Corpus Christie’s Caller Times is a Mexican Democrat paper that never met a hand-out it didn’t like. So naturally, they would disagree with this mother that food and medicine isn’t a responsibility of government.
Sounds more like FDR's second bill of rights than the one in the Constitution.
Flour Bluff (TX) Parent Upset Over Lesson on Terrorism & Government (CSCOPE Curriculum)
KRIS TV (NBC Affiliate Corpus Christi, Texas) ^ | 3/20/2013 | Staff
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2999177/posts?q=1&;page=51
Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2013 2:02:57 AM by Paleo Conservative
Parents who love their children should never let them near the government schools.
Texas Mom Outraged After Finding Stunning Question About 9/11, Terrorism on Her Sons 5th Grade Test
Mar. 21, 2013 10:31pm Jason Howerton
A Texas mom is furious after discovering that her sons school is teaching students that the United States is partly to blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people.
Kara Sands, of Corpus Christi, Texas, took to her Facebook and posted photos of the test administered by Flour Bluff Intermediate School. The test reportedly covered content in a video fifth-grade students watched in class.
Of all the questions about the 9/11 attacks, Sands was most disturbed by question three:
Why might the United States be a target for terrorism? The answer? Decisions we made in the United States have had negative effects on people elsewhere.
Unsurprisingly, the stunningly controversial lesson plan is part of the CSCOPE curriculum system that has come under fire recently. The same system includes lessons asking students to design a flag for a new socialist nation and dubs the Boston Tea Party as an act of terrorism.
Im not going to justify radical terrorists by saying we did anything to deserve that over 3,000 people died, Sands told KRIS-TV.
The irate mother immediately contacted her sons principal and teacher and set up meetings with them. The school then reached out to the videos distributor, Safari Montage.
Representatives say they stand behind the video, but have already changed the corresponding quiz that may have caused confusion, according to the report.
Another worksheet on the Bill of Rights apparently names food and medicine as rights, not a personal responsibility, according to Sands. She said her sons answer was falsely marked wrong because he labeled food and medicine as the latter.
As a Texas parent, Sands said she is very concerned about what CSCOPE is teaching children. But the Flour Bluff Independent School District released a statement defending the use of CSCOPE.
Several parents are reportedly planning to bring the issue up during the next school board meeting on March 28 and Sands is encouraging more parents to get involved.
When I teach my children that you have to work hard and you have to earn a living and they go to school and learn something different I absolutely take issue with that, she added.
Read TheBlazes most recent report on CSCOPE, here.
Messages left by TheBlaze for Sands were not immediately returned. However, this story may be updated with additional information. When I teach my children that you have to work hard and you have to earn a living and they go to school and learn something different I absolutely take issue with that, she added.
My state senator Dan Patrick has been leading the investigation on CSCOPE. Here is what he posted on March 12th on FB as an update:
As most of you know I held a hearing on CSCOPE as one of my first actions as Chair of Senate Education in January. Since then I have been able to get the CSCOPE Board of Directors to agree to a number of things that were of concern to parents and legislators. One item was to turn over all of their lesson plans, 1600 in all, to the SBOE for full review. It will take several months or more. There ar...e 82 Social Study lesson plans just for Kindergarten and First Grade alone.
I have worked with the Commissioner of Education, Michael Williams to get the SBOE some help, they do not have paid staff, and with SBOE Chair Barbara Cargill on setting up a team of volunteer expert panels, as they do in textbook review.
Barbara is a terrific Chair of the SBOE and is taking on this big job. You may also know that Senator Campbell and I filed a bill to place CSCOPE, if it survives after the review, under permanent review by the SBOE.
We will have a hearing on that bill in early April. Here is the press release today from the State Board of Education.
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
March 11, 2013
Concerns have been raised by parents and educators about the CSCOPE curriculum management system. CSCOPE was created by 19 regional education service centers and is now used by more than 800 public school districts and private schools in Texas. The systems lesson plans, like all lesson plans, are not under the authority of the State Board of Education (SBOE). However, in response to growing public concern, legislative leaders have asked the SBOE to review CSCOPE content.
As a result, SBOE Chair Barbara Cargill has appointed an ad hoc committee to include SBOE members Marty Rowley, R-Amarillo; Mavis Knight, D-Dallas; Pat Hardy, R-Fort Worth; and Tom Maynard, R-Florence. She has also named three members of the CSCOPE governing board to the committee: John Bass, Region 16 in Amarillo, Clyde Steelman, Region 11 in Fort Worth and Elizabeth Abernethy, Region 7 in Kilgore. Marty Rowley will chair the committee. The first organizational meeting will occur in late March. All meetings will be posted as open to the public.
The chairs ad hoc committee will appoint review panels to examine the CSCOPE instructional content, beginning with social studies. A public process will solicit nominations for the review panels which will be composed of parents, educators, curriculum specialists, business professionals and other stakeholders.
Results of the review will be given to the CSCOPE governing board for its consideration. As the review is voluntarily and non-binding, it will be up to the CSCOPE governing board to decide whether to take any actions based on the results.
I believe this process will be of great benefit to everyone involved, especially the students, parents, teachers and citizens of Texas, said SBOE Chair Cargill. I thank concerned citizens for bringing this issue to light. All instructional materials must be easily accessible to parents, not only to reinforce learning at home but also to assure that quality, error-free content is taught in our classrooms.
Flour Bluff is not a place ive thought of in 33 years
I lived on SPID back then
Oddly enough my boys were shooting today and my 10 year old asked where i got the Smith and Wesson model 1000....technically a Remington 1100 with Smith markings
I said.... believe it or not a Grocery store in Corpus called H.E.B.
Are those still around?
100 bucks with 50 dollar grocery purchase......Jap made
Killed many a greenhead
They were amazed you could buy a gun somewhere like Publix or Harris Teeter
Flour Bluff is not a place ive thought of in 33 years
I lived on SPID back then
Oddly enough my boys were shooting today and my 10 year old asked where i got the Smith and Wesson model 1000....technically a Remington 1100 with Smith markings
I said.... believe it or not a Grocery store in Corpus called H.E.B.
Are those still around?
100 bucks with 50 dollar grocery purchase......Jap made
Killed many a greenhead
They were amazed you could buy a gun somewhere like Publix or Harris Teeter
Glenn Beck has commented loudly on this subject.
“Flour Bluff officials say Sands is the only parent to complain about the test specifically, but her post on facebook now has 1,662 likes.”
While it might be the case for one specific test, this is a CLASSIC Alinsky tactic, called ISOLATION. She and the other 57 parents complaining are EACH told they are the only ones complaining. I suspect, overall with CSCOPE, the schools are getting their fill of complaining parents...with each being told that every other parent is happy.
Until parents start to form independent “Parent Associations” and compare notes, they don’t stand a chance against these beasts.
Typical Texas teacher that I stumbled on looking for more CSCOPE stuff.
http://joewilson.tx.chi.schoolinsites.com/?PageName=TeacherPage&Page=6&StaffID=55294&CourseID=23792
You guys make the call as to whether public school is still the bargain you think it is...
Then homeschool them.
I have not been shocked by this sort of thing for many years. This kinda crap has been in our textbooks for DECADES! What is shocking is that parents rarely notice.
And this is why Obama won. We allow loathsome, treasonous groups like CSCOPE to poison the minds of the next generation of teachers and voters... with our tax money, more’s the outrage. Until we stop the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars (yes, you read that right) to internal enemies of the U.S. we will never again win an election.
Abolish Social Studies - Born a century ago, the pseudo-discipline has outlived its uselessness.
-excerpt:
Emerging as a force in American education a century ago, social studies was intended to remake the high school. But its greatest effect has been in the elementary grades, where it has replaced an older way of learning that initiated children into their culture with one that seeks instead to integrate them into the social group. The result was a revolution in the way America educates its young. The old learning used the resources of culture to develop the childs individual potential; social studies, by contrast, seeks to adjust him to the mediocrity of the social pack.Why promote the socialization of children at the expense of their individual development? A product of the Progressive era, social studies ripened in the faith that regimes guided by collectivist social policies could dispense with the competitive striving of individuals and create, as educator George S. Counts wrote, the most majestic civilization ever fashioned by any people. Social studies was to mold the properly socialized citizens of this grand future. The dream of a world regenerated through social planning faded long ago, but social studies persists, depriving children of a cultural rite of passage that awakened what Coleridge called the principle and method of self-development in the young.