Only parents can truly know what’s best for each of their individual children and only parents have the vested interest necessary to raise children with the education each will need to become productive Oklahomans and Americans. Every child has the right to an education best suited to them, and every parent has the right – and duty – to provide such an education. ROPE 2.0 seeks to help equip parents with the information necessary to best champion their child’s educational needs.
Ken Malloy of NorthStar Project (https://oknorthstar.org/) talked to us about how NorthStar is influencing Tulsa Public Education.
From recruiting and helping school board candidates to run on a campaign of reforming TPS to writing White Papers (https://oknorthstar.org/whitepapers/the-responsible-educational-progress-rep-index-for-oklahoma-public-schools/) detailing TPS educational accountability, this new Think Tank formed last year is off to a running start. Ken and his wife Maria Seidler (of Legal Overwatch For Parents Rights - https://legaloverwatch.org/), both retired attorneys, moved to Oklahoma to be with their family.
Ken talks about how different the culture in New York - where litigation against governmental entities is more commonplace - is compared to here in Oklahoma where few of our governmental officials are ever called on the carpet and therefore, are not at all responsive to the citizens they represent and who pay their salaries.
Oklahomans need to wake up and figure out that our government does not have our best interests at heart. In fact, Ken likens Oklahoma's citizens to mushrooms that are kept in the dark and fed 'crap', by their governmental officials.
Lots of people today recognize that we are moving all too quickly into a one world government scenario, but they're not sure how it's happening. This video is extremely short, but describes what things to watch for so that it's easier to see where to push back. If you have ever wondered about the concept of One World Government, this short video is for you.
In Oklahoma, SB1100, proposes broad prohibitions on nebulous forms of speech under the guise of preventing bullying, that could significantly scuttle free speech.
In the absence of our regularly-scheduled guest, ROPE Regular Karmin Grider, Jenni and Michael discussed the curious situation of now-Congressional candidate, Robin Carder. Robin tells the story in her substack, Oklahoma Patriot (https://oklahomapatriot.substack.com/) of questioning several things about the 2020 Oklahoma election, getting goofy answers from the Secretary of the State Election Board and then creating a couple of memes in frustration, which were the impetus for an FBI raid on her home. Granted, the memes were not ones we would probably create, but they certainly fell under the First Amendment to the American Constitution which gives us the right to speak out about whatever we'd like in whatever way we'd like (so long as we aren't actively threatening people's lives or property).How close to a totalitarian state we are depends upon what you actually do to get noticed by the powers that be, apparently. Frankly, Robin's story should concern us all.
Every year we go through this. The grassroots want just a few bills, but the bills that we want, aren't popular with Republican leadership and either don't get a hearing in Committee, or they PASS COMMITTEE but are KEPT OFF THE FLOOR for votes. The same thing is happening this session (2024) and the session ends, 3/14/24. Why do we not get laws - like moving School Board elections to November? Because (for the most part) our Republicans are not conservative and our Republican LEADERSHIP definitely IS NOT.
Addendum: Apparently, the Ranked Choice Voting bill WAS heard on the floor and voted off to the Senate for week after next.
You might talk to your friends about the concept of "one world government". They laugh, tell you you're crazy, pat you on the head and move on with the conversation. Well what if you could really explain to them HOW Globalism works? How do you explain this difficult concept so that others can see how it works without shoving a tin foil hat down over your ears.
Julianne explains so that anyone can understand - what Globalism is and how it works.
Norman Dodd was head of research for the 1953 Reece Commission investigating the political activities of tax exempt foundations. In an interview he did with G. Edward Griffin (the author of the Creature From Jekyll Island) he exposed the politics behind the Reece Commission and the Commission's findings before it was finally stopped.What he found was that the large non-profit organizations were engaging in an attempt to use social engineering to change America into a socialist nation via the requirements of the grants it was giving out.
Please read more about the Reece Commission and the investigation here: https://by-julietbonnay.com/2021/10/how-tax-exempt-foundations-subvert-democracy/And the actual Dodd/Griffin interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYCBfmIcHM
Wendi Montogomery Dial tells us about some new information she's uncovered that has been confirmed by someone who spoke with her via phone at the State Election Board.
Apparently, voting machines are being picked up or delivered to locations the day before the election without any kind of special security measures used to secure the machines. If the machine is being dropped off at a church, but the machine isn't supervised - or in a supervised area - during the day, how would anyone know if the machine has been tampered with? Is this really the most secure way of handling this situation?
PLEASE. CONTACT YOUR SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVE ASAP ABOUT THESE BILLS FOR THE WEEK OF 3.11.24!
Bills to support:
HJR 1048 Roberts. Put the question to the people on Ranked Choice Voting as a constitutional matter.
HB3156 Roberts. Legislation to ban Ranked Choice Voting.
HB3563 Banning. Moves school board elections to November.
HB3717 O’Donnell. Voter Photo ID placed on registration card.
HB3815 Dollens. Prohibiting foreign funding for ballot measures.
HB3325 Staires. ONLY US Citizens and residents of Oklahoma can vote. Clarifies language.
Bills to oppose:
HB4127 Swopes. County commissioners work with County Election Boards to allow county employees to work as precinct officials. Takes the elections out of the hands of citizens. Given the machine situation that’s a recipe for fixed machines if these employees are inspectors. The county officials can fix all races that way by threatening someone’s job.
SB1989 Haste. Same as HB4127.
Bills that were NOT HEARD in committee that we NEED:
SB2034 Dahm. Restricting absentee ballots.
SB1659 Stewart. Reregistering Oklahomans to vote.
A proof of citizenship or legal residency requirement on registration is an issue that may conflict with the National Voter Registration Act according to a judge in Kansas.
I don’t think the NVRA was meant to protect the rights of non citizens to vote. And if it does it needs to be challenged in SCOTUS. PASS THE LAW.
HB3958 has passed the House and will move to the Senate.
Sherrie explains that this bill can help stop public school employees who are also sexual predators, from preying on students by engaging in one-on-one conversation with them via electronic or digital communication.
This is a great bill to keep students safe, so please contact your Oklahoma Senator and ask them to make sure this bill gets a hearing in the Senate Education Committee and passed on the floor of the Senate.
In 2022 PikeOffOTA sued the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority for Open Meetings violations regarding their new 3-turnpike plan that would run through Norman and surrounding areas. In District Court, PikeOffOTA won, only to lose at the Supreme Court level in 2023. See more information here:
PikeOffOTA also sued the OTA in 2022, challenging them to show that the agency even had the authority to issue the bonds that were financing the building. Again, they lost. See more here:
In response - and not covered in the video here - the OTA sued to stop the passage of HB2263, which would eliminate the Governor's full appointment power to the Board of OTA, instead giving the Governor 2 appointments and the Senate Pro Temp and House Speaker 2 appointments each.
Stitt vetoed the bill originally, with the legislature overriding the Governor's veto, making the bill law without the Governor's signature.
In the lawsuit, the OTA accused legislators of writing the law with help from PikeOffOTA members who were listed by name in the lawsuit - something which could be construed to be retaliation to PikeOffOTA citizens who are merely expressing their right to be heard on the issue.
Mic Rosado had been a nurse for decades before COVID came along. Though she had been forced to endure numerous DEI and CRT trainings and new something was becoming 'wrong' with the health care system, she couldn't put her finger on it.
Though she worked faithfully through COVID, she couldn't resolve herself to the way families were being torn apart if a member had to go to the hospital. She ended her career after going to her superiors only to be told that sure, she could work on developing a way to communicate with families better, but that "white sorority girls were no longer needed in health care".
Apparently, it depends upon what you consider pornographic. If it's unobscured sex as in a pornographic film - NO, EPS DOESN'T have 'porn' in their libraries.
If it's written material that graphically describes a boy being raped by another older boy - YES, EPS DOES have 'porn' in their libraries.
Would you want your Sophomore being read the word "c#nt" in class? What about a minor Sophomore student reading the following passage?
“I felt Stanley’s hand creeping onto my thigh. I looked at him, but he was staring at the Hee Haw Honeys so intently that I couldn’t be sure he was doing it on purpose, so I knocked his hand away without saying anything. A few minutes later, the hand came creeping back. I looked down and saw that Uncle Stanley’s pants were unzipped and he was playing with himself. I felt like hitting him, but I was afraid I’d get in trouble the way Lori had after punching Erma, so I hurried out to Mom. ‘Mom, Uncle Stanley is behaving inappropriately,’ I said. ‘Oh, you’re probably imagining it,’ she said. ‘He groped me! And he’s wanking off!’ Mom cocked her head and looked concerned. ‘Poor Stanley,’ she said. ‘He’s so lonely.’”
Or this? “Assef knelt behind Hassan, put his hands on Hassan’s hips and lifted his bare buttocks. He kept one hand on Hassan’s back and undid his own belt buckle with his free hand. He unzipped his jeans. Dropped his underwear. He positioned himself behind Hassan. Hassan didn’t struggle. Didn’t even whimper.”
What if the teacher read this passage in class? “He handed his cigarette to the guy next to him, made a circle with the thumb and index finger of one hand. Poked the middle finger of his other hand through the circle. Poked it in and out. In and out. ‘I knew your mother, did you know that? I knew her real good. I took her from behind by the creek over there.’ The soldiers laughed. One of them made a squealing sound. I told Hassan to keep walking, keep walking. ‘What a tight little sugary cunt she had!’ the soldier was saying, shaking hands with the others, grinning.”
Find more information about the "non-pornographic" books being used for REQUIRED CURRICULUM, here: https://www.edmonddidyouknow.com/book-summaries
In 2017, a parent discovered that her 10th grade daughter was being required to read The Kite Runner for her English class - and that her daughter's teacher had read parts of the book aloud in class, teaching her daughter a word she didn't have in her vernacular previously, and one of which the mother didn't approve.
She is not the first parent who has complained about two of the books that have been required reading for 10th grade English class for numerous years. In fact, many parents have followed the chain of command up through administrators to express their irritation and frustration over the fact that these books have been assigned to kids barely even 16 years of age, believing that they are not developmentally appropriate reading for high school aged students.
Most parents believe that their child's school would never REQUIRE their kids to read something of which they wouldn't approve, but many - like this parent - are naive and don't check into the books their kids are reading.
In a video posted to Facebook and on the district's website, Dr. Angela Grunwald, Superintendent of EPS, explains how it is that she will protect her district using taxpayer-paid attorneys to petition the Supreme Court to stop EPS from having their accreditation downgraded because they are refusing to remove two books from the curriculum.
The books are the Kite Runner and The Glass Castle - books that are required reading in the 10th grade English curriculum - that parents have been complaining about since 2014 (that we know about).
Why would a Superintendent use tax dollars to prevent the removal of two books from the curriculum after years of complaints from parents? Because, as she explains in this video, Superintendent Grunwald prioritizes "moving EPS forward" and "the district" above the well-being of students - and certainly their parents.
See the full video here on YouTube and here on Rumble.
