The New FCC - Federal Common Core

We have the FCC - Federal Communications Commission that regulates the brainwashing we receive through the media and now we have the new FCC - Federal Common Core that will be programming our children to act and think like left leaning liberal socialists. Common Core is the new Federal Curricula under the guise of individual state choice. Think your local school board has control of what your children are being taught? Most of the board members are naïve enough to think that they do still have control, but they don't. They are ruled by federal points and dollars. Believe me, they follow the money regardless of what they have to do to get it! Federal Common Core will make sure all kids think and are taught alike - poorly! This guarantees that American students will be several years behind high-achieving industrialized countries. The general purpose of our new bureaucratic FCC? Creating dumbed even further down workers, worshipers of liberal politicians. No part of the FCC is interested in educating free thinkers, creators, innovators, and surely not Christian thinkers! This is truly the end of freedom as we have known it. The sad epitaph is that American students were smarter and could read better BEFORE compulsory education began. It will soon be the 100th anniversary of the last state implementing compulsory attendance laws. Since that time education has gone straight down hill. Think about it; only a hundred years. Every year since the 80's we've been sold a bill of goods about a new magic pill that will fix our education system. All these lies have done is put more money in the bureaucrats coffers. It has never been about the kids. It is about big business and politics. So now FCC is supposed to fix everything. Won't happen. Federal Common Core is another ruse to blind the public to the Federal takeover of education, and what the government runs, in today's world, doesn't run very well and isn't good for anything except destroying our once great country. Think about this, do your own research, and remember your kids when you go to the polls in the next election. Their future depends upon it!

ROLL REVERSALS

Today, school events are more important than family events. Coaches have more authority than parents. Family conversations are tuned out for computer/phone conversations. Sports events take precedence over church events. Trash talk is preferred over cleanspeak. Pastors think sacrilege is funny. Any wonder why the world is falling apart?

Has anybody even wondered why these roll reversals have occurred? Could it be the sunami of pure sewer and sarcastic sitcom that comes through the media-movies-music lifestyle that has taken over our country?

Do you ever think of trying to plug the holes that American teens are bleeding from?
Who is the shooter, the assassin that is riddling our society with filth and fantasy?
What color glasses do you have on that you see things as getting better?

If we don't wake up,do a 180 and go back to core family loyalty, become tighter-knit families with Godly values, TODAYS, not the NEXT generation, teen lives are in grave jeopardy!

NOT JUST PUBLIC SCHOOL!

YOUTH are losing more and more of their memory everyday! They constantly take their brain(cell phone) out and play with it. Why? All of their information is in their cell phone so no need for memory. Ask them a question (names, numbers, facts, directions) and they don't think, they grab their smart phones! Coming soon - Teachers allowing students to phone check their facts while taking tests!

Any wonder why we are becoming a 'duh' society? Any wonder why academics, spelling, vocabulary, cursive writing and grammar has gone down the tubes? (not is going - has already gone)

Because of our hedonistic, sexually transmitted stupidity, fun-seeking moral morass, our educational plunge downward, and now even our credit rating, the whole world watches and smiles as America slides farther and farther away from God and the principles she was founded on.

JESUS LAND

You ask,"Why is it that young people can spend a weekend on retreat in Jesus land, realize that they are living wrongly and going in the wrong direction, then come home and in two weeks or less be headed back in the same wrong direction?"

Because you're environment lacks Jeesoxygen! You begin to slowly wilt and come down off of the high you felt in the company of so many like-minded teens. You are no longer with like-minded people hearing the praises of Jesus on everyone's lips. Maybe on no one's lips. You begin to slowly wilt and feel like you're going to die from loneliness.

Then all of a sudden satan shoots you a fresh, fake breeze of old times and because you are smothering you suck in his lie and go running back to familiarity. You are back in your fake comfort zone.

You only fall backward into familiarity because you don't take the time to consistently and diligently arm yourself for battle, to actively make God your familiarity, your home, your mate, your everything.

You dont study God. Yoou don't learn His heart, His mind, His will. You study movies, music, food, English, and Science, but you don't study Happiness! You don't study Love, you don't study Peace, you don't study Joy, Beauty, Gentleness, Self-Discipline, Security, or Service. Jesus is ALL of these things!

satan says vampires, X-Men, warlocks and sitcoms are more interesting things to waste your time on. (Harry Potter has held ten years of your interest) Do you sit for two hours and study Jesus' personality, His countenance? satan says that a cell phone and Facebook is the way to self-confidence and that sex and alcohol will give you the ultimate high!

It is so much easier to believe his lies that to resist his lies. But the truth is that the road with Jesus is full of purpose, it is fruitful and productive, it feeds you well and fulfills you (as you saw on retreat)and in the end it has a wonderful resting place.

satan's road is full of thorns, pain, and drama, it bears no fruit, sucks you dry, tosses you about and then you finally open your eyes and see that his road is a dead end with no escape.

So get in the ZONE! The Jesus Zone where He fills every minute with something new and exciting, where He whispers directions for each day right in your ear and fills you with excitement and anticipation for each new day. Drink continually from His fountain of living water!!

Life with God is sooooo simmmmmmmple! His burden is soooo liiiight! His love is soooo amaaazing! If you can't see the bigger picture, the overall whole, because your environment is suffocating you, then rise above. Take the han of Jesus and let Him lift you out of the muck so yu can see the big picture. Your current environment then only looks like a small blemish when compared to the overall beauty of God's special plan for your life!

Stop drowning! Grab the Hand of the Man who loves you more than you can even imagine and He'll walk you through kicking down all the walls that are thrown up against you. Sit back and trust. Watch the miracles He will perform for you on just a little seed of faith.

Those, even in your own family that seem unsupportive, even mocking and blowing off your faith by saying, "Oh, I went through a "religious" period too. It will pass. You'll grow up," are only telling you that they lost. They tried and failed. They weren't strong enough to hold on to Jesus' hand and were soon formed into the image of the world - they morphed from being created in God's image to being remolded into the image of this world.

Here are the things you need as an indispensible minimum: You should study with a tremendous devotion to Christ,with an ever-present awareness of Him. You should acquire a considerable knowledge of His life and personality. You should nurture a strong desire to increase in knowledge of Jesus and His Church and to study the doctrines of His Church and the reasons for Her teachings. Your roots will grow deep as a result of your diligence. When satan attack you will be within the strong, spiritual fortress that you and Jesus have built together. Start building! Time is of the essence! Hurry! His arms are stretched out toward you.

AMERICA THE BORED!

By Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY
Nearly half of the nation's undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don't make academics a priority, a new report shows.
Instructors tend to be more focused on their own faculty research than teaching younger students, who in turn are more tuned in to their social lives, according to the report, based on a book titled Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Findings are based on transcripts and surveys of more than 3,000 full-time traditional-age students on 29 campuses nationwide, along with their results on the Collegiate Learning Assessment, a standardized test that gauges students' critical thinking, analytic reasoning and writing skills.

After two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36% showed little change.

Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago, the research shows.

"These are really kind of shocking, disturbing numbers," says New York University professor Richard Arum, lead author of the book, published by the University of Chicago Press.

He noted that students in the study, on average, earned a 3.2 grade-point average. "Students are able to navigate through the system quite well with little effort," Arum said.


COLLEGE: Can students learn as well on iPads, e-books?

The Department of Education and Congress in recent years have looked for ways to hold colleges and universities accountable for student learning, but researchers say that federal intervention would be counterproductive.

"We can hope that the (new research) encourages rather than discourages college faculty to learn more about what works in terms of fostering higher levels of student learning," said George Kuh of the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University.

Charles Blaich, director of the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, used by 130 private colleges to improve education quality, said he thinks colleges are aware of the shortcomings but are trying to improve.

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that schools are blind to this," he said.

Other details in the research:

•35% of students report spending five or fewer hours per week studying alone. Yet, despite an "ever-growing emphasis" on study groups and collaborative projects, students who study in groups tend to have lower gains in learning.

•50% said they never took a class in a typical semester where they wrote more than 20 pages; 32% never took a course in a typical semester where they read more than 40 pages per week.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS-Xboxed Brains

America's latest strain of mental illness - xboxed brains! The American Teenage revolution is in full swing headed up by kids who can no longer do anything but print and misspell words, stare at xbox competitive violence, and take remedial, triple zero courses in college.

Thanks to dim-witted parents that refuse to ruffle little Joey's feathers for fear of initiating another tantrum, we have the current batch of unproductive teenagers, only 50% will graduate from government brain control (excuse me, I meant high school)!

If we don't soon remove the techno-toys, if we don't put a stop to the total self-centered, egotistical self-worship of todays teens by standing up and being real men and women of God, if we don't start saying "NO" pretty soon, if we don't start beatin' some butt(described in the same Book where our country got its laws) then we can kiss our American future good-bye! If we keep schmoozing, we'll keep losing our kids.

Education Taxes - Who are they For?

How well are YOUR TAX dollars being spent? Some Care. Some see no use in caring - you can't fight the system. They just accept whatever the government says, or doesn't say, which is usually the case. QUESTION #2: Don't you find it odd that with all of the publicized, researched, and highly acclaimed "fixes" for poor school performance in the U.S., that the ship is still sinking? Economically the U.S. is number one in the world, while Math, Science, Language and Literacy rates are way down the list when compared to other countries!

Self Education. The End to Failure, Labels, and Boredom!