Posted on 05/14/2014 4:26:53 PM PDT by taildragger
Under a new program implemented by education czar Arne Duncan, employees from the federal department of education will be placed in schools throughout the nation to oversee their operations and ensure they’re following federal guidelines and procedures. This doesn’t sound so horrible, until you remember that the federal government isn’t supposed to have any hand in education and they’re continually telling us that their role is ‘limited’.
(Excerpt) Read more at tellmenow.com ...
From the website, the PAF’s are principles from the schools, not federal agents placed in the schools.
Sure they are. And it’s “principals”.
sorry about the typo, but if you actually read the website, this fellowship is for principals. They apply for the program, and are still principals. They do not become “federal agents,” nor are federal agents placed in schools.
I brought this up when they started showing the Common Core videos in 2011.
“Who is going to observe me?”
“No one.”
“But on the video, they had someone observing a teacher and giving feedback. I’m not letting anyone other than administration, teachers, parents or students in my room.”
“We don’t think anyone will come in your room.”
“If they do, I’ll throw them out because it’s completely against FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act).”
“Uh...ok...”
I knew that this would happen year ago and everyone thought I was some crazy idiot for positing that this was a way to get the DoE off their cushy DC butts and into a direct authoritarian role in the public schools.
MARK MY WORDS, in a year they will report their findings back about horrible conditions and Obama will either issue an order or congress will pass a bill giving them AUTHORITY TO WARN AND THEN FIRE any teacher they see as “lacking.”
All of the graded papers on my desk constitute “personally identifiable records” of my students, and I am unable to disclose them to a third party without the parents consent. They can go suck eggs until they get every parent to sign a waiver to allow a federal worker see their kids’ records, because of FERPA.
Again, that is not what the article says the program is. But I guess why bother actually reading things when we can just react to a headline? It does make things a lot easier. Sorry for asking for reading comprehension, it was foolish of me to do so.
Federal Gov’t Issues Warning to State That Wants to Opt Out of Common Core
Hey, thanks for the insult. It makes what ever argument you were attempting so much more effective.
(And by the way - the videos in 2011 that were shown to teachers showed people from the DoE observing teachers, so...)
EXACTLY the word I thought of when I first read the article. I never thought I would have lived to see America get this bad. If this article is true. If it isn't, give it 3 years. They'll get it done under Hillarytm.
Bookmark.
political officers in newsrooms AND govt indoctrination centers. barry’s really not hiding going full commie anymore.
It’s unbelievable to me that anyone on FR would begin to defend ANYTHING about CommieCore.
I found this article that backs up the Fed agents being placed in our schools. Lots of good, additional info...like the funding for this program, etc. Looks like this article was from Jan. 2014.
http://missourieducationwatchdog.com/principal-ambassadors-federal-agents-in-our-schools/
If the GOP controls all of Congress and wins POTUS in 2016, one of the early acts should be to abolish the Dept. of Ed. and other Depts./regulatory bureaus like the NLRB, EPA, etc. Even if Labor, Energy, Interior, et al, are kept they should be severely reduced in personnel and restricted in major ways to prevent their overreaching. Same goes for DOJ, which requires a major overhaul and reduction of personnel, as well as the very overstaffed Federal judicial system spread throughout the States.
Education decisions belong with the States (10th Amendment).
In what way am I defending it? All I’m saying is that the program is not what this article and/or headline makes it out to be. Nor is the cited blog any different. Let’s criticize things on what they actually are, not what an attention grabbing headline purports them to be. We have to be better than click-bait.
I’ve read your previous posts supporting/defending CommieCore. The program appears to be exactly “what the headline makes it out to be”. I provided a link to another story/source to back up this headline.
Bring in the OBAMA SS agents, the politiical officers who will be the wet interface to remove citizen freedoms.
There will be Common Core fed SWAT teams on call, hell they have bought millions of rounds of ammo.
That’s ok, they will NEVER come to the schools that my kids go to. How do I know that? Why because our schools are DIFFERENT, they are not run by those crazy people that seem to control just about every other school. In fact, I even saw one of the teachers in a grocery store - she is even human!
(how FReepers rationalize sending their kids to public schools, despite what they read every day here)
BC...
I posted the original title with a question mark to get feedback of all types here on FR. Thank you for clarity and a gut check on this. Quite frankly, I am getting a little leery of some of the news sources on the Conservative side of the ledger. I am and hopefully many here are question everything, does it pass some sort of a smell test if you will.
The question should now be who is paying for the "Fellowship" i.e. Federal Funds and is that truly a good use of Yellen-Printed Dollars....
Struggle, thanks for the feedback and contribution...
“So parents, all citizens of the USA who believe in the Constitution, our Liberty and Freedom, what are you going to do about “commie corpse?”
I have very frank discussions with my children about what is happening; they won’t be blind to the dangers.
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