Good for you. Thank goodness for your grandchildren.

The fight was actually made easier for the administration because I refused to join the teacher's union. I taught in FL which is a right-to-work state, so the union had no teeth anyway. But I would not join on principle. I honestly wish I could have held out longer, but health issues made that impossible. However, I left my attitude with several new teachers who, I am glad to say, are still keeping up the fight!

Seriously, white jackets and padded rooms might be in order. Because if they thought that really was music, they are deranged.

You are right, you see the teacher your child thinks the world of,, but you know they have been brainwashed by the unions and government. It's like a Catch 22. Then the administrators use the Delphi Technique to try to make parents think they are not seeing what their eyes have seen. It is no wonder so many parents fall for the talk of these unionized non-professionals. We are at war, for the minds of children across this country and beyond. We had to have parent meetings to share the latest atrocities in our system and to study the Delphi Technique and how to win against it. Thanks goes again to Tom DeWeese, who sent us handouts to share with other parents.

I second that. And the guitar player trying to figure out where she was and what she was singing.

Lol, Yes!

This is definitely representative of what is happening in Ohio schools (as well as across the country), and has been for 15 years or more. 15 years ago we had Maslow group therapy and group hypnosis on all classes in grade schools here, instead of academics. We had history teachers teaching kids they had "rights" with no mention of responsibilities. We have ongoing values clarification in required health classes. It leaves one asking, "Where's the academics!"
These teachers are brainwashed, either by the colleges where they get their free Masters degrees or by their unions. Our local union leaders once admitted to me they were turning children against their parents, because THEY thought it was best for them. Kids are taught, "There is no I in team." - at which point I gave our daughter "Anthm" to read. K just talked to the father of a 7 year old the other day, who said he could not understand why his daughter suddenly acted to disrespectful to her family - I filled him in..Teachers and even administrators are all in for this collectivist agenda. I thank Tom DeWeese (Ohio guy) of American Policy Center for letting me know 15 years ago.we were facing a nationwide agenda. Actually it is UN driven at this point. Kids will be taught to embrace UN Agenda 21, and already learn property rights must go.
Yeah, I too started out the 60s as an anti-Vietnam liberal, while my grounded brother told me another Civil War was in our future. He read history more than I did, but being curious, I started reading history. Mao did it for me, I began to see the agenda around me, I began to learn that McCarthy was right, there were commies in the government and other professions, trying to turn the US. I should have known, living in North Dakota in the early 60s, my Dad moved us to Texas, after he felt overwhelmed by the scope of an active CPUSA up there at the time. I hated Johnson, still do, and that also helped wake me up.
Believe me, what you see on the excellent post by overmanwarrior is not just Ohio, it is coming for your kids as well, and Common Core is their hammer.

As an ex-professional musician, I am offended. Especially my ears are offended. Even that old commie folk singer Pete Seeger who wrote the song is offended and spinning in his grave. There should be a law that anyone not able to carry a tune should not be allowed to sing in public!

I do too. Gavin Menzies presented a strong case that the people encountered during the frontier wars were actually Chinese from massive treasure fleets.

That would kind of mess up the modern notion of diffusion across the Bering Straight.

I admire your resolve and persistence in the face of the progressives. thank you

Great point. It was. This land is all our land according to communists. This is also why progressives try to capture the Native American message as if we were so wrong to destroy their culture by moving to America from Europe and building homes and establishing a standard of private ownership. Nobody wanted to destroy a culture of people, but what early Americans were fleeing from was Europe. Two cultures clashed, and the one with innovation and industry won. That is the real nature of an attack on early American frontersman favoring the sad, Native American. Anyone who has read the Ekert books knows the real story which has also been grotesquely supressed.

Thank you too for these comments. It is very good to hear these stories. People really need to hear this stuff. We have to name the evil so we can act against it. It's kind of like admitting that we are dealing with a cheating spouse. Nobody wants to believe that they can't trust a person who is so close to them. We don't want to believe that the government and the public schools were cheating on us behind our back.....but they have been. It is as clear as day under a cloudless sky.

I retired from teaching 7 years ago, after 20 years in education, for several reasons, one of which was that the Progressives had completely taken over public education. I taught American History to 11th graders. The textbook I was to teach from was ridiculously slanted left: half a chapter on the American Civil War, 1 chapter on WWI, 2 pages on the Spanish-American War, on 3 chapters on Progressivism, 3 chapters on the New Deal, 1 chapter on WWII, lots of information on LBJ, Nixon was the anti-Christ, the usual leftist views on Vietnam, etc.

I usually assigned the textbooks to the students because I was required to do so, then taught from my own notes and my own materials. Until the last few years, I had an assistant principal that did not concern himself with what I was doing and so I taught American History, not Revised American History. The last few years I taught, though, I had a new assistant principal who was a dyed-in-the-wool Progressive. The woman hounded me like a coon dog on the scent. I was reprimanded several times for not using the textbook, subjected to unannounced observations, and once suspended without pay for 2 days.

Common Core is the Progressive's wet dream. It does not teach any higher thinking skills, no extended thought processes, no critical thinking. It turns out nice, stupid automatons who will not question TPTB. It destroys any interest in life-long learning, because learning under Common Core is so tediously not fun.

I don't know how much this adds to the discussion, but I want to add my conviction that public education is broken ... has been broken for some time. There is no quick fix; I don't believe it can actually be fixed at all. At this time, charter schools or private schools are a parent's best bet.

It should. Its taboo to talk about but the plan all along--I think--was to destroy private property ownership. If you look at the voting record for how these things have been pushed through legislation over a long time, it traces back to the communist surge of the 1930s. The goal of these people is clearly to find a way to take from property owners for collective welfair. Public schools were a nice mask made of children which kept anybody from questioning the process. Think what you could have done with that $4000. Instead you were forced to pay for a public school system intent to "change the world one child at a time," until everyone is a big government progressive. This reminds me of the plan from Ayn Rand's We The Living. It just happened slowly instead of quickly like what happened in Petrograd.

Terrible! And they were actually sincere about it. LOL

It is very good to hear from you.

Yes, it is on my shelf ready to be watched once I'm done with the book. The person who loaned me the book also loaned me the movie.

Somebody needs to take a hammer to someones head and try to knock some sence in there, but liberal/union pukes are the same worldwide. They tell you what they want you to know and it usually is a lie, like Obama. If they really want to get to you, then its for the children and no-body denies the children. Then tried that lie last year in Arizona, but we knew better and voted them down..

Yeah, but "the children belong to all of us now", remember?

A friend of mine, who just might be a liberal, said in 1964 that he announced he was going to vote for Barry Goldwater. "But if you vote for Goldwater," one of his friends told him, "we'll get stuck in a land war in southeast Asia!"

My friend said, "So I voted for Goldwater, and sure enough, we got stuck in a land war in southeast Asia."

why even bother staying there to hear anything she had to say much less record her.

ok I before just read your article. I watched it. it's what the teachers want-no standards!

As I am reading my way through "The Stones Cry Out" the question in the back of my mind is this: Why didn't this story of Pol Pot get pounded into my head when I was a student in public schools? I know all about Hitler. Pol Pot's reign of terror is almost a current event, relatively speaking, because it is so recent. And, in my opinion it is equally evil. Yet, not a peep on it. Why?

Last night I was discussing it with a Vietnamese friend of mine when it hit me. Perhaps the reason almost nobody seems to know this story is because it was perpetrated by Communists. The rhetoric Pol Pot subjected his people to - things they would say to little children while they literally starved them to death while having them build roads with their bare hands - is so much like things the left says today it gives me chills. I find it highly disturbing, actually.

there is an excellent movie-"The Killing Fields"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087553/