Schools Out!

ROLL REVERSALS

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:05:00 +0000

Today, school events are more important than family events. Coaches have more authority than parents. Family conversations are tuned out for computer/phone conversations. Sports events take precedence over church events. Trash talk is preferred over cleanspeak. Pastors think sacrilege is funny. Any wonder why the world is falling apart?

Has anybody even wondered why these roll reversals have occurred? Could it be the sunami of pure sewer and sarcastic sitcom that comes through the media-movies-music lifestyle that has taken over our country?

Do you ever think of trying to plug the holes that American teens are bleeding from?
Who is the shooter, the assassin that is riddling our society with filth and fantasy?
What color glasses do you have on that you see things as getting better?

If we don't wake up,do a 180 and go back to core family loyalty, become tighter-knit families with Godly values, TODAYS, not the NEXT generation, teen lives are in grave jeopardy!

FEASTING ON SLOP!

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:03:00 +0000

Why do kids sit in classrooms day after day in the gear of 'useless'? Where are their minds? What are they thinking? Most important of all,WHY are they sitting there so bored in a seeming semi-conscious state or bouncing,tapping,shaking in their seats? Where does their sense of entitlement come from? They appear no different than crack-heads coming out of a stupor and the popular phrase "stuck on stupid" is an apt description!

Are teens learning this behavior at home? Or has it just evolved over the years as part of our country's precipitous moral decline? We, as a nation, are not just falling, we have already fallen and we can't seem to get up. I personally don't know but 2 or 3 young people that I would even think could run for mayor of a city much less a national office! That is scary - especially when I think of the lives of my grandchilden. But I do know the answer (albeit controversial) to all of this craziess.

The reason for all of this malaise in teenagers and young adults is their source of food. Where are they grazing? Where are they feeding?#1. They continuously feed on methane gas produced by the ingredients in diet drinks. The eat and drink literally buckets of sugar each week, very few vegetables, and steroids, hormones,antibiotics,
and chemicals that permeate meats, processed foods, and fast food fare! So, to start off with, they are physically unhealthy - I don't care how many times a week they run or workout, the common teenage American diet stinks. #2. They are emaciated and skeletal, freakishly so, in their spiritual gleanings. Their meager fare, if any, is a simple verse or two and a "help me" prayer or two. And forget church, its too boring, in their opinion, to even bother listening to. So they are also spiritually malnourished.

Ah, their beautiful, intelligent minds! Really? What do they feed on but the slop of worldly indifference and their parents can't really define or explain what worldly indifference even means. Teens and adults feed hourly at the slop trough of movies, music, and media (through T.V., I-pods, I-phones, Androids, X-boxes, Wii's, PS's, DS's and DA's) Three strikes and you're OUT! Add to all of this poor nutrition for body, soul, and spirit, the fact of dumber than dirt education in most school systems, public and private, nationwide, and you have the makings of a catastrophe! Hence the rapid decline and near extinction of a nation.

Now, who do I complain to with this disturbing, controversial reason for our plight? A corrupt government? The local police? Why I can't even complain to the parents of these media crack-like-heads! Why? Because they are setting the example. They are pulled up and elbow deep at the same slop trough as their kids, eating away like there is no tomorrow. And there just might be a "no tomorrow" scenario sooner than we all think.

Now these are just generalizations and I don't mean to imply that every kid falls into this 3 generation-old mold, but the implications are MASSIVE and the delusional are multitudinous. How can so many be so clueless as to the deception they are swallowing? We have been blinded, hardened and smooth-talked for so long that we just accept as normal all of this mayhem.And it's not really so 'long'. America is only 236 years old! We just want to be left alone, be our own authority, and live our own lives as best we can.Selfish lot that we are, we don't even consider that moral decay and disrespect will just keep on spiralling downward, picking up speed thus making life unbearable for our children's children and their children. But we are more concerned with life now aren't we?

Do you have any examples (historical or present)of life getting better, of morality and decency improving over time? No, we don't even think of things like that because we are so wrapped up in nursing our own desires, always panting after more. Look around and compare. We are as far as dark is from light in living the way our Creator instructed us to live. Our whole lifestyle is a joke when held up to the light of Scripture! We are worse than the Egyptians, Assyrians and Babylonians in idol worship! They sacrificed their children to their man-made gods - we sacrifice our children to the god of self-interest! No matter - because we don't have the sense to raise children anymore and train them in right ways of living - we don't even know the right ways. They are all melded together with worldly ways and we can't tell them apart because we have accepted dung in place of gold!

We have been hood-winked, lulled and numbed into believing this lifestyle is A-OKAY! We adapt! We jump through hoops to 'conform', be accepted, to climb that social ladder! We inhale it! We love the chase! It's titillating, intoxicating - devil be damned! Our biggest hero is our football teams! Isn't that what Sundays, wait, Saturdays,wait, Fridays,oh,and Mondays are for?

We have evolved into something very sad. I return full-circle to my description in the first paragraph -scroll back up and read it again - staggering numbers of dysfunctional children in dysfunctional families, all thinking they are ENTITLED to anything they want. It is now, at this stage, an inbred attitude that is constantly renewed at the places they feed in the most - MUSIC, MOVIES, and MEDIA! They lust after and desire to feast upon the slop that pours forth, fountains of filth. They are addicted to the slop that is destroying their lives and their future. Movies, Music, and Media - a much larger and fiercer enemy than drugs or Taliban or terrorists. America is destroying herself!

2 MILLION + and Counting!

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:34:00 +0000

More and more parents are waking up to the moral and academic disaster in their school systems and more and more schools are waking up to the fact that they are losing $10,000+ per year for every student that they lose! The President of the United States has his child in a private upscale school and most of the congressmen and senators either have their children homeschooled or in small private schools.

Our local schools, both parochial and public are sliding into moral depravity, teaching kids that it is okay to live together without being married or that it is okay to be gay, how to wear condoms, how to access drugs, how to party, and how to curse! You can't go anywhere anymore and hear clean language on a playground or in a coffee shop, even in elementary schools. When do schools have time for academics with all their pep rallies, clubs, and extra-curricular activities? Oh, and I forgot teachers who let their kids sleep in class because they(kids) had such a rough night.

It all boils down to parental responsibility. Who has to answer to God for the way children are raised, language in the home, and how children are educated? Only the parents will be held accountable. If God has blessed you with children, then they are your responsibility. The sad truth is that our culture thinks that things like football, rubbing elbows with drugheads, foul-mouthed, and alcoholic children, teach social skills! When more people turn out for football games across this country on weekends than turn out for church, our country is in serious trouble. But, we know that, don't we?

As parents we have to decide what is important; what is our duty before God; what are the things God considers important for our children to know. He is the One we have to bow before one day and answer to, for every idle word and our handling of every responsibility placed in our hands. I think children are the highest calling and the most precious of all gifts. Yes,our children, legally have to go to school until the age of 18, but that doesn't mean that we throw them in with wolves or place them in a place where they can't even hear the teacher because of all the chaos or a place that has poor academic standards.

It is time to ask ourselves, what are my children really learning in the school they attend? Are they just learning to climb the social ladder, stepping on others as they climb? Are they getting the academic knowledge worthy of what I am paying? What are the important things that God wants them to know? What is more needful for them in these days of moral decay, the ways of God or the ways of the world? Which will help them survive and live a decent, moral life?

NOT JUST PUBLIC SCHOOL!

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:44:00 +0000

YOUTH are losing more and more of their memory everyday! They constantly take their brain(cell phone) out and play with it. Why? All of their information is in their cell phone so no need for memory. Ask them a question (names, numbers, facts, directions) and they don't think, they grab their smart phones! Coming soon - Teachers allowing students to phone check their facts while taking tests!

Any wonder why we are becoming a 'duh' society? Any wonder why academics, spelling, vocabulary, cursive writing and grammar has gone down the tubes? (not is going - has already gone)

Because of our hedonistic, sexually transmitted stupidity, fun-seeking moral morass, our educational plunge downward, and now even our credit rating, the whole world watches and smiles as America slides farther and farther away from God and the principles she was founded on.

JESUS LAND

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:13:00 +0000

You ask,"Why is it that young people can spend a weekend on retreat in Jesus land, realize that they are living wrongly and going in the wrong direction, then come home and in two weeks or less be headed back in the same wrong direction?"

Because you're environment lacks Jeesoxygen! You begin to slowly wilt and come down off of the high you felt in the company of so many like-minded teens. You are no longer with like-minded people hearing the praises of Jesus on everyone's lips. Maybe on no one's lips. You begin to slowly wilt and feel like you're going to die from loneliness.

Then all of a sudden satan shoots you a fresh, fake breeze of old times and because you are smothering you suck in his lie and go running back to familiarity. You are back in your fake comfort zone.

You only fall backward into familiarity because you don't take the time to consistently and diligently arm yourself for battle, to actively make God your familiarity, your home, your mate, your everything.

You dont study God. Yoou don't learn His heart, His mind, His will. You study movies, music, food, English, and Science, but you don't study Happiness! You don't study Love, you don't study Peace, you don't study Joy, Beauty, Gentleness, Self-Discipline, Security, or Service. Jesus is ALL of these things!

satan says vampires, X-Men, warlocks and sitcoms are more interesting things to waste your time on. (Harry Potter has held ten years of your interest) Do you sit for two hours and study Jesus' personality, His countenance? satan says that a cell phone and Facebook is the way to self-confidence and that sex and alcohol will give you the ultimate high!

It is so much easier to believe his lies that to resist his lies. But the truth is that the road with Jesus is full of purpose, it is fruitful and productive, it feeds you well and fulfills you (as you saw on retreat)and in the end it has a wonderful resting place.

satan's road is full of thorns, pain, and drama, it bears no fruit, sucks you dry, tosses you about and then you finally open your eyes and see that his road is a dead end with no escape.

So get in the ZONE! The Jesus Zone where He fills every minute with something new and exciting, where He whispers directions for each day right in your ear and fills you with excitement and anticipation for each new day. Drink continually from His fountain of living water!!

Life with God is sooooo simmmmmmmple! His burden is soooo liiiight! His love is soooo amaaazing! If you can't see the bigger picture, the overall whole, because your environment is suffocating you, then rise above. Take the han of Jesus and let Him lift you out of the muck so yu can see the big picture. Your current environment then only looks like a small blemish when compared to the overall beauty of God's special plan for your life!

Stop drowning! Grab the Hand of the Man who loves you more than you can even imagine and He'll walk you through kicking down all the walls that are thrown up against you. Sit back and trust. Watch the miracles He will perform for you on just a little seed of faith.

Those, even in your own family that seem unsupportive, even mocking and blowing off your faith by saying, "Oh, I went through a "religious" period too. It will pass. You'll grow up," are only telling you that they lost. They tried and failed. They weren't strong enough to hold on to Jesus' hand and were soon formed into the image of the world - they morphed from being created in God's image to being remolded into the image of this world.

Here are the things you need as an indispensible minimum: You should study with a tremendous devotion to Christ,with an ever-present awareness of Him. You should acquire a considerable knowledge of His life and personality. You should nurture a strong desire to increase in knowledge of Jesus and His Church and to study the doctrines of His Church and the reasons for Her teachings. Your roots will grow deep as a result of your diligence. When satan attack you will be within the strong, spiritual fortress that you and Jesus have built together. Start building! Time is of the essence! Hurry! His arms are stretched out toward you.

LEAP Results Are In Again

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Fri, 27 May 2011 00:05:00 +0000

Please tell me how public school teachers can teach nothing but the Leap Test all year long and have such dismal results. You would think with such test concentration that nearly all the kids would pass the test and be able to function at grade level. Where is our money going? One third of our state's kids will be going to summer school and trying again or, worse yet, they will be moving on to a new grade without being proficient in their last grade. Somebody needs to kill Goliath! Most of the kids can't even write anymore. No requirement to write in cursive. No requirement to put coherent sentences together. The standard is so low that homeschooled sixth graders can easily pass the GEE!

I wish someone would fund a scientific study of the difference in brain synapses of kids who are constantly engrossed in commercial-broken television programming, video games and movies compared with those of healthy individuals who are not entangled with media! There must be a difference! Of course finding enough kids to participate in a random sample who are not glutted with media and simple minded public school classes would be hard to find.

EXODUS EXODUS EXODUS I still say. If you love them, get them out of public school. If you're not walking the halls daily of your child's public school then you have no idea what you're child is facing. The pressures to conform to evil are huge and the education is worse than second rate. It is pitiful. Children today would be better off with grandma than in public school. Internet and educational video school is much better and more coherent than public school. So let the Leaps begin - again and again and again on its roller coaster, parent placating ride. LIES, the central purpose and profession of state and federal boards of education.

HOMO SCHOOLS

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:04:00 +0000

Want your kids to think same-sex relationships are 'normal'? Then keep them in public school. The following has already been distributed!

"Homosexual activists are making significant inroads in US schools, as a booklet titled, "Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth," is set to be distributed to all 16,000 school districts in the country.

The 24-page booklet by the National Education Association and American Psychological Association, tells students that homosexuality is a "normal expression of human sexuality".

"What’s so scary and dogmatic about this report is that it communicates that religious-based viewpoints are harmful, and even dangerous," said Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family Action.

The booklet particularly targets the idea that homosexuality is a condition that can be changed. It instructs educators, "Schools should be careful to avoid discussions of transformational ministry in their curriculum."

Brian Raum, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said that the talk of "inclusivity" in schools by homosexual groups is a veiled threat.

"What they’re trying to do is create a fear factor here," he said. "There’s nothing in the Constitution that would prohibit a teacher from presenting to a student all of the programs that are available, without endorsing or promoting any particular one."

The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, (NARTH) says that although "the aim of gay-affirmative counselling programs is humanitarian", the problem is that they do "much more" than discouraging scapegoating.

"In reality, they promote a particular worldview," present students with a set of "truth-claims that students are expected to adopt," and insist on conformity to these.

"These programs promote the value systems of a particular social group and denigrate the views of another, while at the same time, distorting science."

Global Catholic News

AMERICA THE BORED!

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 02:54:00 +0000

By Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY
Nearly half of the nation's undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don't make academics a priority, a new report shows.
Instructors tend to be more focused on their own faculty research than teaching younger students, who in turn are more tuned in to their social lives, according to the report, based on a book titled Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Findings are based on transcripts and surveys of more than 3,000 full-time traditional-age students on 29 campuses nationwide, along with their results on the Collegiate Learning Assessment, a standardized test that gauges students' critical thinking, analytic reasoning and writing skills.

After two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36% showed little change.

Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago, the research shows.

"These are really kind of shocking, disturbing numbers," says New York University professor Richard Arum, lead author of the book, published by the University of Chicago Press.

He noted that students in the study, on average, earned a 3.2 grade-point average. "Students are able to navigate through the system quite well with little effort," Arum said.

COLLEGE: Can students learn as well on iPads, e-books?

The Department of Education and Congress in recent years have looked for ways to hold colleges and universities accountable for student learning, but researchers say that federal intervention would be counterproductive.

"We can hope that the (new research) encourages rather than discourages college faculty to learn more about what works in terms of fostering higher levels of student learning," said George Kuh of the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University.

Charles Blaich, director of the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, used by 130 private colleges to improve education quality, said he thinks colleges are aware of the shortcomings but are trying to improve.

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that schools are blind to this," he said.

Other details in the research:

•35% of students report spending five or fewer hours per week studying alone. Yet, despite an "ever-growing emphasis" on study groups and collaborative projects, students who study in groups tend to have lower gains in learning.

•50% said they never took a class in a typical semester where they wrote more than 20 pages; 32% never took a course in a typical semester where they read more than 40 pages per week.

TELEVISION VIEWERS BEWARE

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:06:00 +0000

Viewers of television, viewers of movies are pawns in the hands of a seditious enemy. Viewers can be called upon at anytime to do enemy bidding. The viewer's imagination has been taken captive and sludged into hypnosis. The only thing that causes the viewer to move is bodily functions, i.e. hunger pangs or trips to the bathroom.

These addicts of television, movies, internet, and techno-toys have their learning curves flattened, their worldview is narrowed, and their vocabulary is mere happy-talk,movie-talk,tv-speak and foul language.

"Well", the enraged viewer says, "what does God want me to do to fill my boredom?"
Try using your faculties to produce and use your bodies for delivery! Be always expanding your mind. If you're still in high school that will be more difficult, but, even you, must rescue your own mind from the mind-numbing, brainwashing socialism and dumbing down you are learning in school! You will have to find ways to expand your mind, to grow your brain power. If you follow the world and do the same things as everyone else, you are on the road that leads down.

Discover your purpose! Search deeply and thoroughly for it. Learn voraciously. Eagerly develop meaningful talents. Discover the difference between meaningful and meaningless; purposeful and pointless; productive and useless or wasteful. You CAN'T make these discoveries watching the latest 'chick flick'! Learn how to make a difference in your environment, in your circle of influence. Expand your heart. Forage out your full potential. God did not place you on earth to be bored or to twitter away time. He rewards productive, fruitbearing efforts. The higher road is a demanding road, but is also joyful and fulfilling.

Measure your success by how much of your time is spent producing, helping, learning, and expanding, measured against how much time you waste in trivia, the unimportant, meaningless, clueless activities of our modern stroke me society. Ask yourself, "Am I following or am I leading?" Television can be useful if it is not used for solace, killing, chillin, and wiling away time. It can be a tool for knowledge, information, witnessing, as can the internet, another major time consumer. But you must judge these things in what they produce and draw out of you. Using them for self-pleasure, killing time, a date-finder, or some kind of crutch is never useful. Nor is it pleasing to God.

Now, if you don't care about God or His purposes for your life then go ahead and lounge away all your free time. If you do care what God wants for you then STOP wasting His time! There is too much beauty and knowledge in the world and so many that need your help for you to be sitting like a staring clown in front of a TV, movie,computer, or game screen for hours filling your head with hours of mental junk! You might try asking yourself whenever you feel like 'vegging out', "How could I better use this time?" If you're tired, go to sleep. Even that is better than pouring the sewer into your brain. When Jesus said, "Take heed, watch and pray...watch...And what I say to you all: WATCH, He wasn't talking about watching TV! He meant watch out so you won't be deceived into thinking you have a right to vegg and bath in the sewer of most TV programming and many other pitfalls!

And only two more passages from God's Holy Word-just 2 out of a million-would indicate that God wants us to devote our time to His service, not our own emotional needs. ICor.15:58 "...be steadfast, immovable, ALWAYS abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain." And ICor 16:13,14 "Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let ALL that you do be done in love." (Words all in caps added for emphasis) God wants us to be mature in our thinking, not like children. He wants us to have nothing to do with evil except to conquer it. If we keep dipping our minds in sinful, lustful, violent scenes, evil will conquer us!

We shouldn't be deceived into thinking that we can watch sin and it will have no effect on us. Bad company ruins good character and that includes worldly company thru movie/television/computer/game screens. God tells us to wake up, come to, come back to reality. He says that some of you have no knowledge of God. He says this to our shame. What does God want from YOU? What is His purpose for you in this life? If you can't answer these two questions then you have no time to be watching movies with their subliminal messages and pointless propaganda.

QUIT DIMINISHING YOUR BRAIN POWER ON MENTAL JUNK FOOD!

PUBLIC SCHOOLS-Xboxed Brains

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:11:00 +0000

America's latest strain of mental illness - xboxed brains! The American Teenage revolution is in full swing headed up by kids who can no longer do anything but print and misspell words, stare at xbox competitive violence, and take remedial, triple zero courses in college.

Thanks to dim-witted parents that refuse to ruffle little Joey's feathers for fear of initiating another tantrum, we have the current batch of unproductive teenagers, only 50% will graduate from government brain control (excuse me, I meant high school)!

If we don't soon remove the techno-toys, if we don't put a stop to the total self-centered, egotistical self-worship of todays teens by standing up and being real men and women of God, if we don't start saying "NO" pretty soon, if we don't start beatin' some butt(described in the same Book where our country got its laws) then we can kiss our American future good-bye! If we keep schmoozing, we'll keep losing our kids.

DISORIENTED AMERICANS

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:51:00 +0000

Who could blame us for being disoriented, desensitized, in a continual state of sedation? If anyone thought that their local school district or their very favorite local school was getting better - think again. They are worse than ever thanks to our current president's policies. This man has obviously forgotten what the ghetto is like, if he ever knew. He sounds like a child blaming all of his woes on the Republican Party. Could you stand up like a man, Mr. President, and do something about the deplorable, immoral, UN-education that is going on in your federally funded public school system? NO? Why? Because you are too busy running around the country, trying to get your public opinion ratings back up, to think about American children's education. I even heard it with my own ears on this morning's news cast when you were bleating about all of your accomplishments and plans for a better America. You were so gracious in saying that, "we don't mind the Republicans coming along with us, they just have to sit in the back." I'm sure Rosa Parks would love hearing you say that.

My admonition to parents, sadly, has not changed and is even louder and more urgent than ever, "GET YOUR CHILDREN OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AT ANY COST!!!!" The environment, the curriculum, the money-hungry administration, and the local school board influence is too hot to touch! It is like throwing your children in a burning inferno and saying, "See ya at three, have fun."

Wake up, educate yourself to the horrible things your children face everyday in school. How can you justify sending them into the wolves den just because it is FREE! It is not free, it is prison, it is chaotic, it is noisy, it is a complete waste of precious time. How can anyone learn in that environment? To top it off, it is a cheating environment. Nearly everyone cheats from the top to the bottom! Parents see A's on report cards and think 'Oh look how smart my child is'. Try testing them at the local recruiters office and see how many A's you see.

SEAT TIME?

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:38:00 +0000

We've all heard the stories of the public school student who continues to pass from one grade level to the next without the ability to read or perform simple math operations. Some critics call it a form of social promotion, when attendance and catch-up projects are enough to get a student promoted. In an age when the achievement gap between the more and lesser educated continues to grow, it's unthinkable that we, as Christian school leaders, could allow this to happen to our children.

Happen, it does — everyday in classrooms around the world, where progress is based on the antiquated model that has at its center "seat time." This is why we must provide parents an alternative to the public school system.

The concept of measuring educational attainment by the number of hours a student sits in his seat originated in the late 1800s. This was simply a measurable (if ineffective) way to evaluate how much learning was actually happening. Although this concept made it easy for college administrators to translate high school courses into something they could measure to enable college admission, two students having spent the same time in a seat might have a vastly different knowledge base.

Over the last century, seat time in conjunction with standardized testing has become a gauge for learning. Unfortunately, we're measuring many things, but learning isn't one of them. We're measuring attendance, memorization skills, and compliance to guidelines.

The problem arises because many students make it through "the system" without the skills necessary to compete in the global world in which they live. On the other end of the spectrum, other students are quick learners, able to zip through many of their lessons and spend the rest of their seat time in boredom. This inaccurate method of assessment actually holds them back and disconnects them from taking responsibility for their own growth. Lessons become something they must simply get through, and learning is no longer exciting, but uninspired.

Thankfully, many schools today are moving away from this one-size-fits-all method of measuring academic development, allowing students to drive their own learning with curriculum that puts learners in the driver's seat. This allows students to move through lessons at a pace most comfortable and effective for them. This not only gives slower learners time to actually grasp and apply the information to real world situations, it also allows students who quickly grasp the material to move on to the next benchmark.

This learning model is much more effective for today's students, many of whom are accustomed to independently working on their computers or digital devices. For those students who learn best in traditional ways, this model can be applied to groups, allowing discussion and group projects to support the material.

Student-driven learning, combined with alternative assessment methods such as projects, essays, portfolios, and exhibitions, helps students develop a lifelong love of learning, and sparks curiosity.

We are responsible to provide an environment where students experience the joy of learning in the context of a Christian worldview. It's time to look inside your classroom and ask yourself if the learning model in place rewards seat time or supports real academic achievement. Reprinted from Alpha/Omega Messenger

AMERICAN IGNORANCE

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:43:00 +0000

What are your children learning in their current school? Are they learning the true history of America? Are they learning the true sciences and the intricate Divine design of the cell? How about math? Do you even know what your children are learning? If you don't know then perhaps if would be a wise idea(?) for you to do some investigation. Because of the 50% of students in this country who actually do graduate, 95% are brainwashed, socialist-thinking, illegal-immigrant-loving, gay-leaning, pot-loving, abortion-loving, sexually active, infantile, children! They are certainly not prepared for the real world that lies in front of them. Most have their hands stuck out in front of them looking for any government hand-out they can find. Hard working? Not!

Many of the other 50%, who don't even graduate, are shuffled off into trade schools. They may go a year but never graduate. The rest go directly into the workforce where they are needed most. This is all fine and good with our government because someone has to man the grease pits and the car washes of the Washington elites!

My doctor said that he just doesn't understand the ignorance of Americans in electing a socialist, 'illegal' immigrant loving, muslim president. I told him the same thing I just told you. The brainwashed graduates of public schools, the government check-drawers, those standing outside voting precints with night sticks are the reason we have such a spendthrift president!

If we don't wake up, and stand up for God and His values and virtues, then our own public school system along with perverted sex and abortion will take this country straight into mass slavery that will make black slavery look like a picnic!

We Are Almost There! Where?

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:08:00 +0000

COMPLETE GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF OUR INDIVIDUAL LIVES! So is there any hope left for changing the education paradigm? Is it feasible to throw out the whole system of public education and encourage personal education? Or are we expected to buy the Washington propaganda and accept another 20 years of the manipulative social molding of our children. Please take 20 minutes to listen to Sir Ken Robinson's latest plea. Click on the title of this post to watch.

Signs of the TIMES

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:01:00 +0000

We've heard it for years. But could it be true? Devastation is everywhere. Our government is in shambles but we don't really believe it. America is on an unsustainable track. Our public education system is in deep trouble. So what can we do to stop the madness? Turn to the real history books, not the doctored ones of the past 20 years. The road we are on can only lead to failure so we must adjust course. Our country must return to God. We must return to modestness and conservative values. If not our children and grandchildren will face the worst crisis in World History. We have the power, but do we have the courage to use that power for constructive purposes? We must stand against hate and the haters without becoming a hater! We must clean house and scrub the halls in Washington!

Our LEADERS are GROWLING!

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:35:00 +0000

Our Obama is growling and crying "Foul"! He and his cohorts can't believe that anyone would dare to stand against such wisdom as theirs. But great minds are finally coming together to say, "You are killing our country with your inflated egos and your bloated spending! AND you are failing to protect our country from illegal aliens just like President Bush did!" People like Dr. Alveda King, Priests for Life, Glenn Beck, Jon Voight, Governor Jan Brewer, Ted Nugent, the Tea Parties, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckaby, Sarah Palin, and the list goes on and on and is growing by the minute!

But Beware! The lake has turned over and the sludge is on the top! This power pump of the left has been planned since the early 1900's and they will not give up without a war. They will even purposely bankrupt the country before they give it up! There is evil lurking and the more they are pressured by groups like the Tea Parties, you can bet that if violence isn't present the 'powers that be' will implant it maliciously! There are also thousands of black people who voted for Obama who now realize that they made a mistake and they are speaking out to rectify that mistake!

Now, how could Dr. Martin Luther King's niece be so outspoken against her own leader, Obama, especially since he is a member of her race? The simple answer is that God is not being honored in this country anymore. Obama has made that abundantly clear and for those of us who honor our maker that fact is more important than any other. Obama is for and has already signed legislation that promotes the murder of infants! And notice that he hasn't done anything to improve education! Why? Because the schools are doing just what he wants them to do -- keep turning out little brainwashed voters to support his plans to socialize America and diminish our rights.

After 20 years in private education I have NEVER tested a student that came from a public school that wasn't from two to four years behind their grade level! And nothing changes! Taxes go up, the cost of food and white goods go up, minimum wages go up, but never the education level of American students! That keeps going DOWN whether compared with private school students or internationally! Wake up America and get your head out of your infatuation with 'the first black president'! Look what is really going on around you. Check your grocery bill, those of you that think you are not paying higher taxes because you make under 250,000! You are paying higher food prices and many other prices like gas and utilities - what's the difference? Study history, educate yourself, quit being fooled by the continuous stream of propaganda pouring out of D.C. And most important - GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

If you can't afford private school then homeschool them or let them self-educate through the internet for free! If you love God and Country you will see that all your kids are getting in public school is 'street smarts', 'pill smarts', 'sex smarts'(all flavors), and atheist smarts! Social first - Academic last and weak!

Womb of the Left

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:16:00 +0000

Yes, we are in for many more years of the current chaotic and corrupt conditions in D.C. And why? Who do we have to thank? You guessed it - the corrupt American public school system. It is the new socialistic womb wherein all the little followers are trained to a "T"! The recent and current graduating classes have all been birthed and well trained in socialism in their public schools. And yes, they will vote those into office that most closely resemble their training. Just like circus animals, the college students and recent grads will lumber to the polls and vote their professor's and teacher's ideology.

In addition, they have been taught that,at all cost,religion and politics must be separated. But this is an impossibility because politics was birthed from religion! That genetic line will never be broken. Conservative views and values more closely conform to her birth mother(religion). Liberalism, on the other hand, flies in the face, like a rebellious child, of her religious beginnings.
Though the genetic line cannot be broken it has been weakened through mixture and blurring of absolutes until now we say, "Oh, it's okay for gays to get married. Sure, let's put tax cheats, tranvestites, and sex perverts in charge of our government.It's okay! And, by all means, let's keep killing babies!"

We have so perverted the truth that we are bouncing down the street on our hardened heads with our weak, quivering, knees and legs flailing in the air! We have hardened our hearts to the truth and God has darkened our understanding. Why? because of our lust and greed for more, more, and more of anything to satisfy our desire for power, self-pleasure, and control. When will it end? Who will end it? The God that men believe isn't really there?

PUBLIC SCHOOLS-NEVER WRONG

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:12:00 +0000

I really feel sorry for public school teachers, at least the good ones, and all the students (K-12). Public schools (the system) have been wrong so many times that it is useless to listen to all their "new" research statistics. They discover a new and exciting study every year. They even discover a new "fix" every year! It is just annual drivel, as the students ability and performance just keep stagnating,at best,or going down, at worst. Oh, the administration has excuses for continued poor performance, but have you noticed how they always blame somebody or something else.

They NEVER take responsibility for their own failures and misjudgments. They are always getting "bailed out". They know, according to the government of which they are a part, that they are just "too big to fail"! So the albatross just keeps lumbering along destroying young lives, the schools just keep getting worse, and U.S. students keep creeping down in international performance. How sad for the little ones. Oh, well, maybe our students can win at Wii or Halo or Madden against the Taliban!

Homeschool to Unschool

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:02:00 +0000

This article is a must read to arm yourselves against skeptical friends and nosey neighbors! It is about a Louisiana girl currently pursuing her PHD at LSU! Published on A Day In the Life of Unschooling newsletter, it provides inspiration to those questioning whether homeschooling is really the right path for my child. Laurie's mother has written a book called "The Unprocessed Child". Quite a telling title. Her is the excerpt of the article:

Laurie Chancey spent her childhood immersing herself in topics of her own choosing. She was never forced to learn something simply because tradition and/or society said it was necessary. No one was looking over her shoulder to make sure she was learning the “proper” subjects.

Having never seen a textbook or taken a test, never used workbooks or any type of teaching techniques, Laurie scored in the top 10% of the state of Louisiana on her college entrance exam. She enrolled in college when she was eighteen, and graduated summa cum laude three and a half years later. Laurie is a bright adult, but her IQ is not why she did so well. She spent her life learning to learn and it’s something that now comes easily to her.

First Amendment Rights Denied?

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:39:00 +0000

Executive Order invites INTERPOL into the U.S. – without oversight!
Obama Is Not The Antichrist But He's Acting Like It.
By Eric Barger

Updated January 6, 2010

Revelation 13 succinctly spells out that someday in the future a person will head a system that will control the world politically, economically and religiously. At the beginning of his seven year reign, the Antichrist will first endear himself to the unsuspecting and gullible masses who are more than ready to crown him king of the world. Then, through a series of circumstances and controls “for the good of the earth,” the Man of Sin and his lieutenants will begin to systematically eliminate anyone who resists his “benevolent” rule. Eventually, claiming that he is indeed “god,” he will ruthlessly command the complete devotion of the peoples of the world. Before those dark days can unfold however, there will be an extended period of conditioning and preparation. Prophetically speaking, this is surely where we are in time.

A piece in that conditioning and preparation puzzle happens to be one of the most ominous items to cross my radar in many years. It was a little noticed recent amendment made by Barak Obama to a longstanding Presidential Executive Order (#12425) issued in 1983 by President Reagan. 1

In essence, what Obama decreed on December 17 gave INTERPOL agents the right and ability to operate as an untouchable police force with unquestioned and unrestrained authority inside the United States. INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization, can now operate with full diplomatic immunity outside the confines of the U.S. Constitution to investigate, interrogate, and theoretically arrest anyone they see fit without the cooperation of the FBI or any state or local law enforcement. Our courts and judges would also be without recourse to stop them from simply doing as they want with ANY U.S. citizen. If you are concerned about so-called “hate crimes” legislation, then just imagine a politically correct international police force with known ties to Muslim countries operating unabated in our land. Could it be that while they go about rounding up suspected terrorists, arms dealers, and murderous thugs, they might also be used to clamp down on anyone exercising the once honored but now dissipating right of free speech? It’s no secret that the current leadership of our nation despises opposition and appears poised to try most anything to squelch it. Antichrist will conceivably begin his regime in like fashion, marginalizing and intimidating all who would publically stand against tyrannical powers, or expose moral evils, or who would dare perpetrate the greatest atrocity – that being to proclaim that Jesus is the only true Savior.

Equally disturbing is the fact that E.O. 12425 seems to allow for the sealing of documents and the transfer of such arrested prisoners to foreign countries to be tried in foreign courts under foreign or international law. (Perhaps Obama has his favorite “war criminals” former Vice President Dick Cheney and President G.W. Bush in mind?) As the Constitution indicates, I have always believed that the main task of the federal government of the United States was to protect the citizenry. It would appear Obama is bent on something completely different. Where is the U.S. Constitution on this subject and what can be done about this obvious breech of the Constitution by Obama? Are there men and women in Congress who will stand up and stop this madness? We really need to pray.

I understand that many will just relegate my thoughts to the loony bin of conspiracy theories. However, I am not the only person who is concerned. Former U.S. Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, is asking why as well. On the January 4 edition of “The O’Reilly Factor,” on the Fox News Channel, Gingrich said:

“The President recently signed, very quietly, an executive order that basically releases INTERPOL from all American constraints. Freedom of Information Acts don’t apply. All the constraints that you, as an American citizen, could use against an American police force based on a recent Obama-signed Executive Order, give INTERPOL, which has relationships with Syria, with Libya, with Iran…it gives them all sorts of extra legality in the United States in a way that has never ever before been offered to Interpol, and I’m very curious why the President is doing this.”

An editorial in the Washington Examiner stated: “this new directive from Obama may be the most destructive blow ever struck against American constitutional civil liberties.” 2

For complete article go the Eric Barger's Take A Stand ministry site.
http://www.ericbarger.com

JAW DROPPING!

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:21:00 +0000

I sit in awe as I watch the befuddled clowns of congress usher in THE PLAN of the elite progressives. The news media just rattles on incessantly back and forth. Even the truth tellers of Fox are being sucked down the socialist tubes. Foolsschool (the forced schooling arm of our federal government)and the 12 years in the halls and cells of indoctrination have finally succeeded in reducing Americans to lumps of clay ready to follow the talking heads of doom! There are really very few left who see what is really happening to our country. Stop scratching your heads folks, it's a done deal. If you would like answers as to how to survive the coming bankruptcy of our country and its slide into oblivion please read my new book, THE PLAN: WIPE OUT CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA! In it you will find practical, workable answers to the confusion we are about to face. The deception we are fighting is revealed in a powerful, lifechanging account of what you and I can DO! Available at

Public Schools - Govt. Pulpits!

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:55:00 +0000

Public Schools are now, and have been for years, nothing more than government pulpits for training a majority populace to walk the progressive, socialist, facist, communist gang plank! And what does our government have when they finish training us up in the way that they want us to go? AUTOMATONS that will walk the 'gimme- gimme' walk, talk their global talk, and, more importantly VOTE for the new and changed American society.

When we have spent 12 years in the halls and cells of indoctrination and been brainwashed with useless subjects we are ripe for voting the 'right' way in the totalitarian regime. Then when those of us who have survived the pitiful beatdown of highschool, go on to 4 to 10 years of more useless, time consuming bunny paths, we are the proud owners of pieces of paper that might land us a job in the new massive, socialist regime - or NOT! However, the piece of paper does represent something - many hours and grande sums of money poured into the coffers of government controlled higher education. More money and time spent on witless subjects that have absolutely nothing to do with our new line of work, will never be used again, but are required(must have) hours in order to get our piece of paper. How proud we have been trained to be of our pieces of paper! We are proud right? We are such good 'subjects' of the ruling class that controls America!

Wake up America! The indoctrination starts in pre-school! Is this what you want for your children and your grandchildren?

National School Boycott

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:46:00 +0000

The teachers have done it. Workers have done it. A National School Boycott day, even month, would speak volumes to our federal government about the pitiful decline in academics as well as moral values in our school system! Let the teachers come to work and stare at empty classrooms for a while and maybe they will join the boycott. A mass walkout is the only way to wake this nation up to the reality of a failed government socialist experiment. The public school system is in need of a complete remaking. We do not need reform, better policies, new rules or any other bandaid put on a rotting, festering sore. So many American parents are still fooled by the wonderful, babysitting facade that the government has propagandized. But thankfully, many parents have pulled back the false front to see the seething mess beneath.

America needs a brand new public education system designed to compete with the rest of the world. We no longer offer first class education and no matter what you hear on TV, we no longer offer the best college educations. We need to open education in a completely new paradigm with academics as the core rather than social justice. Higher education must become more focused on the choice of career and the time needed to reach the end result, rather than so much play time and elective time. Doctors are needed now, not 10 years from now. Who were the first doctors in our country? Moms! Indians! Herbalists! Then came real(?) knowledge? Not immediately – first there were actually apprentices. I would rather have a surgeon with no degree that has worked closely under the supervision of a seasoned expert than a brand new surgeon just out of today’s med schools. He’s probably had more courses in patient psychology than actual hands-on experience operating on people.

We now have a National Day of Prayer, we need a National Day of Stay at Home From School! Students, as proven by the grand success of home-schooled students, learn more at home than they do in today’s public sex pits – I mean public schools! What can you do to help your children? Keep them at home away from the perverted school environment!

Voice From Our Mother Country

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:38:00 +0000

Thatcher's America
American Minute
October 13, 2009

While traveling through New York City in 1996, Margaret Thatcher, the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, when interviewed, stated: "The Ten Commandments are addressed to each and every person. This is the origin of our common humanity and of the sanctity of the individual. Each one has a duty to try to carry out those commandments. You don't get that in any other political creed...It is personal liberty with personal responsibility." Margaret Thatcher continued: "Responsibility to your parents, to your children, to your God. This really binds us together in a way that nothing else does. If you accept freedom, you've got to have principles about the responsibility. You can't do this without a biblical foundation." Thatcher on America: "Your Founding Fathers came over with that. They came over with the doctrines of the New Testament as well as the Old. They looked after one another, not only as a matter of necessity, but as a matter of duty to their God. There is no other country in the world which started that way."

What has clouded our minds and clogged our valves so that we can't or won't listen to such words of wisdom. If we don't we may not have a free country much longer.

A BRUISED AND BENT CONSTITUTION!

noreply@blogger.com (kaysandee) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:49:00 +0000

Chants of praise and homage to our president, miserably failing schools, crooked and perverse state and federal leadership, banning of Jesus' name being on any ornaments made for the capitol Christmas tree this year (09), the establishment of a new Muslim college here in America that will teach the truths(?) of their faith, government run healthcare, government run car companies, government run banks, government run student loans all should be saying something to stupid Americans! You are being taken for a ride, sucked in to the propaganda and hype, and you are primed and ready for a fundamental takeover. If we don't stand up now, our children won't have a United States of America to enjoy. We will either be dictatorially ruled or we will live in a completely Godless society. Our epitaph won't even read, "They fought bravely", it will read, "They gave up"! Won't God be proud of us?