Below is a column written by Gary Mienert in the Lakeland Times paper from the north woods. Thanks Gary. Rebellion…..it’s happening In just a few days we will be celebrating the 4th of July holiday. To those who might not recall, especially the youth, it’s also known as “Independence Day” which commemorates our independence from England in 1776 after a long and bloody war. A war by all odds the colonists should have lost. This usually festive holiday seems to have a pall hovering over it as concern for our republic continues to escalate. Our country, once the greatest in the world, is staggering under terribly defective and divisive Federal bureaucracies. Regularly there are increasing incidents which run contrary to our basic rights. Fifty middle school students from N. Carolina visited the 9/11 Memorial in New York. As a choir they began to sing our National Anthem to the delight of other visitors. Immediately a security guard stopped their beautiful performance. It was considered a public demonstration and therefore forbidden! In Murfreesboro, Tennessee ten students between the ages of 6 & 10 were taken from the school in handcuffs because a video had shown them watching an off-campus scuffle…
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Is It Too Late?
Below is the article by the John Birch Society which was discussed at our last meeting in addition to the support your local police campaign. Is It Too Late Is It Too Late p2 Is It Too Late p3 Is It Too Late p4
Steve Kauffeld is a member of the Watertown School Board and a member of the Rock River Patriots. March 8, 2014 Letter to the Editor, On Thur Feb 6 th , the people’s voice was stymied, by an orchestrated public hearing lead by Sen.Luther Olsen who is chairman of the Senate Education Committee. The hearing was on Senate Bill 619 co-sponsored by Senator Leah Vukmir and Senator Paul Farrow. I try to attend various legislative hearings in Madison and other locations around the state, particularly those I have a vested interest in. Being a school board member, I have had considerable interest in the implementation of Common Core standards in our state’s public schools. I don’t know what is more galling to me, the political gamesmanship proffered by Sen Luther Olsen with his AP interview two hours before the hearing was held, stating that this Bill was dead, the preferential treatment given the DPI, CESA administrators, our district school superintendent and their staff and supportive teachers, or the subsequent AP article published in the Watertown Times Fri. March 7th, page 7, first section. I could write an entire article on the bias shown and misrepresentations printed in that article….
If you are concerned about Common Core in the State of Wisconsin, you need to attend this public hearing in support of this bill. Click on the link below to read the bill. Senate PUBLIC HEARING Committee on Education The committee will hold a public hearing on the following items at the time specified Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:00 AM 411 South SB619 Relating to: creating a model academic standards board. By Senators Vukmir, Farrow, Lazich, Leibham, Grothman and Tiffany; cosponsored by Representatives Thiesfeldt, Nass, Knudson, J. Ott, Tauchen, Spiros, Knodl, Jagler, Pridemore, Schraa, Hutton, Murphy, Sanfelippo and Kulp.
The Rock River Patriots are having a meeting on January 17th (tomorrow) in Fort Atkinson. We welcome Dr. Duke Pesta to The Dwight Foster Library, tomorrow, Friday January 17th to speak about Common Core Standards that are being implemented. If you are concerned about public / private education in Wisconsin, this is something worth attending. We will begin at 6:00 pm. Here is a printable flyer with a bio of our speaker Dr. Duke Pesta: CommonCore_Fort Atkinson 011714
Happy New Year! Now is the time to make your resolutions. Do you plan on being more informed, or involved? We encourage you to consider taking that next step. January 7th is the deadline to file your papers to run for local office including county board and school board. If you want to make a difference, now is the time. These are areas that directly affect you, your children, and grandchildren. You can have a huge impact. The Rock River Patriots Meeting in January has been changed from January 10th to January 17th to accommodate our speaker. Please pass this along to all your friends who may be looking to attend. We welcome Dr. Duke Pesta to The Dwight Foster Library in Fort Atkinson to speak about the Common Core Standards that are being implemented. We will begin at 6:00 pm.
Senator Vukmir On Common Core Standards
The Common Core Story “Our schools have been quietly taken over. We are no longer teaching the skills and concepts that our kids need for the complex, unpredictable 21st century; we are increasingly teaching the skills that billionaires want their workforces to have in order to boost their profits. Gone are the days of creativity, innovation, personal growth, teamwork, and dreams; here are the days of nationalized pigeonholing, segregation and dysfunction. It used to be that in America you could be whatever you dreamed you could be and you were allowed to change your mind if your dreams led you in a new direction. In the near future, kids will be allowed to be whatever their Pearson test score says they’re qualified to be, and nothing more, unless we, their loving parents and teachers, stand up and fight for our children and our schools.” Kris Neilsen, author of Children of the Core Here is the link to the full PDF document available for download about Common Core: The Common Core Story
Wisconsin Joint Select Committee on Common Core Standards *** PUBLIC HEARING *** THIS Thursday, 10/3, Noon – 8 PM Wisconsin State Capitol Room 411 South In an interview with Wisconsin Reporter last week, Governor Scott Walker took a public stand on Common Core State Standards (CCSS), calling on the Wisconsin State Legislature to hold hearings that the public has demanded for months in order to investigate these controversial standards. The governor stated, “I’d like us to be in the position where we can identify our own unique standards that I think in many ways will be higher and more aggressive than the ones they’re talking about.” The legislature responded almost immediately after Walker’s public statement, quickly announcing an Assembly Select Committee, to be headed by Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt (R-Fond du Lac), a former educator of 22 years, and a Senate Select Committee, to be headed by Sen. Paul Farrow (R-Pewaukee). The two committees will jointly hold their first hearing on Common Core State Standards this Thursday, October 3rd, from noon until 8:00pm in Madison at the State Capitol, with additional hearings to be announced. In speaking with the committee chairs’ offices, we’re told they pushed the hearing time back from what was…
Listed below is The Declaration of Independence. I encourage you to read it this July 4th and consider the list of abuses by the King at the time of the drafting. How many of these same abuses do we see by our government today? What are you going to do about it? Two other articles to read this Independence Day: A Tribute To America’s Patriot Pastors And Stalwart Statesmen , “Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor” The Declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and…
