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<< fed up with over testing and selling kids out for profit.>>>

It's both sides of the aisle in Pearson's pocket. This isn't a
political issue for people as much as common sense. The people
I know taking their kids out of public school are as diverse as
they come with the exception of low-income single moms.

On 8/31/14, wake up call wrote:
> Please--PsyGuy does not speak for teachers. I am a teacher
> and I certainly will miss your child if you remove them to
> home school. If twenty people share your views I will be out
> of a job. Last year, we saw many families pull their students
> out mid year to home school. Maybe the public schools could
> get out of Common Core, which 6 out of 10 people on the street
> are opposed to, and get out of the business of using kids for
> guinea pigs for every new fad that comes along. Maybe
> teachers can stop acting like pushers for the crap that is
> being pushed on the public. Yes, people are fed up. And it
> isn't just a few. PsyGuy is hung up on the tea party which
> he thinks is the villian in his imaginary world. Liberals,
> Dems, Repubs, tea party and libertarians are all fed up with
> over testing and selling kids out for profit. Wake up
> teachers. The STAAR testing and the curriculum is just used
> to get you on the same page so you can be replaced easily.
> Jump into the resistence movement.
>
>
> On 8/31/14, PsyGuy wrote:
>> Yes it is, its the tea party line. The only link to
>> socialism and communism is in the social studies
>> curriculum, because those systems of government exist. You
>> conservative tea party republicans are all the same if its
>> not Jesus and business its communism, and socialism and it
>> must be anti american and anti family.
>>
>> Not my part of Texas we indicted that tea party republican
>> of a governor, I hope he doesnt get convicted though
>> because Id love him to run for president, Hilary could
>> beat him easily.
>>
>> So dont pay for it, no one is holding a gun to your
>> districts head and making them license the product. If you
>> dont agree with your schools values then pull your kids
>> out of school and home school them or send them to a good
>> little christian school. No teacher or admin will miss you
>> from your school.
>>
>> On 8/30/14, Hope wrote:
>>> On 8/30/14, and Pearson does wrote:
>>>> common core, too? Is that right? So much of what are new
>>>> textbooks have is common core?
>>>>
>>>> On 8/29/14, 1administrator wrote:
>>>>> TEA only jumps when Pearson say how high! Pearson
>>>>> prepares the test. Pearson delivers and accounts for
>>>>> the test! Pearson grades the test! Pearson prepares the
>>>>> results for publication! TEA does nothing without
>>>>> Pearson's directions.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 8/27/14, to 1 administrator wrote:
>>>>>> Can you explain what you mean when you say Pearson
>>>>>> already owns TEA? I would like to understand your
>>>>>> observation on that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 8/27/14, 1administrator wrote:
>>>>>>> PsyGuy- I have a question. I am not trying to start
>>>>>>> an argument, but on C-scope, Curriculum, and such but
>>>>>>> why can't Pearson or textbook publisher write a
>>>>>>> textbook that covers the TEKS required. We are
>>>>>>> purchasing textbooks, hardcopy or online anyway. Just
>>>>>>> a random thought that crossed my mind. With the
>>>>>>> number of purchases, the publishers should be able to
>>>>>>> produce the needed books.(I only mentioned Pearson
>>>>>>> because they already own TEA!) Let me hear what you
>>>>>>> think!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 8/26/14, PsyGuy wrote:
>>>>>>>> Typical tea party rhetoric. If its not about god,
>>>>>>>> guns, taxes
>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>>> profits, its anti-american and anti-family.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 8/17/14, Hope wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 8/17/14, c-scope is being raised from the
>>>>>>>>> dead... wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> I heard that the Texas Resource System is c-scope
>>>>>>>>>> revised. Is this true?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Yes, but supposedly without the controversial
>>>>>>>>> lessons that were anti-American, anti-family, etc.
>>>>>>>>> The region service centers are making a killing off
>>>>>>>>> this. They're not about to let it die. It's their
>>>>>>>>> cash cow. Forget about it being full of numerous
>>>>>>>>> errors. Teachers aren't supposed to be smart enough
>>>>>>>>> to see that, or stupid enough to point it out to
>>>>>>>>> anyone in authority.
>>>
>>>
>>> Tea Party rhetoric nothing! It is what it is. C-Scope is
>>> connected to Common Core. Common Core has been linked to
>>> socialism, even communism-typical left-leaning PC garbage
>>> that is ruining our country. Texas, for the most part, is
>>> still conservative and pro-American and pro-family
>>> values. And then there are all the errors it's full of.
>>> Schools shouldn't have to pay good money for curriculum
>>> that's sub-standard and going against the values of a
>>> large percent of our state.

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