Comments on: A Call to Action http://conversationed.com/2014/07/01/boycott-a-call-to-action/ Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:17:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.5 By: Dean http://conversationed.com/2014/07/01/boycott-a-call-to-action/#comment-529 Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:59:41 +0000 http://conversationed.com/?p=3513#comment-529 “Opt out of the tests.” – The best advice from the “We Will Not Comply” event. The CC Corps has a defense established at all the more moderate points of attack.

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By: Jim Oase http://conversationed.com/2014/07/01/boycott-a-call-to-action/#comment-527 Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:01:52 +0000 http://conversationed.com/?p=3513#comment-527 After decades of being punished for pursuing an education of their choice the Separatists of England, with the threat of war looming large put their life’s on the line once more and crossed a stormy ocean to face life ending cold, starvation, and the unknown of the New World.

History, the great maps of mankind, shows that individuals seeking to do the right thing for themselves and their family began to come together to lay the formation of the United States; ethics, morality, integrity and a rich knowledge of history even before John Calvin and his followers published their mind changing Geneva Bible in 1560.

The 1620 arrival in the New World begin a new series of trials of their faith, more starvation, poor harvests from collective farming, courage to switch to individual property rights, an increasing dependence on education, the challenges of creating cities, creating infrastructure while guarding against the frailties man’s human nature to control another.

The eternal battle with man’s human nature to control another resulted in our forefathers putting their life’s on the line with these words “to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them”. Our forefathers believed we had a strong enough common core of ethics, morality, integrity and knowledge of history to form our own country and govern ourselves. “And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”

The pursuit of freedom of education based on a common core brought us to founding of a country.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union………do ordain and establish…” a nation built on foundation with four corner stones, ethics, morality, integrity and a rich understanding of history. History because a nation that does not know what it stands for cannot know what its about or where it’s heading.

Without knowing history to tell us about the pitfalls of the temptations to have Man’s laws replace Nature’s Laws how will our children know not to follow the yellow brick road to utopia? Without history how will our children learn the faith needed to continue on the road less traveled? Without proper preparation the next generation faces extinction.

Man has passed compulsory education laws taking the natural right of parents to see to the education of their offsprings in preparation for parenthood and given that right to the state as if a return to the Dark Ages when the elite controlled the education of the masses.

History puts down bread crumbs for those with wisdom to see and understand. The level of public education has continuously fallen for over nearly 100 years. Our cities shinning cities, built on the fruits of individual educations are crumbling into bankruptcy. People are moving away from the infestation of ignorance. We stopped training the specialists to create new products so industry, responding to the need to serve others, has moved away from the United States for their products.

An elite group has built a $5 billion dollar annual industry on the backs of compulsory customers, our children the next generation of parents. The short term result is the goose that lays the golden egg for the greedy. The long term result has been repeated though out history, public loss of freedom.

Pull the rug out from under this $5 billion dollar industry, repeal compulsory education in your state. Take charge of your education and the education of our children, take the road less traveled and it will make all the difference.

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By: Matt http://conversationed.com/2014/07/01/boycott-a-call-to-action/#comment-526 Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:22:46 +0000 http://conversationed.com/?p=3513#comment-526 I agree with Annmarie! I am one of those “what if people”. Ever since I can remember I have always thought about the consequences first. However, I love my children, and I love my country. It is time to make some of those uncomfortable decisions!

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By: Tree Trimmer Jim http://conversationed.com/2014/07/01/boycott-a-call-to-action/#comment-520 Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:40:35 +0000 http://conversationed.com/?p=3513#comment-520 The premise for committing to standardized testing and common core is compulsory government controlled education. Freedom of education, motivating factor for settling Plymouth Rock, is not a legal choice for parents in 21st century United States. Man’s law replaces Nature’s law, by law the state assumes the responsible for preparing children to become parents, not their parents.

Compulsory education’s evolving goal is perfecting the mass production of education via standardization of curriculums, therefore testing, at a time when individuals the world over increasingly need specialists educations. iPads have replaced pencils. To make an iPad requires many times more specialists compared to a pencil and the replacement for the iPad will continue that trend at exactly the same time compulsory education is preparing to graduate fewer specialists.

If each state repeals compulsory education laws, local needs and free enterprise will determine the curriculum and proof of performance testing. Testing will turn into community feedback to insure that individuals are being best served in that community.

Colleges and universities need students as much as students need them. Institution of higher learning extend the wide range of educations of students who will arrive at these institutions with wider and often changing needs.

Perhaps you find it ironic that compulsory education has moved away from teaching the original common core; ethics, morality, integrity and a knowledge of history at all levels, local to world when mutual trust is increasingly important. Man’s increasing dependence on specialists also increases man’s dependence on our common core. Without mutual trust we can not produce our simplest needs.

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By: Judy http://conversationed.com/2014/07/01/boycott-a-call-to-action/#comment-514 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:05:26 +0000 http://conversationed.com/?p=3513#comment-514 This is a great idea Getting parents on board is the problem. Too many, even concerned parents go along to get along.

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By: Kristen http://conversationed.com/2014/07/01/boycott-a-call-to-action/#comment-508 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 07:19:18 +0000 http://conversationed.com/?p=3513#comment-508 It is time to stop talking and take action. I am ever so weary of the constant calls to educate the parents plus the endless venting of rage and frustration to people (educators, administrators, and school board members) who do not possess the power to change the situation. If the vast majority of children fail to show up on testing day, the “powers that be” might start to get a clue.

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By: Annmarie Ferry http://conversationed.com/2014/07/01/boycott-a-call-to-action/#comment-506 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:36:47 +0000 http://conversationed.com/?p=3513#comment-506 Being a rule-follower myself, this makes me completely uncomfortable. I hate stirring the pot, but I agree that playing nice isn’t cutting it.

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