State
School Board Meeting Remarks for July 2013
James
Lankford, July 19: “When the (NCLB)
waiver authority is given, now the Department
of Education becomes a National School Board telling each district, each
state what they have to do to meet the new requirements that they can literally
make up as they go because there is no law or statute that they are
behind. That’s why we desperately need
to pass a replacement to that NCLB so states and school districts know how to
function within the law, and not just something that changes from year to year
based on the whims of the Department of Education or the decisions they bring
down this year according to their waiver.”
On Congressman Jim Bridenstine’s Facebook Page, he boldly posts our Common Core is not OK logo with this heading: "The goal of good education should be the pursuit of what is true and just and right and real… not the protection or propagation of what is common. ”Dr. Everett Piper, President of Wesleyan University. Share if you agree.” This post received 736 Likes and 361 shares… In social media lingo, it went viral.
On Congressman Jim Bridenstine’s Facebook Page, he boldly posts our Common Core is not OK logo with this heading: "The goal of good education should be the pursuit of what is true and just and right and real… not the protection or propagation of what is common. ”Dr. Everett Piper, President of Wesleyan University. Share if you agree.” This post received 736 Likes and 361 shares… In social media lingo, it went viral.
Both Senators Coburn and Inhofe signed an official
Senatorial letter against Common Core.
Groups such as Heritage Foundation, Americans for
Prosperity, Concerned Women of America, David Barton and Wallbuilders, Cato
Institute, Family Research Council, Act for America, The Oklahoma Republican
Party and the Republican National Committee have come out AGAINST Common Core,
even if it is renamed Oklahoma Academic Standards.
Why do we insist on “educating” our children if what is being taught is counter to a productive society?
Charlotte
Iserbyt, former Senior Policy Advisor
in the U.S. Department of Education under President Ronald Reagan said that
even if the Federal Government wanted to educate children on the 10 Commandments,
it is still wrong, because education is NOT the Federal Government’s job.
For the last 50 years, the Federal Government has interfered with education by offering a pittance of tax dollars, which they take from Oklahomans only to give back if we beg just right and comply with all the strings attached.
If the Standards
themselves are not bad enough – and they are -- we have Data Collection on our
children to be shared across state lines, then nationally, then globally with
“Stakeholders” (a term that can be defined as needed).
With headlines in the
news such as
- Congress, lewd photos and NYC's mayoral race
- IRS targets conservative groups
- House rejects effort to cut off NSA surveillance program
- Obama's Safe Schools Czar Tied to Lewd Readings for 7th Graders
- Grassley seeks to Defund Common Core
WHY? What is the rush? Our children can be sold for a few federal
dollars? Teachers will not teach more
effectively by knowing how parents vote or what time a student arrives at his bus
stop, or their blood type. Before you
say, “We won’t do that” you should know that the P-20 Council set up by this
department burst into laughter when John Kramen said, “Just because the data
model is set up to collect that data doesn’t mean they will.”
With state after state trying to pass laws to slow or stop this train wreck, why can we not slow down long enough to examine what we are doing? What kind of money, either federal OR from “stakeholders,” is worth endangering our children and making them the prey of Big Government and Big Business, and interested private organizations?
With state after state trying to pass laws to slow or stop this train wreck, why can we not slow down long enough to examine what we are doing? What kind of money, either federal OR from “stakeholders,” is worth endangering our children and making them the prey of Big Government and Big Business, and interested private organizations?
STOP
THE LONGITUDINAL DATA SYSTEM and STOP COMMON CORE at least until we have a
chance to evaluate the cost, not only to our pocketbooks, but to our children
and society.
I
have attached a report by the Cato Institute that I believe should be of
interest to you. It speaks to the
deception of the implementation of Common Core.
The drive to impose uniform curriculum standards on the nation’s schools has been one of stealth, and at times, seemingly intentional deception. Most egregious has been the mantra of Common Core proponents that the effort has been “state-led and voluntary,” despite Washington coercing state adoption through the Race to the Top program and No Child Left Behind waivers; standards creators encouraging just such federal “incentives”; and Washington selecting and funding the two groups creating the tests to go with the standards. And now, more than a week after the U.S. Department of Education announced the creation of a “technical review” panel to assess the assessments, it seems increasingly certain that the panel’s work will be done behind closed doors.
Sincerely,(You can find more here:
Julia Seay
Board Member
Restore Oklahoma Public Education
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