ABCs of DumbDown

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

TAKE YOUR TOYS TO THE DUMP

#NO WAY ESEA    #NO WAY ESEA    #NO WAY ESEA

KEEP CALLING (202-224-3121) AND EMAILING YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES!!!

S1177 (the Reauthorization of ESEA...the old No Child Left Behind Act) is a combination of Republican Congressman John Kline's HR5 Student Success Act and Republican Senator Lamar Alexander's Every Child Achieves Act 2015 (S1177)

You, members of Grassroots America, killed HR5 last February. You can kill its companion bill S1177, which is coming up for a full vote in the Senate any day now.

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THIS IS A MUST-SEE VIDEO:

Someone had to tell the truth about the end of civilized living.

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

COMMUNIST CORE: THE BIG LIE

Excerpt from first link below:

"The common core curricula in civic education defined on learning outcomes has been publicly discussed in period February 23 thru March 22, 2015 in twelve places in Bosnia and Herzegovina."

"Civic education helps in raising awareness over active citizenship with the society while public discussions gathered the comments and opinions of teachers and other actors involved in the education process."

Common Core in Bosnia defined on learning outcomes (outcome based)

http://www.aposo.gov.ba/en/2015/03/23/public-discussions-on-core-curricula-in-civic-education-completed/

http://www.aposo.gov.ba/en/2014/03/10/developing-ccc-in-social-sciences-and-humanities/

http://www.aposo.gov.ba/en/2014/08/25/learning-outcomes-in-cross-curricular-area/

http://www.aposo.gov.ba/en/2013/03/27/work-results-the-method-of-commom-core-curricula-development-in-language-and-communication-area-and-mother-tongue-in-bih/

http://www.aposo.gov.ba/en/2014/10/20/development-of-ccc-for-mathematic-area/

http://www.aposo.gov.ba/en/2014/12/18/development-of-the-cross-curricular-area/

(OECD and UNICEF) http://www.aposo.gov.ba/en/2014/11/07/oecd-and-unicef-seminar-improving-equity-in-learning-outcomes/

http://www.aposo.gov.ba/en/2015/02/04/cooperation-with-osce-continued/

....and many more.

Sunday, May 24, 2015

MEMORIAL DAY: THE SALUTING BOY ON OMAHA BEACH

Friday, May 22, 2015

VINTAGE LAMAR (1989)

#NoWayESEA

#NO WAY ESEA    #NO WAY ESEA    #NO WAY ESEA

KEEP CALLING (202-224-3121) AND EMAILING YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES!!!

S1177 (the Reauthorization of ESEA...the old No Child Left Behind Act) is a combination of Republican Congressman John Kline's HR5 Student Success Act and Republican Senator Lamar Alexander's Every Child Achieves Act 2015 (S1177)

You, members of Grassroots America, killed HR5 last February. You can kill its companion bill S1177, which is coming up for a full vote in the Senate any day now.

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By "Gutsy Teacher" Dawn Hoagland

This is vintage Lamar Alexander from 1989. He thinks schools should be open year round, from 6 AM to 6 PM, to children 3 month's old to 18 year's old.  He thinks the state can be a much better parent to a child than real parents. He was scary then. He is scarier now. He’s just learned how to wrap his intentions in nice-sounding phrases for the air wave sound bites and just confuse everybody with 600 pages of Congress-speak so that nobody wants to read it.

His bill is about increasing the number of charter schools, continuing a tortuous testing schedule, implementing invasive social and emotional screening and interventions, paid for by Medicaid, into every public school, and codifying outcome-based/soviet-style school- to-work training as a replacement for true classical education.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

COMMUNIST PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION ON STEROIDS

EARLY LEARNING: Murray Introduces Strong Start for America’s Children Act

Urie Bronfenbrenner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(1) 1969... Soviet Preschool Education, Volume I: Program of Instruction, Henry Chauncey, Chief Editor, Educational Testing Service, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Introduction by Urie Bronfenbrenner.

Excerpted from Introduction by Bronfenbrenner 1969:

"You really are a nation of individualists!" (Soviet psychologist's comments)

"...But if the rest of the community is more in evidence in a Soviet nursery school than in its American counterpart, there is one group that is less influential: parents."

Charlotte's comment: We were a nation of individualists back then, and our education system focused on the individual's upward mobility, through academics, competition, grades, etc. No longer.

The Soviet polytechnical (school-to-work) system based on group cooperation (TQM) and the Skinnerian/Pavlovian method at the expense of individuality and parental influence is necessary for communist workforce training, NOT academics.

Much joint research between the United States/Carnegie Corporation and the USSR (now Russia and the Federation) has taken place since 1969, to the point that our education system reflects that of not only Russia and the Federation, but all socialist/communist countries worldwide according to UNESCO's philosophy. (Education and Mental Health by W. D. Wall, UNESCO 1955 printed in France ED. 66/lV. 10e/A.)

ABCs of DumbDown: THIS IS WHAT COMMUNIST COMMON CORE/THE REAUTHORIZATION OF ESEA IS ALL ABOUT

(2) Murray introduces legislation to expand access to preschool and improve early learning opportunities.

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee introduced the Strong Start for America’s Children Act, legislation that would expand quality preschool programs. The Strong Start for America's Children Act is a 10-year innovative federal-state partnership to expand and improve early learning opportunities for children from birth to age five.

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From Soviet Preschool Education, Vol. I: Program of Instruction, Educational Testing Service, 1969, Introduction by Urie Bronfenbrenner, copyright, 1969, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. by Henry Chauncey.

The members of the collective not only discipline each other, but work together. This point was brought home to me [Bronfenbrenner] by the comments of a distinguished Soviet psychologist, an expert on development during the preschool years. He had been observing in an American day-care center for children of working mothers. The center was conducted under university auspices and reflected modern outlooks and methods in early childhood education. It was therefore with some concern that I noted how upset my colleague was on his return. "I wouldn't have believed it," he said "if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. There were four children sitting at a table, just as in our nurseries. But each one was doing something different. What's more, I watched them for a whole ten minutes, and not once did any child help another one. They didn't even talk to each other. Each one was busy in his own activity. You really are a nation of individualists!"

...But if the rest of the community is more in evidence in a Soviet nursery school than in its American counterpart, there is one group that is less influential: parents. The fact that they are scarcely mentioned in the manual reflects the extent to which the Soviet nursery is viewed as the domain of the professional educator, who "knows what is best for the child." In the Soviet system of child rearing, the role of the family is clearly subordinate to that of communal institutions, who carry the primary responsibility for upbringing. This message comes through clearly in the only extended reference to the family which appears in the manual:

Every kindergarten should serve as a model of the Communist education of children. The pedagogical staff of the kindergarten is faced with the task of disseminating pedagogical knowledge among parents, helping families to bring their children up properly, and sharing their invaluable experience in family upbringing. And, as is indicated in the Program of our Party, " the educational influence of the family on children to a greater and greater extent becomes totally integrated with their public education." [6]

Murray introduces legislation to expand access to preschool and improve early learning opportunities

EARLY LEARNING: Murray Introduces Strong Start for America’s Children Act
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee introduced the Strong Start for America’s Children Act, legislation that would expand quality preschool programs. The Strong Start for America's Children Act is a 10-year innovative federal-state partnership to expand and improve early learning opportunities for children from birth to age five.

“As a former preschool teacher, I’ve seen firsthand the transformation that early learning can inspire in a child,” Senator Murray said. “Investing in our youngest learners is critical for children and their families, and it is one of the smartest investments we can make to ensure students start kindergarten ready to learn and succeed later in life. The Strong Start for America’s Children Act would help more families and communities in Washington state and across the country gain access to early learning programs and provide their children with the strong educational opportunities that will pay dividends in our future economic growth.”

Research has shown that children who attend high?quality preschool programs are less likely to be held back in school, require remedial education, engage in criminal activity, or use social safety net programs later in life. They are also more likely to graduate from high school and have higher earnings as adults. A recent report showed that Washington state ranks 33rd in the nation for access to state preschool among four-year-olds.

Original cosponsors of the Strong Start for America’s Children Act in the Senate: Bob Casey (D-PA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Al Franken (D-MN), Ed Markey (D-MA), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Tom Udall (D-NM), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chris Coons (D-DE), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN).

Charlotte's comment:

A brief perusal of this dangerous bill brought me to the following tentative conclusion:

There is only one thing missing....The Kitchen Sink!

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

DEM'S NEW AGENDA HAUNTINGLY SIMILAR TO COMMUNISM

WND: Dem’s new agenda hauntingly similar to communism

Oh, really?

It's the Democrats behind the mess?

Who signed the first United States-USSR Exchange Agreement with the Soviet Union in 1959, at the peak of the Cold War?

Republican President Dwight Eisenhower

Eisenhower and Khrushchev meet for talks - Sep 25, 1959 - HISTORY.com

Who signed the extensive United States-USSR Education Exchange Agreements with Soviet President Gorbachev in 1985?

Republican President Ronald Reagan

ABCs of DumbDown: THIS IS WHAT COMMUNIST COMMON CORE/THE REAUTHORIZATION OF ESEA IS ALL ABOUT

AT LEAST THE 'C' WORD IS OUT!

Hooray!!!!!!!

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

SINCE WHEN IS SANTA CLAUS "AN OFFENSE AGAINST PEACE" ?

PSYCHIATRIST GENERAL BROCK CHISHOLM CALLED FOR GETTING RID OF

SANTA CLAUS (YOUR CHILD'S CONSCIENCE?) BECAUSE...

"He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!"

General Brock Chisholm, internationally-recognized (World Health Organization) psychiatrist:

“Santa Claus was one of the worst offenders against clear thinking, and so an offense against peace."

AND

in his address before an Ottawa home-and-school association in 1945, said:

“Any child who believes in Santa Claus has had his ability to think permanently destroyed."

Connect above words with following text regarding psychiatric mental health services included in Senator Alexander's S. 1117, the Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Act.

Think hard about the meaning of the following text as it may relate to the U.S. Department of Education/United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) manipulation of your child's personality and religious beliefs:

Taken from: ABCs of DumbDown: Lamar Alexander's Re-authorization of ESEA

Pages 194-195 school-based mental health services

Page 211 school based mental health services, implements schoolwide PBIS, Positive Behavior Intervention and supports in collaboration with IDEA, Individuals With Disabilities Act.

Page 213 third-party evaluators of supportive school environment for the physical and mental health.

Page 354 SPECIALIZED INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT PERSONNEL—The term ‘specialized instructional support personnel’ means school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, and other qualified professional personnel involved in providing assessment, diagnosis, counseling, educational, therapeutic, and other necessary services (including related services as that term is defined in section 602 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) as part of a comprehensive program to meet student needs.

and

Taken from: ABCs of DumbDown: ALERT: HR 5, the Student Success Act of 2015, companion bill to S1177:
HR 5 forces private and religious schools to provide non-cognitive mental health areas of personality development and interventions whereby proficiency levels in the social, emotional, and behavioral domain are scored to a criterion resulting in violations of privacy under the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, federal law, state law, and civil rights laws.

MORE ON CHISHOLM:

www.deliberatedumbingdown.com 3D, page 27: United States membership in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1946 set in motion the destabilization of our society through the rejection of absolute morals and values, Judeo-Christian tradition, ad Roman law. Legislation authorizing United states membership in UNESCO marked the end of the United States autonomy in a very crucial area: that of education.
From this time on UNESCO would dictate education policy to our government and others.

This legislation was accompanied by President Harry Truman's remarkable statement:

"Education must establish the moral unity of mankind." Truman’s recommendation was bolstered by General Brock Chisholm, a Canadian psychiatrist and friend of Soviet agent Alger Hiss. Chisholm redefined health to include “mental” health, and presented a paper entitled “The Psychiatry of Enduring Peace and Social Progress” to the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) in 1946 which “reinterpreted” (eradicated) the word “morality.” Chisholm asserted that The reinterpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong… these are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. Brock Chisholm went on to recommend that teachers all over the world be trained in “no right/no wrong” psychotherapeutic techniques found in the schools today.

By T.A. Frail smithsonian.com

December 7, 2009

1. Brock Chisholm was a distinguished Canadian psychiatrist who, as the first director-general of the World Health Organization, came to be called the “doctor to the human race.” But he was also known for telling an Ottawa home-and-school association in 1945: “Any child who believes in Santa Claus has had his ability to think permanently destroyed. … Can you imagine a child of 4 being led to believe that a man of grown stature is able to climb down a chimney…. That Santa Claus can cover the entire world in one night distributing presents to everyone! He will become a man who has ulcers at 40, develops a sore back when there is a tough job to do, and refuses to think realistically when war threatens.” When a reporter gave him a chance to clarify his remarks, Chisholm said that “Santa Claus was one of the worst offenders against clear thinking, and so an offense against peace.”

Read more: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/top-10-real-life-grinches-12149543/

Related Link:

ABCs of DumbDown: Common Core "Mental Health"