Posted on 05/20/2013 9:17:59 AM PDT by texas_mrs
TESCCC Board decides to end CSCOPE lesson plans
AUSTIN -- A letter signed by all 20 members of the Board released this morning (Monday, May 20) stated they will notify their 875 school district clients that all lesson plans will be removed from their website on August 31st, 2013 and that districts cannot use any lessons they currently have beyond that date. The August 31st date corresponds to the notice clause in their contracts with their districts. The letter goes on to say that the Regional Service Centers will not produce lesson plans in the future. The 20 Service Centers will return to their original business plan of providing a management tool for teachers to stay on schedule regarding the teaching of the required TEKS. The official vote will take place at an already scheduled Board meeting on Friday, May 24th.
(Excerpt) Read more at yourhoustonnews.com ...
The new lesson plans will now come out of the Teachers Union (SIEU)
or ot the National Education and Propaganda office
All of your children belong to the State.
I was born, reared, and raised in Pasa-getdown-dena... I can’t believe there’s another Freeper in the area... awesome!
Yay- we beat ‘em back!
Now to replace with something better NOT written by libs.
LOL! Sorry to disappoint! I live in Central Texas, Dublin to be exact, but the story is out of your area newspaper. I found out on Facebook, from a FB Page I’m linked to named TX CSCOPE REVIEW and they were linked to the article I posted here.
Patrick said he hopes school districts that used the system will be able to partner with larger districts if they need help developing a curriculum.
"<< http://www.nea.org/tools/17231.htm >>
Recommended Reading: Saul Alinsky, The American Organizer
A Resource for Every Organizer & Anyone Contemplating Action in Their Community
NEA recommends the following Saul Alinsky books to those members of our Association who are involved in grassroots organizing, especially Association Representatives (ARs) — also known as building reps or shop stewards — and leaders at local affiliates.
Saul Alinsky is widely recognized as the father of, and pre-imminent expert in, grassroots organizing, which is why we recommend that ARs and local leaders become familiar with his theories & materials.
Alinsky’s writings have been called the "mother’s milk of the left," however in an ironic homage, the conservative right has borrowed a page or two from the Alinsky playbook. Tea Party leader and self-described "conservative radical" Michael Patrick Leahy, for example, has authored a book based on Alinsky’s teachings: "Rules for Conservative Radicals."
We hope that ARs and local leaders of all political stripes will discern from Alinsky’s books grassroots organizing strategies that will best help us bring our members together around the common goal of improving public education.
Reveille for Radicals by Saul Alinsky Vintage; Reissue edition (October 23, 1989) Buy It
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky Vintage; Reissue edition (October 23, 1989) Buy It
Saul Alinsky wrote the book on American radicalism - two books, in fact: a 1945 best-seller, "Reveille for Radicals" and "Rules for Radicals" in 1971. The "Reveille" title page quotes Thomas Paine... "Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul."
Saul Alinsky, who was a labor and civil-rights activist from the 1910's until he died in 1972, has written here a guidebook for those who are out to change things. He sets down what the goal is: a society where people are free to live, and also aren't starving in the streets. A society where there is legal and economic justice. Then he sets out to say how to get there.
Alinsky spends a lot of time critiquing the idea that "The end does not justify the means." What end? What means? He feels that there are circumstances where one can and should use means that in other circumstances would be unethical. I am not sure I agree, but Alinsky certainly speaks with the voice of experience.
alinsky's goal seems to be to encourage positive social change by equipping activists with a realistic view of the world, a kind of preemptive disillusionment. If a person already knows what evil the world is capable of, then perhaps the surprise factor can be eliminated, making the person a more effective activist. Alinsky further seems to be encouraging the budding activist not to worry to much about getting his or her hands dirty. It's all a part of the job, he seems to say.
Alinsky, the master political agitator, tactical planner and social organizer didn't mince words... "Liberals in their meetings utter bold works; they strut, grimace belligerently, and then issue a weasel-worded statement 'which has tremendous implications, if read between the lines.' They sit calmly, dispassionately, studying the issue; judging both sides; they sit and still sit.
"The Radical does not sit frozen by cold objectivity. He sees injustice and strikes at it with hot passion. He is a man of decision and action. There is a saying that the Liberal is one who walks out of the room when the argument turns into a fight.
"Society has good reason to fear the Radical. Every shaking advance of mankind toward equality and justice has come from the Radical. He hits, he hurts, he is dangerous. Conservative interests know that while Liberals are most adept at breaking their own necks with their tongues, Radicals are most adept at breaking the necks of Conservatives.
"Radicals precipitate the social crisis by action - by using power. Liberals may then timidly follow along or else, as in most cases, be swept forward along the course set by Radicals, but all because of forces unloosed by Radical action. They are forced to positive action only in spite of their desires ...
"The American Radical will fight privilege and power whether it be inherited or acquired by any small group, whether it be political or financial or organized creed.
"He curses a caste system which he recognizes despite all patriotic denials.
"He will fight conservatives whether they are business or labor leaders.
"He will fight any concentration of power hostile to a broad, popular democracy, whether he finds it in financial circles or in politics.
"The Radical recognizes that constant dissension and conflict is and has been the fire under the boiler of democracy. He firmly believes in that brave saying of a brave people, "Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!"
"The Radical may resort to the sword but when he does he is not filled with hatred against those individuals whom he attacks. He hates these individuals not as persons but as symbols representing ideas or interests which he believes to be inimical to the welfare of the people.
"That is the reason why Radicals, although frequently embarking upon revolutions, have rarely resorted to personal terrorism."
Alinsky practiced what he preached. He said, "Tactics means doing what you can with what you have ... tactics is the art of how to take and how to give."
He uses eyes, ears and nose for examples...
Eyes
"If you have a vast organization, parade it before the enemy, openly show your power."
Ears
"If your organization is small, do what Gideon did: conceal the members in the dark but raise a clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more that it does."
Nose "If your organization is too tiny even for noise, stink up the place."
Alinsky devised and proved thirteen tactical rules for use against opponents vastly superior in power and wealth.
1. "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
2. "Never go outside the experience of your people.
3. "Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy.
4. "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
6. "A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
7. "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
8. "Keep the pressure on.
9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10. "Major premise for tactics is development of operations that will maintain constant pressure upon the opposition.
11. "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
12. "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
13. "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
"The real action is in the enemy's reaction. The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength. Tactics, like life, require that you move with the action."
Alinsky was hated and defamed by powerful enemies, proof that his tactics worked. His simple formula for success...
"Agitate + Aggravate + Educate + Organize" "
Enough Said !!
DIRECTLY , Right from the NEA website (3/01/11)
Texas Freedom Network attributed the end of the lesson plans to a “successful witch hunt,” saying that Monday’s announcement followed months of political pressure from Sen. Patrick and “Tea party and other activist groups who attacked the online tool for allegedly promoting anti-American, Marxist and pro-Islamic lessons.”“Today political bullying resulted in hundreds of school districts getting thrown under the bus and essentially told to figure out for themselves where to find the resources to replace the service CSCOPE had provided them. The big lesson here is that if you can generate a witch hunt that includes enough incendiary and distorted claims, then there are politicians at the Capitol who are ready to throw their supposed commitment to local control out the window,” a statement by TFN president Kathy Miller read.
Asked how he responded to the allegations of a witch hunt, Patrick said, “I don’t respond to absurd charges.”
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SO , dont trust your children to NEA , unless you want them to become revolutionaries.
We should thank my friends Kara Sands and Michelle Smith for their work in lobbying against CSCOPE. They testified at numerous legislative committee meetings at the Texas Capitol in the last few months.
Hallelujah! CScope is propaganda!
I’m so glad to hear this!!!!!
The home of Dr. Pepper.
Well, it WAS the home of Dublin Dr. Pepper, the only bottler to contiunue using real sugar instead of fructose or whatever. However, the owners of the business were selling it beyond their agreed boundaries, or at least, employees of the company were. Eventually, dealers in the affected areas complained and a lawsuit was launched. When the dust had settled. the owners of the local company got several million dollars in a settlelment, several innocent employees lost their jobs and the town lost it’s biggest tourism draw. The plant is still there and so is the Dr. Pepper museum, but only Dr. Pepper Corporation bottles the drink with real sugar now. It seems it was an excellent idea that only Dublin was following and now Dublin cannot at all. They do bottle other drinks still. But the huge town bash we had each year had it’s attendance cut in half the last time we held it.
And now I only drink root beer.
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