The “Village” wants your Children

What Diane Ravitch isn’t telling you, Posted on January 28, 2015 Written by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, abcsofdumbdown.blogspot.com

The Whole Truth about the “Whole Child” An Edi­to­r­ial by Anita Hoge
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Pri­va­ti­za­tion Move­ment and the Dan­ger to America’s Pub­lic Schools is the title of the new book by Diane Rav­itch. It is favor­ably reviewed and sum­ma­rized at the Daily Kos HERE. Ravitch’s book pur­ports to answers ques­tions about why Amer­i­can edu­ca­tion is in cri­sis, and what reform can be imple­mented. Her answers include pre-K pro­grams and so-called school “choice.” Many of her rec­om­men­da­tions are based on Abra­ham Maslow’s Hier­ar­chy of Needs, which are part and par­cel of the Human­is­tic Psy­chol­ogy world­view he developed.

Let’s clear this the­o­ret­i­cal debate right now.

Any­one who would quote Maslow’s Human­is­tic Psy­chol­ogy (Third Force Psy­chol­ogy) is bas­ing their world­view on the “whole child” the­ory, and the behav­ioral sci­ence that orig­i­nated with Freud and was devel­oped by B.F. Skinner.

The cog­ni­tive is directly related to the affec­tive, which is directly related to behav­ior. THINK. FEEL. ACT. To con­trol behav­ior or “emo­tional intel­li­gence” you must cre­ate a con­flict in what the child believes and his/her atti­tudes and val­ues. This is the psy­chol­ogy the­ory being used to cre­ate the new “global worker.” Human­is­tic Psy­chol­ogy is what most of the emo­tional, i.e., affec­tive domain, cur­ricu­lum is based on. This is the whole child the­ory that devel­oped Bloom’s Tax­on­omy of Edu­ca­tional Objec­tives. Bloom’s Tax­on­omy was used to cre­ate the Penn­syl­va­nia EQA test, a pro­to­type for the NAEP test, devel­oped by the top behav­ior­ists in the world.

Sorry, I don’t need to use B.F Skin­ner to teach my chil­dren. (Some will remem­ber the soft white rat Skin­ner activ­ity in the Penn­syl­va­nia Func­tional Behav­ioral Assess­ment for babies. That should turn your stomach.)

So, now a teacher is quoted online pro­mot­ing Diane Ravich, who sup­pos­edly has a cure, but the cure is based on Human­is­tic Psy­chol­ogy. Every­one jumps on board with Rav­itch with­out research­ing or think­ing through these issues, look­ing at real his­tory, or con­sid­er­ing the con­se­quences of her recommendations.

Where are these peo­ple com­ing from who think that it is OK to use to use Human­is­tic Psy­chol­ogy in the classroom?

And Diane Ravich has a blog that I do look at from time to time! Why? Not to get infor­ma­tion from her, but to get infor­ma­tion from the thou­sands of peo­ple who send infor­ma­tion — to her! Real­ize that Diane Ravich is an edu­ca­tion insider. She has been on every national edu­ca­tion com­mit­tee and every board from National Assess­ment of Edu­ca­tional Progress (NAEP) to the the Gor­don Com­mis­sion. She quotes Chester Finn and Marc Tucker con­stantly. (To her credit she does not like the teacher eval­u­a­tions nor money being made from char­ter schools.) But her solu­tions? Let’s look twice.

Here’s a lit­tle his­tory. The list about how to HELP chil­dren and fam­i­lies (summed up in the review of her book HERE) is right out of the Re-authorization of ESEA in the Promise Neigh­bor­hoods and Promise Schools, SB 1094, also in the Flex­i­bil­ity Waivers. This also sets up the Med­ic­aid agenda to bill for every men­tal health check mark that teach­ers are pro­vid­ing to the fed­eral gov­ern­ment through the data col­lec­tion and the “pos­i­tive behav­ioral inter­ven­tions and sup­port” (PBIS). (Look at the BOSS app for Response to Inter­ven­tion.) These are all sys­tems to mon­i­tor behav­ior or psy­chomo­tor or actions.

The “whole child” model that Ravich is refer­ring to is the 21st Cen­tury School Hubs that was a pilot in Far­rell School Dis­trict in Penn­syl­va­nia. This is where the re-definition of fam­ily evolved from. In fact, this model was used as a pro­to­type at the National Gov­er­nors Asso­ci­a­tion when Clin­ton was Gov­er­nor of Arkansas before he became President.

So what is the 21st Cen­tury Hub School? This pro­to­type was the model when I tes­ti­fied to the Depart­ment of Inte­rior National Infra­struc­ture Health and Edu­ca­tion Data Secu­rity Hear­ing on HillaryCare. This is the wrap-around men­tal health ser­vices that uses a school as a hub for the com­mu­nity to ensure that chil­dren and fam­i­lies are tar­geted for the gov­ern­ment re-education. This includes all health care, men­tal health, day­care, career place­ment — the entire model is womb to work­place gov­ern­ment tread­mill. Cur­rent proposal:

Whole child = Whole community

Sources:http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/images/siteASCD/wholechild/wsccmodel-large.png
http://www.ascd.org/programs/learning-and-health/wscc-model.aspx

We need to be care­ful what we ask for because the fed­eral gov­ern­ment is will­ing to give it to us.

I don’t think that fam­i­lies need this, nor is this what Amer­ica needs. No more gov­ern­ment inter­ven­tion. The fed­eral gov­ern­ment con­trols the stan­dards, the cur­ricu­lum, the test­ing, the teacher eval­u­a­tions, and the inter­ven­tions. They con­trol the com­pli­ance, the data col­lec­tion, and the account­abil­ity, to make sure every­one is in line.

The illus­tra­tions below are in my work book called Womb to Tomb. Far­rell School Dis­trict was called the School for the 21st Cen­tury, “one stop shop.” Please note that on the sec­ond page, spe­cial edu­ca­tion, NASDE, National Asso­ci­a­tion of State Direc­tors of Spe­cial Edu­ca­tion, designed this model. This visu­ally depicts TITLE I and IDEA. This model always was the plan: IDENTIFY THE CHILD THROUGH TITLE I AND INTERVENTIONS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNDING.

To read Anita’s report Womb To Tomb, go to AmericanDeception.com and click on the Edu­ca­tion cat­e­gory on the left hand col­umn. Scroll all the way down to the bot­tom. It is the last report. You can click the red Down­load Now but­ton to down­load it.

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