Posted on 12/04/2021 4:47:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Now, more than ever, parents must become active participants in their child’s education. Here’s what you need to know.
Your Child’s Teacher
Educators play an integral role in what and how kids learn. Unsurprisingly, teachers have a tremendous impact on student success, including academic development and learning outcomes. But, educators also play a crucial role in the development of non-cognitive skills; they teach social skills such as teamwork, character traits such as self-discipline, organization, or staying on task. Educators are positioned to influence your child’s belief system; the way they think and what they believe.
Parental Involvement
Parents are the first line of defense for their child. They know their child’s individual needs, and have the authority to determine what their child will be taught; the foundational values, morals and principles that will form their child’s core beliefs. In order to make such decisions, parents must know and understand the information taught in schools. That means developing a positive relationship with their child’s educator. A Parental involvement is also key to student success. Studies have shown that parents who are engaged and work cooperatively with teachers significantly improve educational attainment of children—including children’s attitudes about school, higher grades and increased long-term educational outcomes.
What Can Parents Do? ASK QUESTIONS
Given the tremendous impact teachers have on your children—and the racial and political division in our public schools, parents must get involved in entirely new ways. Here are five questions to ask your child’s teacher to ensure you understand the instruction your child is receiving.
1. What do you most hope to accomplish in my child’s classroom this year?
Get to know the primary goals of your child’s teacher. Ask questions that allow educators to answer and provide insight into their personal and professional goals. Learn what he or she wants to accomplish this year—and how they are going to accomplish it.
2.How much do you emphasize, both in daily instruction and in interactions with students, your own personal views?
Ask questions that provide information about how your teacher approaches educating your child. You want to know how your teacher views his or her role in the classroom. You want to know what the teacher believes about the appropriate way to engage with students in the classroom. This information reveals how the educator approaches classroom discussions, particularly in non-academic areas of instruction.
3. How do you ensure that classroom discussions about current events and social issues don’t force students to accept positions they may personally disagree with?
Teachers often engage in discussions that pertain to current events. As we’ve seen in a number of recent examples, this can sometimes include imposing specific beliefs on students—or requiring students to accept or ascribe to a particular viewpoint. Ask questions that reveal how educators convey information; whether they view themselves as neutral transmitters of information and create environments that allow for the open exchange of ideas.
4. How do you define equity and how do you work to ensure educational equity in your classroom?
Educational equity is a term that has evolved over the last decade. Educators define the term differently—and that is often impacted by school-level and district-level beliefs and initiatives. There is an appropriate and useful way to present and discuss issues involving racial equity, social justice and racial discrimination in the classroom. You want to know what information is presented to your child and how it’s presented.
5. How important is discussing race or social justice in your classroom and how do you incorporate these issues into classroom activities?
You want to know the extent to which your child’s teacher prioritizes ideological concepts into your child’s curriculum and classroom activities. This is another question that provides information about how your teacher—or even the school district—is prioritizing teaching ideologically-driven content or even incorporating such content into core academic areas such as history, English or mathematics.
Conclusion
Teachers are impactful and teaching is hard. You can develop a relationship with your child’s teacher that acknowledges their unique role—yet empowers you to make educational decisions for your child.
This may not work. You may have a teacher who refuses to provide this information; some teachers have been instructed by their school district not to answer questions from parents. In those situations, you can and should seek information elsewhere; approach your child’s principal or superintendent; reach out to your locally elected school board members. But, engaging with your child’s teacher should be the first step.
Ask a liberal teacher these questions and they’ll lie through their teeth.
Or they’ll tell you the truth and then have you hauled in for “verbal assault” with the intent to hurt feelings.
I would tell my grandkids to ask “ May I be dismissed from this indoctrination camp?”
My children were taught to say “here is what you want me to learn” and” here is the truth.” Two of them are now full time teachers who love teaching and love to see their students learn and regularly pray over their students in private of course.
Virginia’s clean sweep—— GOP Wins Gov, Lt Gov & AG, sailing to victory based on parental frustration with Critical Race Theory, LGBTQ pornographic materials, and LGBTQ bathroom policies in schools.
CLEAN SWEEP: Virginia GOP Wins Gov, Lt Gov & AG
National File web site ^ | November 2, 2021 | TOM PAPPERT
Posted on 11/3/2021, 12:09:43 AM by RicocheT
Virginia Republicans win big based on promises to replace leftist brainwashing with pro-America education.
With massive same day voting advantages, Republicans will be Virginia’s next governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general in a rebuke of Democrats, and specifically, their radically anti-American and racist education policies. Republican Glenn Youngkin sailed to victory by more than 10 percentage points when the race was called, beating McAuliffe by 55.1% to the loser Democrat’s 44.3% of the vote. Fringe candidate Princess Blanding received 0.7% of the vote.
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Parents Go After Union Stranglehold on School Boards
Townhall.com ^ | November 10, 2021 | Betsy McCaughey
Posted on 11/10/2021, 8:23:31 AM by Kaslin
Parents who never imagined running for office battled to win seats on local school boards last week; they won some, but lost many. Their fiercest opponents were the teachers unions.
The media portrayed these school board races as culture wars, but more than anything they were struggles by parents to wrest control of the boards from self-serving unions. For decades, the unions have maintained a tight grip on who gets elected. No wonder school district decisions — about budgets, masking, COVID closures, curriculum and teacher contracts — protect teachers first. Never mind what’s best for kids.
That needs to change. Albuquerque, New Mexico, winning candidate Courtney Jackson told a local newspaper, “the board of education should be the kids’ union,” not a puppet of the teachers union. Jackson decided to run after watching the board discuss when to end lockdowns. The discussion focused entirely on what teachers wanted, never addressing the kids’ needs. “Their interests were not brought up once,” she said.
In Guilford, Connecticut, a small seacoast town, the Guilford Education Association, representing teachers, ran the show. In a questionnaire for school board candidates, the union’s No. 1 question asked candidates to pledge support for “collective bargaining rights.” Question two asked candidates to guarantee unions will be included in all discussions of the schools’ policies and funding. Question three asked candidates to promise to “oppose all proposals that would censor teachers from teaching about inclusion, diversity, and equity.” What about the kids?
All five Guilford candidates who gave the “correct” answers won the union’s backing and prevailed on election night. Their slogan was “Protect Guilford Schools,” but their true goal was “Protect the Teachers Union.” One of the winners boasted of coming from “a long line of educators,” while another promised, “I will listen to our teachers, administrators, and superintendent and respect that they act always in the best interest of our students and schools.”
Nearly everywhere, teachers unions use money and manpower to turn out voters. Challengers need to do the same. The three Albuquerque school board candidates who defeated the union slate went to the local chamber of commerce, other small business groups and Republican party allies for alternate sources of money.
When the results were in, the president of the Albuquerque Teachers Federation predicted “a new dynamic on the board,” with some members actually disagreeing with the school district’s employees. Imagine that.
In Colorado’s cities, including Denver and Steamboat Springs, union slates won handily. But in Douglas County, Aurora County and Greeley Evans School District 6, challengers outspent the union and broke its monopoly on school board seats.
After union-backed candidates were defeated in Douglas County, Kevin DiPasquale, president of the local chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, predicted big changes. In the past, teachers could just assume the school board “had their backs.”
In Montclair, New Jersey, the mayor, Sean Spiller, serves as president of the state’s largest teachers union but also appointed the school board — a blatant conflict of interest. The board negotiates the teachers’ contract. Last Tuesday, the town voted 70% in favor of replacing mayoral control with an elected board.
That’s an improvement, but electing the board won’t guarantee students become the priority. In New Jersey, the teachers union wields enormous electoral power with the support of Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.
Although school board elections are often officially labelled nonpartisan, that’s intentionally misleading. In Tennessee and Florida, Republican state lawmakers are pushing legislation to discard the nonpartisan label so voters can see these elections for what they are.
Last week’s elections were just the beginning. Many school districts will elect board members sometime in the spring, instead of on Election Day. That’s by design to keep the public in the dark that an election is even happening, and to discourage turnout.
Parents and other concerned citizens have roughly half a year to gird for these upcoming contests. For anyone who has a child in public school, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
HERE’S A BLUEPRINT PARENTS CAN USE TO STIFLE CRT
FR POSTED Leaked Audio Reveals How California Teachers Recruit Kids Into LGBTQ Clubs
After the leaked audio was made public, Supt. Tarallo, SUSD President McDougall and Kate
Pagaran, Buena Vista Middle School principal, issued a letter addressed to the “SUSD Community:”
<><>the gay indoctrination club “UBU (You Be You)” has been suspended.
<><>“Any future student clubs will be required to submit an outline of all activities and materials before being allowed to meet,” the letter states.
<><>“Student sign-in sheets will be maintained and parent/guardian permission slips sent home prior to a club holding a meeting.”
<><> “all messaging shared in the morning announcements” will be controlled and distributed by the principal, a practice that “will be in place permanently.”
<><>SUSD states clearly: “Teachers are prohibited from monitoring students’ online activity for any non-academic purpose.”
<><>SUSD will follow state-approved standards and curriculum on all presentations involving “sensitive themes such as sexuality”
<><> “materials of any sensitive themes will be shared with parents/guardians before being shown to students.”
SOCIAL INDOCTRINATION PROGRAMS (CRT, SEL) uses schools to groom kids for homos and pedophiles.
Bidung’s calculated giveaway of tax dollar trillion earmarked as “COVID-relief money” is a massive leftist slush fund:
<><> to buy SEL programs
<><> to fund SEL instructors
<><> to fund advocates and companies that produce the materials
<><> to lobby Congress and the federal Department of Education
<><>to ensure legislative language precisely matches what they’re selling.
Nationwide, sales of SEL materials shot up 45% in a year and a half to $765 million in 2021, reports Education Week.
But the left is angry b/c parental opposition is also surging. Attorney General Merrick Garland asked the FBI to look into parents protesting issues like SEL at school board meetings, .....labeling parents “domestic terrorists.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s son-in-law is a co-founder of Panorama Education, a company raking in millions selling SEL materials to school districts.
Conflict of interest? And how.
After VA Elections, Democrats Heard the anti-CRT Message. They Just Don’t Care.
Townhall.com ^ | November 30, 2021 | Sean Spicer
Posted on 11/30/2021, 6:54:32 AM by Kaslin
On November 2nd Conservatives across the country celebrated as we watched Republicans sweep the top three statewide offices in Virginia, among several other shocking victories on election night.
This was a resounding defeat of Democrats’ radical, progressive agenda and Americans delivered their message loud and clear: The Democrats have radicalized and pushed too far with their agenda. Despite clear warning signs that Democratic politicians are out of touch with the average American and focused only on the elites in the weeks leading up to these elections, the usual suspects at CNN and MSNBC blamed the results on racism and privilege, all while denying any wrongdoing by the Democrats.
Instead, they praised the Democrats’ messaging and insisted they need to double down on their progressive, failing platform.-—SNIP-—
Public school ‘purges’ Christian authors from library
http://www.wnd.com/ ^ | Sept 27, 2014 | BOB UNRUH
Posted on 9/29/2014, 10:29:19 AM by Whenifhow
A charter school in Southern California is facing the threat of a lawsuit for “purging” Christian books from its library.
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....Brad Dacus told WND that among the books was “The Hiding Place,” the story of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch woman sent to a prison camp by the Nazis of World War II for helping Jews escape.
Dacus said PJI’s legal team and the district have exchanged letters already.
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Strictly religious books, such as the Bible or the Quran, routinely are on library shelves, he argued.
Dacus said an immediate correction of the school’s policy would prevent a lawsuit.
“It is alarming that a school library would attempt to purge books from religious authors,” he said. “Indeed, some of the greatest literature of Western Civilization comes from people of faith. Are they going to ban the sermons or speeches of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? What about the Declaration of Independence that invokes the laws of nature and nature’s God.”
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....Todd Starnes said it’s “hard to imagine that any school would have a problem with a book about a Christian family that helped Jews escape the Holocaust.”
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A PJI letter to the public school said a parent “was told by one of the library attendants that the library has been instructed to remove all books with a Christian message, authored by Christians, or published by a Christian publishing company.”
“The attendant advised that the library would no longer be carrying those books. Indeed, our client was told that the library was giving those books away, and she actually took some.”
PJI attorney Michael Peffer had sent the school a cease-and-desist letter, citing long-established Supreme Court precedent that strongly disapproves of school libraries removing books based on opposition to their content or message.
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Mom Reports School To Police For Promoting Gay Porn Book To Children
The Federalist ^ | OCTOBER 12, 2021 | Spencer Lindquist
Posted on 10/12/2021, 10:58:19 AM by Mount Athos
A concerned mom says she’s filed a police report against North Kingstown High School in North Kingstown, Rhode Island for promoting a book with gay pornography to minors in the school library.
The pornographic book was published by Lion Forge Comics and is titled “Gender Queer: A Memoir.” It was authored and illustrated by Maia Kobabe, who uses the made-up pronouns of e/em/eir and whose work focuses on “anti-fascism,” according to a description on Amazon.
Nicole Solas, a resident of South Kingstown and mom of a kindergartener, posted a picture of the book in a display case on Twitter and highlighted the pornographic images contained between the covers. Solas also posted an image of the typed-out report that she says she sent to police, writing that she is submitting “evidence of distribution of pornography at North Kingstown High School” and that the book was made “available to minor children.”
“Gender Queer” is also highlighted in the library of East Greenwich High School, another school in Rhode Island, prompting Solas to call for the prosecution of the school employees who are responsible for its distribution.
The book, which is currently ranked no. 11 in Amazon’s “LGBTQ+ Graphic Novels” section, features discussion of gay sexual fantasies and is incredibly graphic, including scenes of gay men having sex and a scene of one man performing oral sex on another.
It also focuses on “bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction,” and is intended for those aged “16 years and up” according to its Amazon description. As one reviewer points out, the book gets even more disgusting in a scene where a young person (who appears to be a boy but is suggested to have female organs) is encouraged by her sister to “taste” herself.
The book was even given the “Alex Award” in 2020 by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a subdivision of the American Library Association. The award is specifically given out to books that “have special appeal” to those “ages 12 through 18.”
Further, the School Library Journal, which describes itself as “the premiere publication for librarians and information specialists who work with children and teens” and as “the largest reviewer of kid & [young adult] content,” even dubbing the pornographic book a “great resource” in a glowing quote that is used to advertise the book on Amazon.
The graphic art style of the book also appears to intentionally appeal to a young audience, with several one-star reviews noting the book is marketed to children but includes pornography. One reviewer wrote that the book “can be found in public libraries in the teen section which is disgusting,” while a different poster asked “Why is it in the teen section of public libraries?” Yet another reviewer tore into the book, writing, “Minors depicted in sex acts. This book is for grooming young people to be victims of [pedophilia].”
Even though the book is marketed to children and teens and placed in library sections designated for those ages, Patreon warns visitors to Kobabe’s page that the content is intended for those 18 and up.
Far from being an isolated incident, this case is just one more example of K-12 schools pushing LGBT ideology on students and the left attempting to normalize pedophilia and intentionally exposing children to peddlers of pornography and nudity in the name of tolerance.
The School Library Journal, Principal Morse, and assistant principals Finkelstein and Anderson of North Kingstown High School, as well as Superintendent Auger of the North Kingstown School Department, did not respond to requests for comment.
Townhall writer totally buys into the “equity” ruse.
Interesting.
Most of the problems don't exist at the teacher level. This is especially true of discipline. For instance, Fort Worth ISD has a problem with a few of its inner-city schools being absolutely out of control with crime. But, they are not allowed to address this problem because the Texas Education Agency has determined that they have "over-identified" minorities as discipline problems,and already fined them 7 million dollars for expelling and/or moving too many minorities to alternative discipline campuses.
Trust me, I am on the front lines. There are more right wing teachers than you know. We’re just in deep cover — further, we do our best to advocate for the parents and the students.
A few weeks ago, I had a student come after me for very tactfully re-directing her back to classwork after she began to pontificate on transrights.
She was so livid that I didn’t worship at the altar of trans (by simply suggesting that the purpose of class was to work on our reading skills) that she complained to Mommy. Mommy wrote an indignant letter demanding my head on a pike for pushing my right wing politics in the class and all I said was, simply, “Hey, now is not the time, let’s get back to our reading.”
Girl is 12, a self proclaimed “Tireless supporter of Trans Rights...” and reads at a second grade level. Crazy lib mom is the one who’s indoctrinating.
Just ask:
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a communist?”
K-12 schooling is a big, fat, juicy pimple that needs to be squeezed from every side.
Sending a child into a K-12 school is like asking them to swim in a pus filled swimming pool.
Ping for later.
I live in VA. Best thing to happen here in 20 years to have Youngkin et al in!
Good for you.
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