Arne Duncan’s Brave New World: Dept. of Education Wants Your Kid’s Blood Type?
These datasets are from the National Education Data Model. From its website:
NEDM is the single, comprehensive model of education data and is prerequisite to establishing automated and comparable systems.
According to Logue, these databases appear to be designed to track students from pre-kindergarten through at least age 20, and for the government to feed them into the workforce:
The whole purpose is to take the educational information and feed it into what they call the P-20 pipeline. … The data system in Illinois is the most advanced at this time.
Indeed, the Illinois program has some frightening aspects of its own, which are presumably mirrored at the federal level. In a document titled ILDS (Illinois Data System) Data Warehouse Architecture & System Design, Illinois defines “workforce” and lays out state and federal involvement in “workforce development.” From page 80:
The term workforce is defined as consisting of the workers engaged in a specific activity, business or industry or the number of workers who are available to be assigned to any purpose as in a nation’s workforce.
The public workforce system is a network of federal, state, and local offices that function to support economic expansion and facilitate the development United States workforce. The system is designed to create partnership with employers, educators, and community leaders in order to foster economic development and high-growth opportunities in regional economies so that businesses find qualified workers to meet their present and future workforce needs. (Emphasis added)
The highlighted areas would seem to indicate that workers should be assigned to purposes rather than choose their own preferred work, and that the government can and should do the assigning.
Forty-one states — plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands — have signed on to a set of standards that makes local school boards all but superfluous. State boards of education become redundant as well if curricula are decided at a national level rather than at a state level.
Local control, long a hallmark of the U.S. education system, would be lost to a “one size fits all” solution imposed by bureaucrats who cannot possibly know the needs or challenges of a local school district.
omg—this is gov to the nth degree–they are sizing up our kids to do what they want them to do–next will be who to marry and how many children to have (bu only if permitted and if there are no defects in the family)
Also of interest is the “Blood Test Type” data field:
Why do the Departments of Education, Commerce, and Labor need to know whether individual students are HIV+, have had an STD, or are anemic? How long until this information is shared with just about everyone?
Not long, that is indeed the plan…
I can just see how that data will be used and abused. For instance, my daughter was treated for a rare hormone disorder, so her medical data will stick out like a sore thumb. Researchers looking for anomalies will treat her and other “abnormal” kids like freaks–probably pester our family with endless requests to be in studies, blah blah blah. And I can see how this would be used against her as an insurability issue if Obamacare doesn’t go away.
If they think they’ll be getting any medical information about my daughter, they’ll have to take me to court to get it.
It’s more than that. We’re back to Clinton’s “Cradle to the Grave” society. They want to decide where you’ll work and who gets educated.
Welcome to Oceania circa 2011…
This is called communism.
Communism wishes it had this before the big collapse of the Soviet Union. This is worse.
Did you ever see the film “Gattica”? You should.
“pester our family with endless requests to be in studies”
They wont ask. Once health records are in their system, they do what ever they want with it without your permission.
I hate to say this but, these test aren’t the only thing from blood tests looked at. DNA testing can also be filed and put into a data base. There were several states (still are a few) who PKU tested newborns and without parental consent also did DNA tests. Some states held these for a few years, some had the right to indefinite hold in a data base. I have to go back into my research for this. I did when it came to my attention on a Fox broadcast interview many months ago. It was a parents rights discussion. Think of the implications, population control, medical treatment and possible sterilization of generations of those who had tendencies to “costly and imperfect” hereditary ailments (cystic fibrosis, cancer, mental illness, etc) for the purpose of genocide. Also if someone with a “Hitler” mindset wants to track a person who is opposition of a regime, you can use the DNA on file for the child available through school/hospital records. Sounds a little crazy I know, but…
I’m sure death camps sounded a little crazy in 1941 too. We’d better wake up before they get there.
Data and documents everyone. Let’s start with your boss’s LFBC, Mr. Duncan.
One of the Iron Laws of bureaucratic behavior—as reliable as the Law of Gravity—is that it will continually expand its purview and authority until it meets with external resistance. A bureaucracy has no internal inhibitor or governor.
Hmmm, sounds like an extension of “No child left behind.” Funny how the more the Federal Government gets involved in public education, the worse it gets. How many trillions of dollars have been spent on public education since the 1960s and yet test scores are worse than ever, more kids are literally dropping out of high school than ever before, the cost of teaching kids on a per-student basis has skyrocketed, and we are looking at a generation of kids who will have to wait until college before becoming proficient in either math or english. Yet we always look to the Federal Government to “fix” this problem.
How about we start forcing the states to do their jobs in educating our kids? How about we convince the states that they either start teaching their kids in a way that gets better results, or they are simply going to be graduating kids into their own work force that are incapable of reading and writing, let alone holding down a job. It will be interesting to see whether or not the states start getting better results if they break the backs of the teacher’s union in their local areas. If Charter Schools and Catholic Schools can get better results for less money on a per-capita basis, why can’t the states do the same thing? If the public school teacher’s union finally gets the idea that they’re going to have to compete against other schools to stay employed, things may magically change in the public schools. If not, we will lose yet another generation of kids.
Obama, the King of cronyism (besides Duncan, who has NEVER been a teacher is Secretary of the DoE, there are so many Chicago-like turds in his rank and file) is selling this crapola as part of his ‘Hope and Change’ mantra and his minions want seconds!
There’s plenty of these Job Corps-like idiots en masse in D.C. already. The reason I don’t visit D.C.’s Chinatown during the day. Yet another program displaying the total waste of federal tax dollars.
So now we know what happened to all those who were disappointed when they discovered there really wasn’t a permanent record to put a black mark on.
I am utterly at a loss for words–bus stop times!!!??? Talk about a pedophile’s dream come true. And I suppose their motto is “Trust Us!!”. Loss for words….
Sounds like “progressive” Sweden the home Eugenics or Applied Darwinism, or National Socialist Germany who kept such records in name of “public health”
I’m rather puzzled. Most State Boards of education and many, many local ones as well, are presently controlled by leftists anyway. In fact, the very fact of control of thousands of local boards as well as the state boards by the left via their Gramscian “Long March” of curriculum & standards control via adoption of the output of leftist controlled standards/curriculum advisory boards like those headed by William Ayers makes rooting them out in any reasonable amount of time almost impossible. Centralizing such decision-making and standards-setting at the Dept. of Education at the Federal level would only facilitate a conservative counter-revolution in one fell swoop the next time a Republican President was elected, much as Dame Thatcher felt it necessary to centralize the curriculum-setting power at the national level because all the local boards were controlled by Marxists/crypto-Communists/Communists and it would have taken forever to wrest control away from them one board/town council at a time. Seen in this historical light, centralized control is a double-edged sword. Why would the left want to do this when they already control the vast majority of the much harder to root out local and state boards? Or is it that they just, by ideological nature, can’t help themselves? Or are so egotistically “clever by half” that they are incapable of looking at the end-result logic of their actions? “Tis a puzzlement..
Virgil Xenophon’s comment was the only sensible one I can see here. The others are opposed to statism, while not looking at the left-wing takeover of education at every level of government, as he says, a long term Gramscian-Maoist project. For those interested in how Harvard’s Graduate School of Education presented Arne Duncan’s objectives and background, I wrote several blogs that focused on the deified, but inexperienced new Secretary of Education. See http://clarespark.com/2010/09/22/links-to-arne-duncan-blogs/. Every parent is worried about the condition of the schools until their families are no longer directly affected. This seems very bad for the republic to me.
This is the topic that the Department of Education will never address under this administration: the guilt-instilling curriculum at all levels of K-12, public and (sometimes) private schools alike: http://clarespark.com/2011/02/22/inflaming-minorities-in-the-universities/. Thanks to all who have visited my Arne Duncan blogs.
Power merely has a centralizing tendency. Under both conservative and liberal regimes, power and authority in these United States have been sucked relentlessly out of smaller, more dispersed units and into larger ones. With regard to education, the localities have largely yielded to the state governments, and the states, under the money lure and whip, are gradually ceding control to Washington.
People who seek power are never satisfied with what they have. To get more always means moving to a higher and more central position. Also, there’s the “up or out” rule — and “out” is always feet first.
Everyone should spend some time going through the “education data model”. Our kids won’t need to read 1984 anymore, since they’ll be living it. Big Brother was an amateur next to this bunch.
In addition to the data they plan to collect on your kids, here are just a few of the bits they plan to gather on parents:
Annual Earning Rate of Pay
Assessment Description
Assessment Reporting Method
Employer Type
Family Needs Assessment Method
Family’s Primary Insurance Status
Family’s Secondary Insurance Status
Hourly Rate of Pay
Insurance Policy Number
Occupation
Score Interpretation Information
Score Results
No explanation of what “score results” apply to parents. What score do you think you will receive when you are “assessed” by the local Dept of Education apparatchik?
Ah, NOW I understand why they insisted I fill out a free-lunch form even though I told them I was not interested in participating. That’s where they get family demographics and familial income.
Glad I held fast on that. I think I’ll be asking them how data is held confidential from now on. If they insist on something I don’t want to give, well, they can just hang.
There is no confidential data when it comes to government. Any data will be shared/released if it becomes expedient.
Stupefying….I am rendered (almost)speechless.
A question-are private schools also signed on for Orwell’s snooping?
Hell no. They can’t threaten to cut off the funds to free-world schools because they do not fund them. Only paying parents can do that because they and they alone finance their kids’ education. Our Founding Fathers never imagined it any other way.
That’s why vouchers and charter schools are a horrible idea: they were never anything but a nasty, insidious way for government to intrude into the private sector and eventually destroy it. Let Europe serve as an example to us of the fact that there no Third Way between free and enslaved any more than there is a Third Way between pregnant and not pregnant.
Title I is itself flatly unconstitutional, since it conflicts with the equal protection clause. Public education is also illegal for the same reason as Obamacare: they can’t make us buy anything we don’t want to, like miseducation for kids we may or may not have.
I would wager that this is for China’s snooping, not Orwell’s.
This is one reason i homeschool my child through a charter school. I have all the say..im just sorry more parents cant do this..the poor kids suffer and the with all the money we toss at it the worse it gets..its so frustrating
“Partnerships to foster opportunities…facilitate the development of”…blah blah blah: All the usual gibberish.
Oh and that first paragraph is a beaut. I understand it to mean: “Workforce means people in any kind of job plus the unemployed, all of whom we can assign to any job we choose.” Duh! Why didn’t they say so? And why do they hate the English language? Why, because the English subjects who founded this country left us their timeless love of liberty along with our language. Our new ruling class hates liberty most of all and are doing their level best to stamp it out wherever they may find it. This is the kind of absolute crap the Dept. of Education is involved in. Close it down now!
•”Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don’t want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They’re too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I’m so glad I’m a Beta.”
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 2
•”Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the child’s mind only. The adult’s mind too-all his life long. The mind that judges and desire and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions… Suggestions from the State.”
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 2
40 years ago our education system was the envy of the world. What Changed.
1. The Department of Education was created.
2. Lawsuits against schools became all the rage.
3. Salaries flipped from 60/40 teachers to administrators to 60/40 administrators to teachers.
4. Decisions were/are made at the state and federal level rather than locally, fudning as well.
5. Unions at all levels
6. The Heirarchy 40 years ago looked like this:
Teachers…a respected profession, still if you were incompetent you could be fired
Administrators…there to back up the teachers and clear obstacles put in the teacher way.
Parents… to back up the teachers and administrators and support the shcool system in general.
Students…There to learn, be respectful, and act accordingly.
Today it more closely resembles this:
Students…Too many gaming the system with little discipline, teachers hand holding and babysitting, a general attitude about ME.
Parents…Looking out for THEIR children first and formost all to often with antagonism toward the school and teachers in particular. Better watch out or I’ll sue.
Administrators…Their to protect the students and the system from lawyers, willful parents, teachers, shove curriculum down to the teachers, find new and creative ways to get a bigger chunk of the state and fed funds, make very good money with not a lot of risk of being fired.
Teachers…They are the problem and must be watched closely, but still generally unfireable and the union will protect them in a pinch. Skilled teachers leaving the system at an alarming rate. No longer a profession but a job.
great post. Exact time line since the socialist/marxist transformation of the US EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM; began with lbj’S GREAT SOCIETY. Enough money wasted on the educational system since 1970 to bail out every state debt today. Only result – a failed national public education system with overpaid administrators, with a high percentage of incompetent and/or complacent teachers protected by a teacher’s association and a union.
How about just tattooing a number on each childs arm, I know that was done by compassionate democratic socialists in the past.
Your post reminded me of certain parts of Revelation. Hmmmmmmm…
As I said to several friends when the O was elected, ‘ Welcome to the USSA.
…and it worked so well for all the socialist countries that our current crop is still demanding we copy it, one step at a time, while most of the sheople do what sheople do, follow the herd. The mantra seems to be set in stone now and it’s ‘Don’t confuse me with historical fact, THIS time we’ll get it right, you’ll see’.
aren’t these the same monkeys who howled “violation of privacy rights”, when kid’s AIDS status was revealed?
JUST SAY NO
and NO again
NO
When the public spoke in November it was to reject this totalitarian (Obama)and his over-powered bureaucrats. Now we need to continue to speak before it’s too late. First vote out Obama and remove every bit of the cancer he inflicted in Washington. Then vote ONLY for candidates who follow the Constitution as it was designed. The simple test is this: The Constitution was designed to be a negative influence in people’s lives, which is to say, it protects our freedoms by punishing those who would deny them and restricting the government from actively adding anything or forcing anyone to do things, like buy health-care or teaching their children according to the state’s requirements. What Obama and the left, since Socialist FDR, are doing, is creating a huge state that tells people what to do and think through laws and force. This is the stand you have been thinking about. It’s time to take it. Vote, write letters, make phone calls, and buy ammunition.
The left seeks to destroy and enslave and they run the DOE. The lie: “this information will help them serve you better”. The truth: this information will help them manipulate and control you, take your money and propagandize your kids and make them slaves of their ideology. Oh, if it were only true, that they would serve those who pay their wages, the taxpayer. No, what we have now is an unelected bureaucracy of lords and ladies who think they’re your betters but just happen to be employed by you the taxpayer. Have you noticed, of late in particular, how what used to be called evil is now good and what used to be called good is now called evil. Call this their true colors.
It’s obvious that Government has over stepped its bounds. What have they accomplished? : Self destruction. It will be awesome to watch but don’t get too close. Out of necessity Government will be taken down to its foundations as the wickedness is shaken out of it. Time is not on their side. Feel sorry for the people in the streets and pray for mercy but don’t join them in their suicide pact for they have believed the lie that they deserve other peoples money without working for it (kind of a worldwide phenomena these days).
What to do? : Love the Lord your God with all of your heart and love your neighbor as yourself and be prepared to hide for a little while.
The left in this country has not been forced to pay for their service to the ideologies of the devil because they have hidden the truth about themselves, but now being exposed, they lie unchallenged by the mainstream media, but this is only serving to embolden them further, out into the light where they are being destroyed once and for all, along with their lies. Can they be so blind and deceived that they do not see what is happening to them? Obviously so. They have loved money and unearned gain more than the truth and after being exposed it is revealed that they are haters of mankind and of all creation because they hate the One who created all these things, they did not take Him at His Word.
Remember this: a house built on the shifting sands of lies will not stand, no matter what, it will fall and its destruction will be complete.
Lord, your judgments are faithful and true and they deserve it.
“Give them according to their deeds, And according to the wickedness of their endeavors; Give them according to the work of their hands; Render to them what they deserve.” Psa 28:4.
Have mercy on the innocent and the God fearing.
Is this corruption coming from Illinois? Perhaps the harvest of wickedness in Illinois is ripe for reaping Lord.
Here is wisdom: “he who lives by the sword shall die by it, let him who has ears hear”
Refuse this bull … red states revolt and tell the Obamunists to go to hell.
If that CCC program were remotely legal, legitimate, or accountable, THAT WOULD NECESSARILY BE A .GOV LINK, not .ORG, AND IT WOULD BE ON THE DoE’S WEBSITE!
This is outside the government, yet financed by our tax dollars. I wouldn’t click that link at gunpoint.
Can we impeach him already?
I smell Soros, but we better shut down the DoE just in case.
I always believed that parents who sent their kids to socialist schools just hated their kids. Now, there’s really no case to the contrary.
We need to get government out of the education business, and every other business as well. This is Stalin’s wet dream come true.
If you never thought you had a good reason to home school your kids before, now you do.
The education reform movement isn’t about improving education, it is about improving the economics of a select few.
Follow the money. Follow Arne Duncan’s top two staff members, Jo Ann Weiss and Larry Shelton. They both worked for NewSchool Venture Fund prior to the DOE. Their clients are about to make a killing.
More money won’t fix the schools. More standards won’t fix the schools. More assessment tests won’t fix the schools. More technology won’t fix the schools. More data on students and their families won’t fix the schools. Centralized control won’t fix the schools. Charter schools won’t fix our nation’s education problems either.
Local control and parental involvement will fix the schools.
We have all, since birth been conditioned to think the government is good and wants to help us. The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
– H.L. Mencken
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So, throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
– Mark Twain
Young man what we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: We always governed ourselves and we always meant to. They didn’t mean we should.
– Levi Preston, veteran of Lexington & Concord, on the events of April 19, 1775
It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from the government.
– Thomas Paine
In pratice we must elect a new breed of government. Today it is the status quo that these millionaire politicians play the Washington game of enriching themselves at the expense of the tax-payers. We need to flush them out of hiding and replace them with representatives of the People. We can change the government. Do away with the Departments that waste money. HUD, DoE. Energy, etc. Stand firm and don’t believe their lies when they say it can’t be done.
In Chicago, where these scoudrels come from, the poor in the inner city had no choice when the organized community organizers like Obama and Ayres were performing their human experiments with the education system. But in the big world of national politics, they are messing with a whole different type of people who love their freedom. When you come after my child and try to indoctrinate her to your hellish ideology, it’s not going to be as easy as the big city. When Obama promotes his new message of “anti-bullying”, that’s just part of the homosexual agenda; to stop Christians from saying homosexuality is wrong, as the Bible says it is. If he really cared about anti-bullying, he would tell his union thug friends to stop, such as in Wisconsin. But he really enjoys it when his supporters take to the streets and intimidate people, as in preparation for the 2012 elections.
Living next to Illinois makes me understand how Indians feel living next to Pakistan. They’re like thuggish, nonsensically supremacist barbarians from another century and another planet, yet we’re ethnically and linguistically identical. Michigan is our Bangladesh.
data sets….
I suppose that next they’ll be issuing each kid (probably in pre-school through Head-Start funding) a biometric “dog tag” to wear for the rest of their lives.
Why not just implement bar-code tatoos at birth?
Just how long will we, a nominally Free People, put up with this philosophy of nonsense?
Everything mentioned in comments relys on the current people in charge to correct this or stop it. People that will never happen. We the parents, grandparents and great grandparents are the only ones who can. Home school your children, pull them out of public schools. Teach your children, their are plenty of on-line curriculum that has not one thing to do with the Marxist crap they are feeding our children. Then over throw this bastardization of our republic.
Thank you for helping to spread public awareness of the data system that accompanies the Common Core Standards. Definitely a worrisome extension of fed control of education beyond NCLB which Congress may reauthorize or alter very soon. Support comes from the right and the left but so does dissent. Trying to discern opinions based on self-interest rather than the interests of students, taxpayers and freedom is very difficult. Bill Gates, Walton family and Broad foundations throw mucho $ supporting not only Common Core but also charters. Combined with the assault on the quality of all public schools, we are facing a cross-roads. I rely on Thomas Jefferson’s wisdom that control should be local to be best. Surely this is true for education which is not only morally the domain of parents but also practically as these are the persons whose interests in student achievement are most sincere. Certainly corruption in education is a problem as are failing schools. However, to apply a blanket solution is overbroad and a violation of the 10th Amendment. States’ adoption of the Common Core was voluntary only in the most Chicago-politics, coercive meaning of the word.
According to Dr David Jacobs Aliens are creating Hybrid children, for the purpose of inserting these Hybrids into our cultures and societys.
Crazy as that sounds if there is even a chance this is happening, it makes sense to DNA test everyone to see if this is true.
There is no such thing as true freedom, the closest we get is the ability to choose our chains.
If there is even a chance we are being stealth invaded via Hybrids, it makes sense to DNA test everyone to see if it is happening, and if so to get a scope of the extent of the problem
Any one seen the guys with the nets and the white coats?
Think, Organ Donor Data Base. Blood test results warehoused on a massive scale. When one of the elite needs an organ, the person who matches will simply be “harvested.” This is the extreme case, but is it really that far fetched?
Also if you haven’t seen Gataca, it is now a must see movie. Blood test and genetic testing used to determine a person’s value to society and as such how much education investment the government deems cost effective. Have a gene that predicts a bad heart? Your highest allowable job will be janitor.
NLCB wasn’t the beginning of this. It was part 2. The workforce development act pushed by Fat Dead Ted and signed by Bubba Clinton was the beginning. But the MSM ignored all the warnings.
NLCB set the stage for a 100% federal take over of all public schools. In 2014 when 100% of students fail to score proficient or higher the feds take over. Since 100% means all, not “all except special needs inclusion students” thus guaranteeing that the 100% number could never be achieved.
It won’t be long before only the wealthy are allowed full rights to self determination.
Oh Cool! A SkyNet for Kids!
What could possibly go wrong?
As to Duncan: he’s an incompetent parasite who previously headed the Chicago public school system. ‘Nuff said.
I suggest that,
A: If you don’t like it here, leave by the nearest land border,
for
Canada or Mexico
or,
B: If you are bound and determined that our country should not function, then simply open both those borders, since you seem unconcerned with our ability to monitor our citizens.
Monitor our citizens? Are you insane man?
Do we need to know who’s here? Absolutely. But hair color? Eye color? Birthmarks? Give me one good reason anyone in the government needs to know that information.
Patrick
People, it’s all about Eugenics. Google nazi, ubermensch, eugenics
When will states start seceding? I can’t live with these people anymore.
Thank God above that most of the comments here are against this monstrosity. As for the ones that agree with it, you are a product of this monstrosity and the unindoctrinated are able to see the results of their success.
Terrifying, isn’t it?
Out of School Tales of Nuns and Other Educators
The nuns always warned us about telling tales out of school, tattling, gossiping but since I’ve long been out of school I feel I can do it although the following aren’t really tattle tales or gossip. They’re scary but true tales.
Arne Duncan, who never taught a class or wrote a lesson plan in his life but did attend the elite University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and majored in sociology at Harvard, later presided over the disintegration of the Chicago public school system for almost 10years.
Apparently because of that sociology degree and his outstanding Chicago failure, Duncan was tapped by President Obama in 2009 to be the nation’s Secretary of Education, the rough equivalent of hiring Yogi Berra to teach logic to baseball players.
Secretary Duncan experienced a rare attack of honesty for a politician when he recently conceded, “And the best ideas, I’ve always said, in education are never going to come from me or frankly from anyone else in Washington,” despite the fact his cabinet-level department is primarily charged with establishing United States educational policy.
Needless to say, Duncan qualified his admission of his own and Washington’s ineptitude by saying that the best ideas are “always going to come from great teachers, great principals at the local level” where people better understand their communities’ needs.
Duncan was inadvertently raising the question of why a federal education department, created as the brainchild of Jimmy Carter, is needed at all and why its budget has almost tripled in a decade even as the nation’s educational system is rapidly approaching levels considered unacceptable in the Third World.
He didn’t answer those unasked questions and didn’t have to. Teachers and their overbearing national union, the National Education Association and its affiliates, provide the answers every election cycle when they show up en masse to support Democrat candidates as payback for government, i.e. taxpayer, largesse.
As a nitwitty teacher proudly said one Election Day in our faculty room years ago in response to a query as to how she planned to cast her vote, “I don’t know. I just vote for whoever the union tells me to.”
Teachers and other Wisconsin public employees know full well whom not to vote for, newly-elected Republican governor of the Badger State, Scott Walker.
The dastardly, union-busting, benefit-reducing Walker, the same governor who has put his state on a path to fiscal sanity and has actually added 43,400 jobs to Wisconsin’s payrolls according to the CES, the Current Employment Statistics survey, discovered once again the depths which unionistas can plumb when he visited the Messmer Catholic School in Milwaukee.
Governor Walker and his state had already witnessed those depths last winter when union thugs caused millions of dollars in damages to the state Capitol building in Madison, ostensibly in protest of his fiscal proposals but also in protest of his fair and democratic election. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5325)