Anti Fed Ed Warriors, if you know the header image, you’ll recognize it’s a depiction of the Old Testament account of King Solomon and the two mothers claiming a baby was each of theirs and not the other. If you don’t recognize this particular account, think about all the accounts of heated divorces where two parents were fighting over the same child. In both cases, a higher authority was sought after (or assigned) to solve the issue.
So, what happens when that authority figure is the federal government? Or, even worse, a public-private partnership (P3)? P3s, after all, aren’t American, they are a fascism tool to control the public with private agenda!
Recently, a P3 held a webinar which used the title of “Informed Learning Agents” to actually mean ‘parents’. Worse, yet, “Parents” looked like this:
‘Parents*’. Why the asterisk? Because the SYSTEM tied to the P3 (which includes education and funding) wants to redefine the definition of ‘parents’ to include ANY adult (blood related, adopted, or a student) who cares about the child to be known as its parent!
Wait, Lynne, this isn’t new, we’ve seen this move used before by the CCSS Machine (Common Core State Standards Machine). Yes, we’ve also seen phrases like ‘the village raising a child’. We’ve also seen, especially since ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act), and Covid, the increased ‘interest’ (aka: in-home visits and family ambassadors) in how our families are doing and IF they aren’t doing what the SYSTEM thinks they should, then intervention ensue!
As I’ve pointed out before (and in the archived links I’ve embedded), these draconian moves are not reserved for public school children and their families. The roots might be a bit old, but the growth of the overreaches is growing quickly!
These moves are increasingly being visited upon families totally OUTSIDE the public school system. WHY?
The shift of using the school as a ‘community hub’ for total control of all families! The shift is to further assert that the government and its P3 partners are better parents than we are!
The “Informed Learning Agents” Webinar:
Warriors, the official title is “Building Parent Power: Fostering a Movement of Informed Learning Agents”. The P3 entity hosting the webinar is the (CGLR) Campaign for Grade Level Reading. I recently wrote an article about their undying support for another family encroachment move. This move contains P3s and families under the guise of caring about poverty levels, education ‘outcomes’ and family health. However, as we’ve learned any time we learn of such overreaches the freedoms we lose are never to be seen again.
Who Do The Children Belong To?
The Parent Agent webinar is about 1 and 1/2 hours. The main presentation ends somewhere near the 32 minute mark, but be sure to start at the beginning and listen in. I’m hitting some of the key points for you, as well as using some screen shots I took to go in detail about what agenda points are left out or glossed over.
(*Note: CGLR will have more webinars in the future about further aligning parents to the SYSTEM.)
1) Why parent power needs to be used by the SYSTEM (see if you can notice the propaganda hype building with each point that was made):
a) ‘equitable learning recovery for all’ (meaning Covid harmed families so bad there’s no way you can solve the problems on your own. You need to attack the broken and corrupt education SYSTEM, but only if you do it in the way CGLR and its cronies lay out.)
b) ‘intentional partnerships between parents and educators’ (meaning the SYSTEM is using this to usurp and redefine who a parent is and what they can do.)
c) ‘systems are organizing parents, not parents organizing themselves’ (meaning the only groups of God-given parents the SYSTEM recognizes are those with political ties and/or philanthropic money. This also means that by and large, grassroots groups or like-minded citizens will continue to be marginalized.)
d) ‘by leveraging parents power, we (CGLR and its cronies) can fight and fix the SYSTEM’ (meaning if you follow their scripted steps and ‘best evidence’ actions, you CAN fix a broken and corrupt SYSTEM!)
This first screen shot (open all images in a new tab to enlarge), shows that the goal isn’t really individual parents and their power, but a COLLECTIVE community effort. When you listen to the webinar ask yourself, do they mean ‘community’ as were I live, or are they meaning a group of parents to be groomed for the SYSTEM? Why ‘groomed’, think about the label used to redefine parents: “INFORMED LEARNING AGENTS”!
This next screen shot shows how the ‘best evidence’ has proven to organize, but notice that while the CGLR and its cronies acknowledge your innate power as a parent (after all it’s God who gave you that power and responsibility), it’s also using the phrase ‘actionable demands’. Why is that important? Look up the word ‘actionable’. It means to bring about or have grounds for a lawsuit. If CGLR and its cronies really wanted parents to be in a position to change a broken system it would need to stress ‘taking actions’. Lawsuits, will be placed in yet another broken and corrupt government SYSTEM, the courts. Little to nothing from the courts, when it comes to education, truly favors God-given parents.
In this third screen shot, notice that the agenda points to using philanthropy groups and their money. Why? Because the SYSTEM won’t notice the philanthropy as much as the parents. Where’s the danger in this? Look at the myriad of philanthropic groups ALREADY inserted in education and everything related to it! Several of them, including CGLR and its cronies are ‘card carrying members’ of the CCSS Machine! You CANNOT trust the CCSS Machine group members to fix a broken and corrupt SYSTEM, when they are PART of that very same SYSTEM!
In the fourth screen shot from the webinar, notice the ‘hamster wheel cycle’. This is supposedly to point out that when parents use the scripted methods that change will happen, their transformation into an ILA (Informed Learning Agent) will be totally successful. However, think about what happens on a hamster wheel. When does the hamster escape the prescribed path? Why do CGLR and its cronies want you to transform? Because as a caring parent, you’re not doing enough for your child’s education. You must be collective in a prescribed community (again which type of community?) because ALL communities care about education!!