Posted on 04/07/2013 5:06:32 AM PDT by wesagain
"State senators ask about multi-media presentation criticizing parents"
Members of the Texas Senate Committee on Education have asked representatives of the controversial “curriculum management system” called CSCOPE to explain why they targeted private citizens who have been critical of the program in a multi-media presentation delivered to superintendents and teachers in the state.
The Texas attorney general previously found that CSCOPE is a public entity, despite its organization as a non-profit, since it is composed of government-funded and government-organized Education Service Centers.
The centers previously held microfilm and videos for lease by classroom personnel around the state, and were slated to be defunded until CSCOPE arrived and gave them new roles.
State lawmakers said they wanted to know why a Powerpoint presentation given to educators across the state identified individual citizens who had expressed criticism of CSCOPE.
The presentation was given to CSCOPE schools in advance of a conference, highlighting those who are critics, an issue that now also is being argued before the attorney general.
Critics say since the individuals identified in the presentation were “witnesses,” the state law against “witness intimidation” should apply.
The presentation also spoke of a “shut-off” switch to address leaked lesson and other material that finds its way into public hands.
Meanwhile, studies presented by those giving testimony before the Senate committee showed CSCOPE’s own officers have doubts about CSCOPE’s viability and whether or not CSCOPE is working. A study conducted by Dawn Schuenemann, head of Education Service Center for Region No. 2, concluded that there were “no..........
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Conservative parents must take their children out of the public schools.
If they’re not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to do that, then they’re probably not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to take the country back, because the most important thing for the future of this country is for conservatives to get their kids OUT of the public schools.
The “public school” is the Bus Ministry of the State Church of Humanism.
The “public school”, including the “charter school”, is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The “public school” is better understood as the “government school collective”.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is collectivist.
It is hypocritical to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. Children do not trust hypocrites, so this will undermine your own authority, let alone influence, with your children.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
To understand the content and compass of modern education, see ...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54400125/Change-Agents-in-the-Schools-Barbara-Morris-1979
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves your children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children better than you can.
Nobody knows your children better than you do.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!
Especially not with your own children.
And DO NOT TAKE GOVERNMENT “EDUCATION” MONEY!
He that pays the piper calls the tune, and that’s especially true for any government entitlement program.
Dr. Kathleen Berchelmann, a pediatrician with St. Louis Children's Hospital, posted a list of “18 Reasons Why Doctors and Lawyers Homeschool Their Children” earlier this week, and the response has stunned the doctor and hospital.
> These were not the stay-at-home-moms in long skirts that I
> expected. The face of homeschooling is changing. We are
> not all religious extremists or farmers, and our kids are
> not all overachieving academic nerds without social skills.
This person is a B-I-G-O-T.
She definitely could have left out this part of her article. It was insulting. Having said that, though, those of us who do homeschool and are religious are often marginalized by those more conservative than we are. We recently left a homeschool group because we weren’t conservative enough for them. Now we’re very conservative, but I wear pants, don’t cover my head in Mass, and that was considered liberal in that group.
The socialization line is stupid and anyone who homeschools knows it’s bull. However, many people outside of the homeschool world believe it so maybe she is trying to meet them where they are? I don’t know. I do know that many people who don’t homeschool were posting this article on facebook and responding positively about homeschooling. Maybe this approach works to get some people to recognize their stereotypes and move on from them.
With Gov Perry forcing young girls to get STD vaccines, overriding the ban on TSA, and in state tuition for illegal aliens, and, now, this...Texas maybe isn’t the conservative utopia being made out to be
You are correct, but that’s what I like about her blog entry. First, and ironically, she may entice like-minded bigots to open their minds about home-schooling; second, many persons of moderate opinions may conclude: If not only conservatives, but also close-minded liberals can love home-schooling, there must be something really good about it.
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