Parent Arrested at Common Core Meeting for Speaking Against it (video)

[fr33]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQmUnisDEM
http://youtu.be/XEQmUnisDEM


http://www.examiner.com/article/exclusive-video-school-supers-have-parent-arrested-from-common-core-meeting


Dr. Dallas Dance, Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, and Lillian Lowery, Maryland Superintendent, had the opportunity Thursday night to make minor amends for a three plus year information blackout on Common Core, the new federal curriculum for Maryland schools.

Instead, Dr. Dance added insult to injury by screening, omitting, and editing parents’ questions.

Questions from the audience of about 160 people, which consisted of parents, PTA members, teachers, and school administrators, were submitted on cards prior to and during the 1-1/2 hour meeting for the Q&A period which lasted about 40 minutes.

Dr. Dance chose which questions to read or omit, opting for teacher and school administrator or softball questions. But he also altered the wording of the questions themselves.

My submitted question:
“What is the process for parents to review what data has been or will be collected on our kids, where it is stored, how it will be used, and with whom it has or will be shared? What are parents options for opting out of data collection on our kids?”

What Dr. Dance read:
“As a parent, I’ve heard a lot of information around the state Longitudinal Data system. What is the process to review what data is being collected on students, where is it stored, how will it be used, with whom will it be shared?”

After the question was answered, I called out, “Can parents opt out?”, but was ignored.

My submitted question:
“Although Common Core was adopted by MDE three years ago, in exchange for a quarter Billion dollar federal incentive grant through Race To The Top which is conditioned upon adherence to Common Core, parents weren’t informed until after its implementation. The MDE has not valued nor requested parental input. Instead, there was no transparency or even the courtesy of notifying parents much less consulting them. No wonder parents are up in arms. You’ve awakening the Mama Bear. Why haven’t parents across the state heard of Common Core until the month of its implementation?”

What Dr. Dance read:
“As a parent, I was a little disappointed that I’m just starting to hear so much information around the Common Core state standard. I want to be informed as most parents across our state. As a parent, how can I learn more information around Common Core?”

Parent removed and arrested from the meeting for speaking out of turn

As the pom-pom and rah-rah session neared an end about 20 minutes before the meeting close, parental frustration was mounting as our questions were still going unanswered. One parent, Robert Small, decided to interject to try to force some answers (see video at top of article).

He said: “I want to know how many parents here are aware that the goal of the Common Core standards isn’t to prepare kids for full-fledged universities, it’s to prepare them for community college.....Parents, take control. We’re sick of this. This is not a CNN political game. This is a public town hall... Listen, don’t stand for this. You’re sitting here like cattle. You have questions. Confront them. They don’t want to do it in public.... Parents, you need to question these people....Do the research, it’s online.”

According to my conversation with Liz Bowie, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, Mr. Small was arrested after being removed from the auditorium.

The video clearly shows that, if anyone was aggressive, it was the security guard, not Mr. Small. What may have happened out in the hall however, is unknown.

[devil21]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQmUnisDEM#t=122

Thread title is provocative but this looks like Dont Taze Me Bro for 2013.

[tod evans]

Do none of those parents have any balls?

The correct course of action is for every parent in the room to stand up and physically separate the cop from the guy trying to speak.

First clue, security at a PTA meeting.. WTF!

[puppetmaster]

There should have been a riot.....meek little pussy parents just like their offspring will be.

[GunnyFreedom]

This only happens in the first place because our elected overlords know that the sheep will just sit there and bleat.

[tod evans]

This only happens in the first place because our elected overlords know that the sheep will just sit there and bleat.

Eventually Americans will get tired of it..




Or not.:o

[Anti Federalist]

The officer wasn't hurt, was he?

[tropicangela]

" The officer pushed Small and then escorted him into the hall, handcuffed him and had him sit on the curb in front of the school. He was taken to the Towson precinct and detained. Small was charged with second-degree assault of a police officer, which carries a fine of $2,500 and up to 10 years in prison, and disturbing a school operation, which carries a fine of $2,500 and up to six months."

http://touch.baltimoresun.com/#story/bs-md-co-common-core-arrest-20130920/

The security guard was a County officer. This makes a great home school ad.

[cajuncocoa]

America, as we once knew it, is gone. :(

[kathy88]

And all the other parents stood there and watched. Nation of sheep? Nation of pussies.

[donnay]

"...Common Core was adopted by MDE three years ago, in exchange for a quarter Billion dollar federal incentive grant..."

This is why the arrogant administrator did not want someone who thinks dare ask him any negative questions about the program...that pays his salary!

Just one more reason to get your children out of the public indoctrinations center--NOW!!

[GunnyFreedom]

The officer wasn't hurt, was he?

No, but the parent mundane was arrested for assaulting the officer:

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-09-20/news/bs-md-co-common-core-arrest-20130920_1_police-officer-common-core-new-curriculum


Parent arrested at forum after protesting use of common core

He was being removed for not following format to ask questions and is charged with second-degree assault of police officer
September 20, 2013|By Liz Bowie, The Baltimore Sun

Robert Small said he wanted to express his dismay over the introduction of a new school curriculum at a public forum Thursday night in Towson, but instead the Ellicott City parent was pulled out of the meeting, arrested and charged with second-degree assault of a police officer.

[kathy88]

This is my kids' last year in public schools. I wish we could have made it happen this year.

[GunnyFreedom]

And all the other parents stood there and watched. Nation of sheep? Nation of pussies.

This is what pisses me off more than anything. I mean, thugs are gonna thug, it's their nature. But the mindless zombie sheep that just sit by bleating doing nothing while this brave man is carried off to face ten and a half years in prison, seriously, WTF happened to America? This ain't my America.

[WM_in_MO]

sure, you can show up to our meetings, but if you break our rules we break you.

GET BACK IN LINE UNTERMENSCH

[GunnyFreedom]

sure, you can show up to our meetings, but if you break our rules we break you.

GET BACK IN LINE UNTERMENSCH

I don't think even the Nazis would have put this guy in jeopardy of a ten and a half year prison sentence.

[tod evans]

No, but the parent mundane was arrested for assaulting the officer:



There must be another parent involved because the fellow in the pink shirt didn't "assault" anyone in the video I watched...:mad:

[edit]

Maybe his shirt isn't pink?

The cop deserved to be struck the minute he laid his hand on the guy, pushing like a kid in the school yard...This is insane!

[donnay]

This is what pisses me off more than anything. I mean, thugs are gonna thug, it's their nature. But the mindless zombie sheep that just sit by bleating doing nothing while this brave man is carried off to face ten and a half years in prison, seriously, WTF happened to America? This ain't my America.

This isn't the America I was born it. God help this country!

[Occam's Banana]

"The officer pushed Small and then escorted him into the hall, handcuffed him and had him sit on the curb in front of the school. He was taken to the Towson precinct and detained. Small was charged with second-degree assault of a police officer, which carries a fine of $2,500 and up to 10 years in prison, and disturbing a school operation, which carries a fine of $2,500 and up to six months."

Gotta learn them mundanes not to offer sauce to their betters ...

EDIT: 5,000th post!

[helmuth_hubener]

He shouldn't have moved his feet.

[phill4paul]

There must be another parent involved because the fellow in the pink shirt didn't "assault" anyone in the video I watched...:mad:

[edit]

Maybe his shirt isn't pink?

The cop deserved to be struck the minute he laid his hand on the guy, pushing like a kid in the school yard...This is insane!

Perhaps we are reading it wrong and it is second degree insult on an officer for not immediately complying.

[tod evans]

Perhaps we are reading it wrong and it is second degree insult on an officer for not immediately complying.

I could never tolerate treatment like that guy did.

Some joker grabs my arm and jerks me we're going to blows then and there.

Weren't there any men in that room?

One broad spoke up and another stood up.......Have city males been totally emasculated?

[QuickZ06]

Bet the cop got his eduction at that school.

[Origanalist]

This is what pisses me off more than anything. I mean, thugs are gonna thug, it's their nature. But the mindless zombie sheep that just sit by bleating doing nothing while this brave man is carried off to face ten and a half years in prison, seriously, WTF happened to America? This ain't my America.

No, it's not. If those administrators would have tried to pull that garbage at the small town school I went to they would have been run right out of town. And that officer? Well, he would have had a different fate.

A nation of sheep indeed.

[Origanalist]

I could never tolerate treatment like that guy did.

Some joker grabs my arm and jerks me we're going to blows then and there.

Weren't there any men in that room?

One broad spoke up and another stood up.......Have city males been totally emasculated?

This shit won't stop until people make it stop.

[tod evans]

My .02 from the thread in GP on this video..

[edit]

Threads are now combined, no reason to quote myself..

[tod evans]

This shit won't stop until people make it stop.

Sadly it looked like the women in that town have bigger balls than the men...

[Origanalist]

Sadly it looked like the women in that town have bigger balls than the men...

That whole scene was intolerable to me.

[Kilrain]

I can't imagine living in a place where there is "security" staff present during meetings at the local school.

[PaulConventionWV]

There was no police officer there. The guy escorting him out was security. He was never tazed, just pushed around a little. I can hardly even understand what the whole thing was about or the circumstances, but it's definitely not on the same level as "Don't taze me bro!"

EDIT: However, if he was charged for assault, that is certainly egregious. The men in that room should have done something. The parents control the meeting, not the school.

[Kilrain]

There was no police officer there. The guy escorting him out was security.

I thought the "security" guy was an off-duty police officer. He did pull out a badge.

[Origanalist]

There was no police officer there. The guy escorting him out was security. He was never tazed, just pushed around a little. I can hardly even understand what the whole thing was about or the circumstances, but it's definitely not on the same level as "Don't taze me bro!"

EDIT: However, if he was charged for assault, that is certainly egregious. The men in that room should have done something. The parents control the meeting, not the school.

A little fuzzy this morning?

[QuickZ06]

There was no police officer there. The guy escorting him out was security. He was never tazed, just pushed around a little. I can hardly even understand what the whole thing was about or the circumstances, but it's definitely not on the same level as "Don't taze me bro!"

EDIT: However, if he was charged for assault, that is certainly egregious. The men in that room should have done something. The parents control the meeting, not the school.

A lot of cops do security work when off-duty. He showed a badge, which I am assuming is his police officer badge. Not sure if security can handcuff you, (he pulled those out as well)? The big thing here is when you need security or cops at a school meeting, things are not going the way I would like to see them in a "free country".

[Origanalist]

A lot of cops do security work when off-duty. He showed a badge, which I am assuming is his police officer badge. Not sure if security can handcuff you, (he pulled those out as well)? The big thing here is when you need security or cops at a school meeting, things are not going the way I would like to see them in a "free country".

Hardly.

[Eagles' Wings]

I'm grateful for RPF for showing me the light on these kinds of things.

We still have to be prudent and careful in deciding what to do in situations that come up quickly, such as this one.

I honestly can't say that I would have come to this guy's aid. Perhaps the guard was there because this guy had aggitated at other meetings. We don't know for sure.

Having had many years experience with school boards, principals, teachers, curriculums, etc., we found diplomacy to work the best. A couple of years ago several hundred angry high school parents demanded a meeting of the principal and health ed teachers. We got the meeting and the curriculum was changed.

Otherwise, keep your kids out of public school, if possible.

[GunnyFreedom]

I thought the "security" guy was an off-duty police officer. He did pull out a badge.

He is. That's why Mr. Small has been charged with "2nd Degree Assault on a Police Officer."

[GunnyFreedom]

I'm grateful for RPF for showing me the light on these kinds of things.

We still have to be prudent and careful in deciding what to do in situations that come up quickly, such as this one.

I honestly can't say that I would have come to this guy's aid. Perhaps the guard was there because this guy had aggitated at other meetings. We don't know for sure.

Not according to the police report.


The police report said that Dance's chief of staff, Michele Prumo, who was standing on the side of the auditorium, had asked the officer to walk over and calm Small down. The report also said Small had attempted to push the officer away when he first confronted him.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-09-20/news/bs-md-co-common-core-arrest-20130920_1_police-officer-common-core-new-curriculum

[Eagles' Wings]

Not according to the police report.I'm just saying that I'm not going to come to someone's defense in a situation I'm not completey sure about. And, surely not over public school curriculum. Maybe, hopefully, someday at an abortion clinic.

[CaseyJones]

promoted to front page

[GunnyFreedom]

first they came for the trade-unionists, and I said nothing because I was not a trade-unionist...

[Origanalist]

first they came for the trade-unionists, and I said nothing because I was not a trade-unionist...

It should be obvious.

[Origanalist]

promoted to front page

Good.

[GunnyFreedom]

I'm just saying that I'm not going to come to someone's defense in a situation I'm not completey sure about. And, surely not over public school curriculum. Maybe, hopefully, someday at an abortion clinic.

https://sphotos-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1009737_10151746056488274_1992185871_n.jpg

[belian78]

Thread title is provocative but this looks like Dont Taze Me Bro for 2013.

The hell it is! That man is standing up, trying to do his part to make sure his kids get a quality education, and being harassed/assaulted and arrested for it!

[Origanalist]

https://sphotos-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1009737_10151746056488274_1992185871_n.jpg

Out of rep...:(

[CaseyJones]

Out of rep...:(

I got it for ya

[Origanalist]

I got it for ya

Lol, I have same problem with you. :rolleyes:

[Pericles]

The officer wasn't hurt, was he?

If you keep posting stuff like that, it won't be much longer until I bust a gut.

[LibertyEagle]

Do none of those parents have any balls?

The correct course of action is for every parent in the room to stand up and physically separate the cop from the guy trying to speak.

First clue, security at a PTA meeting.. WTF!

THIS!!

[Pericles]

"...Common Core was adopted by MDE three years ago, in exchange for a quarter Billion dollar federal incentive grant..."

This is why the arrogant administrator did not want someone who thinks dare ask him any negative questions about the program...that pays his salary!

Just one more reason to get your children out of the public indoctrinations center--NOW!!

Which is I maintain top priority for the liberty movement is the elimination of the Department of Education. Cut off the money for the indoctrination of the children into communist principles.

[Pericles]

This shit won't stop until people make it stop.

The problem in this country is not that we have too much gun violence. The problem is that we do not have enough of the right kind of gun violence.

[EBounding]

I could never tolerate treatment like that guy did.

Some joker grabs my arm and jerks me we're going to blows then and there.

Weren't there any men in that room?

One broad spoke up and another stood up.......Have city males been totally emasculated?

Most people have been told since birth to "respeck the police", which means, do whatever they say. My parents told me this as well, but I'll be teaching my kids differently.

[Eagles' Wings]

https://sphotos-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1009737_10151746056488274_1992185871_n.jpgI'm sticking with prudence, Gunny. There are so many issues to confront it is mind boggling.

[Origanalist]

The problem in this country is not that we have too much gun violence. The problem is that we do not have enough of the right kind of gun violence.

This. But hell, it doesn't even have to be guns.

[Pericles]

This. But hell, it doesn't even have to be guns.

A fortunate series of fatal accidents and suicides would be equally effective.

[JK/SEA]

i see what happened...if you look closely, you will see that the speaker in question did not...i repeat...did not bend to one knee and with bowed head, ask the Kings guard for forgivness, and did not apologize for his transgression, followed by asking for permission to speak...

handcuffs indeed. He's lucky.

[Origanalist]

A fortunate series of fatal accidents and suicides would be equally effective.

Yes.

[tod evans]

I'm sticking with prudence, Gunny. There are so many issues to confront it is mind boggling.

In my little pea brain there is but one issue..Government.

The whole damn thing is broken and at this point I view the entity like cancer, it needs to be cut out and the surrounding tissue irradiated..

Start with federal government, leave the locals in place just cut off all federal money, for everything!

Folks will quickly learn which services they want to pay for when the federal dollars are gone and they'll learn which politicians actually listen to them...

[helmuth_hubener]

I'm loving all the hatred for the government in this thread!

I would offer what may or may not be a useful thought: if we truly do hate these evil bugs, let's try to direct and focus that hatred to maximum effect. Let's try to do things that will actually result in the obliteration of this festering clot of a system. Does that mean assassinating government employees, as people are suggesting? Well, it could, and they richly, richly deserve it, but there are some reasons to think this may not be the best approach. Let me just post an excerpt from the book An Enemy of the State, which explains the problem well:


“You know who killed him, then?” Broohnin's right hand had slipped toward his ankle as the stranger spoke, and now firmly grasped the handle of his vibe-knife.

The silhouette of the stranger's head nodded. “One of my associates. And the reason for this little meet is to inform you that there will be no more assassination attempts on Metep VII.”

The blond man laughed—Broohnin still could not make out any facial features—and there was genuine amusement in the sound.

...

“Poor Den Broohnin! Can't quite accept the fact that there are people other than himself who do not have a price!” The voice took on a sterner tone after a brief pause. “No, my petty revolutionary, we are not here at Metep's bidding. We are here to destroy him. And by ‘him’ I do not mean the man, but everything he represents.”

“Lies!” Broohnin said as loudly as he dared. “If that was true you wouldn't have interfered tonight!”

“How can a man who has built up such an efficient little terrorist group right under the noses of the Imperial Guard be so naïve about the Imperium itself? You're not dealing with a monarchy, my friend, despite all the showy trappings. The Out-world Imperium is a republic. There's no royal bloodline. Metep VII's term is for life, granted, but when he's gone his successor will be elected, just as he was. And should Metep VII be assassinated, a temporary successor will be in his place before the day is out.”

“No! The Imperium will collapse! The people—”

“The people will be terrified!” the stranger said in harsh, clipped tones. “Your ill-conceived terrorism only serves to frighten them into clamoring for sterner laws and harsher measures against dissent. You only end up strengthening the very structure you wish to pull down. And it must cease immediately!”

The stranger paused to allow his words to penetrate. Then: “The only reason you remain alive at this point is because I have some small use for certain members of your organization. I am therefore giving you a choice: you may fit yourself into my plan or you may return to Nolevatol. Should you choose the former, you will meet me in the rearmost booth of the White Hart Tavern on Rocklynne Boulevard tomorrow night; should you choose the latter, you will be on an orbital shuttle by that time. Choose to oppose me and you will not survive one standard day.”

He gave a short, quick bow and strolled back the way he had come. The Flinters disappeared into the darkness with a whisper of sound and Broohnin was suddenly alone once more under his tree. It was as if nothing had happened. As if the entire exchange had been a hallucination.

[PaulConventionWV]

A little fuzzy this morning?

What's that supposed to mean?

[GunnyFreedom]

What's that supposed to mean?

you may have just confirmed his supposition.

[tod evans]

Most people have been told since birth to "respeck the police", which means, do whatever they say. My parents told me this as well, but I'll be teaching my kids differently.

My son is taught that respect is earned and that to be respected is far more honorable than to be feared..

Respected and feared are not synonyms...;)

[Czolgosz]

We can fix this mess through education!

[tod evans]

We can fix this mess through education!

USA!

USA!

USA!

[heavenlyboy34]

The problem in this country is not that we have too much gun violence. The problem is that we do not have enough of the right kind of gun violence.
+rep

[Pericles]

+rep

I refer to it as the Wilhelm Gustloff solution.

[PaulConventionWV]

He is. That's why Mr. Small has been charged with "2nd Degree Assault on a Police Officer."

I guess "2nd degree", in this case, means the officer attacked him, but he's still getting charged just for making contact.

[PaulConventionWV]

you may have just confirmed his supposition.

Am I daft? Because I still don't get it. Apparently I'm supposed to know what it means when people make random remarks about my state of mind without any indication as to what they're referencing.

[Czolgosz]

USA!

USA!

USA!


:D

[GunnyFreedom]

Am I daft? Because I still don't get it. Apparently I'm supposed to know what it means when people make random remarks about my state of mind without any indication as to what they're referencing.

You said there was no police officer there, despite everything (including the charges brought against Mr Small) describing the security guy as a police officer. Originalist implied that you weren't connecting the dots, and further that it was just a temporary and unusual condition for you.

[Origanalist]

You said there was no police officer there, despite everything (including the charges brought against Mr Small) describing the security guy as a police officer. Originalist implied that you weren't connecting the dots, and further that it was just a temporary and unusual condition for you.

Don't get him riled up Gunny.

[FSP-Rebel]

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[Dr.3D]

This is what pisses me off more than anything. I mean, thugs are gonna thug, it's their nature. But the mindless zombie sheep that just sit by bleating doing nothing while this brave man is carried off to face ten and a half years in prison, seriously, WTF happened to America? This ain't my America.
Ten and a half years in prison? Seems like the cop should have had the hell beat out of him if somebody is going to pay that kind of price.

[tod evans]

Ten and a half years in prison? Seems like the cop should have had the hell beat out of him if somebody is going to pay that kind of price.

"Heat of passion" murderers are out in 8 or less.....

[GunnyFreedom]

Ten and a half years in prison? Seems like the cop should have had the hell beat out of him if somebody is going to pay that kind of price.

That would have been 1st Degree Assault on a Police Officer. 25 to life.

[Origanalist]

That would have been 1st Degree Assault on a Police Officer. 25 to life.

Protected class, some animals are more equal than others.

[Dr.3D]

That would have been 1st Degree Assault on a Police Officer. 25 to life.
So what that says is it's just as bad to commit 1st Degree Assault on a cop as it is to kill him.

[GunnyFreedom]

So what that says is it's just as bad to commit 1st Degree Assault on a cop as it is to kill him.

Nope, that's automatic death penalty.

Cops are special dontcha know.

[GunnyFreedom]

Protected class, some animals are more equal than others.

exactly so.

[moostraks]

I'm just saying that I'm not going to come to someone's defense in a situation I'm not completey sure about. And, surely not over public school curriculum. Maybe, hopefully, someday at an abortion clinic.

Common core standards are starting in Math and English and will eventually be extended into the other parts of the curriculum.


Let’s consider It’s Perfectly Normal, a popular elementary-school sex ed text written by Robie Harris, a member of the Planned Parenthood Board of Advocates. The book is designed for 10 year-olds and contains material recommended by the Connecticut Department of Education for fourthgraders. Over fifty graphic colored illustrations of naked boys and girls are used to teach little children about various sexual practices and to assure them of the normality of homosexuality. The book shows children how to masturbate and how to engage with others in sexual activities, short of intercourse. It discusses contraceptives and illustrates how to put on a condom. It also lists nine reasons for having an abortion...

Are you okay with what is inside “It’s Perfectly Normal” for your child? Are you okay with your children being exposed to this type of book in school? Author Robie Harris has now updated Perfectly Normal for the 21st Century Learning. which means Common Core.

Please go to page 6 where it says, “The National Sexuality Education Standards were further informed by the work of the CDC’s Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool(HECAT)3; existing state and international education standards that include sexual health content; the Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education: Kindergarten – 12th Grade; and the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics, recently adopted by most states.”
http://archives.voicesempower.com/updated-breaking-news-dewhurst-reverse-texas-state-senator-wendy-davis-planned-parenthood-and-common-core/


...Meanwhile, there’s a United Nations/UNESCO program called “Education For All” that involves the same ideas and the very same key people as “Common Core”. And there’s also an “Education, Public Awareness and Training” chapter in the U.N.’s Agenda 21 goals...

The “Education For All” developer is UNESCO, a branch of the United Nations. Education For All’s key document is called “The Dakar Framework for Action: Education For All: Meeting Our Collective Commitments.” Read the full text here: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001211/121147e.pdf

At this link, you can learn about how Education For All works:

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-international-agenda/education-for-all/international-cooperation/high-level-group/

In a nutshell: “Prior to the reform of the global EFA coordination architecture in 2011-2012, the Education for All High-Level Group brought together high-level representatives from national governments, development agencies, UN agencies, civil society and the private sector. Its role was to generate political momentum and mobilize financial, technical and political support towards the achievement of the EFA goals and the education-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). From 2001-2011 the High-Level Group met annually.”...

But in the U.N.’s own words:

“Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment. Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the Statement of principles for the Sustainable Management of Forests were adopted by more than 178 Governments at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, 3 to 14 June 1992. The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was created in December 1992 to ensure effective follow-up…” See: http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/...

On the linked Education and Awareness page of that same U.N. website, we learn:

“Education, Public Awareness and Training is the focus of Chapter 36 of Agenda 21. This is a cross-sectoral theme both relevant to the implementation of the whole of Agenda 21 and indispensable for achieving sustainable development.” http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/susdevtopics/sdt_educawar.shtml...

36.2 says they plan to “reorient” worldwide education toward sustainable development. (No discussion, no vote, no input needed on this reorientation plan, apparently.)

36.3 says: “While basic education provides the underpinning for any environmental and development education, the latter needs to be incorporated as an essential part of learning. Both formal and non-formal education are indispensable to changing people’s attitudes so that they have the capacity to assess and address their sustainable development concerns. It is also critical for achieving environmental and ethical awareness, values and attitudes, skills and behaviour consistent with sustainable development and for effective public participation in decision-making. To be effective, environment and development education should deal with the dynamics of both the physical/biological and socio-economic environment and human (which may include spiritual) development, should be integrated in all disciplines, and should employ formal and non-formal methods...

The stated objectives (36.4) include endorsing “Education for All,” achieving “environmental and development awareness in all sectors of society on a world-wide scale as soon as possible”; and to achieve the accessibility of environmental and development education, linked to social education, from primary school age through adulthood to all groups of people; and to promote integration of environment concepts, including demography, in all educational programmes, and “giving special emphasis to the further training of decision makers at all levels.”...

Under “Activities,” we find:

“Governments should strive to update or prepare strategies aimed at integrating environment and development as a cross-cutting issue into education at all levels within the next three years. This should be done in cooperation with all sectors of society…. A thorough review of curricula should be undertaken to ensure a multidisciplinary approach, with environment and development issues and their socio-cultural and demographic aspects and linkages.”...

ut the problem, in a nutshell, is simply: Whose version of “sustainable” do you want to re-educate everyone to believe –assuming that you can accept massive-scale propagandizing for the promotion of one single belief system, under which people didn’t get a representative vote)


* Sustainable thinking includes limiting by abortion the number of babies allowed to be born, in order to have control over population growth. The Chinese “One Child Policy” was introduced by the Chinese Government in 1979 with the intention of keeping the population within sustainable limits even in the face of natural disasters and poor harvests, and improving the quality of life for the Chinese population as a whole.Under the policy, parents who have more than one child may have their wages reduced and be denied some social services.” (BBC)

http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/does-u-n-s-education-mandate-push-common-core-in-usa/

Protesting at an abortion clinic is rather pointless if the next generation views each child as an environmental threat to the earth.

[Dr.3D]

Nope, that's automatic death penalty.

Cops are special dontcha know.
And some folks wonder where the us vs them mentality came from.

[BlackTerrel]

Wow. That was crazier than I expected. Obvious abuse of power. The other parents should be ashamed.

[puppetmaster]

The officer wasn't hurt, was he?

No but the toy poodle in his pocket was shot outside as he was being cuffed. The officer is on paid leave in the Bahamas as his superiors review and prepare his medal of honor and promotion

[PaulConventionWV]

You said there was no police officer there, despite everything (including the charges brought against Mr Small) describing the security guy as a police officer. Originalist implied that you weren't connecting the dots, and further that it was just a temporary and unusual condition for you.

I wish people would just say that.

[PaulConventionWV]

Don't get him riled up Gunny.

What is your problem?

[libertyjam]

Common core standards are starting in Math and English and will eventually be extended into the other parts of the curriculum.


http://archives.voicesempower.com/updated-breaking-news-dewhurst-reverse-texas-state-senator-wendy-davis-planned-parenthood-and-common-core/



http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/does-u-n-s-education-mandate-push-common-core-in-usa/

Protesting at an abortion clinic is rather pointless if the next generation views each child as an environmental threat to the earth.


* Sustainable thinking includes limiting by abortion the number of babies allowed to be born, in order to have control over population growth. The Chinese “One Child Policy” was introduced by the Chinese Government in 1979 with the intention of keeping the population within sustainable limits even in the face of natural disasters and poor harvests, and improving the quality of life for the Chinese population as a whole.Under the policy, parents who have more than one child may have their wages reduced and be denied some social services.” (BBC)

The following is the type of thing that China's one-child policy leads to...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFjdMKJVkzQ

[Paulbot99]

We made a big mistake when we decided that the government should teach our kids about sex instead of parents. Sex ed is a part of parenting. It is one (or a series of) long talks with your children about mature subject matter. It was easy for many to just hand over the responsibility to the public school system, but in doing so, they opened the window for the government to usurp the role of a parent.

But, hey, what is our freedom as parents compared to the luxury of avoiding an uncomfortable part of parenting?

[tod evans]

We made a big mistake when we decided that the government should teach our kids about sex instead of parents. Sex ed is a part of parenting. It is one (or a series of) long talks with your children about mature subject matter. It was easy for many to just hand over the responsibility to the public school system, but in doing so, they opened the window for the government to usurp the role of a parent.

But, hey, what is our freedom as parents compared to the luxury of avoiding an uncomfortable part of parenting?


Sex-ed is just one small part of government taking over the roll of parenting!

Housing/food/education(indoctrination)/ babysitting, the list goes on...:mad:

[Paulbot99]

True. It's just one of the more blatant examples in my experience along with education. Housing and food doesn't control how you think (yet), other than nurturing dependency. Education, sexual and non-sexual, does. What bothers me is the way people surrendered their rights as parents so willingly.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Do none of those parents have any balls?

The correct course of action is for every parent in the room to stand up and physically separate the cop from the guy trying to speak.

First clue, security at a PTA meeting.. WTF!

Exactly. If the pig resists and gets violent, then he gets the holy fuck beat out him. I hate violence, but you always meet violence with violence.

[Anti Federalist]

And all the other parents stood there and watched. Nation of sheep? Nation of pussies.

They would stand and gawp vapidly at cops committing rape and sodomy, right before their eyes, on their own kids.

[Anti Federalist]

This poor bastard is going to prison simply because he was not aware that the "security guard" he rightly gave shit back to, was, in fact, an anointed member of the enforcement class and an "Untouchable".

All ya cop bashing terrorists in this thread are goddamn right:

This ain't my country anymore.

[devil21]

This poor bastard is going to prison simply because he was not aware that the "security guard" he rightly gave shit back to, was, in fact, an anointed member of the enforcement class and an "Untouchable".

All ya cop bashing terrorists in this thread are goddamn right:

This ain't my country anymore.

Pretty sure his charge will be dropped like a hot potato, considering the video evidence. Now if Officer Jerkoff gets charged with filing a false report/false charges then I'd consider that a positive sign. Won't be holding my breath for it though.

[Eagles' Wings]

Common core standards are starting in Math and English and will eventually be extended into the other parts of the curriculum.


http://archives.voicesempower.com/updated-breaking-news-dewhurst-reverse-texas-state-senator-wendy-davis-planned-parenthood-and-common-core/



http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/does-u-n-s-education-mandate-push-common-core-in-usa/

Protesting at an abortion clinic is rather pointless if the next generation views each child as an environmental threat to the earth.Yes, moostraks, it is getting worse and worse. I will admire Ron Paul forever for his position on closing down the Department of Education.

[Theocrat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQmUnisDEM
http://youtu.be/XEQmUnisDEM


http://www.examiner.com/article/exclusive-video-school-supers-have-parent-arrested-from-common-core-meeting

Not to play the "race card," but as I watched the video, I was thinking that if the cop was White, and the parent was Black, it would have possibly been another story about racism, aired on all of the mainstream media networks and blogged/Tweeted about for weeks.

[FindLiberty]

That confrontation was a result of Delphi Technique fail: All questions from parents must
be written down and shuffled to bottom of a stacked deck used by the moderator
(so hard Qs never actually get read out loud/answered). This prevents sensitive
issues/concerns from derailing their pre-planned agenda/conclusion/outcome.

In today's Amerika USSA, questioning/resisting authority is not tolerated (10 years in prison?).

There will be no discussions! Parents were only invited to help sell 'em on false consensus via Delphi...

It's very sad, a lot like two party elections that offer no real choice at all.

[Origanalist]

What is your problem?

:D

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

That confrontation was a result of Delphi Technique fail: All questions from parents must
be written down and shuffled to bottom of a stacked deck used by the moderator
(so hard Qs never actually get read out loud/answered). This prevents sensitive
issues/concerns from derailing their pre-planned agenda/conclusion/outcome.

In today's Amerika USSA, questioning/resisting authority is not tolerated (10 years in prison?).

There will be no discussions! Parents were only invited to help sell 'em on false consensus via Delphi...

It's very sad, a lot like two party elections that offer no real choice at all.

Yep, pretty much a childish format. The attendees play the part of the student by "asking questions." The panel plays the part of the omniscient teacher, "answering the questions." It's like those idiotic "town hall" meetings with politicians.

If people still believe in some semblance of participation, then these type of forums are the worst. They're controlled, childish, and lead to the result in the video.

[tangent4ronpaul]

No, it's not. If those administrators would have tried to pull that garbage at the small town school I went to they would have been run right out of town. And that officer? Well, he would have had a different fate.

A nation of sheep indeed.

It's time to start mounting heads on pikes!

:mad:

-t

[juleswin]

Say what you will about the cop, at least he is fighting for his own interest in his pay check by throwing the parent out, but what about the other parents? what do they benefit from keeping silent? This kind of videos just make me mad.

[bolil]

This is what pisses me off more than anything. I mean, thugs are gonna thug, it's their nature. But the mindless zombie sheep that just sit by bleating doing nothing while this brave man is carried off to face ten and a half years in prison, seriously, WTF happened to America? This ain't my America.

Thugs are gonna thug. Sheep are gonna sheep.
Let this video be a wake up call. The time to fight draws near.

If they can treat one that way, they can treat any that way. What the fuck is this, anyways, are we to remain passive? Passive while our "rulers" bomb other countries and in doing so cultivate hatred towards us? Passive while they kidnap children, and put them into indoctrination centers for 8 hours a day for the most influential years of their lives? Passive while the cops acquire more and more deadly equipment while they seek to prevent us from having even slingshots. Nah, no wound left to fester gets better and the only form of antibiotic power recognizes is ACTIVE antibiotic. The next time I see an authority abuse a fellow human, I am getting involved whether I have a recorder or not. Enough of this.

Civil disobedience? How did that work out? Look at the prison statistics and tell me what is so civil about that. Active resistance. Meet force with force. Enough of this. Enough. That guard should've had his ass kicked, badly see broken jaw lost teeth and shattered orbitals, but he didn't. Why? Because people are afraid to lose what is left of their meagre liberties. We can let it fester, we can let this shit go on. The saddest thing is that "we" that is to say if not you, most of the people you know, will let it go on.

Don't stand up, said the voice behind the curtain, don't look around and see how powerful you really are.

[Paulbot99]

It's going to take a lot to jolt the American people into taking action. I'm just afraid to see what the catalyst will be. Lest assured, atrocities like this will continue until we either submit or stand up for ourselves.

[RJB]

Homeschooling is the only answer.

[bolil]

Homeschooling is the only answer.

System Error
Answer Invalid
See Administrator.

Homeschool? Comrade, that isn't democratic! Homeschool?! What, is your child better than the rest? Comrade, reconsider this statement. Homeschool is a relic of the bourgeois, petty and otherwise.

[ClydeCoulter]

Hold the Line

[Reason]

If you can't afford to have kids without locking them up in public schools you shouldn't be having kids.

[Reason]

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-04-28/common-core-education/54583192/1

[Occam's Banana]

"Heat of passion" murderers are out in 8 or less.....

"Enemy of the State" offenders, however ...

The police do indeed "protect and serve" - but most people never wonder, "protect and serve ... who?"

[fr33]

Judging from the video the assault was initiated by the police officer. He violently shoved the dad during the meeting. Even if the dad resisted off camera or punched him in the face, he had every right to do it.

[devil21]

Which is I maintain top priority for the liberty movement is the elimination of the Department of Education. Cut off the money for the indoctrination of the children into communist principles.

This doesn't get near enough attention now. DoE was ALWAYS a target of conservatives for this exact reason. It's why Ron Paul brought it up in 2007. Real conservatives fight national education because it puts the power to "educate" millions of kids in the hands of a small few.

[Natural Citizen]

I've brought intricates to Lowery in public platforms many a time and across a broad range of issues regarding the education system. She's a piece of work, for sure.

[Mani]

Thankfully MOST people in these comments side with the Parent.....But check out this fucking boot licker!

http://news.yahoo.com/now-arresting-people-complain-common-core-063220815.html?bcmt=1379928238343-9eb72f44-e64d-4d53-a670-6509e5f2c920


"He was repeatedly asked to state his question. Other people have questions. He ignored the moderator and kept rambling. The security guard was then asked to escort the man out. It wasn't the security guard's desire. He was directed to by school officials. The man should have put down his stupid pad and left. He can complain later. Go to the media. Go online and protest his treatment. File a lawsuit. If the security guard had used excessive force on a non-resisting person--he didn't--the man could have called the police and had him charged. Getting into a fight with a security guard is not going help his cause or educate people regarding his message. Rambling is not going to win people over.

The security guard asked him to step out. The man refused and kept hammering. Then that idiot lady stepped in. You never know what's going to happen in this type of situation. Is this man rational or is he potentially violent? Does the man have a weapon? Suddenly here is this lady forcing herself into a potentially volatile situation. If the security guard had turned away to direct that idiot lady back to her seat, and the man had suddenly stabbed or struck him, I would really want that idiot lady arrested as well. There are all sorts of ways to protest what you perceive as mistreatment--but don't put someone in harms way.

Then the man resisted. He deserved to be arrested and dragged out by his nose. This isn't 1940's Germany. The government is not suppressing this man's speech. He's not going to jail for his speech. He has a right to speak. He doesn't have the right to seize control of the forum and refuse to step aside for others who also wish to speak. Then physically resist a lawful order. Screw him. There are real people out their fighting real oppression. This fool is not one of them."


The man resisted? He resisted a lawful order? Is this shit for real? Who wrote this comment? The security guard? What lawful order is that. Don't talk back to the principal? if the security guard says leave, LEAVE or go to jail. That's America? Security guard's words are the law???


This is what we are up against....People who believe the word of an officer is the word of God.

[GunnyFreedom]

Yeah Mani, there's a lot of that crap on the post I made in Reddit about this too.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/1mu7ls/baltimore_county_parent_faces_105_years_in_prison/

ETA:


WheresTheFlan 2 points 1 day ago (3|1)
To be fair, he was speaking out of a turn at a public meeting. He was asked to stop by those conducting the meeting and refused. He was asked to stop by a security guard and refused. Only then did things get out of hand.

The meeting organizers set up a system for the public to ask questions (by submitting them in writing), and even told Small while he was talking that his questions would be addressed if he would be patient.

Calling the people in the video sheep is unfair - they were there to hear their questions, which they submitted in writing, answered. Smalls was preventing them from getting answers, so I'm sure many of them were happy to see him removed, even if they did agree with his ideas.


IPredictAReddit [-1] -3 points 1 day ago (2|4)
I'll bet anyone here $5 that, if this guy were shouting about how much he loves common core and supports it, you'd be applauding his removal from the event.
This wasn't a Town Hall Q&A. He was interrupting a meeting. You only like him because he said stuff that you agree with, which means you're a-ok with "your side" being disruptive, simply because it's your side.
Supporting free speech only for those who you agree with? Yup, we must be in r/libertarian.


kurlythemonkey -3 points 1 day ago (2|5)
I crack up at the sheeps in here calling out the sheeps on the video. Have we forgotten about due process? They can throw 100 charges on this guy. He is still innocent until proven guilty. If the cop was wrong, is on video. Stop freaking out. If this man was in fact disrupting a meeting, then he was in the wrong. He was given plenty of warnings, but he thought he was above the rules. Are you supporting this? Why? Because of some misdirected idea he was fighting the system?

[devil21]

Don't you guys know that Robert's Rules states that if a person speaks out of turn they are to be handcuffed, assaulted and arrested? Jeez, read a book or something people. /sarcasm

[Paulbot99]

Freedom of Speech doesn't cover speaking out of turn. Didn't you guys know?

[mczerone]

Just found this thread. It should stay bumped.


Parents, take control. We’re sick of this. This is not a CNN political game. This is a public town hall... Listen, don’t stand for this. You’re sitting here like cattle. You have questions. Confront them. They don’t want to do it in public.... Parents, you need to question these people....

These cookie-cutter, pre-vetted, nice-and-orderly meetings are precisely want they want. They want the wrong questions asked, so that the answers don't matter. The next step is to simply stop the public interface meetings and simply issue press releases.

There's no fixing it. There's only building replacement solutions and starting to withdraw support.

Lastly, of course there's rules to follow in a meeting. And you can be forcefully removed from the premises if you're not following the rules. But arrest? Watch the crap that security goes through on Hardcore Pawn. Imagine the crap that bouncers go through every night at bars around the world. They simply keep control and secure the premises. No assault charges on the ejectee. No butt-hurt about how they disrupted a meeting. Just get them out as peacefully as possible and go on with your day.

But in the state sphere you are threatened with a cage for a long time unless you plea out or spend tens of thousands of dollars mounting a multi-year court battle that might yield no benefit.

[devil21]

All I hope is this incident and video doesn't chill speech further.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Charges dropped yesterday.

[Anti Federalist]

Charges dropped yesterday.

Good.

Now just get that arrest record out of The Matrix.

Whoops.

Not so fast there, Mundane...

[GunnyFreedom]

Charges dropped yesterday.

I figured they would be, but the nature of the dropped charges are still absolutely critical. The level to which one CAN be charged for political speech to which some object, is the level of chilling it will have on speech. How many who were in that room afraid to stand and speak up will be emboldened by the prospect of ten years in prison? Will it help them much to know that the charges were dropped -- this time? Of course not. The fact alone that charges were brought against this man in the first place is a crime against the right to free speech, protected in the US Constitution, and universally in the several State Constitutions.

I actually would not mind seeing a positive law to the effect that "Tyranny of Speech: A prosecutor who brings charges for the chilling or elimination of free speech, themselves face the same jeopardy that they indicted. The felony class for tyranny of speech will be the same as the felony class, or the cumulation of felony classes, threatened during the execution of the crime."

[GunnyFreedom]

And then,

"Conspiracy to Tyranny of Speech: Any person who directs one or more prosecutors in the crime of Tyranny of Speech, is guilty of Conspiracy to Tyranny of Speech. The felony level shall be equivalent to the concatenation of every felony indictment attributed to the underlying crimes."

[johnwk]

"...Common Core was adopted by MDE three years ago, in exchange for a quarter Billion dollar federal incentive grant..."

This is why the arrogant administrator did not want someone who thinks dare ask him any negative questions about the program...that pays his salary!

Just one more reason to get your children out of the public indoctrinations center--NOW!!\

We need to post the home addresses of these tyrants and let nature take its course!