Educate Ohio and The Original Argument: My Speech and a Special Gift

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A friend of mine gave me a new book. Every time I get a new book, I have a good day. This particular book was The Original Argument, by Glenn Beck and Joshua Charles, at an event I was speaking at called Educate Ohio.

The event had about 30 to 40 school board members, teachers and education reform advocates where I gave a presentation on how excessive wages under union contracts are bankrupting school districts.

After the meeting I learned how the book came into my friend’s possession. The book had just be released and a woman had bought 50 of them and was passing them out at the Lebanon Racetrack, a popular meeting place for the Lebanon Tea Party, and she gave my friend 5 of them and told her to pass them out to people who would do something with the book. My friend then gave me one of those 5, which is a treasure to me greater than gold.

I read the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist papers last summer. They were respectfully hard reads because of the old dialogue, but it was those books that inspired me to start this site, Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom. I wanted this blog site to be a kind of modern Federalist Papers using all the tools of the modern age to paint the picture of America’s situation. I had heard that Beck and Joshua were attempting to update the Federalist Papers into modern language that everyone could understand, and that’s what The Original Argument is. It is wonderful that finally every day people will be able to read this book and actually understand how the American government is supposed to be.

One of the speakers before me at the Educate Ohio Conference was Paul Lambert from Columbus, who said something in his presentation that made me connect the two things together, Glenn Beck’s new book, and this education event. He said, “Schools are one of the last things in our republic that we still actually control locally.” He was right; our school districts are one of the last bastions of America that are left. We elect our school boards locally, and we pay for them locally, at least for the most part. And we see that our schools have gotten away from us, they are being run by large unions that have their eyes on state and federal money that they can turn around and use indirectly to manipulate the political process, and it’s happening right under our noses.

When I gave my speech, there were many people there that were from Pickerington, Ohio where the new superintendent for my school district of Lakota comes from. This has been another issue that has exploded on the scene over the last couple of days and I am deeply disappointed in our school board’s decision to hire this person. Here is a preview of my comments that will appear in the Pulse Journal this coming Thursday. Click on the article to go to the I-Team Investigation video on double-dipping superintendents and learn the real story behind the scam. Click here to hear the radio broadcast done by that same reporter on 700 WLW. This is important!
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I thought Ron Spurlock was doing a great job as superintendent of Lakota. He was innovative, energetic, had the ability to unite people, and he was cheaper. So it is baffling to me why the school board elected to hire a double-dipping superintendent from just up the road for $165,000, about $50,000 more than they were paying Ron, and they spent 50K to find her. Didn’t anybody learn anything from the Channel 9 I-Team report we did in May?

I’m sure Mantia is a nice lady. I’m willing to give her a chance, so long as she doesn’t ask for more tax money. My problem is in the absolute preposterous understanding of economics. The school board spent $100,000 dollars that it didn’t need to. Why?

Did the school board think that getting a superintendent from outside of the district like Mantia is what the No Lakota Levy people wanted? She’s more of the same. You’re personnel costs are too high, and decisions like what was made in hiring Mantia perfectly exhibits the folly. You had a guy right in front of you and you hired a woman playing the system. And we are supposed to believe we should increase our taxes even higher than they are now to pay for this lack of understanding?

Lakota doesn’t need more revenue to fund their inflated ideas about what education is. It needs to dump its high dollar, ineffective teachers and administrators, keep people like Mr. Duff, but dump the ones you plainly know do not deserve 75K per year, and replace them with ambitious, cheaper labor fresh out of college. Don’t tell me you don’t know the difference between a good teacher and a bad one. Here’s a hint, the bad ones are working just for money, and just like superintendents that retire the minute they turn 55 then seek to be rehired so they can double-dip. Let those bad teachers go to another district. It will create a job vacancy for us.

If Lakota wants to stay excellent, it can’t just tread water. It’s has to become sustainable over time.

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The arrogance of the school board to play politics in plain site is an obvious sign of disrespect. The people I talk to are aware of it, but aren’t sure what to do about it, because things have always been this way in their lives. People are only now waking up to it because the money is running out, and it’s not so easy to just toss money at corrupt people anymore to just shut them up. People are finally starting to look at how things are supposed to be.

As I packed up all my notes, and presentation material from my speech, I looked at the book that was left for me in the back of the room under my camera tripod, The Original Argument, by Glenn Beck, given to me by someone that had it given to them, who simply wanted to wake people up so they can understand how to defend themselves. A woman that bought 50 copies of the book with her own money and gave them away in all hope that someone would learn, and just possibly one person out of that 50 would do something to stop the madness.

As my wife and I left the building into the hot June sun, I thought about Paul’s words about how schools are the last things we still can control, and the woman who hoped that the foundations of the country would be re-learned. I watched the people leaving the Educate Ohio Conference and I saw that the battle lines were right in front of me. This is the stand that must be taken, and it must be defeated before any government reform can precede, this debate over school funding, and education content.

I ran my fingers over the cover of that book and took a moment to be grateful that such a literary achievement could even be published, and purchased, and brought to my hands with the best of intentions, because it’s not too late for an army of thought to gather in order to combat the massive tyranny that has hid itself in complicated legislation and ancient language. Holding that book gave me the feeling of rebirth in America, and that good would triumph over pure evil.

After my speech I thought of several people who had approached me, and as I unlocked my car to get in and drive away I reflected about what I said to them. “What are we to do, how can we stop this massive corruption?”

I told them, “They’ve already lost. They hide like cockroaches because they have to. They can’t talk about the facts because they rely on your emotions to control you. If you do like you’re doing, come to conferences like this, read, and pay attention, you will beat them sooner than you can imagine. Just keep focused, stay with the truth, and give them no place to hide. And you’ll get your country back.”
We’ve already won. The trouble is, the bad guys don’t know it yet because they’re too stupid and arrogant to see that they’ve been caught. All people need is the truth, and it will literally set them free in every way possible.

Rich Hoffman

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24 thoughts on “Educate Ohio and The Original Argument: My Speech and a Special Gift”

  1. God bless America!
    and God bless you and THANK ALL OF YOU and guide each and every Patriot and ‘our awakening Patriots”!

    We the PEOPLE will be Victorious, as God as my witness.
    typing to you from Loveland Ohio USA!
    pa/jc

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    1. AMAZING!
      NOW.. I AM GOING TO BATTLE WITH THE LOVELAND CITY SCHOOL BOARD.. AND HERE’S WHY
      TO: The Loveland City School District Board Members

      On two separate occasions I have written to you about the dangerous liasion between

      BEST BUY AND THE RADICAL ISLAMIST ORGANIZATION CAIR.

      if we allow our local schools, businesses to support organizations that support TERRORISTS either directly or indirectly.. then that makes me/US an accomplice to murder.

      The following Bylaws & Policies are from:

      http://www.neola.com/loveland-oh/search/policies/policies_toc.htm

      Loveland City School District

      Bylaws & Policies

      0123

      The Board of Education believes quality public education and good Board service should be conducted in an ethical manner with traditional principles such as honesty, trust, fairness and integrity. Each Board member should conform his/her conduct to Ohio law, the code of ethics recommended by the Ohio School Boards Association and the code of conduct set forth below.

      While serving as a member of the Board of Education, each member is expected to agree to abide by the following code of ethics.

      A Board member is expected to:

      A.

      obey the laws of Ohio and the United States;

      B.

      remember that the first and greatest concern is the educational welfare of all students;

      Code of Ethics/Code of Conduct

      Therefore, and I am not a lawyer, but. The partenership between Loveland Schools, Best Buy

      is in violation of ‘OBEY the laws of Ohio and the United States’…. and ‘REMEMBER THAT THE FIRST AND GREATEST CONCERN IS THE EDUCATIONAL WELFARE of all students’.,,

      How does working with a business (Best Buy) which sponsors an organization (CAIR) be anything but Violation of the By laws and Policies of the Loveland City School Board?

      Are we now, as parents to sit back and allow the ‘school board members’ to teach our children that it is acceptable to partener with organizations who support ‘TERRORISTS”?

      I am absolutely appalled. I am demanding this action be stopped immediately.

      I recieved this information in an email JUNE 7, 2012:

      Loveland to Partner with Best Buy

      The Loveland City School District is finalizing details of a partnership with Best Buy to bring exclusive pricing to families with students in the Loveland City School District.

      “As we expand our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program it is important to seek business partnerships to make purchasing technology more possible for our families,” explained Loveland Superintendent Dr. John Marschhausen.

      Students in grades 5-12 are encouraged to bring their technology to school. For 2012-13, students in Loveland Middle School will either bring their own device or have a school-owned Barnes and Noble Color Nook provided to them.

      Plans for the partnership with Best Buy include a “Loveland-specific” website that will be launched in July with the devices that will have exclusive discounts for Loveland families.

      “Families will be able to purchase anything on the Best Buy site, but there will be four devices (two tablets and two laptops) that we have negotiated the special prices,” Marschhausen said. “This is more than a change from paper to technology. We are working towards a more student-centric educational experience to meet the specific needs of each student.”

      We will update the website and send additional information as details are finalized.

      What part of TERRORISTS DO YOU NOT understand?

      Your decisions to involve the children of THE Loveland City School District, is a dangerous dereliction of duty.
      I was responded by someone at Save Clermont County scschools@yahoo.com

      and I ask the 1851 Constitution Center to advise me as to what recourse I might have as a parent of a student in the Loveland School District.. and as of 7/3/2012 no response from
      1851
      or the LOVELAND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS….
      can anyone advise on how I sould proceed..
      Car flyers to alert the PUBLIC… is one idea….

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      1. Wonderful, go get them! They are all technically breaking many laws if the law was not twisted into knots by their lawyers and unions. They expect us all to just lay down and surrender. THEY EXPECT IT! That should piss off everyone reading this, and make them want to start sticking up for themselves as you are about to do.

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  2. Nice to meet you Saturday.

    Here’s a sampling of public opinion of the job Mantia did in Pickerington:
    http://www.topix.net/forum/source/columbus-dispatch/TQ8SH7UI73A7J80O2
    http://www.topix.net/forum/source/columbus-dispatch/T03JKSF4Q1BMKVFFO
    http://www.topix.net/forum/source/this-week-news/TDRG3953Q41KLU4JN

    Please get in touch so you can teach us how to defeat these awful levies. We have a lot of public education to do and precious few resources.

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    1. Nice to see you here. Thanks for the fantastic information, keep sending it. I have over 300 articles here many of them about defeating levies. Google Overmanwarrior then whatever topic and see if it gives you what you’re looking for. : )

      I also have 176 YouTube videos, many of them are radio broadcasts about education. Have a listen and pass the links. I post them so people don’t forget. http://www.youtube.com/user/overmanwarrior?feature=mhee

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      1. You can look up all the info at ODE, of course, but I’ve got a ten-year history of our district’s financials in a handy spreadsheet if you think it would be useful. http://www.ionplsd.com is also a great resource for background on our district, especially the section on Mantia’s “contract with the community” where you can see how she promises the moon and fails to deliver as soon as she sees fit. http://ionplsd.com/TestPage2.aspx

        I would also highly recommend that you read back issues of the PLSD’s “School Bell” (their quarterly propaganda publication, which is archived on the district’s website). If you have a strong stomach it should provide key insights into Mantia’s progressive agenda and the tactics she uses to get what she wants. http://www.pickerington.k12.oh.us/linksForms.aspx

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