I’m not the top of a Crime Household, but when I have been, I’d need management of the inhabitants that I used to counterpoint myself. I may use worry. Like jailing or suiciding anybody that disagreed with me, to make an instance. Others would see what occurs if you cross that invisible wall and say or do one thing opposite to my pursuits, and will likely be stored in test.
Or, if I wished to play an extended sport, I may persuade the inhabitants what to assume and find out how to assume. I’d begin with activists within the colleges, however shortly develop to affect the households as nicely. If I have been significantly skillful, I may even persuade them that my mind-set is extra essential than their God-given freedoms, all of the whereas enriching myself and my cronies. Those who go together with my rip-off may also profit financially, even whether it is simply retaining employment.
Welcome to the lengthy sport: California Group Colleges, Group Companions, and the California Group Engagement Initiative.
Branding the Group College
These “group” phrases, by design (branding), evokes visions of the area people pitching in to help within the talent constructing of scholars, expertise college students want in the actual world. Thus, my expectation could be that the Group Companions are native retail and industrial companies that may have an curiosity in a provide of a talented and moral labor supply. Maybe the Companions would supply on the job coaching, and even an internship for college kids, to allow them to be taught the abilities and/or the business earlier than they even hit the workforce. Does that make sense? A present of palms should you’re with me right here.
When you raised your hand simply now–and no, I didn’t see you as I’m not the NSA or Fb– I’m sorry to disappoint you. In actuality, the Group Colleges and the Group Companions they procure are extra in tune with propaganda and management, than instructing usable, actual world expertise. The Group Companions, for essentially the most half, achieve financially by extra purchasers or grants. Sadly, the native enterprise achieve emotional wrecks which are depending on the State, fairly than a reliable and moral work power.
Therein lays the nice con of California Group Colleges, the bait and change. The branding–bought to the State by particular pursuits, which in-turn mandates to the County Workplace of Schooling (COE), who go it on to native college districts (LEAs)– leads us to consider that the Group Companions are the companies who will profit by the labor power. As an alternative, the Group Companions largely profit from our tax {dollars}.
Group Colleges as Socialist Instruments
An article lately appeared on DesertTruth in relation to the California funds training finance, which additionally described Group Colleges, so should you’re new right here you would possibly wish to backtrack to that hyperlink. Brad Jones, over at Epoch Occasions wrote this text final July that nicely describes how the Unions (NEA), the CDC, and the Division of Schooling view Group Colleges.
Jones, Epoch Occasions
Jones additionally supplies warnings from mother and father and group members which have extensively researched Group Colleges. These warnings are that Group Colleges are targeted on Social Emotional Studying (SEL) and Fairness; warnings that Fairness is a re-branding of Socialism, and the aim of the State is to show each college right into a Group College.
Jones Epoch Occasions
Jones Epoch Occasions
These warnings are echoed in an Epoch Occasions commentary entitled “California Group Colleges Are Socialist,” which posits:
“Underneath socialism, authorities is concerned in every part: work, college, leisure, even the house. That’s what California more and more is changing into. Living proof: the “group colleges” motion, which virtually takes over all college students’ lives, together with that of their households.“
The warnings appear justified when contemplating the Riverside County Educator Fairness pledge(strike-through/highlighting textual content mine).
The Group Engagement Con
Keep in mind, California defines group colleges in a means that infers true group engagement:
“A group college is any college serving pre-Kindergarten by highschool college students utilizing a “whole-child” method, with “an built-in deal with lecturers, well being and social companies, youth and group improvement, and group engagement.”
Certainly, in every single place we glance, we could also be inclined to deduce that group engagement and group companions contain actual world expertise or data. Moreover, after we start digging to uncover simply who the Group Companions are in Group Colleges, you’ll absolutely run throughout the Group Engagement Initiative (CEI), after which discover these phrases get bandied and changed-up all through the RCOE web site.
CEI first seems on the scene within the 2018 training finance invoice within the funds as AB 1808, part 140. AB 1808 known as for the necessity of “significant stakeholder engagement, particularly because it relates… and communities.” The truth that the aim of the invoice is for varsity districts to have “tough conversations” withtheir communities is the primary signal of the facade. As a result of earlier than that, in (1) it mentions “significant stakeholder engagement…pupils, households, and communities….” By the point we attain the tip of (4) nonetheless, group engagement is talked about three extra occasions, although it appears “communities” refers back to the state companies, county places of work of training, and college districts.
AB 1808
Group engagement is talked about within the present funds as nicely, to the tune of $100 million that can be utilized to pay “Associate Organizations.” However don’t fear, an company was created to supervise all these taxpayer {dollars}, they usually’ll clarify every part.
Not the Companions We’re Trying For
To be clear, the CEI will not be actually associated to what we got down to discover, specifically Group Companions of Group Colleges. The truth is, the communities referred to within the CEI, when not instructional companies, are intersectionality in nature, i.e. the “Black group,” the “Hispanic group,” the “LGBTQ group,” and the like, fairly than the precise area people. The partnerships talked about within the CEI are partnerships training companies have with one another to debate the perfect practices for bringing “fairness” to their college students. It appears logical to conclude then, that the $100 million within the funds “offering fiscal help to companion organizations” is de facto only a approach to pay these companies to satisfy with one another and share fairness concepts. Or, to indoctrinate one another, relying on the way you have a look at it.
CCEE-CEI System of Helps
CEI System of Helps Regional Companions
Digging For Companions
An e mail to the RCOE requesting a listing of Group Companions for Group Colleges went unanswered. An analogous e mail to San Bernardino workplace of Schooling was initially answered with the caveat “ [the] time period “group companions” could imply one thing completely different for me than it does you,” and requesting to know the aim behind the e-mail. San Bernardino ignored the e-mail as nicely, after studying the knowledge was for this text.
Okay, so that they left us to dig on our personal. Let’s go, get the backhoe!
Looking out the RCOE web site reveals that RCOE created a complete division round group engagement, with out mentioning anybody from the group, in addition to different instructional companies. However, this isn’t what we’re searching for.
We do know one companion for Group Colleges is thru CAREspaces, The Latino Fee that focuses on drug rehabilitation. Edwin Gomez, RCOE superintendent justified having drug counselors present psychological well being to “college students, households, and the group” by reminding us that extraordinary occasions name for extraordinary measures. Are we in a Spider Man film?
“In these extraordinary and unprecedented occasions, educating college students requires extraordinary service and offering unprecedented help, and our collective deal with the social-emotional well being of scholars and fellow educators has by no means been extra essential than it’s proper now,” stated Riverside County Superintendent of Colleges, Dr. Edwin Gomez. “Amenities and companies like these supplied inside every CAREspace are exhibiting college students that their educators see them, and listen to them, and are right here to assist them succeed.”
“The Coachella Valley-based Latino Fee, has partnered with RCOE to offer psychological well being companies for Riverside County college students, households, colleges, and the group.” Edwin Gomez
Digging only a bit extra, previous the melodrama, reveals two extra Group Companions, although these don’t seem like particular to Group Colleges. The Anti-Bullying Institute, which truly seems to be non-woke and helpful, a minimum of at first look. Attendance Works, however, will assist colleges cut back fairness gaps by instructing colleges higher insurance policies. Certain Jan.
Group Colleges LCAPS and SARCS
Let’s do one thing just a little completely different and take a go to to the RCOE 2022-23 Native Management And Accountability Plan (LCAP) for Group Colleges. I do know it sounds boring, however stick with me.
On web page 33, we begin to make progress in our quest and discover just a few companions. Although these companions are for the choice training Profession Technical Schooling (CTE) program, that are embedded with the Group Colleges. Nonetheless, we’ll take what we will get.
Once I ran a CTE program for Info Know-how at a highschool in Riverside, my group companions have been a pc restore store, an area resort’s IT division, and a Nursing house (to assist residences with tech). Every of these companions supplied an internship for college kids to realize actual life experiences. Only a notice to determine expectations, which appear to be met on web page 60 of the LCAP.
Wow, sounds not solely good but additionally correctly. However is it a facade? Based on the 2021-22 College Accountability Report Card (SARC), just one pupil took a CTE course. So who’re these Group Companions and what precisely do the do?
RCOE SARC
Again to the 2022-23 LCAP. Oh, $623,210 for Group Colleges CTE pathways.
What’s in a Associate?
Let’s cross off the plain–the probation division, the EDA, and the Riverside School District–and deal with the unknown. Cryoquip is a preexisting CTE companion for welding, which leaves the California Household Life Heart (CFLC).
CFLC is a non revenue thus receives funds from numerous sources and is licensed by CARF. CARF supplies worldwide accreditation for rehabilitation amenities, even in China! Riverside County and the RCOE are two sources giving CFLC over 2.5 million, in accordance with highergov.com. One other supply, reported within the CFLC’s 2022 annual report, is Decker Manufacturers who gave a $50,000 donation for “DEI racial and social justice giveback dedication.“
CFLC annual report
Decker Manufacturers
Group Colleges Dwelling and Household Intrusion
For these protecting rating at house, we now have to date proven that the Group Companions for Group Colleges appear to be targeted on the “psychological well being” (indoctrination) of the scholars and their households. We’ve additionally found that these companions have a deal with fairness, social justice, and social emotional studying fairly than lecturers, private duty, and actual world expertise.
The DEI/CRT technique of attaining fairness (once more, indoctrination) chosen by the RCOE Group Colleges are Common Design for studying (UDL). Listed here are a few Substack articles should you want a UDL refresher.
LCAP
Keep in mind, it was posited that California wished to show each college right into a Group College. The next are only a few of the pages encountered throughout the bowels of the RCOE with regard to household. Fairness and SEL for your complete household! A few of these contain Group Colleges, some don’t.
CAREspaces at Group Colleges
SARC
Group Colleges Indicators of Success… for SEL
Heading again to the LCAP, we be taught that 68% of scholars “present that they’re on observe in SEL…”
LCAP
Effectively, isn’t that peachy-keen? With all that concentrate on fairness, inclusion, range, and emotions, have been they capable of educate the scholars what they should know to graduate? Oh, a 24% commencement price and a 62% dropout price would appear to point in any other case.
SARC
Watch out for the Fairness Bait and Change
On account of the truth that every part we now have seen relies on DEI and “fairness”, it’s only correct to situation a warning on the bait and change. The video under is an efficient instance of how training will use emotion to drown out vital considering. Observe:
2022 State of Schooling Tackle
Take notice that nothing we now have seen to date has handled particular wants. Observe additionally, that the Excellence By Fairness Coaching talked about in that video had nothing to do with particular wants both. But, RCOE noticed match to painting their fairness visions in approach to keep away from questioning. Query this and it’s essential to hate particular wants youngsters. To make certain, the video was nice, however represents only a teeny-tiny fraction of what fairness is in follow.
I’ve researched just a few of the presenters seen within the convention pages under, and they’re as horrid as we’ve come to count on. It might require one other article to show the intense bias of the Excellence By Fairness convention presenters, however you will get a good suggestion from their session titles.
They Starvation
Is the State of California coming to your youngsters? It certain appears to be like prefer it. Fairness activists are embedded in California colleges within the guise of directors, lecturers, and counselors. It doesn’t seem the State’s starvation will likely be satiated with the children both.
Recall we discovered, in Stranger Hazard and Stranger Hazard II that there’s a taxpayer funded push to make the most of Medicaid to fund sufficient therapists that each pupil can see one recurrently. Actually each pupil. It seems that each Social emotional arrow within the State’s fairness quiver is aimed instantly at your youngsters final protection. You.
This text additionally seems at Dessert Fact.