This is part 20.
Here is a post from Lynn Davenport:
My wise friend Cheri Kiesecker is quoted in this DMN opinion by guest contributor, Michelle Malkin:
Parents across the political spectrum understand “personalized learning” is Silicon Valley propaganda to distract from the true aim: grabbing student and family data under the guise of “innovation” and luring the next generation of addicted consumers. Another unhealthy byproduct of the tech toy infiltration: an onslaught of online ads. Education watchdog Cheri Kiesecker reported this month that Missouri schoolchildren required to download educational apps, sign up for online accounts, and use tech devices logged into Google products were exposed to advertising for everything from vaping to “insurance, medicine, automobiles, toys, clothing, candy and a wide range of apps and video games.”
And here are some replies to this post:
we have been in public education for over 20 years and have seen it all. We are now introducing a new versatile LMS platform for a fraction of the costs of Blackboard and Canvas, but we are fighting an uphill battle due to all the “freebies” that are thrown at school districts. We also provide districts with their own technology and secure their data to be exclusive to the district administrators. All the “free stuff” is subject to exposure outside of the district. Another
“Trojan Horse” is K12 Insight. (you can trace their executives back to K12, Inc who is gaining access to student data and pushing for vouchers to build their virtual and charter schools). Add Pearson to the mix, and you can follow the money and see why these huge companies are giving away so much technology.
If we had a comprehensive federal law that requires consent before companies can collect and process user (student) data, along with endurable penalties and robust fines, this free use and #abuse of student data would be greatly reined in.
We need to repeal the changes that weaken FERPA and restore parent consent. Then we need a law that regulates data, metadata, AI. Europe has GDPR, we should too.
one of the reasons I moved closer to Austin is to lobby in the legislature for these type of provisions.
We need folks like you. thank you! and please do not fall for the fake privacy bills that say giving parents consent is too complicated or burdensome….They are selling the Data Care Act as privacy but it has NO CONSENT and NO real PENALTY. (That is the tech industry trying to avoid GDPR in the US.)
we are also introducing secure Apps for Anonymous Bullying Notification, Anonymous Suicide Intervention, and Social Emotional Learning Assessments. All of our programs are very secure within the district (the district can include each parent with their students data). We are finding that there are tons of “Free Apps” out there that do this, but the data is not secure and can be compromised. It’s amazing how these large tech companies pump money into politicians pockets and large organization’s sponsorships. If these companies keep getting access to student data, the kids will be the losers in the long run. We will continue our battle to provide secure databases for each district.
Are you familiar with what Darv Winick and Paul Resta are doing? Pretty sure most parents wouldn’t be happy to find out their children are being managed via tech for global human capital pipelines.
No edublocks for me thanks. You all up to speed on blockchain education credentials and digital vouchers? If not, I’d be looking into that if I were you.
https://wrenchinthegears.com/2018/08/13/edu-blocks-arrive-in-new-hampshire/
And another post from Lynn Davenport:
Have you heard of Smart Cities? Dallas is becoming one right under our noses with each decision by Mayor Rawlings and his love for public-private partnerships (there’s no “public” in P3s). I attended this Smart Cities & Liberty event last month:
“Perhaps, the best part of the night was the very end with a comment from an attendee sitting next to me who said, “Let me in here…I’m the old guy that should be up on the panel. I’m the analog guy in the digital world. I’m the guy that’s gonna say 10 minutes after you implement it, Trey, I’ll have it hacked…We have to be careful what we implement.”
He said, “Sweden, I love them with 5G. Let them fry their childrens’ brains first. 5G is not an extension of 4G. Ma’am, I’m an analog guy. It’s a whole new wavelength we’re playing in, and there’s known dangers. So, any Formula One driver will tell you, to get around the corner quickly, you tap the brakes a little bit. It’s time to tap the brakes a little bit and take a good look at where we’re going, Trey. We’re going into dangerous territory when you start implementing things that I’m going to hack the next day after you put it into your house…So, when when we’re starting to talk cities and we’re starting to talk technology, we gotta push our technology geeks out of the seat. Because they just think they are bringing the best thing every time. We need some old guys in the crew.”
Another old guy was credited with saying, “Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”-Ronald Reagan
And some replies to this post:
Loss of freedom…..starts with mandatory smart uniforms will end with mandatory implanted chips.
here are every one of my articles on Smart Cities and how the ruin education. Dallas is also part of the Resilient Cities Initiative by Rockefeller. That streamlines everyone through mental health.
Thank you, Lynne M Taylor! I also wrote about Dallas being part of the Resilient Cities Initiative.
this is in Nashville too
“This is a global plan implemented locally”
YIKES! It looks like the genderbread men are showing up in private schools now:
And some posts in reply to the Activist Mommy article about the above topic:
My kids are in the Trio Upward Bound program at LSU and they tried to pull this. My kids are smart enough to know better but I did register a complaint and they said they wouldn’t be using that anymore.
Not surprised we had a similar incident at my kid’s school we addressed it immediately. We must be vigilant always.
Charter schools are the ones you really have to watch out for. .
I live in Spain (where it is illegal to homeschool) and my daughter did this curriculum last year in 7th grade. The students complained to the teachers because they repeated the entire curriculum 3 times in one month. They were literally beating the kids over the heads with it. The result was very interesting. The kids were so irritated and put off that they stopped teaching it! This is definitely a terrible curriculum and it’s confusing and contradictory. But thankfully the kids can see how dumb it is.
Is called brainwashing till the subconscious takes it as normal. 😢 our schools have become a place brainwashing generation to come.
Now we’re cooking with gas! Because, unlike the majority of people who are compelled to send their children to public school, some of the people who send their kids to private school will have the financial means to take their displeasure to court! Let’s have a few devastating lawsuits, and see how this changes the game. Are you aware, for instance, that the entire police system, in the U.S., was changed, sometime in the 1970s, by a landmark lawsuit, the results of which were that the police department went from claiming to “serve and protect”, to “law enforcement” – – with the enormous alteration of that agency, that this signaled? Law suits: they’re game-changers.
The “Genderbread” curriculum teaches that gender is different from biological sex. There are not two genders, male and female, but rather an endless array of genders. The possibilities include genderqueer, non-binary, pangender, androgyne, neutrois, gender-variant, AG, cyborg, two-spirit, glitterbutch, genderfluid, trigender, stud.
The genderbread character is prominently featured in a large bulletin board display in the halls at the middle school. Children as young as 10 years old – the school includes fifth graders – walk by it every day. The website discusses sex toys, a** play and links to a gay hookup app, GROWLr, for men to meet hairy men.
Here is a post from the Common Core Diva:
Warriors, a minute long PSA (public service announcement) is hiding tons of SEL (Social Emotional Learning) agenda. While ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) increased SEL, it isn’t new. SEL is a global push to micromanage everyone, student or not. Part of the push? Competency Based Education.
Fifteen States, in particular, have more SEL than others, right? Maybe.
Heads up: MI, MS, NM, SC, UT, WA, OH, TX, VA, IL, NY, CA, FL, ID, and, WI. Puerto Rico’s involved, too.
https://commoncorediva.wordpress.com/2019/01/03/health-and-wealth-2019/
Montclair State University has jumped on the United Nations New World Order-approved gender ideology bandwagon:
Here is a post from a friend of mine:
HeadsUp: COLORADO’S NEW BLUEPRINT FOR EDUCATION, (2030 plan) will be up for vote this year. Read about it here:
Read the Dec 2018 “State of Education” report here: https://tinyurl.com/yb3yl77f (#Hint: try searching the document for key words like: data and talent (as in workforce talent pipeline) and credentials (k-12 student data badges), and personalized (as in online personalized learning).
==>We hope legislators consider adding a provision that would give parents #CONSENT over how children’s and families’ personal data are collected and shared and analyzed by this new system. There are NO current federal or state laws that give parent consent over student data.
And another post from this friend:
Read this. Excellent FollowTheMoney piece on EdSurge. (Remember EdSurge is a Project Unicorn partner)
“Edsurge announced in July that it had received grants from the Gates Foundation and from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative totaling $1.45 million. And in December, the media company announced it had raised $2.5 million in venture capital.
The latter brings the total of its venture funding to $8.2 million (according to Crunchbase); it’s taken in almost $7 million in grants from the Gates Foundation alone.
Edsurge often claims that the money it’s raised does not shape its coverage – something about “full editorial control.” But the grant money clearly supports research and writing on specific topics – personalized learning and the “whole child” in the case of the CZI funds. Edsurge’s assertions about its independence seem like half-truths at best.
Moreover, Edsurge runs sponsored articles on a regular basis (rarely marking these as such when they’re shared through social media or read through RSS feeds). This year, Edsurge published articles sponsored by Course Hero, Espark Learning, Metaverse, Zspace, Peergrade, OpenStax, UNC School of Education, Kiddom, Practice Labs, Salesforce, Massmutual Foundation, Dadaabc, the McGraw Hill Prize in Education, Screencast-o-matic, Newsela, Learnlaunch, D2L, Empatico, Classlink, Classcraft, Digital Promise, First, Covitality, Intuit Education, Magicears, Rethink Ed, Really Good Stuff, Woot Math, Edmentum, Knowledgeworks, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Reading Plus, Amazon Web Services, IMS Global Learning Consortium, Oneder, Microsoft, Vivi, Plagiarismcheck, Google, Gutenberg Technology, Advanced and Measured Progress, Achieve3000 Inc, Kami, Digitaled, and Discovery Education.
And yet another post from this friend:
Just in time for the federal evidence based data catalogue (HR4174 #FEPA) the Data Quality Campaign and the Wallace Foundation are working on interventions based on students’ “evidence based “ SEL Data .
It is with great regret that I must state that governor Greg Abbot of Texas has decided that if the Houston Independent School District doesn’t like public private partnerships and having the Common Core/Global Ed/Workforce Development shoved down their throats, that he is going to do away with their elected school board and put in cronies loyal to the United Nations:
This Texas legislator appears to agree with Abbot’s bad behavior and is planning to file a measure to try and take over the district:
Here is a post from Lynn Davenport:
Tembo, Inc. is the company that came on the radar after the TEA had undergone the extensive audit for selling private, sensitive IEP (special ed) data to SPEDx. We were all focused on the SPEDx and Cambiar startups and didn’t see the other contracts embedded in these no-bid, sole-sourced deals. The state auditor’s report is linked in this DMN article from September:
TEA failed to catch conflict of interest in $4.4M no-bid contract award, Texas auditor’s office finds:
“Tembo was hired to add video, interactive tools and other user-friendly information to the state’s TXschools.org, which helps parents, educators and taxpayers find out about how a campus or school district is performing. However, the agency ignored problems with Tembo’s bid and made scoring errors as it weighed bids, the auditor’s report says.”
So what is the TEA up to now? They want to get the interactive school report cards up and running so they can negatively label the public schools that are being drained of resources by charters. The TEA is being run by countless TFA and charter school proponents. The other plan is to give parents a search tool to choose the best school for their child. It’s really just a tool to promote charters. Here is a LinkedIn article from a TEA employee:
Portfolio strategy is more than a charter school growth strategy
”Far too often, we run into situations where stakeholders believe a portfolio strategy is nothing more than a charter school growth strategy. We encourage city leaders to think beyond the obvious. While we ultimately aim for a system of autonomous and accountable schools, we know there may be more than one path to get there.”
Here’s where Tembo, Inc. comes in. They have been hired to do both the school report card and the school finder interactive tools.
If you follow the privatization efforts and what Thomas Ultican calls the DPE (Destroy Public Ed) movement, you’ll find our tax dollars are being used against us from those who are on the inside.
Tembo, Inc. tweeted this on December 7:
Tembo has been thrilled to work with DC, Tennessee, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Texas on their #schoolreportcards. And more to come!
Here is a post from a Wisconsin anti-Common Core page:
Education Chairmen Representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt (R – Fond Du Lac) and Senator Luther Olsen (R- Ripon) ANYTHING here for Wisconsin? If you’re familiar with Sesame Credit, or Facebook Trust Score, and what is happening in China, this makes total sense. It’s only a matter of time before this “suddenly and unexpectedly appears” in Wisconsin.
“A high school that requires some students to wear ID badges announcing their failing grades is causing bullying and public ridicule, especially for students with learning disabilities, and has caused the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to step in.”
Here is a post from a friend of mine:
Over $500,000 but no education grants? For needy minority children. It’s for the children right?
A nonprofit run by state democrat lawmakers to raise scholarship money for needy minority students spends most of the cash on its lavish annual soiree — including $6,000 on limos — and gave out no grants the last two years, The Post has learned.
The New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators organizes a “Caucus Weekend” — a series of workshops, concerts and parties — in Albany every February for minority members of the Assembly and the Senate.
The group charges sponsors up to $50,000 for a chance to party with lawmakers at events that have included Grammy Award-winning rappers and high-profile speakers such as Hillary Clinton and Jesse Jackson.
The nonprofit charges sponsors like Unions, lobbying firms and corporations up to $50,000 for a “Platinum Package” which includes tickets to workshops on expanding access to government contracts for minority and women-owned businesses, on gun violence, and parties where participants can rub elbows with lawmakers and “ a large community of advocates.”
Here is a post from another friend of mine:
This is one of the visuals of what the final fed data base might look like. Lamar Alexander pushed another bill just before Christmas about college data. It will probably go in his push to over haul the Higher Education Act. But right now, it is FEPA (Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking) that needs to be stopped…..it isn’t what the title says.
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Here is a post from a Texas anti-testing group:
My daughter has learning disabilities its so heartbreaking! She’s so smart and fully capable of learning. But is only being taught to pass tests. Not being taught to learn the lesson. It is so infuriating! She deserves an education. Not a corrupted government using her to make schools fail.
Here is a post from Lynne Taylor:
This just shared:
S GA spending $10k to increase exposure to classroom tech. Watch the video, then ask yourself:
A: What if my child has an eye sensitivity issue?
B: What if I don’t want my child to use this technology?
C: If we want children to experience reality, why switch to virtual?
D: How will this work for those who need glasses? Those who have migraine headaches will also suffer.
E: What time frame has been given to stop the technology in the event grades slip?
Doesn’t seem parents and students come first. Just the tech company.
Here is a post from a California anti-radical sex-ed group:
😡😡😡PARENTS 😡😡😡
4th-6th Grade CA Health Framework 2019
Teachers should normalize sexual feelings and explain to students these feelings do not mean that students should feel pressured to participate in sexual activities. If the topic of masturbation arises, teachers may explain masturbation is not physically harmful. This is also an important time to discuss gender, gender roles, and gender expression as puberty can be a difficult time for young transgender students. Educators should acknowledge this and create an environment that is inclusive and challenges binary concepts about gender. Refer to the Gender Socialization Classroom Example found later in this section. For additional resources on how to support transgender and gender non-conforming students in the classroom, visit the GLSEN Web site.
Public Comment Period DEADLINE: Jan. 11,2019
California is in the final phase of updating its comprehensive health education curriculum framework and is actively gathering public comment on the current draft of the 2019 Health Education Framework.
DEADLINE: Jan. 11,2019
Learn more: https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/he/cf/
And another post from this group:
Hi California, I’m in Australia where we are currently also fighting against Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE).
Although we are on different continents, the agenda remains the same. The source of all these programs comes from UNESCO best practice.
It’s all focused on ‘sex positive’ approach. A global HIV agenda.
And yet another post from this group:
Opt out letter for our seventh graders came in the mail Capo. This is an opt-out for the survey. There is no information in the letter discussing the curriculum, opting out of portions of the curriculum or in what class and when it will be taught. There is a link in this letter if you want to take a look at the surveys.
And some replies to this post:
The California healthy kids survey and the sex Ed curriculum are two completely different things. You will get a separate opt out letter two weeks before sex Ed will be taught.
I was told by a parent at Djams the survey was given to his daughter after the curriculum was taught. Is this not correct?
The survey is always given in January and the sex Ed curriculum is taught in the Spring. Capo is still in the process of finalizing their sex ed curriculum that is supposed to be CHYA compliant. It is currently under review with the IMRC and will be voted on by board members in February. Still, the survey has nothing to do with the California healthy youth act and sex ed. They are completely different and require completely different opt out forms.
this is for the healthy kids survey, not the sex ed. PLEASE opt out of this survey as well. The info is used to justify the need for the new sex ed programs. Don’t give them this power. Don’t let them bully your child into completing it. This has happened to other parents. Say NO!!!!
Remember, the law ties districts hands in terms of an opt out letter for the sex education instruction. They are not allowed to send a form letter, parents must write their own letter. The districts are not allowed to make it easy.
And yet another post:
California Health Framework
Chapter 6, Page 37, Grades 9th-12th
Amd yet another post:
‼️ALARMING ‼️Concerns with the new 2019 California Health Framework
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“Students will EXPLORE and DISCOVER their gender, gender expression, and sexuality through their education . . .” (Ch. 1, pg.14, Introduction)
“Fifth grader students will have an opportunity to learn that gender is not strictly defined by physical anatomy or sex assigned at birth.” (Ch. 4, pg. 65, 4th-6th Grade)
“Teachers should be mindful of personal bias and use gender neutral language . . . For example, use “they” instead of using “he/she”.” (Ch. 4, pg. 66, 4th-6th Grade)
“Partnering with your community: Students can learn more about puberty using age-appropriate, creative, and interactive online resources such as PBS’s online videos on puberty or TRANSITIONING” (Ch. 4, pg. 76, 4th-6th Grade)
“Some students may be non-monogamous and the term “partner(s)” may also be used to be more inclusive.” (Ch. 5, pg. 34, 7th-8th Grade)
“It is also important that educators are mindful that some students are not comfortable discussing their gender identity or sexual orientation and to ensure a student’s gender identity or sexual orientation is never revealed or discussed with anyone without the student’s consent. This is especially pertinent when educators communicate with other students, teachers, or students’ families.” (Ch. 6, pg. 35, 9th-12th Grade)
Just a few quotes out of the over 1,000 pages of the framework.
Submit your public comments before January 11, 2019
And some replies to this post:
Two things. First, it’s important to point out that the health framework covers several content areas, not just CSE. Sex ed is actually a relatively small section when looked at as a whole. Second- is anyone going to Sacramento for the review and public comments before this is approved? I heard that many supporters went to the September meeting and gave public comments in person- some were from San Diego and Orange County. All public speakers were in support of the current version!! Is anyone going to offer some counter arguments? I know that we are all sending in comments online, but public comments in person can also be impactful, especially if all they hear is one side.
Yes your absolutely right. It covers their 8 OVERREACHING STANDARDS. That’s their terminology, they are obviously not hiding the fact that the CA Government is using the education system to overreach beyond their proper roles in to the family life and stripping parents of their rights. They are very clear they want “The Whole Child” and they have crafted the CA Health Framework to take full responsibility ( minus the financial responsibility, that is still left to the parents, of course) to mold OUR children into who they want OUR children to be. I didn’t want the video to be to long but we have added the link for everyone to go see for themselves 😉
who wrote this? Do you know if there any connections to Trish Hatch at all?
here are some folks that worked on the revision. It’s all on the CDE website.
https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/he/cf/hefwcfccmembers.asp
And here is another post about the sex-ed curriculum:
What’s more, this curriculum is funded by Planned Parenthood, a chief sponsor to the teachers union. Teachers are not allowed to speak out against it, and this was confirmed to me by a former teacher via another social platform, while discussing another matter (new CA taxes)
Here is a post from a Washington anti-Common Core group:
FYI…
https://www.wastatepta.org/show-speak-focus-day-february-11-2019/
And some more posts from this group:
Please! My child has a 3.2 gpa but may not graduate because of the math test. How motivated is she to continue?
My son had to drop out due to not passing his math test on his second try… went to Shoreline CCand got his GED. I bet a lot of kids will become disheartened by these requirements and drop out. He then got an AA and got on honor roll and is now studying to be a Med Assistant. It’s a very sad state of affairs when kids are made to feel stupid. A lot of kids can’t pass these tests.
Aren’t there alternate grad options after attempting the SBA once?
yes there are but they are not easy. We are pursuing those options.
I hear ya. OSPI does not care if your children graduate or not, especially with a 504 because that mean squat to them.
Time to fire OSPI — they should work for US!!
she’s not motivated at all
Here is a post from a friend of mine:
This is HORRIFYING—-> Lewis’ agency recently released data showing almost half of young Kentuckians start kindergarten already behind. Lewis said “research is clear that brain development begins very early, with much of it complete before kids enter kindergarten. … An essential element of improving education, workforce and the life outcomes for Kentuckians is focusing on kids’ early learning and readiness for kindergarten.”
Read more here:
https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/editorials/article222827905.html
Here is a post from a friend of mine:
Important #Read, considering all Coloado students are required to take College Board tests.
“An earlier College Board tax filing let slip their real identity in a footnote: they are hedge funds. The corporate partnerships resemble a game of musical chairs. There were 12 in 2010, identified only as A, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, and M (note: no B), and 16 in 2013, identified as B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, N, P, Q, S, and T (note: no A, M, O, or R).
A for-profit arm of College Board, with a quarter billion dollars nestled in offshore tax havens, has not paid any tax in the several years it has filed separate returns. Deductions, credits, and paper losses seem available aplenty. Nonetheless, despite seemingly limping along without taxable gains, the fund has grown mightily, or did until the 2015 tax year when it was, apparently, tapped to plug the hole in revenues left by the various aforementioned fiascos…”
Here is a post from another friend of mine:
Conservative friends, I beg you to contact the President and ask him to VETO HR 4174!
THIS IS SO DANGEROUS IN SO MANY WAYS!
“Superficially, HR 4174, sponsored by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), improves the federal government’s production and maintenance of statistical databases. In reality, HR 4174 begins the construction of the statistical infrastructure that the federal government would need if it were to build big, new entitlement programs.
In a manner of speaking, HR 4174 is the Trojan horse for single-payer medical care, general income security (we know it as “paid family leave”), and universal child care.
The key term in HR 4174 is “evidence-based policy making.” By scrapping duplicative statistical products, the bill seems to be an efficiency-improving measure. In reality, it is the first step toward large collection of new “evidence” for entirely new “policy making” purposes.”
I found a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group that also mentions FEPA:
This is ties into the UNs them for CSW 2019: Priority theme: Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
Here is a post from the Texas anti-testing group:
Hello everyone. I need some assistance. I am a former 2nd grade teacher. I have a former student whose parents I have been in touch with since I stopped teaching elementary. His parents opted him out in 3rd, and 4th grade but they don’t know what to do now that he is in 5th. I have no idea what to tell them because I don’t know either and I know this is the year they say scores count but they want to opt him out and again but they are afraid they will not let him go on to 6th grade even though he is passing all subjects in the classroom. Please help me so I can tell them something. He is in Plainview ISD and is in 5th grade @ Highland Elementary.
And some replies to this post:
Easy peasy. Opt him out anyway, and then request a grade placement committee meeting. The parents are members of the committee, and they get a vote.
If there is no STAAR data to take into consideration, they base the promotion on core subjects, just like every other grade.
I have been through this personally. 5th, and 7th grade.
Here’s an article, and…. don’t fall for the summer school or accelerated instruction bit, either.
And another post from this group:
And so it begins….
And some replies to this post:
Wait…. So new concepts not yet taught but they dont want the parents to help AND it’s a grade?!?!?! Time for Mama??!
and a monetary fine.
So “growth mindset” means learning on your own without any teaching? More like torture mindset. Freaking ridiculous.
The kids earn fake money for auctions or treasure box items. I’m sure that’s what they’re referring to
Regardless, it is ridiculous.
That they want you to watch your 4rh grader struggle at home with concepts they have not been taught in class is educational malpractice, at best.
Right, WHO CARES if they can actually fine you or not? They are threatening to! This is overt intimidation of the parents and completely unacceptable.
Which school/district?
Aledo. 4th grade. You know ‘We’re Growing Greatness’…here.
I would sign it with “I’m sorry, I can’t help you with this. Try teaching my student instead?”
Sadly, the teacher probably hates this just as much as we do but her hands are tied.
As a teacher, I still have integrity. I’d rather lose my job, than saddle my kids with this torture.
My first thought, as a signature, was Are You Kidding Me
I would send one back hahaha
I expect my student to be taught in a safe setting
I expect my student to fully understand basic math and a good reader
I expect my student to have a full 30 min recess and uninterrupted lunch
I expect my student to love school
I expect the school to understand I am in charge of my childs education and well being so my student will not be participating in the assessment or its prep. Thank you signed mama bear
This gave me anxiety. 4th wasn’t like this back when my kids attended years ago. This is absurd.
The last bullet point is horrible….can you imagine a parent saying that to a child about anything? Horrible.
Wow. This whole thing is ludicrous. My gosh! ??
I’m a teacher and no to this. I teach younger grades but I did teach 4th before. Due to my beliefs about testing I will not teach a STAAR grade because I would probably lose my job for refusing to participate in test prep of any kind. The pressure of STAAR on kids and teachers is out of hand and this proves it!
I do not send home any “STAAR prep”. I teach 5th grade math. My students take very little work home. My goal is for them to be able to finish at school so I can help iron out the wrinkles. I do my darndest to not even mention the STAAR test in my classroom let alone send home test prep for it.
So much for supposedly pulling out of UNESCO. Looks like they screwed us on December 5th in Brussels.
Here is a post that was shared in an Ohio anti-Common Core group:
From [name redacted by me]
I am posting my response to one of Rachel’s post as a post all by itself so that all of you can read this response. Just so you know, I have been fighting this fight for 5 years with my local school system and no one listens. My daughter gets no spelling, grammar, literature, drama, or poetry instruction. She does not do any creative writing. They have not even taught her how to write a letter. Many of those absurd math worksheets that Rachel [of the Choose to Refuse Common Core group] shows you has been sent home to my household. They are teaching my daughter almost no social studies at all. In Seminole County, Florida, the only thing that matters is the standardized test score. They do not care about anything else. And, they have the highest test scores in the state of Florida because they have deleted entire necessary skill sets in order to do nothing but teach to the standardized test. There are children in this school system who are assigned 3 and 4 hours of homework per night so that they do not see the light of day and do not play with friends, or ride their bikes, or get any outdoor fresh air and exercise. They have been trying to put a whole lot of kids on drugs in this school system to claim they have ADD or ADHD while they do not even give them P.E. and they make them sit in front of computer screens all day and all night. There is no common sense. And, I feel like I have made no progress at all as a parent who advocated for a return to the classic curriculum which as a complete and well rounded curriculum. I also advocated for the purchase of textbooks for academic subjects. My daughter was given only a math textbook and a science textbook. They did not buy any other textbooks for the academic subjects. My son did not have a science textbook last year and they even tried to teach World History without textbooks. I only succeeded in getting textbooks to teach World History. But, my son was so relentlessly retaliated against that I had to pull him out of the school system. The standard method they use to handle their many problems is ILLEGAL RETALIATION, ILLEGAL HARASSMENT, AND ILLEGAL TARGETING of YOUR CHILD BECAUSE YOU FILED COMPLAINTS AFTER THEY DID THINGS THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. They would not even let my son use the toilet at school. This is how bad things are for some of these students. And, they did not follow his IEP for 7 months. They gave him the wrong speech instruction for 6 months. They gave him no math instruction at all for 5 weeks. They refused him his IEP accommodations. They violated his constitutional rights. I can go on. They have a mess. Their official reaction to their mess is to illegally retaliate against anyone who has an ounce of common sense who says that anything is wrong. My son did not receive any social studies grade on a report card in 4th grade because the class did not do enough social studies during that grading period for grades to be given out. The only thing that matters to SCPS is the standardized test score. They do not care about anything else. And, they run the school system like an organized crime mafia. Some of you are arguing about transgender restroom use. In SCPS, they were not allowing middle school students to use the restroom at all. So, the argument is whether or not middle school students can use the restroom during the school day at all. Who even cares about transgender restroom rights at that point? A teacher sang to my son about how it was “against policy” for my son to use the restroom during his class. This is the garbage we tolerate. You have to get a doctor’s note for your child to use the toilet without harassment, abuse, or discipline over it. You have to get a doctor’s note for your child to take year round P.E., and they want it documented WHY your child needs to take year round P.E. This is because they don’t want to pay P.E. teachers. And, they abuse employees by using them as P.E. teacher aids for a third of the pay of a P.E. teacher. But, the P.E. teacher aids do the exact same job as the P.E. teacher for a third of the pay. I can’t even make this stuff up. They punished my child for scratching ant bites and for coughing up mucus while coming down with the flu. They punished my child for wanting broccoli with his lunch and for wanting a free soufle cup of granola instead of croutons or crackers on his salad. I can go on and on with these horror stories. They never ended. This is Seminole County Public Schools. It is a horror show. And, they wonder why people are pulling their kids out of this school system to home school. Home school is growing like crazy around here. People cannot take this horror show. They are over it. I consider it to be child abuse.
Here is a post from the Texas anti-testing group:
Here is some of the BS Teachers have to deal with concerning the STAAR.
And some replies to this post:
That’s age discrimination right there!
Not surprised! Hope teacher will start speaking up!
Sad reality. Total truth across the board
Teachers need to stand up and be LOUD. It’s not a big leap for school districts to have “one teacher per subject” that gives the lesson virtually (online) then low-level aids/facilitators in the classroom. That’s why I was so appalled 6-yrs ago when my now Senior had a pre-AP Science “flip” class. The teacher didnt grasp that she was embracing the very concept that would take her job away. Nevermind the actually “teaching” was too one-dimensional and left ZERO oppty for thinking/raising questions in real-time.
Walk Out on STAAR test days! Lets get all the schools to do it!
An issue with teachers speaking up, about anything really, is the fear of retaliation: moved to a position they don’t like or won’t do well with, nit-picky or vague infractions, or the coup de gras a nonrenewal of their contract. That last one is a kiss of death when it comes to finding a job somewhere else.
Here are a bunch of posts in reply to a Federalist article of why teachers are leaving the profession in droves:
Or the case of one of my children’s godmother who teaches in NYC, getting the snot beat out of her by an 8th grader, not being able to defend herself because laying a hand on a student, even in self defense will get you charged. Then, after returning to school after her injuries healed, finding out that the kid is still in school, because in Red Bill DiBlasio’s city, expelling kids that commit assault is considered racist. That’s a real motivator.
I got into teaching English twelve years ago so that I could teach literature and writing to young people. Nobody informed me as a naive college student that public education was not actually about teaching anything, though. In my teacherly opinion, schools can’t function when everyone is forced to attend. They’re too big, there are too many kids who don’t want to be there. Teachers end up spending all their time trying to “motivate” kids who have no desire to learn, and everyone just gets passed along because we’re not allowed to let anyone fail, flunk, or drop out. Not a good recipe for academic success.
We keep decrying the fall of our education system and yet we keep doing the same things that caused our education to fall in the first place.
From the right, we demand accountability! Well, great. How do we measure that? Test scores? Right. Cause my student who’s homeless and isn’t sure where his next meal is going to come from is going to accurately reflect via test score the kind of teacher I am. Student economic outcomes? Well, that’s better, but it’s difficult at best to connect economic outcomes at age 18 or 20 to kindergarten or 1st grade teachers/education. Plus, as we’ve seen in recent studies and polls, economic success isn’t everything. So, how do we measure accountability?
From the left we demand teachers get more help with all of the different problems that affect our students! Great. But guess what. Giving my school another psychologist and counselor and a million other specialists still isn’t really going to help that kid who’s homeless and isn’t sure where his next meal is going to come from. You know what would? Having a firmer home life. Well, that’s outside the realm of education! Yes, yes it is. The left sees the problems in education, in some ways far better than the right, but instead of seeing the root problems (namely, the destruction of the family and the constant encouragement of poor personal responsibility) they just see opportunities to throw more money at a problem and more specialists with more and more advanced/specialized education.
On both sides, we like to try and treat the symptoms without treating the underlying causes. On the right, we do encourage the kinds of things that would make education more effective and easier on teachers. More and better families and communities and less government oversight. But we rarely, if ever, make the effort to show and discuss the ties of these kinds of policies and initiatives to education. On the left, we do have a tendency to more often recognize all the problems that our students face outside of school more and acknowledge how they affect students schoolwork, but we rarely if ever acknowledge that in school solutions will never work.
I taught in a public school system that only permitted one failure in grades K through 6, and one in grades 7+. As a result of that, nearly 30% of my sixth grade students could not read beyond the second grade level. That means that they could not understand any textbook used in that grade level. They could not grasp the History, the Geography, the Science, or the Mathematics (as word problems are a very large part of middle school math). Of course, as they had not developed basic reading skills, they could not comprehend the literature used at that level and could not grasp the basic grammar rules or essential vocabulary to write properly. Disruptive student removed from the classroom were regularly returned to the classroom in less than an hour. In my humble opinion, disruptive students should not be suspended. Rather, one parent of the child should be sent to the classroom for a period set by family court judges, with a minimum of five days per disruptive event. If there are two parents in the household, that responsibility should shift with recurrences. Loss of income can be great motivator for parents to correct discipline problems, Violent students should be removed, and never be allowed to return.
Florida pay 10 years ago was $39,000 , today $41,000 while housing, rent, taxes etc through the roof. Left after 10 years and doubled my income, not worth it, besides these kids and parents are nuts. Turnover and a teacher shortage is on the horizon.
Money helps. My niece is a teacher. She started 10 years ago. THREE degrees; 2 bachelors and a Masters. Starting pay? $37K.
The US spends more per student than almost any other country in the world.. what you should be looking at is where is that money going instead of to the best teachers.. administration bureaucracy and a large government take and require a lot of maintenance..
The product is high-quality education for the children and most other countries get a lot more bang for their buck.
Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
It was said in the State Board Standards Committee meeting that our standards were written by teachers. While this may be true of some of the standards, this is not true of all of them.
One of our Board members asked if the standards that were copied word-for-word from other standards could be cited so we know where they were pulled from. I absolutely agree this is what should be done!
As I have compared the new revised health standards with the National Sexuality Standards, I have found that many of them are word-for-word identical. I did this on my own time because of concerns I have with the national standards. Here’s my comparison
We should not be telling the public that our standards were written here in Utah, if they were not.
Here is a post from an Ohio anti-Common Core group:
My oldest is 10 today. He is in 4th grade. He told me at dinner last night, that he was learning about WW2 in school. He said the teacher talked about Hitler. The points of the lesson he remembers, was that Hitler committed suicide and killed his wife.
There are no textbooks allowed to come home. There has been no homework coming home, despite me asking about it. All 3 of his 4th grade teachers have been absent A LOT so far this year. Students are doing rotation of classes and teachers for different subjects. I never did that until 6th grade. The teachers are very hard to reach. Only one answers her email and I work full-time. I can’t just drop everything and run to the school to address every question or concern. If I could do that, I would homeschool!
If we as parents do not ask or do not keep the lines of communication open, we will never know what are children are being taught in school. The public school system today, is different. It is designed to keep parents in the dark about what they are teaching. We must be diligent and fight for our children! JOIN US AT OHIO CHRISTIANS AGAINST COMMON CORE.
Here is a post from the Texas anti-testing group:
Question ….
I was told today that my daughter would not be able to get off periods her senior year unless she passed all 5 starr test. Is this something the school can do?
Please share your thoughts and give me some insight.
Thanks ??
And some replies to this post:
If she has all her credits she should have an off period. (Edit: as in, there shouldn’t be anything preventing the possibility, especially punitive)
When they something that sounds stupid, call them on it. Ask to see the policy IN WRITING. If they can’t produce it, it doesn’t exist.
My kiddo is a jr and is working on a Distinguished Plan. He doesnt have a single off period all 4 years.
The issue is clearly that the school is tying the off periods to STAAR? Why? Becuase they are planning to fill that with remediation.
They have already placed my daughter in a English class that is only for kids that failed the starr and all they do is starr prep.I asked them if this class affects her GPA they said no its counted as a regular english class
my daughter has been working on her credit dor high school since middle school and since high school has been taking classes during the summer to earn credit too
then she should have plenty of left over slots!
Yes she does that is what am saying.But they are telling me they are only offering students 1 period off but only if they are passing all classes and have passed the starr testing she is in 11th grade and has only been able to pass 3 so far she is under 504 plan due to her having dyslexia and dysgraphia and we still have to worry about them letting her graduate it just blows my mind that even with my daughter having this she works her butt off to make all As and B’s in her classes and that should be enough but NO we have to deal with this stupid StARR that counts for nothing!
I havent dealt with high school level yet (my kids in highschool just take the STAAR to not stir the pot even tho they didnt take them in junior high) but sometimes admin will say things like this because they have to recommend the child be put in a class to help pass staar, you are able to decline their recommendations!
My senior has never done well on those staar assessments, but has her credits in line to graduate in June. GPC agreed to accept her scores as they are….and she has off period every day….out of school at 12:30. I agree with others: if it sounds utterly ridiculous, it probably is. Good luck!!
Here is a post in this group that was in response to a Tucker Carlson video about big tech data mining students:
This is why when the school sent me a request to approve my child, who was in the 3rd grade, to access homework, I denied it. Our technology specialists then called to find out why. It was odd that our district could afford this, but not offer fine arts. Well I gave her an ear full. My children’s data will not be sold.
Here is a post that was shared in a South Carolina anti-Common Core group:
Last night at the Pickens Legislative Delegation meeting I was once again saddened by the number of attendees. The time they pick for these meetings is horrible. 5:30 pm is too early for people who work to make a living…and on the night of the Clemson Championship game??? Plus they only allow 3 minutes for you to speak to your employees??? It makes it look like “they”really don’t want to hear from WE THE PEOPLE…
Here was my speech:
I am speaking on behalf of United States Parents Involved in Education to recommend an education governance structure change.
It is evident SC public schools are failing after the latest results of the Nations Report Card. It is a disgrace. Our rankings have gone further downhill. This is not acceptable. We must change our leaders who are making decisions about education. We need to give parents back control over the direction of education.
Unelected people in the Education Oversight Committee and the State Board of Education have had their chance and have failed miserably. It is doubtful that your average parent can name anyone who was appointed to represent them on the State Board of Education or even name anyone who sits on the EOC. In fact most don’t even know the EOC exists. Our local school boards have little to no control over what is being taught.
These unelected people are responsible for the original recommendations to accept Common Core and they since have doubled down on approving supposedly new standards for ALL SC public schools which are over 90% in line with failed Common Core!
There is legislation in place now to abolish the EOC in both the House and the Senate. Simply eliminating the EOC isn’t enough… because there will still be an unaccountable appointed Board of Education making decisions with no direct accountability to WE THE PEOPLE.
So we need parents and taxpayers to be in the driver seat for a better education for their children through true representation by voting. We would like to see the State Board of Education members changed to elected positions. These seats can be based on the present Judicial districts with the Governor’s ability to appoint one member. The members should have 4 year terms that are staggered and the elections should be partisan and held in November every two years. To summarize…too many appointed people in the kitchen are spoiling the soup.
Abolishing the EOC and electing our State BOE will provide decentralization of the current pitiful, unaccountable education bureaucracy in which no one is being held accountable for the poor decisions that continue today.
We also advocate for opening up school choice. True school choice would involve a free market system with local schools being allowed to choose their own standards and curriculum. True school choice is NOT just allowing parents to choose which brick and mortar building for their child to attend with the same failed mirrored Common Core Standards and tests.
South Carolina children deserve a quality education, It’s time YOU lead..it’s time you handed the EOC and the State BOE a report card of a grade “F” for failing children.
Sign on to legislation to change the governance of our most precious resource…children and their future.
Let’s face it we’re at the bottom and these changes couldn’t make it any worse.
Good job kids! Don’t let the athiest thought police push you around!
Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
Has anyone seen this survey? Anyone has any idea about the usefulness or waste of time this will be?
“SHARP Survey
Cache County School District has approved/requested all 10th and 12th grade students participate in the SHARP (Student Health and Risk Prevention)
Statewide Survey. Only 10th & 12th grade students will be surveyed.
Students will need a parent permission slip to submit a survey. Permission slips will be available on Green Canyon’s website. Hard copy slips can be picked up by students from their 3rd hour teachers. The survey was designed to assess adolescent substance use, anti- social behavior, and the risk and protective factors that predict these adolescent problem behaviors.”
And a reply to this post:
Don’t give permission.
This video explains why, starting at the 6 min mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKCywLwtplE
Here is a post that was shared by Alice Linahan:
All true! With every year, the percentage of 4th graders reading decreases and the percentage of adequate IQ students with unexpected failure to read increases…..This is by design.
Here is a post from a friend of Alice Linahan:
visited Flower Mound this evening where Alice Linahan was discussing the need to protect our students. In a highly structured presentation, Alice laid out the steps and legislation that have occurred over the last two decade in order to reach HR 4174, Evidence Based Policy.
First, between 2005 and 2015, under federal grants, more than 50 states and territories created identically structured Student Longitudinal Data Systems. These systems were designed to k-12, then expanded P-20 to help states, districts, schools, educators, and other stakeholders to make data-informed decisions to improve student learning and outcomes; as well as to facilitate research to increase student achievement and close achievement gaps.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, became the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
In 2012, FERPA was legally modified. Student data could be used facilitate research without parental consent. The last Nation’s Report came out digitally and represents a fully functioning national system.
In 2014, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) bound the Dept of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Dept of Education to create normalized regulations for workforce development, workforce certification and standardized data for life long workers.
By 2015, legislators are beginning to pilot and create the legislation for “Evidence Based Policy,” In Nov 2017 Paul Ryan and Patty Murray indicated identical laws had been written in the House and Senate. It took a full year for them to be reconciled; but, before leaving when no one could agree on a budget in Dec. 2018, HR 4174, known as FEPA, Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, was passed by voice vote, without opposition and delivered to the president for his signature. On Jan 12, 2019, if President trump does not VETO FEPA, it will become law and data privacy will be lost forever. Without consent, data can be passed among governmental organizations as they see fit.
Contact the White House and ask the President to VETO FEPA, HR 4174…..this makes FB marketing look like a kid with a pair of binoculars on the house roof.
Under the Umbrella of the Commission for Evidence Based Policy, FEPA will be administered by a quasigovernment orginazation paid for with public funds and accountable to themselves.
And another post from this person:
Every Time I hear the Mike Morath supports a program, I investigate who is benefitting. The return to “pay for success” corparations far exceeds the benefit to students or their communities. With every act of privatization of public schools more tax payer dollars are taken out of the influence of duly elected trustees and moved into the hands of appointed boards. Those boards are not responsible to the citizens of their communities, they are responsible to corporate profits. The data associated with demonstrating student success under “pay for success” schemes is used to generate corporate profits, therefore, there is nothing philanthropic about corporations supporting student endeavors. Rather, as the testing that has been used to deliberately fail public schools is replaced with adaptive monitoring of student performance inside of Ed Tech, the standards will not be controlled to demonstrate true academic performance; therefore, they will be worse than faulty STAAR testing.
Here is a post from Allison (AKA Wrench in the Gears):
Read this excerpt to my husband just now and his reaction was wow, Jerry Brown is on your page. Please read this. The welfare state and the warfare state work hand in hand. Cal-pass is the pre-k to workforce pathways database program.
“Harris: What’s an example of that (totalitarianism) being pushed by the liberals?
Brown: An example would be measuring each individual child from preschool to beyond college, and keeping those as permanent records in the computer, that would measure discipline and mental attributes. Just the general centralization of information, which is being billed as the way to help the poor but which will enable an authoritarian to totally monopolize and control the society.
In fact, we have something called “Cal-PASS,” a state computer, which I kept in check. And I think now it’ll be full throttle to collect as much possible data and measure people in all sorts of ways. I think it’s dangerous. I don’t think it’s very useful, except for academics who have to write theses and do research. We had one on the teachers, which we stopped.
See, the trouble is the computer can collect a lot of information and regurgitate it in many different ways, and people are fascinated by that. Controlling and measuring everything. … We’re all ranked. And who’s it for? Now, if it’s for the academics, they’re relatively harmless. But then it’s going to ultimately be used, at some point, and it has kind of a smell of eugenics, that we want to purify this kind of motley race called human beings and if we can measure all the different attributes, we can then make normative the right path and the right way to be. I think that is the absence of diversity and the absence of freedom.
I would just say, spoken in a somewhat abstract level—it’s not just me who says that. I mean, there are political theorists who notice that the welfare state and the warfare state work hand in hand. They both want to see more power. They want more engineering of things. And, in many ways, that’s mass society, that’s an inevitable trend. But we do need to—we, the government—so that it can function is guard against that. And some of these big issues are not thought about.”
Combined the Jerry Brown comments with a pretty awesome infographic I did awhile ago on the intersection of redesigned education, digital labor and social impact investing. Check it out. If you find the infographic useful, you can download it, too. Blogged it with a bit of background information here:
And another post from her:
I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around this. The character avatar to whom the avatar of former head of the MacArthur Foundation is speaking is Cory Ondrejka-former Naval Academy graduate, weapons systems designer, creator of 2nd life, and VP of engineering for FB working on Oculus Rift. Check it out-this is from 2009, a decade ago.
Augustana College in Illinois is hosting a Winter Symposium Day that features social justice, and one of the workshops includes using a game of monopoly to teach students about “privilege”: https://www.theblaze.com/news/social-justice-monopoly-augustana-college?utm_content=bufferd1baa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=theblaze
Here is a post that I found in reply to a post by Alice Linahan:
thank you so much for your service and fight for our children and future children.I am a former SPED teacher (and my husband is currently still in the classroom). I became disillusioned and angry about what I was being required to do and was scared for my own children. I started homeschooling my children 5 years ago for this reason. Thank you for continuing the fight!
Here is a post that was shared in a Texas anti-Common Core group:
“Ensuring our students have professional mental health support is a public safety issue, a public health issue and an education issue. It must be a top priority in the coming 2019 legislative session.” Morgan Meyer
The 86th legislature begins. Pay close attention to the push for Mental Health Legisaltion by our own Morgan Meyer. Though I believe his intentions are sincere his desire to use the the strong arm of the government, legislation, to impose mental health screenings on American citizens is unconstitutional.
I testified against mandated mental health screenings stating, ““Somebody needs to push back against the idea that we’re going to do mental health surveys on every child in the state of Texas and if we find a diagnosis that they’re all going to be prescribed medicine. That just doesn’t make sense.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yUM4aWT6ow
I also questioned State Lawmakers asking “if it’s the role of the Government to legislate character development, collect mental health data on students and store personally identifiable information in Fusion Centers throughout Texas. Fusion Centers engage in surveillance of students social media and to use predictive analytics generated by an algorithm to create a threat-score for our children.”
And a post that goes along with this post:
This table from a training webinar for teachers and administrators shows how the MAPS test, a computer adaptive test, tracks and evaluates social emotional data, which is embedded in the curriculum, for each student. Based on a student’s scores, that student is then labeled by category as a serious risk, moderate, low or some risk to high strength(See second photo.). Our children’s mental health is no longer private either……how will this be used in the future? The second amendment comes to mind.
Here is a post from a Texas anti-Common Core page:
KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING THE HPISD LEARNER PROFILE
The HPISD Learner Profile was in the works dating back to 1974 and 1976 when Dr. Orr assisted his father in writing the “Pupil Profile” and “Teacher Profile” on The American Sponsored Overseas Schools, A Research Matrix. He used HPISD students as guinea pigs for his vision to produce global citizens:
1974
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED117210.pdf
1976
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED126597.pdf
Former superintendent, Dr. Dawson Orr used HPISD as a pilot for the UN/UNESCO global transformation of American education.
In 2011 Dr. Dawson Orr praised the HPISD Global Partnership program, remarking that the program is led by excellent SMU staff (he is now dept chair at SMU)
and will add a global dimension to teachers’ studies. He noted that the World Affairs Council will also bring valuable resources to the district. He congratulated a “Teacher on Special Assignment for Global Connections Department, Edna Phythian for leading the program”
Dawson Orr Global Initiative Fund
Why is HPISD the only school district in the US with a membership to the Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE)?
Highland Park High School’s Model UN team was named best delegation at the 2016 North Texas Invitational Model UN conference at UNT April 2, where they competed against six high schools.
Former HPISD Superintendent Dawson Orr’s father, Paul Glenn Orr, groomed him for the globalization of American education. Page 8 acknowledges him in this extensive research matrix
This publication was made possible under a grant between the US Government acting through the State Department and the Center for International Education of the Massachusetts State College System.
American Sponsored Overseas School Research Matrix by Paul Glenn Orr, Ph.D
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED117210.pdf
Perhaps the most disturbing part is found in the epilogue on page 134.
EPILOGUE Published by Dr. Orr in 1974
Pablo, Dawson and Caryl: Heritage Fulfilled
The Conference Committee of the International Congress was scheduled to meet on August 11, 2017. The members would arrive at agreements which would have direct impact on the relatively stable world population of two billion people. Experts in the 1970’s had projected a doubling of the 3.9 billion people by 2009 but they had not realize the magnitude of population decline which occurred after the catastrophic famine of 1977.
Pablo O’Leary, representing the African Complex, reflected on his heritage: an American grandfather, a Welsh mother, a Mexican wife whose grandfather was Ecuadorian, and he was among the first of nationality called Man. His grandfather had told him of a diplomat in the Pre-Hydrogen Energy era with whom he had chatted frequently, who have been the first to suggest that international law was the precept on which a peaceful world could exist. The personal stories had whetted his interest during his post-doctoral study in international law at the UN University in Nairobi in 1982. His father had told him often of his own early days of schooling in a multinational, bilingual setting and how the understanding gained had helped in founding the International Universities throughout the world.
Dawson Hauer was the Conference Committee’s expert on “selection for the right to work”. With only 20 percent of the world’s peoples needed to work in order to provide the goods and services for all, the topic was a persistent problem. With increased emphasis on the abolition of most remaining personal services, the committee was confronted with serious choices.
Dawson reflected on the changes in his lifetime. His grandfather had told him many times during his high school days in the early 1970’s that something no less dramatic and awful than nuclear holocaust would bring about mankind’s full understanding of his interdependence. It was regrettable that he didn’t live to see the most dramatic change in history occur in only two decades: the accidental discovery of the means of harnessing and storing pollution free hydrogen fuel catalyzed by solar energy in 1977 and production of limitless and cheap energy by 1979; devastating famine in which 900 million people died in 1977-1984; threatened and near nuclear attack by a starving country on its neighbor in 1982; outline internationally all nuclear devices and weapons in 1983 and their exit into space in 1984; nitrogen fixation from air in 1985 providing abundant fertilizer paralleled by criss/cross irrigation and water transportation systems throughout the world; and solar powered desalinization of seawater and topsoil recovery capability. The capstone was the formation of the International Congress in 1986 with sole power to maintain a peace keeping force and with final power to judge all disputes through international law. That civilization had taken a quantum jump was a realized fact that had only been a dream and hope for the 22nd century.
Dawson could barely conceive that energy was free and abundant, that food, water, shelter, clothing and climate control were available to everyone in this year of 2017. He was plagued with the speculative question if this could have happened without a cost of the lives of two billion people. The Nation States of Europe which he represented had funded an in-depth research project in 2002 to treat the question. The young researcher, Caryl Soloman, was the current representative from the Americas and the third member of the conference committee.
Caryl Soloman’s grandmother Connie Brecker, had been the first woman President of the United States. Caryl had learned much from her. Caryl’s major contribution had been the ability to reduce complex concepts into simple understandable terms. Her earlier research which I guided many post-famine precepts was reducible to simple terms. International law was a transcript of natural law; with no fear of failure combined with security for self and family, people could pursue their potentials without fear, hate or anxiety; that indeed interdependence was a given.
The peoples of the world felt secure and well represented as Pablo O’Leary called to order the session of the Conference Committee.
American Overseas Research Centers
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpsaorc/index.html
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3) January 14, 2013 – Went with Johnny Vaselka (TASA) and Dawson Orr (Supt. HPISD and Co-Chairman w/Dr. Turner of the Texas High Performance Schools Consortium)to discuss the need for federal waivers if Texas allows the pilot group of school districts (THPSC) to operate outside the current accountability system and seek help applying for those from the U.S. Dept. of Ed. – Aramark paid
And a reply to this post:
I guess the epilogue’s prediction was thwarted by Trump’s election? ?? Fascinating stuff. Do people realize what is happening in HP with the transformation to skills and workforce training over knowledge and individuality? It’s a slow boil I guess. It all started with the Cathy Bryce on that TASA Vision consortium funded by Stantec. She passed the torch to Dr. Orr. Trigg will finish the job.
Here is a post on this page that explains what is going on in Houston and what Governor Abbott and his henchmen are up to:
I think it is important to grasp the significance of what is happening first in HISD, and second what is happening in our state. The Houston School Board has said NO to giving up on their four schools and handing them over to a charter organization, such as what was done by Waco ISD. Waco handed over their four schools to a charter type private business organization that will take over their “improvement required” schools for an indefinite period of time. This means neither the parents nor the Waco ISD will have a say in what goes on in those schools. Because HISD is not following suit, there is a very good chance that means the Commissioner will move to replace the Board with a Board of Managers. While we should commend the HISD Board for not handing over their schools to privatization, we should now encourage the HISD Board to fight back against any appointed board. How they choose to fight back will be up to them, but we should support their efforts to oppose this takeover by the TEA. Yes, the laws are written such that the TEA can move to take over the Board, but that is an unjust law built on data that comes out of those same unjust laws. The Accountability System is the cause of all of these misplaced judgements about the four schools in HISD. If the Commissioner is successful in his efforts, which school district will be next? Most school districts have schools in neighborhoods of poverty that are very close to falling into IR status or go in and out of IR status from year to year. All it takes is one school to be targeted and the Commissioner can move in on that school district next. Let’s support HISD’s Board in their fight to resist takeover. Your district could be next. The laws are unjust. It may take a court battle to change the laws. “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come” Victor Hugo.
Here is a post from Alice Linahan:
Teach for America: Their Harmful Effect on Special Education – ?
?“The ultimate goal for TFA is not to create a teaching service to fill the need for a teaching shortage, as advertised. Their objective is to privatize public education and end the teaching profession.?
?TFA CMs also, despite their insufficient pedagogical and experiential background, rise to powerful administrative positions in local, state, and federal general and special education oversight programs. See below.?
?TFA alums can be found in a gazillion non-profits set up to dismantle public schools. Here is one, a description of Bellwether. ?
Here is a post from Lynn Davenport:
Strange bedfellows from the left and right side of the aisle:
This review examines the biased report entitled Time to Change Course: Reclaiming the Potential of Texas Charter Schools by Adam Jones and Amanda List and funded by ExcelinEd (think Jeb Bush & DeVos) and the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The report is billed as a case study of the charter school authorization processes employed in Texas and the relationship between this process and the number of new charters accepted by the authorizer—in this case, the Texas Education Agency (TEA). The report is an explanatory study in that it attempts to identify a causal relationship between the authorizing process and the number and characteristics of approved charter schools.
Adam Jones, author of TPPF report is an advisor listed on the Safal Partners web site – the group that got the TEA contract. He was the COO at TEA for a long time. He’s a good one to add to the “web” of interconnected individuals and entities.
How does TPPF feel about Gülen Harmony charter schools?
https://youtu.be/TjvjHMPNOo4
On January 11 TPPF hosted a panel (all with ties to TFA) moderated by Emily Sass, TPPF school voucher proponent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBxkGz_puFw
The panel included :
Penny Schwinn (TFA) – TEA Deputy Commissioner of Academics
Tom Torkelson (TFA) – founder/CEO IDEA charter schools
Pedro Martinez (TFA contract)- Superintendent of SAISD https://tultican.com/tag/texas/
Luzelma Canales (TFA Board) – former ED of RGV Focus Collective Impact at *Educate Texas
And another post from her:
Can you imagine if I had won the Place 7 seat? That would have put a major kink in their plans for a “pay for success” model of educating kids in RISD. Does anyone understand why I keep harping on this? We have a HUGE conflict of interest on our board and no one is calling it out. We are part of a nationwide experiment through StriveTogether (Commit is the Dallas network partner). I have a copy of our data sharing agreement with Commit if you would like me to share it with you.
In education, when you hear the term “Collective Impact” that means baseline data is collected and investors come in to fund a “pay for success” model through social impact bonds. Education is remade to serve the needs of big data. Emily Talmage wrote:
“In 2013, San Diego Unified partnered with “StriveTogether,” a subsidiary of the Gates-funded KnowledgeWorks Foundation. In communities across the country, StriveTogether – with support from corporate giants like MetLife, the Ford Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, and Target – is attempting to build “cradle to career” networks of data-driven public-private partnerships using controversial (some would argue unethical) methods.”
https://emilytalmage.com/2016/05/07/san-diego-if-it-sounds-to-good-to-be-true/
This article below is an interview with RISD Trustee Kristin Kuhne’s coworker, George Tang. He’s the COO of Educate Texas:
“After a successful career introducing predictive analytics to marketing, George Tang returned to his hometown of Dallas to serve as the COO of Educate Texas.”
“New tools for segmenting students based on their needs and beliefs are available based on our work being supported by the Gates Foundation.”
“Currently, there are many collective impact efforts that are underway across the state.“
“We have seen the impact and scale of effectively using this public private model and we are committed to seeing how we can use this approach to further accelerate our shared vision.”
Educate Texas is going to continue to focus on four key areas:
• College Ready Standards and Practices
• Postsecondary Access and Success
• Human Capital
• Collective Impact ??
“With Collective Impact, we have gained firsthand experience in supporting and leading these efforts in Dallas and the Rio Grande Valley. By engaging our historical partnerships across the state and combining it with the support of Strive Together ??, we plan to stand up more communities in Texas who are using this theory of action. Educate Texas also plans to serve as a connector and supporter of these various communities so that regions can form a unified voice to address common challenges and advance key strategies.”
“We have learned that the public-private partnership can serve as the “lynchpin” to taking ideas from small scale pilots to systems change. Over the next decade, the final chapter of this epic journey will defined by the level of ambition and commitment of our partners. I hope you will join us in connecting these dots to Educate Texas.” – George Tang
StriveTogether investors include the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Ballmer Group, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Ford Foundation, KnowledgeWorks and Living Cities.
StriveTogether began taking shape in 2006 as a local education collaborative in Cincinnati. It became the support system for a national network of communities in 2010 intent on ending disparities and closing gaps. Based on lessons from Cincinnati and other communities including Dallas, Memphis and Tacoma, StriveTogether’s nationally recognized collective impact framework defines and measures progress to improve educational outcomes and expand opportunities.
I found out more information about FEPA from this post of a friend of mine:
Interesting that EPIC supports HR4174; EPIC sued the federal government for weakening federal privacy law FERPA. The gutting of FERPA (in 2011) allows collection and sharing of personal student data to state databases and authorized school officials (such as Google). EPIC said that this amassing of non-consensual student data is a privacy fail. HR4174 does not fix that loophole. Nothing in HR4174 says that the nonprofits or other govt agencies MUST anonymize the data that they take from the state databases. it says they can… and we all know that with AI / machine learning, data can be combined and Re-ID’d very easily. If HR4174 allowed for consent BEFORE student data were put into these now linkable databases, I would not be opposed.
Here is a post from Lynn Davenport:
It’s campaign season, so municipal and school board candidates will likely repeat the stupid statistic below. I heard it during my race in 2017. The chambers of commerce repeat the same scare tactic across the state. ??Curmudgucation blogger revisits the myth:
“Following the reform play book, Schmedlen started by telling scary stories.
Nearly two-thirds of today’s students will work in jobs that have not yet been created. Tomorrow’s workers will move much more from job to job. They will work in a competitive, diverse and global workplace. Students will need critical thinking skills, and they will need to learn to collaborate and innovate.
Sigh. It’s been over a year since Matt Barnum decisively debunked the whole 65% of tomorrow’s jobs haven’t been created yet statistic, yet here it is again, still without any foundation.
The rest is interesting from a corporate honcho, because it’s so cool and dispassionate and prescriptive (“workers will”) while failing to acknowledge, as is usual, why this ugly future is on the way. Imagine if a corporate exec said it this way–
In the future, we will offer no loyalty or job security to our employees– we’ll just keep giving the job who can do it well enough for the cheapest price, wherever they are in the world this week, and we’ll dump those workers next week if we find a cheaper replacement. Workers had better be quick at picking up work requirements, because we don’t want to waste time training them, and keeping meat widget costs down is more important to us than hanging on to experienced worker. I read the critical thinking, collaborate, innovate thing off some 21st century skills list thing, but yeah– you need to be quick on problem solving and getting along because we expect you to cope with all this disruption and instability on your own– or else we’ll replace you with someone can. Meat widget problems are not management problems.”
I don’t believe that Dr. King woudl have approved of Indiana University’s “Interactive Privilege Simulator”:
Here is a post from the Utah anti-Common Core group:
HEADS UP
We knew there would be a bill making it more difficult to opt out & here it is.
Currently, Utah law states that a student’s score on a statewide assessment may NOT be used to determine their academic grade or grade advancement, and a school may NOT reward a student for taking the test.
This bill would change it so their RISE (formerly known as SAGE) test score could be used to improve their academic grade or demonstrate competency. It also changes the wording to allow for a student to be rewarded for taking the test as long as it’s not a “nonacademic reward”.
What will this look like in real life? Students will be pressured into taking the test for a chance to improve their grades or possibly skip portions of the course if they can prove their competency (by taking a test that has never been validated to show it accurately assesses what it is meant to assess).
This bill cannot be allowed to pass. The Legislative Session officially begins Jan 28th. Start talking to your legislators now about your concerns with HB118 INCENTIVES FOR STATEWIDE ASSESSMENT PERFORMANCE
Here is a post that someone put on Alice Linahan’s wall:
All the usual players have come up with the next scheme to appear to support education while creating funding plans that do more damage to the least among us. Talk about kick the dog, while they are down…Outcome based education, rewarding districts for good performance….sounds so equitable, until you read the formulas and realize that those with the most resources have the most opportunities to perform. They will perform well with or without additional funding. There is only 1 goal in this plan, facilitate the TEA takeover of low performing schools by further requiring them to spend more money with education technology, they do not have, that has not been determined to create better learning, and documents their performance as lacking. The formula described shows that the highest performing district, normally the wealthiest/student, will receive additional funding/student for the next year, while those who may have more obstacles to performing, including lack of financial support in their homes, will receive less funding for the next year. Thus, the gap between the haves and the have nots grows! I can tell you, I am seeing many haves not concerned with whether students are learning, they are focused on increasing the amount of money they either keep, or spend with selected vendors. Something happens to adults, when “piles of money” become the driver…and no one is talking about real education. No one in the discussion talks about students learning to read better, write better, perform math correctly…..everything is based on faulty standards that may or may not apply to life. This is my soap box. It doesn’t take expensive education technology to determine if a child is learning…. Outcome based performance, just another way to cast aside those who are not easy to teach and justify their lack of worth, all the while titling the bill to say something else. Look who is on this committee, think about the economic schemes they repeatedly design to fund education. Austin is a hill of fire ants. They need to be eradicated or packing into retirement, where their damages will be minimized.
And some replies to this post:
CA title one schools are subsidized by Federal Govt. up to 85% of any CA school are ESL. CA is scrambling to find ways to fill in that gap, talking about taxing water yesterday. Carbon tax is about taxing the air. TX is don’t far behind CA, the real scramble is structuring to be on the tit of the federal govt. The Federal govt is closed and needs to stay closed because the irresponsible in DC print and borrow money ( it’s not federal taxes) that is subsidizing the state boondoggles. Ron Paul (former TX congressman) is right, the real 1% is government and its cronies.
Here is a frightening example of OBE. Chan Zuckerberg CZI Summit Learning in Pasadena ISD https://www.facebook.com/1827754847478865/posts/2181181545469525/
Mr. Ohio moves to Idaho.
And someone had better look closely at our new dollars for reading. I know there aren’t supposed to be strings (local control and all) but the legislature might attach them last minute.
And here is a post that someone else left on her wall:
At a recent Board mtg. of one of the large, urban districts, a discussion included info re what technologies would be used in the classrooms. Yes. The “babies” in pre- and elementary would have regular access to various types of digital equipment. I wanted to scream at those presenting!! Have they not researched anything??? There’s enough info out now to at least research and question the validity of putting technology into the hands of 4 and 5 year olds!!
Here is a post by Alice Linahan:
What makes a TPPF Education Policy Advisor an Expert in Education?
I encourage someone to try and prove what I have written in this article wrong, but it must be with documented proof, as I have provided. If you can not, please be very careful moving forward in this legislative session if you are supportive of TPPF’s Education Finance Reform and Property Tax Reform. All is not what it seems.
Texas Public Policy Foundation’s legislative and policy history is important because they are pushing property tax reform and education finance reform as if it is limited government and free market capitalism. Yet, the reality of TPPF’s policies and their history of coordination show they are promoting legislation and policy that is the antithesis of limited government and free market capitalism with NO adherence to the Constitution. In fact, the very policies and legislation they have championed are, in fact, doing great harm to Texas students in the classroom and will have a very negative impact on Texas’ economy.”
And some replies to this post:
Not to go back into the stone age of all of this, but Abbott knew about Texas alignment from the very beginning. Abbott was the attorney general and had knowledge of the 501c3 that was set up for the creation of CScope. His office was notified by yours truly that we knew he knew. I wrote a certified letter asking to please clarify why they had allowed our tax money to fund the creation of this “Race to the Top” Obama styled education and force fed into Texas schools. Snakes.
They need to continue to hear that we know the truth. And, these so called education policy advisors who are now being hailed as experts by TPPF need to be exposed. They are the ones who brought this crap in, and need to be held accountable. From my perspective they get an F-!!
but how? People are SO blinded by there…well…bs
That is why I put this out. Those of us who are politically active need to be questioning these people and questioning them publicl
Yes I know. I did for years. I wished i could be more active in fighting this. Im battling our city and county to keep our land right now. Also headed to State to help change policy there. So much is happening so fast. My child is only 10 and we are in full swing homeschool as well as our 2 businesses. If only more would take interest. ??
All of this is connected. Our borders are being flooded with illegals so our failing public schools are overflowing and continuing to go into their failing spiral. The non tax payers are using services that they don’t pay for, so simple math explains why our schools are going broke. Where does our government get its money? Well, from us the tax payers of course. And guess what? They’re running out of “other people’s money”!!! So here comes the money hungry city to gobble up our rural land and make it city land so they can charge more city taxes!!!
you are right on target!!
And here is a post from a Florida anti-testing page:
Parents can do the one thing they have the power to do: Deny the data used to harm their children. OPT OUT.
And here are some replies to this post:
Not to mention some of our middle schools are now sharing the Math FSA data with FSU. You did have to opt in. However all class rosters were shared so they have your students name and id number. The district is stating it did not share any data however FSU stated it has all the class lists so they delete the data when they receive it. That they only use the data they have permission to use. So is the school only sending the data they have permission? No one will answer that. My daughter against her liking will not be participating in her math FSA this year no matter what.
FSA screws my son every year. He gets A’s and B’s all year then fails his reading portion to be put in intensive class every year also making him ineligible for better classes or Duel Enrollment due to not having 3 open available electives
Fight every year for correct class placement. School thinks lack of FSA grade means remedial classes even tho child is in AP and honors classes with no less than a B. You’d think they’d get sick of me complaining
Here is a post from a New York anti-Common Core group:
I need help. I’ve Been out of FIGHT mode for a while and I need a refresher. There’s a parent In my district being bullied into making her child take iReady after she specifically refused them for her child. Her child had taken them in the past because she was unaware that she could opt out of them. Child did poorly and is now in RTI classes. Which they do not want the child in any longer. (See how that worked ). Remind me the semantics of this garbage again so I can advise because she’s been put in touch with me as an advocate. I’m dusty & rusty and a quick refresher is greatly appreciated. TIA ??
And another post from this group:
Is this text book Common Core or not?
And some replies to this post:
Yes
It looks to me as if the Standards are printed within the book somewhere, which would have required permissions—thus the copyright line. But the following line is just a cover-your-ass legal disclaimer that while the Standards appear in the book, that the book isn’t officially endorsed by CCSS. All that to say, yes, it looks to me as if the book was written to accord with the Standards. I don’t know if CCSS endorses any particular textbook—that line may be pretty meaningless, a legal formality.
Most likely. Irene Fountas wrote materials prior to common core, but since this book was published in 2014 it’s probably aligned to the standards like every other text book.
Simple! YES! It is published by one the principal publishers of Common Core materials… Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt.
Yup, it’s CCRAP
Here is a post from the Common Core Diva:
Breaking news: President Trump signed into law HR 4174, among other bills.
Justice, liberty, freedom, and life as we know it will forever be marred.
Here is a post from a Utah anti-Common Core group:
Someone help?!???!!!!!!!!!
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/01/13/tribune-editorial-close/
And some replies to this post:
I wish we could. This makes me sad for the families & the teachers. The laws need to change, but we are under the federal government’s control as long as we take their money (our money) & the requirements they attach to it. It’s wrong!!
All we can do is make tweaks to the law (from the looks of things, there are a couple bills that may do this), but the end result will be the same. There will be more schools that fall victim to these horrible policies that put the test above all else. You can’t have control unless you have data & tests have a wonderful way of providing all the numbers you need without having to see the faces behind them.
I’m sorry. 😦 I wish there was something we can do. All we can do is help our state legislators see where this is coming from & tell them to stop bowing to the federal funds.
Too bad we can’t pick and choose which schools to participate in federal programs. If a school fails in a federal program, then rather than shutting it down it should just go to a 100% non-federal budget. I would be interested to see the quality of kids that come out of schools that are not in federal programs.
This is a lot to throw out all at once, but these are screenshots of the federal law ESSA & some screenshots of current state law comparisons. It shows where these ideas are coming from & why we have the crappy state laws we have & what we can do to get out of it.
(1 of 9) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10212911630288337&set=g.1456758951216844&type=1&theater&ifg=1
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(3 of 9) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10212922633723416&set=g.1456758951216844&type=1&theater&ifg=1
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(5 of 9) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10212933760881588&set=g.1456758951216844&type=1&theater&ifg=1
(6 of 9) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10212951584327163&set=g.1456758951216844&type=1&theater&ifg=1
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This is ridiculous. Our entire education system needs to be reworked. It’s just asinine to close a school because they are performing low on tests. Why don’t they shuffle the staff around, make some changes to leadership, things like that. This must be common core logic.
It’s all part of the plan. The tests are designed to fail. Once a school fails, the feds take it over. This way, all schools eventually become 100% federally-controlled without a vote. They bypass the Constitution with business contracts. End the Dept. of Education and take back our local schools!
I actually really like that editorial. They can see clearly that the school was closed because of a test, but they aren’t quite making the connection of why we have the ridiculous state laws we have & if they had been watching the State School Board, they would’ve seen that there were a few Board members who were willing to make the hard decisions to get us out of all this, but there weren’t enough of them for it to pass.
This year they took out the state rule protecting schools and teachers from being harmed by the testing scores. The federal government refused to let us remove opt-outs from the overall school and teacher data. Teachers and Schools will now push testing as if their jobs depend on it. And they will blame the parents for wanting special treatment, instead of the US department of education for funding this ridiculous bureaucracy. Why? They’ll always say because “we need the money.”
Here is a post from an anti-data mining group:
What We Do: Refuse ALL student data to corporations and tech industry “philanthropies” . We want to end corporate control of students, schools, and communities. Data Disruptors create actions to eliminate the mining, tracking, and surveillance of student data by government and corporate entities.In an increasingly technologically driven world, data is the new oil. Data leads to control, surveillance, and colonization of the public by private profiteering interests.
The outcomes (one personal, one more social/public) are 1. protect our individual children/students from corporate surveillance, and 2. dismantle corporate-led education policies that place public education into the hands of private corporate interests intended toward greater social surveillance and control.
Our two stages are: 1. awareness, and 2. building actions. Until there’s awareness we cant have effective mass action (need to build interest in taking action)
And some replies to this post:
The D.C. think tankers say we are a small group that stood against FEPA. I think that implies we are insignificant. Does this group see the federal government as an insignificant player in all this? Our opponents don’t. They are using our government quite effectively.
We are insignificant to them. People don’t seem to care. We are preaching to the choir. Just wait until people are being forced to wear fit bits for insurance or mandatory home visits by the state. Then maybe people will wake up. At this point, they don’t think it will affect them.
I’m always willing.
However, By using only social media, I am ineffective anymore. Most people, except those who sing my song, have either unfriended me or unfollowed me. I’m sure they got tired of seeing my posts. How do I know they have unfollowed me? They don’t “like” the photos of my grandbaby. It’s very easy to tell.
If there’s going to be an action, For me it has to be outside of social media.
I am persona non-grata in my community. No one wants to acknowledge what is happening. They hate me for telling them, and I try over and over. Hard to organize under such circumstances.
We are all in the same boat. I had someone I considered a friend when my first book came out say to me, ” I’m not going to read it because it probably will make me feel like I should ‘do’ something.” …… Gotta appreciate that honesty, right? ??
But seriously, we need a plan and a strategy just like the disruptors did. Do unto others as they have done.
Is this the place to organize? Admin? Trusted members? … It is too big a group to know, I think.
NO support from teachers here. I have been told not to talk about certain things. Bad for « organizing » etc. Honestly, I’m pretty down on teachers now. It is discouraging. That is why I am working bigger, surveillance of the poor.
No support from teachers here either but we have a bigger potential audience to appeal to what parents want….and they do want a voice in what they think is best for children.
I said many years ago that the new teacher evaluation systems that were part of the package of RttT initiatives were meant to scare teachers into compliance or keep them so busy chasing their own tales they wouldn’t be able to summon the energy to fight back. I think so many are caught up in day to day survival of what has already happened to the profession that they can’t wrap their heads around all of the new threats.
I also think the messaging has been an issue. I find it difficult to absorb the complexity of what is being shared on a day to day basis and I’m retired and not living under the stress facing teachers today. Teachers where I work vocally support test refusal, they show up at protests and rallies organized by their union and they’re wearing red to support LA teachers, but if we want them on board to fight the data beast we need to simplify the message and suggest specific actions.
To be honest I don’t share much of what crosses my news feed anymore because I know by the lack of response and shares that those on my friends list scroll past posts that reflect more depth than they can understand. They’re not interested in connecting dots to know the “why” and “how” this is happening. I learned that when I tried to educate some of my colleagues about what was coming at our profession from the reformers a decade ago.
Just my opinion and I don’t have answers as to how we change this.
I was in D.C. for the SOS March in 2011. I tried to get others to join me but only ONE teacher in my large school would commit to attending with me. I was viewed as a kind of a “lone nut, conspiracy theorist” until my colleagues started living what I had been warning about. I’m not so sure it’s different now. As a profession teachers tend to be rule followers and only a minority seem willing to buck the system until they experience pain.
As you read this, please keep in mind that I am in one of the poorest school districts in Idaho AND my son began kindergarten ~1992 the year Lamar Alexander was sec of ed and he was working off of the Tucker plan……of course I did not know that at the time. I just knew things were bad for the students….teachers for the most part weren’t talking and were giving the new “innovative” shit a try.
I say this all the time. Most didn’t agree because they weren’t and they didn’t even agree 15 years ago in MOST places. Charters took care of that
Ugh. Disappointed by the President signing FEPA. Waiting for what improvement might come…
Here is a post from Alice Linahan:
Privatizing Public Education is NOT about Free-Market Capitalism. The key is to follow the money.
The goal is the Takeover Of Public Schools, accessing a “Captive Market”, for those who see America’s students as an “investment vehicle” for profit and a product for the government to control and manipulate via the Public-Private Partnerships (PPP).
This is a very important, well-documented article by William Gumbert that I encourage you all to read and understand.
And here is a reply to this post:
Interesting that the article includes data showing schools which received a failing grade of “F” from the state, including 3 campuses of International Leadership of Texas charter schools (Lancaster, East Fort Worth and Windmill Lakes) . IL of TX has acquired hundreds of millions of bond debt and “A financial adviser hired by the district, Drew Masterson, told IL Texas leaders, “Your financial position is serious. It’s tenuous.” And yet these charter schools are the model that the state wants to impose upon taxpayers, who will shoulder the burden for financial failures? Scary.
Here are some posts from the Utah anti-Common Core group:
I have actually had my kids science teacher tell me that the sage test is very important because he uses the results to know what they have learned and how he needs to adjust his teaching. But my understanding is that they don’t get to see really what its all about they may see a percentage but not really know how to change anything in their teaching because they don’t know what they are getting or not isn’t that correct?
we had this same discussion in my sons high school where the science teacher said the same thing. One year his SAGE scores were low, but the kids were learning a lot and enjoyed his class. Unfortunately to try and bring up his test scores, he changed how he taught and only taught to the test, the kids went from loving his class to hating it because all they did was practice for SAGE. It took him over the summer but he caught on and apologized to us for the way he had done things.
I’m so confused by all the different tests still. Today some teachers were talking about a test only the 8th graders took that prepares them for the ACT. Is this the same test or something different? Arise or Rise or Aspire or something.
Aspire is an ACT prep test however a huge portion of the test asks your child personal info as far as their likes and dislikes and then tries to create a portfolio of what kinds of careers your child should go in to…in other words, it creates a social and emotional profile of your kid …my son got agriculture or veterinary- he’s highly allergic to most plants and as much as he loves animals has ZERO desire to go into animal medicine…once he did this we proceeded to get spammed via email and snail mail with offers having to do with these two areas as ACT sells your personal data and info….I started having my younger kids answer C’s all the way down the page as it is another way for ACT to collect data they shouldn’t have…on a personal note, my son went in to aviation…not even close to anything ASPIRE decided he should look into…it’s really quite a joke as ACT and SAT are now changing to be more Common Core aligned
Utah Aspire Plus replaced the SAGE test in the older grades. It’s the same test with the same questions, just a different name & testing provider. This is a link to the announcement. I’m not sure why they are giving it to 8th graders though? They should still be taking RISE.
The opt out form has an explanation for all the state tests on the last couple pages. Maybe the school added a test for ACT prep?
Here is a post from a Minnesota anti-Common Core group:
As you know, there have been pushes to close down opt outs in Minnesota in the last 2 years by the legislature and the MDE. This year in particular, certain Metro schools who used to casually accept opt outs, began propagandizing kids and parents on the “importance of the test.” UTAH: “The rule protecting schools and teachers from being harmed by opt-outs this year was removed by our State Board upon insistence by the US department of Education. Expect schools to push testing as if their jobs depend on it.” Public (govt) and private (corp) hands working together to regulate every part of the schools.
And another post from this group:
OREGON: Universal home visits for all families are on the docket this session. Minnesota also has a home visit section as part pf one of the new bills. Do we want government, or for that matter, corporate entities entering our homes?
Here is a post from the anti-CBE group:
One of the most important things Alison Hawver McDowell’s work does is it allows us to see how Big Finance Plans embed themselves in policies that we might not immediately recognize as predatory. She gives us the knowledge we need to guard ourselves from manipulation. Read this updated piece to understand how and why Big Finance and Big Tech are lurking in friendly sounding concepts like “Community Schools.”
And another post from this group:
So I created this very large map on impact investing and pre-k programs / Educare over the weekend and tried to distill it down to a more readily-digestible infographic to write about. Is this useful in thinking about how this machine was built / is operating? Here is the
Here is a post from a Colorado anti-Common Core group:
Here’s how it will work. All schools will be mandated to teach all children about all kinds of sex (not kidding, read CO HB 1032, it’s explicit). Next will be the ban on gay conversion therapy for minors (Denver law now, no doubt soon to be statewide before May). So the state will forcibly teach and tempt your kids into all kinds of sex including lgbt sex. And then you will be prohibited from getting professional therapeutic assistance for your minor children regarding the sexual activities the state has forced onto your kids. That’s no constitutional republic. That’s flat out tyranny and mind and body control. And we are the subjects.
Even worse, from what I can find from a post below it, is that a Republican is co-sponsoring it, again showing the bipartisanship of the growing tyranny in the USA:
This horrid bill is being cosponsored by Reblublican Don Coram.
303-866-4884
don@doncoram.com
don.coram.senate@state.co.us
https://leg.colorado.gov/legislators/don-coram
Here is a post from Alice Linahan:
Senator Ted Cruz still does not get it!! Parents!! Do not be fooled. You take the $$ or tax credit in exchange for your child to be data-mined and controlled, (UNCONSTITUTIONALLY), by the federal government, from womb to tomb in the P-20W system that they’ve locked in place through federal and state legislation.
I thought Ted Cruz was a Constitutional Conservative??? Obviously, he is NOT. This is why he is NOT President today. He would NOT listen to parents, especially homeschool parents across America. This is NOT CONSTITUTIONAL! THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS NO ROLE TO PLAY IN EDUCATION. I continue to be very disappointed in Sen. Ted Cruz.
Here is a post that was shared on her wall:
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION!!! THIS IS SCARY.
This is a list of groups that received a request for proposal from DallasISD to run some Dallas schools based on HB1882. DallasISD will still fully fund the schools
by paying all staff including the Principal, teachers, office workers, janitors, cafeteria workers, and operational cost, but this arrange could bring in
about $1800 per student for the charter to spend.
These entities would have their own board and your elected representatives will have NO say in the operations of these schools. These contracts will last 3 to 10 years and there does not have to be any experience in running schools.
The first few names are daycare providers that currently have their own operation.
Today’s Date: 1/15/2018
Trustee Request
Requesting Trustee: Lew Blackburn_________ Responding Dept.: Strategic Intiatives___________________ Responding Chief: Brian Lusk _____________________
Trustee Request/Questions:
Response:
10.A. Consider and Take Possible Action to Adopt Board Policy ELA (Local) Campus or Program Charters Partnership Charters (Second Read, Sponsored by Brian Lusk, Chief of Strategic Initiatives) Who has already received information about the RFP.
o ChildCareGroup
o Head Start of Greater Dallas ISD
o Mi Escuilita
o American Care Academy
o Aisha’s Learning Center
o ALC Early Care and Education
o Braswell Child Development
o Bryan’s House aka Open Arms, Inc.
o For Keep’s Sake, Inc.
o Golden Minds Academy
o Good Street Learning Center, Inc.
o Heavenly Learning Center
o Kids Concepts
o Neighborhood Christian Learning Center
of Dallas, Inc.
o Pace and Ross Learning Center o Union Christian Academy
o United Way
o YMCA Dallas
o Shelton School, Private School o Dallas Teacher Residency
o Vickery Meadow Youth Development Foundation
o Commit
o Dallas County Community College District o 3DE / Junior Achievement
o Yorktown Education, K-12 Private School o Alt Schools
o Friends of Solar Prep
o StrongMinds
o Downtown Dallas INC
o Big Thought
o Southern Methodist University
o UNT Dallas
o Leadership ISD
o Montessori In The Public Sector
o UT Southwestern
o Purpose Built Schools
o Teaching Trust
o CitySquare
Cabinet staff preparation time: _ Non-cabinet staff preparation time:
And some replies to this post:
What “vetting” has been completed to approve each of these “vendors?” Does TEA approve their applications or does the district have any right to approve or disapprove? What standards must they meet? What standards must their employees meet? What is the complaint process? What are their line-staff / compliance requirements? What do their programs look like? Monitoring? Accountability? So many more questions.
most have no programs but when I saw Commit, Leadership ISD, Teaching Trust, CitySquare, Big Thought, YMCA and United Way I clearly got the picture. It’s all about profiteering at the expense of our children and taking control from the elected body.
YUP! Outsourcing.
All the usual suspects that are part of the new patronage
Just Wow!!!! Because they don’t have the fortitude and can’t/won’t step up to the plate to do the right thing for ALL the children of Dallas, they are willing to turn over “select” schools to private entities to shift the blame and responsibility of educating our children! Just Wow! Nothing more than organized educational genocide….
This is from a research manual written in 1994 on Goals 2000 America 2000. Looks like Dallas ISD is right on track, and Yes!!! It is very scary!!
Dont forget that Disd closes, and shifts schools in order to get new state reporting numbers and say “we’ve changed”, so ratings start over with the state. I am convinced it is a magnificent Bait & Switch to make those at the top look as if they know what they are doing.
It’s so unfortunate that they basically have to outsmart the state given the flawed standardized test based IR system and HB 1842- which says that if ONE public school fails state standards for five or more years, then the Education Commissioner must either close that school or replace the district’s entire school board with outside managers. We need to adjust HB 1842 – write your legislators to ask them to replace 1842 with this:
Remove ONE and make it 15% of schools for 5 or more consecutive years.
Then we wouldn’t be wasting so much time and energy chasing test prep.
Yes, that is exactly what all the previous school closings and repurposing has been about. They just shift the students who don’t score well around to different schools rather than doing the hard work of actually providing them with an education. SMH.
That’s what I am hearing about one of the comprhensive HS. How many have been sent to Dallas Can, because they don’t score or do well….oh, with promise often they can come back and graduate with their class….NOT! You aren’t a part of their #’s anymore!
They can’t have it both ways: if the media is going to tell us how wonderfully DISD is performing, all the good things happening and that we should support our schools (all of which is true), then how can they turn around and say that now we need to turn over the schools to someone else? If DISD is so good, why give it away????
I can’t believe YMCA had the nerve to submit an RFP. The biggest complaint parents have at our school is the YMCA’s afterschool program. If they can’t run an after school program, I sure as heck wouldn’t want them running an entire school.
nd they won’t! Where there’s chaos there’s smoke! That’s a smokescreen with a paper trail tracked back to Washington DC.
this is exactly whats happening with Los Angeles Unified School District
Same agenda. Some of the same players.
Does anyone remember the “12 Model Cities Plan” implemented out of WA, DC in the late 60’s? Ours was called “Goals for Dallas.” The Goals for Dallas Project I worked on at SMU was synonymous with Goals for LA Project I worked on with Coldwell Banker and LA’s City Council in the late ‘70’s. Carole Hall, same agenda.
This public school education overhaul involves the same 12 major cities. I can’t prove that but Betsy Devos probably can. That’s the plan. I bet government grant monies are fueling the opportunities for selective inclusion too. The communities are not supposed to act. They’re not included deliberately in the projected timeline to apply in a timely fashion. I see divide and conquer .
If I’m allowed to indulge, I can’t sit back and not express my assumptions. We’ve seen all this before. If the Republicans can keep their actor #45 forcing shutdowns, demonstrators, treasonous indictments, Mueller investigations, and hamburgers, the locals can commandeer applications which bypass the folks with the needs by their storm of political noises.
The Naval Credit Union is offering Government furloughed employees 0% loans minus $500 of their regular salaries which will be paid back directly to the Navy when the shutdown is over. So everyone furloughed gets a $500 cut in salaries to be back payed when their “Actor” is put down. There is so much manipulation of money and laws going down. I read something today that said Trump would resign in exchange for his children’s freedom from prosecution.
As some parents found out in Philadelphia, they couldn’t even get into a “Board” meeting because they were not “investors.” It appears that Dallas has taken a very long, careful time getting into all of this. It’s been done under the radar. While some of the adults have been serving with authenticity, others have participated out of intentions not quite so honorable. To me, withholding information is sabotoge and sabotage is abuse. Been a whole lot of “withholding” going on.
Let me get this straight…DISD is paying non-profits to take their students who are “not progressing”
Because it would make them look bad. How many students have been sent to Dallas Can?
The application must already be completed because some of the partners on the list are talking about future plans in the schools.
Why is UNITED WAY on the list? Hum!! Well because they are funded by private entities that instructed them about 4 years ago to target certain school with funds especially since the grow south grow strong initiative, their not trying to help the southern sector they want the southern sector. Fatten up then slaughter. .
Here is a post from an Oregon anti-Common Core group:
What’s your opinion about Connections Academy curriculum?
And some replies to this post:
It’s public school and common core.
It’s owned by Pearson… the company who makes the tests we’re all opting out of.
Thank you all! It seems like nothing has changed since we first learned about Common Core.
Here is a post from a North Dakota anti-Common Core group:
This bill will stop Common Core in North Dakota. How can Republicans vote against such a needed bill? Look at the groups that illegally lobbied against this bill. When will the legislature stop these taxpayer-funded groups from violating North Dakota laws by going before these committees and opposing or supporting bills? This has got to stop. And I am also talking about police and law enforcement officers testifying with their uniforms on.
Representatives from North Dakota Council of Educational Leaders (NDCEL), North Dakota School Boards Association (NDSBA), North Dakota Education and Standards Practices Board (NDESPB), Family Voices of North Dakota, and North Dakota United (NDU) all opposed the bill. The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) was technically neutral, but their testimony was somewhat negative
Here is a post from a New Jersey anti-Common Core page:
PARCC and high school exit testing needs to end!
And public schools must always put the needs of children first, and listen to parents!
From a Mom in Ocean, NJ:
“My daughter, who has autism, but is high functioning, attends Ocean Twp High School, Class of 2020.
We refused the PARCC from the beginning, much to the school’s disappointment. Despite written notice to the Superintendent that our daughter will not be taking PARCC, the District continues to pressure us to have her make up the test.
Last Thursday, she again was given a note with a room assignment and a time for her to leave class to take the PARCC test. She asked me what to do. I said stay in class and don’t go.
Unfortunately, Tuesday, she again was called to guidance to take PARCC. She was forced to leave class and go to the test room. She was scared and anxious, and texted to ask me what to do. I called the school and told them that she is not to take it. Thankfully, she was sent back to class.
This constant push to have her take PARCC, against our wishes, puts my daughter in a very uncomfortable position. She has autism and anxiety issues and this has made her feel that she was being bad, and really upset her. I’ll now deal with the consequences as I help her with anxiety and generally negative feelings about school.”
And some replies to this post:
They don’t care about the anxiety they cause in children with the inane testing. It’s a multimillion dollar industry filled with corruption that has little to do with actual education.
I have told my kids if they ever feel pressured to take it, to politely walk out of class, go to guidance and ask them to call me. No arguing, no disrespecting, just politely go.
My child also has anxiety and very high functioning ASD. He is a Freshman in hs this year. I normally send in a letter of refusal of the PARCC. He has never taken it. I got the feeling when we went to back to school night that it is a requirement for Alegebra 1 in his Freshman year. Is this so or can I send in my letter of refusal?
You can refuse. The graduation requirements for his class were just struck down by the Appellate Court and we won’t know what if any new requirements there will be for a while, but they won’t be Algebra 1 and 10th grade ELA PARCC because the court said those were in violation of the law.
I hate how the schools push. I wanted my daughter with anxiety opted out of PARCC the first year, but the district that year wouldn’t allow parents to do it ahead of time. My 10 year old had to tell the teacher she wasn’t taking it. Then the school called me to confirm. Needless to say, they changed their approach for the following year. 🙄 However, the pressure put on our kids with anxiety remains in different forms. Ugh.
Here are some more posts from this page:
I just pulled my son out of his refresher alg1 course and told school he will not be retaking the Alg 1 exam (he’s a sophomore). They gave me such a drama about it. Actually told my son that it could impede his graduation! Really? I’m pretty confident the new requirements for 2021 class will go through at a minimum. The DOE has until the end of the month to appeal the court decision striking down the graduation testing requirement completely. It would be great if the school administration could get with the program!!! And hey if nothing goes through I guess he will take it as a jr.
he’s already taking two math classes this yr which seems to be enough!
The school sent a strong letter that my son will be taking the PARCC during the school day next week. I just want to confirm that It’s my right to email them and refuse the PARCC for my son. They can not force my son out of class to take the test? My son has anxiety, and the thought of them coming after him in class has really caused stress for him.
you absolutely have a right to refuse him. We recommend doing so in writing as soon as possible to ensure that the school is aware your son will not be taking the test.
Here is a post from a Nevada anti-Common Core group:
What do you think?
Here is a post that I found on an Idaho anti-Common Core page:
Moms and Dads need to put their foot down! I reviewed my grand daughter’s papers from Kindergarten. Kindergarten has become the new second grade! It needs to stop before they destroy the kids. This is a plan to 1- reinforce the false narrative that schools are failing so that the gullible will abandon their locally controlled public schools… and…2- a means of breaking the kids so they become compliant human capital for the corporate state. RESIST!
Here is a post from the Texas anti-testing group:
I’m a constituent in Representative Landgraf’s district. This was one of my major concerns when I first met him. He has a little girl who is not in school yet. I actually approached him completely OFF RECORD about my concerns over STAAR after seeing my step daughter have an all out anxiety attack before going to school during STAAR week her 5th grade year. She struggles with school, but was passing her classes (a C average but still passing). She was in tears over having to pass this stupid assessment to go to middle school. At the time, I had no clue you could opt out or I would’ve approached her mom about it. Instead, I happened to run into Mr. Landgraf in the halls at my office and I asked him if he could look into the STAAR and what he could do from a legislative standpoint. It’s taken 4 years, but I’m glad he’s filed the bill. Please, ask your reps to help get it a hearing in committee and then support it coming to the floor, going to the senate, back to the house then to Governor Abbott’s desk.
And another post from this group:
My sons in HS first year, when or how many state tests is he going to have to take in HS?
He is special ED. He is on the spectrum and has ADHD
I tried to refuse in the past and was
Told I can’t or if I try if would be very difficult.
He called me today upset saying he failed 8th grade English and he’s stupid ????. The stress put on theses kids is breaking my heart. We reside in the
Williamson Co Austin area. Thank you !!!
And some replies to this post:
What are they telling him at school about 8th grade and “failing”? They have no business talking about that. He is in 9th now!!
My son is also in 9th and I know how much your heart breaks when school makes them feel “less than”.??
I can write a book on how many ways and times he has been let down by schools. You name it, he has been through it ?? we moved from NY to TX . I’ve had advocates and lawyers before. It amazes me how no one cares unless someone has a child with the same diagnosis or knows someone ??
I am still not understanding why they were talking with him about 8th grade English…
He’s not stupid (I know you know this). I have spent the last 7 years trying to undo the damage done to my son at school…all of these awful blows to their confidence and self esteem are so infuriating and unnecessary.
Texas is awful to kids with differences. Special education here is a sad joke. That’s why they’re being investigated by the feds.
agree. Texas is horrible for Sped kids. Our district has less than 4% Sped. They don’t want to help them even when they do have an iep.
turns out,they just starting taking him out of 3rd period to go to the cafeteria with other kids who failed English in the 8 th grade,( test) to work on their computers and pretty much study to get a better grade next time.( what he told me when he got home)
that is wrong on SO many levels!!
Did you give them permission to remove him from class for test prep? You don’t have to let him go…
It’s bullshit that they do that…they may as well have stood those kids up in front of the whole school and put a dunce cap. Even if making test results public wasn’t a violation of FERPA (it is), it is educational malpractice.
Are you planning to let him sit for STAAR?
I called my local representative, They said that you can ask for a grade placement committee to pass your son to the next level and it will not matter if he passes the STAAR or high school EOC’s test or not. They said the school wont tell you about that because they get graded for STAAR results too. My son cant keep testing over and over because he has Anxiety. He can do Math but not on that crazy test. My advice is to call you representative . My Senator is Kel Seliger. They have someone in their offices who handles all the Education stuff and can help you.
On a hunch, I was wondering if Harvard (which is itself Gates-funded)-funded BrainCo (the one developing the brain-scanners that the Chinese government plans to use on students) had some tie in with Massachusetts-based and Gates-funded Boston Consulting Group. After doing a DuckDuckGo search on the two groups, I found that BrainCo and Boston Consulting Group were working together to develop smart houses (no doubt as part of the globalist IoT scheme):
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