I have highlighted this lesson in an earlier blog titled Mom & Dad, My Global Footprint is too Large. Looking further into this crazy environmental quiz you find where they demonize the parents for decisions they have made (large house, swimming pools, more children, etc) Shocking is the fact that they suggest High School students share baths in order to lower their global footprint. Who are they suggesting these kids share a bath with? Do you feel comfortable sharing baths with your family members? I think I will stick with the poor score of having a higher environmental footprint.
I also want you to notice that this lesson was uploaded into CSCOPE’S online portal on April 15th, less than a month ago. You would think that they would lay low with their controversial material due to public outrage that has taken place across the state of Texas.
CSCOPES’ interpretation of your child’s Environmental Footprint SCORE. We may need more planets.
Wow… this is awesome if you want to see into the mind of Progressive/Liberal thinker, Dwayne Howard. Below is a copy of his bio on his own website. His blog describing me as a turtle that want come out of it’s shell (I personally thought was funny), lets you know how these leftist think when they come out of their own shell. You know for a fact that it is not about students learning and achieving when you read CRAP like his, it is about INDOCTRINATION!
I want to say so much .. but I will let his words hang him self! Check out his BLOG!!
I am happy to report that Montgomery County Independent School District has made the right decision in not renewing their CSCOPE contract, just after one year of purchasing it from Texas Education Service Center VI.
Dr. Beau Rees, superintendent of Montgomery ISD obviously is listening to teachers and the community in regard to the controversy and concerns about CSCOPE. Hats off to you Dr. Rees. Our children will benefit because of your decision.
The Brazosport community has come out in droves over the last month against CSCOPE. Brazosport ISD administration and School Board had seemed to of dug in their heels in implementing the controversial Marxist Curriculum. The liberal school board liberal Ruth Ann Few, attempted to marginalize those that are CSCOPE critics. Read her comments in a prior blog.
I am so happy to announce that the Brazosport Community delivered a verdict against CSCOPE in the school board election. Joe Silvas ousted Ms.Few by just 56 votes. YEAH!! Jerry Atkins beat out incumbent Louis Walker. I have been informed that both Silvas and Walker are Anti CSCOPE.
The Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative, (TESCCC) who owns CSCOPE were asked months ago to turn over their financials and have failed to do so until yesterday, May 10th. And I personally question what was turned over after taking this long and dragging their feet in being transparent. They have hidden the whole CSCOPE fiasco from the public by having teachers sign non disclosure statements, not disclosing the lesson content or financials when requested. Transparency is not this group’s forte. What are they hiding? Is is shocking to say the TESCCC board of directors, which are the directors of the Texas Education Service Centers are the men and women who have a great influence over our Texas School system, either directly or indirectly? Senator Dan Patrick had enough of their lollygagging and threatened them with a subpoena. Read the following ……
Senator Patrick posted the following post on his Face Book page
Friday May 10th.
Monday May 6th Senator Patrick addressed the following letter to TESCCC’s chairman of the board, Anne Poplin. (Note: there is an error in the following on the date. It should of stated May 10, 2013. ) I think they got the HINT though!
Senator Patrick’s Press Release as of Friday, May 10th. Please contact Sen. Patrick and tell him thank you for staying on top of this. Our children deserve better.
Despite the fact that a Marxist curriculum called CSCOPE is now under the review of the Texas Attorney General, Brenham ISD school board votes to continue it’s use. Why? It is shocking to hear that school districts across the state continue to renew contracts, use, implement, or purchase CSCOPE. Does your district use it? Check HERE!! CSCOPE is based on a Marxist philosophy of education. There are so absolute truth in CSCOPE. Subject matters are all up for debate which is what “progressive educators” call “critical thinking”. Numerous lessons have been exposed revealing CSCOPE’S pro communist, pro Islamic content. CSCOPE has been hailed by Texas Senator Dan Patrick “If CSCOPE was an airline he have it grounded”.
Why are superintendents and school boards endangering your children? Why would they not lean on the side of caution? Parents need to wake up as to what is going on in your school districts.
The days of trusting school officials and trusting that their decisions are the best for your children are over.
There are millions of dollars surrounding this controversy that have not been accounted for.
Ms. Young is a candidate for the Rockwall Indepedent School District school board in Rockwall, Texas. I heard Ms. Young address a crowd of parents a couple of months ago and I immediately knew she had a left leaning political agenda.
I have worked tirelessly for the last year exposing CSCOPE: the Marxist Curriculum in over 875 Texas Schools. I would like to say it surprises me, but you always seem to find some individual that sticks their head in the sand and doesn’t see the truth or if they do, they could care less, such is the case with Ms. Shana Little Young. She has gone on the attack mode of claiming that those who have exposed CSCOPE have a financial interest in doing so. What a LIE this is!! If anything it has cost us all money and time in hopes of protecting all children and our country.
I am very pleased to say that the Texas Attorney General now has CSCOPE under review. How sad for those students who have sat under it for the last 6-7 years.
After reading this I could not believe she was running for public office but then again Obama is President.
Reasons Superintendents and School Board Members Give for Purchasing CSCOPE
by Janice VanCleave
Rockwall Superintendent Bailey says that the CSCOPE tool provided many benefits to the district that were lacking. For example:
X 1. CSCOPE was developed by Texas teachers for Texas teachers that brought the pacing needed to cover all the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) curriculum content required by the state.
An X is placed by this reason because it cannot be true. Common sense confirms that it is not possible for the authors of the CSCOPE TEKS schedules called YAGs to have any information about the pacing of the TEKS.
BECAUSE:
The state standards called TAKS ended May 2010 and the new state standards called TEKS were introduced in Aug. 2010. Thus, the CSCOPE product used in May, 2010 had to be totally rewritten to be aligned with the new TEKS and ready for school in August, 2010.
X 2. CSCOPE also provided additional lesson resources that our teachers could utilize if they were to choose to do so. I would also note that when the administration was proposing CSCOPE there was no controversy surrounding its use by the more than 875 school districts across the state of Texas since 2006. In addition to public schools CSCOPE has been adopted by private schools, charter schools as well as private Christian schools.
This reason also gets an X for lack of originality. “Mom, All the kids are doing it.”
The Rockwall school board president said that Superintendent Bailey reported to the school board that his (Baily’s) leadership team had reviewed the CSCOPE tool along with the region 10 center and the CSCOPE developers.
This means the company selling CSCOPE told the leadership team that their product was great! Did the Rockwall leadership team expect them to say that their product filled with errors or that the science lessons do not correctly represent the science process skills? DUH!
Ed Vara with ESC XIII admits that there is no outside oversight of the CSCOPE Curriculum.
Superintendent Bailey said, “The CSCOPE representative attended our board workshop and participated in the presentations to the board. The board was comfortable that the district had done it due diligence before recommending the tool to the board.”
It is hard to comment on this statement. OF COURSE the CSCOPE representative attended and participated. DUH!!! Again, what did the superintendent think the CSCOPE representative was going to do. Tell the truth?
I have not met any CSCOPE representative that had a clue of the lesson content. In fact, I was told that others review the lessons. The CSCOPE representatives promote and sell. They have a really good sales pitch.
X3.CSCOPE is inexpensive.
This is absolutely not true. There hidden fees. But this lie comes from the ESCs.
Did ESC- 10 tell Mr. Bailey’s research team that $100 million dollars were provided in 2009 via Rider 42 grant for the purpose of developing TEKS instruction materials for Texas educators K-12.
That’s right. All 20 of the ESCs were given money not only to develop TEKS training but to provide this training at no expense to teachers. In the summer of 2010, teachers were paid a stipend to attend these science, math, and ELAR TEKS professional development academies. How many Rockwall teachers attended?
Following is the amount of money that ESC Region-10 received for the purpose of preparing Rockwall teachers to understand the TEKS they would be using in 2010-2011 for the first time. Yes! Your Region 10 Education Service Center was given $5,664,515 to develop TEKS materials so that Rockwall teachers would have the scope for the courses they taught as well as enough knowledge about the TEKS to develop their own TEKS schedule that would be aligned with the schools’s calendar.
Let me repeat this: In all, the 20 ESCs received $100 million dollars to develop and present TEKS professional development academies. The objective of these academies was for Texas Educators to have specificities for the TEKS K-12.
2009 REG X EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER —- 2,618,985
2010 REG X EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER — 3,045,533
Instead of making arrangements for Rockwall teacher to attend the FREE TEKS PD academies, CSCOPE was rented at a fee of $100 thousand dollars per year. This doesn’t include other fees charged.
According to Superintendent Bailey, “The cost to the district to create our own curriculum management tool would be approximately $300K+ per year (this is to create and maintain its own curriculum management tool).”
Does anyone have a clue what a curriculum management tool is? All I have discovered about CSCOPE is that its original goal was to give superintendents and school administrators the tools to micromanage teachers. In fact, CSCOPE’s administration workshops are focused on how to monitor teachers.
According to Superintendent Bailey, due to the state cutting $5B from public school funding two years ago it put school districts across the state in the position to make some very tough decisions. As a direct result of the cuts made by the state legislature the RISD has lost $15.7M dollars of funding over the last two years ($9.3M in year one and $6.4M in year two).
While Rockwall teachers may have been cut and classroom money for classroom supplies decreased, it did not stop Superintendent Bailey and the School Board members from spending school taxes to pay their personal fees and expenses to private organizations called “Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA)” and “Texas Association of School Boards (TASB).” These fees for 2011-2012 and 2012 – through Dec. 2012 is a total of $62,094.25. Which is more important, “Having teachers or for the school administrators and school board members to attend conferences at the expense of tax payers?”
X The Rockwall school board and the administration communicated that:
1. The lessons provided by the CSCOPE tool were optional.
2. Rockwall teachers are free to use their own lessons to present the content required by the TEKS.
3. The Rockwall school board and administration have full confidence in Rockwall classroom teachers and their ability to present the content required and to do so in a manner consistent with the values or our community. RISD has the best teachers in the state of Texas!
These statements get an X because if they were true, Rockwall would not have rented the CSCOPE micromanaging system. If they were true there would be no need to pay for the TEKS scheduling when the Rockwall teachers are more than competent to group the TEKS for their lessons into time frames. If the Rockwall teachers were really respected the administration would have provided the opportunity for them receive the FREE Rider 42 TEKS PD academy materials. The administration can still make these materials available by contacting Region 10 and requesting them.
Also, if CSCOPE was created by teachers for teachers, and the Rockwall administration and school board consider the Rockwall teachers the best in the state of Texas, why buy something that inferior teachers have produced?
FYI: *Rockwall Superintendent Jeff Bailey is listed as being part of the TASA Mission to Transform your schools. What exactly is Bailey trying to change? What are the goals of this transformation? In Feburary the goal of TASA was for Texas administrators to attend a conference in California where Linda Darling-Hammond was speaking on Common Core. TASA specifically said that Texas Superintendents needed to attend to learn how to implement common core into the Texas Schools. Is Superintendent Bailey transforming the Rockwall ISD into a school that will be controlled by the Federal Government. Yes! Texas Schools are independent and yes your superintendent can give this away by implementing common core standards. With these standards come federal money along with federal rules and regulations. Why would any superintendent support this? Superintendents who have pledged to be part of the TASA mission of transforming Texas schools are no longer as concerned about community input. Instead, they are marching to a different drummer called TASA/TASB.
In 2009-2010, the ESCs who own TESCCC received about $50 million to develop and present teacher training for science and ELAR TEKS. The first training sessions were offered in the summer of 2010. This was important because teachers would be developing their science and ELAR lessons around these new Texas standards called TEKS.
Few teachers attended the summer sessions even though a stipend was to be given to teachers attending. Why?
The answer is given in a report to TEA about the Rider 42 grant project below. Basically, the ESC made an effort not to announce this program. How could 20 different groups fail to advertise something so very important?
It seems that the ESCs didn’t do anything special to advertise these FREE TEKS Academies.
Remember: 2010-2011 was the first year that the TEKS were to be used and teachers were apprehensive about starting the school year “cold.” The ESCs had at least a year to work on developing the TEKS training for Texas educators and yet these ESCs did not notify educators that there would be free training in the summer of 2010. I keep thinking how much could be done with $50 million. Following is the very lame excuse given by the ESCs. ESC, which stands for Education Service Center is a misnomer.
During the summer of 2010, instead of promoting the Free TEKS Academies, teachers who serendipitous discovered that the academies were being presented attended, but many teachers were forced to attend CSCOPE training sessions. This is because the ESCs were selling CSCOPE and telling the public that schools had asked them to create the CSCOPE materials. If so, it was only because these schools were not offered the free TEKS academy materials.
I can testify to the fact that the Free Science K-4 TEKS professional development materials created by TEA and Region 4 are wonderful. In fact, to hide these free materials and sell CSCOPE materials is comparable of robbing children of food. The food in this case is their education. Yes, the ESCs have stolen the education away from Texas children.
I am preparing a series of articles that compare the Free TEKS PD Academy science lessons with comparable CSCOPE lessons. This will be information that parents can take to their superintendents and ask for an explanation.
Note: The ESCs were given a second chance to make amends. Yes, these same 20 groups were given another $50 million to develop TEKS PD for social studies as well as present the science and ELAR academies again. Yes, the ESCs knew this money was coming. Did they correct the error of not starting early to advertise the Free TEKS programs. NO! Same procedure–”If the teachers find out they will come.” Few teachers have attending these free programs and now the ESCs claim that there is no money for the Math TEKS. What! $152 million was allotted and there is no money for the math? What happened to all this money?
HOUSTON — Some parents say students in Texas are the victims of a plan to rewrite history. Parents are taking aim at CSCOPE, a program being used in about three-quarters of all Texas school districts.
According to parent Kathy Rogers, one lesson equates the Boston Tea Party patriots to terrorists.
“It looked like what they were trying to do was make capitalism and democracy obsolete,” she said.
Her daughter is a junior in the Friendswood ISD, one of the districts buying into the private program.
In one lesson, students design a flag for an imaginary communist country. Critics say it leans too far left.
“I think basically they’re trying to downplay American culture. They’re trying to downplay American exceptionalism,” Rogers said.
Brent Hawkins is an administrator with the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC) and has heard the complaints.
He believes that they are the exception and not the norm.
“CSCOPE was not written in California, it was not written in the liberal state of Massachusetts, it was written here in Texas by Texas teachers,” he said.
When it started a few years ago, CSCOPE was intended to help smaller districts save money. It created a standard core curriculum for grades K-12 which encouraged teaching through technology over textbooks.
“The efficiency of it, the price savings that’s been passed on to school districts, you’ve seen some of the larger districts see a value in that and buy in as well,” Hawkins said.
But parents say it has not always been transparent. Much of the learning comes off computers seen only in classrooms.
They say there is no way to check all that is in there and worry catching all mistakes may be impossible.
“It’s like ‘whack-a-mole,’” Kathy Rogers said. “You take something out but who knows if five things that are wrong aren’t added at the same time or at different times.”
Combine that with the critics’ view that CSCOPE sends too many mixed signals about America’s greatness, and it becomes clear why legislators are now getting involved.
Houston State Senator Dan Patrick recently passed a CSCOPE bill calling for a thorough review. The findings are due in four or five months.
“I’d like to put CSCOPE out of business,” Sen. Patrick said. “What we have is in my view is a rogue curriculum being taught in over 800 of our 1000 school districts that has never been under review, that has never been fact checked, and even the people who run CSCOPE don’t know what’s in their own lessons.”
For now, the Friendswood ISD has suspended the social studies portion. Rogers started a website so that parents can share notes on what their kids are learning.
For them, history is being written while they take on an entire curriculum.
Attorney General Abbott Sends Letter to TESCCC Regarding Disclosure of CSCOPE Materials
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott sent the following letter to the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC) regarding allegations that Texas parents are being denied access to CSCOPE curriculum and materials.
Ms. Anne Poplin
Chair, Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC) Governing Board
301 Loop 11
Wichita Falls, Texas 76306
Dear Ms. Poplin:
It has come to our attention that school districts may be denying Texas parents access to CSCOPE curriculum and materials in violation of the Texas Education Code. Specifically, it has been alleged that school districts are improperly attempting to charge parents hundreds of dollars in order to access CSCOPE-related information that must be provided to them under Texas law.
As you know, Section 26.006(a) of the Texas Education Code provides that parents are “entitled to review all teaching materials, instructional materials, and other teaching aids used in the classroom of the parent’s child.” The Education Code also provides that school districts “shall make teaching materials and tests readily available for review by parents.” Further, Texas law specifically states that “A student’s parent is entitled to request that the school district…allow the student to take home any instructional materials used by the student.”
Notwithstanding the fact that Texas law clearly requires school districts to make educational materials accessible to parents, it is our understanding that school districts have recently attempted to charge hundreds of dollars for information related to the CSCOPE curriculum. To the extent parents are being charged a fee in order to access CSCOPE-related information, such a fee is not authorized by the Education Code.
In light of these concerns, we request that the TESCCC promptly notify school districts that information related to CSCOPE must be provided to parents in accordance with Chapter 26 of the Texas Education Code, which does not authorize the imposition of a fee. With summer fast approaching, it is imperative that the TESCCC distribute the notification requested herein immediately so that parents are assured access to CSCOPE-related information before the end of the school year. Finally, be advised that failure to comply with the Education Code’s disclosure requirements could result in legal action against school districts.
Sincerely,
Greg Abbott
Attorney General of Texas
cc: The Honorable Dan Patrick
Chairman, Texas Senate Committee on Education
You would hope that when you elect your school board members, they represented you and not the liberal agenda of the school superintendent. Such is the case with Rockwall ISD school board President,Doug Hamilton. Hamilton answered a series of questions for the Rockwell News in hopes of convincing the Rockwall community that the Marxist Curriculum, CSCOPE was a great and needed product for Rockwall ISD. Despite the mounting evidence of Pro Communist/Pro Islamic material that is riddled throughout CSCOPE, and the fact that it is now under the review of the Texas Attorney General, Gregg Abott, Hamiton can still support CSCOPE. Though Hamilton’s article is riddled with misstatements and lies, below is one question posed to Hamilton about CSCOPE’s Pro Communist material which I can personally say, his response is a lie.
CSCOPE Director Danny Lovett Caught Lying about Chinese/Soviet Communist Flag Lesson while speaking to parents at Lumberton ISD “Truth about CSCOPE” Presentation.
ESC Director, Danny Lovett
Director says CSCOPE Lesson teaches kids in Texas Schools that Communism OPPRESSES, but truth is the Lesson teaches the Communism UNITES. Proof shows that this CSCOPE Curriculum shows Communism positively, not negatively.
After a few minutes of heated discussion and dodging questions, Danny Lovett goes on to defend the “Communist Flag Lesson” by blatantly lying about what was in the Communist Flag Lesson.
As you can see in the video, CSCOPE Director Says, “The Whole Thing is Designed to Show that the Communist Government is Oppressive.”
Sounds Good Right?
The Problem is NOTHING HE SAID IS TRUE.
See the Paper in the CSCOPE Director’s hand in the video? That is the Chinese Communist Flag Lesson. I got a copy of that lesson to see if what Danny Lovett was saying was true.
The Truth is, what the LESSON says completely CONTRADICTS what the CSCOPE DIRECOR says.
The Chinese Flag Communist Lesson
As you can see, the Chinese Flag Lesson says NOTHING about Communism being over and OPPRESSING the people. In fact, the lesson says the Chinese People are UNITED by and around the Communist Government.
The Soviet Flag
The Lesson says nothing about Soviet Communism OPPRESSING the people. In fact, the Lesson says that the Communist Star in the Flag Symbolizes its role in UNIFYING the people in the Socialist Society.
United States Flag
He even lied about this!
Danny Lovett says that the lesson teaches that the stars on the U.S. flag are all equal to show that the people are all equal. Well, the U.S. Flag says nothing about the size of the stars and what they mean.
Conclusion:
This CSCOPE Director LIED.
He Told Lumberton Parents GREAT things about the lesson like how the lesson explains to kids that Communist Govenments OPPRESS people but the American Government treats everyone equal.
The LESSON teaches something completely opposite of what he told parents. The LESSON teaches that Communism UNITES people, not oppresses them and it says NOTHING about people being equal in America.
The TRUTH is, any Kid Reading the Lesson will believe that Communism UNITES the people, NOT OPPRESSES THEM.
Kids then DREW COMMUNIST FLAG
Finally, at the end of the video, You Heard Right, the Kids were asked to draw their own Communist flag, based on what they learned from the LESSON.
The Problem is, Contrary to what Danny Lovett said, the LESSON teaches that Communism UNITES people.
I can only imagine what Communist flags the kids drew. Maybe they drew people holding hands around the Communist Government that “Unites” them. That is what the lesson teaches.
CSCOPE DIRECTOR LIED!
Communist Lesson did NOT teach that Communism was Oppressive. Students should NOT have drawn a Communist flag. We should make sure they understand AMERICAN values before false Communist values.
If this CSCOPE Director BLATANTLY LIED about this Communist Lesson, what else will they lie about?
A controversial school curriculum management system in Texas that once included a description of
the Boston Tea Party as terror, and has referenced Islamic terrorists as freedom fighters, now has been found to be trying to charge parents hundreds of dollars to see the instructional materials being used by their own children, officials said.
However, under Texas Education Code Chapter 26, all parents have the undisputed right to see any and all instructional materials used in state classrooms.
The program is CSCOPE, and Amy Zimmerman, a mother in the Collinsville Independent School District, asked to see the 7th grade CSCOPE science lessons used between September 2012 and May 2013, citing her “parental right” under state law.
However, instead of the materials, what she got was a letter from an attorney for the district requiring the payment of $770 so see the materials.
Gerry Miller, an attorney with expertise in education law, said that doesn’t appear to align with the law.
“Suffice it to say the statute is mandatory because of the use of the word ‘shall,’ it is therefore incumbent on the school to comply with the parent’s request. No provision is made for payment by a parent as a ‘condition precedent’ to obtaining the teaching material,” Miller said.
“If a school district demands fees, especially exorbitant fees, to review teaching material, such action has the effect of invalidating the statute’s intent,” he said. “I would fully expect a judge to apply the statute as written and order the school to provide the information without charge.”
Miller also explained an added complication would be that property taxes have been used to support CSCOPE, which has faced heavy criticism by parents, teachers and legislators, culminating in hearings that revealed serious academic deficiencies in the areas of math, science and English, as well as what many critics believe is an agenda-driven bias in social studies content that promotes a negative view of America.
WND has reported on lessons claiming the Boston Tea Party was a terrorist act, and lessons requiring students to design flags for a new communist country.
Teachers also have told WND:
Lessons are not matched to grade level; a ninth-grade lesson asks students to circle capital letters in a sentence.
One social studies lesson teaches that capitalism is obsolete and communism is the best economic system, using a diagram that shows a man climbing a ladder towards communism.
A third-grade lesson defines American “equality” as “fair share.” Competing definitions that include “equality under the law” or “equal opportunity” are not discussed.
Muhammad is portrayed as a social justice crusader. There is no mention of his marriage to a young girl or his beheading of indigenous population groups.
Political parties are taught from what critics claim is a subjective and left-leaning perspective, e.g. Democrats “benefit each individual” while Republicans “favor big business.”
WND has also recently acquired lessons covering the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, teaching students that “medicine” and “food” are “rights,” and not a matter of personal responsibility.
Students who do not answer that “medicine” and “food” are “rights” have their answers marked as incorrect, sources report.
Other controversial lesson content includes a science lesson that instructs students to set things on fire in the middle of class and also lessons that promote anorexia and mercy death, according to Mary Bowen, a curriculum expert and teacher of 30 years who corresponds with WND.
CSCOPE also has come under fire for its secrecy and lack of transparency, forcing teachers and districts to sign “user agreements” – what whistleblowers say amount to “gag orders.” Teachers are exposed to legal liability if they share lesson content or other class materials with the general public, and threats of termination have been reported by teachers who attempt to engage parents about controversial CSCOPE content.
One result of legislative hearings was the suggestion for changes in user agreements, but sources have told WND that existing users are not included in any changes; they are only for new groups who want to sign up.
A CSCOPE program advising on the privacy requirements for the content notes users are required to not allow “unauthorized users to have online access … or gain permanent possession of … content.”
How sad it is that our education system is no longer about learning, but INDOCTRINATION. Any parent who is privileged enough to see the Texas’s Marxist curriculum, CSCOPE, you will realize their agenda is to indoctrinate your child with a global agenda. In a High School Biology class they have the students complete CSCOPE’S GLOBAL FOOT PRINT QUIZ. The quiz ask questions about personal family issues that I personally think is none of their business. One of the questions ask how many siblings the student has. The more children in the family the larger their Global Footprint is and there must be changes to minimize it. What is Sally or Bobby going to say to mom and dad? “My global footprint is to large so please don’t have anymore kids, I have to save the earth”. This green/global/enviromental/ agenda has become a religion of its own. Please learn and read how anti-christian this agenda is at http://green-agenda.com/. Get involved in your schools and ask for your children’s homework and test. The time of complacency is over if we are going to save our country.
I have been on the front lines fighting Texas’s Marxist Curriculum, CSCOPE for the last year. After home schooling my children I never thought I would be in this fight. After becoming aware of CSCOPE I just could not sit back and let Texas students be indoctrinated with this mess. If your school doesn’t have CSCOPE please don’t think you are home free and safe from the progressive/Marxist indoctrination.
If I had children today in the Texas public schools they would be pulled out so fast their head would spin. I did take my children out of public schools in their elementary years to home school, and it was one of the best decisions my husband and I made. We will forever be grateful we did. My children are now grown and college graduates, they love Jesus, America and have a since of right and wrong. Those values are not going to be taught in a government public school today.
I never thought I would home school. My husband and I are neither college graduates, having ADHD myself, and loving my independent spirit, home schooling was not in my plans. Wow, how the Lord changed things. After moving my oldest in a private christian school and found it to be insufficient and expensive home schooling started sounding like a real possibility. After doing some research I became very excited about schooling my kids at home.
The first year was a learning experience. Coming out of the “public school” way of doing things there is some retraining especially for the parents. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE LIKE PUBLIC/GOVT SCHOOLS and shouldn’t. Our second year was quite different especially since I was very ill. I did not formally school that year, other than letting them read and help me with IV medications.
When the kids got in the later junior high years I signed them up for co op classes for English & Science. We made numerous field trips to museums, movies, and various theater productions. We attended Christian Worldview conferences where we first met historian DAVID BARTON. There are so many opportunities for home school families today to make the journey one you will never regret. One book that can be taught while home schooling in depth, and I wished I would of taught more of was GOD’S WORD, The Bible.
We were fortunate enough to travel and do mission trips in 3rd world countries. We became advanced scuba divers and dove Hawaii, Mexico, Bahamas, and Honduras. I gave both girls high school credit in oceanography. I would say our field trips were extraordinaire. We were blessed to do and go places as a family and learn many things first hand. Though the trips were great the things we look back and value the most was the amount of family time we shared.
My greatest gift from it all is that both my girls plan on home schooling my grand kids.
Time to put your child’s education in your hands and not the liberal/progressives.
Thinking about Homeschooling? Check out the following links…more forthcoming..
Rockwall ISD, in Rockwall Texas feels at liberty to attack parents and taxpayers that are greatly concerned about the district’s use of the Marxist curriculum CSCOPE. On April 11, 2013 Hudson ISD’s liberal superintendent and TASA’s legislative chair, Mary Ann Whitiker has written and posted an article on TEXAS ISD calling the parents and taxpayers MaCarthyist and their actions comparable to the false allegations of those of the Salem Witch Trials. In reading Ms. Whitikers description of the Salem Witch Trials she pretty well quoted the details of the event in her article, from Wikipedia verbatim.
Wikipedia definition……
Ms. Whitikers’ definition
Ignoring the facts that there is controversial material riddled though out CSCOPE which has been presented to State Senators and Representatives which is now under the review of the Texas Attorney General, Mrs. Whitiker can’t except the truth if you laid in right in front of her. I am glad my children or grandchildren are not in Hudson ISD or Rockwall ISD for that matter.
Rockwall Superintendent Jeff Bailey obviously finds Ms. Whitiker’s accusations appropriate. Rockwall ISD has linked Ms. Whitiker’s article to the school website. As I have stated in an earlier blog: Superintendent Jeff Bailey is not doing his job!!
Exciting news~ Another Texas ISD said No to CSCOPE tonight!!
Just Breaking ~ Kilgore ISD School Board voted tonight 7-0 in favor of rewriting curriculum UPON the Superintendents recommendation. NO CSCOPE ~ That is one smart Superintendent!! Way to Go Kilgore Parents!! You Rock!!
After doing a little research I was shocked to see how unsettled Texas school superintendents are. They change jobs and move around the state like a game of musical chairs. Why? What is their goal? Is it money? Security? Implementing CSCOPE (TEXAS’S MARXIST CURRICULUM) where it isn’t? We are not sure but found it shocking none the less. Why not stick with it and make the school district better? Below are just a few that are changing schools!
by John Griffing with World Net Daily
has written and posted an article on 
