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Just FYI ----

The Common Core State Standards are illegal in Texas.

The 83rd Texas Legislature passed House Bill 462 (HB 462),
which contains several important prohibitions relating to
curriculum standards. The bill:

1. prohibits the State Board of Education (SBOE) from
adopting Common Core State Standards;

2. prohibits school districts from using Common Core State
Standards to meet the requirements to provide instruction in
the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS);

3. prohibits a school district or open enrollment charter
school from being required to offer the Common Core;

4. prohibits the Texas Education Agency from adopting or
developing assessments based on Common Core State Standards.

www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/billtext/pdf/HB00462F.pdf#n
avpanes=0.

On 10/25/14, jump in against the scamS wrote:
> Plenty of people told admins and teacher organizations that
> CSCOPE was a scam. They knew it. They brought it into the
> schools to build their own power. CSCOPE is just the twin
> sister of Common Core...and that is called Fed Led Ed. You
> don't like having the feds control every breath you take
but
> yet most teachers can't run to the polls fast enough to
pull
> the lever for the very candidates that TFT and other orgs
are
> pushing at us. In the end, the administrators who are now
> being used as patsies to set up a system where our schools
are
> sold out...they are going to suffer the same fate as the
> teachers. They will be useless within the new system where
> administrators are already being trained to takeover
schools.
>
> Since you are retired I have a suggestion to make. Share
your
> knowledge and experience to join into the growing political
> backlash against Common Core in Texas schools. I see
teachers
> who are "retiring" (getting so burnt out that they pack up
and
> leave) and they allow the system to beat them up.
Experienced
> teachers, such as yourself, who know how the classroom is
> supposed to run when teachers have autonomy are needed in
the
> behind-the-scenes pushback movement. Do a search for Texas
Opt
> Out and you will read about the brewing firestorm. Jump in.
> We need you because you are honest and willing to speak
out.
>
>
>
> On 10/24/14, shill wrote:
>> I DO agree that C-Scope really WASN'T for MY classroom,
but
>> I could tell THAT after USING it the first year without
>> anyone having to inform me on some chat board. In fact,
>> that's EXACTLY why I quit using it! It wasn't fit for ANY
>> classroom as far as I am concerned. However I wish someone
>> had told ADMINISTRATION that when C-Scope leased their
>> product to them and subsequently when admin forced it down
>> all of the teachers' throats. Also, I don't remember
saying
>> that my students and district were so wonderful. Some
>> students were, some weren't, probably like most districts.
I
>> DO know that districts want higher test scores and that
many
>> of them will glom onto anything that they think will help
>> them get them....including scams like C-Scope. If I was
>> doing something wrong, then it was the responsibility of
>> administration to tell me exactly WHAT that was, and maybe
I
>> could have corrected it. I repeat, C-Scope = scam.

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