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

Our kids new and proper educational journey started today.
Technically, we use situations and things happening in their lives to teach them life lessons and practices of good citizenship, so this is just an extension of what we were already doing.

Writing and reading exercise's are going well. Both kids are using their own Khan Academy accounts we created and we are pooling from resources from the MHA, Echo-MN and Cickschooling daily emails we both receive. Math and fan fiction writing exercises went on great and were well received. Both kids have a blog and are being encouraged to write every day about things that excite them.
The Khan Academy (link here) is such a great dynamic website and resource, I personally do not know why public schools don't tap into the resource often to enhance the curriculum offered to student's.

My wife, the better half is a grammar Nazi, a very good, talented writer and enjoys art, reading, world history, political science,  usage of proper English and proper grammar.
She excels at foreign languages including German, Japanese and some Spanish. Linguistics just comes easy to her. 
She was also a National Choir Award winner and has an amazing voice and singing ability.

I, dad, enjoy and excel at math, science, world and American history, social studies and art/ music.
I won national writing and school spirit/ achievement awards in school, lettered in band multiple times, and was the person fortunate enough to have the privilege of certain "life lessons" from a very active involvement in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts most of my later school years.

People often pre-judge us, and assume we are stupid, uneducated, moron's when that is exactly the opposite of reality in our lives. People use our "middle class" range income and lack of a desire to be oppressed by their conformity based lives and agenda's to come to the faulty assumptions.
I, like my wife, have strong desires for advanced degree's in certain subject's we are passionate and knowledgeable about, but we put our kids needs in front of ours by choice.
Having a child with two rare chromosome disorders and autism, means him and his care is often a full time job by itself.
He continues to grow and get better, our desires don't get scrapped, they just get put on hold till a more proper time and situation allows for them.   
What great, caring and loving parent or parents doesn't put their kids first in the pecking order of life?

My first-aid training helped me save my younger brother's life 4 times and other family/ acquaintance's multiple times as I don't freak out under pressure and have the God given gift to think and act quickly on my feet. 
Both a miracle and blessing when a restaurant manager or in a "life or death" situation's unraveling right before your eyes.

I and my wife, use those learned skills and life lessons to help our kids become better people on a daily basis.

We both have extensive technological backgrounds and a strong desire to integrate new tech into our kids education.
Why not use the things kids are somewhat addicted to and love as educational platforms?
Videos games, YouTube, blogs, I pads, Android tablets, ect., its' all within the realm of possibilities if educator's actually try to think outside of the box in making education exciting and actively participate in engaging students.

Plus we both enjoy active involvement and engage in discussions related to American and World politics, social-economic issues and political sciences and economics in general.

We seek out non MSM resources for news and situations and try to look at things going on in the world from a independent voter view point. We both like to debate the good and bad of certain political events and it often leads to exciting and interesting conversations.

I am more than confident, "We got this" and will continue to fill our kids minds full of facts, figures and information to help them become active, fully engaged, citizens of tomorrow!



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1. Stand your ground, being the first step. Don't give a inch, expect them to play mind games and have a counter-punch ready for every low blow they will volley your direction.

2. Lawyer up. This is the packet I sent our authorizing a lawyer in St. Paul, MN to do his thing, bring justice and restore balance to what has been a nightmare.
No you cannot take my rights to "free expression" or any of my civil rights away, as I have people that are now going, to level the playing field and push you back over that criminal and civil lines you decided to cross.

3. Don't give them anything beyond the bare minimum information wise.
Remember, these are the people who tried to hurt you by silencing and intimidation tactics.
Don't give them a leg to stand on and wait for them to fall on their own illegal activities and later "crash and burn".

4. Spread the good word.
Create a blog and publish everything to it.
Link to the illegal and damning documents using so interested 3rd parties can download them.
Use a scanner, your local Fed Ex Kinko's or a Android/ I phone with a camera or free scanner apps and post it all to your website or blog.
Use your local Craigslist rants and raves as a platform as I have done.
Post things like videos or illegal phone calls from the school heads to a YouTube account also as I have done.

4. (A) Don' be afraid to go to the local media and seek out reporters looking for a sensational story.
Especially, being involved with a school corp. that is largely mistrusted by the local populace, that media contact you make could use their past sins as a pile on for a "huge" story that would blow the lid open on what is going on.
Media exposure like this can sometimes get those involved in your mistreatment or those initiating the illegal activities terminated with cause, which is a perfect ending to what you have experienced.

These person's terminations can also be the background for a ground breaking and often situation changing civil rights lawsuit, that in time, can change every thing for the better.

4. (B) Use popular "social media" apps/ sites like Whisper, Instigram and Tumbler to glean intelligence and spread your message to others quickly and directly through these outlets.
For example, I put up one test post to judge the local interest in the Whisper app and had a ton of people getting back to me how they despise certain local high schools and how they are run.
The most hated school was Century High, located here in Rochester, MN.
These are students, openly saying our school sucks and is more of a prison than a free-thinking, learning environment.
This is what happens when you push conformity, lack of free expression and no major technological push in your schools.
You have to draw student's interests in, make them excited about learning, not drone them with all things boring, creating the future sheep of tomorrow.

Remember, no school cabal or business likes bad press and that is a critical tool that plays into your advantage pushing back against them.

5. Google your school corporation administrator's and the school board where your kids go.
I did this and found out that our local superintendent was part of an illegal book banning, still uses a $4500 desk his predecessor had bought with school funds, that Mr. Munoz was not the most qualified candidate at the time of his hiring, and that from person meetings, Mr. Munoz rallied for an I pad initiative that never got off the ground. 

The ironic twist being, all of the administrator's I have encountered are sporting nice flashy newer I pad's, while the kids have none.

They also are sitting on a very fast expensive Gigabyte internet connection at the Edison Building and I don't see the need, and thus, the culture of unneeded and wasteful spending never left this district.

6. Get as many people involved and in the know as you can about your situation.
Quite literally, I have 4-5 people "in the loop" about our ongoing fight with school leadership that drops the ball and won't do the right thing.
These can be social workers, counselor's doctor's, local business owners, the mayors office, the more people who know, again that vice or public pressure will come down hard on those doing the illegal activites.

I've shown these people everything and let them make judgement on their own.
Everyone who saw the criminal and illegal IEP notices sent by the head of the Special Education department (a direct and deliberate attempt to deny my children FAPE and a proper IEP based education!), the direct violations of my "freedom of expression" and general "civil rights" via a signed letter by Mr. Munoz. Their actions were shocked and in bewilderment.

The actually comment verbatim was, "they actually sent those letters?", this coming from 3 lawyer's who know that they had put their illegal activities on paper, gave us a great paper trail (evidence) and in their haste, gave us the critical tools to establish and show a direct pattern of oppression, criminal activities, misconduct, harassment an intimidation.
All directly sue-able offenses, both criminally and civilly in the court system at the federal level.   

The general consensus is, wow, things really haven't changed and they are intentionally breaking the law! 

In closing, don't give in. hold your ground, do whatever it takes to get your oppression into the public's eye and then watch them scatter like roaches.
The only rights goons like this can take from you are the ones you allow.