The PAF’s will be provided free of charge to the schools and will work alongside their administrations to ensure that they understand federal policies and guidelines, acting more like Common Core police than assistants. They’ll spend 20 hours a week in the schools and according to the website will “spend time gaining greater knowledge of the content of key federal programs and policies, in addition to the context and process by which they are designed and implemented.” In other words make sure that they’re doing what the federal government wants them to do.
With schools cutting back on administrative positions as their budgets fall short of their needs, such a program will be seen more as the government trying to provide needed assistance rather than for what it is, a backdoor way to get federal employees in every school across the country to ensure uniformity in their curriculum. After all, these federally paid employees will also be federally trained so how can we believe they won’t all be pushing the same policies?
Included within the Omnibus bill is funding for local federal offices for the agents to report to. The Student Success Act is what allows the federal government to stretch its tentacles out and reach in to our schools, something it’s not supposed to do and congress should have stopped. However they’re allowing this overreach and agreeing with the premise that the feds know what’s best for all, even though our nation was founded on the exact opposite ideals and promotes local government and individualism rather than a powerful central government and collectivism.
With federal agents always present, do you really think that administrators and teachers will criticize federal programs or talk about their shortcomings? No, they won’t, and having these people in place like this will solidify the common core curriculum nationwide, dumbing down our students and teaching revisionist history so that there’s less opposition to the radical agenda that progressives want. You can put your money on the fact that these will start out in the struggling schools as well so that some level of ‘success’ can be noted and the program can spread.
Folks what do you know about this topic and the website, No Author has me leery....
Sounds like the presence of political officers that make sure that the party line is followed.
Very scary.
IMHO
/johnny
This is getting crazier and crazier all the time
The soviet apparatchiks will ensure the Fuhrer’s diktats are followed.
And who is this Obama guy?
Yeah, I'm sure it's "free". Certainly not for the taxpayers.
The liberals are becoming more Nazi-like every day.
State lawmakers will also need to anticipate retaliatory threats of loss of federal funding for intrastate schools from non-elected federal bureaucrats concerning federal agent access to intrastate schools by doing the following. Intrastate schools need get up to speed with Justice John Marshall's official clarification of Congress limited power to lay taxes and use it to stop corrupt Congress from laying taxes which will be earmarked for subsidizing intrastate schools.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Communities need to simultaneously work with their intrastate schools to introduce classroom instruction to get students up to speed on the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood.
Finally, patriots need to work with their state lawmakers to amend Justice Marshall's statement to the Constitution where it will hopefully be a little less ignored.
Reason 437 to home school your kids. Or enroll them in a quality (read Christian) private school.
Can someone please help me out here?
Where, among the enumerated powers granted to the Federal Government, is there any authority whatsoever to send federal agents to schools in any sovereign state for any reason whatsoever?
Is there a special Amendment that was adopted and I just missed it?
From the website, the PAF’s are principles from the schools, not federal agents placed in the 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.
political officers in newsrooms AND govt indoctrination centers. barry’s really not hiding going full commie anymore.
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).
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)
where do I send my extra tax payment to pay for this great new service?