Grievances of Parents Against the Kings of Govenment Schools

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and especially against WFISD where I and my children attended.

Grievance:Failure to inform parents of drastic changes, even refusal.
The school system has refused and declined and stonewalled since 1992 on even informing parents of conflicts of opinion in education. Dr. Carnine even had a paper issued saying "Manufactured Crisis" to sooth a group of parents who were getting too strong in their opposition. That was after I saw a large OBE (Outcome Based Education) poster at Fain elementary. When I got an appointment with the superintendent he denied any participation in OBE, and the next day that poster was gone. But OBE was happening, growing and increasing in WFISD. Carnine's quote was "Don't let the people know what your doing until it's too late for them to do anything." See Machiavelli's The Prince. He quoted it, in his own inter-office publication. In that same publication of the Superintendent who was responsible for starting WFISD down the road of OBE (as it was then called), the language referred to students as the raw material, parents as the suppliers, and business as the consumer.

Grievance:The "system" has refused to make known to parents a list of reading materials suitable for tradational Christian families and how it differs from the majority of what is being put into public school libraries, especially grievious in the elementary schools. This topic has many pages written detailing things on www.christianparents.com .

Grievance: When a teacher says "What difference does it make what they read, so long as they're reading.", you've got to believe something is bad wrong in the college that taught that teacher.

Grievance: The school continues to omit instruction based on godly virtues which could help slow or stop the cultural decline in America. Social changes of the size that should take a hundred years or more to occur, began happening in a quarter of that time after World War II. From the 70's on such changes happened in a decade. Mass-media and its cohort, mass-education both are serving to homogenize and sterilize that which is not middle ground. Parents since the colonial times expected their children to grow up having the same values. But now, mass-communication (including advertising and school instruction which must go along with the commercial dollar flow if it is to serve the customer) is designed to make children need to be conformists and fit into a norm. That norm accepts the new moral proverb, "...that's OK because it's funny." Which is how sexual trends work their way into television and children grow up accepting the erosion of values that worsens each five years. Not only does the school omit instruction of how to define and recognize corosive moral influence (especially when it's disquised in the form of 'humor'), but the school also encourages and supports disruptive social engineering. This idea of accelerated cultural change was pointed out by Josh McDowell author of Right from Wrong. The acceleration is made possible primarily by centralization of source for communication. This has occured with the recently new federal department of education, and national televsion monopoly. I just left a prime time tv 'comedy' show after the young man smiled and told the girl jokingly to 'take off your bra'. This is offered as one example of the traditional family values being suprise attacked from every angle. If school were influenced by parents, there would be time for explaining values to the children at a young age, so the child could learn to recognize and not accept corrosive, eroding, degrading 'humor' as each five year period rolled by. But instead of being guided by parents, the curriculum is guided by educational research conforming with UNESCO and atheistic-evangelists who want to wash the child from their parents influce and replace with "social conformity" to the new-age ha ha culture of sex, booze, non-marriage living together, ... If you question the reference to UNESCO then be informed that President Bush has commited to cooperation with UNESCO and also Bill Gate's Microsoft in world wide efforts including the United States.

Grievance: Teachers are more responsive to the system that pays their check, than the parents of the child in their class. This is generally true in WFISD and throughout the system of teachers in America. One teacher of the year told me, "If the parents are not going to stand up for their children, I'm certainly not going to risk my job trying to help them."

Grievance: Teachers and "system administrators" have knowingly and willingly decided they had to do what was best for the students "in their opinion" because the parents weren't taking their own responsibilities to help and protect their own children. You can see hints of this line of thought creeping into the educational colleges just by reading the encyclopedia articles on education written by "Educators". Between 1952 and 1992 , schools came to see themselves as very much "replacing " the parents. Verifiable by easy references.

Grievance: The system continues to say "everything is excellent and getting better" with their ads "Excellence in Education" . The system fails to inform the parents of controversial issues which would definitely bring the parents by the droves into their school board meetings.

Grievance: Why do students graduate not having been taught the Christian history of America?

Grievance: A Christian view of nearly anything is avoided in the schools of WFISD.

Grievance: Children figure it this way, the Bible must not be very important or it would be in school.

Grievance: The "Educational Colleges" have for a long time taught teachers to use a mosaic, or kalidescope approach to presenting new material. Meaning, don't require too much concentration, keep it short and simple, bite sized so the student doesn't have to maintain a train of thought. This is evident in many text books, and classroom presentations. They say, "Let the student learn by osmosis, just soaking it in with many repetitions. " Well, the original schools of America didn't do this, and now finally new studies have shown why. The new way is inefficient. The new way is an excuse for lack of thinking.

Learning by "osmosis" and tv distractions affect the way people learn, making the knowledge they gain harder to use later on.

As published through the National Academy of Sciences "What's new is that even if you can learn while distracted, it changes how you learn to make it less efficient and useful," said Russell A. Poldrack, a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Grievance: Many in authority have gone along with the system for the sake of their pay check and have either failed to discover for themselves the truth of what is right and good to feed the children, or if they knew they have failed to sound a trumpet for the parents to hear. This is true from the pre-school programs through high school.

Examples include: The teaching and encouragment of "random self-expression" over discipline and self control. In dance, song, and emotion, even in attempts at so called "creativity" where there is no light of knowledge and understanding, there is darkness and confusion.

Other examples include failures in the teaching of numbers, words, and ideas. Words are taught as being "close approximations" on a list of words, rather than detailed dictionary definitions. Hold fast the form of sound words is just one scripture which is broken by such failures with the children. The significance of words can be seen in John 1 "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God, and the word was God"

When appropriate and good and true books were offered as a gift to the library at Barwise Jr. High, they was declined, saying they would have to go through many layers of red tape to accept them into the library. But when their approved channels of gift books wanted to donate books about teen-age deliquents and horror stories of snakes turning into little girls, those books went right onto the shelves.

Grievance: Over 90% of the old good books have been sold off in book sales by WFISD and replaced with contemporary writings which for the most part do not satisfy the needs of a growing child, but rather waste time or plant harmful ideas before any armor has been established against such ideas. Child psychologists are well aware of how the order of presentation of ideas affects what takes root in a child's heart and mind.

Grievance: Chaos has been taught as that from which all came. As though chaos itself produced order and life. This is directly contradicting the truth of God. We would not know chaos unless we first knew order, just as we would not know comfort if we did not know discomfort. A child raised on garbage for food does not know to reject the rancid and foul, but a child raised on butter and honey learns to reject the evil and accept only the good.

Grievance:Government teachers of WFISD have failed to teach significant history when the graduate does not know how our First Amendment was applied until the year 1948 and why it was drastically changed in the 1960's and who opposed such changes and why. This is only one example of many which can be shown. These things affect the direction of our nation. The first five presidents and supreme courts and congress wanted these things taught to all generations of Americans. Failure to follow their path in teaching government ideas has led to many consequent other failures in America.

Grievance: A sweeping example of a failure in such a simple thing as holding a writing instrument, shows failure at a foundational level of instruction. This is given as so simple, that it must indicate many other details of righteousness are also missing from the government schools curriculum. Watch a hundred children write, and you will see such a strain. It is no wonder writing becomes a chore, they don't even learn the mechanics of holding a pencil for greatest ease of use. Teachers told me, well, that is such a small thing, why do you bring it up? I respond, if you can not be faithful in such a small thing, such a daily and often repeated thing, ... how much more failure is revealed when the less common things are examined for righteousness.

These failures include reading rate and comprehension, vocabulary, a clear and understandable way of speaking, and a beautiful form of handwriting as a goal.

Grievance: Digitized and fragmentized knowledge is taught that results in the child not having a connected picture of whatever he learned.

Example: Chemistry. So much more detail is taught now than 40 years ago, but today the child is lost in the details, not connecting the major parts. Evidences include, such detailed analysis of the Kreb's Cycle but failure to know it's connection to their own nutrition with everyday foods.

Example: Math: Knowing details of a calculator keyboard sequence for a complex problem, but inability to solve the simple formula D=R*T for R by a high school student with two years of algebra.

Example: Physics. Using a computer to measure tiny variations on a rolling ball down a slide, but failure to get the big idea. Like using a computer to calculate to 4 or 5 places, but failing to comprehend where the decimal place goes. Teach them a slide rule so they get the point of the decimal place.

Electronics: The student put together pre-assembled modules to build a toy robot, and got an A in electronics. He didn't know how to use a voltmeter to measure resistance. He didn't know much at all except how to snap together the pretty plastic part that held the sophisticated components of which he understood little.

Example: Computer generated answers to test questions allowing a child to graduate HS with gross misrepresentation of what he has learned.

Example: We use money daily. The school has not taught the history of money, not even in America. It has a complex and little known history that American leaders of the past believed worth knowing by all Americans. The school has failed to teach this history which has an affect on every child's life.

Grievance: The school system budget for administration has grown out of proportion to benefit for students. For further reference please see The Grandfather Economic Report link from WFISD.CHRISTIANPARENTS.Com/links.html
Grandfather Economic Reportendorsed by Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman

For further references please see The Grandfather Education Report link from WFISD.CHRISTIANPARENTS.Com
Grandfather Education Report

Grievance: A graduate has a year or two of chemistry details but gained no connection to understanding common daily uses of chemistry around the home. This is gross failure to teach what is in their daily lives of which they should be aware and knowledgeable.

Grievance: For a high school graduate, and a star on a champion soccer team to graduate and not even know how to read good enough to maintain himself at Midwestern University, that is a failure on the part of the school. And it happens way too often.

Grievance: For a graduate to not know in his own home town which way is North, that is so evident of missing links in what is provided for the students.

Grievance: The school system continues making excuses for America's falling scores in international testing of science and math. Such excuses are not acceptable.

Grievance:Use of tv and entertainment, and conditioning the students to only that which is deemed "fun".

Grievance: Telling the students, contrary to parent counsel, that it is OK to watch tv while doing homework if in the opinion of the student it "helps" them. See AP news story Monday July 24, 2006 by RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer, titled Study: TV makes learning less efficient. The school system has for a very long time told students from elementary grades up, that if in their opinion, tv helped them relax and be more comfortable studying, by all means go ahead and watch tv while doing your studies. This may not be recognized as an official position in their records, but it was pervasive and common. It results from "new psychology" saying "whatever makes the student feel good, let it be done..". In short, parents, your children have been subject to experimentation in how to learn. And the experiment was contrary to scripture on many counts. "Let the light of thine eye be single." "Whatsoever you do that do with all your might." I mean, don't you think students should learn how to focus and concentrate! Now after decades of this educational experimental nonsense, a new article says it failed. Wow. How smart was that. Article is found at TV while studying is not good

Grievance: Failure to inform the parents in WFISD of those cultural forces influencing public schools. Forces such as the U.N. world plan for education as mentioned by President Bush, and found in many public records. Even Bill Gates has made news with his friendly cooperation with some elements of UNESCO World Plan for Education. Also, it should be explained to parents what the goals of such non-tradtional, non-American forces intends for our children. Failure to present such information is a breach of trust for a tradtional minded American parent.

See link to Steven Kosser Report at WFISD.ChristianParents.com for a psycholgist's report on our schools.

In summary, the reading is not as it could be, neither vocabulory, spelling, math, physics, chemistry, history, government, or economics.

The goals are too low. The system adapts too much to mass-media conformity, reducing too much to the lowest level of association. This is seen when rap-prison hip groin holding and jumping is performed on stage with the Miss Universe beauty contest. Mass-media at its best again combining the extremes at a point and place for public acceptance which is the learned behavior for our little children. TV is changing our youth. On TV beautiful, refined girls are shown in association with boys who jump like monkey's while holding their hand between their legs. Such is the lesson mass-media social engineers want your little children to have. Evidence? That's what they combined on tv this week. The school is doing the same kind of combining and degrading of quality. Redefining is contrary to standards. Without standards who could measure anything, a foot, a pound, or a passing understanding of any subject. But , Oh, that's what happened, the system re-defined the standards, and that's why students get A's who wouldn't have 40 years ago.

Grievance: Telling many different parents, "You're the only one to ask this." Revolving doors in the system keeps like-minded parents from reinforcing one another in their efforts to oversee what the children learn. A public record in one place of parent requests, comments, complaints, as well as praises should be maintained.

We the undersigned will have our students to learn the things we want them to know. To this end we want a new elective class giving our perspective of what should be taught. Such class will be available at every year of our child's presence in WFISD. At each higher grade level, more detail can be added to what has already been presented. And yes it does need to be done at each grade level of my child's learning in public school at WFISD. This will in some degree help keep the focus where I as a parent want it to be for my child.

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