Common Core testing

Common Core testing comes to mind:

See our earlier post on the meeting in Mansfield tomorrow morning to "Opt Out Of Common Core assessments" here. 

Opt Out of Common Core meeting details

Want to OPT OUT of

COMMON CORE related Assessments

But Still Have Questions?

What’s Next in the Fight to

Rid Our Schools of Common Core?

PARCC Testing Begins February 16^th   

Protect Your Children!

JOIN US for a FREE presentation

WHEN:  Saturday, February 7^th @ 10:30 a.m.

WHERE:   Ontario Public Library

2221 Village Mall Dr., Mansfield, OH (click for map)

Guest Speakers

Heidi Huber – Founder, Ohioans Against Common Core - The real story on Opting Out of PARCC and why it's critical to reclaim your child's classroom.

Rob Coburn – Pres., Garaway School Dist. Board of Education Role and responsibility of district Boards of Education to the community and its students.

Marianne Gasiecki – State Co-coordinator Tea Party Patriots

Promoting parental and district activism to get results.

Invited legislators will be added upon confirmation.

Seating is limited.  Please RSVP by Feb 1^st  

@ Optoutohio@yahoo.com

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Speaker J. Wellington Wimpy

Art credit: www.daveposh.org

It’s Not Just Tactics, Mr. Speaker

By Jenny Beth Martin

7:27 PM 01/25/2015

The Daily Caller

“The issue with the Tea Party isn’t one of strategy. It’s not one of different vision … It’s a disagreement over tactics, from time to time,” said Speaker of the House John Boehner, on 60 Minutes Sunday night.

More than a year ago, Speaker Boehner took serious offense when conservative groups criticized a budget deal he favored. They had “lost all credibility . . . I don’t care what they do.” So irrelevant is the Tea Party movement that the Speaker took to 60 Minutes to complain about its criticism of him Sunday night.

The Speaker trivializes the differences that led to the biggest intraparty rebellion against a sitting Speaker since the Civil War. His first problem isn’t with outside groups, it’s his own GOP colleagues in the House. When one out of every ten takes the extraordinary step of standing before his colleagues and calling out the name of someone else for his job, he should realize he’s got a problem.

As for us, our opposition to his leadership centers on our belief that we do NOT, in fact, share visions and strategies.

For example, we oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants because we believe it would not be fair to the millions waiting in line to get into America legally, nor to the millions who already arrived legally after waiting in line. Amnesty rewards lawbreaking, and only serves to incentivize further lawbreaking.

The Speaker, on the other hand, dances to the tune of the Chamber of Commerce, whose members and supporters want cheaper labor, and are, consequently, major proponents of the kind of comprehensive amnesty legislation that passed the Senate in 2013 and which the Speaker clearly wanted to put on the floor of the House last year before Dave Brat’s stunning upset of the former Majority Leader put the kibosh on those plans.

Moreover, we seek a federal government that is actually smaller than the one we have now, not merely one that is smaller than the one Barack Obama would prefer. We note with disdain the Speaker’s willingness to sign off on budget and debt ceiling increase “deals” that appear to have been negotiated by Popeye’s J. Wellington Wimpy — he will gladly give the president a spending/debt ceiling increase now, in exchange for the promise of spending cuts to come Tuesday. And when Tuesday arrives, somehow the spending cuts never materialize.

Similarly, we seek the repeal of Obamacare because we believe it tramples the fundamental liberties guaranteed us by our Constitution, destroys patient choice, degrades the quality of health care delivered, increases costs, and will ultimately break the bank. The Speaker, on the other hand, seems perfectly content to tinker at the margins (1099 repeal? Medical device tax repeal?) secure in the knowledge that many of his major funders — the health insurance and pharmaceutical companies who support Obamacare because of its mandates, which lead to a massively growing client base, and, hence, increased profits — don’t actually want him to fight to repeal the legislation.

Here’s a test of the Speaker’s assertion that our differences are merely differences in degree, not kind: Why has he refused to lead his GOP Conference to vote in favor of the bill introduced by his colleague Ron DeSantis of Florida, which seeks to overturn the August 2013 OPM [Office of Personnel Management] ruling granting generous employer subsidies to Members of Congress and their staffs for the purchase of health insurance through the Obamacare exchanges, in clear violation of the law? That legislation is a fundamental part of a strategy designed to raise the temperature inside the offices of the Democrat Members of Congress whose votes are needed to build the necessary majorities for repeal in both House and Senate; yet, given multiple opportunities to put the bill on the floor, he has refused to do so.

Finally, I would note one other difference with the Speaker’s view, specifically regarding his assertion that the Tea Party’s opposition is manufactured for fundraising purposes: Every dollar we raise is contributed voluntarily, by donors whose only interest is seeking to influence their government to tax less, spend less, and stop running up a massive debt. They seek little from the government other than to be left alone, and we have nothing to offer them other than our promise that we will use the resources they contribute to do the best job we can to achieve our shared vision of greater personal freedom, economic freedom, and a debt-free future.

JENNY BETH MARTIN is co-founder and national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, the nation’s largest tea party organization.

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Opting Out of Common Core

We’re posting this meeting announcement from Mansfield Tea Party, since some Cleveland Tea Party Patriots have easy access to Mansfield via I-71 or Route 42. Venue will be announced.

Many of you want to OPT your children OUT of the PARCC assessments this February, but are unsure of what to do, or are receiving push back from school administrators.

Heidi Huber (Founder of Ohioans Against Common Core) and Marianne Gasieki are putting together an informational meeting to get ALL your questions answered.

Opting Out and the 

2015 Plan to Remove Common Core

As many of you are aware, the were several roadblocks in Ohio legislative leadership last year, that prevented any success in removing Common Core from our educational system.  Many of those roadblocks are gone, but unfortunately, so are some of our allies.

A new plan of action is being formulated, which Heidi will be discussing at this meeting, as well as information needed to successfully opt your child out of the PARCC testing this February.

It's important that you RSVP for this meeting as soon as possible.  It will be held in the Mansfield area, but the size of the venue will be determined by the number attending.

WHEN:     Saturday, February 7th

                10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

WHERE:   Mansfield (venue TBA)

Guest Speakers to Date

Heidi Huber, Founder - Ohioans Against Common Core:  The real story on Opting Out of PARCC and why it's critical to reclaim your child's classroom.

Rob Coburn, President - Garaway School District Board of Education:  Role and responsibility of district Boards of Education to the community and its students.

Marianne Gasiecki - State Co-coordinator Tea Party Patriots, Mansfield Tea Party Founder: Promoting parental and district activism to get results.

Invited legislators will be added upon confirmation.

Please Click Here to RSVP.  

If others are joining you, please ask them to complete the RSVP so we have an accurate count and can accommodate accordingly.

We have the power, and the right, to control our children's education.

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Dealing with the State of The Union speech tonight

For patriots who cannot imagine watching or listening to the SOTU this evening, here is an option from Stephen Green (Mr. Vodkapundit at PJ Media):

Drunkblogging tomorrow night’s State of the Union Address, you ask?

I’m readying my favorite martini pitcher in anticipation already.

Check back at the PJM home page Tuesday night at about 8:45PM Eastern for all the fun and cocktails and facepalms you can handle.

He watches it, so you don't have to.

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Passing a Resolution with an Unwilling School Board

Photo credit: myajc.com

Common Core: an update

Ohio Tea Party Patriots Co-cordinator Marianne Gasieki is sharing a Richland County success story and seeking participation in a statewide survey:

Passing a Resolution with an Unwilling School Board

Raising a Unified Voice

As some of you are aware, Marianne was elected to the Ontario School Board November 2013:

I was elected due to my vocal opposition to Common Core, as I had been attending meetings and questioning the board regarding Common Core for over a year.

Unfortunately, unlike the Garaway school district, the Ontario school district did not have a Board unified in their opposition to Common Core, so it was necessary to create a ground swell from concerned parents.

As a Board member, I couldn't be seen as actively involved in the movement, but was able to find a few key people who made it happen.

A petition was created, and within a matter of weeks, over 300 signatures were obtained.  These people took the petitions to soccer games, parent teacher conferences, anywhere there would be community gatherings. Click Here for a Copy of the Petition.

Copies of the petitions were sent to each Board member with a cover letter. Click Here to Read the Cover Letter.

At the December board meeting, our resolution opposing Common Core was passed.

It is important to note that although it looks like we were able to do this quickly, it took the action of parents coming to board meetings over multiple months, and clearly stating their issue with CC.  It took people working in the community, writing letters to the editor, posting yard signs around the school and educating their neighbors.  But it can be done!

If you would like to share your success story, please forward it to me and I will try to compile them so they accompany the survey results.

If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to contact Marianne at the Mansfield Tea Party at mansfieldteaparty@gmail.com. 

These resolutions and efforts are important, especially since Gov. John Kasich is opposing repeal of CC. Read the latest from The Blaze here. 

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Unity Rally in Paris: World Leaders lock arms

This report from Hot Air, in case you missed it over the weekend:

The President sent Eric Holder. I know he was there because he was doing all of the Sunday shows from Paris. Then cable news ground to a halt for one of the more impressive shots you will ever see; one of the biggest collections of world leaders to be found anywhere, and they were outside in the cold and the rain, locking arms and marching in unity with the people of France as they stood up to Islamic terrorism. Above is just one of the many media shots which captured the rather historic moment.

But wait… isn’t somebody missing from this picture? In what is possibly one of the worst games of Where’s Waldo in history, the fine folks at Weasel Zippers notice that Eric Holder doesn’t seem to be on the scene.

There’s a photo at the link of Holder with some of the leaders standing on the steps of a building for a photo op, but he was otherwise busy for the actual rally.

Attorney General Eric Holder is in Paris this week to attend a meeting on fighting terrorism, but did not participate in a march with world leaders Sunday to honor the 17 people killed last week in France.

More than 40 world leaders marched arm in arm through Paris to rally for unity and freedom of expression and to honor the victims of the three days of terrorist attacks.

Swinging back to WZ for the full list, here are the world leaders who actually showed up and walked the walk.

Left to right: Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Union President Donald Tusk, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Jordan’s Queen Rania, Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenkoand other guests...

Oh, man. We didn’t even manage to qualify for … and other guests.

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Also in this report is a Tweet from Dana French:

CNN just reported Eric Holder did not attend #ParisMarch because he was attending high level meetings. With whom? Everyone was at rally.