U.S. Schools are "Rotten to the Common Core"

In this 2014 Midterm elections, it was about education reformers. Republican Governors Rick Snyder, Michigan; Scott Walker, Wisconsin; Nathan Deal, Georgia; and Sam Brownback, Kansas all cut through a flood of negative campaigning with the American Federation of Teachers Union ads to prevail and win.

It really was a 'textbook' victory for all students to win more than just another election year of empty political promises. It was for conservative programs aimed at improving educational standards. The Federal Government "Common Core" program is an abysmal failure in offering basic education subjects, poor execution of teaching methods and dismal high school graduation numbers results. Our textbooks need to once again start teaching more about American exceptionalism in principles, values and pride about why we are the greatest country in world history, second to none.

The very uber-liberal, progressive, left-wing bullying tactics of the American Federation of Teachers Union literally backfired. Their ad campaigns lied with statistics to support politicians promoting more union job growth along with union dues, burgeoning union benefits programs with more taxpayer supported spending--it was all about more union jobs, not better education curriculums.

The "Big Lie" of the American Federation of Teachers Union: "ThesePrivate Sector Workers under Union Workers tax burdens. governors were for 'cutting' education spending. Some of the examples were blatant like: "Sam Brownback signed the largest single cut in Kansas history." or "Rick Scott took a $1.3 billion sledgehammer to schools." or "Rick Snyder slashed $1 billion from education." or that "Scott Walker was slipping tens of $ millions to those bent on privatizing education along with handouts to businesses and very the wealthy." All of this lying campaign ad rhetoric has since been debunked and has ceased as the electorate who were the consumers of the ads did not buy it, voting all those Republican Governors into office.

Even the North Carolina Republican U.S. Senator, Thom Tillis was accused by outgoing Senator Kay Hagen, who Thom unseated, with unfounded 'phantom education cuts'. Hagan was saying during the campaign, "Thom Tillis' cuts to education hurt No. Carolina students." Rick Scott who championed 'school vouchers' in poor Florida districts with positive results was attacked about that education from V.P. Joanne McCall of the Florida Education Association. McCall warned, "Voucher schools are largely unregulated." and "...are a risky experiment that gambles taxpayer's money and children's lives." Those comments beg one to ask some questions to that Union Vice President:

1. Just who for years has been regulating Florida education full-time while daily those Florida public schools and teachers in the federally funded U.S. education system have gone downhill? 
2. Could it be any of those American Federation of Teachers Union members are responsible? 

--[Cricket Chirps] - [Silence] 

In a U.S. educational system rigged to protect the hierarchical bureaucracy, on the chopping block in ongoing nationwide elections will be education reforms, the red meat that feeds everyone's appetites: the electorate, politicians, lobbyists, special interest groups, teachers and students. Like diet plans, different size portions must be served to sustain education while accordingly anticipating growth. It relies on the balance of teacher salaries and tenure reforms, union benefits and pension fund distribution verses pro-school-choice programs and school voucher systems that affects costs which ultimately dictate curriculum with its intended improved results in the students' overall education.

Why should education matter? Why should schools matter? Why should students matter? Why should Americans citizens matter? Why should anyone anywhere matter? Why it should matter is because this political-socio-economic experiment called democracy is considered by many as about the poorest form of government ever conceived, but it sure beat outs whatever is second best! Anyone can rise above and be successful if they get educated in order to get ahead in America--I personally know because I did it too.

Our country is dependent on the future, the dreams and aspirations of a new generation to build on the past while evolving into the next new challenges. It takes education and the freedom to recognize what America has and is doing within the framework of its founders' U.S. Constitutional laws, not what progressive liberals think should be the laws. That is the best answer to all of the "Whys".  

Clinton, Bush, Obama Public Schools Suck!

For the past twenty years, 1974 to 2014, every President faults the system forWisconsin Teachers Unions bully Governor, Schools & Parents & loses fight. children not learning their ABC's or 123's in public education. So, the answer has always been to throw more Federal money and run up higher state taxes to pay into the school system to hire more educators by offering more pay, benefits and pensions to attract the best teachers. The top-heavy teachers' unions, in the meantime, have become strong and powerful by micro-managing all of our teacher staffing, school curriculum, text books, children's health and welfare programs too. It has become a taxing 'nanny-state,' institutional behemoth and that's being very modest. So why are our children still failing?

It's as if one hands over their five yr. old to the school board officials and say, "I give you the child, give me back the young adult," then, they release them back as an eighteen yr. old with a high school education, social values and self esteem.  Hmn... I don't think it ever really works out that way, even if many parents do abdicate all their parental roles every day. So, where does the education start?

How about with the parents first? They must take responsibility to go to their parent-teacher meetings or parents' assemblies to find out how their children are being taught in their local school. Then, as their children attend the classes at school, the parent must monitor what their children are doing and coordinate with the teachers about subjects covered. Now after many parents stop laughing, they never will do anything like I just described. So why don't parents bother to get excited about the lousy grades and dropout rates, especially within the minority communities?

Maybe it's because the parents don't really care? That's certainly a good answer, in fact it is the most truthful one since it is a hard fact of life that most are often single parent, women head of the household too. Our school education problems go even further back than President Bill Clinton in 1994. In fact, it is just progressively getting worse faster. But why?

It's obvious in this twenty-first century that technology is moving so quickly that the illiterates, untrained and unskilled will be pushed aside. Many foresee a future with withOrwell's novel on the coming Government mind control of people. an ignorant electorate that will allow liberal, progressive, government-centric planning. It will dictate where these kinds of people will be relegated by their production values they can do to work in various areas of the country and told where to populate to live whether they like it or not--it is closest to a 'public housing projects' concept. Looks as if its 'Orwellian'--Like in George Orwell's 1984 'Big Brother is watching you' novel?--or UN Agenda 21?

Please use the Rovalocity search engine box on our website and enter 'UN Agenda 21'. Read other blogs about a United Nations Plan that President Clinton signed and has been ramping up with unbelievable provisions since its inception to redistribute U.S. property, freedoms and people too. You make up your own mind.

The problems in schools are not just limited to the funding, curriculum, facilities or students. Students will never reach college potential if they are taught in bilingual classrooms. Education should be taught in English, the global 'lingua franca,' starting from elementary level through high school--currently all college level classes, text books and lectures are English only too.

Tip: Give all the kids who pass their tests 'School Vouchers' to get out of the dead-end public schools and get into 'Charter Schools' or 'Private Schools'. Judge Judy Sheindlin, a long time New Yorker and famous TV Judge, is very familiar with the entire New York City schools system. Recently, Judge Judy commented, "I think of all of the kids like a fresh box of raspberries I take home to eat," and "And if I find a bad one in the box, I throw it away because if I leave it in the box it spoils the entire box and all of the raspberries will go bad." Judge Judy says that analogy depicts exactly what is happening now.  

In the New York public schools the bad kids continue to act up and disrupt classes, so the good students do not receive any education or diploma worth the paper it's printed on. The School Unions do not want to lose control of the teachers or suffer membership dues losses. The Federal Government funding feeds those Union coffers to curry votes too-- it's almost an impossible cycle to break without voter intervention at the polls to elect politicians who want to help students and parents. 

Believe it or not, the teachers themselves are letting the students down too. In turn, the teachers' unions are protecting those poor performance educators with tenure too. Please read a letter sent home to a mother below. What is really remarkable is that teacher sent that letter out to a parent. Even more stunning is the question: Did that teacher instruct students for another twenty years from 1994 to 2014?  Now, is that scary!