Hearing for HJR 62 - Witness Form

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February 14, 2014

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You can mess with a lot of my things and I might overlook it, but don't mess with my children!

That's what HB 1490 says to Governor Nixon and his Commissioner of Education, Chris Nicastro about forcing what amounts to national Common Core standards on Missouri schools. (Read more about it, below.)

Please fill out an online witness form. If you can make it to the hearing, print yourself a copy and present it yourself. We will also print and hand deliver your witness form to the Senate committee, along with hundreds of others as a strong showing of support. (We will also present witness forms for anyone who opposes the measure and fills one out, here..)

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Committee:	Elementary and Secondary Education
Chair:	Cookson, Steve - (Rep-153)	Vice Chair:	Barnes, Jay-(Rep-60)
Date:	Thursday, February 20, 2014
Time:	Upon morning adjournment (about noon)
Location:	House Hearing Room 6

Turning Into A Modern Day Sparta

The ancient Grecian city-state of Sparta is infamous for the state control of the rearing of children to further the purpose of the state. From Wikipedia:

Sparta was above all a militarist state, and emphasis on military fitness began virtually at birth. Shortly after birth, a mother would bathe her child in wine to see whether the child was strong. If the child survived it was brought before the Gerousia by the child's father. The Gerousia then decided whether it was to be reared or not. It is commonly stated that if they considered it "puny and deformed", the baby was thrown into a chasm on Mount Taygetos known euphemistically as the Apothetae (Gr., ἀποθέται, "Deposits").

Children were not considered to belong to their parents, but rather to the state, so it was deemed acceptable to take them away from their parents at a tender age and educate them as the state saw fit. It is not an exaggeration to say that such a mentality exists today in America. With frighteningly increasing frequency the power to determine how children are educated is being taken from parents and centralized in state and federal governments.

The new Common Core national education standards are the most ambitious attempt to “Spartanize” education, and Missouri's governor Jay Nixon and has inappropriately committed Missouri schools to the standards. In addition to loss of control of education standards, Common Core will result in a database that follows our children their entire careers.

Rep. Kurt Bahr's HB 1490 forbids the governor and state employees from adopting Common Core and reverses what they have already inappropriately done.

Text of HB 1490:

Section A. Chapter 161, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 161.855, to read as follows:

161.855. Notwithstanding any other law, the state board of education shall not adopt, and the department of elementary and secondary education shall not implement, the Common Core State Standards developed by the Common Core Standards Initiative. Any actions taken to adopt or implement the Common Core State Standards as of the effective date of this section are void. Common Core State Standards or any other statewide education standards shall not be adopted or implemented without the approval of the general assembly.

Missouri Coalition Against Common Core Website

What you can do:

Right NOW, either plan to attend the hearing for HB 1490 on Thursday, or fill out the online witness form..
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For Liberty,

- Ron