RED HOT CONSERVATIVE

1)  Texas retired  Science Author Janice VanCleave who originally exposed Cscope for what it is has no intention of copying and competing against Cscope contrary to accusations by the owners of Cscope the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC), and other state employees who have bought into the lie. Ms. VanCleave who attempted to tutor some children in her local school district discovered the children had no text books was denied Cscope lessons to help tutor. Finding this lack of transparency unacceptable she began researching who and what was behind Cscope. We filed a Public Information Request (PIR) asking for financials and lessons to be disclosed. TESCCC then filed in protest with the Attorney General that Ms. VanCleave had an interest in competing against them. BIG LIE!!! 

2)  Cscope lessons are not pro communist. The discovery of numerous Csocpe lessons that are pro communist  is irrefutable Here are a few links highlighting our findings. Communist Manifesto read by Texas Students, Students Climb Stair to Communism, Cscope views Communism a Success , New Communist Flag Drawn in Texas, Cscope’s ProCommunism

3)  Cscope is not Pro Islamic as claims TESCCC.  Islam Propaganda, Road to Mecca, Islam, Women and Sex, Texas Students in Burqas, Islam in Texas Schools, Cscope says Allah is God,

4) Cscope has always had a policy of being transparent. NOT AT ALL. They have even stooped so low as to have teachers sign a non disclosure statement that they would not release lessons or say anything negative about Cscope. The fact they Cscope has not allowed parents to view lessons is what led to the discovery of Cscope.

5) Teachers love it and need it…. it provides specificity and rigor. (I am so sick of this progressive word, rigor.) GOOD TEACHERS HATE CSCOPE. The following is from a teacher about her experience with Cscope.

From a Teacher……

“The district is not militant in that they watch us to see what we’re doing and they say we can use our own materials. But, when we look at C Scope tests, the questions require that we spend much of our planning time scouting for materials on the Internet. What we are teaching is worthless. C Scope shows that there are grammar and reading skills in each six weeks that needs to be covered, but there is no particular rhyme or reason for what we teach and certainly, we cannot teach anything in depth. There aren’t units that adhere together well. And there seems to be an agenda that must be covered. I always ask my students why they did so poorly on the test. The answer is pretty much universal; they can’t understand what the questions are asking. We are still grading tests on a curve, which helps some. But, those who don’t pass are supposed to be able to make corrections or somehow bring their grade up. So, we have to find yet more materials for that.

Now we have what they call Response to Intervention (RTI) classes. Kids who fail a six weeks are pulled from an elective class and placed for three weeks in another classroom with an RTI teacher–right now they are teachers with an extra planning period. This teacher is supposed to help that kid get his or her grades back up. The first six weeks there were 180 students RTI. These are kids who, for whatever reason, did not do their work in class, nor did they do it in detention, or academic night school. That means that the regular classroom teacher must get work together for each of his/her students up to four times! I was at school today for six hours to get caught up on grading. I spent that entire time getting work together for RTI kids. The principal sent out a caution a couple of weeks ago that said we have used something like 600k sheets of paper so far this year. It took two entire days to run the mock tests for the core subjects that were given this week! We have less than 700 students in our school.

Having bored you with all of that nonsense, I can state without a doubt that my 8th graders are not prepared for high school. We can’t get past C Scope or testing long enough to impart something of value to kids. This is a scary place to be as a teacher who cares. I am a fixer by nature and I can’t fix this. It seems as if math and social studies teachers have managed to skirt C Scope better than English or science. I think that we are in the worst possible place as English teachers. We have no materials, no time, can’t understand the materials we are supposed to teach, and do our planning by perusing the C Scope test and then using similar materials to teach the test because we must!”

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