Mark Alford @RepMarkAlford
This National School Choice Week, it’s time to put power back in the hands of parents.
Parents deserve a voice on what’s being taught, school safety, and have the ability to choose the best education for their children. #SchoolChoiceWeek
School Choice Week
[….] 2:57 PM · Jan 23, 2023
“…it’s time to put power back in the hands of parents…” “…Parents deserve a voice on what’s being taught…”
Uh, school boards are elected locally.
So, what “options” do people in rural Missouri have? Ever think of that before your obviously thoughtless regurgitation of right wingnut dogma?
We have questions. Does one of the “choices” mean that people who don’t have children won’t have to pay the taxes that will go into funding this grift? Just asking.
Piper for Missouri @piper4missouri
Hot take: if a school is forced to choose academics only four days a week, they shouldn’t be allowed to practice sports five days a week. Make it a rule and see how quickly there’s a backlash that #MOLeg can’t ignore. 9:37 AM · Dec 21, 2022
Heh.
Piper for Missouri @piper4missouri
Parents who have acquiesced to less may stand up for athletics. You can’t win games practicing one day less than the other team…
Some of the responses:
No practice nor games on days school is not in session. Period.
But . . . by cutting back like that they won’t be able to achieve as . . . uh, wait, never mind.
It’s sad, but that would do it.
It’s been my experience that the same parents who couldn’t tell you what classes their kids were taking in middle/high school, or name even one of their kids teachers, will flip their lids & show up screaming if you cut anything to do with school sports.
100%. That’s incredible. And so you need 5 days to be competitive athletically … but who gives a rat’s backside about being competitive academically …
C211778 04/04/2022 Missouri Federation for Children PAC American Federation for Children, Inc. 1020 19th Street NW Suite 675 Washington DC 20036 3/31/2022 $25,000.00
C211778 06/30/2022 Missouri Federation for Children PAC Quality Schools Coalition 1100 Main St. 4th Floor Kansas City MO 64108 6/30/2022 $50,000.00
C211778 07/01/2022 Missouri Federation for Children PAC American Federation for Children, Inc. 1020 19th St NW Ste 675 Wasshington DC 20036 7/1/2022 $500,000.00
[emphasis added]
Follow the money.
Think of the possibility of all those private and charter schools in every rural community in Missouri. Yeah, no. Not gonna happen. Ever.
Cody Holyoke @CodyKMBC
[….] TEN districts have now cancelled summer school/district activities today because of a mass shooting threat in Blue Springs:
Blue Springs
Lee’s Summit R7
Independence
Fort Osage
Grain Valley
Oak Grove
Odessa
Lone Jack
Hickman Mills
KC Int’l Academy
“…a bleeding control kit be placed in each classroom of each school district’s school building and each charter school in an easily accessible location…”
There must be some commonplace threat. Or something.
Bill prefiling for the Missouri General Assembly session started on December 1st.
A bill, with the only possible right wingnut solution to a problem of their creation:
HB 1722
Requires bleeding control kits in all public school and charter school classrooms
Sponsor: Shields, Brenda (011)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2022
LR Number: 4066H.01I
Last Action: 12/01/2021 – Prefiled (H)
Bill String: HB 1722
Next House Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SHIELDS.
4066H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 160, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to bleeding control
kits in public schools.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 160, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 160.485, to read as follows:
160.485. 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Stop the Bleed Act”.
2. As used in this section, the following terms mean:
(1) “Bleeding control kit”, a first aid response kit that contains at least the following:
(a) Tourniquets that are:
a. Endorsed by the United States Department of Defense Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care or its successor entity; or
b. Approved for use in battlefield trauma care by the Armed Forces of the United States;
(b) Bleeding control bandages;
(c) Latex-free protective gloves;
(d) Permanent markers;
(e) Instructional documents developed by the United States Department of Homeland Security’s Stop the Bleed national awareness campaign or the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, or both; and
(f) Other medical materials and equipment similar to those described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subdivision;
(2) “Department”, the department of elementary and secondary education;
(3) “Emergency medical services personnel”, paid or volunteer firefighters, law enforcement officers, first responders, emergency medical technicians, or other emergency service personnel acting within the ordinary course and scope of those professions, but excluding physicians;
(4) “School personnel”, any employee of a public school district or charter school, or any volunteer serving at a public school or charter school, who is designated to use a bleeding control kit under this section.
3. (1) Before January 1, 2023, the department shall develop a traumatic blood loss protocol for school personnel to follow in the event of an injury involving traumatic blood loss. The protocol shall meet the requirements of this section and shall be made available to each school district and charter school.
(2) The traumatic blood loss protocol shall:
(a) Require that a bleeding control kit be placed in each classroom of each school district’s school building and each charter school in an easily accessible location to be determined by local emergency medical services personnel;
(b) Include bleeding control kits in the emergency plans of each school district and charter school, including the presentation and use of the bleeding control kits in all drills and emergencies;
(c) Require each school district and charter school to designate at least five school personnel members in each school building who shall obtain appropriate training annually in the use of a bleeding control kit including, but not limited to:
a. The proper application of pressure to stop bleeding;
b. The proper application of dressings or bandages;
c. Additional pressure techniques to control bleeding; and
d. The correct application of tourniquets;
(d) Require each bleeding control kit in school inventories to be inspected annually to ensure that the materials, supplies, and equipment contained in the bleeding control kit have not expired and that any expired materials, supplies, and equipment are replaced as necessary; and
(e) Require a bleeding control kit to be restocked after each use and any materials, supplies, and equipment to be replaced as necessary to ensure that the bleeding control kit contains all necessary materials, supplies, and equipment.
4. (1) The department shall, in collaboration with the United States Department of Homeland Security and the state department of public safety, include requirements in the traumatic blood loss protocol for school personnel to receive annual training in the use of bleeding control kits.
(2) The training requirements may be satisfied by using any instruction available from the Missouri Hospital Association, the American College of Surgeons or a similar organization authorized by the United States Department of Homeland Security, or the emergency medicine department of a health-related institution of higher education or a hospital.
(3) The training requirements shall use nationally recognized, evidence-based guidelines for bleeding control and shall incorporate instruction on the psychomotor skills necessary to use a bleeding control kit in the event of an injury to another person including, but not limited to, instruction on proper chest seal placement.
(4) The training may be provided by local emergency medical services personnel, representatives of any organization or institution that developed or endorsed the training, other trained school personnel, or other similarly qualified individuals.
(5) Certification in bleeding control shall not be a required element of the training requirements. If the training provides for certification in bleeding control, the instructor shall be authorized to provide the instruction for the purpose of certification by any organization or institution that developed or endorsed the training.
(6) The training requirements may allow online instruction.
5. (1) A bleeding control kit may contain any additional items that:
(a) Are approved by emergency medical services personnel, as such term is defined in section 190.600;
(b) Can adequately treat an injury involving traumatic blood loss; and
(c) Can be stored in a readily available kit.
(2) Quantities of each item required to be in a bleeding control kit may be determined by each school district.
6. (1) The department and each school district and charter school shall maintain information regarding the traumatic blood loss protocol and the Stop the Bleed national awareness campaign on each entity’s website.
(2) Upon request by a school district or a charter school, the department may, in collaboration with the department of public safety, direct the school district or charter school to resources that are available to provide bleeding control kits to the school district or charter school.
7. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, each school district and charter school shall implement the traumatic blood loss protocol developed under this section before the end of the 2022-23 school year.
(2) The requirements that a bleeding control kit be placed in each classroom, that each kit be restocked as necessary, and that school personnel receive training under this section shall be subject to an appropriation to cover all costs related to such requirements by the general assembly.
(3) Any school district or charter school may receive donations of funds for the purchase of bleeding control kits that meet the requirements of this section and may receive donations of bleeding control kits that meet the requirements of this section.
8. Any school district or charter school that has a traumatic blood loss protocol prior to the effective date of this section shall be exempt from the requirements of this section.
9. This section shall not be construed to create a cause of action against a school district, a charter school, or any school personnel. Any school personnel who in good faith uses a bleeding control kit as provided by this section shall be immune from all civil liability for any act or omission in the use of a bleeding control kit unless the act or omission constitutes gross negligence or willful, wanton, or intentional misconduct.
Bill prefiling for the Missouri General Assembly session started on December 1st.
Yet another right wingnut bill proposing curricular micromanagement in public education:
HB 1625
Requires the provision of 9/11 instruction in public schools
Sponsor: Kelley, Ann (127)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2022
LR Number: 3101H.01I
Last Action: 12/01/2021 – Prefiled (H)
Bill String: HB 1625
Next House Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE KELLEY (127).
3101H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 170, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to an educational program for pupils.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 170, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 170.271, to read as follows:
170.271. 1. For all school years beginning after June 30, 2023, each public school, as such term is defined in section 160.011, shall provide age-appropriate instruction to pupils in grades kindergarten to twelve about the events of September 11, 4 2001.
2. The instruction required in this section shall occur annually on September eleventh. If September eleventh falls on a day when school is not in session, the instruction shall be provided to students on the last regular school day that immediately precedes September eleventh of that year.
3. A public school providing instruction as required in this section shall, if practicable:
(1) Begin the instruction at eight forty-six a.m.;
(2) Continue the instruction for a minimum of nine minutes and eleven seconds;
(3) Incorporate the phrases “United We Stand” and “Never Forget” into the instruction; and
(4) Focus the instruction on heroism, patriotism, and the sacrifices made by the first responders and volunteers who aided in the rescue and recovery efforts.
4. The department of elementary and secondary education shall provide each school board with a variety of age-appropriate and grade-appropriate internet resources and materials that may be used to educate pupils about the events of September 11, 2001. The resources and materials identified by the department should aid educators and curriculum coordinators in creating programs and lesson plans. Each school board shall determine the resources and materials that will be used to provide the instruction required in this section.
“…Begin the instruction at eight forty-six a.m….” Is that Eastern Time? Just asking.
Other excercises for the day could include a reading of “The [My] Pet Goat”, reading about the first and only invocation of Article V of the Nato Charter in its history, and researching the exodus of Saudi nationals from the U.S. in the days following September 11th.
“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce
Yesterday:
Josh Hawley
@HawleyMO
Parents’ Bill of Rights is needed to combat Left’s indoctrination of students
[….] 10:17 AM · Nov 15, 2021
Just a few of the comments:
I wish you took school shootings this seriously.
Gotta protect Grandma’s right to keep her grandkids from finding out what which side she was on in the 60s
What in the world are you talking about? My #Missouri teachers taught me about Laura Ingalls Wilder.
If Josh lived in Missouri he probably would know that.
Or not. The knowing part.
Josh, can you please share a list of actual obstacles preventing me from engaging with my child’s school district’s teachers, administrators and staff?
I am really tired of your lies. I am a public school teacher. Come to my classroom, I am more concerned with getting students to read and write proficiently. Who has time to indoctrinate?
Funny, I don’t have a problem engaging with my school district. Of course I don’t feel the need to threaten the school board members, the faculty or the superintendent either. Maybe your groupies should learn to have conversations instead of using threats of violence.
Teaching America’s uncomfortable truths is not indoctrination.
Ridiculous. If you want to white-up & man-up history, don’t do it at my kid’s expense. I want my kids to know what really happened, ESPECIALLY the bad stuff, so it doesn’t happen again. Are you trying to hide past discrimination so you can introduce it again? Or burn some books?
Well, not his book.
Your attack on edu is just another subversive effort to dismantle edu (for control, obviously)
Good parenting should go a long way in buffering children from whatever they may encounter outside the house, where ever they may encounter it. So just step up your parenting game.
Yes- history and science are so scary. People who don’t learn those things are what is wrong with this country
Please produce a single set of CRT curriculum materials.
Sir, if you could get the parents interested in their children’s education that would be great.
Signed,
Every Teacher in the Country
Show us on the doll where information hurt you, Josh.
Why don’t you introduce a bill to combat insurrections on the Capitol?
This is all in your head. It’s a false narrative. Meanwhile, billions of dollars are headed to Missouri to improve our infrastructure.
The stuff he didn’t vote for?
[….] Should Arabic Numerals be taught in school?
Heh.
We can hardly get kids to write their names on their papers. This whole thing is ridiculous and one more insult to educators everywhere
Don’t forget to include our right not to be abducted by space aliens. Also, I think green leafy vegetables should be outlawed.
So..education is indoctrination…wow
When you’re afraid of school education, maybe it’s you that’s out of touch?
Parents already have these rights. They just have to care enough to ask.
WTH?
Apparently, it’s not considered indoctrination when schools ONLY teach subjects that conservatives like Hawley want taught in schools.[….]
Bashing teachers didn’t work. Mandatory testing didn’t work. How else will the Republicans privatize schools and collect the cash?
Stay tuned.
Teaching facts and the truth about our history isn’t indoctrination. You always accuse others of the things you’re doing yourself. Attempting to restrict education is the real indoctrination and that’s exactly what you’re trying to do. We see through your lies.
Josh, get positively bent.
Only in crazy GQP land is learning science, history and math considered “indoctrination”.
You sink lower all the time. How can you look in the mirror at yourself?
Easy.
Politicizing Parenting is a losing proposition and smacks of desperation! I’m guessing that your previous attempt to make “Masculinity” your platform failed! Now onto the next thing to become relevant.
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SEITZ.
2087H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 170, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the 1619 Project in school districts and charter schools.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 170, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 170.352, to read as follows:
170.352. 1. As used in this section, “1619 Project” means the 1619 Project initiative of the New York Times.
2. No school district, charter school, or personnel or agent of such school district or charter school shall:
(1) Teach, use, or provide for use by any pupil the 1619 Project as part of any curriculum, course materials, or instruction in any course given in such school district or charter school; or
(2) Teach, affirm, or promote as an accurate account or representation of the founding and history of the United States of America any of the claims, views, or opinions presented in the 1619 Project as part of any curriculum, course materials, or instruction in any course given in such school district or charter school.
Is there a grading rubric if it’s used as a reference in a student research paper?
Be afraid, be very afraid.
When knowledge is outlawed, only outlaws will have knowledge.
Spend a semester in a classroom of students first, I dare you. Then get back to us and tell everyone how it worked out.
Governor Mike Parson (r) [2018 file photo].
Seriously. He doesn’t know shit from shinola.
Today from Missouri Governor Mike Parson (r), fresh from kissing Donald Trump’s (r) ass:
Mike Parson @mikeparson
It is vital that we can safely reopen schools and get children back in the classroom.
I am thankful for the leadership of the Trump Administration for meeting with state leaders today to discuss reopening schools across the country.
[….] 6:26 PM · Jul 7, 2020
Some of the comments:
“leadership”
“Trump Administration”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
You can’t do it safely
You’re up to your waste in you know where.
#WorstGovernorEver
So what’s your plan??? What creative ideas did T Rump and you come up with?? Can we have a few details??? Or is it just reopen the schools, figure it out amongst yourselves???
As soon as you walked out of that room, he will never remember your name or who the hell you are. Keep kissing his ass though.
You know how some people seem to achieve a position a couple levels above their capabilities? That’s you, when you were Lt Governor.
How many times are you going to post the same shit? No matter how many, you still look and sound like a moron.
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
