President’s Day
Updates from Ohio Tea Party Patriots’ Marianne G:
If you've been
involved in the Common Core Opt Out Campaign, you are well aware of how crazy
it was last week.
It started on
Saturday with Heidi Huber from Ohioans Against Common Core, coming to Mansfield
to give patriots the low down on the rights of parents to refuse the PARCC
testing on behalf of their children.
Tuesday and Wednesday
HB 7, the bill offering Safe Harbor to our children, passed unanimously through
committee and the House, and from what I'm being told, it should pass through
the Senate quickly also.
Then hit the tidal
wave of parents opting out and refusing the PARCC testing for their
children. There were stories of bullying from administrators, lies,
disciplinary threats to teachers, and even a deceptively worded letter from the
ODE.
It would great if we
could get a feel regarding how many people opted out, and hear their stories
and successes.
Please take a moment
to complete this quick survey. Your name and email is not required.
Hopefully, this information will give us an idea of how many kids are not
participating in the PARCC tests, what districts experienced the most opt outs,
and how people were received by administrators.
Heroes and Teachable Moments
The battle for the
future of our children and their education has created heroes and teachable
moments.
The Heroes are the
parents that have showed up at School Board meetings and questioned
administrators. The parents who have exercised their right to direct the
education of their children by refusing to allow them to participate in the
useless and stressful PARCC testing. The parents that refused to back
down and have protected their children.
From those acts of
heroism have come teachable moments. Moments that will teach children that you
must be willing to stand for something, even if it means there are
repercussions; that peaceful protests and freedom of speech are our rights, and
no one can take that away, no matter how much they bully.
Kudos to all the hero
parents who fought, and continue to fight, for their children.
Government “Shutdown”
As expected, the
media is already fear-mongering with the “government shutdown” threat related
to DHS funding.
Three times the
Senate Democrats have refused to invoke cloture and allow debate on
HR 240, the House passed Homeland Security Funding bill. One might call
that being obstructionists. So where's the media now?
Democrats are
opposing the amendments stripping funding from Obama's 2012 and 2014 executive
orders lifting a deportation threat for millions of illegal immigrants.
Rather than allow debate, they are obstructing. Speaker Boehner, believe
or not, is standing his ground! Click Here to Read More
Regarding a “shutdown”,
Congress has nothing to do with payroll or paying lenders - that's the job
of the President and his Treasury Department. When reporters or Democrats
accuse the GOP of forcing a “shutdown,” turn them around and direct them to the
executive branch, for it is the President who authorizes a “shutdown.”
Secondly, a
government “shutdown” shuts down only 17% of the government. That
17% is what’s considered to be “non-essential”. If they're non-essential,
why are they there to begin with?
In the case of DHS,
83% or their employees are classified as “essential” - they still work and
still get paid.
Doesn't seem so scary
now.
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