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.”
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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….
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”.
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
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.
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.
Dr. Cathy Moak is the Component Director for School Transformation and Digital Learning at ESC 6
The men and women on the Board of Directors of Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC), who own Cscope, the progressive/Marxist curriculum in Texas Schools in my opinion need to be in jail. What a nefarious act to implement a Marxist philosophy of education in our Texas schools for the last 6–7 years where parents could not see the lessons and teachers had to sign a non-disclosure statement that they would not release the contents or say anything negative about it. Then we have the question of where is all this money. Is this another ENRON situation a ponzi scheme. For our Texas Education Service Center Directors to form a non-profit using tax payers money to create their “Cscope” product and sell it out of our of our State Agencies using State employees? There are many questions that have not been answered. This is ESC Director XIII Terry Smith’s response being questioned as the money trail.
Communist Vladimir Lenin once quoted “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted”. Unfortunately for millions of Texas school children and unbeknownest to their parents Texas students have sat under the Marxist philosophy of the Cscope Curriculum.
I have spent the last year trying to notify community leaders, parents through every social media sight I could find. I have met with Cscope reps and spoke at Willis ISD school Board Meeting only to be lambasted by a Cscope Coordinator from ESC Region VI. You can read the whole story HERE.
I emailed teachers and school staff about my concerns and Superintendent Dan Powell from Crowley ISD in his most professional manner sent me the following response.
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
If you feel like contacting Mr. Powell about your concerns in regard to Cscope his email is dan.powell@crowley.k12.tx.us
Action Item….Texans we have to contact our State Reps and have them sign onto Steve Toth’s HB 760 or this will happen again.
Additional Information on Cscope can be found @ TXCSCOPEREVIEW
Freshman Texas House Representative Steve Toth has released the following press release stating that his office as filed an open records request for the financials and meeting minutes of the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC) who owns the controversial Texas Curriculum, Cscope. Cscope has come under fire lately from the Texas Senate Education Committee due to the grassroots effort of exposing the progressive/Marxist curriculum. Cscope has been in the Texas school system for the last 6-7 years without parent or community knowledge due to the stealth tactics taken by the board of directors of TESCCC of not releasing lesson content to parents and having teachers sign a non-disclosure statement that they would not release material or say anything negative about it. For information on Cscope check out TXCSCOPEREVIEW.COM
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.
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.”
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?
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.
Texas 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.
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.
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
For additional information on Cscope and it’s indoctrination go to WWW.TXCSCOPEREVIEW.COM
Texas Teachers are being intimidated into not speaking out against Cscope, a Texas progressive curriculum.. Teachers had to sign a non dislosure statement that they will not speak negative against Cscope or disclose the content.
Teachers if you need to send information anonymously by email or snail mail…
1. Lindy McCulloch (ESC Cscope Director ESC Region VI) trying to intimidate me for speaking against Cscope at a Willis ISD Board Meeting. (I am not a teacher but I am giving teachers a voice).
In an attempt to alert the community of Crowley Texas about Cscope I sent the following email to varies email address I could find, pastors, govt officials, school administration, etc..
WARNINGTEXAS Parents, Grandparents, Pastors and Community Leaders
If you would like to have a Progressive, Anti Christian, Pro Islamic education for your child, look no further than your Texas Public Schools, charters and some christian private schools. Thanks to Texas Educations Service Centers and their creation of Cscope Curriculum we are now looking at the dumbing down of the Texas Education System. Sadly as the ESC directors and their reps profit financially the ones that will suffer are our children. Read more HERE;
The following is the response from Crowley ISD Superintendent Dan Powell in my attempt to alert the community in Crowley, Texas about Cscope. is what I emailed to school employees, teachers, community leaders and pastors.
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
What shocked me most about his response was his attempt to defend his faith and patriotism. Why?
SBOE Member THOMAS RATLIFF refers to those of concerned and
speaking out against the progressive indoctrination of our children
with Cscope as promoting a conspiracy theory and having part
The Boston Tea Party was a Terrorist Attack……according to TX school Curriculum, Cscope
Posted by Ginger Russell on November 19, 2012 at 3:09pm
News report: New Act of Terror!
A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the property of private citizens today at our nation’s busiest port. Although no one was injured in the attack, a large quantity of merchandise, considered to be valuable to its owners and loathsome to the perpetrators, was destroyed. The terrorists, dressed in disguise and apparently intoxicated, were able to escape into the night with the help of local citizens who harbor these fugitives and conceal their identities from the authorities. It is believed that the terrorist attack was a response to the policies enacted by the occupying country’s government. Even stronger policies are anticipated by the local citizens.
