NATIONAL GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE IN 1989 WHERE EDUCATION REFORM GOT STARTED--LAMAR ALEXANDER AT HIS FINEST:
Lamar Alexander is the rat who started Education Reform. He was President George W. Bush's Secretary of Education, and the Bush family put him up to this. They were all complicit and still are. That's why Jeb wants to be our next president.
When you watch this old YouTube, be sure to note the main points of change that were on the table and which they implemented in short order:
1. Government takes over the "education" of children from three months old to 18 years old--and maybe their mothers while they are pregnant.
2. Start with the capital cities in every state (i.e., the legislatures there and the legislators).
3. Develop ONE curriculum that "works" for everyone.
4. Retrain teachers to comply with the new direction of public education and develop "career ladders."
5. Promise to pay teachers three times what they were earning at the time to elicit buy-in (the one thing that didn't happen!)
6. Create a "brand new American school."
7. Create new report cards (thus changing the way parents are able to see their child's progress or lack of progress. This was a scheme to hide what they are doing--dumbing down our children.)
8. Change to year around schools open from 6 to 6--and then load the students up with homework so their parents have no time with their own children and no chance to influence their own children's beliefs and attitudes.
9. Initiate team teaching so that no one is held accountable for failure in the classroom.
10. Teachers will follow students from PreK to 8th grade thus allowing them to KNOW students personally (which is not what teachers should be doing---students' personal lives are none of a teacher's business).
11. Points out that volunteers are a problem and they need to be corralled by the school--thus the proliferation of parent/business people organizations (like PIE, and VIPS in KISD).
I can tell you that Katy ISD started all this stupid stuff in the 1990's. I was there and on our school board, and I did my best to stop it. I finally resigned in disgust when I realized I couldn't stop it by myself, and no one else really understood what was afoot at the time. There is no board member currently who understands what has happened, and if they do, they are just as complicit as Lamar Alexander was (and is) twenty-six years ago!
Failure to understand what our government has done to our children is risky business. You can't stop them unless you understand what they've done and what they continue to do.
Mary McGarr