Hey Texas Parents It is Time to Seek the Truth and Protect our Children

If you were at the Argyle Community Meeting on CSCOPE last night are you most likely saying to yourself -What the heck is going on here? How did this kind of curriculum get into Texas schools?

I believe my good friends over at AgendaWise.com hit the nail on the head in their article

Ruling class funtime (judges, and educrats, and ParentPACs, oh my!)

“The public education system in Texas, a system that is broken in one sense and high-performance in another. It is broken for the purposes of education, but it is lean, mean, and high performance as a political special interest juggernaut.”

One thing I know for sure is that my family is truly blessed to be in Argyle ISD. We have an administration who honestly cares for our children, their education and is trying hard to find solutions to the challenges our district faces. I believe that is how many districts are as well across our state. The challenge is they have been sold a bill of goods in CSCOPE. Emotions were high last night but in the end we are a community that cares and will work together to find solutions that work for our children. What I worry about are the other districts who are not being as honest and forthright and whose kids will be the generation of CSCOPE kids who do not there is right and wrong answers and who will suffer the conscience.

Read this and tell me what you think? Does it make sense to you?

By (Ms. Mac) Jeanine McGregor

Seven Areas of Concern In Regard To CSCOPE:

Philosophy of Social Constructivism Ideology of Progressive/Liberal/Radical Theories.Based on ideology of Marxism (Lev Vygotsky), Humanism (Linda Hammond), and Socialist Hardest on Minorities and the Poor; Control System versus Service

The Implementation of Intimidation, Fear, Guilt and Covertness

Establishes a fear: STAAR Test
Establishes guilt: Accommodating children who move; Failure is someone else’s fault
Disrespects, intimidates and isolates teachers

Contract /Disclosure Agreement/ULA

Signed under duress Threat of legal suit Teacher contributions being confiscated

2. Three-minute walk-through (Fenwick English) Disturbs the classroom

3. Threat of on-line monitoring of teacher activities/ public display of failing work

Removes input and feedback from and influence of parents; x/y generations

Removed the importance of textbooks Removed the importance of homework

Trains administration how to minimize criticism &/disarm complaints

Petitioned Attorney General to protect from exposure to competitors and public

Parents can not access lessons-limited information through parent portal

The Cost, Financial Accountability, and Public Relations

Vendor versus governmental agency? Established a monopoly

Developed on taxpayer time and with taxpayer money- Taken over by TESCCC

Highly Questionable Relationship With (NER) National Educational Resources, Inc.

No Contract, No Bids, Kick-backs

Quality and Substance of Materials

Incomplete use/alignment of TEKS Safety for children in question

Indoctrination of students: Questionable internet sources, Leading questions on tests

(Anti-American, Anti-Christian Slants), Inappropriate readability levels ,Grammatical & Factual errors

Buzz Words: Authenticity (Wiggins), Rigor, Culturally-Relevant, Deeper Understanding; 21^st Century

Skills, Scaffolding, Personal Relevance; Concept-Basis (Erickson) vs. Topic; Inch-Deep/Mile Wide,

Education Equity; Collaboration, Big Picture, Reflective Teaching, Backward Design (McTighe),

Misrepresentation

Parent Portal: Actual material not available

Philosophy/Ideology/Differences in Methodology: Not openly explained/revealed to public

Connection to Common Core Standards: Edugate/Hammond

Confusion: curriculum? curriculum–management? auxiliary product? living curriculum?

Plagiarism: Teachers report seeing lessons elsewhere; material not sourced or referenced

Sources Of Lessons Not Revealed: Experts? Authors? Editors? References? Credentials?

Terminology (Just New Paint): YAG (Year At A Glance),VAD (Vertical Alignment Document),

IFD (Instructional Focus Document), 5E -John Dewey- (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate),

Inefficiency

Results: Bad before good- 70 is the new 100!

Teachers’ Time and Energy: overwhelmingly taxed

Mind-Control: All across Texas on the same lesson, Failing students ? Non-CSCOPE students?

Title I and NCLB: Principles of parental involvement undermined

Access To Instructional Focus Document: last minute -six weeks at a time only

Polarizing: Administration/Teachers; X/Y Generations; Progressive/Conservative;

Humanism/Christianity, Government/Private Enterprise

Hurting Students

Withdrawal from schools; crying, stress; drastic change in grades; demonized

Repeated tests finally given answers to tests (Teaches delayed effort/cheating OK)

I am still working on the video from last night. I will get it out ASAP. I know that many are waiting to see it who were not able be be there.

This issue with CSOPE looks like is going to get much bigger in the weeks and months to come and I can tell you this is much bigger than Argyle and it is very good that you are aware of the issue and talking about what all the options are moving forward.

What to expect:

Lawsuits ????

Huge battles in the 83rd legislative session and good people getting caught in the mess of it all.

Who will suffer the most- Texas Children. That is very sad.

Please pray~

Step 1 Join the Movement to #StopCSCOPE ~ Sign the Petition NOW –http://womenonthewall.org/cscope-petition

Step 2. #2 Start helping REP. STEVE TOTH with his very important bill HB 760 — The CSCOPE Transparency Act To Ensure Consistent Oversight of Public School Curriculum – Please read Rep. Toth’s HB 760 posted toward the bottom of this page and then look at the list of House members who are joint authors and/or co-authors. We must have literally hundreds of House members sign on to this bill in order to get it out of the House Public Education Committee and to the House floor for a vote. This will take all of us contacting our House members and insisting that they support HB 760.