Jeannie Georges
A recent Evansville Vanderburg School Corporation (EVSC) board meeting was an example of the propaganda our so-called educational institutions give us as they made mention of the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) initiatives and indicated they’re going great. And, they think Panorama has been great for the school system.
The EVSC wants everyone to know they’re basically a national model for SEL. It isn’t necessary to explain to VIP readers that SEL is about data collection, data distribution and behavior modification to fit each child into a government pre-planned slot.
The school board is not bragging about reading, grammar and mathematical accomplishments because that isn’t their goal.
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The more you know about the psychological programs in the schools, the easier it is to decipher what they’re talking about. For instance, what would be the importance of the announcement that someone important from Yale is coming into town or the importance of mentioning how great Panorama has been for the school? Maybe it has to do with the process whereby Panorama came into existence. To quote from www.techcrunch.com, “Panorama and its funding story are eye-catching in more ways than one… Panorama’s investors now include Startup:Education — the foundation led by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan — SoftTech VC, Google Ventures, Ashton Kutcher’s A-Grade Investments and Yale University, which the co-founders had attended.”
Many people are disturbed over the data collection by Facebook. Apparently, few know they’re also funding data collection in the schools.
Techcrunch quotes Zuckerberg, “Priscilla and I are excited to support Panorama Education and its mission. Their company is an exciting example of the way technology can help teachers, parents and students make their voices heard,”
Wow, wait a minute! Did Zuckerberg really just say that parents and students are making their voices heard? If your children took this survey, did you know your voice was being heard? Do you have a clue what was heard? Do you know what the collectors of this data are going to do with that information?
From this site we learn that, “(I)t uses its own people and systems to subsequently analyse (sic) and parse the data. When schools have opted in, anonymised (sic) data from across other surveys is also combined with existing information to form more complete and comparative analysis.
“So far, Panorama’s formula seems to be working. The company, Feuer (a founder) explains, works with school districts to identify issues, conceive of what questions need to get asked, and how to ask them. It then provides a mixture of formats for its surveys — …anything to get the data.” (Emphasis added)
This sounds so much like what we’ve found already going on in the schools with the data being collected under the STN (student test number). How much data do the technocrats need to analyze and remediate each student to determine each individual’s future? They need it all! And why? Quoting again from techcrunch: “Schools bring us in there to solve problems, such as to stop bullying or something else…”
Who’s the bully Panorama is going to reform? Not the school that is playing the role of the bully when parents aren’t informed, as required by law, that they have the opportunity to inspect surveys as well as instructional materials. Not the school that fails to inform parents they must give prior written consent. And, what is the “something else?”
Here’s the problem. Schools are supposed to be teaching academic subjects – knowledge. But since teachers began to be trained and re-trained in the best mind control methods ever known to man, schools have become indoctrination centers.
It is a fact that there have always been problems. However, drug use, sexual activity, suicides, depression, bullying, and school shootings all increased after legislators and school boards promised they were going to implement programs to decrease these activities. The legitimate research showed they were wrong; the documented activities proved they were wrong. But the course was set; no one tried to put it in reverse or change course. Legislators seemed oblivious to the fact that when they passed laws requiring non-academic classes in the schools, they were eliminating real subjects and deliberately dumbing down the students. Everything they promised to increase failed and everything they promised to decrease increased. It will not change with SEL or Panorama.
It is difficult to judge whether our elected officials have been deceived, or they’re lying to us. The point is – we are being lied to. The worst part is that people are buying the lies.
Social/Emotional (Psychological) Data Collection begins this Thursday, September 20th if you do not call your child’s school and opt out.
The comments about SEL, the glowing comments about the EVSC Neuroeducator, Yale, and Panorama Survey occurred last school board meeting 9/10/2018, sometime near 6:30 pm.
If the parents were informed that Zuckerberg was behind this they wouldn’t allow it.
Parents need to tell the school NO, my child isn’t taking this survey and they need to also ask WHERE IS THIS DATA GOING? Is it getting to Facebook and Google somehow?
(Expect misdirected and general answers)
Parents need to complain at the next school board meeting that they weren’t informed that Google and Facebook are behind this. The School Board Meeting is public and they “usually” allow 3 minutes for people to stand up at the end. When you walk in, get a card and put it in the basket that you want to speak. The school board meeting is also played live on the school owned radio station WPSR 90.7 FM.
The next meeting is Monday, September 24, 2018, and starts at 5:30 pm
The Facebook and Google connection is disturbing.
Great article thank you for this information. The school psychologists were not in the school system when I went to school. Now, it seems they have one at every school in the area. They also seem to want practically every child on SELT, IEP’s. My kids tell me they take students out during class instruction for “interventions.” No wonder the school system disallows parents to come into the classroom and observe. Keeping parents out of the loop as much as possible is disturbing and I wonder if it is lawful. The students spend as much as 80% or more time getting taught by a tablet computer instead of real live teachers. I’ve talked with teachers that say they spend out of their own wallets for books because the money isn’t coming from the school system. But they operate a radio station? As a parent, I am frequently asked for money for some school-related expense. There’s some reason EVSC wants this Panorama Survey citywide.
EVSC school board meeting on 9/14/18 was full of SEL references; mentioned SEL curriculum frequently and even played a clip from the Yale University visitor glowing about how Neuroeducation “just works” and how great EVSC is on SEL. One public comment said they didn’t understand these acronyms.
EVSC is all about getting the data. Parents get less than 2 days notice about the following:
“Students in the EVSC will be participating in the National Gallup Student Survey starting Wednesday, September 26. This survey will be used to collect data dealing with student success, both in the present and in the future. The survey is brief, and should last approximately 10 minutes. If you have any questions or do not wish for your child to participate, please contact child’s school. “
Let’s be clear, being an investor does not mean that “Facebook and Zuckerburg are behind this”. They are investors, not running the company. They along with others have thrown money into the pot. As big as Facebook, google, Yale and others are, they get access to your data and that of your children all the time from your grocery shopping trips (yes that store card for discounts transmits your shopping habits) to your gps (cause most of us use google maps) etc…..
Schools are trying to evolve to meet the needs of students. Why? Because parents seem to be opting out of meeting their kids needs. Used to be school was the place where you were taught math, english, reading, history and science. You learned how to be a decent human being and things to be a productive human being with values from your parent. More and more this has shifted to being the school’s responsibility. Well guess what, there are only so many hours in a school day so if a teacher has to work on the social and emotional needs of a child because as a companssionate human being you want them to have success in life, something else is going to suffer. Surveys like the example above is totally emotional/social in nature. But if you think those things do not have a huge impact on their more educational elements learned, you are fooling yourself. Could it be there is not some huge conspiracy to slot our kids into government ordained slots in life, but just an education system that is overwhelmed with needs because as a society we are dumping our kids on the schools to raise and they are looking for solutions? You want to be sure your kid isn’t get “brainwashed” get in those schools and volunteer, spend time with your kids (quality time with your attention on them not your phone) and have them do organized activities after school.
Kayrene, my parents opted out of meeting what I thought were my needs at the time as well, but what I later found out was that these were only my wants, and that I was being an ungrateful teenage brat. Should the government-ran public school system have infiltrated my family and influenced my emotional state? Should they have stepped in to observe my psychological state for purposes undisclosed to my parents? Is parenting now somehow the right of the government and not the parents? Did the government somehow take ownership of our children giving themselves more rights to raise our children than what the parents have? Can you show me where this is in our Constitution?
Just because we can be tracked by our cell phones and purchases, does that make it right? Does furthering our surveillance somehow become right because a growing number of companies are doing it? What of the parents who are raising their children right? Does the government-ran public school system have the right to usurp parenting powers from the parents? Is there a constitutional amendment that permits the government to just come in and take over the parenting of the children?
These surveys don’t discriminate between which students are being raised properly and which ones are not, but are all inclusive of all students no matter how they are raised. These surveys take time away from the education of MY children for the benefit of corporations… at the expense of MY children. I, for one, am a parent who IS involved, and “decent human beings” are produced by proper parenting with morals and values, not by schools… especially not by the seven local schools who have received an ‘F’ rating. The schools need to stay out of my family’s business, and my children’s unapproved emotional, social, and psychological evaluations. They have no right to usurp my parenting powers… and in fact, they never even asked. “Let’s be clear,” the EVSC doesn’t have a right to just take over the parenting decisions for my children, and regardless of your opinions, neither do you.