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OUR PASTOR IS WRONG MOMMY! THANKS TO CSCOPE!

Mar 14
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But Jesus said, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children.”  MATTHEW 19:14

CSCOPE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

BY EDWARD LANE

EXAMINER.COM

 

Wichita Falls, Texas mother Eileen Levy is concerned that someday her little girl willl come to her in church and say that their pastor had it all wrong about who God was, according to Ms. Levy. Ms. Levy is concerned she will have to then ask her little girl where she got that information.

“Because in school I learned Allah is God! Our preacher is wrong!” her daughter might say to her.

Understandably concerned about what she has heard about the CSCOPE curriculum, Ms. Levy did some investigating and has now become concerned that when her daughter enters the school system she will be taught that Allah is God and reject her own church’s teachings because of the public school curriculum called CSCOPE.

 

This North Texas community of 105,000 has been rocked as word has spread of some of the secret content of this teaching program. Often referred to as a link in the Bible Belt, and with many churches available the idea that doctrines are being taught in the public schools that undermines what their churches teach is causing quite a stir in this normally peaceful city.

 

A conscientious parent, Ms. Levy took the next step and tried to find out about this mysterious creature called CSCOPE. What she found was beyond her worst fears.

 

This public school curriculum which the Wichita Falls School Board has approved for our children explains what the Koran is and how a student may convert from her family’s religion to Islam, according to Ms. Levy.

 

There is also a passage where students have been taught in recent years that the patriots of the American Revolution were “terrorists” and not patriots at all.

 

Really?

 

Ms.Levy has done some checking around and found out the City View School District rejected CSCOPE from its curriculum.

 

In defense of the Wichita Falls School Board, Ms. Levy said she believes they took the word of the school administration when they rubber-stamped approval of the CSCOPE curriculum without actually reading it contents.

 

Ms. Levy is not the type of parent to sit idly by and led the bureaucracy roll over her and her children’s education. She wrote a letter to the Wichita Falls Times Record News newspaper which was published in the Wednesday, March 13 edition (yesterday).

 

Her letter is under the heading “Just say no”. It’s an interesting read on page 4B of the paper if a person still has it handy.

 

Ms. Levy also discovered that Governor Rick Perry has refused to sign off on documents which would approve CSCOPE as a part of the school curriculum for students in Texas. She said that instead some school superintendents in the North Texas area avoided the Governor and implemented the plan on their own authority.

 

Ms. Levy says scores of students in Wichita Falls schools have fallen since the implementation of this creature called CSCOPE. In her letter she says in pertinent part, “The fact that there are admittedly, major flaws in CSCOPE (as test scores reflect, among other things) requires you to show leadership and look elsewhere for a better program for our children. I urge the WFISD School Board to vote against the renewal of CSCOPE. Just say ‘Nope’ to CSCOPE is how she finishes her letter.”

 

Yet another article in yesterday’s Wichita Falls Times Record News newspaper bannered across the top of page one reads as follow: “MSU doesn’t train for CSCOPE.”

 

In the article Ann Works quotes Matthew Capps, dean of Midwestern State University’s West College of Education as saying, “MSU education professors aren’t talking to their students about CSCOPE’s inadequate delivery style or its limitations because, like Capps, they stilll haven’t seen the online curriculum and don’t have any information about it.”

 

The people behind CSCOPE have so far been successful in keeping a blanket of secrecy covering their creation. Capps also said, “When CSCOPE first started we wanted access. There wasn’t an avenue at that time, and there still isn’t.”

 

This front page article from yesterday’s paper is also worthy of being read for thos who want to find out more about CSCOPE.

 

Ms. Levy is generous enough to provide information regarding CSCOPE to anyone who wants to contact her at 940-631-7732. She is urging concerned citizens to contact school board members and encourage them to vote against renewing the contract with CSCOPE this year.

 

It appears this will be a turbulent year for the education system in this strong Christian community which feels its values are under attack by its own school system.

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How Parents and Teachers can Stop Cscope

Mar 13
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‘LET GO OF THE SYSTEM’: HOW CAN PARENTS &

TEACHERS STOP CSCOPE?

 

By Tiffany Gabbay

The Blaze

On Thursday TheBlaze along with The Glenn Beck Program delved deeply into the controversial curriculum system sweeping Texas schools known as CSCOPE. From issuing gag orders on teachers to bar them from talking about lesson plans, to preventing parents from obtaining information about what their children are being taught, the way CSCOPE operates almost seems like a work of fiction. Disturbingly, it is not.

Following up on issues covered by his panel the night before, Beck on Friday discussed what teachers and parents can actually do to stop the effects of what’s being called an “oppressive” curriculum management system.

“The best thing is to educate yourself as a teacher on what it [CSCOPE] is,” Beck said. “As a parent, get your kids out of the public school system… Do not let another day go by with kids being indoctrinated.”

Historian and Texas native David Barton said parents should broach the subject with the curriculum directors of their children’s schools and engage the school superintendent.

“Teach kids what is right,” Barton said.

Barton and Pat Gray both said it’s important for parents and teachers to focus on their school boards and, more pointedly, the local election process, because citizens are most effective at the local level.

Barton explained that CSCOPE is operating outside of Texas, typically under the generic Common Core standards name and that there are variations of CSCOPE in other states.

The public education and traditional university system is “killing our ingenuity,” Beck said.

He noted that there have been many successful people, including famed CEOs and entrepreneurs, who did not go the route of traditional education. Beck qualified that wasn’t saying education is not important, but that the system by which it’s sometimes delivered can be inherently flawed.

“Don’t let go of education, but let go of the system,” Beck said. “You can think out of the box.”

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Texas Cscope Teachers Need Your Help!

Mar 13
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How sad that those who have dedicated their careers to teaching children and are now working under the fear and control of their school administrators. Why you may ask? Over 70% of the Texas School’s superintendents and school boards across the state have purchased and implemented a Marxist/Progressive curriculum called Cscope without public input or knowledge. Parents have not been allowed to see the lessons and students rarely bring home homework which eliminates parental involvement and and their awareness of the transformation taking place in their local schools. Cscope is patterned after the ideology of humanist Linda Darling Hammond, Fenwick English and Marxist Lev Vygotsky. Teachers across the state are afraid of losing their jobs if they speak out against Cscope but some have done so anonymously. Please read the following from a Teacher who is thanking the grassroots for speaking out.

 

Posted anonymously by an East Texas teacher after she read above article, “Most Amazing Senate Ed Hearing Ever”:I would like to say how much I deeply appreciate that someone is out there looking into CSCOPE! There are SO many teachers that deplore the “curriculum” but there is no way that many of us can publicly say anything against the “Bible” that has been handed to us. In some districts, I assure you, it has been referred to as the “Bible” for us to strictly adhere to – or else! 

I have been teaching for over 2 decades (headed to 3 – hopefully) and I have yet to see anything come through our Texas schools that has done more harm than this fluff. 

Every day that I have to go in and try to find a way to teach this and somehow still live with the knowledge that my students are not getting my best, I am thankful that my children have all graduated and will not have to suffer this travesty of the educational process. It is my grandchildren that I now worry about – as do their parents. 

I have witnessed several of my peers choose to retire rather than be forced to become a “trained monkey” as they were told that a trained monkey could teach these lessons and therefore they had no excuse for not following the “curriculum”. I still have a couple of years to go and I am hoping (and praying) that somehow I can make it without having to completely give up on the education of future Texas graduates. 

I am a proud Texan and I abhor the level that we have fallen to in our public schools. I am deeply saddened to have spent my entire adult life in the pursuit of education for myself and my students to watch it all fall by the wayside as I prepare for retirement. 

So, once again, I would like to thank you for the public scrutiny that you are placing on this failure that is being forced into our school and into the minds of our children.

For more information on Cscope go to www.txcscopereview.com

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Cscope…Bloom’s Taxonomy..

Mar 02
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Bloom’s Taxonomy, Lower Order of Thinking in Texas Schools 

 

By Cathy Wells

Statue of The Thinker

Social constructivist philosophy tries quite hard to produce what is deemed “higher order
thinking skills.” Another semantical game is being played here because, honestly, what parent
is going to say, “I don’t want my child to have thinking skills!” Indeed, I can also say that I
certainly want my children to graduate from high school with some critical thinking skills (we
used to call that common sense). But how are these thinking skills to be achieved? What
makes them “higher?” What is meant by “higher order thinking skills?” Again, let us begin by
defining terms.
Parents might say that “thinking skills” would be something akin to common sense, scrutiny,
discernment, or ability to think under pressure. What does this term mean to the social
constructivist? This will take awhile. Higher order thinking skills theory is based on Bloom’s
Taxonomy. Who is Bloom? Benjamin Bloom was a behavioral psychologist (I hope you are
noticing how much behavioral psychology is popping up in education) who developed a
taxonomy or “breaking down into small units and naming” of what he considered to be typical
and necessary thinking skills or educational objectives. So, when we ask what is the point of
education, to social constructivists, the point is to achieve all of Bloom’s taxonomilogical goals.
Just so you know, just about all modern educational theory is based on this taxonomy and every
teacher is familiar with it. (Consequently, it is very difficult to get teachers to think outside this
paradigm thought we did very well without it for most of educational history and it seems to
have led us down a very rocky path.)
Bloom listed six separate levels of thinking skills: knowledge, comprehension, application,
analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The last three of these are the “higher order” thinking skills.
Now let me pause a moment to say that, if you study this list, it seems rather logical. In any
area, we must first acquire knowledge, then understanding, learn how to apply those, analyze
any mistakes we make, fuse all of that knowledge together, and ultimately become expert at it
and be able to teach it to someone else. The problem comes in with this: In 1987, the National
Research Council announced that these skills don’t need to be acquired IN ORDER and should,
in fact, be acquired out of order. They suggested that we begin implementing higher order
thinking skills in elementary school.
As a classical educator, I immediately see the folly of this approach. We used to have what
were called “grammar” schools because those were the buildings in which we loaded basic facts
into children: their “knowledge.” As they moved into middle schools, they began to acquire
comprehension and application. In high school, we moved them toward “higher thinking
skills.” This is, coincidentally, how the brain is hard-wired. The concrete stage of development
comes first during those first six years of school. Then the abstract stage begins where students
start synthesizing the facts they’ve learned and applying them to life. Finally, they move on to a
stage in which they can discuss, argue, or teach a point as needed. That is a traditional/classical
approach to education.
What CSCOPE and other curricula have managed to do is completely confuse students by
trying to jumble all of the different levels of skills as per the recommendations of the NRC and
other research. The end result is akin to tasking someone with making a croissant dough by first
evaluating the end product, the process, and the dough itself without giving you a recipe or
ingredients list.
I very much doubt that any parents of Texas students would approve of this methodology if they
knew about it. And as those of us left here in Texas who still have a modicum of common
sense know, “That dog won’t hunt.”

 

 

After reading the above article I googled Cscope and Blooms Taxonomy and found the Cscope power point below created by Paula-Pemberton-Kelm  from Texas Education Service Center VI.

 

CSCOPE POWERPOINT ON BLOOMS TAXONOMY

Blooms

 

 

 

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Cscope Exposed on Glenn Beck’s The Blaze

Mar 01
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GLENN BECK EXPOSES CSCOPE

 

Glenn Beck will be exposing Cscope on the Blaze this coming Thursday March 7th @4:00 CT. You can watch the show on the Dish Network Channel 212 or you can sign up for a FREE TRIAL of THE BLAZE or sign up to watch on a regular basis. You can view the show on your computer, TV or mobile device details here. The show is  is replayed on Dish and is archived if you not available to watch it at 4:00 CT.

****Glenn Beck ACTION ITEM.. Glenn is trying to get The Blaze in homes across the states. Please go HERE and fill out a form letter that will be sent to your cable company in hopes of them carrying THE BLAZE.

 

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Glenn' Beck's Agenda 21

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Cscope’s Controlled Robots

Mar 01
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The Progressive/Marxist Cscope Curriculum  in over 70% of Texas Schools can summed up this way….

Controls the Teacher, Eliminates the Parents, Indoctrinates the Students

Teachers across the State of Texas detest the control and content of the Cscope curriculum that their school district has purchased. Teachers have been gagged into not speaking out against the curriculum out of fear of losing their jobs. Cscope now has hit the national and state media due to it’s pro communist, pro Islamic, and skewed history lessons. One Cscope skewed history lesson  portrays the Boston Tea Party as a terrorist act. Cscope reps will respond that the lesson has been removed but my question is “IT SHOULD OF NEVER BEEN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?”

Teachers are getting bolder and feel somewhat free from the control of Cscope since Senator Dan Patrick held a special called Senate Education Committee Hearing questioning the owners of Cscope about it’s financial setup and controversial lesson content.  Seems they may be getting a little to free in Wichita Independent School District according to administration  to the point of their jobs being threatened.

By Ann Work with Times Record News                                          March 1, 2013

Ann Work

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Cscope & State Employees try to Intimidate Private Citizens

Feb 19
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INTIMIDATE

 

One would never believe an attempt at doing a good deed of tutoring children would lead you to discover a Marxist/Communist takeover of Texas Schools (public, charter and private).  Well that is what happened to retired Science Author Janice VanCleave.   VanCleave who began to question what was going on when refused by her local school district of Marlin, Texas and the Texas Education Service Center XII in Waco access to lessons to help tutor the children who had no textbooks. The lessons were locked behind a password protected online curriculum called Cscope and lessons were barred from being released or viewed.

After further research it was discovered the Marxist philosophy behind Cscope and numerous lessons with a bias toward Communism pro Islam content. The takeover I would say has become one of the biggest education scandals in Texas History due to the number of school districts involved. Is your local school district using Cscope? Check HERE.

VanCleave (mom) and I have been working overtime this past year exposing the Cscope Corruption in our Texas Schools. I guess you can say we have received our gold crown in this fight. Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC) who owns Cscope has made a powerpoint now listing three of their critics, two being mom and I, Janice VanCleave and Ginger Russell along with Ann Kunkel.  I may be wrong but do Govt Agencies  usually come out calling out their critics (private citizens) by name. VanCleave and I both testified before the State Board of Education and the Texas Senate Education Committee in regard to our concerns with Cscope.  Are the owners of Cscope (TESCCC) they now intimidating government witnesses?

Following is their power-point presentation for this upcoming Summer Cscope Conference. Cscope Powerpoint Intimidating Citizens? 

This is slide 8 in the power-point.

Intimidate Cscope

 

 

 

Why would they list their critics in their Summer Conference promotion? Are they having trouble getting speakers due to the fact the Cscope is now exposed for what it is, Control the Teacher, Eliminate the Parent and Indoctrinate the Children. 

Unfortunately this isn’t the first time Cscope Reps have tried intimidation to shut their opposition down. I spoke at Willis ISD board meeting about Cscope not knowing the Cscope Representative from ESC VI, Linday McCulloch was in the room. She spoke after me but does not reveal her true identity or where she works.

You can read more about that night HERE. 

 

In another attempt to alert community leaders, teachers and superintendents to my concerns with Cscope.  I emailed superintendent Dan Powell with Crowley ISD and received the following response….Dan.

 

This is absolute non-sense! You are either crazy or ridiculously mistaken. As a Christian and patriotic American, I am most offended by your lies!  Take me off your mailing list immediately, and find a shrink. 

                                                                                  Dan Powell

 

I have also made attempts to speak before the board of directors of Texas Education Service Center VI. Assistant Director Brett Hawkins told me “You are not going to tear apart something they have implemented”.

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For more information on Cscope go to WWW.TXCSCOPEREVIEW.COM

 

 

I have been using twitter for months in an attempt to alert parents across the state about Cscope. State workers are finding it a way to slander my mother Janice VanCleave and myself. Debbie Smith from Texas Education Service Center VI has left me the following tweets.

Debbie Smith

Debbie Smith

Debbie Smith

 

 

I sent the following email to teachers, community members etc.. Below this email are responses I received from school employees. The reactions I get have bring me to wonder why is there such a “LOVE” for Cscope?

 

Attention Teachers, Parents, Taxpayers

We have a curriculum in over 70% of Texas Schools called Cscope that is based on a Marxist/Communist Philosophy of Collectivism. Has your local school district purchased it? Check HERE.

 

Senator Dan Patrick held an Senate Education Committee Hearing on Cscope January 31st. Here is his statement. 

 

Teachers, if school administration is holding your feet to the fire and demanding that you teach Cscope please contact Senator Patrick @dan.patrick@senate.state.tx.us. or you can contact us HERE anonymously. 

 

Cscope has come under heavy scrutiny after finding out that teachers were required to sign a DULA where they would not release the contents or say anything negative about it. It was also discovered that pro Islamic content and pro communistic lessons are being taught. 

 

For information on Cscope you can go to www.txcscopereview.com or www.redhotconservative.com. 

 

CSCOPE =CONROL the TEACHERS, ELIMINATING the PARENTS & INDOCTRINATE CHILDREN. 

Responses.  

 

Sara Martinez Superintendent Secretary at Valley Mills ISD sent me the following response in my attempt to alert the community about Cscope.

 

 

 

You have your own personal agenda to make money selling your product therefore you want everyone to do away with C-Scope to buy your Science Curriculum. I was taught about communism, socialism and Islam etc. when I was in High School in my World History Class. THIS IS OK BECAUSE IT IS A PART OF OUR WORLD HISTORY therefore it is not a surprise that they included lessons about these in the C-SCOPE curriculum. I do not have any interest in reading the way you twist things to benefit your cause please remove me from your mailing list. 

Thanks,

Sara Martinez

Valley Mills ISD

 

 

Valley Mills ISD Business Manager Brenda Byrom sent me the following emails.

 

 

I don’t know where you get your information or how you can so distort an issue as much as you are doing.

I suppose when I was a student in public schools and our textbooks taught us about Hitler and Stalin that they were teaching us about communism and we should have burned the textbooks.

Your email is ridiculous and I want to be removed from your email list.

Brenda Byrom

Before you send out emails regarding education, you might want to check your grammar.  The school that I attended and the one that taught my kids, made sure that we could type a coherent sentence.  Obviously the one you attended did not, two sentences and neither one of them is correct.  Lady you are a JOKE!!!!!!  You do not have any idea how stupid you sound and how much of an idiot that your emails make you appear to be.

 

idiot

 Dr. Cathy Moak is the Component Director for School Transformation and Digital Learning at ESC 6

 

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Texas Students Climb Stairs to Communism

Feb 02
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TEXAS CSCOPE SCHOOLS PROMOTE POSITIVE VIEW OF COMMUNISM

One would never guess that 875 Texas Schools , public, private and charter have purchased and implemented a Marxist Curriculum called Cscope in their schools. Our Texas Education Service Centers have formed a Non Profit called Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC) and they operate out of out of our State Agenices using State employees to sell their Cscope Curriculum. The Curriculum has  students drawing a New Communist Flag which is part of the paticular lesson which gives out the following handout. Notice in the bottom box of the hand out where it states that capitalist “strive to fulfill their own needs and wants”.  We capitalist are selfish greedy people aren’t we”? Cscope is all about portraying communism in a positive light and the free enterprise/capitalist  system as selfish economic system.

 

For information on Cscope look up www.txcscopereview.com

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New Communist Flag drawn in Texas Schools

Jan 29
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Texas students that are currently attending a school that has implemented the progressive, pro Islamic curriculum CSCOPE are asked to draw a new Soviet Nation Flag, read excerpts from the Communist  Manifesto.

FLAG EXERCISE

The students are also asked to read the quotes below from the socialist reformer Robert Owen who was known thinking that all religions were “based on the same absurd imagination” which he said made mankind “a weak, imbecile animal; a furious bigot and fanatic; or a miserable hypocrite.”

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THE ACTUAL CSCOPE LESSON

The Men and Women Behind the Marxist Curriculum

Please learn more about Cscope @ www.txcscopereview.com

ISLAM IN TEXAS SCHOOLS

 

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Texas Education Agency & UN Agenda 21

Jan 20
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Agenda-21Our nation is sadly deteriorating and America’s Exceptionalism is wasting away in large part due to the indoctrination of our school children. Texas unfortunately has bought into the lie of the United Nation’s Agenda 21/sustainable development goals of eliminating world poverty.  Sounds great on the surface but in reality it is the removal of individual freedom and personal property.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA), Texas Education Service Center (TESC), Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA)  are all behind the implementation of the United Nations Goals in our school system.  The CSCOPE curriculum is the tool being used to implement Agenda 21 propaganda.

Wake up Parents and Taxpayers 

Please take time to find out  what danger this indoctrination will bring to our National Sovereignty and Freedom.

Our children’s and grandchildren’s lives are being changed–STOP THIS Indoctrination before it is too late. America  will forever be changed if citizens do not get involved in stopping this creeping cancer.

The common answer head is, “I am too busy.”  If you do not take time now you may rue the day that you did not slow down and protect our Freedom. In the name of Progressive–21 Century changes, these progressive radicals are working overtime to implement policies and changes that will take your freedom of making choices away. America will no longer be the “The Land of the Free.”  Instead, it will be a controlled land with no individual freedoms.

Your children are daily being taught in public and private school about community and equal sharing. These are not Christian values, instead, they are at this time socialists propaganda. Which easily slides into communist control. Please get involved and educate yourself. America Needs You.

 

 

Texas Education Agency Power Point on Green

 

Christopher Columbus goes Green

Learn more about the United Nations Agenda 21

FREEDOM ADVOCATES

THE GREEN AGENDA

 

GLENN BECK ON AGENDA 21

 

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Christopher Columbus Goes Green?

Jan 19
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The Green Christopher Columbus

 

Revisionist History has become the norm in Texas schools with the use of a curriculum called Cscope. Does your school district use it? Check HERE.

One of the Cscope lessons takes the liberty of removing excerpts from Christopher Columbus’s journal entries where he admires God’s creation and beauty to use them in support of the environmentalist goals of the United Nations Agenda 21.

Below is the exact title to Christopher Columbus’ journal entries and one of the entries that Cscope reps have cherry picked words out of to support their environmental agenda for the purpose of  indoctrinating Texas students. The highlighted areas are the cherry picked words removed as you will see below.

IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

Cscope revisionist History of Christopher Columbus

 

lesson with attachments.

CSCOPE’S REVISION

CSCOPE'S REVISIONIST

 

Cscope has found it acceptable to track Islamic Scholar Ibn Battuata pilgrimage to Mecca.  Learn more about that lesson HERE.

 

You can learn more about Cscope @ www.txcscopereview.com

@ redhotconservative.com

 

More on the United Nations Agenda 21 @ FreedomAdvocates.org

Glenn Beck on Agenda 21

 

GLENN BECK’S BOOK ON AGENDA 21, though fictional it is thought provoking and makes wonder what our world will one day become if we don’t change course.

Glenn' Beck's Agenda 21

Agenda 21

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Texas Superintendent goes to Washington DC?

Jan 14
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Dr. Jeff Turner

 Dr. Jeff Turner, superintendent of Coppell ISD is on his way to Washington DC again. Why?  Turner flew to Washington on Dec. 5th to discuss Common Core Standards and non adoption of them in Texas.  Dr. Turner  is also President of the Texas Association of School Administrators, TASA.   TASA is gearing up to attend the American Association of  School Administrtors, AASA to hear humanist Linda Darling Hammond who is associated with Communist William (Bill) Ayers  speak on the Common Core Standards. Hammond is also an education adviser to the Obama administration.  Why are  Texas Taxpayers funding this? Why are we having to pay for our superintendents to travel to here about the Marxist Common Core standards Texas did not adopt?

TURNER GOES TO WASHINTON

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Turner seems to be all about promoting an education of the 21st Century. An education that is NOT based on individual achievement but on the collective. It is a watered down education that removes vocabulary, novels, cursive writing and the basics of algebra. Why are our administrators buying into this?

Though Common Core was not officially adopted in Texas the Education Service Centers have found a way to implement a similar product that has Common Core written all over it, called Cscope. Cscope is an online curriculum that nearly 80% of Texas school districts have purchased and implemented it without parents knowledge. The curriculum has not been available for parents to see and teachers had to sign a non-disclosure statement that they would not release the contents or say anything negative about it. Csocpe is pro Islamic and anti Christian. It pushes a global collectivist agenda. It is based on the Marxist/progressive ideology of Obama education adviser Linda Darling Hammond who is associated with communist Bill Ayers.  Hammond has been a regular speaker at Cscope Conferences.

 

Dr. Turner has also signed a contract for the Coppell ISD with TASA’S  School Transformation Network. Here is their Visioning Document. Notice following the document are the original 35 superintendents that promoted this vision.

 

****TASA and those behind the Texas Schcol Transformation Network which has plans on taking Texas education on a progressive/Marxist path. ***

 

In Texas today unbeknownest to parents and taxpayers there is a progressive/Marxist curriculum called Cscope is a  that has been implemented in nearly 80% of the Texas Schools.   Parents have not been  aware that it is in their schools due the fact that homework is discouraged and most school districts to not purchase text books. It is online and parents have been denied access to the material. As alarming as it is Teachers were required to sign a non-disclosure statement that they would not release the contents are say anything negative about it.

For more information on Cscope go to www.txcscopereview.com

 Cscope, What is behind the Curtain, Part I

 Cscope, What is behind the Curtain, Part II

 REDHOTCONSERVATIVE.COM

 

 

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Paul Revere: Pot Peddling Patriot?

Jan 10
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Paul RevereTexas School Curriculum Cscope has went to extremes in skewing America’s Heritage in the minds of students. There was a lesson that portrayed the Boston Tea Party as a Terrorist Act (see link below) and now we have found a High School lesson where Paul Revere is portrayed and suspected of hiding drugs in his house. Serious!

America is no longer taught that it is Exceptional. Texas Schools found it acceptable to push a global agenda and skew America’s history in the minds of our children.

For more information on Cscope please go to www.txcscopereview.com

The men and women behind Cscope. HERE

 

Islam in Texas Schools

Boston Tea Party was a Terrorist Act

 

GINGER RUSSELL-CONCERNED PARENT SPEAKS OUT ABOUT CSCOPE

DR. STAN HARTZLER quit his job due to Cscope. Cscope works to ridexperienced older teachers from the school system. Dr. Hartzler’s passion
is to teach students and see them master algebra, how sad that Cscope
stifles the creativity and the learning environment for our students.

 

Cscope Lesson.

 

 

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TX Cscope students chart “PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA”

Jan 02
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Ibn Battuta

 

American Exceptionalism will no longer exist in the minds of our children.  Texas has  joined     ranks with the leftist agenda in indoctrinating our children with a progressive ideology. Over 70% of Texas public schools, some private and charter have purchased and implemented the progressive curriculum,  Cscope. Cscope is based on Obama’s Common Core.  Common Core advocate Linda Darling Hammond is a top education adviser to Obama and is also associated with communist revolutionary Bill Ayers.  Linda Darling Hammond has been a guest speaker at Cscope Conferences and is the quest speaker this February in California for the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) National Conference. Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) is gearing up to attend the National Conference and hear Linda Darling Hammond speak and promote Common Core which, Texas rejected. There fees and travel plans will be paid for with your tax dollars.

Cscope is owned by Texas Education Service Center’s Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC).  The men and women behind Cscope are the Board of Directors of TESCCC which are the directors of the Texas Education Service Centers excluding ESC 4.

Our children are not being taught about the great men and women who sacrificed their lives for this country nor or they taught that these sacrifices attribute to the FREEDOM we have been so fortunate to enjoy.Instead our children are being indoctrinated  with a pro Islamic, anti christian view. Texas students could benefit greatly from studying the lives of great men such as  Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Abe Lincoln or better yet the missionary journeys of the Apostle Paul. Unfortunately for our children Cscope writers felt it more important that 6 grade students chronicle Islamic Scholar Ibn Battuta’s pilgrimage to Mecca and  Mohammad’s tomb in Medina. The fact that Cscope is pushing a pro Islamic view is indisputable.  Time after time their agenda is exposed, and as soon as it is, the Cscope Reps run to pull the exposed material with a flip of a switch (due to it being an online curriculum). Fortunately there are many concerned about this indoctrination of our children that have already captured the original Cscope documents in order to verify Cscope’s intentions. Here is another captured portion of a 6 grade lesson indicating Cscope reps true intentions to indoctrinate your children with a pro Islamic view.

Cscope Pro Islam View

Cscope Pro Islam View

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For additional information on Cscope and it’s indoctrination go to WWW.TXCSCOPEREVIEW.COM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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EDUCATORS AND ADMINISTRATORS response to CSCOPE WARNINGS….

Dec 15
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CROWLEY ISD SUPERINTENDENT DAN POWELL

I would send out mass emails to superintendents, school personal and community members warning them that their schools were purchasing and implementing a pro Islamic and pro Marxist curriculum in Cscope. aka TEKS RESOURCE SYSTEM. Below you will see a couple of profession responses from administrators. LOL
(1)
This is absolute non-sense! You are either crazy or ridiculously mistaken. As a Christian and patriotic American, I am most offended by your lies!  Take me off your mailing list immediately, and find a shrink.  Dan Powell
(2)
Please remove me from your mailing list. I wish to receive nothing from your organization, and I did not request to receive any emails.


Kristi Lee, M.Ed.
Principal, Normangee High School
936.396.6111 Office
936.396.6879 Fax

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Cscope Curriculum promotes helping your community by donating to the United Way.

Dec 15
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Why is the starting date of the United Way significant?

 

When was the United Way started?
F After 1900
G Between 1850 and 1900
H Before 1850
J After 1950

 

How Does the United Way improve a community?

Why aren’t local community project supported?

If you wanted to personally improve your community, which of
these could you do to help out?

A Collect donations for the United Way. (Correct CSCOPE Answer) This is a national organization and the money collected would not likely help the community it was collected from.

B Buy ice cream at the parlor.

C Take a tour of the Police Station.
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Islam Bias in Progressive Texas Curriculum, CSCOPE

Dec 13
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Dallas Morning News covered Irving ISD board meeting Monday in regard to my findings that Cscope promotes a positive view of Islam and a negative view
of Chrisitianity. Though Texas Education Service Center X’s director Jan Moseby hired what she calls a  “Glenn Beck Fan” to review Cscope her findings  are inaccurate. Expecting someone with a financial interest in promoting a progressive curriculum is like expecting progressive Michael Moore to promote the US Constitution.

The following statements are submitted by science author Janice VanCleave. 

 I wonder why so many superintendents and school board members so adamantly defend CSCOPE. I’ve never known administrators to be so supportive of text books.

But a BIGGER QUESTION is: “Why are superintendents purchasing CSCOPE?”

Most administrators say they needed the scope and sequence.

1. They can find the scope, which are the TEKS on the TEA website. The TEKS vertical alignment for every subject is also on the TEA website.

2. CSCOPE has specificities, which are explanations for the TEKS, but….

  • CSCOPE has not been approved by the SBOE.
  • Cscope has not been evaluated by any outside source. No documentation can be provided to prove the claims made about CSCOPE.
  • CSCOPE specificities are written by unknown authors.

    • Unlike text books, which are approved by the SBOE, CSCOPE specificities  may or may not describe the   TEKS correctly. 
    • In other words, the SBOE approves text books that provide information that interpret and embellish the TEKS to meet the intent of the standards.

Since the SBOE has not reviewed any of the CSCOPE specificities, IFOs, or lessons nor has CSCOPE materials been evaluated in anyway,  nothing verifies –no documentation can be provided to prove that CSCOPE has:

  • correct content alignment to the TEKS
  •  correct interpretations of the TEKS, or
  • whether the YAG is effective.

What is the incentive for purchasing CSCOPE? Why are superintendents taking a chance on having their school districts forced to verify its instruction material conforms to state requirements.

TASA (State Association of School Administrators) launched its Vission Learning objectives in 2006, the same year that schools started purchasing CSCOPE. Any connection? Superintendents are the ones who buy CSCOPE.

TASA’s  Vision Learning Mission to reform Texas education is in opposition to the TEA mission for Texas education.

CSCOPE has lists of the TEKS, which is suppose to confirm that CSCOPE is aligned with the state standards. BUT,are the CSCOPE specificities in line with the SBOE standards? What about the following, do you think the CSCOPE specificity would be approved by the SBOE?

WH.1 History. The student understands traditional historical points of reference in world history. The student is expected to:

WH.1B Identify major causes and describe the major effects of the following events from 500 BC to AD 600: the development of the classical
civilizations of Greece, Rome, Persia, India (Maurya and Gupta), China (Zhou, Qin, and Han), and the development of major world religions.

 Christianity

• Jesus – rejected by the Jews as messiah, crucified

• Spread of Christianity throughout the Roman empire

• Peter, Paul, Pax Romana make the spread of Christianity possible

• 312 AD, Edict of Milan declares Christianity to be an approved religion by the emperor. A Church hierarchy is established and Rome is made

the official center of the Christian Church.

• Through the Middle Ages, the Church becomes the centralizing force of the Western culture.

Islam – historical origins, central ideas, and the spread of the religion

• Muhammad – born in or about 570 and is considered the founder of Islam

• Muslims – those who worship Allah and recognize Muhammad as the last Prophet

• Mecca – the Holy City of the Islamic faith

• Allah – monotheistic deity; also recognized as the God of Abraham (Yahweh)

• Hajj – pilgrimage to Mecca that each Muslim is required (health permitting) to take within their lifetime

• Koran (Qur’an) – book or writings of the prophet Muhammad

• Jihad (Holy Struggle) – the expansion of the Islamic state and control

• Trade and spread of religion – Silk roads, European exploration

 Development of monotheism

• Gradual development out of notions of henotheism (worshiping a single god while accepting the existence or possible existence of other

deities) and monolatrism (the recognition of the existence of many gods, but with the consistent worship of only one deity).

• Mesopotamian civilizations – cities had a local patron deity, such as Sin at Ur.

• Egypt – Pharaoh Akhenaten claims to be a supreme god

• India – references in the Rig Veda

• Zoroastrianism – Ahura Mazda is supreme deity

• Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) – one supreme God; also referenced as Yahweh or Allah

                                                     For additional info on Cscope please go to…….

                                      TXCSCOPEREVIEW.COM


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2nd AMENDMENT a COLLECTIVE RIGHT?

Dec 07
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cowboyCSCOPE Guides Students to Reinvent History

Texas progressive Curriculum Cscope is indoctrinating your children

with a progressive/socialist agenda. Cscope is in over 80% of the

TEXAS SCHOOLS (CSCOPE SCHOOLS). In a High School lesson the kids are

instructed to discuss whether the 2nd Amendment should be a collective

or individual right. In TEXAS you may ask???? (UNFORTUNATELY YES)

I call this INDOCTRINATION!

 

 


 

 

 

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

~LENIN~

Unfortunately in Texas Lenin’s goal of capturing the minds of our children is taking place under the control of  the Cscope Management System. Cscope is in grades K-12. I can only pray that individuals across the state of Texas will get involved and speak out against this indoctrination. . There is no excuse for a school dictrict to spend taxpayers money buying a curriculum based on socialist/marxist radicals. For more information on Cscope please check out the following website.

WWW.TXCSCOPEREVIEW.COM

 

 

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TEXAS SCHOOLS INDOCTRINATING WITH CSCOPE CURRICULUM

Dec 04
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THE FOLLOWING ARE A FEW TEST QUESTIONS THAT ARE ON THE CSCOPE ASSESSMENT TEST. 

 

 TEXAS CSCOPE TEST QUESTIONS….

Which of the following has been a benefit of globalization?

A pandemics

B increased standard of living (correct answer)

C loss of local culture

D widespread environmental impacts

 Which of the groups used protest strategies unlike the other groups to
  achieve equal rights?

F   Black Panthers (Correct Answer)
G   SCLC
H  NAACP
J  CORE

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CSCOPE GAG ORDER

Dec 03
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TEXAS  CSCOPE TEACHERS ARE GAGGED AND CHAINED INTO NOT DISCLOSING THEIR CSCOPE

CURRICULUM OR SAYING ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT IT. 

CSCOPE IS AN ONLINE CURRICULUM. PARENTS HAVE NOT BEEN ALLOWED TO SEE IT. BELOW IS A

COPY OF THE NONDISCLOSURE STATEMENT THAT HAS TO SIGNED ELECTRONICALLY ONLINE

WITH OUT LEGAL COUNSEL.

 

YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT CSCOPE AT WWW.TXCSCOPEREVIEW.COM

 

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14. Limitation of Liability.

Neither TESCCC nor any Affiliated Party shall be liable for any loss, injury, claim, liability, or damage of any kind resulting in any way from: (i) any errors in or omissions on the Site or in the Content; (ii) the unavailability or interruption of the Site or any features thereof; (iii) your use of the Site; (iv) the Content; or (v) any delay or failure in performance beyond the control of TESCCC or any Affiliated Party.

THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF TESCCC AND THE AFFILIATED PARTIES TO YOU AND OTHERS USING THE SITE UNDER THE SAME DISTRICT USER LICENSE AGREEMENT, IN THE AGGREGATE, IN CONNECTION WITH ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE CONTENT, THE SITE, THE CONTENT AND THE SERVICES PROVIDED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL NOT EXCEED AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THE AMOUNT PAID UNDER YOUR DISTRICT USER LICENSE AGREEMENT IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE BREACH AND THAT AMOUNT SHALL BE IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER REMEDIES WHICH YOU MAY HAVE AGAINST US AND ANY AFFILIATED PARTY.

15. Governing Law. This Agreement, and all related matters, shall be governed by Texas law and United States law. Any action arising out of any dispute with respect to this Agreement shall only be brought in the state or federal courts located in Travis County, Texas. You agree that the statute of limitations for any claim against TESCCC shall be brought within one year from when the claim arose, and any claims not brought within such period of time shall be deemed waived.

17. Equitable Remedies You agree that, if the terms of this Agreement are not specifically enforced, we will be irreparably damaged, and therefore you agree that we shall be entitled, without bond, other security or proof of damages, to appropriate equitable remedies with respect any breaches, in addition to any other available remedies.

16. Miscellaneous. This Agreement shall be interpreted as to its fair meaning and not strictly for or against any party. Any rule of construction to the effect that ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not apply in interpreting this Agreement. This Agreement and all incorporated agreements and your information may be automatically assigned by us in our sole discretion to a third party in the event of an acquisition, sale or merger. If any provision of this Agreement is held illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be replaced, to the extent possible, with a legal, valid, and enforceable provision that is similar in tenor to the illegal, invalid, or unenforceable provision as is legally possible. To the extent that anything in or associated with the Site is in conflict or inconsistent with this Agreement, this Agreement shall take precedence. Our failure to enforce any provision of this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver of such provision nor of the right to enforce such provision. Our rights under this Agreement shall survive any termination of this Agreement. The captions used in this Agreement are provided for convenience only and shall have no effect on the construction of the terms of this Agreement. This Agreement (and each supplemental agreement referenced in or referencing this Agreement found on the Site) constitutes the entire agreement between you and TESCCC with respect to the Site, the Content and any related matter.

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