Open Letter to Parents of Public Schooled Children

[Clint Counts]

Open Letter to Parents of Public Schooled Children Posted on March 15, 2013 by Heather Patenaude This fall as you buy your school supplies, tennis shoes, and backpacks, make sure you do your homework on the shift that has taken place within the halls of public schools across this nation. Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are creating a dark future for education and parents must educate themselves on these new standards and their radical implications. What you need to know about CCSS: 1) These standards claim to be “rigorous” and will prepare your child for “college and career”. But upon review you will find that these standards will prepare your child with empty skill sets and will teach them what to think, not how to think. They will also foster “teach to the test” practices! 2) These standards claim to be “state led”, but this is one of the largest myths of CCSS. Truth is CCSS were initiated by private interests in Washington, DC, without any representation from the states. Eventually the creators realized the need to present a façade of state involvement and therefore enlisted the National Governors Association (NGA) (a trade association that doesn’t include all governors) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), another DC-based trade association. Neither of these groups had a grant of authority from any particular state or states to write the standards. The bulk of the creative work was done by Achieve, Inc., a DC-based nonprofit that includes many progressive education reformers who have been advocating national standards and curriculum for decades. Massive funding for all this came from private interests such as the Gates Foundation. 3) The Race to the Top (RTTT) stimulus funds and No Child Left Behind waivers were available ONLY to states signing on to CCSS. This specific requirement was inserted by the Department of Education and was not a part of the stimulus bill language as passed by Congress. Through the RTTT applications, Governors and State School Superintendents signed onto CCSS without input from state legislatures, state school boards, parents, or taxpayers. This commitment to implement CCSS made before the standards were even written. (First round RTTT applications were due January 2010, first draft of CCSS arrived March 2010.) So they agreed to them sight unseen! 4) CCSS will cost states millions of dollars and this will fall on the backs of the taxpayers. This is a massive unfunded mandate. (Anyone already have high property taxes?!?) Most states have not even done a “cost analysis”, but with yearly computerized testing and teacher training, CCSS carries a hefty price tag! 5) There will be a massive data tracking system on each child with over 400 points of information collected. This information can be shared among organizations and companies and parents don’t have to be informed about what data is being collecting. They will collect information such as: your child’s academic records, health care history, disciplinary record, family income range, family voting status, and religious affiliation, to name a few. Big brother will be watching your child from preschool till college (P20 Longitudinal Data System). You, the parent, are UNABLE to opt your child out of this tracking system. 6) As a parent you will have no voice. If you are unhappy with what is being taught, you can’t go to your school board, your principal or even your state senator. No one can change the standards of your state. This is “education without representation”! Removing states power of education is unconstitutional and should make the Patriot in your rise up and fight to remove CCSS from your state! Please don’t take my word for it, do your own homework. CCSS are one giant step towards nationalized curriculum! Truth in American Education (www.truthinamericaneducation.com) is a broad based community of contributors working to educate others on the implications of Common Core. (Myths vs. Truthhttp://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-state-standards/myt...) Thank you for your time,   And it gets worse. Research fellow Joy Pullmann at the Heartland Institute points to a February Department of Education report on its data-mining plans that contemplates the use of creepy student-monitoring techniques such as “functional magnetic resonance imaging” and “using cameras to judge facial expressions, an electronic seat that judges posture, a pressure-sensitive computer mouse and a biometric wrap on kids’ wrists.” The DOE report exposes the big lie that Common Core is about raising academic standards. The report instead reveals Common Core’s progressive designs to measure and track children’s “competencies” in “recognizing bias in sources,” “flexibility,” “cultural awareness and competence,” “appreciation for diversity,” “empathy,” “perspective taking, trust, [and] service orientation.”The good news: A grassroots revolt outside the Beltway bubble is swelling. Families are taking their children’s academic and privacy matters out of the snoopercrats’ grip and into their own hands. You can now download a Common Core opt-out form to submit to your school district, courtesy of the group Truth in American Education.                         Http://truthinamericaneducation.com/uncategorized/ccss-parent-opt-o...

[Gordon Ray Kissinger]

Gay Students Organize Campaign to Kick out Catholic Priest for Sayi...

07 Apr 2013

by John Jalsevac

Photo Credit: Life Site News

Catholic students at George Washington University are rallying to the support of their beloved priest after two gay seniors launched a campaign to kick him out of his post at the university’s Newman Center for preaching that homosexuality and abortion are sinful.

The GW Hatchet, a campus newspaper, reported this week that seniors Damian Legacy and Blake Bergen are spearheading the campaign. The story has since been picked up by numerous other news outlets.

The students say that they will file a formal complaint with the university, release a video featuring ten other students who share their opinion, and hold prayer vigils until the priest is removed from his post. They are also demanding that the university’s Student Association defund the Newman Center, which receives $10,000 a year.

In their letter of complaint the pair will reportedly cite studies showing how being around “homophobic” behavior can lead to loss of appetite and problems sleeping.

The students complain that Fr. Greg Shaffer has spoken out against gay “marriage” and abortion, and has counseled homosexual Catholic students to embrace celibacy. They said they were disturbed when Fr. Shaffer quoted the Book of Romans and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Read more from this story HERE.

Read more: http://joemiller.us/2013/04/gay-students-organize-campaign-to-kick-...

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[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

Clint, thanks for the update on the liberal progressive radical democrat plan for our children's future.

Perhaps you've noted my sensitivity to our horribly scorched and convoluted, politically correct, education system driven from Washington.

Not only are the liberal progressive radical democrats going to burden our children with a monetary debt they can never payoff but in addition they are preparing our children for a life of dread and emptiness where same sex couples talk about multiple partners and suffer an epidemic of virulent sexually connecting diseases like HIV.

 They will be driven and directed by "The System". It will have a fancy clinical name or title. There will be the "experts" with whom you cannot disagree. The "experts" will tell us what's  best for your children, they have all the data from spying on your child in his innocence. The child will have NO say in what his future will bring. It will be all pre-programmed.

If you're right and the author is right that there is a swelling grassroots revolt outside the beltway, maybe there IS hope for our little ones.

"creepy student-monitoring techniques such as “functional magnetic resonance imaging” and “using cameras to judge facial expressions, an electronic seat that judges posture, a pressure-sensitive computer mouse and a biometric wrap on kids’ wrists.” A future like this turns my stomach and sends chills down my spine. If there's ANY point in life more compelling than being a patriot, it's being a parent. I've done my shareof parenting  40 years ago but am STILL in tune with those things that are headed the wrong way for my grandchildren's generation.

Stay with us Clint. Let us know when it's OUR time to take charge.