HB1234: SDGOP form super committee to pass the Governor's global education plan resulting in a heated partisan ideological war between socialism and fascism

Today's Mitchell Daily Republic has a column by District 20 Rep. Tona Rozum that includes this admission:

Contrary to what you hear or read, the majority of conversation centers around education in Pierre.

The end goal is student achievement, and the current focus is on teachers. A committee composed of three representatives and three senators (Sly, Dryden and Brunner in the House; Peters, Heineman and Johnston in the Senate) form the group receiving ideas, suggestions, opinions and solutions. The ideas have been steadily flowing into the committee: Allow systems to design their own bonus system; bonuses for National Board Certification; school-wide incentive program; tuition reimbursement-style bonus; bonuses for two highest-need areas in a district; end tenure; create some kind of partial tenure/due process; 10,000 upfront bonus paid over five years; revisit Dakota Corps Scholarships; revisit TCAP for compensation.

That SDGOP members only super committee put together "THE Education Plan" that passed the House Education committee on a party line vote:

Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s plan to give bonuses to the state’s top teachers was endorsed Wednesday by a South Dakota House committee after supporters said it would lead to better teachers and improved student achievement.

The Education Committee voted 11-4 along party lines to send the measure to the full House. All Republicans supported the plan, while Democrats opposed it

Democrats said merit pay never works in schools, but Republicans argued the proposed bonuses should eventually improve the quality of teachers in South Dakota’s school districts.

So we have the Democrats wanting to maintain a socialistic public education system, where regardless of effort all teachers are given one loaf of bread, and the Republicans who want to tie teacher pay to their willingness to implement the globalists Common Core Standards. Here is a link to some research I found that provides the history behind the decades long fascist/Marxist/socialist agenda to use education to transform American and to provide the global economy with trained workers.

The war on education in Pierre is much like WWII, communism versus fascism, which are basically two forms of socialism. Will conservatives see through the governor's deception, which calls his merit plan a free market concept, and realize that his plan is simply more of the same policies that has created a system that has more than doubled per student costs while not impacting quality. Worse yet, the governor's plan is to continue the decades long transformation of an America that raises children in families to a tyrannical state where kids are raised by the government. Call it socialism, call it fascism, call it communism, call it Marxism, the end result is the same.

Comments

[caheidelberger]

Thank you for pointing out the Supercommittee members.