Many thanks to Barbara
Hollingsworth for her excellent
and in-depth article
about Senator Sharrod Brown’s amendment that passed in the Senate No Child Left
Behind Rewrite called the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA). This amendment
continues funding for the very nanny state program called The Full Service
Community. Here is our
description from the summary of ECAA:
Brown
amendment (SA 2100) to restore
the Full Service Community Schools grants from NCLB Despite Alexander’s opposition, the horrific
grant program that turns schools into a second or even first home for children
and reduces parents to “breeders and feeders,” passed
43-51.
Among the purposes of
the program are to “ensure that children have the physical, social, and
emotional well-being to come to school ready to engage in the learning process
every day.” The grantee is supposed to do a means assessment that
“identifies the academic, physical, social, emotional, health, mental health,
and other needs of students, families, and community residents,” which will
include all sorts of mental health data gathering.
The list of
services that can be offered is 23 items long and included mental health
services and “other services consistent with this part.” All of the Democrats
plus Republicans Ayotte, Blunt (MO), Capito, Collins, Fischer (NE), Hoeven
(ND), Isakson (GA), and Portman voted for this nanny state expansion while all
of the rest of the Republicans, including presidential candidates Cruz and Paul
wisely voted against it, Sanders voted for it, and Graham and Rubio did not
vote.
Here is her
description:
The U.S. Department of
Education’s Full Service Community Schools Program has awarded $55.2
million to various applicants
since FY 2008, with preference given to groups that operate in the White
House’s designated Promise
Zones.
The department filed a notice in the Federal Register on May 6 soliciting applications for the program, which will be paid for by The Fund for the Improvement of Education (FIE).Applicants, defined as “consortia consisting of a local educational agency and one or more community-based organizations,” can request up to $500,000 for each of five years, for a maximum of $2.5 million. So far this year, the department has awarded 12 grants totaling $5.2 million. According to the Coalition for Community Schools, there are an estimated 5,000 full service community schools currently in operation in the U.S. “Using public schools as hubs, community schools bring together many partners to offer a range of supports and opportunities to children, youth, families and communities,” the group’s website states.
Brown’s amendment
would extend funding for five years for schools that participate “in a
community-based effort to coordinate and integrate educational, developmental,
family, health, and other comprehensive services through community-based
organizations and public and private partnerships.”
According to his bill,
such schools must agree to provide “not less than 3 qualified
services …and not less than 2 additional qualified services” to students both
before and after school, on the weekends and during the summer “to meet the
holistic needs of children”.
The type of services
that would be provided are based on a “needs assessment that identifies the
academic, physical, social, emotional, health, mental health, and other needs
of students, families, and community residents.”
Here is Dr. Effrem’s
discussion in the Hollingsworth article of the mental health and indoctrination
concerns with this program: This is
basically the government schools taking over the duties of families. It’s very
scary,” agreed Dr. Karen Effrem, president of Education Liberty Watch.”At least the House was strong and wise
enough not to allow such an amendment,” which she says “turns schools into a
second or even first home for children and reduces parents to ‘breeders and
feeders’.”I have been fighting against both the data-mining of students and the
psychological profiling of students for many years,” Effrem told CNSNews.com.
“This program is horrible because it continues the great expansion of federal
psychological profiling of children, and it also will result in a ton of
data-mining of students and their families about very non-academic subjects. “It
will not only run your life, but control what your kids are taught,” she said.
“A big part of it is the mental health screenings of children and families that
really opens the door for a tyrannical imposition of thought and conscience
norms by the government.
“The National Center
for Education Statistics and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department
of Education are already collecting data on bullying incidents that have to do
with perceived gender identity and sexual orientation. And there are already
violence prevention programs that talk about kids as potentially violent or
mentally unstable if they make statements about LGBT students or religion,”
Effrem pointed
out. ”Of course, this is incredibly subjective and open to all sorts of
political correctness. Who’s going to define what the norms are?” she asked. This
is all the more evidence that the conference report from these bills needs to
be defeated
http://edlibertywatch.org/
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