Posted on 03/21/2013 9:04:13 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
CORPUS CHRISTI -- Many parents check their children's school work to make sure they're getting good grades, but how often to you check the content of those lessons? One mother of a child in Flour Bluff ISD says when she did, she was shocked that lesson taught her son to blame the United States for the 9/11 attacks.
Kara Sands posted the test on her facebook page and it began to spread like wildfire. The test covers content watched on a video in class. What bothered her most is question #3 on the test. It asks why the U.S. may be a target for terrorism. Her son chose the correct answer - 'decisions we made in the United States that negatively impact people elsewhere.'
"I'm not going to justify radical terrorists by saying we did anything to deserve that, over 3,000 people died," Sands said. She contacted her son's principal and teacher, both met with her and contacted the video's distributor, Safari Montage.
Representatives say they stand behind the video, but have already changed the corresponding quiz that may have caused confusion.
Sands tells us the quiz opened her eyes to the content in lessons taught at the school. Her biggest concern is curriculum called CSCOPE.
Click here to read Flour Bluff ISD's response to the parent's concerns: 9/11 Curriculum, CSCOPE Curriculum
One worksheet on the Bill of Rights names food and medicine as rights, not personal responsibility. "He got marked wrong, because it is, it is our responsibility for shelter, its our responsibility for food for medicine, its not the government's responsibility," Sand said.
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.
Several parents plan to meet next week and Sands says school board members Shirley Thornton and Wade Chapman have requested the concerns be brought up in the next school board meeting. The agenda for the March 28th meeting is not yet posted to confirm the item.
Sands says parents need 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," Sands said.
Link to Video
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
My local schools use CSCOPE. There was a candidate running for re-election campaigning out there today, I didn’t take a sign.
Parents who love their children should never let them near the government schools.
We need to pool all the info about left-wing propaganda in the CSCOPE curriculum. They’ve used fear of criminal indictments and lawsuits to prevent the public from analyzing the curriculum.
Kara’s state representative is Rep. Todd Hunter’s (TXH-32). He is the chairman of the calendar committee. He has quite a bit of power to make CSCOPE reform a high priority. Furthermore Kara is a long time Republican activist in Nueces county. She’s known Todd Hunter for years, well before he decided to try to return to the legislature in 2008 after serving a few terms in the late 80’s and early 90’s.
I think I’ll ask Todd about CSCOPE reform at the Nueces County Republican Party Lincoln Dinner next week. We’ll have a large crowd. US Senator Ted Cruz is the speaker.
Nothing that happens in publik skools should be secret from parents, NOTHING
I do not want it “reformed” I want it abolished
Texas Mom Outraged After Finding Stunning Question About 9/11, Terrorism on Her Son’s 5th Grade Test
Mar. 21, 2013 10:31pm Jason Howerton
A Texas mom is furious after discovering that her son’s 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.”
“I’m 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 son’s principal and teacher and set up meetings with them. The school then reached out to the video’s 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 son’s 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 TheBlaze’s 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 system’s 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 chair’s 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
More information:
AUSTIN- State Sen. Dan Patrick, in coordination with the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC), announces significant changes to the CSCOPE curriculum management system.
The TESCCC has worked with Patrick, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, and the State Board of Education (SBOE), to address concerns raised at a recent committee hearing on the CSCOPE system. The two parties have agreed to several immediate as well as forthcoming changes.
The changes that take effect immediately include:
•All future meetings of the TESCCC Governing Board, beginning with the February meeting, will be public with all the respective notice requirements being met.
•The TESCCC will begin a joint review process of all CSCOPE lessons with the SBOE beginning with Social Studies.
•Amendment of all Terms of Use Agreements, signed by both teachers and districts, removing civil or criminal penalties associated with the release of CSCOPE content.
•Clarifying that all teachers and districts may post any and all CSCOPE lessons that they deem necessary.
In addition to these immediate transparency and quality control changes, CSCOPE will also undergo structural, governance, and other changes, including:
•Ending the non-profit 501(c)3 arrangement that incorporates CSCOPE.
•Initiating the posting of CSCOPE lesson content to their public website.
•Creating a standing curriculum review panel, comprised of: parents, teachers, school administrators, members of the SBOE, and TESCCC board members.
Finally, CSCOPE is notifying all participating school districts that lessons are not intended to be taught verbatim, and the Governing Board generally recommends that local districts utilize CSCOPE lessons solely as a resource. Until CSCOPE lessons can be reviewed through a collaborative process with the SBOE and TESCCC, districts are strongly encouraged to review all lessons at the local level, to ensure that lessons are appropriate for their students.
They're not only still around, they're thriving and expanding all over Texas and into Mexico. They drove Albertson's out of south Texas. They are busy building their "HEB Plus" stores to compete with WalMart.
They have another upmarket store called "Central Market" in Austin and other larger cities in Texas to compete with Whole Paycheck (Whole Foods).
http://www.heb.com/find-a-store/store-details.jsp?storeId=57&flag=true&flagnew=false
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.
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