This is a clarion call for parents to rally 'round a superintendent willing to take on the State Education Department over this testing madness. This is, at long last, a superintendent unafraid to challenge this maniacal testing ... and the curriculum-driven preparation that has soured so many. The Rye schools pride themselves on their academic … Continue reading Clarion Call To Parents – NY State Testing
The World According to the Progressive Left over at 'The Intercept' … And their Most Empty Defense of Public Education ... Ever The author is one confused lady. In an article for “The Intercept”, a bewildered liberal author argues against herself. And loses. Badly. Quite a feat. The title alone is as accurate a statement … Continue reading Leftist Publication ‘The Intercept’ Attacks Parents – Parents Fire Back
“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
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
I have three sons … all deep enough into adulthood now. Two are fathers … the other is a genius. I’m tempted to call ‘em Moe, Larry, and Curly … but if I do … and it gets back to them … well ... then they’re gonna tell lots of secrets about you-know-who … so … Continue reading Who Said “Sh*t”?
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