Teach For America.
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I watched a video on TFA which seem more like educational tourists. It it amazes me that parents would subject their children to such inexperienced personnel. No wonder why TFA is failing — Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation written all over it along with some other big names – figures!
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Here is a post from a New York anti-Common Core group:
My 5th grader is begging me not to stir the pot.
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And here are some replies to this post:
I have my thoughts, what stands out to you [poster name withheld]?
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Because I’ve fallen down the i-Ready rabbit hole, High quality curriculum immediately jumped out at me.
And, of course, the whole parental involvement thing. Parental involvement is only acceptable when you’re endorsing the district’s position.
Love to hear your thoughts.
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parental submission and unquestioned alignment.
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Do you really want my assessment?
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Indeed.
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1. Who and what determines “high quality Curriculum? What is their vetting process of said criteria?
2. How often will said parent conferences be held? 1,2 3, 4 times a year?
3. How frequent will said progress reports be shared?
4. Please clarify what they consider “REASONABLE” access
5. How shall a parent communicate without crossing their lines?
6. By monitor your child’s attendance, do they assume that your children run wild?
7. Reasonable homework shall be completed.
8. Pound salt on what I do at home, for example, how much T.V. they watch
9. What volunteer positions do they have in mind? How much is considered adequate?
10. Clarify what decisions you actually have any sort of say in regarding your child’s education
11. Again, pound salt on what your children choose to do with extracurriclur activities
12. How much is enough communication? How much is too much?
13. Self advocacy looks very different at different ages, that needs to be broken down by cognitive ability
14. Forced reading is destined to fail. Again that looks different based on age
15. How bout they use their nifty technology and upload all communication and assignments rather than collect data that they have zero idea how to decipher
last but not least TITLE 1 is significant! Do parents understand what that means??
That’s off the cuff what struck me as abrasive
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I vote someone rewrites the contract and takes an attorney with them to the principal and teacher to have them sign it. 🙂
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I always read this, crossed off parts I dont agree with and make my own comments, sent back to school telling them to contact my lawyer for further discussion. Never signed anything!
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To what benefit is it for the parent to sign this? Students under 18 should not sign squat.
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Compliance and agreement to reinforce what they’ve determined as best and you must be a “partner” in rearing your own children?
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I already have a partner….my husband, no need for a 3rd party 😜
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Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
Could mega-schools be a factor in youth suicides? I wonder if Utah’s data reflects this.
“No matter the reason, these numbers reflect a much more de-personalized, de-humanized model of factory schooling.
That such an environment might be harmful to children shouldn’t be surprising. Factory schooling causes a feeling of compulsory incarceration that, beyond doubt, adversely affects the mental health of many children. Psychologist Peter Gray at Boston College has studied in depth the harmful effects of mass schooling on children’s mental health because it is an abnormal setting for children that feels like a prison. Superb and extensive work on the subject has also been done by John Taylor Gatto, who won teacher of the year awards from both New York City and New York.”
http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/04/toxic-public-school-environment-behind-increases-child-suicide/
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Here is a post from an anti-Common Core group:
Kettering School district Ohio. Global citizens.
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Here is a post from a Massachusetts anti-Common Core group:
Bureaucratic abuses are a real threat to children and their parents, as indicated by what’s going on in Norway. The more intrusion we allow into the lives of young learners by means of the misguided Emotional Social Learning units that USED wants introduced into our schools, the more dangers to our children and their parents.
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Here is a post from a different Massachusetts anti-Common Core group:
A friend asked me about opting out of the tests, they didn’t know it was an option. I sent them this and thought I would share:
Opting out, I will TRY to keep this short, but I have much to say about it.
There is much misinformation out there, but here are some facts.
The only Graduation requirement is the 10th grade MCAS 2.0.
Colleges do NOT look at MCAS scores, only SAT and the ACT tests
We have opted our kids out for a few years, our kids have gone to the library, no retribution from teachers, administration or the police. Both kids doing well in school, our son gets on the honor roll and our daughter has a 5.0 average.
Some of the misinformation is coming from our teachers and administration. They are getting fed this from the DESE (MA Department of Elementary and secondary Education) I Have spoken with DESE and they told me it was “illegal” to opt out. I asked to see the law he was referring to, he gave me the law and I had Dr Sandra Stotsky and a few others who are way smarter than I read it and the agreed that the law said that the Dept had to GIVE the tests, but nowhere did it say children were REQUIRED to take them. Again, nothing happened to us and our friends who opted out.
They will tell you it will hurt the School and teacher. If there is less than 95% participation rate, the school’s rating goes down, in other words, they blackmail you. Ridiculous that a school’s quality is assessed by how many kids take a test. Not your problem, your priority is your child.
To give another example of the shady DESE policies, they marked our son absent for the test when we got his ‘results’ back. I called to complain that he opted out, he was not absent. DESE told me that they do not put ‘opt out’ on the tests “because they don’t want people to know that it’s an option.” Those were his exact words. Then he proceeded to brag that opt outs went down last year. I said, that’s because you fooled the public by changing the Common Core aligned PARCC tests to call them MCAS 2.0! The then sec. of Ed. Mitchell Chester said that MCAS 2.0 was 70-90% PARCC, so it should be PARCC 2.0, but people opted out and complained about PARCC, so the name change.
I have rambled enough, but if you have any questions, please let me know. Please also keep an eye out for SEL (social emotional learning) and questionnaires. We tell administration, no questionnaires without us seeing them first.
More information at truthinamericaneduction.comhttps://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-assessm…/…/
And here https://www.citizensforpublicschools.org/the-facts-on-opti…/
I hope I haven’t overwhelmed you, again, let me know if you need any help.
Good luck!
On the other side I do not want to be over reacting if it’s not a huge deal
Mastery or proficient is 70 %, near proficient is 65%, not proficient is below 65%. That is what the school I worked for lowered their grade standards to to make it look like students were doing much better than they actually are.
So you need to ask for percentages and then ask them for a copy of all the standards your child will be graded on. I worked in a middle school and I could never figure out elementary grading of 1, 2 ,or 3.
Keep asking questions and looking at your child’s work.
URGENT!
This could be an important step towards securing our opt-out rights. Please take the time to write your school board member today.
“If you support this motion, please reach out to your board members today and let them know that you will be watching to see how they vote on parental rights. There will be a move to creating more watered-down version saying that we support parental rights.”
“Whereas the Utah Supreme Court has stated, “We conclude that the right of a parent not to be deprived of parental rights without a showing of unfitness, abandonment, or substantial neglect is …so basic to our constitutional order that it ranks among those rights referred to in …the [Utah and the] United States Constitution as being retained by the people.” Whereas, determining the value of a state-mandated test is most definitely not a showing of unfitness by a parent;
Therefore, we move that the USBE support the legislators in fulfilling their oath to defend those parental rights, which are fundamental rights retained by the people, by retaining current statutes protecting parental rights, including the primacy of parents in their child’s education and the right to opt their child out of tests and assignments as they see fit. We also move that a copy of this motion be given to each legislator and that USBE staff be instructed to actively support this effort.”
PLEASE READ MORE about what’s happening at today’s USBE metting here: https://www.facebook.com/alisa4senate
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And another post from this group:
Somebody please walk me through this, if you can. My son, who is a senior, is considering NOT taking the ACT’s in defiance of all kinds of pressure from peers, and ‘conventional academic wisdom.’ He has the next 3 years of his life after graduation mapped out and it doesn’t include college. He ‘might’ change his mind in the future and decide to go to college, but for the next 3 years, it’s not on the docket and he doesn’t want to waste money on an education that won’t assist him in his career path. Should he change his mind in the future and choose to get a college degree, how might it hurt him to have NOT taken the ACT’s in his high school years? I particularly want to hear from homeschoolers. How do you handle this testing challenge? Thanks for your insight and experience!
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And here are the replies to this post:
My homeschooled son took the ACT but then worked and served a mission after high school. He then attended UVU but because his ACT scores were over 2 years old, he still had to take the acuplacer exam for placement into math and English classes. That was a frustration for him.
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Honestly, this info is fresh in his mind and when not used… well you know the saying. I homeschool my children. I had to go back to college at age 38 and get a degree to remember enough to teach them. He has all kinds of choices. And none are “wrong” if he feels they are best for him. But the longer he waits, the more of the education he doesn’t often use (algebra lol) he may forget and need a refresher before taking his exam for adequate scores.
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But, the question is, are the ACT’s even still applicable after 3 years? Will they even look at them or consider them outdated?
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ACT scores dont matter after 5 years, after that long you just take placement test or prerequisite classes.
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He has a plan. Ask him what he will be doing longer than 3 years out and let him decide himself. I don’t think lds missions count in 5 year plans personally, because they’re extremely removed from the world and don’t carry over, can’t be parlayed into much.
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Right. Missions are not ‘life.’ He does have a plan for after mission and it requires training classes in his chosen field, and experience, but not a degree. But, should he change his mind, would ACT’s still even be applicable after that length of time?
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Every institution has their own rules. If he makes a longer plan it will become clear if he needs to take act or not. It actually sounds like it is clear he doesn’t need to take it from what you’re saying. Are you having a hard time with that, personally? I would let it go, it won’t do any permanent damage to not take it even if he does a 180 with his career decision. P.s. Jordan Peterson has a new video entitled the lie of the idea of a career or something like that. Worth checking out.
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I like that he has a plan. That should be applauded. Many kids don’t have a plan at all at graduation. Some go to college and waste their money because that is what they are supposed to do even though they have no idea what they want to do. The ACT can be taken even as an adult but most colleges don’t pay attention to it if not taken in High School. It would a waste of money to go that route after he graduates. If he gets into a local community college or university later they will make him take placement exams to show his knowledge. I wouldn’t worry about it.
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Excellent! Thank you!
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In Utah, the public universities use the Accuplacer after age 20. My son’s HS counselor told him he didn’t even need to graduate from HS to get into college.
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Thanks, [name withheld[! I know you know what you’re talking about!!
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The ACT was the only thing that got me into college without high school transcripts.
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Depends on the college. None of the Utah colleges rely on act alone for homeschool kids.
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He’s not a homeschool kid (unfortunately), so he has high school transcripts. My/his main concern is if Utah colleges will reject him after age 21 because he DIDN’T take ACT’s in high school?
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So colleges never let adults attend who did not take a test in high school? Of course they do.
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FYI. And does he know about Praxis as an alternative career path option? https://discoverpraxis.com/
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/…/google-and-apple…
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Never heard about Praxis. Don’t have time to read the article now, but will tomorrow. (We’re 8 hours ahead of you right now, so getting ready for bed.) I’ll look into this in depth tomorrow.
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I don’t think it matters that much as long as you aren’t trying to get into a super-competitive college, like Harvard.
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Not even an interest. Haha! Thanks!
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He can always go to junior college first, which would allow him to avoid any Common Core, data-collecting test!
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That’s what we’re hoping. Are you sure?
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My son decided to go to a community college at 16. He took the required tests for math and English. He passed both and received his Associate Degree before leaving on his mission. He has yet to take the ACT. On the other hand I know of kids who jumped through all of the hoops, accumulated a mass of debt from student loans and then decided not to pursue a job in their field or could not find one. I think he will be just fine.
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I think he will be, too. He just wants to be sure he’s not shooting himself in the foot later if he refuses the test, now.
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I have an older son who also got his Associate’s Degree before graduating high school, took the ACT’s, etc. Then, went on a mission and applied to BYU. They DID look at his ACT’s, even though it was 3 years after he graduated high school that he applied. That’s why we wondered. Is it just BYU or do they all look at ACT’s even after time passing?
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It won’t hurt him at all. ACT scores expire after 4-5 years anyway. My 21 old just got accepted at a university. His ACT scores from high school were too old so they had him take a placement test instead- which was less expensive than retaking the ACT anyway.
You can check individual schools to find out what their policies are.
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Here is a post, from the pro-Common Core American Enterprise Institute, that was shared in an anti-Common Core group:
By removing college-degree requirements for many well-paying jobs, 15 major companies are helping fight harmful degree inflation.
http://www.aei.org/publication/apple-google-et-al-strike-a-blow-against-the-college-cartel/
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And here are the replies to this post:
Yeah, right….what it is in fact doing is setting the stage for licenses to be obtained in lieu of degrees. You know, those licenses for every pay increase that can cost money to prepare for and for each exam you take….it is a way to make it even more expensive and without the liberal arts mombo-jumbo which might even make some critical thinkers in spite of the corrupt and leftist minded academia. So–no more university degrees for the masses, just Pearson licensing all the way–test prepping and testing, everything on-line–the $ is now redirected and the student/worker body programmed only with what they want—no accidental learning allowed!
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Great point!
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it’s all a game. Even the fuss they are making about student loans. What, they did not know they were taking out a loan? And they thought they did not have to pay it back? They thought a degree would automatically get them a job?—Many degrees are already worthless and the graduates are not prepared for the work force so in theory this would be better, but I have a feeling Pearson has been preparing for this all along and is ready to take on the different licensing tests and such. Nothing is EVER done for the good of the people, NOTHING! Only free enterprise can work and for that to work people need to understand what they ar getting into and accept full responsibility. Not everyone can live on easy street and enjoy all the perks and comforts that high tech employees can. That too will change, especially as they ar planning to allow even less trained workers into the high tech field, as if exporting so many jobs to India was not bad enough…. Watch the salaries go down…
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Sadly that is not far from the truth of what is likely to happen.
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I don’t trust this coming from Apple and Google…but I do believe the narrative. There is a serious college cartel and it begins in preschool.
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Here is a post from a Nevada anti-Common Core group:
One of the most widely used “free” education software vendors in NV, Edmodo, has been sold to a Chinese gaming company! This is not good for the children of Nevada. Unfortunatly the only way I know to protect your children is to keep them off all “education” software. Does anyone think any District in the state that uses Edmodo will tell parents a Chinese company is now enhancing the “secret profile” Edmodo already started creating on their child (link below)? I’m pretty sure I know the answer.
https://www.edsurge.com/…/2018-04-24-what-happens-to-studen…
https://nebula.wsimg.com/010dee154b8f4f4193c11fef31ed26ea…
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And another post from said group:
At school board meeting getting ready to say this:
Two years ago I filled out this WCSD form 7626 to opt-out of Student Email for my daughter at Incline High School. The District told me her District email address was deleted. Evidentially it was re-created against my wife and my wishes.
Two days ago I downloaded the same form from the District website. I filled out the form for my two children in middle school and re-filled it out for my child in high school. For some unknown reason the District is now refusing to delete the email addresses it set up for our three children against our wishes.
Today I notice the link to the school District opt-out of Student Email form no longer works.
There are a couple problems here:
It is not the District’s place to decide when children have an email address or should start using email; it should be up to parents.
The bigger issue has to do with the District’s lack of ability to protect student’s digital footprints and most importantly their Student ID’s.
In WCSD student email address look like this:
StudentID@washoeschools.net
The Student ID is the new SS # because it is the number used to track children from K to the work force, probably to the grave.
Last school year one of the most widely used “free” education vendors in the WCSD, EDMODO, had a data breach; where most of the users data was stolen and for sale on the dark web, the data included: usernames, hashed passwords, and most importantly EMAIL ADDRESSES; which for WCSD children is their Student ID’s.
So it appears WCSD children who had a District email address and an Edmodo account, had their Student ID’s stolen and possibly sold to others. Last year when this happened I begged this board to tell parents about the Data Breach, you chose not to tell parents.
What gives you the right to put our children’s personal data and future in the hands of those who can’t keep it secure; then when the inevitable happens hide it from parents?
Since it was the District that got children to share an incredible amount of personal data, school work, and their Student ID (via their email address) with Edmodo; it seemed like the least you all could do is warn parents. Instead when Edmodo had a data breach the District goes silent. THIS IS WRONG!
But NOW the District has taken this one step further by no longer allowing parents to opt their children out of District email address.
WHY?
The District has already shown they cannot protect what is now probably the most important piece of information about our children, their Student ID.
It should not be up to the District to decide when our children’s Student ID’s (and futures) are vulnerable to the world; it should be up to us parents. Probably the only reason you all don’t have dozens of parents talking about this at every board meeting is because most of them have no idea what’s going on in regards to Student Data Mining, and how vulnerable their children are because of the digital foot print the District is “forcing” students to create.
I’ve sent a few emails to the board about this starting last week, I’m still looking forward to this board honoring our request and deleting the District email addresses that were created for our three children against our wishes.
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And another post from this group:
WCSD Board Meeting Tuesday 8/28/28 I spoke to them THREE times:
CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW TO GO DIRECTLY TO MY COMMENTS. INITIAL comments and Superintendent Traci Davis’ reply.
https://youtu.be/_q35ENIvcGg?t=870
Traci said it’s “board policy” that all students receive email accounts. Via email the board president said she is waiting to hear from “staff.” Notice how Traci never disputed my main point; nor did she say what changed over the last two years that is keeping the District from delete student email addresses upon parent request.
During my SECOND public comments here,
https://youtu.be/_q35ENIvcGg?t=3963
I told Ms. Davis we do not feel the District is protecting our children. I reminded her that their Student ID’s have been stolen for sale on the dark web, and the District chose not to tell parents. She did not reply.
My THIRD public comments were about the psychological assessment the District has given to students in four of five schools without parental consent.
https://youtu.be/_q35ENIvcGg?t=5981
Again the district replied but did not dispute my comments.
PLEASE EMAIL THE BOARD YOUR QUESTIONS AND/OR CONCERNS, copy me if you want.
BoardMembers@WashoeSchools.net
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And yet another post from this group:
Here’s the email I just sent (with all the links); message me to be added to our email list:
Fordham Law School Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) recently wrote this article titled: Student Data Mining Is A Black Box, Finds Fordham Law Study. They discovered student data of 14 – 15 year old students is being sold. The article states: “no information exists for students or parents about where data is being collected, how high-level insight is being derived, or what rights they may have to opt-in or out.” We at Protect Nevada Children believe there is a fair chance this data is now, or will in the near future, be collected by the “free” third party education vendors used in our schools. Remember – “education” vendors have a lot more data about our children than entertainment and social media vendors, see Knewton* link below.
“Free” third party “education” vendors like Edmodo and hundreds others are widely used in Nevada schools. The “education” vendors like Edmodo who signed the Student Data Privacy Policy (SDPP) would be in violation of it if they directly sold our children’s data to data brokers. A few issues: 1) If Edmodo, or any “free” third party education vendors used in Nevada schools, is in violation of the SDPP it would be almost impossible for parents to figure it out. 2) Even if one or more of the “free” third vendors used in our schools is in violation of SDPP the federal government and state of Nevada will not be doing anything about it until it is too late for our children. 3) Edmodo tells parents in their privacy policy they “need” to share our children’s information with others, i.e. unknown fourth parties. Not only do we not know who these fourth parties are, we have no idea what these fourth parties are doing with our children’s data. Since these fourth parties are unknown, how can they be policed? 4) When Edmodo had a huge data breach, where student data was for sale on the Dark Web, Nevada schools and districts did not tell parents. 5) Even if all the “free” third party education vendors used by our children in Nevada schools, and all the unknown fourth parties they share our children’s data with, never sell data to data brokers and never have another data breach many of these entities themselves are creating secret profiles on our children. How these profiles will affect the future of our children is still unknown. Parents never see the student profiles created by these third, and unknown fourth parties, or the data used to create these profiles. Remember – the way “free” education vendors are paid is with the incredible amount of personal data and school work our children give directly to them.
Thanks to Cal Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute we also know: Most of the apps used by children under 13 years old are not in compliance with COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act). This includes most of the “free” apps and software used in our schools. Serge Egelman, director of privacy research at the International Computer Science Institute suggests in the NBC article: “DO NOT USE APPS.” It’s good to hear an expert say this, as this is what Protect Nevada Children has been saying for years!
This is especially true of education applications and software as they have infinitely more data on our children than the entertainment or social media apps. If you don’t believe us listen to a CEO one of these vendors, Knewton*, as he tell us: “Education happens to be today the world’s most data minable industry by far, and it’s not even close….We literally have more data about our students than any company has about anybody else and it’s not even close.” If you do not want numerous third party vendors like Knewton having this much data about your children Protect Nevada Children suggests: DO NOT ALLOW YOUR CHILDREN TO USE ANY FREE THIRD PARTY EDUCATION APPLICATIONS OR SOFTWARE!
Everything above applies to all public, public charter, private charter, and private schools that use “free” third party education applications and/or software.
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And yet another post:
My son’s school wants him to take a chromebook home, 8th grade, Clark County, all the teachers have said it’s required. Yes, they have stated all the educational software is included. I’m to pay a $25 fee, then he gets one. The entire school, 6-8th. What now, how do I say no thanks, give him his work for all classes in paper form? Do they have a right to make this happen because it’s their curriculum for this school year? They all want him on Edmodo too, which I just ignored last year.
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And the replies to said post:
Outside of the fee, which I feel a parent shouldn’t have to pay if it’s required…
May I ask why you do not want him using a Chromebook?
Students need to build their 21st century skills which include using a computer efficiently and appropriately. This is done to prepare students to be college and career ready to utilize computers as we all know many businesses and colleges require a lot of typing, research, utilizing software such as MS Office 365 or Google Drive apps.
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Hi, my daughter is a third year student at UNLV, so essentially although these changes were evolving when she was in school, she was taught in a very different manner, no apps.
I can agree in a technology-filled world knowledge of computer applications is necessary, and she gained that knowledge at home by the use of software, and some in school typing papers, as my son has already done as well. He’s great on the computer and in computer class last year his typing speed was 70 words per minute, pretty impressive for a 12 year old, lol.
My worry comes from what John points out. Other than this year, how will they use this information in the future and for what purpose? I don’t have the answer for that, and if he performs poorly in 8th grade math, what “box” are they placing him in for the future? My daughter for example failed some semesters of math in middle school, what a handful, haha, but turned it around in high school, even receiving the millennium scholarship for college. If she were using apps at the time, I’m just wondering how that information about her failing as a young girl could have potentially effected her future. Again, I don’t have a clear answer, who is doing what with the information and how does what he performs at right now, impact the future.
For my son specifically, being on the computer constantly causes him to get anxious and irritable, he focuses less and doesn’t digest as much information. His scores won’t be reflective of what he’s capable of, because he’s not doing his best work, there’s little retention. He doesn’t learn well this way, I’ve seen it first-hand. This is what concerns me.
With regard to the fee, yeah I can afford $25, but it’s very true, some can’t yet teachers are all listing this on their required school supply list. It’s a bit confusing because the notice from the school states parents will have to give permission, not that it’s required. I’m also wondering, if he’s one of a few without the chromebook, what work do they have planned to give him? If they wanted to give kids computers to learn technology only, type their essays, learn software applications, I would be in favor; that’s not what’s happening.
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I agree about the boxes. This is why I work where I do in the district now. All data we collect in the courses guide us to help the students. I give it to the parents when asked because, well, it’s their right.
The only thing we do not control are the mandated tests. I will forever be against those because the info received back is not timely nor show the true depth of a student’s skills within the standards.
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There’s sooo much evidence that kids retain better from textbooks than anything digital. And outcome based education is perfect for chromebooks with badges, etc. Did you know that the school Bill Gates’ kids go to has little to no technology? On purpose.
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I think many teachers do not understand what blended learning is. They feel everything must be done on the computer once they go that route.
I disagree with that thought process. We should still have students writing their rough drafts on paper, taking notes on paper. They still need to learn manually and by hand as well.
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And we shouldn’t implement policies that haven’t been tested and proven. So many come down from organizations and corporations with something to gain.
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However, when I am given a directive, I have to implement. Best believe that when this happens, I will make my administration know that I am not comfortable doing it and show up at school board meetings to say so on public record as well as speak to the trustees and higher admins about it.
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I have an incredible amount of compassion or maybe call it concern for teachers who are given so many mandates and few parents aware enough or bold enough to speak out. It’s hard to be the only one. But yay that you’re doing it!
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Tests like the SBAC are also more of a student data mining tool than a true CRT. In addition, sitting a third grader in front of a computer for 10 hours for one test is ridiculous.
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21st Centruy Skills, College and Career Ready, are just buzzwords that mean nothing. The best way to get students ready for their future is to teach them to: communicate (read, write, and speak), do math, think, work effectively with others. Sharing school work and personal information with “free” third party vendors like Edmodo will do nothing to get kids, “College and Career Ready.
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I get students in high school who have no idea how to use a computer at all. Since job applications and college applications are all pretty much online-only, these kids are at a disadvantage. That’s what 21st-century skills means to me.
I agree it can be used as a buzzword. However exposing kids to chrome books is teaching those with no home exposure how to use these tools.
The OP may have already done that with her child but there are many other children who don’t have that opportunity at home.
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You are not getting an argument from me that kids need to learn how to use a computer, and that not all parents can provide that opportunity at home. However, that’s not what’s happening by handing my son a chromebook. This is going to be the curriculum for the year, apps, and like others I’m fearful what information they will retain and how it could be potentially used in a negative fashion in the future. Like I said above, if he does poorly in math on this app in 8th grade, who may be privy to that information in 5 years when he’s college shopping, and what will they determine about him from one year of poor math grades, or two or three, depending on how the schools progress to making this the norm? Also like I said above, he’s been on a few school apps previously and I watch what goes down. He doesn’t pay attention to the computer voice speaking, his mind is GONE, and he’s anxious and frustrated because he’s not paying attention, yet wants the answers. Perhaps other kids are successful learning this way, he’s not one of them. I feel like I’m in quite a position wondering what alternative I have this school year – soon to find out.
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Chromebooks are especially problematic as when students get them they are set to see “everything” a student does online, not just school work: Instagram, YouTube, Snap Chat, Email, Porn. ANYTHING they do. My understanding is there is a way to change that, but I don’t know how, it may be called the Sync Feature.http://blogs.edweek.org/…/google_acknowledges_data…
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Right on. You dumb down the graduation requirements and give the illusion they are ready for college. The jobs for their area of expertise need to be there. Colleges aren’t preparing them for a career. Just graduating them to get a kickback.
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As a trainned teacher with credentials in CA and NV, I’m not big on computers, or data mining software, replacing teachers. I prefer good teachers, teaching in a classroom setting. To get kids ready for their future I would much rather see students learn coding at a young age than simply sharing personal information and school work with known and unknown parties.
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And a follow-up post to the one above:
Update on chromebook. No word from teachers, call from principal. She hopes I’ll change my mind, but said she can’t force me. When I explained why, she said the only purpose of the apps is to assist the teachers, then admitted she doesn’t know what anyone else does with the information collected; exactly my point. She said this will teach my son computer “citizenship,” basically teaching him what is acceptable to post in a public forum since the kids share. She went on to admit that since she has known my son since 1st grade (she used to be the principal at his elementary school) she recognizes this citizenship training is not so necessary for him specifically given his character. She ended by telling me she thought he would feel left out, only 10% of the kids are without a chromebook now, and she hopes I’ll reconsider; probably not. This is the same principal who nudged me more than once not to opt out of SBAC, who told me in elementary school that SBAC scores were required to place him in his middle school classes (not), so I may hear from her again about the chromebook. I asked her why the cameras are enabled, I just think it’s a little weird, she said I could place parental controls. Ehhh, not the issue.
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And some replies to this post:
This very issue was why I chose against Somerset… It would’ve been very convenient because it is less than five minutes from my home and all three of my school age kids got in; however the use of chrome books and sbac testing bothered me. We went with private school this year and I’m hoping there will be no surprises
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I’ve opted out since 4th grade, my son is now in 8th. But it’s true they always tried to give me a hard time. I just ignore and sign my opt out paper. I hope she just leaves me alone now lol
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Data brokers are selling our children’s data. Some of this data is collected from “education” software and applications our schools are pressuring our children to use. Schools expect students to share an incredible amount of personal data with these “free” third party “education” vendors. Reading the article below you see why these vendors provide “free” applications and software to school children.
From the article: “Researchers were startled to find that while they were able to easily purchase this information to sell potential products to this demographic, the 14 and 15 year old girls who were presumed to need family planning services knew very little about what data they were providing to commercial data brokers to make this assumption. Their parents were largely in the dark, too.
CLIP recently published the findings from their study, ‘Transparency and the Marketplace for Student Data,’ and found little transparency for data subjects about how student data is being used commercially. Data brokers advertise lists of students organized for traits from religion to ‘awkwardness,’ YET ALMOST NO INFORMATION EXISTS FOR STUDENTS OR PARENTS ABOUT WHERE DATA IS BEING COLLECTED, HOW HIGH LEVEL INSIGHT IS BEING DERIVED, OR WHAT RIGHTS THEY MAY HAVE TO OPT-IN OR OUT.
‘The high level takeaway is that it’s difficult for parents and students to find out much information. There’s a transparency issue,’ N. Cameron Russell, an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School and lead author of the study, told Legaltech News.
Russell and his colleagues pursued their research following a similar study intended to track the growth of cloud computing in school districts. In their followup, the researchers intended to examine some of the sources of student data and map the market landscape around it. Instead, they found those data sources to be ‘completely a black box.’”
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Here is a post from TheBlaze:
This makes absolutely zero sense.
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And here are some comments on this post:
My son was bullied in 7th grade he is in 10th now…but when they wanted to suspend him for defending himself …cause the school said he had started the fight…..” I simply said……” I want to see video…and I saw the video. Then I said to the principal..you have 2 options….and I promise you better take the first one cause the second would me making a call to my lawyer
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That happens a lot, my nephew got bullied bad everyday when.he finally started to defend himself and fight back he was considered the aggressor and the school recommended an alternative school. They said he didn’t fit in with Gen pop…. This is how school shooters are born
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The problem with bullies is that they very frequently don’t get dealt with. Suspension rarely fixes anything, except it gets the bullies out of everyone’s hair for a few days. We had bullies when I was young, and my mom took care of one that chased me all the way home from school one day. I ran in the front door crying, and she caught him cutting across the side yard. (We lived on a corner lot). She ran out the side door and caught him. She grabbed that fleshy skin under his chin, squeezed it really tight and shook his head that way, all the while screaming at him! He never bothered me again – ever! Of course, if she did that today, she’d be arrested for child abuse, in spite of the fact that he was trespassing. And if anyone has any thought of trying to find her and arrest her retroactively, don’t bother. She’s been dead for years! 😊 She didn’t injure him, except maybe a slight bruise under his chin. I’m not suggesting that every parent of bullied kids should do the same to their bullies, but something has to change about these dumb rules. What if a kid is being held down by bullies? That kid can’t fight back? Give me a break. There are no consequences in a school system for bullies that stop their behavior.
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A long time ago, I worked in a Child Care Center that enrolled school age kids up to 12 years old. I witnessed teachers standing together talking among themselves, and when a Child who had been bullied came to the teachers, the kids were told not to tattle on others, basically ignoring their pleas of protection from the bullies. Sometimes, teachers or school administrators would rather ignore than interfere. Schools look the other way sometimes,rather than face the bully’s parents. Sorry, but the bullied child is likely to be considered as the troublemaker if he or she defends themselves and strikes back.
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My daughter defended herself while in high school and was suspended for a week. They had the girl on camera stalking her and persistently pushing and antagonizing her on the stairs. We were not happy with the schools “zero tolerance” b.s. policy. This makes no sense to me.
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Here is a post from a California anti-Common Core group:
CALIFORNIANS, pay attention.
It’s time to opt out your children for common core testing. As you’re filling out your forms to send to school, include three copies of this:
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Here is a post that was shared in a Utah anti-Common Core group:
My child who is 7 has Type 1 Diabetes, and attends public school. We received an email stating he CANNOT attend school September 5, 2018 and every day following.
Complete discrimination. He has 3 major laws protecting him due to Type 1 Diabetes.
Jordan School District is revoking Nursing Services unless I sign their form stating, “the district has access to his personal information, medical records, access to contact his doctor and pharmacy. “ His information may not be kept legally confidential”
The form IS voluntary.
My reply:
I will attend the entire school day to PROVIDE medical care for him and ensure his safety due to the fact that Jordan School District refuses to to accommodate his disability, provide care, and violates his legal rights.
District’s reply:
That is not an option for parents to attend school and care for their child. With an attachment of Jordan School District’s policy on TRESPASSING.
I have been attending his lunch everyday since 1st grade to administer insulin.
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Here is an update from the anti-CBE group in response to my post about a library getting rid of books:
This is happening in my old district, which is predominantly low income, ELL, students of color. We used to have four libraries (one for each house on our campus of over 4000 students). In January of 2010 after a librarian who had been out on disability retired, we were told we had to dismantle and discard all the books in her library. We were given 2 weeks to get it done. We had to tear the covers off the books and put them in separate bags from the inside text. They converted the library space to a lab for credit recovery using grant money that ran out at the end of the year. The next year they used the space for a tutoring program and eventually it was transformed to the school’s “21st century space” with tables and dividers on wheels. Instead of book displays in the windows, they put a large screen that projected announcements and Powerpoints and photos all day. They never replaced the librarian.
As other librarians in the district retired, they either closed their libraries (middle school) or replaced them with low paid paraprofessionals (elementary) to provide prep coverage and babysitting services. Then in 2015, the final gutting of the library program was put into play. 5 of the remaining 7 librarian positions were eliminated, closing the rest of the middle school libraries for good. The following year they eliminated the department chair, essentially eliminating the library department from the district. Two of the original 4 librarian positions at the high school remain, but they are now called “digital literacy specialists.” I’m no longer working there, but I heard that they are in the process of removing all of the books from all but one of the remaining libraries. I looked at the online catalog recently and it appears they haven’t added any books since I left in 2016. This is a cash-strapped district that buys into all the ed reform schemes out there.
It was gut-wrenching experiencing this. There are legitimate reasons to weed a collection — and it’s an important part of maintaing a relevant and useful library collection, but the way it was implemented there was not thoughtful. They just didn’t want books, and administrators would complain about all the books and how much space they took up. So many kids would have loved to have had some of those books but we weren’t even allowed to give them away.
Here’s a picture of the process of destroying the library in 2010. It was sick. I should have refused.
it was all done very fast, and we were being yelled and pressured by high level administrators to clear it out pronto! It was crazy. They hated the libraries there. They wanted the space. I fought tooth and nail to preserve them while I was there. At one point they wanted to take half my library and put up a wall and turn it into offices for night school staff. I wrote the superintendent a 2 page single spaced memo about all the ways that space was used by hundreds of STUDENTS and classes all day long. They wanted to take the space and books away from students for OFFICES. They did not put the wall up.
We had kids who loved to read, but they would get discouraged because we never had money for new books.
Same district, while we were in the process of being ordered to dismantle libraries at our school, kids in an alternative school were working on a community service project to create a library at their school because they didn’t have one and really wanted one. (The superintendent loved to pose for pictures in libraries with kids while he gutted them behind the scenes — he’s standing proud with them in the attached article, but he did nothing to stop what happened there later.)
A couple of years later, a new principal came along and dismantled that alternative school library the kids worked so hard to build, and turned it into classrooms.
He was throwing all the brand new books out. Our department chair rescued a lot of them and brought them to us. There are some seriously f-ed up people administering school programs.
http://www.enterprisenews.com/art…/20100201/NEWS/302019642
The last few years when we still had a library department chair, the woman who was running it had never worked in a library, had never even taught English, and had spent most of her career as an administrator. She was parceling the work of the department out to other departments. The writing was on the wall. She’s now in another administrative position.
She was furious with me when I pointed out that everyone but the librarians were running the libraries. She wouldn’t allow the certified librarians to catalog books but she let paraprofessionals and a graphic arts teacher who took over tech in our department do it. It was so demeaning. I’m in a district now where we have good funding and are treated much better.
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Here is a post from Alice Linahan:
Here is a perfect example of why they want to privatize education and eliminate the locally elected school board; who could block their access to their greatest commodity. What they desperately want access to profit off of, is the unethical collection of psychological student data; to be used for Artificial Intelligence (AI).
As stated by Yuval Harari:
“Now the question that arises today is what will happen once we create an algorithm that knows me better, that understands me and my feelings better than I can understand myself? What will happen then is that authority will shift. It will shift away from the feelings of individuals to these outside algorithms.”
“There is untapped information sitting on computers in the state Capitol building right now that could help us understand how we get more kids through college or break the cycle of incarceration or move families out of poverty. We want to bring together the best researchers in the country with public officials to unlock the power of that data and use it to make real progress on these problems,” said LJAF President and Chief Executive Officer Kelli Rhee.
https://www.arnoldfoundation.org/6-6-million-grant-from-la…/
There are some names people need to start looking into…
Who is James Heckman?
The Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO), is run by James Heckman, Stephen Durlauf, and Robert Dugger. It operates out of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD) at the University of Chicago, and its fiscal sponsor is the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), an entity that emerged in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008.
INET funds research, grooms young economists, and convenes gatherings promoting the work of its 1,100+ experts. George Soros pledged $50 million from Open Society to create INET as a vehicle to explore “new thinking and new rules for the world economy. Heckman, Dugger, and Durlauf are all involved in the operations of INET.
James Heckman worked closely with Flávio Cunha who is now a Professor of Economics at Rice University in Texas. Together they wrote… “Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation,” a paper published in Econometrica that they wrote with Dr. Susanne M. Schennach.
During Texas’ last legislative session, (R)Sen. Van Taylor passed Math Innovation (SIB) legislation (SB1318) to get this ball rolling. (R) Rep. Tan Parker (HB2014) carried the house bill. Knowingly or not, they are pushing George Soros’ agenda. Here is a link to Testimony on (HB2014): https://youtu.be/AlFkvjXx91k
Please note, it is Flávio Cunha, who wrote the white paper with Heckman, that is the expert guest from Rice University who is testifying for the Math innovation social impact bonds.
THEY HAVE TO COLLAPSE THE TRADITIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM TO SOCIALLY RECONSTRUCT AMERICA!!
TIME TO WAKE UP PEOPLE!!
If you are in the business world, it is likely you have heard the term Total Quality Management (TQM)
TQM is a business model for accountability. A “system” to control the quality of the end product.
Most would agree this is a very important system to have in place in the private sector when creating a good product that will successfully be sold to consumers. In order to control the quality of the product, you must collect a lot of data.
But, what if the “product” is a child?
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Remember the Alamo……before the Left rewrites that history too!
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Here is a post from a Minnesota anti-Common Core group:
WHAT MACC MEMBERS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DATA COLLECTION…
Data collection is going on in all forms of education. It is most notable in the public and private schools, though it is also occurring in home schools. (95% of private schools, incl religious, take federal funds. They are roped into data collection, too.) Surveys are conducted formally and informally. They can be embedded into so-called curriculum. Also, tests collect personal data on students. Also, online curriculum is collecting data on your child as they interact with the screen. All of this is collected into small, medium and large databases to be shared or sold. Our children are seen as Human Capital ($$$s) in today’s world.
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And a reply to this post:
PLEASE NOTE: Google and other platforms are directly marketing to Home School Co-ops. If you home school, tell your co-op to not sign up with any of these data collectors. This is just the home schools following the public schools. Public Schools are required by law, home schools are not.
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And another post from this group:
WHY THE REDUCTION IN ACADEMICS OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS?
In 1994, some major new laws were set into place which were really started under Bush I. GOALS 2000 and School-to-Work. These laws gave the Dept of Labor authority to write standards and curriculum for the nation. The SCANS documents, authored by the DOL, greatly revised what our children learn. Academics were diminished and skills were elevated. The word, “SKILLS” is not about the trades or certain jobs. “Skills” is defined as a child’s character, attributes and values. Now the govt would teach children what their values had to be and they would be graded accordingly. The computer would be instrumental to the grading process and data collection. This is called, “accountability”. The govt felt that when states sign to adopt the latest ESEA (over 1,000 pages of federal ed law) to receive a rather small grant, the state would be accountable. This collection is the necessity of the federal accountability.
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And here is a post from someone about Google data mining:
How many parents of children with school Google accounts (Gsuite) have seen this and agreed to it?https://twitter.com/cherkies/status/1036663729981718529
How many have been told it is impossible (nearly impossible) to opt out?
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And the replies to this post:
Google has been really pushing for homeschool family’s to start taking advantage of their “services.”
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That’s correct and many are beginning to accept Google and other platforms. Very sad!
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Several families who have tried to opt out of GSuite/ Google Services in schools and have been told that Google Classroom/ Google Docs/Drive, GSuite grading, email etc is so integrated in the school that students cannot opt out.
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When the accounts were first introduced, the kids were told to click the accept button! When I took it to the district, they already agreed to the terms and policies!
I have opted all 5 of my children out of ALL Google apps and Chromebooks!
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I’ve heard from a lot of parents whose school district accepts the terms of service and policies on behalf of the students . But there are several who still ask the student to click ‘Accept’.
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So sad, because they are telling them it’s ok to agree to something without the parents knowing.😢
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No longer can parents directly email teachers from the district website. It forces parents to log into Google or FB to communicate with teachers. Why is this?
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Wonder if this circumvents freedom of information act information gathering quests.
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Districts make money off of every krystroke, schools have become data brokers, they actually own data on their network, they inturn use a tech data company in charge in submitting data to state department of education as I have uncovered in our district, hence administration encouraged visitors, students, employees to use their wifi. A teacher told my daughter’s class, don’t use the wifi.. they are tracking you.
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Then districts turn around, sell data, why some parents get mail.. like for anything they wrote toteachers. Could be innocent, like if you say your expecting, boom, you get coupons in mail, it has happened to me..
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tracking parent engagement ? parent scores?
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my former district had Title 1 money tied to parent engagement, i.e. how many parents showed up for the parenting classes.
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What another mom found out the hardvway, in our district her sons account was tied to her account and they had access to her computer and seee veverything! Shocking! There is away to opt out you can have technology administration opt out as shebdid, earsedbeverything, reset.
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Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
Question: My 2nd grader is dual enrolled. Her last class ends at 1:15 pm. For years I have showed up to pick up my dual enrolled kids, sometimes allowing my other children to get them from the school. Today the secretary informed me that only someone 18 and older could pick up my 2nd grader from the chair that she sat in at the front desk while waiting for me to pick her up. I was also informed by the principal that I would need to come in and sign her out every day. (Something that I haven’t ever done.)Sign her out and have an adult? Why? I have been doing this same thing for years. I am not checking her out of school but I am picking her up.
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And here are the replies to this post:
It must be a new school policy. There is a big emphasis on school safety lately, so that’s probably one of the things they decided to change.
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It must be a new school policy. There is a big emphasis on school safety lately, so that’s probably one of the things they decided to change. I live in a town of 800. The school has maybe 70 kids. If she is out at 1:15 and I am there in the front waiting for her, what is the difference in safety than when the rest of the kids get out at 3 and run from the doors to their parents cars?
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I’m not sure. Maybe they had a problem & made the change? It sounds like it would be a school level decision though.
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I would tell them she walks home
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There are so many holes in their thinking.
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It sounds like a change in the enforcement of the policy. I would guess that they are just trying to protect your kids. When they have just one or two kids leaving at a particular time, it is just prudence to make sure that it is actually their parent picking them up. I had a daughter that needed to be checked out early one day a week. We always needed to go in and get her from the office. I felt comforted knowing that just anyone couldn’t go in and get her.
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Your child is a Ward of the State, you are only entrusted to care for it, because we aren’t quite there for “them” to take the kids from us. Hold them while you can! TIC 😉
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So why don’t they require parents to come sign for every child that is released at the end of every school day? All 500-600 students should be required to be signed out at the end of their school day if this one child is required to be signed out at the end of her school day. Or how about requiring bus drivers to sign off that every child they brought is on their bus at the end of the day? Why? Because it’s unrealistic, just like this rule for this student is unrealistic.
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i mentioned this. Crickets and stupidity was their reply.
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Here is another post from this group:
“Welcome back to school/meet the teachers day.” Common Core was just implemented here (overseas) last year, so this is only year two for this here. Teachers are frustrated, students are confused. The math teacher seems to be a sweetheart who loves math and teaching and the students. He did his best to explain the ‘new’ math standards and how it will affect them in the classroom, but just seemed to have a hard time knowing how to explain it without getting into trouble. It was apparent that he does NOT like this new math garbage. I asked if the kids will still be learning math individually or if they will now be assigned groups and graded as a group. He asked me to clarify. I explained that in the US, thanks to the ‘new’ Common Core standards, that 2+2 no longer equals 4, that it can now equal 5 as long as everyone in your group agrees and can explain their answer. Every parent’s head at that point turned to me with incredulous eyes with echoes throughout the room of, “What?!” They then turned back to the teacher for verification that I was insane. He hesitated and then responded, “Due to political correctness, I cannot answer that question publicly.” Parents here appear to be completely unaware of what’s going on in America’s public school system. It is now world-wide, so it’s spreading, not stopping. And teachers are frustrated. Another quote from the teacher, “I’m sorry. My hands are tied.” So much for a state-led, voluntary program, huh? So, which ‘state’ was it who voluntarily signed up all of the American students internationally?!
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Here is a post that was shared in an anti-Common Core group:
Here I go bitching about the schools again. Parents you need to talk to your kids and pay attention. You need to assert your parental control and your rights. So, I sent in a refusal letter 2 pages long. In this letter I stated that: 1) my child is not to sign any documents, agreements or contracts. 2) my child is not to fill out surveys of any kind. 3) No SEL SEDL (social emotional crap), no whole child psychological, mental health surveys, questionnaires, worksheets etc. 4) NO homework until my meeting with the school on the 17th (this meeting was delayed because the school couldn’t find the time for the meeting in June, July or August).
3 days of school and the assholes have broken all of the above rules. Today he came home with 3 documents he is supposed sign. Not happening. He also told me that today in school he started to fill out a questionnaire with questions like: 1) What do your parents think about you. 2) What do you think when you are alone. etc.
This is all to pit parents against their children and make them all little liberals. I am fuming!!!!!!!!!!!
And it seems one of his teachers is nuts…wouldn’t let a child go to the bathroom and if a child needs to throw a piece of paper in the garbage they have to fold it in half, crumpling of the paper is not allowed!
God give me strength.
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And here is another post from this person, albeit from May 2018.:
NYS is once again giving our children a rotten deal. SEL will be implemented in Phoenix 2018/2019 school year. Parents beware. Refuse all that you can including surveys, questionnaires, worksheets, computer based questions.
First the school created an increase in emotional distress, behavior issues, a hate for school among elementary students and low achievement scores through CC, the standards and curriculum and now they are going to come in and mandate SEL and “save the day and our children”!!! Not with my child. Refusing all of it. What parent in their right mind would want the school district in charge of our children’s mental health, dental, pediatrician visit, etc. No CBT, surveys, questionnaires etc will be done by my child. They have harmed him enough.
Karen Bracken posted the following:
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QUESTIONS:
1. You do know that ESSA is not an education bill but a mental health bill that codifies Common Core aligned standards, mental health evaluations for all children and SEL (social and emotional learning), right?
2. You do know that SEL has absolutely NOTHING to do with teaching our children how to be nice to each other or how to cope with life (which, BTW, is YOUR job)
3. You do know the goal is to change the world view of all future American children and it has been the goal for a long time, right?
4. You do know that the UN is driving the global education reform bus, right?
5. You do know the UN is demanding (and the US is going along because there is a ton of $$$$$ to be made) that we incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 21& Agenda2030) into education. The SDGs will be the driving force in education. They know in order to change the culture of any country they must do it through the schools, education and our youth, right?
6. EXAMPLE of one of those goals. The SDGs want gender equality…….to you this means something totally different than what it means to the UN. Gender equality means they want females to be workers not child bearers because you see according to them Mother Earth cries every time a new baby is born.
7. AND MOST IMPORTANT……do you know that today our First Lady, who was not educated in the US, whose son attends the best private school money can buy, her husband never went to public school and neither has our Secretary of Education or any of her children. Note: Bill Gates sends his kids to private school too, just stood up in public and pushed for SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING in our schools. Says it is our moral obligation. This is a woman like her husband who has no clue what is going on in public education and is obviously sharing prepared talking points probably created by Jeb Bush and the curriculum companies that are salivating over the SEL disgrace.
GET YOUR KIDS OUT. There is no other solution at this point. We need to face the facts. The only choice we have at this point is
to STARVE THE BEAST and watch it crumble and die.
Her program “BE BEST”….is just another feel good worthless program. Melania is pushing ESSA and doesn’t even know it.
If you want children to feel better about themselves then do something about the cost of living so a mother can stay home and raise her own children instead of having to pawn them off on someone else to raise. Do you really think passing your kids off to someone else to raise doesn’t have a harmful affect on your kids? Why are parents surprised when they find out their kids cannot cope with even the slightest amount of stress or that they feel alone and alienated. Why are parents surprised when they see their children have deep anger issues? They ARE angry and they are angry at YOU. If you want to know what is wrong with our kids start with the destruction of the family. If she thinks the school is going to fix these kids she is way out of touch. Another band-aid. Another waste of millions of dollars in order to give her something to do.
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And yet another post from this person, albeit from April 2018:
Thinking of having your kids sit for the math assessment? Read this first. Note: This was posted by a teacher in another group.
“I had the opportunity to take a practice grade 3 math CBT today. It sealed my decision to opt my children out. It was highly frustrating and difficult to navigate. The font was very small. At the beginning there were a multitude of directions explaining all the online “tools”. Not all the answer choices always fit on the screen, so you have to scroll up and down to navigate the entire question with answers. On a two step word problem I was required to show my work. To do this you have to tap on an algorithm and then plug in the numbers. For some reason, even though I chose a vertical algorithm, the two numbers were not properly lined up, which made adding them pretty tough. Even with three adults looking at it we couldn’t fix it. The problem also required carrying, and you basically had to do that in your head as there is no way to carry the extra ten to the next column. Also, I had to enter the answer from left to right, instead of adding the ones, tens, hundreds. These tests are already flawed in so many ways, and now we are adding extra anxiety to these kids. And how will the results not be invalid? How will we know if the kid really didn’t know an answer, or just couldn’t figure out how to navigate the computer? None of this is necessary for 8-14 year old children.”
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Here is a post from an anti-Common Core group:
Emails obtained by Lucy Parsons Labs reveal that Geofeedia touted social media surveillance of middle and high school students by its suburban Chicago police customers in an effort to sell their services to Evanston police.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/geofeedia-student-surveillance/249107/
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John F. Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa has given student a gender-bending assignment: https://pjmedia.com/parenting/high-school-english-students-forced-to-learn-gender-bending-pronouns-and-anti-white-propaganda/
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Here is a post from an anti-Common Core group:
TODAY, I’m presenting the essence of the inadequacies of the Bush Education Reform Blueprint as explained in a September 6, 2001 article — not to point blame at anything or anyone, but — in hopes of bringing up the conversations that were buried by the 9/11 national tragedy. Please read this short blog; share it and have those crucial conversations now.
Bush’s education blueprint became No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the 2002 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
The national discussion of the issues with that reauthorization of federal education law never rose above the rubble left behind by the unfathomable reality of that terrible September day. NCLB’s importance paled in comparison.
But now, more than ever, America’s children need us to protect them from the Corporate State’s agenda to destroy public education. … The fix begins with understanding. Thank you.
https://thecrucialvoice.com/2015/08/24/bushs-education-blueprint-before-911/
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Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
Utah Valley University (UVU) just fully aligned to Common Core and the UN’s Competency-Based Ed. Here’s how:
1. They chose Astrid Tuminez as UVU’s new President. (Note: Tuminez is a sweet Latter-Day Saint, but also a person committed to global governance of education).
2. Tuminez has worked in important positions for all of the UN’s partners that colluded to enforce Common Core on nations and states. Some of the groups are: Microsoft, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Asia Society.
3. Asia Society and the UN’s global measurement and assessment system, OECD/PISA, have colluded for years to control the standards and assessments that teachers and students have to meet to be considered “competent”. Over the past 8 years, Common Core standards have morphed from national standards (for teachers and students) to international “competency-based” standards (for teachers and students). Children and teachers show their “Competence”, according to all the groups Tuminez has worked for, when they use their learning and lives to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Those Goals include things like: supporting global feminism, supporting climate control policies, championing LGBT rights, activism for children’s sexual rights.
4. Utah’s Family Values don’t allow children to accept and uphold the SDGs, therefore, assessments must hold them to account. Children will only advance through education IF they are measured (by the global Competency standards) as youth that are effectively supporting, and committed to, the SDGs—global governance.
5. Astrid Tuminez is an open feminist with the stated goal to push more women out of the home and into the workforce. She believes, like the UN, that this is necessary to propel the global economy forward.
At the core of Tuminez’s belief is this belief:
The economy is God. And, families exist to serve the state.
(Respected scholar and scriptorian, Hugh Nibley warned us years ago that this belief brings about the destruction of free nations.)
It is a false philosophy that has destroyed the freedom of EVERY free nation that has adopted it.
I’m disappointed in Utah’s Board of Regents. They show us with their choice of Astrid Tuminez that they don’t seek to educate children and youth to uphold family values. They have chosen to indoctrinate for globalism as opposed to educate for freedom.
Parents must start to realize that our education systems are crumbling. Online Competency-Based Ed, whether you’re kids are doing it at school or from home, is designed to measure your kids against a false standard. To ASSESS your kids against a false standard. Your kids’ assessments are BEHAVIORAL, not academic.
Parents must demand that their kids get a freedom-based education in order to pass freedom on to their posterity.
Self-reliance takes on a whole new meaning when parents think of it in terms of education. But, it’s time that more parents Stop, Look and Listen to what’s happening. And, take effective measures to educate their children according to THEIR values. And, to protect their children from the false philosophies that will undermine their freedom and their “pursuit of happiness.”
Resources:
Tribune announcement of Tuminez’ appointment:
https://www.sltrib.com/…/tribune-editorial-welcome-to-new-…/
Part of Tuminez’s bio:
“[Tuminez] is formerly Microsoft’s Regional Director for Corporate, External and Legal Affairs for Southeast Asia, leading a team supporting 15 markets and more than $1 billion in revenues. Her role is to strengthen government relations, cultivate corporate citizenship, and enhance understanding of trending issues shaping regulation and policy, specifically drivers of inclusive growth in the 4th Industrial Revolution.”
(Note: The “4th Industrial Revolution” is an anti-freedom movement to tie all learning to the UN’s SDGs using technology, standards, assessments and big data)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_S._Tuminez
Tuminez’s policy brief for the Asia Society to advance feminism and push moms out of the home:
http://sites.asiasociety.org/…/2012/04/Rising-to-the-Top.pdf
The UN and Asia Society brief on the goals of global Competency-Based Ed, ie; Global Citizenship:
https://asiasociety.org/…/unesco-signs-new-partnership-asia…
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Here is a post from an anti-Common Core group:
Parents be advised-
I’ve been given permission to share this. It was written and posted tonight by a friend of mine—an 11-year veteran teacher and one of the most gifted educators I’ve ever known. She is legitimately afraid for her safety if she speaks out publicly against the R4E movement. She has seen the nasty, vindictive horrible things that R4E proponents have done to fellow teachers who haven’t fallen into lockstep. The changes she’s talking about here are planned for when/if Garcia is elected. I won’t include her name—but these are her words:
“As some of you might know, I have worked on teams for the past five years, creating new state educations standards for AZ. I am proud of that time and hard work put in along with others, to create excellent standards of education and guidelines for teaching our children reading and math. I have worked on the new social studies and science standards when I could fit it into my schedule.
I attended an update meeting recently and I was made aware of some potential changes to the science and social studies standards that are currently being revised. I feel the need to share this info with people that I care about.
It was made known to us that current standard work (they were in the final stages) is being halted until after the elections and that there is another direction they might be taking based on election results. This new direction involves not specific events and ideas for social studies, but more “social norms” with the teacher being allowed to use whatever they feel addresses this societal idea or norm. They wouldn’t be required to teach history or anything really, unless it fit their idea of this social concept. Science would be more of a “guided inquiry” where free thinking would be used to come to some idea or concept predetermined by the curriculum. Common Core would be brought back for use with other subjects and curriculum modeled after other programs, one of which was Oakland, CA’s public school system. This was not presented to us in a positive or negative light, more as a real possibility of a new direction AZ might go and it was very specific and planned out.
I then proceeded to go home and lose sleep that night.
I am not making statements about any political candidates, but what I am saying is this: Currently, and God willing, in the foreseeable future, standards and decisions about education have to go through parent review, by either a posted meeting or by review on the AZED website. Please be aware and make your voice heard. Parent choice can and does make a difference. Please also be aware of what each candidate plans for, regarding education, when you vote in this upcoming election.
I will state, as a teacher, that I believe education needs more funding, but I am not willing to advocate for it at the expense of my children or my values. Be vigilant parents and make sure you are educated about education. It has become yet another political battlefield.”
(As part of this new “inquiry”-based standard, she was shown a video that led kindergarteners through the process of questioning whether having a daddy and a mommy or having two mommies was better for kids. The kids ended up deciding that having two mommies or daddies was in some ways superior to the traditional family.
This new direction in curriculum could be used to push ANY agenda by ANY teacher, and parents wouldn’t have any say in it. Think about that, friends. Scary.)
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Here is a post from a Texas anti-Common Core group:
We are noticing across the state this month that school boards are quietly introducing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) programs under a multitude of aliases. Read your board agendas, research what is in them, ask your districts for their research, show up to your board meetings and fight this for your kids. No one else will. It is up to you.
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Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
Yet another new set of national standards coming out of Chicago is headed our way! Introducing the pilot version: National Food Education Standards
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And here are the replies to this post:
I bet SDG’s zero hunger is embedded
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the 7 goals:
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“advocate for food choices and changes”
Whose choices? What changes? Every parent has a different take on what they want their children to eat & what they don’t. They should decide. It’s not anyone else’s decision. Also, education should not be used to turn children into advocates.
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did you see the part where kids will be telling parents how to make food choices?
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I didn’t! I only assumed that’s where it would lead, but they actually put that in words?! So, parents are not even trusted to feed their own children & that’s exactly the message that children will be taught…
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the government is convinced all parents are idiots.
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USDA is in the overreach of the feds in Ed due to their being a part of the US Dept of Ag. AG is sold out to Common Core and STEM. STEM is 100% UN infiltrated garbage.
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the top figure in the picture.
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according to a quick look at the ‘about the standards’ these National standards began in 2014.
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Don’t forget. It’s all about assessments. It’s all about what they and their federal/international partners can measure in order to control people’s choices.
Pilot Light was formed after its founder was given federal grants for community food education. The next phase, according to the founder, is these national standards WITH measurement of effectiveness of the program. That means measuring children’s choices and behavior changes. That means Assessment.
We can fight national standards all we want, but has it ever stopped any of them? No. Why? Because when Governor Herbert signed us into the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium in May 2010, he put Utah’s assessment policies under the direction of UNESCO’s partner, the OECD/PISA. Then, in 2015, all the major assessment systems started to become interoperable under OECD/PISA policies (as enforced by Obama’s Every Student Succeeds Act).
Governor Herbert, in essence, said, “We cede control of what is measured and assessed. We believe international globalists can decide better than we can what is important for Utah’s children to learn.”
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Here is a post from an Ohio anti-Common Core group:
From Karen Bracken
Believe me this will not, in the future, be limited to China. This is the goal for the entire global community. Just look at how recently the Chinese have infiltrated our education EdTech system. They purchased Edmodo. Ever heard of FOXCONN?? It is a Chinese company and the US has given them $4.8 BILLION in tax breaks to set up business in Wisconsin, USA. This CHINESE company will provide curriculum for the area colleges to implement a ready workforce. They are digitizing our classrooms right here in the US. Many schools and colleges today in the US do not have ANY books. This is 1984 come to life. I truly believe global surveillance of all human activity is the ultimate goal. This is how they FORCE compliance. If you refuse to pull your kids out of this system so we can implode it the least you can do is tell your school you REFUSE to allow your child to be hooked up to a computer. You want real teachers and real books. If you can organize and get enough parents to support this you can make a real dent in their agenda. I tried to get a bill passed in TN about 4 years ago to STOP the digital platform. The idea was in its infancy but I knew what the end goal was so I tried to have it stopped before it started but of course the bureaucrats (that knew exactly what was coming and the $$$$ attached to compliance) put a nix to the bill. REFUSE THE DIGITAL PLATFORM for many reasons. First and foremost is not healthy for the development of young brains, kids stop interfacing with humans and start preferring their computers over human contact and we see this already today. REFUSE THE DIGITAL PLATFORM. Organize TODAY!!! Just last week Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, agreed to support the UN/UNESCO Sustainability Development Goals through our education system. Basically she agreed to global indoctrination of our kids.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12988/china-social-credit-system#.W5kGCsHiFCs.facebook
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And another post from this group:
From Karen Bracken
Teachers are not trained psychologists and they should not be evaluating or remediating anyone. Remember when you read this stuff about how SEL is now just as important (believe me the progressives that are out to change the way our future generations think) academics NEW AMERICA is a progressive left leaning think tank. Jonathan Soros (son of George Soros) is the Chief Executive Officer, JS Capital Management LLC; Co-Chair, New America. https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/jonathan-soros/
Did we ask for a NEW America???? These programs are all about the indoctrination of our children to mold them into global citizens not American citizens. It is no secret that Jonathan Soros father, George Soros, hates this country and has made it his life mission to destroy the borders between countries to create a one world governance. SEL is the new snow job for parents. Just as they are easily convinced they have no authority and the school knows what is best they are now being convinced their children have mental issues that must be addressed of the kids will not make it in life. This is all an emotional snow job. Sad part is that parents are falling for it AGAIN.
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Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
I opt my children out of all testing including dibels in elementary school. Today I sat down with the teacher and she gave me a form with 3 years of dibel testing results with beg of year, middle of year and end of year test results. I fill out the correct form every year and make it very clear that I don’t want them tested telling the teacher, the principal and the office staff. Besides being super pissed, any suggestions on how to handle this with the school?
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And here are some replies to this post:
If it were me, I would immediately remove my kids from public school and take the school district to court.
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They still do it for school use. But it’s not included in the testing results.
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Wait a minute, so I sign the form and they still test them!? No, that’s not right.
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I would be furious too. If you opt out, you opt out. I will look and see if there is a loophole they’re using to see if we need to close that up.
I would ask for their justification as to why they tested them anyway.
Calls me two and three times to verify my wishes.
I find this screed false and demagogic.
The underlying theme is that all those people support charter schools, with the implication that charters “take away money from the public system.”
There are many issues with that, and why that is a false implication.
First, the charter schools are public schools, and many public school rules apply to them. Second, the money doesn’t belong to the “regular” public schools, it belongs to the students. I understand that unions wants us to think otherwise, but that’s simply not true.
Further, there is a general dissatisfaction with regular public schools, and general interest and satisfaction with charters. Clearly, there are exceptions in both cases, but the waiting lists at charter schools attest to that. It is not the doing of the billionaires, but of the billionaires supporting the public demand, as they understand the power of choice.
Finally, the broad-brush tagging of those people is — excuse me — stupid. Some of them focus only on charters to offer choices to parents, some of them attempt to improve school governance (e.g., Eli Broad) and charters are just one element for them, and some are attempting to hijack and reshape the whole system, curriculum and all — that’s Bill Gates.
I personally consider Gates the most dangerous, not because of charters but because he found a way to leverage his few billions into controlling essentially all of our public education, with its annual more than half a trillion of our tax money. But that has absolutely nothing to do with charters.
Workforce Delivery System
Here’s one I think you’ll like
And another big piece of it – SIMS – Student Information Management System.
we are seeing the same here in Idaho- basically it’s an erasing of the level of government closest to the people.
We also had a law that almost passed that would allow charters to hire less qualified Superintendents than traditional schools- so giving them a special privilege.
Another law we saw come through Committee was the written % of low performing traditional schools to be closed down each year and turned over to a private entity-
The erasing of an entire level of government is the most alarming in my opinion.
I’m sorry this ended up being so controversial. But, charters and choice are not necessarily in practice, what they are being sold to us as.
The checker move is charters, choice, and ROI for a select few, with loss of transparency in accountability for taxpayers-
The chess move is erase the school level of government.
https://www.asugsvsummit.com/files/American_Revolution_2.0.pdf Note: dollar amounts put on our children’s heads were in 2012 dollars.
Yes, that is how it works. And it has been done (is being done) here in the U.S. already. I saved this blog when I took down my old website “A Missing Ingredient.” https://thecrucialvoice.com/Why%20Change?.pdf The reason being that it contained some information I wanted to hang onto.
In 2008, there were three companies that were placing foreign teachers in our schools: Avenida International Consultants, Visiting International Faculty, and Intalage, Inc.. The states using their services at that time were Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and California.
Now????
From the images I see, they left out a lot of guilty parties but I really like the idea. Somebody should start a website specifically to identify the people and groups who have destroyed our system of education. Categories… billionaires, foundations, public officials. Pictures, profiles and contributions to ignorance as the highest goal of education.
I think it would be huge.
School choice through charters and “money follows the child” schemes most definitely do one thing. They divide us. Just look at the conversation here.
In communities, they divide. In neighborhoods, they divide. In the nation, they divide us. And it is all for no good reason. We have always had “school choice” in America. You can attend your local public school, homeschool, private school, and we even have magnet schools that truly are based on filling an identified and approved community need.
It is never in children’s best interest to close their schools. We once upon a time pledged to improve all schools, not close them. Then came men and women like Eli Broad and Michelle Rhee.
The whole premise upon which the “need” for charter schools was based is flawed and seen by other countries as detrimental to society. It’s hurting the U.S. but, by God, we fight on…..not for the greater good but for an ideology that is divisive….and harmful.
When the Founding Fathers wrote about education work force training was not mentioned. The purpose of education was to have an educated citizenry – a citizenry that could keep the Republic.
John Adams wrote: “The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it.” There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.”
Thomas Jefferson, witness to the Revolution, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, and founder of the nation’s first public university, rightfully believed that it was the government and citizenry’s duty to invest tax dollars in public education: “[T]he tax which will be paid for this purpose [education] is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.”
Well, I can’ say that I have ever used the word “grateful” in anything I have written about Tucker but I see your point.
Many people seem to think the letter is a hoax. That is why I included a link to its publication in the Congressional Record.
I am very grateful Representative Bob Schaffer for officially entering it. And I’m grateful for government records.
Tucker directly clarified to the first President Bush the perceived need for restructuring schools, national goals, and to focus on workforce training (National Center on Education and the Economy, 1989). …. three years before writing Hillary.
What parents today would want their children being indoctrinated politically and inundated with sexual liberalism all while any survival skills training? I would love to see someone publish some figures of actual value for dollar public schooling now provides.
When I went to college I was struck by how I could achieve a 4.0gpa and still realize how unprepared I was to do the tasks of my chosen profession.
I hope you didn’t gather that from my comments. We still have a solid education infrastructure in the U.S. It has taken one hell of a beating but it has survived….to date.
Most of my time researching the solutions to our problems has been devoted to looking at the various parts of the system and who did what to undermine their function. If the day ever comes that the country wants to fix what the corporate-elite broke, we can easily do so.
People need to look at how the money is spent….now.
Years ago, I asked my school board why the “instructional dollars” as a total and as a percentage of our budget was decreasing consistently over several years….It’s not a good sign. It was because we were losing experienced teachers. Yet as I wrote this AM about a candidate for governor in Idaho, “I’m glad Brad Little understands that “when we have the best teachers in the classrooms we get the best student outcomes.” Now, why can’t he and all the other “leaders” in education see that they need to PUT TEACHERS AHEAD OF TESTING and TECHNOLOGY in our classrooms.”
The blame rests on the Outcome-Based, Test-Based education theory…..and all those who pushed it on schools.
So, back to the article. Two major exclusions that laypeople need to know. 1) When the model for destroying public education is outlined, there was no mention of leadership training. Both Eli Broad and Marc Tucker have been “graduating” leaders. They not only indoctrinated them into their way of thinking, they strategically placed them in large urban districts and departments of education (US & states).
Ever wonder why we hit brick walls in administration?
2) There was no talk of policy other than that which was related to the Koch’s and ALEC. Senator Lamar Alexander has been THE key education policy pusher along with Marc Tucker.
JEFF BEZOS is closing a vast Big Finance child-trap, which has already been built. Here’s a tour.
Alison Hawver McDowell writes:
Within moments of hearing the announcement I began poking around to see where the connections were. What immediately came up was that Jeff’s mother Jackie, who helps manage the Bezos Family Foundation, presented on the topic of preschool human capital investing with James Heckman at the Aspen Institute Festival in June 2017.
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Here is a post from an anti-Common Core group:
1st grade! I think not!
https://californiafamily.org/2018/1st-grade-textbook-lionizes-ca-gov-candidate-for-his-gay-activism/
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Here is a post from a West Virginia anti-Common Core page:
From the Harrison County GOP:
TO ALL PARENTS OF WV PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS, and concerned citizens:
A few weeks ago, West Virginia Senate President Mitch Carmichael came out in the press urging the Democrat Party in West Virginia to reject the American Federation of Teachers socialist agenda – an agenda brought to light during the AFT’s recent convention in Pittsburgh. Specifically, policy proposals discussed at the AFT convention included increasing taxes to pay for “free” college tuition and “universal” healthcare and childcare. In this context, “free” and “universal” are euphemisms for “paid for with taxpayer or borrowed funds”. Christine Campbell the president of the AFT West Virginia affiliate chided Carmichael publicly for using what she called “buzzwords” such as “socialists” or “radicals”.
A recent publication entitled “Why Socialists Should Become Teachers” simultaneously vindicates Carmichael and refutes Campbell. It was published by the Democratic Socialist Labor Commission and the Young Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), but the Forward purports to have been written by “DSA teachers of West Virginia”. In that Forward, they claim to have held meetings prior to the teachers strike and agreed that their “demands would require militant action”. They claim credit for “laying the groundwork for what would culminate in a historic, successful nine-day strike”. Finally, they maintain that the strike “was the result of creative shop floor organizing by teachers with socialist politics.”
Read more by clicking below:
http://harrison.gop/…/socialists-coordinate-effort-to-use…/p
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Here is a post from a New York anti-Common Core group:
NY SCHOOL ASSIGNMENT: MODERN DAY PREAMBLE (?) WHAT?
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And another post from this group:
“Laying bets Testing giant Questar bids or a mirror of NYS custom-made tests will be the new Maryland tests and they will be computer adaptive, and STILL common core aligned – because Feds and ESSA. Just sayin.”
-Michelle Moore already commented on the article.
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Here is a post from Alice Linahan:
This must be stopped!!
“Google – and others in the tech industry, such as Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Pearson – have partnered with the U.S. Department of Education and school districts throughout the country. Their aim is to collect private student data as they also cash in on the Common Core reform that was privately funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and championed by politicians from both parties laser-focused on workforce development – also a pet project of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
In fact, in June, the Trump administration proposed a merger of the federal education and labor departments – with a goal of workforce development.
“Rather than equip an individual to pursue whatever goal he sets for himself as part of his God-given freedom, this is, instead, the German model being pushed by misguided business interests and some state interests,” she explained. “As a result, the type of education an individual would receive would be influenced by crony corporations dictating to schools the skills needed for future workers.”
The private data helping to plug students into different industries is being provided by tech giants like Google.
“It doesn’t take undercover investigative journalists to unmask the massive privacy invasion enabled by educational technology and federal mandates,” conservative author and CRTV host Michelle Malkin wrote at National Review in April. “The kiddie data heist is happening out in the open — with Washington politicians and bureaucrats as brazen co-conspirators.”
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This post was made by a friend of mine:
Okay #Idaho What do you think?
Is Brad Little aware that the “20 recommendations for moving education forward,” which were made by Governor Otters Task Force on Improving Education, were made without consideration, discussion, or debate of the principles upon which they are based…….THE primary one being “Outcome-Based Education.”
When ” student achievement metrics” are “trending upward,” does it correlate to better education? Are children being better served? Has the suicide rate begun to decline? THAT IS A FREAKING IGNORED METRIC!!!!
Way back in 1999 when this whole standards-based, test-based ed reform BS started here in Idaho if we were counting the suicides as school drop-outs, or do we just drop them out of our numbers game?
I’m glad Brad Little understands that “when we have the best teachers in the classrooms we get the best student outcomes.” Now, why can’t he and all the other “leaders” in education see that they need to PUT TEACHERS AHEAD OF TESTING and TECHNOLOGY in our classrooms. #InputsFirst
#EndOutcomeBasedEdReform #EdReformRevolt It’s the right thing to do, now is the time to do it, and it seems we need reminding we are the People. #OurVoicesMatter
Start the debate without the politicians.
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Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
Leading into the 2019 Legislative Sessions for both Utah and Tennessee, my two homes…I’m going to start public petitions. Very simple…
We The People…demand that all legislators, and the Governor take the 10th Grade TN-Ready/UT-Rise test. If they score less than 4, they must resign from leadership positions. If they score less than a 3, they must resign from public office.
Makes sense. Are you as smart as a 10th grader? If not, time to move along. No harm, right? I mean, if you’re not as smart as a 10th grader, should they be in public office?!
Legislators are so enamored with these centrally planned, one-size-fits-all, bureaucratically driven tests. Let them see what they’ve created. If it’s really as simple as they say, no problem. Right?
Only one way to find out. I’m going to need help. Who’s in?
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Here are some replies to an Alice Linahan post:
here are some names people need to start looking into…
Who is James Heckman?
The Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO), is run by James Heckman, Stephen Durlauf, and Robert Dugger. It operates out of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD) at the University of Chicago, and its fiscal sponsor is the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), an entity that emerged in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008.
INET funds research, grooms young economists, and convenes gatherings promoting the work of its 1,100+ experts. George Soros pledged $50 million from Open Society to create INET as a vehicle to explore “new thinking and new rules for the world economy. Heckman, Dugger, and Durlauf are all involved in the operations of INET.
James Heckman worked closely with Flávio Cunha who is now a Professor of Economics at Rice University in Texas. Together they wrote… “Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation,” a paper published in Econometrica that they wrote with Dr. Susanne M. Schennach.
During Texas’ last legislative session, (R)Sen. Van Taylor passed Math Innovation (SIB) legislation (SB1318) to get this ball rolling. (R) Rep. Tan Parker (HB2014) carried the house bill. Knowingly or not, they are pushing George Soros’ agenda. Here is a link to Testimony on (HB2014): https://youtu.be/AlFkvjXx91k
Please note, it is Flávio Cunha, who wrote the white paper with Heckman, that is the expert guest from Rice University who is testifying for the Math innovation social impact bonds.
THEY HAVE TO COLLAPSE THE TRADITIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM TO SOCIALLY RECONSTRUCT AMERICA!!
TIME TO WAKE UP PEOPLE!!
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I think the only way to end this, Alice, is to stop allowing the government to run education, to cease extortion of more and more educational funding by government, and return that money to the tax-payer who can purchase a less-expensive, more effective, and more enjoyable education offered by educational businesses that compete with one-another for your student and their tuition.
The schools will be safer and more enjoyable for the students because there won’t be major behavior problems… Can’t behave here? Go buy your education elsewhere, Oh, and your tuition is forfeit… Parenting skills anyone?
Success isn’t easy. If it were, everyone would do it.
Free market, all-day, every day, all day long…
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How many decades of students will be lost to the process of creating this utopia of education. How many years will any student lose because the education product their parents chose for them is substandard. How many skimmed profits will replace the purchase of highly experienced teachers in this capital driven environment.
In the last 20 years, even as corporate profits have grown, NONE of it has either “trickled down” or been “regulated” to the backs of those who do the actual production…..Every penny that can be squeezed is directed toward share holder profit.
I don’t believe in the liberal agenda, I abhor, this “for profit” capitalism model that MUST create “easy success” for any student in the country to be educated.
free market, all-day, every day, all day long and the GREED has created the environment that allows the anarchy in our streets.
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Here is a perfect example of why they want to eliminate that locally elected school board. Their greatest commodity to profit off of, is the unethical collection of psychological data to be used for “Artificial Intelligence”(AI).
“There is untapped information sitting on computers in the state Capitol building right now that could help us understand how we get more kids through college or break the cycle of incarceration or move families out of poverty. We want to bring together the best researchers in the country with public officials to unlock the power of that data and use it to make real progress on these problems,” said LJAF President and Chief Executive Officer Kelli Rhee.
https://www.arnoldfoundation.org/6-6-million-grant-from-laura-and-john-arnold-foundation-to-fund-texas-policy-lab-at-rice-university/
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here are some names people need to start looking into…
Who is James Heckman?
The Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO), is run by James Heckman, Stephen Durlauf, and Robert Dugger. It operates out of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD) at the University of Chicago, and its fiscal sponsor is the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), an entity that emerged in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008.
INET funds research, grooms young economists, and convenes gatherings promoting the work of its 1,100+ experts. George Soros pledged $50 million from Open Society to create INET as a vehicle to explore “new thinking and new rules for the world economy. Heckman, Dugger, and Durlauf are all involved in the operations of INET.
James Heckman worked closely with Flávio Cunha who is now a Professor of Economics at Rice University in Texas. Together they wrote… “Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation,” a paper published in Econometrica that they wrote with Dr. Susanne M. Schennach.
During Texas’ last legislative session, (R)Sen. Van Taylor passed Math Innovation (SIB) legislation (SB1318) to get this ball rolling. (R) Rep. Tan Parker (HB2014) carried the house bill. Knowingly or not, they are pushing George Soros’ agenda. Here is a link to Testimony on (HB2014): https://youtu.be/AlFkvjXx91k
Please note, it is Flávio Cunha, who wrote the white paper with Heckman, that is the expert guest from Rice University who is testifying for the Math innovation social impact bonds.
THEY HAVE TO COLLAPSE THE TRADITIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM TO SOCIALLY RECONSTRUCT AMERICA!!
TIME TO WAKE UP PEOPLE!!
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leave all schools accepting federal funding hit them where it matters to them their pockets – otherwise this will continue
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I understand, and I WISH!; but the reality is that it isn’t going to happen. Our entire populace is not going to exit the building. The large majority of our communities will continue to attend public, charter, and private schools who take the money, unwittingly or not.
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you know how deep the dimes of federal assistance have reached every aspect of organized education. I stayed home with my children, your comment judges that in this broken society, every home will have the privilege of one adult staying home to educate their children. And while I respect that, I think you have not fully thought through the “rhetoric” of choice to understand the total scope of your words, you are feeding back the “sound bites.
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The scope….and “some” homeschools….federal dollars have encroached upon the freedoms within the walls of homes, especially for those who do not understand the concept of “approved curriculum.” The real issue is not “keeping our own money,” it is if we should be taxed for education at all. And while my answer might be “no,” my fellow citizens have approved spending based on long term debt…the bills do not go away.
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Karen Bracken the education industry spends hours in legislative committee laying out the language needed to provide their “service” in the school. I watched hour after hour of the “vendor” crafting the language of the law for both the pub ed committee and appropriations. Those testifying for experienced teachers and strong academics were given 3 minutes and ignored.
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aren Bracken, all of democracy will get not what “they deserve” but the consequences of education being handed over to capitalism are being realized in the anarchy of social rebellion in our streets. The path to the future of education is a freight train of globalism, the contents supported by one party, the techniques of transformation supported by the other. And our students futures being stolen by the elites of both. Neither of which places their own children into the process.
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These people that are participating are primarily working-class people. The request for them to not participate in schools is unreasonable.
The request that they deny the data collection monster his subsistence of test results is most definitely the place to start. It has gone too far, for too long, and is harming children…..It should be the major principle upon which we rob the elite from their education revolution victory.
They smelled victory back in 2011 and have been held back – slightly – over the last eight years. If the Every Student Succeeds Act had not passed with testing still intact, we would have been the ones popping champagne corks in D.C. rather than Michelle Rhee and Geoffrey Canada. I can’t remember who else was in this article and I refuse to renew my free subscription because I can’t stand the idea of them (Gate’s & Co.) knowing what I read. https://www.edweek.org/…/art…/2011/02/14/revolution.html
I should still be reading Tucker’s stuff, but I can’t. 😦 I’ve had enough of him.
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Teach for America and Education Week puke. Actually they want us to keep our children in the system so they can keep their jobs and $$$ coming in.
There are plenty of single and dual parent income families finding alternatives to government school system. Where there is a will there is a way.
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You’d really puke if you read the article (as I recall). Like I said, I don’t subscribe.
That is right, where there is a will there is a way. The American public hasn’t developed a political will to stop totalitarianism….yet.
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unfortunately not and it is being left to us as individual families to take things into our own hands. They are no longer hiding the agenda and it is in our faces yet people are too busy to pay attention or do not want to face the fact that they have to get off their duffs.
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I think a lot of people are so overwhelmed and without visible leadership, they can’t see a way out.
A clear vision hasn’t been allowed to surface…yet.
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You have never seen a free market in your lifetime. Government corrupts everything it touches. As I read your reply to my original remark, you counter your own argument. I taught in the public education system for over ten years. I’ve lived with “the idea of the month club” in education. We have put more money per student into our public schools than other nations and they continue to embarrass us with their individual student achievement.
Education happens between a caring teacher, and a motivated student; but our education dollars don’t get to the classroom precisely due to the corruption, not in corporations, but in our bureaucratic government. I watched a school system renovate their district office while students wanted for supplies and equipment and teachers struggled to make a living in the single most important job on the planet. Many teachers spend their own pay to buy supplies for their job… There isn’t a better soul on Earth than a good teacher. But they don’t get what they need to do the job effectively under a centrally controlled educational bureaucracy.
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An education is something of value, great value, as everyone in this thread is obviously aware. Everything of value can be traded for something else of value which government has learned. “We will collect your earnings as taxes and educate the populous to a standard level…”; an idea which in the eighteenth century the WORLD was coming to the US to see. Since then, our government has gleaned more and more of our money (the power that we worked for) promising to do better, but they haven’t done better.
The failure, the corruption, is systemic. They require our earnings of us, misappropriate our money, waste the energy we provide, and water down the end product by leveling the playing field for everyone. It doesn’t work, or we wouldn’t be up at 2 am passionately discussing it…
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We, the citizens, are today so busy in two-income households, some with more than one job, to pay attention to what is happening in and to our country; established to provide and protect freedom SO THAT each of us can prosper to the best of our individual ability.
We’re kept busy paying 25-33% on average in taxes of what we earn to an oppressively bureaucratic government that weakens every thing it touches. Our constitution was drafted to limit what government controls, not to further empower it.
We are kept busy so that we don’t have time to pay attention to the corruption around us. The wages you earn are taxed before you see them. Every dollar you spend providing for your needs has tax applied. When you die, there is a court proceeding called “probate” in which the government involves itself in your family business to decide “Who actually owns the wealth of money or stuff” you leave behind, oh, and how much of it’s value “belongs to the government” in estate taxes. If I personally involved myself in “your business” to that degree, I’m certain we’d have a discussion… but we’ve come to expect it as normal from government.
Government should only do what only government can do, and they shouldn’t be doing anything else. (read it again)
Governments tax those of us that provide goods and services for others at every turn, and they fail to provide what they promise… at every turn. Education is the most important job on the face of the Earth and they hold the power because we allow them to wield our power as money hoping that they control the waste and corruption. It won’t happen.
Do we appreciate the communication and opportunity for democratic discussion that social media has afforded us? Are we respecting it’s inherent power… the people that want to control it certainly do. I truly appreciate your impassioned discourse to this topic, every one of you. It’s important that we examine ideas to make better decisions going forward.
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there is an important clarification/correction that does need to be made in relationship to your assertions. Big Business absolutely IS a player in this ugly game. Big Government has held hands with unions in the past. That hasn’t entirely stopped, in point of fact. However, their preferred principal partner today is Big Business. The true source of the problem is not government alone, but government in corrupt PARTNERSHIP with others who can afford to purchase the outcomes of public policy. Public-private partnership is what keeps this whole ugly mess going. Look at the role of Big Business icons such as Bill Gates, Lou Gerstner, and a whole host of others in the policy directions that have been embraced since the late 1980s and early 1990s, in particular. They are just the most visible parts of a massive iceberg. Alice Linahan will back me up on my assertions. Both of us have done more than our share of homework.
Part of the problem we have is that people have been hoodwinked into believing that if business is involved, then it must be free market. Nothing could be further from the truth, as you likely well understand. I think we just need to make sure people understand that there is actually a corrupt partnership going on, because government alone is literally only one half of the problem.
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the place for a business to have a say in the shaping their workforce is when they hire an employee. Period. End of story. The interference of Big Business in education has not made things better in education. To the contrary, it has made things worse. Big Business has helped to engineer a system in which they are leveraging public dollars to achieve “pre-job training” for them. Big Government acts as a sort of pimp in that equation, agreeing to prepare children in the way Big Business wishes. That is, quite frankly, collusive and corrupt.
Respectfully, you seem to have bought into the false notion that education is about ensuring that people can get a good job. Education is in fact about something much, much DEEPER than that, as I suspect you would agree, being a former teacher. That we have, as a society bought into the lie that education is about “getting a good job,” has, in large measure, led us down the primrose path to hell. Education for the workforce is a cause of, not a solution to, the problems we now confront. Until we start remembering what true education is really supposed to be–that it’s about giving children the tools and the opportunity to SELF-DETERMINE, as is their natural right, we will continue to be in hell…and to put children in hell.
The problem with workforce development/school-to-work/skills-based training/outcome-based education (call it what you like, it has sundry labels) is that it aims to prepare children for the agendas of OTHERS…NOT to determine their own, personal agendas (goals, hopes, dreams, etc) and write their own futures (self-determination).
If business wants to offer internships, GREAT! But it ought to remain solely a private arrangement between the business and the child, with the involvement and approval of the child’s parents). The minute business is allowed “a say” in what happens in a school, how it runs, what it teaches, etc, I guarantee you that students’ best interests will inevitably be rejected in favor of business’ best interests. The minute a business is permitted to leverage public money instead of their own in order to “form the workforce,” the minute it can pour money into politicians’ campaign funds in order to be able to leverage that public money, you will have corruption. And we do.
Is it all businesses? No. Of course not. But those businesses that ARE involved in this mess are all in the wrong. Corruption is not just a possibility in public-private partnership. Corruptions is ENDEMIC TO public-private partnership. Public-private partnership should have ZERO role in education. If a business wants to create and run a school using private dollars, so be it. Let the buyer investigate the methods and outcomes of any such school and evaluate the merits or drawbacks of sending their child there. But business should have no role in education that involves public dollars.
Am I a fan of government education? No. But I’m even less a fan of public-private partnership. Again, the unions were the big partner before. Now it’s Big Business. We haven’t switched from a bad partner to a good partner. We’ve just switched to another partner that is engaging in corruption.
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Making education into a “for profit” business model which is what “vouchers” does will not work. Businesses will always view your child then as a way to make money and they will be trying to find every single way to make money off of your child to supplement their bottom line.
First move will be to eliminate textbooks, the second will be having a single teacher teach 100 kids thru online or distance learning, third will be selling data or access to advertise to your children a certain viewpoint on issues that you may not agree with.
Public schools have TONS of problems. Particularly large urban districts but the last thing you want to do is allow greed to be the driving force for change in a classroom.
Capitalism works great when you are making products for folks to consume, but I certainly do not want the Wall Street in charge of the future generations of children.
This to me is like chemotherapy in the 1970s.
The treatment was worse than the problem itself and will probably end up killing the patient who takes it.
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I was just shaking my head watching that Fox News video. Here we go again, devoting a major amount of time to the School Reform agenda on a major network. Millions of dollars in air time devoted to brainwashing the public. If we don’t have a crisis, the Reformers can’t work their agenda. This is a manufactured crisis, David Pandone. School failure is a myth. Yes, some schools do better on the state test than others, but this is due to socio-economic conditions in the neighborhoods. And who cares if students do better on the test. It is a false indicator of what the child knows. The entire Accountability/Testing/School Rating system is a deck of cards waiting to crumble. Competition for students by business entities will only further turn the child into a commodity for profit.
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I also love how the major networks choose the books they want to promote. Give me a break. I wish I could get that kind of coverage for my book. How about you, Alice? Kind of like testifying as an uninvited guest at the state capitol.
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Exactly!! And why aren’t they covering Devos’ G20 and the UN declaration she signed onto.
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It’s like the Enron mentality has shifted to education. Their definition of the free-market is total freedom to exploit. They want access to the $600B industry. They want real estate deals through charters, and they want to capitalize on social impact investing.
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This makes me LIVID!!! THIS IS “CONSERVATIVE” FOX NEWS SHOVELING 💩‼️‼️ “FIXING AMERICA’S SCHOOLS” that were INTENTIONALLY BROKEN!!! What a crock!
“*IF* we get this right, we can compete in the global market”⁉️⁉️
Oh PLEASE!!! I spy More Globalists! Fox News Globalists! They KNOW what they are doing!
“It IS immoral! It IS impractical! It IS EVIL” what these FOX NEWS minions are proposing from a CREATED crisis!
Don’t forget that! This crisis has been CREATED! Our schools were FORCED to select recommended curricula that has ultimately brought us to where we find ourselves in education today.
“The LEFT will fight this”??? Well I’m NOT LEFT! This is NOT a partisan issue! This IS Education reform, aka, TAKEOVER, Narrative! “Conservative” (now-we-know aka Globalist) Fox News is pitting left against right to accomplish the Globalism end. SHAME ON FOX! (Though some of us already recognized this truth about Fox News before this!)
Thank you, Alice Linahan, for the 1994 book excerpts! i CAN See!
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I rarely use Facebook but am compelled to remind Mr. Pandone that teachers and schools do not make “educational products.” We educate human beings created uniquely by God. The students I have taught for the lat 45 years are not products. It concerns me gravely that as a former teacher you would refer to students as products. Education is an unmeasurable art and not a science or a business.
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After all the numbers are crunched, the data points are pegged, and the tests are collected and corrected, we are talking about people’s lives!!! These folks may be short or tall, but they are real human beings and deserve to be treated with respect and caring during their time with us.
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Here is a post from Shannon Joy:
Trump twice mentioned employers who partner with the federal government ‘reaching in’ to high schools to recruit workers.
School Inc. ———>
‘Because some of the best examples we’ve seen is when the employers reach into the vocational schools and reach into the high schools, and develop curriculums and then employ the student right on the other end.’
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Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
This is How Local Curriculum Control Dies: OER.
At the resource below, the State Superintendents Club (the CCSSO), and their progressive political bed-buddy New America (whose Board is chaired by Google’s Eric Schmidt), detail their work to control districts’ curriculum choices and politicize curriculum. How? Using Open Educational Resources (OER).
Tech giants like Amazon play a key roll in OER. The CCSSO and New America are ecstatic at how quickly schools and states are adopting OER. OER is a term coined by the UN’s education division, UNESCO, in 2002. President Trump has called UNESCO “anti-Israel” for a reason—yet his Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is doing UNESCO’s OER-bidding through the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the G20. (see the footnotes in the CCSSO/New America paper to understand how the Obama administration used Race to the Top and ESSA to persuade districts that they were regaining control of curriculum from states when, in actuality, they were/are ceding control of curriculum AND assessments to the tech giant cartel by using OER).
Prager, WND and other conservative media outlets that are sounding the warning about tech giants controlling online content need to understand how this exact same thing is happening with online “personalized” curriculum for every student. Prager, WND and others need to be reporting on THIS dark side of the Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Twitter, US Dept. of Ed, UNESCO story: OER can be rated, curated and tracked in order to control the curriculum and assessments that teachers and children use. OER, using Common Education Data Standards, ties teacher/student learning to global Competency-Based curriculum—which is focused on political indoctrination, not education.. At Utah’s August State School Board meeting, it was noted that the state’s assessment provider, Questar Assessments, was starting to use OER in assessments.
https://ccsso.org/resou…/navigating-new-curriculum-landscape
Remember that districts were “freed” from state curriculum control under ESSA. They just didn’t realize that they were then coerced into politicized, globally data-tracked curriculum:
https://tech.ed.gov/open/
Also remember that the Obama administration created the curriculum curation system, the Learning Registry—and helped their tech giant partners create similar curriculum ratings/curation systems—in order that teachers’ and students’ choices could be manipulated and controlled by state assessment scores:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJsM7yQLMKc
The federal tripod of standards, assessments and accountability is strangling local curriculum and assessment control. The tripod is being used to politicize what your children learn.
ESSA. MUST. BE. STOPPED. It’s up to parents. Persuade your legislator to end the federal tripod that the tech cartel is using to control what your children learn. The best way to do this is to stop taking federal education money—your tax payer money returned with strings.
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More from New America on their OER-Learning Technologies Project.
https://www.newamerica.org/e…/learning-technologies-project/
I encourage parents and legislators to watch the Obama administration’s Deputy Director of Ed Tech, Steve Midgley, speaking about how OER works at the youtube link above. He stated outright that they were starting to curate curriculum to ensure that teachers choose the “most relevant resource.” Midgley says, “[Through the Registry] we can actually find out this teacher assigned this material; this teacher emailed this to someone else; this teacher dragged it onto a smart board for 18 minutes. . . .” The Registry will also use “the math that I don’t understand which [will] let me know something about who you are and then let me do some mathematical operations against a very large data set and see if I can pair you with the appropriate relevant resource.”
That’s not local curriculum control. That is someone in power, deciding that they know what teachers and children need to know, and using algorithms to control it.
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Glad that New Mexico is going after these guys:
https://freedomoutpost.com/new-mexico-sues-google-twitter-for-illegally-exploiting-children/
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Freshmen at Columbia University are forced to attend a three-hour assembly on identity politics as part of their orientation: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/18/columbia-freshman-forced-to-attend-identity-politics-workshop/
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Here are some posts in reply to a Wrench in the Gears blog entry:
EXCELLENT. Thank you!!! WE must convince parents that THEY are the protectors of their children’s private information not the government. By a simple act of refusing to allow your child to be hooked up to the data collecting machinery and to also refuse your child’s participation in any and all surveys. Parents need to refuse to fill out surveys as well.
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I agree about the surveys. We are meeting with district officials to figure out how to navigate the college application process outside our district’s takeover by Naviance (Hobson’s).
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Naviance is huge and too big to fight, I fear. We have it in our district in MD. An asian acquaintance of mine was summoned into the office last year and mandated to fill out FAFSA forms or else they would not send her daughter’s information out to various colleges. This family had saved their money to pay for this college education out of pocket and did not want any help from the Fed Gov’t. The schools hijack a child’s information and hold it for ransom (data).
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Here is a post by the Common Core Diva:
All the more reason to unite and fight to protect our students! The cradle to career school is now in Detroit, MI.
#ESSA
#cradletocareer #RepealESSA #RestoreFERPA
#stopcommoncore #endfeded
Thanks to a devoted follower, here’s the link.
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A Michigan school caves to militant atheists: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/20/michigan-school-district-pulls-video-family-circle-after-critics-claimed-it-promoted-prayer.html
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Here is a post from Alice Linahan:
Folks- This should be of great concern to all…
The predetermined outcomes Gates is talking about are behavioral; and that means they want access to modify the attitudes, values, beliefs, and behaviors of Americans.
“Gates said it will support new data systems that will make it possible to compare student outcomes across the globe.
Gates said last year that the first step to measuring education quality will be to develop better “cross-national assessments,” particularly for math and reading among younger students. Its new report cites UNESCO’s estimates that over 600 million students are not minimally proficient, lamenting that few countries collect enough data points that would identify where their “learning crisis” lies.”
https://www.apnews.com/b69709de17f5472bac4b8c7aca4badcb
Remember…
Key Players Implementing the Transformation in Education known as “education reformers” are…
* Google and Microsoft who are Unesco Partners with deals to promote Unesco’s values through a World Curriculum.
* The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) a World Policy Organization.
The OECD runs an Assessment system to support Unesco’s Sustainable Development Goals.
The OECD’s assessment director, Andreas Schleicher, a German worked with the Obama Administration to reshape the US K-12 online assessment system.
The OECD reshaped assessments so they run in the background of online curriculum.
The OECD assessments are assessing behaviors more than academics.
OECD/PISA quotes from the Global Competency Framework for an Inclusive and Sustainable World :
“The skills, attitudes, and values that shape human behavior should be rethought to counter the discriminatory behaviors picked up at school and in the family. All young people should be able to challenge cultural and gender stereotypes, to reflect on the causes and solutions of racial, religious and hate violence and to help create tolerant integrated societies.”
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While the Left wants to shut down any reference to God in schools, they apparently don’t give a care about all the access many students have to hardcore porn in schools:
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Here is a post from a Nevada anti-Common Core group:
Absolutely ridiculous! When do they find the time to actually teach in the second half of the year?!!!!!
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And here are some replies to this post:
The SBAC collects a lot more than data on student learning. Ask them if they want Protect Nevada Children to re-write if for them…LOL What district?
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Nye County
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Homer NY
“Can someone help me with my dilemma? Every year my son’s (4th grade) school has the child and their parents sign acknowledgement of the school handbook for students and parents. The last few years our “Opt Out” percentages have been fairly high and I always opt my children out every year. Now this year they added two whole pages in the handbook for “NYS Testing for grades 3 to 8” and there is a section that states…..
“What is the opt out option? Opting out is not an option at the (Name of the school district). We are required by our district and NYS education department as certified personnel to administer these tests. All students will be given the assessments regardless of parents request.”
I have not signed the acknowledgment yet because it states….
“________ and i have read and discussed the information in this 2018-2019 intermediate handbook. We agree to cooperate fully with these rules in order to make each day at (Name of school district) a valuable one. ”
My son will have recess taken away or some other repercussion if this is not turned in.”
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Here is a post from a Washington anti-Common Core group:
P-20W.
First, it was full day kindergarten. Now it’s preschool for all.
In the future, you will see daycare for all.
Where does it stop? At what point do we not allow the state to dictate, require and mandate the raising and up bringing of our children?
“Call to Action!
Do you believe preschool students of all ability levels have the right to participate fully in high quality, inclusive early childhood programs? Are you willing to devote personal and professional time to promote development and implementation of inclusive, high-leverage, policies, procedures, and evidence-based practices? Do you want to be part of a high-performing, efficient, cutting-edge team of collaborators who will change the landscape of preschool programming in the State of Washington? Then you are the Pre-K Inclusion Champion we are looking for!
Opportunity to Serve
Together, the Special Education and Learning and Teaching Divisions of the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), in partnership with the Department of Children, Youth, and Families, are convening a volunteer, statewide Pre-K Inclusion Collaboration Team (PICT). This team will assist in the initial development, promotion, and implementation of a new Washington State Pre-K Inclusion Policy, with companion resources for a Pre-K Inclusion Toolkit.”
https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/4571077/Recruiting-for-the-Pre-K-Inclusion-Collaboration-Team
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Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
I have a question. My preschooler was sent home with a consent form for testing by the Utah Dept. Of Workforce Services. My first inclination is to not sign it, as I do not want her information and data out there. But am I just being paranoid?
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And here are the replies to this post:
Always question and never take anything at face value.
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I would not consent. Pre-school? Why on earth do they need to be starting this on pre-schoolers? Just let your child have the fun experience of pre-school without marring it by tests.
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That’s what I was thinking too.
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I would be so put off by this coming from a preschool that I would probably switch preschools
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I personally have a big problem with DWS being involved with 3 & 4 year olds, but the state legislature keeps passing bills that gets them involved with early learning programs.
My guess is it’s because the preschool has received a School Readiness Grant & they have to prove that they are a “high quality” school by reporting assessment results & allowing classroom visits by an evaluator & government agencies (including DWS). If you click on the different Sections of code, you’ll see DWS involvement & the assessment requirement, etc. https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title53F/Chapter6/53F-6-P3.html
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DO NOT CONSENT but if she’s already on a computer at school they are collecting data.
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Avoiding preschool is also a good idea. I don’t know if that’s an option for you in your situation.
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The Workforce garbage is an effort to link any students or job seekers to the data system called WQDI ( Workforce Quality Data Initiative). It marries to the SLDS (Student Longitudinal Data System). SLDS was incentivized by RttT. WQDI was incentivized by U S Dept of Labor. Depending on where in the Ed track students are (or where in the job seeker tracker you are), the data feeds off education assessments to pigeonhole careers. The Labor backtracks their end to meet the classwork and courses which meet the test data.
ESSA simply stepped the whole system up. That is why it clearly mandated ‘all education must be aligned to post secondary readiness standards as laid out by the WIOA ( Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act).’ ESSA also mandated the Universal PreK. Lastly, this all brings to fruition, what Seen Lamar Alexander stated back in the 80s, we’ll take our babies and align them early on.
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There are legal data protections (thought minimal) for data collected by the schools, I have yet to see any legal protections for DWS data. I would not sign that at all, unless your preschooler need a job right now.
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FERPA once protected the collection of children’s data but it was gutted in 2010 by Obama. Their data can now be collected without parental consent.
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PRESCHOOL?? HELL NO. There isn’t any information that they NEED from a preschooler!
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So, before our daughter went to kindergarten the school required “screening” for “placement” in kindergarten. They brought her PRIVATELY into another room. They told us she was being tested to see which kindergarten class she would fit into best.
When our baby girl, of 4 years old, came out of this “screening” she had many questions. They went something like this…
“Mommy, why did they ask me where Daddy works?”
“Mommy, why did they ask me if you work?”
“why did they ask me if my brother lived at home? ”
“why did they ask me if you and daddy are married?”
These were just some on the question they asked our daughter
Does that sound like PLACEMENT to you?!?!?
That was 4 years ago!
Do you think all this data mining will help your child or is it an invasion of privacy?
What does my husband’s occupation have to do with our daughters placement in kindergarten?
Why did they take her into a room to do this, where, we, her parents, were not allowed?
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Wow! That is crazy!
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that was 4 years ago… I can’t even imagine how intrusive it is now. I’m glad we pulled our daughter from school. Until parents wake up and push pack, schools are no longer safe havens
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I agree. I homeschool my older kids and it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. But I’m so grateful that I can keep them out of the madness.
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messed up, right?? My daughter lasted a total of 3 weeks in kindergarten before I yanked her out
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In this 2017 Utah document, the School Readiness Grants from the Dept of Workforce Development. Shows grants from private sector as well as government funds. So, once again the fascist P3s are rearing their heads.
Check it out!
https://www.schools.utah.gov/…/615062be-11a8-4ccc-9f86…
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Carried out in Prek via High Quality School Readiness Grants (this link will be for FY 2019, which begins 10/1/18!
Here’s the excerpt for what the Grants do (note this is in the Workforce Services Dept, not Workforce Development, as I mistakenly said above.
“The High Quality School Readiness (HQSR) Grant is defined by the Utah School Readiness Initiative, Utah Code §53A-1b-106 (hereafter called the Initiative). The purposes of the Utah School Readiness Initiative are to increase school readiness, improve academic performance, and reduce remediation costs associated with poor academic outcomes. One component of the Initiative is the HQSR Grant Program. The HQSR Grant Program provides resources to existing early education programs administered by Local Education Agencies (LEAs), private child care providers, and home-based educational technology programs. The grants are available to programs serving eligible three- and four-year- old students who are not receiving special education services. It is highly encouraged that programs serve students with disabilities in an inclusive environment (i.e., with both typically developing students and students with disabilities being educated together in the same room).”
Link: https://jobs.utah.gov/department/rfg/hqsr19/index.html
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For those providing Prek, look at the SEL (social emotional learning which must be embedded (see it just below the ‘must have Common Core State Standards’ and its purple check mark)
Link: http://www.nccp.org/profiles/UT_profile_20.html
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Check this out:
From the Summary Report to end intergenerational poverty in UT, the combined efforts of Dept of Workforce Services AND Utah’s Board of Ed, were tasked with PreK development. If that doesn’t tell you the ‘lifelong learning’, indentured servitude ESSA set up, I don’t know what will. This also bears out the fact Ed and Labor will be united at a federal level sooner than later.
Link to report:
https://jobs.utah.gov/…/interge…/igpsummaryrecommend.pdf
*Also note that after the PreK alignnment, the K assessment will follow suit, it has to. The cradle to grave system MUST have it.
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Here are the photos of the information that came with the consent form.
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2002 to 2008 I taught Perschool in my home ad did not have this invasion of the government. This is not right. I am so sad.
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And another post from this group:
I’m posting this here because EBSCO provides databases for libraries, schools, online charter schools, K-12 programs, and colleges around the world. The whole US has it, and it is filthy.
We have to stop this!!! SHARE this please!
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And here are some replies to this post:
A woman told me the other day that her son was first exposed to porn on the school computer and has since developed porn addiction. They have been working on fixing it now for a while. It breaks my heart to think how common that story probably is, and that no one ever stopped to analyze all the information at the children’s fingertips. We can’t just trust people that say they are for children anymore. Those days are gone. We must always check, and then after a while, check again. 😦
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You CAN get rid of EBSCO. This school district did.
https://www.9news.com/…/parents-fighting…/73-593150722
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We’ve started looking at Gale, their reference material replacement, and while it appears to have less porn, the bad stuff numbers in the thousands of pages.
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parents can no longer trust schools to police curriculum content. Believe it or not, the group that advised Utah’s State School Board on our Digital Teaching and Learning law, SB222, knew that porn would become common place in online learning. THAT is the very reason that they (Common Sense Education) worked with the Obama administration to quickly proliferate state and district web portals with mass amounts of digital curriculum—to make it almost impossible to police. From what I’m hearing, other state web portals are exposing kids to pornographic content, as well as lgbtq content, not just EBSCO.
All states and nations are being coerced into using Open Educational Resources (OER) in order to gut local curriculum control. Parents must rise up and demand local oversight—and that can’t happen when digital curriculum is computer adaptive. So. Digital computer-adaptive curriculum and assessments in K-12 MUST GO!!! It’s too risky. And, it’s uneccesary.
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Here is a post from Alice Linahan:
Did you know…
The below information is very concerning…
Both the Obama and Trump Administrations have and are building an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Society…
It is important to be aware, TODAY, “The Senate Commerce Committee is hosting a much-anticipated hearing on consumer privacy—and consumer privacy groups don’t get a seat at the table.
It is no coincidence that, in the past week, two leading industry groups (the Chamber of Commerce and the Internet Association) have called for federal preemption of state data privacy laws in exchange for weaker federal protections.
The upcoming hearing at the Senate Commerce Committee may be the launch pad for this strategy of undoing stronger state laws.”
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/game-rigged-congress-invites-no-consumer-privacy-advocates-its-consumer-privacy
We need to make some NOISE and let Congress and the big EdTech (Google, Microsoft, Amazon) know, they DO NOT HAVE CONSENT to access our children and our families private data to be used for profit or control.
Predictive Analytics uses mined education data to create software programs that have the ability to predict, sort, monitor and modify the behaviors of students.
Previously in America, your past did not determine your future. If not stopped, by parents, it will be implemented, mandated, and regulated by law, in the soon to come Next Generation of Assessments and Accountability. America’s next generation’s personal data portfolio will determine not only their future but their daily lives.
As stated by Yuval Harari:
“What will happen when the algorithm knows what is better for me than myself? The authority will shift from the feelings of the individual to these outside algorithms.”
Following up on the Obama Administration’s previous report, Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence,
which was published in October 2016, this report further investigates the effects of AI-driven automation
on the U.S. job market and economy, and outlines recommended policy responses.
This report was produced by a team from the Executive Office of the President including staff from the
Council of Economic Advisers, Domestic Policy Council, National Economic Council, Office of
Management and Budget, and Office of Science and Technology Policy. The analysis and
recommendations included herein draw on insights learned over the course of the Future of AI Initiative,
which was announced in May of 2016, and included Federal Government coordination efforts and cross-sector and public outreach on AI and related policy matters. The report seen here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/EMBARGOED%20AI%20Economy%20Report.pdf
President Trump issued this report: Artificial Intelligence for the American People: INFRASTRUCTURE & TECHNOLOGY Issued on: May 10, 2018
PRIORITIZING FUNDING FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (R&D): The Trump Administration has prioritized funding for fundamental AI research and computing infrastructure, machine learning, and autonomous systems.
The Federal Government’s investment in unclassified R&D for AI and related technologies has grown by over 40% since 2015, in addition to substantial classified investments across the defense and intelligence communities.
In the annual guidance to heads of executive departments and agencies, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the White House Office Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directed agencies to focus on emerging technologies including machine learning and autonomous systems.
President Trump’s FY2019 Budget Request was the first in history to designate artificial intelligence and autonomous and unmanned systems as Administration R&D priorities.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/artificial-intelligence-american-people/
Turns out your kid cannot even do the diagnostic on Reading Plus until they answer 32 SEL questions.
The video is me trying to do one of these hideous Reading Plus lessons. I also included the company’s privacy policy.
This company is snatching SEL data while supposedly remediating and teaching speed reading.
Our creepy data grubbing interim superintendent has our at and above grade level readers doing Reading Plus every Friday during English and they are forced to do it for 2 hours every week for homework.
These children are not remedial readers. These children all attend the only A rated middle school in our county.
Something tells me this is our interim super is selling our kids data, because she’s certainly not remediating these kids.
Parents tried to refuse the software and requested their children either read books or have instruction from their teacher. Then the Super said nope and now I’m making it for a test grade.
This is just maniacal. Parents want to do the right thing but not at the expense of their kids grades.
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Here is a post from a Nevada anti-Common Core group:
I was just informed that my son (Kindergarten) will be subject to MAPS testing within the next couple of weeks. We are at a Charter school within Clark County – is there an opt-out form for this? I saw the SBAC opt-out, but nothing for MAPS…and legally the same as SBAC where they cannot penalize my child for not taking them correct? Thanks in advance!!
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And here are the replies to this post:
Nothing specific to MAP testing, this is what we have. Some charter schools do strange things when it comes to opting out of testing, some don’t have a problem with it. In my middle school I just tell the principal. Our principal is great, she get’s it!
https://www.nevadansagainstcommoncore.com/sbac-refusal-forms…—–and-more.html
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As I understand it MAPs are taken as a placement test at this time of the year. It helps the teachers see what each student knows and what they still need to learn.
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MAP is another adaptive test, Dr. Luksik talks about them in this interview, it may be helpful for you to hear this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMVODSdl3Qo
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Here’s the six minute video where Dr. Luksik’s talks about the problems with computer adaptive tests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExyMietC9Gs
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Read this: the goal is tracking your little ones. I show you the deceptions about these tests. ESSA has mandated opting out is not an option. Schools and States will be punished.
https://commoncorediva.wordpress.com/2018/06/13/trekkers-and-trackers/
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Listen what is happening in the classrooms across America using a Reasoning Mind math program …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEXFO0W0RGA&t=1s&list=PLZ1q9iRSj6KeqrDjFYgrBRK7zniUnvkFF&index=16
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And another post from this group:
I found out that the 3rd graders in DCSD, ZCES were MAP testing on the computer today. 3 hours from what my son was telling us. No notification from the teacher or the school Facts & Flyers. My 4th grade son said he heard over the intercom today that his brother’s class was MAP testing but he hasn’t heard when his class is MAP testing, anyone know? On another note, I provided the FBI PSA (DATA COLLECTION AND UNSECURED SYSTEMS COULD POSE RISKS TO STUDENTS) to my son’s teachers in ZCES and was told that the Principal came to the computer lab during MAP testing, took the PSA from the teacher, asked the teacher if questions were asked (by me I assume) and then the Principal asked my son if his brothers had a copy as well. I have not been contacted by anyone from the school about it.
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And some replies to this post:
Wow! I still think we need to show up to a DCSD school board meeting…
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is sounds like your children know your stance and have some understanding of it and it seems like a viable option. I know it would make me feel physically ill if any grown ups ever told me that I had to do things that my parents were strongly opposed to.
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DCSD for the first time this year has a refusal form but it’s not specific to anything. Write in what you are refusing for your children but be prepared for the consequences. They won’t tell you what will have consequences or what refusals will belong to which punishment/consequence.
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I emailed the Superintendent and was told that the next board meeting is October 9th at the Airport Training Center in Minden. I am waiting to be provided with an address and to verify it’s open for public comment.
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Did you know Douglas County is the only district we know of that already created their SBAC opt-out form. Last year, or the year before, some schools in Douglas County made it difficult to opt-out. https://www.nevadansagainstcommoncore.com/sbac-refusal…
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Yes I do know. I am the one that provided it to you at the end of last school year. This is the first opt-out form ever for DCSD. Prior to this form, I was told that I can’t opt my children out of anything; tests or assignments provided in school. It is not a specific assessment opt-out form. The parent has to write in what they are opting their children out of for assessments. Yes, DCSD made it more than difficult, they made it a living hell for our family for years because we opt-out and refused.
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I forgot where I got the opt-out form. Usually when they come early it’s teachers who send them. The good news is they are getting better, correct. I still think we need to attend the next school board meeting. In addition to the FBI PSA (we hand it to them during the meeting), they need to know Edmodo has been sold to a Chinese company (also hand them this info). Then we challenge them to tell or continue to hide this from parents. They love it when you do it that way…LOL https://www.edsurge.com/…/2018-04-24-what-happens-to…
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Hey do you realize digital personalized education curriculum is going to create unique lessons for every student on demand based on data collected and algorithms ? The students are going to be bombarded with assessing and remediating also. Parents will no longer be able to review exactly what their students will see prior to the school year as a result. This is wrong. I am not sure what your state laws are but ypu may want to review them because of this. It may very well be another way to fight back.
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Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
“More than 100 public school districts and universities, faced with the prospect that the next attacker may be among their own students, have hired social media monitoring companies over the past five years…”
How do you feel about this?
Is it okay for schools to monitor the personal lives of students?
How far is to far?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/us/social-media-monitoring-school-shootings.html
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Here is a post from a Nevada anti-Common Core group:
Further proof of how ridiculous these state tests are. I just got this in the mail. This is for my now 7th grade daughter. So these are her 6th grade spring results. She made straight As last year and was ranked #2 in her class. Yet these are her test results
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And here are the replies to this post:
These scores are stored FOREVER by Infinite Campus and the NV. Dept. of Education in their SAIN system. Per SBAC Level 1 = •Does not meet grade-level performance standard •Needs substantial improvement. So now this child has a 1 in her “perminate” record. What if there was an issue with the computer she was on or the software. There is no way for her mother to know if the score is even accurate. Level 2 isn’t much better = •Nearly meets grade-level performance standard •May require further development. Again stored on this child FOREVER…http://www.k12.wa.us/…/EWAToolkit…
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do you opt out of map testing?
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Yes now that MAP test’s are computer adaptive so we opt-out. In my opinion it used to be a good test but not anymore.
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How do you go about that?
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I just tell the principal and the kids know to not take it. Most schools will not put up a stink about the MAP.
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What grade do they start those?
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The NDE says K-3 for MAP testing, but I know they give them in our middle school which is grades 6-8. I guess you’ll have to ask your school.http://www.doe.nv.gov/Assessments/
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I was told (and it’s probably a lie of course) that colleges look at these and if the child didn’t do them then they won’t even consider them for admittance
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But not every state uses these tests so that’s not true
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Is it your kids school that told you that?
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The guidance counselor
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Not true
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I have two kids currently in college. Neither were asked for their scores. One never took the test. It was a non-factor. Although, I believe it could be some day.
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My daughter came from Romania where testing isn’t even thought of, she had no problem getting in. They can’t discriminate 🙂
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I’m glad to hear it! It’s super upsetting that this will be on my daughters record while she’s working her butt off to get the straight As she’s getting in her classes.
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SBAC and MAP tests are not used by colleges. SAT, ACT, grades, sports, extra curricular activities are all important to colleges; not sure about End of Course exams.
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Here is a post from a Washington anti-Common Core page:
State Supt Chris Reykdal gave a press release back in May of 2017. His intent is to totally transform K-12 Education according to his vision. This is very troubling and we wonder how it will be paid for.
Part of his plan includes expanding the school calendar year from 180 to 200 days, and increasing the instructional hours from about 1000 to 1230- over a 20% increase of time in school.
http://www.k12.wa.us/…/PressReleases20…/Long-TermVision.aspx
“Our system redesign can only claim success if it truly provides equal opportunity and an unprecedented embrace of individual learning pathways for each student,” Reykdal said. “We hope you will join us on this transformation.”
http://www.k12.wa.us/…/Prio…/SuptReykdalVision_Narrative.pdf
“GRADES K-8 REDESIGN
Our education system has been asked to do more without fundamental change in our school year or school day. To achieve our long-term vision, we will need to expand the school day by 30-60 minutes and the school year by approximately 20 days. Together, these efforts will add a minimum of 230 hours to the existing 1,000 hours of instructional time. The added time will allow for intensive student supports for students who are falling behind, universal second language instruction, research-based time allotments for recess and lunch, and it will provide the necessary collaboration time for K-8 educators to focus on individual student supports and school-wide improvement plans.”
http://www.k12.wa.us/AboutUs/Priorities/SuptReykdalVision_Narrative.pdf
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Here is a post from Alice Linahan:
Important dots to connect as we are following the Congressional hearing on data privacy and Big EdTech.
Key Players Funding and Implementing the Common Core aligned College and Career Readiness Transformation in Education in America are Google and Microsoft.
Google, Microsoft and Amazon are Unesco Partners with deals to promote Unesco’s values through a World Curriculum.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) a World Policy Organization.
The OECD runs an Assessment system to support Unesco’s Sustainable Development goals.
The OECD’s assessment director, Andreas Schleicher, a German worked with the Obama Administration to reshape the US K-12 online assessment system.
The OECD reshaped assessments so they run in the background of online curriculum.
The OECD assessments are assessing behaviors more than academics.
OECD quotes – “The skills, attitudes, and values that shape human behavior should be rethought to counter the
discriminatory behaviors picked up at school and in the family.”
“All young people should be able to challenge cultural and gender stereotypes, to reflect on the causes and
solutions of racial, religious and hate violence and to help create tolerant integrated societies.”
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The evil California governor Jerry Brown is now forcing radical sex ex on charter schools in California: https://www.lifenews.com/2018/09/25/california-gov-jerry-brown-signs-bill-allowing-planned-parenthood-to-push-sex-on-12-year-olds/
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Here is a post from an Alaska anti-Common Core group:
Watch out. God is not welcome, but any perversion of the truth is in the public school system.
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And another post from this group:
MAPS tests are Common Core aligned per the NWEA site. It’s not the exact same test as the PARCC, SBAC, PEAKS (AK), SAGE (UT), Badger Exam (WI), but they are all CCSS-aligned. The MAP, on its face, is used for the narrower purpose of feedback data on exactly what remediation a child might need. It takes a very deep look into a child’s way of thinking and suggests seemingly innocuous educational curricular resources to fill in gaps; usually computer-based resources. Extra-curricular learning opportunities such as those are being aligned with the CCSS; made so that the child’s detailed response data is coded for the databases. The abbreviation used for these in education reform is “ELO”.
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Here is a post from a South Carolina anti-Common Core page:
This is just one example of how children are being indoctrinated in our public schools via workbooks/textbooks…
Update on this post is in comment section. I contacted the publisher.
From Karen Bracken
This is ridiculous and it is not true. Look at TN on the map. They are saying that 61% of advertised jobs required college. First, education is NOT about getting a job and you better stop saying it because they are brainwashing people to believe going to school is all about being trained for a job. Training and education are 2 different things. Over 61% of jobs in the past never required college and that is no different today. Heck they want you to have a college degree to sell cell phones. They want ALL children to go to college for only two reasons. Indoctrination and to rake in a ton of money for the college and interest to the federal government. Get rid of college loans and you will see tuition plummet and people think twice about going off to college to come out in debt and unemployed. In my day we were EDUCATED not indoctrinated and were able to go out, be trained and be productive, successful employees. It is time to start rolling back the clock to when it all worked well….pre 1965.
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And another post from this group:
From Rosemary Stein MD
Parents: If businesses cooked the books like schools do regularly, their CEO’s would be behind bars. In the education racket, they move on to another job. These ‘Experts’ know how to fix the problem, but they have no interest in doing so. Alamance County spent more than $300,000/year on a Superintendent who was another ‘Expert’. The results were predictable- poor test scores, poor school grades, kids unable to read, and more than 50% of kids needing remedial courses before starting community college. The goal is an uneducated, easily manipulated population that is used for cheap labor. You are going to have to take ownership of your children’s education. To save America we must save one child at a time. Join the cause. Invite a friend.
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Here is a post from the Common Core Diva:
Friends, leopards don’t change spots overnight. Real leaders don’t simply make one speech which hits nerves, they lead by example.
No matter what happens in the Kavanaugh Circus, are we really prepared for his service?
We say we want freedom. We say we don’t like to be spied on; that our students shouldn’t be data mined, yet most clamor for this Judge.
If we receive his service, look at his track record on data mining.**************
1) Kavanaugh was way off to help cement the Patriot Act, which set up the modern data rape of our personal private information.
2) Former Judge Napolino was honest about his horrific amazement at Kavanaugh’s stance on our 4th Amendment rights. The 4th Amendment is to protect our personal property (of which our data is considered personal property)
3) To date, 2k data points alone are used in education just for learning to read!
4) To date, Kavanaugh also is one the education savings accounts bandwagon, which uses the money to data track and control the students.
This is the man for the job? Who’s job? Preserving freedom and liberty? Setting us up to be a national conformed citizen?
Stop looking at the flashes in the pan, folks!
Once our personal property rights are stripped, what real freedoms will we have?
Be very careful what you ask for.
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Here is a post from a Washington anti-Common Core group:
My son brought this home. 😡😡😡 it really nails down why they ACTUALLY believe reading at home each night is important.
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And here are the replies to this post:
All that seems to matter these days to the higher ups, isn’t it?! 😖😡
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A. Pretending / perpetuating a falsehood that kids are Standardized, which they simply are NOT,
and
B. Not unlike cooks who only worry about the number on a thermometer (or in this case, several days of thermometers ….
); and thereby neglect food safety, as well as taste, as well as Culinary Art. The thermometer is fine; it’s just that it should be the last priority and you should be mindful of its incredibly narrow scope -, and then it can serve to doublecheck that for which you should probably already have an answer.i.e. the Art of youth Education cannot be reduced to the simplicity of the science of a few numbers.#creativeschools#optOut #CreativeSchools
the percentile data in that graphic ? Anyone know where it comes from?Study by Nagy &Herman, 1987.
I do not like this way of thinking at all for kids. I can only imagine what the pressure for kids are! “I don’t want to be a student C!” It marginalizes kids and over simplifies the reality. Kids are not an equation.
Seriously, whoever made this flyer believes that Student C scored lower than the rest because they didn’t read 20 minutes a night. And that if a child reads every day for thirty minutes that they will be at the top.
I know of a classmate that doodled during class, didn’t take hours studying and reading up for tests but was always an A student. He listened in class and read what interested him. Always blew my mind when he aced tests and understood things far better than I. I was an avid reader and studied hours—A/B student. Lol we all are different and unique. It’s not as simple as “you do this, you get this”.
Those of you who are unfamiliar with the origins and intent of these nationalized standards, this has always been their goal.It’s always been about testing. Children being assessed and tested daily was the goal, is still the goal, and will continue to increase as the structure built to sustain the data compiling gets more streamlined:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ePrXlPQdVDw
Kids were able to retain their love of reading. They hate that they’re now in HS to told to read non-fiction. I guess CC will continue to make kids h8 reading…
Of course all kids are individuals.When kids step into kindergarten, they can be one, or two grades above in the 3-R’s, if you start treating children like they can learn, from day one (birth), because they CAN! Be fun with it.
From the stories we hear from our kids, parents need to get a strong Christian view of their marriage. Also get off the alcohol and abuse of drugs NOW!
Shredded families is at the root of the Globalist agenda.
💥💥Not requird💥💥
Parents can decline screening.https://education.mn.gov/MDE/fam/elsprog/screen/
If a parent is a conscientious objector to the screening program for their child, the child does not need to participate in the state screening program. Read Minnesota Statutes, section 121A.16 through 121A.19 and Minnesota Rules 3530.3000 through 3530.4310 for more information.
“U.S. public school education is rapidly and intentionally being pushed through online curricula and programing which (1) illegally collects data from the children using the system in violation of federal privacy laws to protect children (COPPA) and (2) draws students away from an understanding of America’s founding principles, system of government, and free market economy to one in which students are taught they are individual workers in a global community/economy who happen to live in the United States.
States are creating curriculum using OER (Open Education Resources) in which no entity controls what information is uploaded and made available. OER is a term coined by the United Nations Education Division (UNESCO) in 2002.
In Texas, for instance, State law allows the Texas Permanent Education Fund to be used for this type of online curriculum thus bypassing the State Board of Education.
The Research Manual published in in 1994 is a compilation of study and research conducted by professionals to expose what the real agenda is to this quiet takeover of U.S. public education.”
Many are failing the TSI who would do well in college classes on our high school campuses but because of the testing environment and the TSI being used as a vetting tool itself-many do not have the opportunity. Those who do not have the opportunity usually don’t go much further after high school.
Taking this even further, who does have the opportunity to go further after high school? And how is it that these opportunities are made, or not made, for them?
Just some thoughts.
This. So much this.
“But as someone who has tracked the advantages and perils of technology for human rights over the past ten years, I am nevertheless convinced that digital ID, writ large, poses one of the gravest risks to human rights of any technology that we have encountered. Worse, we are rushing headlong into a future where new technologies will converge to make this risk much more severe.
For starters, we are building near-perfect facial recognition technology and other identifiers, from the human gait to breath to iris. Biometric databases are being set up in such a way that these individual identifiers are centralized, insecure, and opaque. Then there is the capacity for geo-location of identifiers—that is, the tracking of digital “you”—in real time. A constant feed of insecure data from the Internet of Things may well connect you (and your identity) to other identities and nodes on the network without your consent.
In addition, systems using artificial intelligence and machine learning are used to make decisions based on our identities. Those systems are often built on data that can reinforce bias and discrimination, and are wielded without sufficient transparency or human review. Ultimately, social credit systems, such as those that are currently being developed in China, will be based on digital ID, thereby enabling or disabling our full and free participation in society.
By developing these technologies in parallel with systems for a digital ID, we are not simply establishing an identity to access basic social services. Digital IDs will become necessary to function in a connected digital world. This has not escaped the attention of authoritarian regimes. Already, they are working to splinter the internet, collect and localize data, and impose regimes of surveillance and control. Digital ID systems, as they are being developed today, are ripe for exploitation and abuse, to the detriment of our freedoms and democracies.”
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Here is a post from Alice Linahan:
It is just like former Sen. Dan Patrick said he got rid of CSCOPE and Common Core in Texas.THAT WAS A LIE!!
HB 5- which Lt. Gov. Patrick is referencing, actually opened the door for the federally mandated Next Generation of Assessments and Accountability. These online adaptive assessments and instruction are designed to assess, benchmark, modify behaviors , and sort students for the workforce. HB5, mandates all students must decide what career track (pathway) they will be “trained” on, IN THE 8TH GRADE.It is a controlled workforce for a controlled economy. Time to start questioning all candidates on this issue!! They are fully implementing the Soviet model of education, aligned to the Common Core/ College and Career Readiness STANDARDS.
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And here are some replies to said post:
Can not vote for him … will not vote for the other guy either. He has some teachers following him … that keep telling me that Common Core is not in Texas! …. And he, or any other of them will not answer my questions about his support for CC.
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Sounds as if the government decides what career one may have and how much eduction one receives!!! Talk about a socialist (nice word for communist) edict.
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I always wondered where that ridiculous rule about deciding which endorsement the student was going to follow originated. There are people in college who don’t even know what they want to be when they grow up, much less kids in 8th grade.
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Is Collier worth his salt? I am not a fan of Patrick, but I don’t want someone worse
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Yes, he is. Please vote Mike Collier! I met him in Canton after hearing him speak last month. He’s got my vote!
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Mike Collier has my vote too!! He really does care.
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Do you have a link for info on this? I worked with the govt. side of pub ed in the past few years and have never heard of this. I’m genuinely just curious.
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In 2013 Texas legislators pass HB5 (Workforce Development) law. Both Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly pass HB5, authored by Rep. Jimmy Don Aycock and Sen. Dan Patrick. The Workforce Development (HB5) just like the Common Core National Standards, expands the target from K-12 (Kindergarten through 12th grade) to a P-20W (Pre-school through College, Trade or Graduate School) system in order to control the economy and control our children by funneling them into certain career pathways.
Here is a link to HB5-
https://capitol.texas.gov/…/83R/billtext/html/HB00005F.htm
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In 2015 HB 2804 created the Texas Commission on Next Generation Assessments and Accountability
to “develop and make recommendations for new systems of student assessment and public school accountability.”
In December 2015 Congress reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
which replace No Child Left Behind and is now known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). As Rep. Tim Ryan, Ohio stated, this is the “New Common Core,” while he was debating the Every Student Succeed Act (ESSA) is about character traits not academics. It is a clear shift to Competency Based Outcomes- The Next Generation of Assessments and Accountability shifts from the “Mental” (Academics and Knowledge Based Assessments) to “Behaviors” (Performance Standards and Competency for the workforce).
In 2016, the White House is hosting a second annual summit on Next Generation High Schools,recognizing commitments from states and school districts to redesign their high schools.
https://youtu.be/ngX8rYTq8sc
So what does this look like at the local level……
In classrooms across Texas and frankly the country, parents show up to register their child for school and there is NO way to say…. NO, my child will only be taught by a teacher not a computer when it comes to reading, writing, math and history. My child’s data is not to be shared with any third parties without my consent! Parents are informed they cannot refuse technology for their child while in school because it is now required that they are “21st century learners”.
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it is important to note who Abbot originally tapped for the Next Gen Commission; Mike Morath, who then became Commissioner of Ed.
Lt. Gov Patrick led the charge for his Senate Conformation.
Lt. Dan Patrick in his own words…
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Morath is completely Restructuring the TEA to fulfill The P-20W “system” thats now been locked in place.
By the way, I really do appreciate your questions; they are important.
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Here is a post from a Minnesota anti-Common Core group:
This is an article assigned to my son’s class in 5th grade on the Newsela platform. 😡 They read from this platform a lot and wonder if anyone has info about it. Not very happy with several articles we have seen!
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Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
There’s a lot of crap happening in Weber School District. My kids were asked by teachers to fill out questionnaires about how much screen-time they’re getting and on what device they’re using. They’re doing a fifth grade sixth grade split at our Elementary this year. The teacher is teaching half the lesson fifth grade and the other half 6th grade what a waste of a day! They explained that Google said kids should….. and Google said the number one job for kids will be…. so we are going to be learning these things.
Also the math teacher said she needs to teach them more things because they’re behind with the curriculum and if she can’t catch up she could get fired. So regardless of the children understanding the curriculum the more important to get the curriculum covered.
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Here are some posts in a New York anti-Common Core group in response to an article about schools tracking mental health of students without the permission of the parents:
So many parents JUST DON’T GET IT!
Last year our district hired one Psychologist. This year they added another one. One for K-5 and one for grades 6–12.
At a board meeting, a parent asked about the need for them and about the primary job responsibilities.
A short answer was given by the Superintendent.
“It’s a new state education mandate. We HAD to hire at least one. Our hands are tied. After assessing the first year with only one, I recommended the board approve hiring a second Psychologist. They’re really just Guidance Counselors.”
I rolled my eyes so hard I almost fell off of my chair.
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That’s about it in a nutshell. Follow the money. Everyone get a slice just do as they’re told and get the check. Meantime data mine, build dossiers and pigeonhole kids for life. What could go wrong?
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most parents in my district have no idea about SEL or what it’s about. Our superintendent speaks very little about it and when she does talk about it, she only uses the acronym. She never elaborates or mentions the words Social and Emotional Learning.
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I suspect it’s the same in 99% of districts. What’s worse is parents aren’t even asking.
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I stumbled upon this link in the link you provided.
Tap on red underlined “increased” for the research paper
“CHANGING TIMES OF AMERICAN YOUTH: 1981-2003”
https://fee.org/…/in-the-wake-of-mass-shootings…/
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Here is a post from Alice Linahan:
Parents and Teachers, I strongly encourage you to read this ful article.
Excerpts from this VERY IMPORTANT ARTICLE:
“In 2014 the Obama Administration asked the 16,000 or so public school superintendents in the U.S. to sign the “Future Ready Technology Pledge”. Thirty three hundred of them signed it and committed to transition their districts to digital learning. Not only should we not expect this to be effective except for the very top performers, you’ll see that we actually risk leaving low performing students even further behind.
A study done in the U.K. looked at using white-boards [essentially giant touch screens] to improve learning, especially in complex subjects like math and science. The teachers were all extensively trained in the technology and rated themselves as highly competent with it, so the results could not be blamed on user incompetence. The results showed that low achieving students did improve in language skills, but the small gain in math scores observed the first year disappeared by the second year of use. Even more troubling was that they saw a 12x increase in the percentage of students ranked low in science. The well trained teachers were able to deliver content that was above those student’s heads causing them to eventually give up on even trying to keep up.
A lot of entertainment software is designed to activate the Ludic Loop. Professor Natasha Dow Schüll coined this term and it comes from the Latin noun ludus, meaning “play, game, sport, pastime.” It is what happens when you are lulled into a state of near tranquility by doing the same thing over and over because every once in a while you get a reward. Think of the one armed bandit in a casino, playing solitaire or even knitting where finishing a row is a form of reward. You have to be shaken out of it, or have the self control (which kids don’t) to put limits on yourself, like 2 episodes of a tv show or 60 minutes on a device.
This is why kids can play hours and hours of video games and not notice the passage of time. Their brains become disengaged from their normal state of awareness.
Most people like to do things that they are good at and avoid more difficult tasks. Kids in particular are prone to this. Personalized learning allows them to go at their own pace, which for some kids means a crawl or stop. They enter this ludic loop with the technology which can appear to be engagement, when in fact it is staying at a comfortable level doing something they have already mastered. Even programs which say they push kids to go beyond their comfort zones, still suffer from the problem of it being a machine that is pushing them. We are not designed to want to please a machine like we are a human, so kids will often find a way to stay at the easier levels.”
“Paul Emerich, another defector from Silicon Valley, wrote that the primary concern of the edutech companies was not children’s education, it was monetizing the tools to meet the financial goals of the investors. He recognized that the hyper-individualized education promoted by such companies tries to maximize engagement with the product, but it also, “ isolates children, breeds competition, assumes that children can learn entirely on their own, and dehumanizes the learning environment, reducing the human experience of learning down to a mechanistic process, one where children become the objects of learning as opposed to the subjects of their own educational narrative.[4]”
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A mother was concerned about a transgender bathroom policy, but the school did nothing. Eventually, her daughter was assaulted in the bathroom by a boy. When she complained, they reported her to child services as the “responsible party”: https://www.thecollegefix.com/school-district-sent-child-services-after-mother-when-she-reported-restroom-assault-by-gender-fluid-student/
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