{"id":27191,"date":"2015-12-19T11:42:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T16:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27191"},"modified":"2015-12-19T11:42:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T16:42:58","slug":"we-need-more-letters-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27191","title":{"rendered":"We Need More Letters Like This"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lady Liberty<\/a> is a North Carolina blogger who also attended the Academic Standards Review Commission meeting<\/a> yesterday. She posted the following letter from another person who was there. This is the letter:<\/p>\n

ASRC Commissioners,<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was one of several attendees at the ASRC Event today.\u00a0 The pro Common Core<\/a> member of this commission who was the architect of what took place today was brilliant.<\/strong><\/p>\n

First, the order of the meeting to pass all the ELA Sub Committee\u2019s recommendations with unanimous votes.\u00a0 Of course there was nothing contentious in these recommendations, since the best I can tell, it merely restated the S812 bill expectations of this committee.\u00a0 The committee met for 15 months to simply send back to the General Assembly a restatement of their assignment? \u00a0The General Assembly will no doubt be impressed!\u00a0 But what happened next was the genius part.\u00a0 Making what appeared to be a friendly recommendation to improve on the Math Sub Committee\u2019s recommendations in the \u201cDraft\u201d document.\u00a0 It was even stated, this can only reinforce the Math Sub Committee\u2019s recommendations. \u00a0All this took place before the documented recommendations for the math were even allowed to be discussed.\u00a0 Then witnessing the aggressive attack on Dr. Scheik, whose sub-team did more real work on evaluating standards than the original authors of CCSS<\/a>, that resulted in failure of all those recommendations to pass the committee vote.\u00a0 This is when it became crystal clear to me why there was such a push to copy the ELA recommendations to the Math recommendations!\u00a0 Since none of the math recommendations passed during the voting process, the commission would have had NO math recommendations in their final report.\u00a0 Absolutely brilliant!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I referenced this as an event in lieu of a meeting, since it was so well orchestrated.\u00a0 I was impressed by the leadership exhibited in the meeting today by Dr. Scheik, who held to his principals to the bitter end against all odds.\u00a0 It is disgraceful that this commission would work for 15 months on an assignment to make recommendations and have other members who took no part in the work team, ambush them in this manner.\u00a0 Real leaders would have done the hard work through the process to develop recommendations of substance, that were acceptable to the majority.\u00a0 Instead, they just hung around and waited for the opportunity to snipe the work.\u00a0 With this level of leadership (that includes two State School Board members<\/a>), it is no surprise to see their steadfast resolve to stay the course on a failed process.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I feel really bad for those commissioners who worked their heart and soul to positively impact the education of our great state of North Carolina<\/a>, only to have it erased in such a circus event.\u00a0 I know this was a huge personal sacrifice for those people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is far from over since the future of our children is worth fighting for.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Glenn A. Fink<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you, Glenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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