Hello, my Warriors! What a week this has been for the anti CCSS/Fed Led Ed folks. Censorship, watching tyranny in D.C., and having a helping hand through it all!
Not at all sure what I am referring to? Read on!
The Censorship:
As we all know, the CCSS Machine has member organizations everywhere. Social media included. As other Anti CCSS Warriors have pointed out, Facebook is in the mix. I, too, have shared how, but they get enough attention..This past Monday, I had just finished my article where I was featuring the past few interviews I either gave or was a part of. Am I such a stuck up person I need to promote myself? NO!! The information, as ALWAYS, is the ‘Diva’ we need to pay attention to.
In the article I had many tips, resources cited, and more. Then, I go to add a touch of satire via the main image you see when I post. Little did I know that BBQ-wedding-cake-screen-shot-turned-anti-ESSA-message would cause such mayhem! As soon as I was blocked from sharing nation-wide, trusty anti CCSS Warriors from everywhere stepped up to share it for me. I am deeply grateful for not only their assistance in sharing Monday’s post, but Tuesday’s as well. (*Note: Media Wednesday went unscathed as far as banishment, blockage, or censorship.) Sadly, I will ‘retire’ the piggy poke..for now.
Link to Monday’s: https://www.commoncorediva.com/2016/04/11/recent-interviews/
Link to Tuesday’s: https://www.commoncorediva.com/2016/04/12/ftf-loose-ends-are-still-strings/ (*Note: This article will reveal how some of the seemingly innocent programs, resources, or people are in truth connected to the ESSA, Every Student Succeeds Act.)
The Tyrant Rants On:
While I didn’t write about this particular article, it is worth sharing with you here in the article. Why? It directly relates to ESSA AND Sen. Lamar Alexander, who so adamantly swore ESSA MUST be implemented EXACTLY as it was written! While this sounds good, remember from whom it comes from. A tyrannical Senator who has been responsible for tons of educational reform bent to extend the demise of our nation. I will not give him more credit than he is due. You have read from several anti CCSS Warriors of his reign of educational crimes. You have seen him pound his fists on podiums in D.C. demanding this and that in the name of education. You have seen him treated like a rock star by the CCSS Machine for ESSA’s passage. ENOUGH!
The REAL truth is ESSA was written for a total transformation of education as we know it! Remember the Shakespeare line, ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks’?! This line from Hamlet, serves the modern situation well. She was overreacting because she was being threatened and was afraid her real feelings would be exposed.
Transfer this analogy to education. Apply that same panic-filled feeling of ‘Oh crap, my real reason for ESSA will be found out if I don’t act like a tyrant to insure its TOTAL and PURPOSED Plan’! The conceit of ‘if you can’t do it my way, I’ll make it happen!’ The immaturity to use Congress and his position to weld power like some little boy bullying everyone. Why isn’t he being stopped?! Not sure what I am ‘venting’ about? See the recent press release from the HELP (Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) Committee: http://www.help.senate.gov/chair/newsroom/press/chairman-alexander-already-disturbing-evidence-that-education-department-is-ignoring-the-new-law
Some vital points about this press release:
1) The same man who plotted, planned, and help write ESSA, heads the very committee which is to guide the implementation! (Can anyone say ‘conflict of interest’ or ‘clouded vision’?)
2) The organizations Alexander refers to are ALL CCSS Machine members! (Can anyone say ‘subjective evidence’?)
3) The lie of ESSA fixing NCLB, No Child Left Behind?! (Can anyone refer the man to the document itself where it embeds both the ESEA(Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) AND the NCLB, along with the CCSS Initiative?!) I guess the lie will go unnoticed. Why? So many of the CCSS Machine member organizations and people are churning out webinars, white papers, videos messages with the same fallacy. Which leads me to the phrase in the press release about ‘supplement not supplant’. I first heard that exact phrase listened to the National Association of Secondary School Principals in their recent webinar expressing all the benefits of ESSA and how great it is! If you missed that article, it was my ‘Principled Leadership’ one. See: https://www.commoncorediva.com/2016/03/28/principled-leadership-in-the-essa-era/
4) As far as the goat rope mess Title One funding will be, I believe Alexander is crying ‘wolf’ one too many times. He knows exactly how the funding will be abused to make ESSA law of the land.
Closing:
It is good to be back in full swing. It is good to know I continue to have such wonderful support in the team we Warriors have become.
We have the truth about ESSA, the CCSS Machine, and all that interconnects them. We MUST speak louder than the fallacies being told, sold, and thrown.
The moment I saw the news about Lamar scolding King I sent it out and let people know Lamar was performing in the DC Kabuki theater. He knows exactly what the feds will di and now he screams foul??? He is a snake and always has been. We lost a huge victory when Joe Carr lost to Alexander by a very slim margin. I blame this on the voters that allowed this man to stay in office.
I knew you would blow a gasket. What a bully Alexander is.