About refusing these tests ... a mom writes ... "Although I am 100% against it, and I have made my feelings clearly known to my husband, my son specifically asked that he be allowed to [take the] test … and my husband feels like we should allow him to do it. I am beyond frustrated … Continue reading Helping Your Children Refuse
It’s impossible to tell a story you don’t even know. A jigsaw story with lots of pieces that don’t fit together. But I can’t get this story that I don’t know out of my head. I bought a book I shouldn’t have … at an estate sale. Found it in a danky basement. No one … Continue reading A Pious Frenzy
“Why do we protest one meaningless test and ignore the real harm being done day after day for years now? Opting out changed nothing for the children.” A Patchogue-Medford, NY, mom And she’s right. Fighting today’s education reform battles with yesterday’s tactics is a feel-good waste of time. “Nostalgia is a seductive liar.” Remember that. … Continue reading Spring Testing – Time For Hardball – An OptOut/WalkOut
https://www.facebook.com/ijrredpresents/videos/166395627393828/ This is how it stops. One father or mother stands up ... says "Enough!" ... and then takes them to court. Then another does the same. And another. Once other taxpayers see their hard earned school dollars going to pay settlements for such stupidity, well, it'll stop. And perhaps those angry taxpayers can … Continue reading This Is How It Stops! #Enough Parents Fight Back
Kiss your country good-bye. It’s broken. And it’s gonna get a lot more broken. Liberal-progressives are hijacking your country, kidnapping your children, ignoring your laws, and plundering your public treasuries to see their ideologies installed despite the will of the voting public. Liberal cities and states across the nation have declared their semi-independence from the United … Continue reading Kiss Your Country Good-Bye – Tide Pod Munchers Organize
So, your schools are a splendid mess ... go ahead ... act shocked ... it won’t change a thing. It's not a complicated story at all. This is your mess … and mine. It’s on all of us. “Where’d these imbeciles come from?” Here's a hint … Their mind-bending began on Day One … of … Continue reading You Cannot Be Shocked – Schools Are A Splendid Mess
Who owns your kids? You think you do … but do you really? That’s not a pot-stirring question. But it’s something you’d better consider. Fast. Because … the answer’s getting pretty murky. Birth certificates used to be proof of authority. That piece of paper that gave you parental regency over your child … and the … Continue reading Who Owns Your Kids? Hint: It’s Not You
No one is a bigger fan of teenagers than I am. I taught that age group for thirty years. They have fat hearts, kind souls, lots of decency ... and some own genuine sincerity ... most of the time. But they're young .... and easily herded ... and not as wise to the world as … Continue reading ALERT! Teen Brains Under Construction
This is a school. It has no secret powers over you ... or your child. A mother was threatened by school officials because she expressed her opinion on Facebook. She was "warned" that she might be banned from the campus ... and perhaps barred from school activities ... if she didn't smother her opinions. … Continue reading If Not You, Who? This Is A School, Not China
“I had my son at 40 … so I am old enough to remember the way things were.” Pamela Settle Didn't matter. You were totally unprepared for social and emotional learning, closed reading, frustrating math, social justice curricula, computerized assessments, and college and career ready education. And... of course ... academic kindergarten. This is the … Continue reading Rushing Them and Crushing Them – Church of Reformed Education
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