The Race to the Top (RTTT) program has quickly become an extremely popular topic among concerned Missouri citizens.
From the Missouri Record:
The Race to the Top (RTTT) education plan currently being pushed by US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan should keep its acronym. What it should be renamed, however, is Race to the Takeover. This plan is flying under the radar, but it is one of the most “transformational” programs of Obama’s administration. This mandate will cede sovereignty of the states’ rights to educate Missouri’s children to the federal government.
This mandate involves state education departments submitting grants to the federal government for educational stimulus money. The grant is $4.3 billion to be divvied up to states for educational programs. Sounds good, right? Well, let’s look at what the state of Missouri will give up for this money and scrutinize this proposal. (The 300 page grant proposal can be accessed here.)
The plan reflects the belief that our schools need to be nudged by “choice architects” (pps 10 and 40) to steer educational choices for our children. The document was drafted on the basic tenet of this belief held by Cass Sunstein. This is the recurring theme of the Obama administration. We, the people, are ill prepared to handle decisions for ourselves and our children. We need the “nudging” by the government for correct choices.
For those interested, Sandra Davidson is hosting a Town Hall Meeting at the Sullivan Elementary School Gymnasium on Washington Street on March 8th at 7:00pm.
Other speakers at the meeting will include Kasey Brzycki, education adviser for the Missouri Sovereignty Project, and Brian Nieves, State Representative from the 98th District.
I sure appreciate your posting this… this is a biggee folks, while the politics of healthcontrol and cap & tax affects how we will be able to live our lives, but this one affects what lives our kids will have left to live. This Race To The Top program is nothing less than a method for taking the ideas of the likes of Cass Sunstein, Arne Duncan and the worst PC notions out there, and importing them directly into your child’s minds with no control or say by you or your community.
I’ve put up a post on it as well, with links to a Pajamas Media article on it, and a couple others as well.
Go to the Townhall’s, talk to your friends and and sound off to your school boards, state Rep’s, etc.
It reminds me of Communist countries, like the old Soviet Union and China, where they box the children into groups the State believes they should be in or if their is a shortage in a certain field put them there. (You are going to be a gymnist, you a laborer etc.) The other thing they have been doing in certain schools is revising the curriculum where the schools are no longer going to be teaching history from our founding fathers,the Constitution the revolution,instead they want to start in 1890′s forward. Districts in North Carolina and Kansas are pushing for this agenda, but they are probably doing it throughout the country. Also Obama is looking for interns from high school children for Organizing for America to push his Propaganda.Saul Alinski,Rules for Radicals is suggested reading. Can you say INDOCTRINATION. Parents need to wake up.