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The Texas Textbook Wars have often made national news. The ELECTED State Board of Education (SBOE) would review textbooks and decide whether they met Texas standards. If they did, then they would be "adopted" by the state, and the state would pay for their use in any school district that choose the book. Districts were also free to use other textbooks, but they would have to pay for them. So districts almost always took the adopted books. In many cases, the education establishment HATED the books, because they were traditional, said good things about the United States, and didn't play-up non-contributions of under-represented minorities.

This is one of the FREAKIEST things I've ever seen, as you're about to see...

What happened was that the people running our schools, yes, even in Texas, did not like being subjected to the ELECTED SBOE when it came to textbooks, and they didn't have the money to pay for "more progressive" materials, so they were stuck in a bind

So, now, comes CSCOPE, put together by an organization paid for by the schools (collectively). They come out with SECRET materials that only teachers are permitted to see, and guess what - 80% of the Texas schools adopt CSCOPE over the course of about 4 years, right under the nose of everyone.

They basically neutered the entire textbook selection process and all accountable state-level control, because CSCOPE is paid for by the schools (yes, the wonderful schools that many of you send little Johnny to), and thus never reviewed by the SBOE. They charge the schools $7 per student, which is something they can afford (as compared to buying "progressive" textbooks, for more like $100 per student).

As the article mentions, parents must sign a non-disclosure agreement, risking CRIMINAL PENALTIES if they permit CSCOPE materials to leave their reach. It is all done via Internet (now you can understand why there was such a rush to wire-up the schools). Kids have NO TEXTBOOKS, parents have NO MATERIALS to help their kids learn, and being virtual, the curriculum can (and does) change at a moment's notice, especially when bad things about the content manage to get disclosed.

This is the best article that I've found on it, so far. Considering that 80% of the districts have adopted it, it makes it VERY DIFFICULT to not believe in conspiracies...but I'll keep trying, because the alternative is worse.

1 posted on 02/10/2013 7:43:37 PM PST by BobL
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To: BobL

BUMP


2 posted on 02/10/2013 7:47:20 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: BobL

This is all sustainable development...UN crap. You can thank GW Bush for a lot of this. He perpetuated it with “No child left behind.”


3 posted on 02/10/2013 7:51:20 PM PST by I got the rope
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To: BobL

Homeschool your kids people...at all cost.


4 posted on 02/10/2013 7:52:24 PM PST by I got the rope
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To: BobL

Pshaw. whatever.

If they knew what to do in the ‘50s to educate our kids enough to know how to figure out how to get to the Moon - oh, and back - how to figure out pcs, computers, tv, special effects, commercial air travel, architecture and construction, household convenience devices, cures, diagnoses and treatments of every kind of disease and malady known, military aresenals unbeatable, then what ever the F they’re doing in education now which appears to be determined to confuse IS, in fact devised to do just that. Just get out of it. Stay home and educate your own kids. what is it going to take to figure that out?


6 posted on 02/10/2013 7:54:09 PM PST by stanne
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To: BobL; betty boop; marron; Alamo-Girl; little jeremiah; metmom; xzins; GodGunsGuts; Fichori; ...

Another reason for the separation of School and State BEEP.


7 posted on 02/10/2013 7:54:57 PM PST by YHAOS
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To: metmom; wintertime

One for the history books (or should I say website), how the schools in Texas did a near-complete END-AROUND of the State Board of Education.

We’re just now uncovering it...unreal.

(I know, I know, MY public schools is better than that. I know the teachers of the school that MY KID goes to. We go to church together, they would never support anything like that....well, it’s almost a clean sweep here, just 20% of the schools are holding out against this [likely] Federally run takeover)


8 posted on 02/10/2013 7:56:54 PM PST by BobL
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To: BobL

I tell you what we for darn sure have textbooks and books are by far superior to the plasticity of online content.


9 posted on 02/10/2013 7:58:16 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: BobL

“It organized each day’s classroom topics — minute to minute — and provided scripted talking points and lessons.”

Before everyone gets too bent out of shape, the answer is in the sentence above.

Even here in Texas, we have jackasses that end up in front of a classroom full of kids. They have liberal ideas, or militant feminist ideas, or some other kind of wacko secular humanist BS they want to push. And that’s what they doing during their class. They send everyone away with a B and sleep confident that they are “making a difference.”

All of the testing schemes are attempts to make these idiots stick to a program and teach what they are actually supposed to be teaching. Firing them and running them out of the teaching profession would be the best solution. But thanks to teacher’s unions, that is all but impossible.


10 posted on 02/10/2013 7:58:16 PM PST by I cannot think of a name
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To: BobL
Texas CSCOPE Review

CSCOPE teaches Allah is God

CSCOPE Promotes Communism

CSCOPE World History Islamic Propaganda-1

13 posted on 02/10/2013 8:05:55 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: BobL

Oh please. The overpriced, overweight textbook system is a dinosaur that needs to die.


15 posted on 02/10/2013 8:08:08 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: BobL
Great article. It quotes actual teachers who've tried teaching this CSCOPE/Agenda 21 crapola. Some teachers began voicing their concerns on chat boards and then confronted the TEA (meeting minutes are linked at article).

One retiree said she thinks it's part of a greater plan to purposely "dumb down" the curriculum -- and kids -- and then bring about a *national* curriculum. Isn't that convenient?

If I'm understanding the numbers correctly, CSCOPE receives about $7/kid for 3 million who are "contracted"....that's $21 million - of OUR tax $$ - going to CSCOPE to indoctrinate our kids!!

23 posted on 02/10/2013 8:24:10 PM PST by Jane Long
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To: BobL; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; AliVeritas; ..

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

This is another one of those must see topics, so I'm pinging out both lists.

While this is certainly a GREAT reason to homeschool, homeschoolers need to be aware of what their children are being protected from, especially if they are considering sending their children to public school for any reason.

27 posted on 02/10/2013 8:39:07 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: BobL; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; AliVeritas; ..

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

This is another one of those must see topics, so I'm pinging out both lists.

While this is certainly a GREAT reason to homeschool, homeschoolers need to be aware of what their children are being protected from, especially if they are considering sending their children to public school for any reason.

28 posted on 02/10/2013 8:40:14 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: BobL; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; AliVeritas; ..

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

This is another one of those must see topics, so I'm pinging out both lists.

While this is certainly a GREAT reason to homeschool, homeschoolers need to be aware of what their children are being protected from, especially if they are considering sending their children to public school for any reason.

30 posted on 02/10/2013 8:41:02 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: BobL
We home schooled our daughter for 11 of 12 years. We already have one of the finest systems of learning right now. It's called ABEKA and Saxon math. Just copy that and teach them discipline with it and they will be ready for college at 16.

Stop trying to change what we already know works.

43 posted on 02/11/2013 12:58:31 AM PST by chuckles
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To: BobL
I think it might be even worse than what's covered here. Some parents were told it was ILLEGAL to tell them what was in the lessons. It seems to me that the liberal educators realize that Texas is a conservative state, so they are moving as quickly as possible to indoctrinate the students into the liberal cult. Who knows what it will be like in a decade when they start to vote en-mass.
48 posted on 02/11/2013 6:11:40 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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