Parent Arrested at Common Core Meeting for Speaking Against it (video)

[fr33]

http://youtu.be/XEQmUnisDEM


http://www.examiner.com/article/exc...have-parent-arrested-from-common-core-meeting

Dr. Dallas Dance, Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, and Lillian Lowery, Maryland Superintendent, had the opportunity Thursday night to make minor amends for a three plus year information blackout on Common Core, the new federal curriculum for Maryland schools.

Instead, Dr. Dance added insult to injury by screening, omitting, and editing parents’ questions.

Questions from the audience of about 160 people, which consisted of parents, PTA members, teachers, and school administrators, were submitted on cards prior to and during the 1-1/2 hour meeting for the Q&A period which lasted about 40 minutes.

Dr. Dance chose which questions to read or omit, opting for teacher and school administrator or softball questions. But he also altered the wording of the questions themselves.

My submitted question:
“What is the process for parents to review what data has been or will be collected on our kids, where it is stored, how it will be used, and with whom it has or will be shared? What are parents options for opting out of data collection on our kids?”

What Dr. Dance read:
“As a parent, I’ve heard a lot of information around the state Longitudinal Data system. What is the process to review what data is being collected on students, where is it stored, how will it be used, with whom will it be shared?”

After the question was answered, I called out, “Can parents opt out?”, but was ignored.

My submitted question:
“Although Common Core was adopted by MDE three years ago, in exchange for a quarter Billion dollar federal incentive grant through Race To The Top which is conditioned upon adherence to Common Core, parents weren’t informed until after its implementation. The MDE has not valued nor requested parental input. Instead, there was no transparency or even the courtesy of notifying parents much less consulting them. No wonder parents are up in arms. You’ve awakening the Mama Bear. Why haven’t parents across the state heard of Common Core until the month of its implementation?”

What Dr. Dance read:
“As a parent, I was a little disappointed that I’m just starting to hear so much information around the Common Core state standard. I want to be informed as most parents across our state. As a parent, how can I learn more information around Common Core?”

Parent removed and arrested from the meeting for speaking out of turn

As the pom-pom and rah-rah session neared an end about 20 minutes before the meeting close, parental frustration was mounting as our questions were still going unanswered. One parent, Robert Small, decided to interject to try to force some answers (see video at top of article).

He said: “I want to know how many parents here are aware that the goal of the Common Core standards isn’t to prepare kids for full-fledged universities, it’s to prepare them for community college.....Parents, take control. We’re sick of this. This is not a CNN political game. This is a public town hall... Listen, don’t stand for this. You’re sitting here like cattle. You have questions. Confront them. They don’t want to do it in public.... Parents, you need to question these people....Do the research, it’s online.”

According to my conversation with Liz Bowie, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, Mr. Small was arrested after being removed from the auditorium.

The video clearly shows that, if anyone was aggressive, it was the security guard, not Mr. Small. What may have happened out in the hall however, is unknown.

 

[devil21]

Concerned parent slammed by off duty cop out of school board meeting - video



Thread title is provocative but this looks like Dont Taze Me Bro for 2013.

 

[tod evans]

Do none of those parents have any balls?

The correct course of action is for every parent in the room to stand up and physically separate the cop from the guy trying to speak.

First clue, security at a PTA meeting.. WTF!

 

[puppetmaster]

There should have been a riot.....meek little pussy parents just like their offspring will be.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

This only happens in the first place because our elected overlords know that the sheep will just sit there and bleat.

 

[tod evans]

This only happens in the first place because our elected overlords know that the sheep will just sit there and bleat.

Eventually Americans will get tired of it..




Or not.:o

 

[Anti Federalist]

The officer wasn't hurt, was he?

 

[tropicangela]

" The officer pushed Small and then escorted him into the hall, handcuffed him and had him sit on the curb in front of the school. He was taken to the Towson precinct and detained. Small was charged with second-degree assault of a police officer, which carries a fine of $2,500 and up to 10 years in prison, and disturbing a school operation, which carries a fine of $2,500 and up to six months."

http://touch.baltimoresun.com/#story/bs-md-co-common-core-arrest-20130920/

The security guard was a County officer. This makes a great home school ad.

 

[cajuncocoa]

America, as we once knew it, is gone.

 

[kathy88]

And all the other parents stood there and watched. Nation of sheep? Nation of pussies.

 

[donnay]

"...Common Core was adopted by MDE three years ago, in exchange for a quarter Billion dollar federal incentive grant..."

This is why the arrogant administrator did not want someone who thinks dare ask him any negative questions about the program...that pays his salary!

Just one more reason to get your children out of the public indoctrinations center--NOW!!

 

[GunnyFreedom]

The officer wasn't hurt, was he?

No, but the parent mundane was arrested for assaulting the officer:

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...0_1_police-officer-common-core-new-curriculum

Parent arrested at forum after protesting use of common core

He was being removed for not following format to ask questions and is charged with second-degree assault of police officer
September 20, 2013|By Liz Bowie, The Baltimore Sun

Robert Small said he wanted to express his dismay over the introduction of a new school curriculum at a public forum Thursday night in Towson, but instead the Ellicott City parent was pulled out of the meeting, arrested and charged with second-degree assault of a police officer.

 

[kathy88]

This is my kids' last year in public schools. I wish we could have made it happen this year.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

And all the other parents stood there and watched. Nation of sheep? Nation of pussies.

This is what pisses me off more than anything. I mean, thugs are gonna thug, it's their nature. But the mindless zombie sheep that just sit by bleating doing nothing while this brave man is carried off to face ten and a half years in prison, seriously, WTF happened to America? This ain't my America.

 

[WM_in_MO]

sure, you can show up to our meetings, but if you break our rules we break you.

GET BACK IN LINE UNTERMENSCH

 

[GunnyFreedom]

sure, you can show up to our meetings, but if you break our rules we break you.

GET BACK IN LINE UNTERMENSCH

I don't think even the Nazis would have put this guy in jeopardy of a ten and a half year prison sentence.

 

[tod evans]

No, but the parent mundane was arrested for assaulting the officer:

There must be another parent involved because the fellow in the pink shirt didn't "assault" anyone in the video I watched...

[edit]

Maybe his shirt isn't pink?

The cop deserved to be struck the minute he laid his hand on the guy, pushing like a kid in the school yard...This is insane!

 

[donnay]

This is what pisses me off more than anything. I mean, thugs are gonna thug, it's their nature. But the mindless zombie sheep that just sit by bleating doing nothing while this brave man is carried off to face ten and a half years in prison, seriously, WTF happened to America? This ain't my America.

This isn't the America I was born it. God help this country!

 

[Occam's Banana]

"The officer pushed Small and then escorted him into the hall, handcuffed him and had him sit on the curb in front of the school. He was taken to the Towson precinct and detained. Small was charged with second-degree assault of a police officer, which carries a fine of $2,500 and up to 10 years in prison, and disturbing a school operation, which carries a fine of $2,500 and up to six months."

Gotta learn them mundanes not to offer sauce to their betters ...

EDIT: 5,000th post!

 

[helmuth_hubener]

He shouldn't have moved his feet.