Message to Pro-CCSS, ESSA Politicians: This is Why Taxpayers/Parents Are Furious. – Missouri Education Watchdog

Message to Pro-CCSS, ESSA Politicians: This is Why Taxpayers/Parents Are Furious. – Missouri Education Watchdog:

Message to Pro-CCSS, ESSA Politicians: This is Why Taxpayers/Parents Are Furious.

Jonathon Pelto describes recent Connecticut Board of Education meeting in which parents were ignored. Sound familiar?

 Savvy politicians might want to read an article from Jonathon Pelto in Connecticut which describes the arrogance of the Connecticut Board of Education and its disdain for the people who are funding its very existence: taxpayers who are not recognized as stakeholders in educational decisions, even though it is the group actually funding and providing their children to the State for the State’s educational endeavors.  These taxpayers (as in other states) are denied a chance to speak at public meetings, attacked for questioning/acting against educational reforms such as high stakes testing, and are initially not even invited to a meeting purported to foster ‘family and community engagement policies’.  That’s bureaucracy at its ugly fineness: pretend to promote family engagement but place a gag order on the people they purport to help.

Politicians should be cognizant of the intense anger such arrogance engenders in the voters.  Politicians should be introducing legislation holding bureaucrats accountable for their behavior and misuse of taxpayer funds in pursuing educational reforms that the taxpayers do not want: increased standardized testing, a one size fits all educational blueprint, and data tracking of their children cradle to grave. Politicians should also hold chief state school officers accountable for the *misinformation* they provide to parents.

Read about the Connecticut meeting which should cause serious parental disobedience and anger.  From Incredulous: Watching CT Department of Education officials lecture school administrators on how to mislead parents:

Just when I thought I had truly seen everything when it comes to the arrogance, elitism, audacity and contemptuousness of those associated with the corporate funded “Education Reform” effort, I witnessed something even more breathtakingly incredible this past Monday at the Connecticut State Department of Education.

It has taken the week to even begin to be able to put into words what I and a handful of other parents and 

Message to Pro-CCSS, ESSA Politicians: This is Why Taxpayers/Parents Are Furious. – Missouri Education Watchdog