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TEXAS ISD Superintendent Viewed as Spiteful and Vindictive

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Found the following post on Face Book in regard to Brazosport ISD Superintendent Karin Holacka. 

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Talked to friend this weekend that is an ex-teacher who quit because she had enough of Karin Holacka. She said basically that the public at large has no idea how much harm she has done BISD.

She said discipline in the classrooms and her refusal to take action is one of the worst issues in the district now. She told a quick story of a student that was biting teachers and other tales of severe problems that Karin would not allow the teachers to do anything of consequence about.

I will share this information with Joe Silvas as he ran on a platform of restoring discipline to the schools.

My friend wanted to remain anonymous as she has friends that are still teacher and she seemed to indicate that Holacka was very capable of spiteful, vindictive actions. I am appalled this has come to pass in our schools.

 

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I know is true from talking to teacher friends from when I subbed at Bwood and from talking to my daughter’s teachers from last year. Dr. H’s control and the changes she has brought to BISD are the reasons we moved and got our girls out of the schools there.

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Good Teachers No Longer Needed in Texas!!

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With CSCOPE good veteran teachers are no longer needed or wanted. CSCOPE “pushers” view good veteran teachers as a threat when it comes to implementing their progressive teaching philosophy . The following photo is a snapshot from a CSCOPE powerpoint presentation for administrators.

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CSCOPE was about implementing a progressive teaching philosophy called  Project Based Learning (PBL). Students will now work in groups where direct teaching will become a thing of the past.  They want teachers to be “facilitators”  and to “learn along side” their students. The philosophy is built around  a “constructivist” philosophy. It is built around the “collective” opposed to individual achievement. American Exceptionalism is no longer valued or taught replaced with Globalization and Diversity. Marxist Phychologist, Lev Vygotsky encouraged an education built on “constructivism”  CSCOPE acknowledged “progressive” educators as their research base along with Lev Vygotsky.

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Texas Teacher Demonizes Christian Parents

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We unfortunately live in a society today where a sense of decency often is  something that is not valued. What is even worse is that many of those individuals who devalue decency have the job of teaching and instilling unfavorable behavior traits in our children. Such is the case with one Texas Teacher.

This Texas Teacher has shared with her students through twitter that parents that teach that evolution is a “LIE” are hurting the nation and killing innovation”. George West ISD’s 7th grade math teacher Mrs. Pawelek has two twitter accounts. She has set up one for her students where she she post comments and photos of her students (has she informed the parents that she is taking photos of their children and posting them on the internet?) I found Ms. Pawelek’s Tweet below disturbing! The fact that she could be so bold and insensitive to students who believe in Intelligent Design, be they Christian, Jew or just Creationists of any stripe is concerning and offensive.

Mrs. Pawelek has also put herself in a position above her student’s parents in challenging their opinion when it disagrees with her own. How dare she spew her indoctrination and demonize the parents of the children in her classroom. I wonder how Mrs. Pawelek would respond if her own child was in my music or dance class or whatever and I had a twitter account for the class where I told my students that any parent who denied creationism must be pagan and is going to Hell. I am sure that she would remove her child from my class and give me a good cussing, which I would rightfully deserve. The sad difference is the fact that it is not nearly so easy to remove my child from her grasp and my tax dollars pay her salary either way.

      Her classroom twitter account.

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As a side note, why is it that the progressive liberals can’t or won’t allow competing ideas on evolution, education, etc.? The evolution “science” takes more faith than it takes to believe in Creationism or Intelligent Design.

Brenda Pawelek has another twitter account where she exercises no restraint on her foul language. Do you find it funny that both of the posts by her below start out with the premise of Deity? “OMG” doesn’t the G stand for God? And how about “Holy S..t”, OK maybe that is a stretch, but the point is that while our teachers have a right to their first ammendment right as much as the next person, in my opinion they should always remember that our kids are looking. I don’t personally know Mrs. Pawelek but maybe since she believes we came to being via evolution over time which, when partnered with the concept of no God, leads to a life of no moral absolutes which frees oneself to act anyway they choose with no right or wrong behavior other than their own opinion.

Surely we can do better than this when choosing educators for our most precious resource, our children.

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TEACHER THANKS CSCOPE CRITICS

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TEACHERS HAVE LOST THEIR VOICE WHEN FIGHTING CSCOPE…. I RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING FROM A  CSCOPE TEACHER.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I do not know what control this thing has over superintendents, but    it’s a scary thing! Prior to the hiring of our supt., we had district curriculum consultants who with teachers’ assistance, developed curriculum calendars for all subjects. Our ELA scores were amazing! And then the current supt rolls in. Cscope is the bible, Cscope is the National Archives, Cscope is everything a teacher needs….if you listen to the supt. Countless meetings have been held with the assistant supt. to share concerns but to no avail.
I have gone from a teacher having the confidence that I could accomplish anything in the classroom to a teacher that hasn’t known which end is up. Metaphors are our mantra…a ship without a rudder, a kite without a string, a compass without a needle.
How sad that education in our district wears the mask of deceit. I just wish that sanity could return to our classrooms.
Thank you so much for your continued work in exposing Cscope for what it is. Isn’t it interesting that this conflict has never been experienced over a textbook adoption?

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TRASH TEXTBOOKS?

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Educators across the state of Texas are working feverishly on implementing a progressive learning style called Project Based Learning. Sound great doesn’t it? As a student I loved doing projects and getting my hands messy, buidling and making dioramas, etc. Unfortunately this is not what it is all about to the liberal progressive educator of our day.

They want to trash your students textbooks and build a learning practice built on Marxist Lev Vygotsky’s learning theory of “Social Constructivism”. Social Constructivism is based on students creating their own knowledge of things. There is no absolute value, right or wrong. You will hear educators today mention 21st Century Learning Skills and Critical Thinking. These are buzz words for everything is up for debate.

The following is a snap shot of a newsletter from written by, Texas Education Service Center 6’s Coordinator of School Improvement, Ingrid Lee.  In the article Ms. Lee’s  promotes the idea of shedding textbooks and worksheets and grow relationships with peers and teachers. Are educators now promoting schools as just some sort of social club? I would hope we would send out children to school to be taught and educated by qualified teachers. Unfortunately,  Teachers are being converted into being just some class room facilitator. Students are to work in groups for the majority of the time in “DISCOVERING THEIR KNOWLEDGE”  as well as critically thinking material through and discover if it is truth for them or not. SERIOUSLY?

NO TEXTBOOKS

 

 

Eli Crow from Tyler ISD wrote this attachement on Project Based Learning and stated the following “Many of the CSCOPE curriculum performance indicators can serve as potential PBL project ideas.” CSCOPE has appeared to be the foundation for a bigger progressive agenda of implementing Project Based Learning. CSCOPE is not officially gone and thankfully parents and taxpayers are waking up to what is going on in our school districts. The fact that the lessons are supposedly going to be removed doesn’t remove the control aspect of CSCOPE for teachers and the agenda of Project Based Learning.

 

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Vulgar Cscope Teacher in Lumberton ISD

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Texas Teacher Wears “Vote Obama” Shirt at Lumberton ISD and Posts Vulgar, Anti-

Christian/GOP/Fox News Pics on Twitter – Uses CSCOPE

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During the November 2012 election, several students claim that Lumberton High School teacher Michelle Champagne paraded around the high school wearing a shirt with a picture of Barack Obama and “Vote Obama” written above the picture. This Texas teacher also has vulgar, anti-Christian, anti-Republican, anti-Fox News, anti-Rick Perry messages and pictures posted openly on her Twitter page and says her fellow Lumberton residents “cling to guns and Bibles.” One tweet on her Twitter Page even refers to a Christian Cross as a Swastika! It is no surprise that this teacher also says she relies heavily on the flawed CSCOPE curriculum!

The recent Lumberton ISD Muslim Burqa Lesson and CSCOPE curriculum controversy has apparently encouraged other students and parents to speak out about things that have happened in Lumberton schools. Over the past month I have been contacted about all kinds of incidents, including this one. Parents in other cities are also standing up and speaking out. Just today I saw that a parent in Flour Bluff, TX exposed a CSCOPE approved supplement lesson that blamed the 9/11 terrorist attack on America.
I 100% believe that the Lumberton School Board and Lumberton Administration are NOT trying to push liberalism on any children. I also believe that most of the teachers in Lumberton are awesome! I do believe however that there ARE some liberal teachers who DO try to influence students with liberal ideas, even here in predominantly conservative East Texas. I also believe that, even if not intentional on the part of the school, the CSCOPE curriculum does try to negatively influence students. Thankfully, LISD has created a committee to look into replacing CSCOPE.
Lumberton Teacher Wears “Vote Obama” Shirt to School
Last week I got a call from a student who said that, during the November 2012 election, Lumberton High School teacher Michelle Champagne paraded around the high school wearing a shirt with a picture of Barack Obama and “Vote Obama” written above the picture. This allegation was backed up by other students who saw her wearing the shirt. Even after at least one student and the student’s parents complained to the school about this shirt, the teacher still wore the shirt to Lumberton High School, according to the complaining student and parent. It is not known what action, if any, was taken against the teacher for wearing the shirt.
The Burqa incident might have been as an honest mistake not meant to push anything onto the students, but there is nothing innocent about a teacher wearing a shirt to the high school that says “Vote Obama.” This shirt in my opinion, is clearly an attempt of an authority figure to push a liberal person and ideas onto impressionable students at Lumberton High School. A teacher with a shirt with “vote” written on it would be fine at a school to encourage students to get involved. I would even be fine with a shirt that just had a picture of Obama on it. But a teacher wearing a shirt that has the words “Vote Obama” is clearly crossing the line. Students wearing religious or political shirts are ok because it is student led. A teacher is in a position of authority over impressionable students who are there to learn from the teacher, so teachers are NOT allowed to wear these kinds of things.

It is interesting to note that on Michelle Champagne’s LISD Teacher Webpage,she says that the students in her class only do CSCOPE for the first 9 weeks!

This Lumberton Texas teacher labels herself as a LIBERAL TEACHER on TWITTER and has VULGAR anti-Republican pictures and messages on her Twitter
Just in case you want to try to argue that this teacher is not a liberal who, in my opinion, wants to push radical ideas onto the students in Lumberton, go check out this teacher’s past public twitter posts.
The following are some of the past tweets on Lumberton Teacher Michelle Champagne’s twitter account. These past tweets on her account have been archived at http://topsy.com/twitter/mbchampagne because she has now deleted her twitter page
Michelle Champagne’s Twitter Description:
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Lumberton, Texas – Liberal Texas school teacher surrounded by people who cling to their guns and Bibles…

 

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Cscope’s Controlled Robots

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The Progressive/Marxist Cscope Curriculum  in over 70% of Texas Schools can summed up this way….

Controls the Teacher, Eliminates the Parents, Indoctrinates the Students

Teachers across the State of Texas detest the control and content of the Cscope curriculum that their school district has purchased. Teachers have been gagged into not speaking out against the curriculum out of fear of losing their jobs. Cscope now has hit the national and state media due to it’s pro communist, pro Islamic, and skewed history lessons. One Cscope skewed history lesson  portrays the Boston Tea Party as a terrorist act. Cscope reps will respond that the lesson has been removed but my question is “IT SHOULD OF NEVER BEEN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?”

Teachers are getting bolder and feel somewhat free from the control of Cscope since Senator Dan Patrick held a special called Senate Education Committee Hearing questioning the owners of Cscope about it’s financial setup and controversial lesson content.  Seems they may be getting a little to free in Wichita Independent School District according to administration  to the point of their jobs being threatened.

By Ann Work with Times Record News                                          March 1, 2013

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