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Parents gain access to secret school curriculum
WorldNetDaily ^ | Feb 9, 2013 | John Griffing

Posted on 02/09/2013 5:53:56 PM PST by wesagain

AUSTIN, Texas – Parents of school children across Texas now are gaining access to a previously secret public school curriculum, according to an announcement from a state lawmaker.

The CSCOPE program, an online offering that until now has prohibited, under penalty of law, teachers from sharing the lessons with parents, stirred up controversy because of its various lessons – some that were taken offline after the questions arose.

Among those issues were that the curriculum at one point taught the Boston Tea Party was an act of terrorism and Christians were cannibals, and forced students to draw a socialist flag while imagining a new socialist country.

Teachers also would have been exposed to criminal penalties for sharing CSCOPE lesson content with parents, and educators were required to teach strictly from the CSCOPE lesson plan, without additions or changes.

But Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, whose Texas Senate Education Committee held a public hearing last week investigating CSCOPE, said there now have been “significant changes.”

The Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative, which owns CSCOPE, agreed to the following changes, effectively immediately, he said.

Those include: •All future meetings of the TESCCC governing board, beginning with the February meeting, will be public with all the respective notice requirements being met. •The TESCCC will begin a joint review process of all CSCOPE lessons with the SBOE beginning ...........

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 666; antichristian; arth; cannabalism; childrenofthestate; commoncore; cscope; doelies; doerico; doevsamerica; doevshistory; doevsparents; education; indoctrination; leftismoncampus; noaccountability; notransparency; secretcurriculum; texaseducation; texasschools
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To: wesagain

How much more proof is needed of the insidiousness of public schools?


81 posted on 02/10/2013 4:28:44 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: wesagain

This is not a federal thing. This is a TEXAS program.

Check it out:

http://www.cscope.us/aboutus.html


82 posted on 02/10/2013 4:38:01 AM PST by Marie ("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
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To: Running On Empty

marking


83 posted on 02/10/2013 4:38:33 AM PST by Running On Empty (The three sorriest words: "It's too late")
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To: jeffc

When my kids were in the Texas public school system one of my main frustrations were that they weren’t allowed to bring textbooks home.

I wanted to teach them good study habits, but we could never get our hands on a book. If my kids needed to study, they had to come in at lunch or stay after school. The books were never allowed to leave the classroom.

I had NEVER heard of this in my life until they started high school in Texas. (We homeschooled grades k-8 and my son finished up his senior year with homeschool.)


84 posted on 02/10/2013 4:56:30 AM PST by Marie ("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
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To: Marie
that they weren’t allowed to bring textbooks home. I wanted to teach them good study habits, but we could never get our hands on a book.

Title and author is all you needed. You can ask a librarian to get it for you. I used to do that when I was a child of 10, and that was a long, long time ago. Nowadays you have internet, amazon, b&n, ebay...there are no excuses for these parents who put their kids in public schools in the first place, because they wouldn't do so if they gave a full damn.

85 posted on 02/10/2013 5:28:06 AM PST by HomeAtLast ( You're either with the Tea Party, or you're with the EBT Party.)
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To: wesagain
One might ask how it could be "secret". Was it totally separate and outside text books? Was there no homework/study involved?

I have no doubt that public "education" is a brainwashing, liberal-molding enterprise, but it seems that there should have been some indication if parents were even marginally involved.

86 posted on 02/10/2013 5:30:15 AM PST by trebb (Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
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To: trebb

In my kids’ school district, the kids were NEVER allowed to bring the books home. There was NO homework. If they needed to do extra work, they had to do it during lunch or after school. Even if the kid were absent, they had to make up the work at school.

At first, I thought my daughter was full of it. After I FINALLY got a hold of a teacher, I was told that they didn’t have the budget for each kid to get a book, so there was only one classroom set.


87 posted on 02/10/2013 5:38:08 AM PST by Marie ("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
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To: S.O.S121.500
How about “significant firings” or “significant arrests?” ++++++= How about vocal, legible, and any obvious shunnings to redicule each and every day......refuse to sell to them, buy from them, or acknowlege them. Make them happy to move on down the line. You can always get real mean if they can't take the hint. Bit never pass the task to any bureaucrat in the system.....takes the personal touch to be done right. We did not recommend any monkey or guerilla warfare.....

INDEED! YES! Significant shunning!

I thought I was the only one who thought this way. Personally, some time ago I made a decision. I WILL NOT HAVE A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEACHER FOR A FRIEND! The godless and socialist-entitlement government schools indoctrination centers are sooooo evil for the child, and such a threat to our nation's continuing freedom that I will NOT have a government school worker for a friend. (I don't have abortion workers for friends either.)

88 posted on 02/10/2013 5:39:40 AM PST by wintertime
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To: Mortrey
I don’t have children. But, I also pay the taxes for the indoctrination centers and I gotta tell you, I resent the hell out of it.

Then why do you do it?

I realize that I will eventually be prey to the commies coming out of them.

It would appear that there is something you value more than a future in which you (and everyone else) are prey to commies. What is it?

Don't look now but we are all prey to commies already. About sixty million dead babies and sixty million children enrolled in school have been brought to the altar of the government Moloch.

I don't think resentment's working.

89 posted on 02/10/2013 5:41:46 AM PST by HomeAtLast ( You're either with the Tea Party, or you're with the EBT Party.)
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To: trebb
The infestation of our enemies across the board is enormous.It will take a decade of hard diligent work to root out these cretans but do we have what it takes is the real question. We need a leader
90 posted on 02/10/2013 5:44:10 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Lexington and Concord Americans experience thier first gun grab attempt)
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To: wesagain; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

I taught my kids that if someone said to them "This is a secret. Don't tell your parents what I said or what we did." That they should IMMEDIATELY tell me, because that means something wrong is going on.

91 posted on 02/10/2013 5:46:14 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Bulwyf
When are people going to do more than look at other places to send their kids?

When they have better values. When they have some integrity. When they care more about the kids and the nation's future than they do about their convenience, their lifestyles, their welfare benefit (babysitting 8 hrs a day).

92 posted on 02/10/2013 5:46:47 AM PST by HomeAtLast ( You're either with the Tea Party, or you're with the EBT Party.)
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To: wesagain; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

I taught my kids that if someone said to them "This is a secret. Don't tell your parents what I said or what we did." That they should IMMEDIATELY tell me, because that means something wrong is going on.

93 posted on 02/10/2013 5:47:13 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Indy Pendance
I perish the thought these youngsters will rule us one day. 20 years from now will be a nightmare.

It might not be as bad as you expect.

Cream rises. Those who are literate will be getting the positions of power and importance.

Homeschooling just really started taking off in the early 90's so those kids are just entering the workforce and political arena. Homeschoolers will be making their presence felt more and more as that happens. And they tend to be pretty politically active.

We have yet to see the impact of that.

94 posted on 02/10/2013 5:55:13 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Chode
Chode: "somebody needs to be lynched"
stormhill: "significant summary executions"
Captain7seas: "tree limbs and rope"

The test is, what are you, personally, willing to do? I'm fairly certain none of you would do those things you typed. So...what exactly are you doing? Have you stopped sending in the money that enables this evil to flourish?

95 posted on 02/10/2013 5:57:11 AM PST by HomeAtLast ( You're either with the Tea Party, or you're with the EBT Party.)
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To: Nextrush
The business as usual Republican politicians are too busy making speeches about the importance of education and the need to spend money on it. They don’t look at education and demand that the indoctrination stops or the funding will.

They don't make those funds. The guiltiest people are those who make the wealth and cravenly surrender it to them. It is they who have the power and the right to stop the funding.

96 posted on 02/10/2013 6:04:50 AM PST by HomeAtLast ( You're either with the Tea Party, or you're with the EBT Party.)
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To: HomeAtLast; Chode; stormhill; Captain7seas; Mortrey
“I don’t have children. But, I also pay the taxes for the indoctrination centers and I gotta tell you, I resent the hell out of it.”

Then why do you do it?

The test is, what are you, personally, willing to do? I'm fairly certain none of you would do those things you typed. So...what exactly are you doing? Have you stopped sending in the money that enables this evil to flourish?

OK, so prey tell us what are you exactly doing about it? Are you advocating and practicing tax evasion yourself as the solution?

97 posted on 02/10/2013 6:07:02 AM PST by MD Expat in PA
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To: MD Expat in PA

Oooh, an ad hominem! That didn’t take very long at all. Sorry, but you’ll have to address my argument on the merits. What I do or don’t do does not relieve anyone of the obligation to match their words with their deeds.

PS: It’s “pray” tell us, not “prey.”


98 posted on 02/10/2013 6:22:10 AM PST by HomeAtLast ( You're either with the Tea Party, or you're with the EBT Party.)
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To: HomeAtLast
i guess i expected more from Texas than Massachusetts...
99 posted on 02/10/2013 6:33:09 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: metmom

I taught my kids that if someone said to them “This is a secret. Don’t tell your parents what I said or what we did.” That they should IMMEDIATELY tell me, because that means something wrong is going on.
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Good point!


100 posted on 02/10/2013 6:34:21 AM PST by wintertime
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