A Educational Nightmare at Rochester Public Schools - Independent School District #535!

 I kept hearing this theme, over and over from the lady who runs the homeschooling program in the Rochester Public School Corporation - Independent School District #535 when we signed the kids out of their school's.

The thing is, I had already done extensive research on the subject and  I have detailed knowledge of the fact that homeschool kids can go to college, often do and many times are as is or more successful than their public school counterparts.

This was from an email I received inviting us to an event were a meeting and training event was going to take place on this very subject.  

Lynn Norby, to help us during our discussion on this topic.

Lynn is a veteran home school Mom, who started the MCGT Homeschool Chapter and STAR Academy. She has 4 grown children whom she homeschooled (some part-time and some full-time). 

Her children have each gone on to very successful college careers (including Notre Dame, the U of MN, and SJU). Lynn has very helpful information and examples for putting together a homeschool transcript necessary for college admissions.

 The lady quite literally must have repeated it 25 times and before finally giving me the paper I needed to sign and turn into the school corporation making our declaration to the superintendent within 15 days.
I hate people, who when they speak to you, act like the words coming out of their mouths are the "words of God" and you must down down and start kissing the very feet they walk on.

I, even in my research, have found many websites similar to education-portal.com (link),
which offer online courses anyone can and test out on with accredited exams, accepted by thousands of colleges nation wide.  

I expected this treatment, as the majority of the people we have encountered at the administration building so far have been very high strung and really have serious "God" complexes that need to be addressed.
If you do not give them the respect they demand regardless of whether or not they deserve it, you run into serious problems as we did, as they get off on control and conformity, and bucking this trend does not fit their narrow minded, robot like view of life.  

I know how bad public school's are in America.
The local educator's know the lasting destructive effects' of "No Child Left Behind" and now, "Common Core" that is being implanted right now.
Even teacher's I know personally, who communicate with me on Facebook regularly, weren't surprised when they read the blog/ Facebook posts and were told about the shitty, unethical, harassing things local school administrator's kept doing to us.
They, as teacher's have experienced a lot of the same unethical, unprofessional, ill willed driven, malicious behaviors from those directly above them.

"In life, your either part of the answer, or part of the problem", many in school administration create the problems and hinder, easy, almost common sense solutions to many of the common problems great teachers face who actually care.   

Treatment like what we experienced is not unique.
Very bad school leadership is following the same template all across the country, and this, like with daily egregious American civil right's violations seen in the press, people are educating themselves and saying in mass, "we are not going to take this shit anymore".  

Educator's need to remember this key fact. 

You use local property tax dollars, federal/ state treasury funds allotted to you through various funding scheme's, so I, as a federal. state and local tax payer, American citizen and active voter are one of your many bosses you work for...  

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This was an another deliberate swipe and poorly attempted personal attack involving an over glorified librarian that isn't in the know regarding the situation that transpired Friday at the home base of the Rochester School Crime family leadership, the Edison Building.

A simple prior arrangement that that was in place was made with no problems.
They would find our daughters coat and bring any personal effects that was in my teen sons locker who went to Mayo to the Homeschooling head, we would at pick up, drop off any school materials we had still.

Open communication is a nightmare here and with the use of cell phones, I pads and email systems, the head here often has no clue what the as is doing.

Once again, who with a brain would want their kids in this district?


Update: My wife replied with a strong and terse worded email reply explaining this has been taken care of and like many things happening in the school district, is beyond her pay grade.

And in the email, it seems my wife was quoted retail cost of replacing the books.
Schools are not taxed entities and often receive volume and educator's discounts when buying materials as they purchase so much in bulk.

Ouch, that whole "Knowledge is Power" thing stings sometimes...

The Twitter account is alive and well and I'm making this blog my prime focus so I can drive as much natural traffic and unique page views to it as I can.

I will be handing the politics blog off to my better half so I can push relevant education news, breaking news and Op-eds about our current ongoing nightmare with the local Rochester School Corporation into the daily posts.

Her great writing skills and passion for writing will bring that blog back up to speed quickly and by cross linking, will drive more viewers to this site and vice versa.

I'll also use this as a diary of sorts and try to find as much information as I can to help other parents like us fight a often messed up, problematic joke, that many school corporations are. 

A good example of the kind of coverage I'm going to focus in on is like in this guy's blog. I hate his arrogance and general attitude, but his method's produce results: Adventures of Johnny Northside

I'm going to use his, "DrudgeReport" style, gotcha style journalistic style, to bring traffic and get this blog out to a wider audience.
I'm going to do like Johnny does and constantly be checking our public news sources, press releases, the Whisper app, Craigslist rants and raves, any good source I can use to find that next great, sensational story.

I like Twitter as it pulls people in from all over the globe and it will allow us to connect with others dealing with bad schools and their horrible leadership.

I also will be able to post stuff to the Twitter feed when I cannot be blogging from my mobile and connect with other parents of disabled kids to find out how they brought balance back to their horrible situation or maybe even connect with past students or parents of students that had to deal with a lot of the stupid shit we are dealing with now.

Like anything I do, I do it to the fullest so I will do whatever it takes to bring about change, grab the attention of certain people and help other parents like us often against very horrible stacked odds.

The best thing I can do is empower other parents and show them that even though the other side often cheats and does dishonorable things, you can fight a good, strong fight if you acquire the right knowledge and tools to even out the odds and maybe if you are lucky, even tip them in your favor.

In the words of Stephen Decatur, the ship Captain my former home town's County was named after, "I have not yet even begun to fight!"

Well said sir, well said...

I would respectfully suggest that you apologize to Mr. Bakken for any recent inappropriate statements to local school staff and give me permission to assure school officials that you will not use profanity in the future or berate school officials.

I gave this two faced piece of shit a release to talk to our lawyer during a visit at the Edison Building today while visiting the Rochester School Corporation 2nd floor offices and what does he do, he uses it to lie to our lawyer, spin shit and use open deception to muddy the waters in our situation.

I told the lawyer, Goons #1-5 will get an apology when I get written ones from  all of them.
I'm not doing another one sided apology for these assholes.
Not in a million years, not in this life time.

And as to the whole communications thing, I can get a get a simple injunction from a Federal judge and force them to re-open the lines of communication. If they choose not to comply, fines or contempt and then jail.

The great thing is, if we go that route, the illegal letters and everything that has went on will become part of the public record forever, which would be great in garnering more public attention in this situation and would be searchable by anyone online who has internet access.

I will now gladly make Mr. Bakken Goon #5 and add him to the list of the dishonest, immoral, pathetic, do as they please, you are a total joke, school leadership team at the Edison Building.

This must be a requirement to work there. You must excel at not telling the truth, not having ethics, a moral code and breaking the law. You must be able to lie to people faces and break laws and federal acts/ statutes without a second thought.

You must be able to act like a snake, have no respect for parental rights and have a general, I am God mentality as do the rest of those who work in the building under the King and Queen of the School Corporation.

This really doesn't surprise me, this is why I won't give these horribly criminal and unethical goons free reign to my kids medical records. They are doing everything they can to harass, threaten, defame, and hurt us and they would look for any in to go at us.
We have nothing to hide Thank God, I just don't won't to give these Godless heathens full of hatred and malice more ammunition to try to hurt us with.

I will continue to pray for them and hope one day they will find faith, God, religion and possibly be saved.
I hope God will show mercy on these horrible people for the deliberate instigating acts they continue to do against a mother and father who have chosen to take a rightous stand against those who often do wrong and try to hurt us by choice.

Is wanting your kids to have a proper education a crime no. Is wanting the people involved in your kids education to do more than just collect a damn paycheck, Hell no. If you do not want to take a vested interest in how my kids is doing at school, good or bad, do us all a favor and get the Hell out of the education system. I don't like onions on my double cheese burger or pickles on my sub please, when you move on to the golden arches or Subway.Those will probably be the only jobs that will take your sorry ass and I doubt you'd last long there as doing efficient or hard work is not a requirement for those currently part of the education process here in Rochester.

 I have heard the laughable, "You are moving too fast" argument more times than I can count now coming from people here employed in the school system.
I'm sorry, is a snails pace too fast for you? Maybe we should slow things down to a parked car speed so you can be comfortable and just say F#$k the kids. I only utter the last sentence as people's personal schedules and agendas were all damn important when we were trying to get our kids into school. No one cared. They just then, as they have now have two speeds here, slow and slower. 

I have a strong belief that God will not allow the transgressors at the Edison Building to continue their reign of terror on families like mine who choose to stand up, speak out and say we aren't taking this corrupt, crooked shit anymore.

God and Karma are wonderful things and they will stop and turn back those who continue to oppress us, one way or another!!!!  

I have strong beliefs and faith that the Lord will stop and punish these people with the fruits of their hard work, Amen!