Atlanta has used a mulligan on the social studies portion of the CRCT for 6th and 7th graders for the 2007-8 school year. If I understand this right, the test was over different material than what our children were taught in class. So then the brains who developed the test and the brains who wrote the curriculum weren’t communicating very well? Then all our children lost a year of social studies education that they won’t get back. Wonder how much of our money was wasted on the wrong testing? Who will pay? I wonder when we will be asked for a tax increase to fix their mistakes. Our children get tested based upon their ability. Who is going to grade the administrators? Where is the answer book? No wonder we are 49th in education, apparently the teachers don’t have the answer book either.
Read The Times coverage of this issue here –>State throws out social studies portion of CRCT
Our awesome Congressman Nathan Deal addressed the Hall County Bar Association on Friday at Law Day festivities. (I was unable to attend due to a scheduling conflict.) The Times story can be found here.
The story mentions “some area attorneys” are concerned about Sheriff Cronic’s strict deportation policy for illegal aliens. Truth is only 4 local attorneys have expressed concern, and they ALL DERIVE THEIR LIVING FROM REPRESENTING ILLEGAL ALIENS. These are the open border radicals that I often mention. Congressman Deal correctly points out that the open border radicals are just saying, “I know that the illegal aliens are illegally here in the US, and that they are committing a criminal acts in the US, but lets just ignore their illegal acts because they are not illegal enough.” This situational ethos is what makes illgal aliens (among others) “Super Citizens.” Super Citizens have less responsibility than you do but have more rights than you do. They don’t have to pay for services or attone for their criminal actions, but they get special treatment.
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I’m just getting started on this issue, and it is one that has the Executive Committee concerned, so I have started a whole thread just for Citgo. Citgo is owned by Hugo Chaves, the Venezuelan Dictator that hates the United States and also hates you. He owns Citgo and every dollar you spend there sends money back to him. Money paid to Citgo can be traced to terrorism across the globe. But for today, read what the Wall Street Journal has to say about Hugo and his support of the Communist Rebels in Columbia (something even our open-border-radical-illegal-immigration-lawyer-friends would be upset about). If you don’t want to help provide rocket propelled grenades to Communist Rebels, then STOP BUYING GAS FROM CITGO TODAY. A few more pennies might just save a life.
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