Palaces of Evil and Factories of Fear: Kim Grant tells the story of alleged Kings School System abuse

For me, it began with only a curious inquiry of why my school district seemed to always be out of money no matter how high the taxes were, or how many levies were passed in the name of children. I would engage in debates publicly about the nature of education, speak on television and do a lot of radio addressing many of the conditions I saw that would improve education in general, and I hoped that by simply pointing these things out, things might improve discreetly for the better. But what I discovered with each rock unturned were a pack of some of the most vicious bullies laying in concealment that I have ever seen and it was quickly realized that much of the money spent on public education gets soaked up in the bureaucracy of bullies. If it’s not the members of the school administration seeking to cover-up every bad deed done by a teacher—and stopping at little to execute the task, it is the radical teachers unions themselves who stop at nothing to advance a progressive education agenda. Often the school board members in almost every case will go right along with the many acts of villainy they witness to protect the public image of their school—because in public education image is everything. Like chess board pawns, the guilty parents who feel deeply bad about the role they play in their own child’s life rally to the cause of the school because the neurotic parents wish to believe that they can “purchase” for their children a good life—which they can’t. Parent/Teacher groups often align to become bullies against the community putting pressure on businesses who don’t support tax increases, stealing thousands of dollars of any political propaganda against their cause without legal recourse and stopping at nothing to destroy the lives of those who stand in their way. I have personally seen massive cover-ups, destroyed property, harassed businesses, extremely organized smear campaigns equivalent to what might be seen in a presidential election, and a mafia like approach to education that has caused me to move from a moderate reformer of public education to one who despises the entire process and everyone in it. But don’t take my word for it, and don’t think for a second dear reader that these things are only indicative to my school. I live in one of the best. These problems are in every public school and are the largest modern social issue that the human being has in modern times—even bigger than the national debt issue. To gain a perspective on just how big the problem is, listen below to Kim Grant who was a former teacher union president describe her reasons for blowing the whistle on an alleged bully case at Kings Local Schools involving a teacher sadistically torturing her special needs students. During the course of the broadcast below Kim will discuss much of what I just stated, which might be a shock to the ears. So beware.

The number one reason that more people do not come forward to stand up to these bullies who run public education are the same reasons that people do not stand up to the mob—self preservation. Most people fear the retaliation that often comes, and the social stigma that has protected public education for years. I could write an entire book about my personal experiences alone. Many residents like Kim said are afraid that the school will take out their wrath on the students, so they do not make public statements at school board meetings and they certainly don’t go on record in the newspaper. Also, many parents know at least one person whether it be a mother, a sibling, an aunt or uncle—somebody who works for a school system somewhere, and this makes Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners especially difficult—I have in my family four that I have to speak to a few times a year—and I know how hard it is for me, so I can sympathize how it is for most people. Many parents just keep quiet to save the peace in their families. I have even had people who directly supported my efforts with thousands of dollars wish to keep their activity disguised for fear that they might run into the opposition at their local church, or have the teachers union minions—the “latte sipping prostitutes” as I call them, boycott their businesses with revenue shattering collective withdrawal hoping to crush them out of existence. Further parents are afraid that if they come out against public education that their boss or co-workers might retaliate against them in the workplace. The incentive to keep one’s thoughts to oneself is very high even when they see many wrongs happening around them. The need to protect ones career, and social status often takes precedence over righteousness. These are the grim realities of public education, and it is no wonder that children aren’t learning anything and growing up lost and confused about their roles in the world. They watch their parents cave under the pressure of this massive machine, and they seek to rebel against it for a while, but in the end, they become part of the machine themselves only to walk through life in T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland.

I have had many document requests pulled at my school of Lakota, some of which can be seen here. (CLICK) There is a reason that much of the information involving public education is “public.” It is so that people like Kim Grant can pull those records and expose wrong doing in order to protect the children of the school from activity that might be unbecoming. Kim being a former insider knows the tricks, where normal parents do not, or don’t want to know for fear of the responsibility that such knowledge might bring. The schools are set up like mafias to prevent parents and other tax payers from doing what Kim did. The schools cannot legally stop the request, they must comply, but they will put a target on the people who try to look into their affairs. That is how they prevent the “will” to investigate and there isn’t a reporter in any community who wants to be blacklisted from future work because they exposed some wrong at their local school. Most parents have children in the district and fear the recourse against those children if they make trouble. I have been in meetings where professional, highly educated school officials turned into beasts from the depths of Hell within one sentence of discussion once they realized that my temper could not be quelled by good tidings.

Public education is a terrible scam that is not helping kids at all in its current state. It needs a complete overhaul, and time will reveal that to everyone, as more and more stories like the one in Kings is told publicly. The issue is not isolated to Kings by any stretch of the imagination. Every public school has these types of scandalous abusers within their walls—and to some extent it is human nature to have such personalities. But the job of the administrators and school boards is to remove those people from employment in defense of the children—and that is not happening in almost every case. Instead, the school as a collective unit rallies behind the evil to suppress it from view, and this is what children have been learning in public education and our society will pay gravely for it. There are not enough Kim Grants out there fighting on behalf of all children and their cowardly parents are too fearful of being targeted as a “reprehensible” for stating the obvious. Until there are, public schools will be palaces of evil and factories of fear. In their current state they only serve the employees at the expense of children, and that is a folly that needs to be corrected without concern for personal reputations, or internal family politics. Thank goodness at Kings at least Kim Grant did the right thing which began with a public records request. The same could be done at every single school in The United States with a simple request by a bold district resident—which in the end is the best thing for children that any grown adult can do for their educations—expose them to goodness, and the system of checks and balances that they see lacking every day, so that they can trust that the world does contain justice and people with the courage to wield it.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Greenon Schools Want More Money: Employee Debra Mauer arrested for embezzling $40,000

I provided the other day an example of the school system Springboro that finally has proper management of its financial resources and is establishing a relationship with its unionized teachers that is beginning to be beneficial to the children. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW. I consider Springboro a success story that is the example that all else mentioned below should be measured against. I also recently covered the superintendent of Franklin and how he complained with great spectacle about how rich communities like Springboro were stealing tax money from poor districts like his in Governor Kasich’s new budget. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW. The Franklin superintendent of course had the situation backwards, which is quite common with smaller schools with less checks and balances in the media, especially those surrounding Springboro and other Dayton suburbs. I even covered the case in Steubenville, Ohio where many in the town refused to pay justice to a rape victim because treasured members of the football team were involved. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW. Even with all the bad behavior that I have pointed out in large public schools like Lakota, Mason, and Fairfield in Southern Ohio which are considered the best of the best from the teachers and staff, much of the labor from these schools have thought that it was unfair to judge them in relation to stories that only education insiders know about. To them, they are exceptional when compared to the antics from smaller schools with a much lower profiles that garner much less public attention. The bar of justice has been set mighty low in public education so to the self-assessment of teachers who work in public education seeking to justify salaries that exceed the taxpaying public by almost double, they consider the job they are doing good if they are not abusing special needs kids like Amanda Kitcho is accused of at Kings school system. Teachers these days think they are doing good just because they showed up for work and run a clean classroom. But more reporters than ever are showing courage in covering these terrible stories, some of which can be seen below in the videos that follow. Amanda left her position as a teacher and is now a bridal consultant while a trial proceeds over the Kings scandal, but following the trend of smaller schools, the more that an investigator digs, the more crimes they typically find occurring in broad daylight in public education like cheating on test scores, abuse of students, and even embezzlement—because their small town nature keeps critics and other prying eyes from their activities. Such an ideal example of extreme corruption and characters of low quality in public education would be the Greenon Local School District which is just to the north of Springboro.

On January 17^th following a three-month sheriff’s investigation by detectives of one of the leading school levy supporters of the recent Greenon tax increase from November police converged on a home at 150 S. Harrison Street and arrested Debra Mauer confiscating computers, papers and mail before being charged with theft by embezzling $40,000 from the village and altering their financial records as Enon’s fiscal agent between 2008 and 2012. She was also charged with tampering with evidence. Mauer was elected to the office in November of 2003 and ran for re-election for a second term ending in March of 2012. Mauer also served as interim fiscal agent for Mad River Township. Mauer was employed full-time at Greenon Local Schools as a High School Social Studies Unit Leader receiving a contract stipend for $609 at a June 21^st 2012 meeting just prior the last levy attempt.

Greenon Local Schools placed on the ballot for November 6 2012 a combined 6 mill bond issue and 0.75 percent earned income tax for voter approval. Passage of this issue would have provided the matching funds required by the Ohio School Facilities Commission to leverage $22.5 million in state money to build two new schools and provide long-term operating dollars. The ballot issue was defeated by a vote of 3,000 “for” vs. 3,689 “against” votes. In the wake of that defeat of which Debra Mauer engaged in a rather colorful levy campaign against the only NO voter campaign in the area, who happen to have lived across the street from Mauer, superintendent Dan Bennett is seeking to place on the May ballot of 2013 another levy following the same pattern that most schools do after a levy defeat, and that is to come back with a smaller request and hope the numbers fall in their favor. This next attempt will be a 4.95 mills levy which is a bit less than the November attempt.

While Debra Mauer’s antics as a fiscal officer in an elected position may seem bizarre and corrupt beyond measure, her employer Dan Bennett at Greenon has had a track record that is less than stellar. Bennett moved to Greenon to take a job that superintendents understand internally as equivalent to being sent to Russia’s Siberia. It’s his last chance at success as he was the former superintendent at Little Miami where voters turned down eight consecutive levies before Bennett had to leave the district in a fiscal emergency to take the Greenon job. The stories left in his wake lends credibility as to how Debra Mauer in the tiny district of Greenon could have conducted her alleged crimes without detection as school employees placed their focus on passing levies and gaining more tax money rather than managing their employees properly and controlling their costs. You can read more about Bennett at the link below.

http://www.fox19.com/story/15037949/little-miami-superintendent-leaves-district

The Debra Mauer case points to the tip of an ice berg which resides just below the surface of the small Wright Patterson Air Force community of workers with a total student population that is less than what Lakota schools will lose each year for the next 10 years in declining enrollment. The community is small and everyone knows each other, but to show the emotional remoteness of Greenon Local Schools where most of their community is in fear of the sequestration cuts coming from Congress, the announcement of another tax increase from Bennett without any consideration to the community’s ability to pay even $12 more dollars a month in taxes, has not stopped the school’s arrogant agenda. They, like their employee Debra Mauer do not care about those around them as can be easily affirmed by their actions. They only want to prove that they can pass a levy which is all superintendents are really tasked with under the guidelines established by the OSBA (Ohio School Board Association.) If a superintendent cannot pass a levy for their district, they will be passed around from job to job until they can, or be forced into early retirement.

The only people in the community of Greenon who opposed the last levy, watched the antics of Debra Mauer from across the street. When police cars came to take away Mauer for her accused crimes after spending most of the previous fall looking at the campaign propaganda coming from the pro levy home on Harrison Street, it wasn’t much of a surprise. After dealing with the Greenon administrators for some time and asking many questions the reality gradually fell on the founders of Vote No on Greenon School Levies that they were dealing with people whose actions belong in the back of a police car, instead of tampering with the lives of children. Greenon School employees like Debra Mauer seemed to capitalize off voter naiveté at every turn and every opportunity for their own selfish gain.

You can visit the Vote No for Greenon Facebook page at the link below to provide them with assistance and wisdom. They have a heck of a fight on their hands because they dared to question more of the iceberg than what everyone could see. Unfortunately for children attending Greenon, by the time a teacher like Debra Mauer is arrested and processed by the court system, it’s often too late. Without people like Chris Finney at Kings Local or the couple at the Facebook site below, there is no defense for the children, because school employees and the legal system in general work in favor of modern public education and have shown where their passion is, and it isn’t in children. Their actions speak for themselves, and can be found in virtually every school district–especially ones in small towns, where the superintendents are spill over’s from larger districts. Public schools then reflect more accurately a crime syndicate than an institution of learning that places before the children the highest priority of moral stewardship over the personal failures of teachers like Amanda Kitcho and Debra Mauer. Like the mob, the harm that comes to those who stand in the way of the school making money off tax increases will not be tolerated, and harassment of every kind is on the table. If one wishes to stand in their way of a new levy, then destruction of those barriers will be pursued with every measure the law and the cohorts of organized crime can muster for the perceived greater good of failed superintendents or alleged embezzlers like Debra Mauer—former advocate of Issue 21 and teacher of children in the school district of Greenon.

https://www.facebook.com/VoteNoOnIssue21NoNewSchoolsForGreenon

For more about the Kings story CLICK HERE for the Channel 19 Exclusive.

And to understand how law enforcement often tag teams with their labor union comrades in the teaching profession CLICK HERE for a story where the police were caught trying to defend their own wrongs even when great video of the actions were on hand. Just because law enforcement investigates a matter in education it does not mean that justice will be done. Someone has to watch the watchers.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Living the Creation of Ayn Rand’s ‘Anthem’: Fighting back against Duke Energy and the Cincinnati Streetcar

George Lang, trustee of West Chester Township has recently had to contend with a large financial settlement due to a controversial police beating, then he went on 700 WLW radio with Bill Cunningham to give a statement about the attempt from Duke Energy to pass the cost of the Cincinnati Street Car off on suburban residents since the city does not have the money to pay for the project they foolishly voted for. Lang has been very busy, and has done a more than respectable job of handling the various management issues that have come his way. The Duke Energy issue is very serious. It is the result of a Cincinnati based company that is dedicated to progressive causes–especially with their participation in the Agenda 21 Smart Meter program–that is allowing the reckless costs of Mayor Mallory’s Street Car to be passed on for infrastructure construction to their wide base of customers. The Street Car like the Smart Meters is an Agenda 21 strategy and it should come as no surprise that the Cincinnati Mayor is personal friends with Barack Obama and is fully committed to the Rio, Brazil Earth Summit agenda created in 1992. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT AGENDA 21. George Lang is fighting the idea of Duke Energy passing the cost of the Street Car onto residents of Butler and Warren County and he had a great interview with Cunningham which can be heard below.

When logic is used, nobody can figure out why Mallory is so committed to the Streetcar. Like Lang said, the Streetcar makes no economic sense for Cincinnati and much less sense for the residents of Butler and Warren County. It’s sluggish old technology that limits people geographically to an area that is less than desirable. I know that Lang understands the real answer, but he can’t say it on WLW without sounding like a kook, because George knows that attacking these big problems with too much information that the public isn’t willing to learn will lessen his message—so he focused the discussion around economic viability, which is something people understand. Yet the reality is that Mallory like his friend Obama are looking far into the future—beyond their own lifetimes with a commitment to social collectivism that can best be found in Ayn Rand’s great novel Anthem which I have been reading at least twice a week lately, because of its stirring accuracy.

http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/streetcar/news/city-duke-energy-reach-streetcar-agreement/

I have been reading Anthem written first in 1937 which appeared to have had a tremendous impact on Walt Disney (CLICK HERE TO READ MY REVIEW) because out of all my books and attempts at explaining away modern behavior, it is the only one that makes sense. It predicted the attempt by Socialist International to spread global communism through The United Nations nearly half a century before the 1992 Earth Summit meeting in Brazil. Ayn Rand knew the signs and they were already happening in America during the days of the Red Decade, when Anthem was written. Anthem was a warning about the dangers of communism from a woman who lived it first hand in Petrograd, Russia at the start of the 1917 Revolution. In Anthem mankind has reverted back to almost a primal village where council members run everything and personal identity has been eradicated. One man in the story re-discovers the light bulb from a long dead culture. He brings the discovery to his ruling village council thinking they will be delighted. Instead he is beaten and tortured for making the discovery to the point that he escapes into the wilderness to re-establish civilization and all the inventions of the past that have been suppressed by the ruling class. The book is so powerful that I believe that Walt Disney built the Epcot Center in Orlando Florida to protect our society against such an eventuality. You can see a dedication to Ayn Rand’s work in the American Heritage building at that famous park. Only Walt or Roy, his brother, would ever be able to admit to such a thing today, so enjoy the dedication to Ayn Rand while it lasts. Progressives hate Ayn Rand, and seek at every turn to remove her warnings from the eyes of human beings. If you want to piss off a progressive, talk about Ayn Rand, which is why the dedication at The Epcot Center is remarkable. Anthem’s hero is Equality 7-2521 and he lived in the dark ages of the distant future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the most unpardonable sin: he had stood forth from the mindless human herd. He was a man alone………….a sin worse than murder in a society of collectivists.

The Overton Window in our current society has been pulled so far to the political left that even dedicated conservatives feel uncomfortable discussing novels like Anthem in public. So Lang was smart to stay away from the topic on WLW because large media types like Cunningham have had the Overton Window pulled so far to the left during their lifetimes that they are not willing to examine ideas that may categorize them as “tin headed conspiracy theorists.” ( CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE OVERTON WINDOW.) Such thoughts do not belong so much on Channel 5 interviews and WLW talk shows as society is currently struggling with the current status of America. The news reporters and producers of such shows are having a hard time grappling with these issues as they don’t want to be considered extreme, or kooky so they stay with the observable evidence that the public can most easily relate with. The political left has captured the media and they have established the parameters which everyone in the business must follow.

I ran up against this issue with the education reform topics I used to cover so often with mainstream media. I argued the cost of the school levies for a long time, but when nothing changed and the reasons were examined with facts the answers were much more sinister than even I thought. Mainstream media isn’t prepared to deal with that reality at this time, just like they are not prepared to deal with the real reason for the Streetcar in Cincinnati, or the strategy behind the Smart Meters from Duke Energy. Lang stuck to the cost and extreme imposition of Butler County being required to pay for the progressive Streetcar that was rammed down the throat of Cincinnati residents, and is now being pushed off into the suburbs for mysterious and illogical reasons. The Streetcar intent seems illogical in relation to the known data that people like Cunningham and his producers at WLW are willing to deal with. After all, Cunningham’s television show exploits the result of progressivism, so too much examination of progressive causes disturbs the apple cart of many people who make livings off them. Mainstream media is left trying to explain only the tips of icebergs leaving much hidden below the surface. It is in art that society must tackle the big issues so they can be seen fully, and not in the tid bits of news topics. Artistic endeavors like this blog, paintings, movies or novels are where the bigger issues can be examined by individuals alone with their thoughts in the quiet of the night, and at their own command.

The intent of the Streetcar like all progressive causes is to eliminate suburbs and individual freedom in dedication to the foundation of collectivism. Suburbs in Butler and Warren counties have been targeted by pretentious United Nations bureaucrats in far away cities like Rio during yearly Earth Summits to be eliminated through regulation. County and city planners trained in colleges by Marxist professors do not even question their role in the scheme as they have been trained to be collectivists, by collectivists. In virtually every company in the country there are now programs like Six Sigma and other consensus building efficiency measures that are rooted in global collectivism, not individual endeavor, which all are born from this trend perpetuated by liberal college professors instructed in the motivations of Earth Summit agenda points. The intentions of collectivism as it is taught in virtually every public school and college, every company that embraces consensus building, and every public works project like the Street Car is to carry society toward the future of Anthem. When all the elements are added up from what we see today, to what is coming in the future, the sum is what the novel Anthem is all about.

George Lang is fighting the good fight in standing up to the Duke Energy imposition of raising energy rates to cover their cost of building the Streetcar infrastructure. But like Cunningham said, Duke will get it’s way in the end and Mayor Mallory knew it all along, just as Obama knew it when the Streetcar idea was invented in the first place as the hub of transportation in Cincinnati in the distant future when the suburbs are destroyed through taxation and all residents are forced back into the cities to preserve the green space of planet Earth. The collectivists know they have every sector of public life covered from the media to the smallest business—that even die-hard conservatives feel uncomfortable discussing the origin and intention of progressivism outside of their own thoughts. So what can people do, what measures can people take to strike back?

Well, since Duke Energy is at the center of two controversies, the Smart Meter program and the willingness of their company to pass off the cost of the Streetcar onto their customers who had nothing to do with voting for the stupid thing, there are options. The best way to hit a company like Duke Energy is in their pocketbook. Duke makes their money in two primary ways, off their infrastructure usage and off kilowatt-hours. While we are all stuck through the monopoly power of Duke Energy in Cincinnati with their infrastructure, we do have options with how we buy the kilowatt-hours of power supplied to our homes. Since it looks like Butler County will be forced to pay nearly $7 more on their monthly bills to cover the Streetcar that money could be returned to household income by buying kilowatt-hours of power from another company. One such company is First Energy which can provide considerable savings to any family household. If you own a business, you can save thousands of dollars in kilowatt usage through First Energy or companies like them. To learn more, check them out at the link below.

https://www.firstenergycorp.com/fehome.html

Even if the savings on your electric bill is only $10 to $40 per month, it is still money that will not be going to Duke Energy and is an excellent way to use dollars to express unhappiness about Duke Energy’s willingness to pass off the cost of the Street Car to the suburbs of Ohio by caving into the whims of progressive politics without a fight. And it will teach power companies a hard lesson that America does not get its mandates from The United Nations in Earth Summits at Rio. Duke Energy has stated that they control the infrastructure that goes onto our homes so we have no say as to whether a Smart Meter goes on them or not, just like we have no choice but to pay the extra rates for the Streetcar in Cincinnati. But we do have a choice of whether we purchase our kilowatt-hours from Duke Energy or First Energy. It is in the power of choice that the degradation of political progressivism can best be defeated, and the eventual aim of taking society to the brink of the old novel Anthem—a society that has become inundated with soulless collectivism, can be averted. Agenda 21 might sound like conspiracy theory skepticism, but it is quite real, and exists outside of the accepted realm of discussion like a cancer cell that slowly eats away a healthy body that is in denial of its presence. It does no good to yell at Duke Energy and proclaim that they are agents of evil in direct service to The United Nations and progressive politicians who are using the green movement as the new red of communism. But the money to feed some of these agents can be greatly reduced in retaliation for the Smart Meter program and the audacity to even consider spreading the wealth from rich suburbs to fund a streetcar in Cincinnati that is the dream of progressives. The aim of those progressives can be seen in Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem and the path begins and ends with companies like Duke Energy who by choice or by design are guiding society in that tragic direction.

http://www.napervillesmartmeterawareness.org/

We can only be thankful that there are a few politicians like George Lang who can walk the tight rope of politics and still fight for what’s right. And asking residents of Butler Country among others to pay for a Streetcar in Cincinnati is wrong in every meaning of the word, and deserves a recourse that will place in the mind of Duke Energy management great regret. Give First Energy a call and start that process. It might divide up a household electric bill into two bills one to Duke for the infrastructure and one from First Energy for the kilowatts, but half that bill won’t be going to Duke……….and that will really piss them off……..and teach them a hard lesson.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

How A School Board Should Work: The Success of Kelly Kohls in Springboro

With all that I have said about the proper way to manage a public school system the birth place of such thoughts has not previously been revealed. But I am happy to reveal now that birthplace after my friend Kelly Kohls spoke at the West Chester Tea Party to a packed house on February 19^th 2013. Several years ago Kelly invited my wife and I to The Golden Lamb for a special meeting in one of the upstairs banquet rooms for a group she started with other Ohio school board members called Educate Ohio. Kelly had recently become a member of the Springboro school board and had a lot of ideas on how to improve education quality for children while driving down the costs for the taxpayers. Since that very innovative meeting Kelly has went on to become the head of the Warren County Tea Party and is now president of the Springboro school board and managed to drive the per pupil cost of their district downward. Kelly has become everything that I would consider to be the most pristine example of what a school board president should be for every school in Ohio. Watch the video below to see how she did it, and how the same type of thing could be duplicated in any district. Her style of management should be the example that every school in the United States should follow. But it’s not easy, if it was, everyone would do it. And as Kelly will describe below she has faced many challenges. In fact, on the eve of the below speech the SEA, (Springboro Education Association) filed a complaint against Kelly’s school board for unfair labor practices—which I will get into more detail in a bit.

I knew when I attended The Golden Lamb meeting years ago that good things were going to come out of Kelly Kohls and I am very proud of the very good work she has done. It is far from easy to stand up to organized labor the way she has, but her district is much, much better for it. If you watched the video above, you learned that Springboro’s per pupil costs are on a downward trend. They are now into the $7,000 range down from the mid $8,000 range and this is unprecedented for any school board anywhere in Ohio. They are actually now projecting a budget surplus which is also unprecedented. In addition, Kelly has managed to bring up the weaknesses in the district rating system and performance of students by setting new standards of performance that are not driven by union controlled lobby expectations, but instead by common sense.

One of the major ways that Kelly has managed to gain control of the costs in Springboro is that she convinced her school board to drop out of the OSBA organization. The Ohio School Board Association is a membership driven entity that is locked arm and arm with the Ohio Education Association, the largest teacher labor union in Ohio. The goal of the OSBA is to train new school board members to show the community a unified front while actually taking direction from the teacher union leadership. As soon as school board members are elected they are whisked away to Columbus for a weekend of “bonding” with other education professionals so that loyalties can be achieved and consensus delivered. This always works against the tax payers and does absolutely no good in controlling education budgets. Kelly’s school board has cancelled their membership to the OSBA and instead has started her own leadership group designed to teach school board members to think independently of the OSBA and the OEA.

Another thing that Kelly revealed in her speech that was very illuminating was that Ohio no longer requires teachers to have a master’s degree from college to teach—which is contrary to what many districts have been telling the public when levy pushes are provoked. If I had a quarter for every time a teacher stated that they had to pursue a master’s degree to become a kindergarten teacher at Lakota there would be enough money to fund that school for decades with the result. The required master’s degree mandate uttered from public schools has been deliberately misleading. Ohio for four years now has dropped the requirement for master’s degrees for public education teachers. The pursuit of master’s degrees has artificially driven up the labor costs of teachers through step increases which amplify budget costs. Kelly has begun to make decisions from her school board with that knowledge which has led to a savings of the overall district financial requirements.

Of course the labor unions have had many problems with Kelly Kohls. After the meeting shown above Kelly and I had a good laugh reminiscing about all the reporters we know who eat out of the hand of the OSBA and local teacher unions. For Kelly it is the Dayton Daily News, a Cox Media division that writes many hit pieces against her. For me it has become The Cincinnati Enquirer which has been chronicled with much fanfare. The newspapers are functioning from a position of desperation. They need content to fill their paper and they often get that content from the local school system. They need a good relationship with the school system more than they need a relationship with the reformers of education, so loyalties fall in line accordingly. But in Kelly’s case, especially now that she’s the president of her school board, the media needs her again, but she doesn’t need them—so they are in a precarious situation in Springboro, Ohio.

The unions see the writing on the wall under the leadership of Kelly Kohls, and know that they are losing their power and influence. There is no public tolerance for a strike in Springboro or any of the Southern Ohio districts, so they know they cannot play that card in the future to extort more money from the district. Unions are also losing the power of the media, because the negative press they attempt to wield has only helped Kelly Kohls and those like her become stronger and more influential. So when Kelly indicated that the school board wished to begin negotiations on a contract that is up in June of 2013 the SEA union filed a motion against Kelly’s school board with an “unfair labor practice” complaint. The union desires to not negotiate the new union contract until the last minute, using chaos to drive up the costs in their favor, which is an old union tactic. Kelly, being a good manager is trying to get the contract negotiated well before hand so that the numbers come out in favor of the district—which is what she is supposed to do. The action taken by the union is a toothless gesture. Without question they will attempt the same tactic again and again in the months to come trying to turn the public sentiment against Kohls, but it won’t work. Kelly will gain in popularity with each labor attempt because normal people admire courage, and respect people who stand squarely against adversity. So the more the Dayton Daily News writes about the labor dispute in Springboro, the stronger the public will lean in Kelly’s direction. This has placed the Springboro school board for the first time in perhaps 100 years in a position of strength, and is certainly a modern first in Ohio. Kelly’s Springboro school board is the shining modern example of how a school board should operate, and they are having immediate and noticeable success that is very dramatic.

The success of Springboro is dispelling all the myths that levy advocates for public education have been using to increase property taxes with an ultimate subtle aim of fulfilling Agenda 21 goals by collapsing suburbs through taxation using progressive groups like labor unions to set the mechanisms in place. The unfortunate victims have been the children who by Kelly’s charts have been denied proper educations in favor of an education system designed to benefit the adult employees at the expense of youth. The fight that Kelly has been combating is one that is of the highest honor, because in the history of Ohio far into the future, it will be remembered who fought on behalf of the children, and the future of not only Ohio, Springboro, or education in general, but the future of all mankind in the minds of our youth. Kelly Kohls is fighting that fight and has been successful. Now all the children of the world need is more brave souls to join Kelly in this fight against education tyranny so that proper management of tax payer resources can be provided, and the children can directly benefit. The thieves of public education need to be put out of business, and it takes tough ladies like Kelly Kohls and a handful of others to advance that cause in order to preserve our species from the downward spiral that is currently engulfing us all in public education.

If you are a school board member or would like to become one and need guidance, please feel free to contact Kelly Kohls and the other members of the OSBLC (Ohio School board Leadership Council) at the link below.

http://ohioschoolboardleadershipcouncil.com/board.htm

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Doc Thompson Gives Governor Cuomo Deserved Satire: The progressive, gun grabbing, snakes in the grass

If you haven’t heard Doc Thompson yet on The Blaze Radio Network in the mornings from 6 AM to 9 AM you are missing out. No progressive politician is avoiding his scrupulous judgment and commentary. This especially holds true of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo who was one of the first gun banning politicians to attempt to capitalize off the misery of the Sandy Hook shooting. For those who don’t know who the governor of the most “progressive” state in The United States is, Andrew Mark Cuomo was born December 6, 1957) is the 56th Governor of New York. He previously served as the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1997 to 2001, and as the Attorney General of New York from 2007 to 2010. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and the son of Mario Cuomo, the 52nd Governor of New York. In the video below, Doc has some fun at the Governor’s expense—which is quite well deserved.

It is absolutely appalling how progressives hide like snakes in the grass and strike quickly when an opportunity presents itself on the backs of death and carnage. Progressives like Cuomo wish for continuous expansion of government at the expense of freedom and they will stoop to no low too great to gain advancement of progressive politics. Cuomo disgustingly used the shooting deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary to call out for the removal of guns from society working against The Bill of Rights in the American Constitution. The gun ban in New York has nothing to do with preventative measures protecting children and everything to do with a long-term global plan to disarm every household in the entire world so that all those residences would be dependent on government to protect them.

Progressives are like abusive husbands who are so insecure about their manhood that they won’t let their wives leave their homes for fear that their spouses will find a better man at the grocery, the lingerie store, or even the gas station. Progressives know that their ideas run against the natural tendency of the human being to pursue freedom so they can only gain compliance into their faulty philosophy by taking away the keys to the car, and making their spouses so dependent on them that it is fear that keeps them coming back to bed night after night, not loyalty or love.

Progressives want gun control for the same reason; they cannot allow private citizens to defend themselves from an imposing government. Progressives require fear in order for anybody to buy into their form of leadership. Government schools use fear to pass school levies and increase taxes on private property. Federal government uses race inequality fear to advance civil rights debates while the other hand racks up tremendous debt following the 45 Points of communism that reside behind the Democratic Party. CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS LIST AND CONFIRM THE TRUTH. And politicians like Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg in New York City seek gun control to keep citizens from being able to stick up for themselves against a reckless debt ridden government who requires 100% of society to participate in their massive scam against life itself. Those politicians use fear to disarm the public in the same way that a robber tells their victims, “put your hands where we can see them, drop your weapons, and do what we say—and you can live. Now—hand over your money.”

When Doc Thompson calls these politicians out the way he does, he does society a great service in pointing out the wrongs that progressives are attempting to conduct in a mass scale in a never-ending expansion of government driven by fear espoused by collectivist based personalities like Andrew Cuomo. Gun control is just a way to disarm the public so that they cannot defend themselves in the future from the dictator tendencies of progressives. It should not be forgotten that Mayor Bloomberg, Cuomo’s contemporary has put restrictions on soft drinks and other needless regulations that paints a clear picture of the kind of people progressives are. They stand against freedom in every way such definitions can be termed, and they are a menace to the very lives of anybody who desires self-responsibility.

Progressives use fear to advance their agenda of control and manipulation over others. They are like the jealous husband with a poor-self image of themselves—they are always afraid that the public will see something better and flee their control at the first sign, so the progressive seeks to take away all options so that society has no place else to turn. When a man hides the car keys from his wife so that she doesn’t sneak out the back door with a fresh pair of panties looking for a lover who embraces her freedom, and doesn’t attempt to suppress it, the husband has caused the problem in the first place by injecting into the marriage mistrust that makes lovemaking in the bedroom impossible. The progressive knows that their ideas are flawed, but like the husband they want to take away guns, soft drinks, and all social options so that society will stay loyal to them because no other options exist. The actions of the progressive are abusive because it denies society of freedom the same as the jealous husband is bad for the confined wife who seeks a silent rebellion out of marital infidelity. The tighter progressives squeeze society through restriction, the more society will want to buy guns, drink HUGE soft drinks, and rebel against that same well-intended government. The husband rationalizes that he just wants to keep his marriage together by taking away all the options his wife has, and keeping her in the bedroom—his bedroom, is good for the marriage. But the husband is the cause of the wife wishing to flee because he does not have the self-esteem to be the better option. The progressives like Andrew Cuomo fear the same and cause the same but on a much bigger scale. Just look at gun sales lately. And when they impose their insecurities on society, they deserve to be made fun of by personalities like Doc Thompson who is simply pointing out the ludicrous nature of progressives and their massive cost to society not only fiscally, but emotionally.

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Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

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Lakota Schools Does NOT Need a School Levy in 2013: Meet the new Homearama Carriage Hill Development

Not all things at the Lakota School System have been bad. I personally like the treasurer for Lakota, Jenni Logan. She is very competent and is more than able to manage a multimillion dollar budget. School board members Ben Dibble, Ray Murray, and Linda O’Conner I personally like, even though they are way to the political left of me. I think they mean well. And the current spokesman Randy Oppenheimer seems to be a pretty honest person with his heart in the right place. Even though I think spokesmen for public education should be illegal, Randy is not bad at his job. Recently in the Hamilton Journal Randy gave an honest assessment of Lakota’s financial situation that deserves recognition. He stated along with reports from many other local schools regarding Governor Kasich’s new education budget that Lakota had been planning for a reduction in state funding so the news that cuts would not be forthcoming was seen as a budget surplus. The quote from the paper can be seen below with a link to the article following.

“Lakota Local Schools — with enrollment around 16,625 — is set to receive $35.6 million in 2013; and would receive $4.1 million or 11.6 percent more the first year, and $849,318 or 2.1 percent the second year. “We had projected a cut in funding, and the governor made his comments (last week) and indicated we couldn’t be cut,” said Lakota spokesman Randy Oppenheimer. “Any increase in funding is good news.”

http://www.journal-news.com/news/news/local/7-school-districts-may-receive-boost-in-state-fund/nWJdW/

That statement says that at least some of the management team at Lakota is crunching the numbers properly. At this point I have my doubts but logic would dictate that Lakota shouldn’t ask for another school levy for more than a decade since their student enrollment is set to decline over that time span. When Lakota was asking for school levies every 6 months a couple of years ago and we were fighting like cats and dogs Lakota had a student population of over 18,000. By the time The United States elects another president Lakota’s enrollment should hover just over 10,000, and I would expect that the staff of over 2000 employees would have to be cut to reflect that loss in demand. There may even be a combination of schools where some of the buildings will sit empty for lack of need. This is good news for the tax payers of Lakota as they should be able to save millions upon millions in staff that costs a lot of money in salary and benefits. If Lakota is smart, like some of the people who have emerged within the last couple of years have shown themselves to be, they wouldn’t ask for another levy till well after 2020. Their tax base will stabilize, new businesses continue to move into the area which contributes money to that base consistently—which should flood the market with new money once the Liberty Way development takes off in 2014, and home sales from the Carriage Hill development where Homearoma is taking place in the summer of 2013 will contribute revenue per household well above the 250K per pupil tax base needed to maintain a funding model of 20 mills. CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT CARRIAGE HILL.

http://www.carriagehillliving.com/homearama/

Those are all wonderful and exciting things. Carriage Hill and the Liberty Way shopping complex will naturally expand the tax base while student enrollment will be declining rapidly bringing down the cost demands at the Lakota School System, if management does not give away the kitchen sink to the employees with excessively high labor contracts. I would think that it would be worth a reasonable salary of between 50K per year to 60K per year for a 10 to 20 year veteran of education to teach at Lakota where the kids are nice, the parents care about their children, and the community is thriving versus going after 70K to 80K per year in salary teaching in a district like CPS which is a declining community because the taxes are too high and there are way too many parents on government assistance, which statistically leads to poverty and crime.

The people who aren’t happy at Lakota are those who push for more school levies that also happen to be real estate agents, people like Joan Powell who is the current president of the school board, and tax advocates like Pam Parrino who is also involved in real estate. CLICK HERE to review when she threatened radio station WLW for giving me airtime to discuss school salaries hoping to discourage that kind of activity in the future—which obviously didn’t work. When it became obvious to me that these types of people were using the Lakota School System to sell properties in their fields of endeavor by pushing for perpetual tax increases, exploding student enrollment by selling homes to families in the demographic age of 25 to 35 with 2.1 children per household, and covering the activity on the backs of children’s needs, the civil discussion we had been conducting erupted into an all out fight. When the levy supports couldn’t win a tax increase from the public on the merit of argument they turned to more deceitful peer pressure and personal destruction. I have never put up with that kind of thing, and I never will. My current thoughts about those school levy advocates is that I don’t want 2/3 of my property tax bill to find its way into any of their pockets even indirectly. And I will work my ass off to make sure that the more than 20,000 homes in Lakota who do not have children in the district learn of the motivations of those types of people because the only way to keep money safe is with a defeat at the ballot box. I’ve seen enough evidence from the other political side to know that none of the levy support had one ounce of anything regarding the well-being of children. It was for the well-being of the real estate agents who wanted an easy home sale and to make money off chaos in the Lakota community.

The home owners who purchase homes ranging from $700,000 to $1.2 million at the new Carriage Hill development are not the types of families who bring 2.1 children into a school district seeking to flood the market with a desire to for free babysitting while they work an average job at P & G, climbing up their personal career ladder. The people looking to purchase homes in Carriage Hill will be successful people in their own right and most likely will find instruction for their children in private schools or tutors and won’t use the services of Lakota anyway—even though like the rest of us without kids in the school, will have to pay for it.

I don’t like the idea of having to spend the next 40 years of my life paying for kids to attend Lakota through my property taxes. I don’t like the amount I pay now, so an increase is unfathomably ridiculous and I know that the people who invest in communities like Lakota won’t keep their money in the distinct if they find it continuously stolen from them by short term thinking levy supporters. The fight in the Lakota School District is not over children, it’s over whether or not Lakota becomes the next Fairfield—overrun with Section 8 housing and degraded property value or continues to increase in value like Indian Hill has over the years with managed development and growth. Chaos and reactive spending will not lead to perpetual prosperity. The growth of the Lakota district has more to do with residents fleeing high tax communities from around the country than the nice trees and school system that levy supporters believe. It is low taxes and prosperity that are the most attractive feature to the affluent property owner, and that must be protected if the district wishes to maintain its value in the future.

Lucky for people like Jenni Logan, Ben Dibble, Ray Murray, Linda O’Conner and Randy Oppenheimer the numbers work in their favor at Lakota to not just sustain themselves but survive well into the future maintaining an Excellent with Distinction rating that reflects the community it resides in, even if the most affluent send their kids to private instruction. I hope they accept the manageable challenge of allowing the enrollment rates to decrease as the tax base stabilizes without asking for further tax dollars. That would be the responsible thing to do in virtually every facet of community management. The worst thing they could do is listen to the short sided utterances of their levy hound real-estate agents who want a levy increase to lure in more panicky 30-year-old parents who cry over every drop of spilled milk and perceived threat to their children’s lives who are still children themselves and willing to spend infinite amounts of money on education to compensate for their own internal insecurities as parents. Those are not the kind of people who should shape the direction of our community for the future. So a lot rests on how the school management team above handles 2013 at the Lakota School District and the numbers that are now known before them.

We’ll see………………………………………………

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The 100K Club in Public Education: Good reporting by Channel 5 in Cincinnati

It’s was good to see that Channel 5 did a hard-hitting story on the extreme abuse that is going on in the Cincinnati Public Schools. They revealed that 45 employees at CPS were making over 100K per year, which is appalling, especially considering the poor performance of CPS as an institution. Further they went on to report that there are over 100 employees who make more than 90K a year. While this may be shocking, and an inconvenient statistic for those who do not want to believe that their local public school is raking tax payers over the coals using the innocence of children as the extortion mechanism, the reality is quite evident.

I reported two years ago that there were over 625 employees at Lakota who made more than 65K per year which I thought was extraordinarily high compared to the salaries of the majority of the community of West Chester—which is an affluent community. It doesn’t take much investigation to determine that the cause of many of the tax increase requests that go on in every community every couple of years in Ohio is due exclusively to this glaring statistic. Public school employees make too much money, and some of them have been down-right outrageous in their wage expectations.

Most of the employees who are members of the 100K club in public schools are administrators, not teachers. But in public education most administrators come from the ranks of the teaching profession and are deeply loyal to the teachers unions of which they were at one point members. As members of management they do not have any desire to ruffle the feathers of political order and instead seek to increase their own salaries so that the teachers in the union can justifiably see pay increases as well. As members of management the more administrators who make close to six figures the better for a teacher with a Master’s Degrees because all boats rise in the public education system under union rules. If an administrator makes a lot of money, the wage limit for teachers goes up proportionally. This is how management gives the illusion that they fight the union while at the same time helping them with expectations that have already been set high by members of the 100K club. Any half intelligent analysis will quickly determine that the whole system is a giant financial scam that uses children to hide the crime—and a crime it is. You can read more about the Channel 5 report at the link below.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/local-news/cincinnati/45-CPS-employees-members-of-100K-Club/-/13549970/18400362/-/w49rfi/-/index.html

At best the whole public education system is a massive scam and I personally get angry about it when it seeks to exploit children the way they all do, which is why I call the activity a crime. To use children for the personal gain of a comfortable salary and retirement pension is just as exploitive as any other crime that hurts children for the personal pleasure of an individual. When asked why a teacher is worth 60K to 90K and an administrator is worth 90K to 150K they will all say that they have many years of service in the teaching profession and that their “quality” is exceptional and the district is paying for that quality. They will also say that they do what they do because they “love children.” Bull————-shit. I would believe that coming from an employee who works for 45K per year and stays late into the night and volunteers their time to children off the clock—as a few do—just so they can help mentor kids. I don’t mind people, who fight for their right to make a dollar or two more, but I can’t stand a liar, and these public education employees who inflate the value of their wages on the backs of children are liars.

As an example of what is really behind the motive of public school employees have a look at the contract that Keith Kline just signed to be superintendent of West Clermont Schools. I recently told the story of Keith Kline who had left the Lakota System, which is why I have been keeping an eye on him. Upon looking at his contract, I dare anyone to logically explain to me that he gets paid $138K per year for a 218 day work year and is doing all this work for “The kids.” The last time I checked there was 365 days in a year. By the way this contract reads Kline is NOT required to work 147 days per year. Plus, he gets paid back a quarter of all sick days not used during the 218 day period. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW MY PREVIOUS ARTICLE.

Below are the specifics of the superintendent contract for Keith Kline at West Clermont Schools

-$138,000 salary which can never be reduced
(Brook’s–previous superintendent–first salary $118,000/last salary $145,000)
-2013/14 year there are 3 goals to meet, and each one
met will kick in a 1% salary increase
-After that the board will provide goals and guidance on raises
-Pension is picked up 100% (so an additional $13,800 in compensation on top of the $19320 (14%) that has to be paid by statute)
and if the pickup is ever legally taken away (legislation/board changes)
then the pickup amount is added to the base salary to cover it.
-Same health care as WCEA
-$500000 life insurance policy, beneficiaries are 50% family/50% board of education
-An annuity (additional retirement benefit) of 6.5% of salary for every contract year (pro-rated this year, but annual rate would be no less than $8970).
-Medicare tax paid up to $2000 per year
-Board pays all professional membership dues
-218 day work year
-Board president may allow 15 additional days worked above 218 at a per diem rate (for this year that would be $633 per day).
-Allowed same sick leave as WCEA
-Severance of 1/4 unused sick leave up to 65 days to be paid at retirement
-Mileage reimbursement at IRS rates

Knowing a bit about Kline since he worked at Lakota and had the arrogance to stand out in the parking lot of Lakota East and deride parents who were upset that they had to bring their kids to school because of the busing cuts—that they “should have passed the levy” there is a history that provides material for judgment. I’m sure he would declare that he’s put in his years of service and that his compensation isn’t any more extraordinary than the package of Karen Mantia, the superintendent of Lakota or any other public school. He believes that he’s in it for the “good” of the community because he WON’T face the truth to himself that he’s in a money racket that hides behind the collective façade of public education. The culture in government schools is that there is safety in numbers and nobody passes judgment because they all believe that if they put in the years of silence and time, that they have a payday coming to them before their retirement age of 55. Keith I’m sure believes he is owed a contract like the one above no matter how ridiculous the rest of us thinks it is compared to private sector market driven benefits.

No teacher is worth six figures. And I would say that very, very few administrators should be in any kind of 100K club. Their jobs are not that important or difficult. I have told school officials to their faces during the Lakota Levy days that I would not only teach their classes but I would volunteer to teach 4 at the same time. I said as much to the Spark Magazine at Lakota East during an interview in 2011, which of course never found its way into print. The trick public schools use against the tax payers is that they have a monopoly on the education system and severely attack ANY form of competition that would exploit their money racket with reality of a market driven system. They have control of the social presence of their product and of the value of that market by artificially setting the value high because nobody can ever challenge their statistics. Public school employees can maintain the extortion racket so long as they have a monopoly on the education system. They are well aware of what they are doing. Fortunately for them few people call them out on it, so give Channel 5 some credit for doing this recent story. Not too many news organizations are willing to go against the grain and expose the exploitation of children like Channel 5 did most recently, and Brendan Keefe at Channel 9 has done in the past. (CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW) There’s a lot of politics that goes on behind the scenes, so it’s tough business to expose these education manipulators, but sometimes there are members of the press who boldly do the job of reporting as it is supposed to be done, and on this particular story, Channel 5 did the tax payers an incredible service that is crucial to the protection of a thriving society.

For anyone who thinks I’m being too hard on these education employees, or who think that Channel 5 did an “unfair” reporting job of exposing these extraordinary salaries, then advocate letting those same officials prove their market value in head to head competition with other schools by supporting School Choice in Ohio. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO. The true value of these employees in public education will quickly be exploited, and they would learn quickly what life in the real world is really like—the world that the rest of us who don’t work for government function under.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Why No Amount Of Money Can Fix Public Education: John Kasich and Bill Cunningham ponder the universe

It’s too bad that the two guys in the interview below did not read the popular book Fifty Shades of Grey as I did, because they would understand more about the world. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW. The interview on 700 WLW between Governor John Kasich and Bill Cunningham was a sad mixed message between a couple of old politicians having a porch swinging discussion believing they are both staunch conservatives but often leaning toward secular progressivism. Kasich in the interview actually comes out in support of the kind of wealth redistribution plans that President Obama must have given him during their recent golf outing—where wealthy school districts are required to increase their local taxes through levies because “they can pay.” It is sad to hear a governor that once had so many good ideas and was willing to take on special interest groups speak on Cunningham’s show sounding like a broken horse that has been dominated by a determined rider. Kasich in 2013 prances about predictably in an obvious run for President in 2016, and is more willing to walk on egg shells politically than to take on the groups representing secular progressivism. Listen to that interview for yourself.

Behind those mixed messages in the interview is a real fear of making women groups angry and catching the negative attention of progressive groups like Progress Ohio and the multiple labor unions. There is no desire by Kasich to address why the teaching profession continuous to dump massive amounts of money into education without getting the results back in the proper education of children. He fears what most public personalities fear—in being called names by women’s groups because most teaching positions are held by women. Cunningham and Kasich specifically spoke about Mason and Lakota—both considered wealthy districts, and when I have brought up in the past the ineffectiveness of teachers making over $60K per year and suggested that Lakota could get the same results from teachers making $45K to $55K per year keeping their budget under control, the information is ignored out of fearful neurosis. The progressive levy supporting neurotic parents who feel tremendous guilt about raising their children in day care and under public education have always gathered together against any opposition to their bottomless pit spending proposals and they attack any sort of management of those resources. They can’t explain why more money in education doesn’t work, they simple suggest that no limit exists because the subject involves children. When they can’t answer the question they go on personal attacks like Laura Sanders did with me at Lakota in the Cincinnati Enquirer saying, “Mr. Hoffman uses misogynistic and vile language when addressing women and mothers because most teachers are in fact, women and mothers. He wants the public to think that he is merely attempting to rein in public school spending, but his underlying mission is really one of hatred and fear of women earning decent salaries. He alone is the destructive force behind the last three levy failures, and I hope this … convinces the women in our community that he is not a rational or credible source for the counterpoint argument.” That is why I say that men who cave into such criticism have not read Fifty Shades of Grey. If they did, they would understand what is behind such comments……..and it has nothing to do with children.

Kasich on the cusp of a run for a second term followed by a run for President does not want such confrontations so he has failed to explain why education in America no matter how much money is spent on it will fail. In fact, Lakota and Mason could spend six figure salaries on all their teachers and pass all their levies for the next twenty years and education will still be bad because the bottom line issues would still be left unresolved. The reason is actually quite simple and is the 1 million pound elephant in the room. The teaching profession has allowed progressive instruction to infest the school curriculums resulting in a very confused society—one that is accurately reflected in the Kasich/Cunningham interview. Education has not fulfilled the ambitious task set out upon the foundation of our country and instead has been infused with political agendas masking themselves as “goodness” and using pure emotion to advance diabolical plans. People like Laura Sanders attacks anyone who criticizes a baby sitting service people like her have come to rely on and politicians like Kasich have no desire to shoulder those criticisms. Politicians avoid a confrontation with irrationality at all cost—which causes the education failures. This is why politicians tend to throw money at education and hope that people will love them for it without ever determining if it is the quality of education itself that is at fault.

The failures in educational quality can be narrowed down to roughly six categories—the instruction of deconstructionism, post structuralism, the discouragement of American Exceptionlism, and the advancement of modernism, minimalism, and academic collectivism. It is within those six basic categories that education will fail no matter how much money is spent on children. If children are instructed in destructive social tendencies—which they are—they will grow up to become unsuccessful adults. So caving into the progressive feminist movement talking points will not help our kids while those same irrational feminists are still flooding the book market reading Fifty Shades of Grey and fantasizing about what they really want in life. Money cannot fix minds that are sick with secular progressivism shaped by many years of exposure to the categories below.

Deconstruction– A philosophical movement and theory of literary criticism that questions traditional assumptions about certainty, identity, and truth; asserts that words can only refer to other words; and attempts to demonstrate how statements about any text subvert their own meanings: “In deconstruction, the critic claims there is no meaning to be found in the actual text, but only in the various, often mutually irreconcilable, ‘virtual texts’ constructed by readers in their search for meaning” (Rebecca Goldstein).

Post-structuralism primarily encompasses the intellectual developments of certain mid-20th-century French and continental philosophers and theorists. The movement is difficult to summarize, but may be broadly understood as a body of distinct responses to structuralism, which argued that human culture may be understood as a series of signs or symbols; or, put differently, that human culture may be understood by means of a structure -— modeled on language —- that is distinct both from the organizations of reality and the organization of ideas and imagination — a “third order.”^[1] The precise nature of the revision or critique of structuralism differs with each post-structuralist author, though common themes include the rejection of the self-sufficiency of the structures that structuralism posits and an interrogation of the binary oppositions that constitute those structures.^[2] Writers whose work is often characterised as post-structuralist include Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Julia Kristeva. The movement is closely related to postmodernism. As with structuralism, anti-humanism, as a rejection of the enlightenment subject, is often a central tenet. Existential phenomenology is a significant influence; one commentator has argued that post-structuralists might just as accurately be called “post-phenomenologists.”^[3]

American exceptionalism is the proposition that the United States is different from other countries in that it has a specific world mission to spread liberty and democracy.^[1] It is not a notion that the United States is quantitatively better than other countries or that it has a superior culture, but rather that it is “qualitatively different”.^[2] In this view, America’s exceptionalism stems from its emergence from a revolution, becoming what political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset called “‘the first new nation,’…other than Iceland, to become independent”,^[3] and developing a uniquely American ideology, based on liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism and laissez-faire.^[4] This observation can be traced to Alexis de Tocqueville, the first writer to describe the United States as “exceptional” in 1831 and 1840.^[5]

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I, were among the factors that shaped Modernism. Related terms are modern, modernist, contemporary, and postmodern.

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts. Minimalism is any design or style in which the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post–World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with this movement include Donald Judd, John McCracken, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella. It is rooted in the reductive aspects of Modernism, and is often interpreted as a reaction against Abstract expressionism and a bridge to Postminimal art practices.

Academic Collecitivism The fifth and final sophism by the left that undermines realism, truth and historical accuracy, or what David Barton in his new book on Jefferson calls “the five malpractices of modern history,” is Academic Collectivism, “whereby writers and scholars quote each other and those from their peer group rather than consult original sources. This destructive and harmful tendency now dominates the modern academic world, with a heavy reliance on peer review as the almost exclusive standard for historical truth.”

It is a combination of those items being taught to American children that has caused me to no longer support traditional education centralized in public schools. Public schools have failed to teach generations of Americans now how to be good, productive adults and I cannot in good conscience support them with $1 let alone many thousands of dollars as all government schools demand. Secular progressive education is the cause of many of the degrading values that are seen in our current culture and it makes no sense to require ALL of society to fund through extortion the teaching of children secular progressive political agenda points when half of society does not support that political affiliation. Parents like Laura Sanders at Lakota may think the above descriptions have too many big words, and prefers the easy explanation that “more education equals good kids” mode of thinking. But the facts do not match reality. Kasich on the other hand knows that the problem of education is much more complex, but since he feels he lost his authority over the Senate Bill 5 debate and was told on the golf courses of life from personalities like Bill Cunningham that Kasich needs to step away from Tea Party ideas if he has any hopes of a second term as governor, that he needs to change his tune–and he has. Kasich has surrendered logic to the neurosis of angry activists who are living two lives, one of crusading parents lobbying for tax increases to save the lives of their children while secretly locking themselves in their bedrooms for hours reading Fifty Shades of Grey.

Lucky for those confused citizens who are so embedded with secular progressivism that it’s not against the law to be a social menace due to faulty thinking. They confuse conservative ideas with education deconstruction that is more interested in teaching children to have sex out-of-wedlock so they become dependent on government programs early in life, or teaching children about gender equality when it takes strong families to build a proper tax base, than to teach children to be social producers in every sense of the word. Public education teaches dependency, not independence, and that is what makes government schools worthless at any value of tax revenue, and until that issue is dealt with, public education should be replaced with competitive alternatives. The monopoly needs to be broken up so the real cost of education can be discovered, and driven down like costs in the private sector have been.

In the respect of Kasich and his friend Bill Cunningham who are both products of Lyndon B. Johnston’s Great Society they are unable to address the true complexity of the modern problems in education because deep in their hearts, as is in evidence by their discussion on WLW, they are both confused themselves, driven by their own self interests and unable to see the truth fully. They are in essence no different from parents like Laura Sanders who confuses a whole mess of social issues into her support for a school levy. The same duality is present in such levy supporters who socially show one side of themselves, but in their private lives have made Fifty Shades of Grey the most popular novel in the entire history of novels. The cost of education is all about hiding these mixed realities that people try to maintain to avoid addressing the real issues. Public education is rotten with secular progressivism and must be starved out of existence before any intelligent discussion about financing the future of children can be addressed. So long as those six traits are being taught in modern education, no tax money should flow into any education instruction from the tax payer. If progressive advocates want to privately fund such activity, then Laura Sanders can send her children there at her expense. But to force all Americans to pay for such progressive ideas that are destructive not just to the children, but the future of America is insane. Yet the problem is simply too big for Kasich to address during a 15 minute interview with Bill Cunningham on 700 WLW. If they even brought up such a topic, then Kasich might be called a “woman hater” for not wanting to pay teachers infinite amounts of money for being glorified baby sitters. The trouble is with the content that the teachers are teaching, not the teachers themselves that is the big problem in education and has proven to be a worthless product that is bringing students ill prepared to their destinies. Public education has left kids lost and confused living with their parents till thirty years old and jobless. That is why public education isn’t worth another dime, and why it’s a dismal failure in need of a major overhaul which nobody has the courage to address.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Financial Health of America: How to adapt to the coming crises

This is the day of the Superbowl and as I watched the festivities of the day and thought about the countless parties going on all over America I had some thoughts about economics in The United States that I wanted to share. I have covered so many radio broadcasts here at the OW over the years that I have moved on to new ways of communicating just to avoid redundancy. For instance, when Darryl Parks covered two years ago the coming financial crises in America, he was talking about the time we are currently in. CLICK HERE to revisit that broadcast and compare that broadcast to this new one done on 700 WLW during the first day of February 2013. A lot of ground has been covered between the Darryl Parks broadcast of a couple of years ago and this recent one, but the scope of the problem is very accurately displayed for even economically naive listeners to understand. Have a listen:

This financial crisis is the paramount topic of our day. The state of our economy is changing rapidly and soon many of those who thought that finance in America was an impregnable fortress will soon learn what epic failure and a commitment to socialism has done to us all. With student debt collapsing our economy as we speak, the old idea of retiring at 65 years old off a nice pension and other government driven revenue is gone forever. Instead Americans in their mid-40’s on down will have to face a new reality for financing their lives and the luxury of one income to handle all their affairs just won’t do.

In my own life I have begun writing books to help fuel my own later years with additional sources of personal income, because the old traditional model will become obsolete in the coming years. With the collapse of the American economy so to will the idea of working one job for eight hours every day go away. In the future it may take 3 or 4 jobs requiring 10 to 30 hours each week to commit to, and that is the result of the massive plundering that has went on in our nation’s government.

College will not help fix this problem; it has only made it worse, because our education system has saturated the marketplace with too many employees trained in skills that do not have revenue generating potential. The best jobs for college graduates are government jobs, because the private sector has not been able to sustain government intrusion and preserve profitability while maintaining the financial promises of a university degree. Unions also won’t help, because like colleges, they have improperly skewed the profitability of their enterprises with redistributive wealth reforms that have had the opposite effect of their intentions. Just a quick glance at the economic viability of Detroit, and the state of California provides all the proof one needs to predict the future of economies driven by these forces.

What this means is that a massive exodus of tax contributions is about to hit The United States government and they are not prepared to deal with that grim reality peacefully. I recently spoke about the cost of high taxes pushing people out of their homes. An empty home does not contribute taxes to a school district, or a police department, or those beloved firefighters embedded into our minds as heroes from the Fisher Price toys we played with as children. When citizens can no longer make money off their jobs or own property, there is nothing for government to tax—there is no way to steal the money away from the citizens—and the government will go bankrupt once people lose the will to participate. That will is quickly disappearing.

A failure to address these issues back when Darryl Parks first did his broadcast with Porter Standsberry has caused this current crisis to impact the lives of millions of families, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. I put this recent broadcast up today so that a trend can be seen by the intelligent reader/viewer. These broadcasts are more than doomsday entertainment, they are more than skeptical speculation; they are quite real in their announcements of economic disaster. I believe that the downward economic trend is unavoidable and those who will survive are those who adjust their lives to these changing conditions. The keys to this new survival are to keep student debt down. Keep credit card debt low to non-existent. And do many things for a living—not just one specialized thing. Avoid high looting taxes because with every tax dollar you throw away to government, you will have to work a part-time job or two here and there to cover the cost of those taxes. Keep it simple and stay out-of-the-way, because things will get ugly before they get better. And most importantly, think like a “producer” not a “consumer.” Conditions will get ugly because too many people are in denial of the present state of affairs, and refuse to acknowledge the true economic status of The United States. Take broadcasts like the one done on 700 WLW and cherish the information, because failure to act will lead your family down a dark path that will most likely end very poorly for all involved.

Enjoy the Superbowl. Hope your team won. Depending on how you answer that will determine your ability to avoid trouble in the coming days.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Difference between Us and Them: Morning Joe Team shocked by NRA advertisement

‘One of the grossest things they have ever seen?’ This is what the Morning Joe Team on the Progressive channel MSNBC said in regard to a recent NRA advertisement. Obviously these people don’t remember how poorly George Bush’s children were treated when he was president. But they have conveniently forgotten all about that now. Watch and listen how shallow the minds and memory of these progressives are.

There is no dealing with people like this from the “lean forward” channel. Wasn’t that the campaign slogan for the last Lakota school levy, and Barry Obama’s latest run for President? Progressivism is for these mush minded types, not real Americans. They haven’t a clue as to what the Constitution is about, nor do they care to learn. They wish us all to “lean forward” straight into the same brick wall that all of Europe is hitting. They are the primary example of why America must never give up their guns, because it will be these types of people who will run everything.

They can’t even remember the Bush Presidency which was only 5 years ago.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

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