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TODAY'S EPISODE - Recorded July 1, 2023  at 9:30am 

This happened to me on or around October 6, 2018.  I was asked to change the name of a sophomore female student to a male student's name. 

One thing not mentioned in the episode.  I find out that the student - her senior year - changed her name back to her birth name.  All that stress / drama.  No "thank you" from the student for working with her issues.  Being support.  Being patient.  WOW! 

We (adults) need to stay in our "lane."  I am a teacher, not a pseudo parent.  I need to stay in my "teacher-lane." 

Parents - there are teachers who do want to support you.  Help your child's teacher! 

Students - I know you want your teachers to be your friends, but why in the world would you want a teacher who is old enough to be your sibling / parent to be your friend?  What does a friend look like to you? 

Thanks for listening to this and other episodes. 

Also, please buy my book!!  CONDUCTING MY LIFE https://www.jwpepper.com/Conducting-My-Life/10573325.item#.Vp6yTlMrK9Y

Scottish Banjo Music: https://youtu.be/4G2CGZIWcco

Great book!!  "If God is Good"  https://www.amazon.com/If-God-Good-Faith-Suffering/dp/1601425791/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1689444508&sr=8-1

Super important to know the timeline of this episode's story.  This story happened in a Bay Area high school.  The high school is in Alameda County.  I change the name of the high school.  It happened at a DISTRICT faculty meeting.  The district is K-12.   This happened in front of high school students.  

One more time...please listen knowing:  February - 2017 -- less than a month of President Trump taking the Oath of OfficeDistrict wide faculty meeting (K-12 school district; 100s of professionals in attendance of teachers / staff / administration / In front of high school students there to lead an "ice-breaking" activity BAY AREA HIGH SCHOOL IN ALAMEDA COUNTY - CALIFORNIA If you like what you hear and you are able to, please do consider financially supporting our mission.  We are small "Mom & Pop Shop."  We would love and appreciate your financial support.  Please go to  https://bit.ly/3g7Rn1p    Thanks for your support.  GOD BLESS!!

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Looking for teacher stories.  Here is teacher story.  My friend had a rather interesting end to his school year.  Considering we are near the end of "Pride Month," I thought this would be a timely story. 

If you like what you hear and you are able to, please do consider financially supporting our mission.  We are small "Mom & Pop Shop."  We would love and appreciate your financial support.  Please go to  https://bit.ly/3g7Rn1p    Thanks for your support.  GOD BLESS!!

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Please visit our website:  https://www.conductingmylife.com

We need your financial support for our business expenses (podcast / website / marketing / etc.).  We appreciate any amount of money you are willing to give to help continue are mission.  THANK YOU.

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From this riveting and insightful chapter:  In April 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued its now historic report, A Nation at Risk, in which it said:  "The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and as a people."  Then it added a comment which must have raised a lot of eyebrows:  "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.  As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves."  In other words, our own educators have done to American education what only our worst enemy would have done if it could!  Never were American educators more seriously indicted for their failures, for, as the evidence clearly reveals, what we have today (book published in 1984) is what the progressives have wanted.  They have not failed.  They have succeeded in their efforts to rid American school of independent intelligence."  And it goes on from there!!

I find the election results from November 8, 2022, to be very interesting.  Mark Thiessen points out:

Fox News Pundit Declares, 'This Is an Absolute Disaster for the Republican Party' as Midterm Results Roll In (mediaite.com)

This is my question about the NOVEMBER 8, 2022, ELECTION RESULTS:  Is there a chance that the direction of "Public" (Government) education played bigger role in these results? When you listen to the entire series on this FANTASTIC book, I do believe you will have an idea of the current situation in our BEAUTIFUL nation.   We are being purposely disorganized.

This series will focus on Samuel L. Blumenfeld's NEA TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION (1984).  I cannot write that enough... this book was published in 1984.  What does the American Education system look like 39 years after the publication of this seminal work?  Frankly -- a little known work.  If I had read this book in 1989, I wonder how I would have felt about the American Education and / or the National Education Association?

Another example of NEA pushing a social agenda versus an academic agenda is what they are supporting, such as this article indicates.   Schools To Host Black Lives Matter At School Week Which Teaches Kids About ‘Trans Affirmation,’ ‘Restorative Justice’ | The Daily Caller

From 1989-2021, I taught high school music.  Three of those years, I was at a private school!  I have an understanding what the American Education has morphed into and now I have one idea (NEA TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION) how the American Education system is where it is today.   

Teachers who actually will listen to this series, THANK YOU!  There will be many parts of the book that will challenge you.  Challenge you on ... what a load of crap Blumenfeld is or my goodness... I KNOW THIS IS HAPPENING TODAY and it was happening in 1984 and it is still happening over 38 years later?!

Please consider giving the book a chance.  Learn where the angst towards the teachers / American Education System is coming from.  This book helps give an explanation for the angst.

https://www.amazon.com/NEA-Trojan-Horse-American-Education/dp/091498103X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=30SHK1DU2M779&keywords=nea+trojan+horse+in+american+education&qid=1655841738&sprefix=NEA+trojan%2Caps%2C1408&sr=8-2

We need your financial support for our business expenses (podcast / website / marketing / etc.).  We appreciate any amount of money you are willing to give to help continue are mission.  THANK YOU.

https://bit.ly/3g7Rn1p

My email is [email protected]

 

My website is https://www.conductingmylife.com

From this riveting and insightful chapter:  In April 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued its now historic report, A Nation at Risk, in which it said:  "The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and as a people."  Then it added a comment which must have raised a lot of eyebrows:  "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.  As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves."  In other words, our own educators have done to American education what only our worst enemy would have done if it could!  Never were American educators more seriously indicted for their failures, for, as the evidence clearly reveals, what we have today (book published in 1984) is what the progressives have wanted.  They have not failed.  They have succeeded in their efforts to rid American school of independent intelligence."  And it goes on from there!!

I find the election results from November 8, 2022, to be very interesting.  Mark Thiessen points out:

Fox News Pundit Declares, 'This Is an Absolute Disaster for the Republican Party' as Midterm Results Roll In (mediaite.com)

This is my question about the NOVEMBER 8, 2022, ELECTION RESULTS:  Is there a chance that the direction of "Public" (Government) education played bigger role in these results? When you listen to the entire series on this FANTASTIC book, I do believe you will have an idea of the current situation in our BEAUTIFUL nation.   We are being purposely disorganized.

This series will focus on Samuel L. Blumenfeld's NEA TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION (1984).  I cannot write that enough... this book was published in 1984.  What does the American Education system look like 39 years after the publication of this seminal work?  Frankly -- a little known work.  If I had read this book in 1989, I wonder how I would have felt about the American Education and / or the National Education Association?

Another example of NEA pushing a social agenda versus an academic agenda is what they are supporting, such as this article indicates.   Schools To Host Black Lives Matter At School Week Which Teaches Kids About ‘Trans Affirmation,’ ‘Restorative Justice’ | The Daily Caller

From 1989-2021, I taught high school music.  Three of those years, I was at a private school!  I have an understanding what the American Education has morphed into and now I have one idea (NEA TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION) how the American Education system is where it is today.   

Teachers who actually will listen to this series, THANK YOU!  There will be many parts of the book that will challenge you.  Challenge you on ... what a load of crap Blumenfeld is or my goodness... I KNOW THIS IS HAPPENING TODAY and it was happening in 1984 and it is still happening over 38 years later?!

Please consider giving the book a chance.  Learn where the angst towards the teachers / American Education System is coming from.  This book helps give an explanation for the angst.

https://www.amazon.com/NEA-Trojan-Horse-American-Education/dp/091498103X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=30SHK1DU2M779&keywords=nea+trojan+horse+in+american+education&qid=1655841738&sprefix=NEA+trojan%2Caps%2C1408&sr=8-2

We need your financial support for our business expenses (podcast / website / marketing / etc.).  We appreciate any amount of money you are willing to give to help continue are mission.  THANK YOU.

https://bit.ly/3g7Rn1p

My email is [email protected]

 

My website is https://www.conductingmylife.com

From this riveting and insightful chapter:  In April 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued its now historic report, A Nation at Risk, in which it said:  "The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and as a people."  Then it added a comment which must have raised a lot of eyebrows:  "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.  As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves."  In other words, our own educators have done to American education what only our worst enemy would have done if it could!  Never were American educators more seriously indicted for their failures, for, as the evidence clearly reveals, what we have today (book published in 1984) is what the progressives have wanted.  They have not failed.  They have succeeded in their efforts to rid American school of independent intelligence."  And it goes on from there!!

I find the election results from November 8, 2022, to be very interesting.  Mark Thiessen points out:

Fox News Pundit Declares, 'This Is an Absolute Disaster for the Republican Party' as Midterm Results Roll In (mediaite.com)

This is my question about the NOVEMBER 8, 2022, ELECTION RESULTS:  Is there a chance that the direction of "Public" (Government) education played bigger role in these results? When you listen to the entire series on this FANTASTIC book, I do believe you will have an idea of the current situation in our BEAUTIFUL nation.   We are being purposely disorganized.

This series will focus on Samuel L. Blumenfeld's NEA TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION (1984).  I cannot write that enough... this book was published in 1984.  What does the American Education system look like 39 years after the publication of this seminal work?  Frankly -- a little known work.  If I had read this book in 1989, I wonder how I would have felt about the American Education and / or the National Education Association?

Another example of NEA pushing a social agenda versus an academic agenda is what they are supporting, such as this article indicates.   Schools To Host Black Lives Matter At School Week Which Teaches Kids About ‘Trans Affirmation,’ ‘Restorative Justice’ | The Daily Caller

From 1989-2021, I taught high school music.  Three of those years, I was at a private school!  I have an understanding what the American Education has morphed into and now I have one idea (NEA TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION) how the American Education system is where it is today.   

Teachers who actually will listen to this series, THANK YOU!  There will be many parts of the book that will challenge you.  Challenge you on ... what a load of crap Blumenfeld is or my goodness... I KNOW THIS IS HAPPENING TODAY and it was happening in 1984 and it is still happening over 38 years later?!

Please consider giving the book a chance.  Learn where the angst towards the teachers / American Education System is coming from.  This book helps give an explanation for the angst.

https://www.amazon.com/NEA-Trojan-Horse-American-Education/dp/091498103X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=30SHK1DU2M779&keywords=nea+trojan+horse+in+american+education&qid=1655841738&sprefix=NEA+trojan%2Caps%2C1408&sr=8-2

We need your financial support for our business expenses (podcast / website / marketing / etc.).  We appreciate any amount of money you are willing to give to help continue are mission.  THANK YOU.

https://bit.ly/3g7Rn1p

My email is [email protected]

 

My website is https://www.conductingmylife.com

From this riveting and insightful chapter:  In April 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued its now historic report, A Nation at Risk, in which it said:  "The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and as a people."  Then it added a comment which must have raised a lot of eyebrows:  "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.  As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves."  In other words, our own educators have done to American education what only our worst enemy would have done if it could!  Never were American educators more seriously indicted for their failures, for, as the evidence clearly reveals, what we have today (book published in 1984) is what the progressives have wanted.  They have not failed.  They have succeeded in their efforts to rid American school of independent intelligence."  And it goes on from there!!

I find the election results from November 8, 2022, to be very interesting.  Mark Thiessen points out:

Fox News Pundit Declares, 'This Is an Absolute Disaster for the Republican Party' as Midterm Results Roll In (mediaite.com)

This is my question about the NOVEMBER 8, 2022, ELECTION RESULTS:  Is there a chance that the direction of "Public" (Government) education played bigger role in these results? When you listen to the entire series on this FANTASTIC book, I do believe you will have an idea of the current situation in our BEAUTIFUL nation.   We are being purposely disorganized.

This series will focus on Samuel L. Blumenfeld's NEA TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION (1984).  I cannot write that enough... this book was published in 1984.  What does the American Education system look like 39 years after the publication of this seminal work?  Frankly -- a little known work.  If I had read this book in 1989, I wonder how I would have felt about the American Education and / or the National Education Association?

Another example of NEA pushing a social agenda versus an academic agenda is what they are supporting, such as this article indicates.   Schools To Host Black Lives Matter At School Week Which Teaches Kids About ‘Trans Affirmation,’ ‘Restorative Justice’ | The Daily Caller

From 1989-2021, I taught high school music.  Three of those years, I was at a private school!  I have an understanding what the American Education has morphed into and now I have one idea (NEA TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION) how the American Education system is where it is today.   

Teachers who actually will listen to this series, THANK YOU!  There will be many parts of the book that will challenge you.  Challenge you on ... what a load of crap Blumenfeld is or my goodness... I KNOW THIS IS HAPPENING TODAY and it was happening in 1984 and it is still happening over 38 years later?!

Please consider giving the book a chance.  Learn where the angst towards the teachers / American Education System is coming from.  This book helps give an explanation for the angst.

https://www.amazon.com/NEA-Trojan-Horse-American-Education/dp/091498103X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=30SHK1DU2M779&keywords=nea+trojan+horse+in+american+education&qid=1655841738&sprefix=NEA+trojan%2Caps%2C1408&sr=8-2

We need your financial support for our business expenses (podcast / website / marketing / etc.).  We appreciate any amount of money you are willing to give to help continue are mission.  THANK YOU.

https://bit.ly/3g7Rn1p

My email is [email protected]

 

My website is https://www.conductingmylife.com

From this riveting and insightful chapter:  In April 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued its now historic report, A Nation at Risk, in which it said:  "The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and as a people."  Then it added a comment which must have raised a lot of eyebrows:  "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.  As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves."  In other words, our own educators have done to American education what only our worst enemy would have done if it could!  Never were American educators more seriously indicted for their failures, for, as the evidence clearly reveals, what we have today (book published in 1984) is what the progressives have wanted.  They have not failed.  They have succeeded in their efforts to rid American school of independent intelligence."  And it goes on from there!!

I find the election results from November 8, 2022, to be very interesting.  Mark Thiessen points out:

Fox News Pundit Declares, 'This Is an Absolute Disaster for the Republican Party' as Midterm Results Roll In (mediaite.com)

This is my question about the NOVEMBER 8, 2022, ELECTION RESULTS:  Is there a chance that the direction of "Public" (Government) education played bigger role in these results? When you listen to the entire series on this FANTASTIC book, I do believe you will have an idea of the current situation in our BEAUTIFUL nation.   We are being purposely disorganized.

This series will focus on Samuel L. Blumenfeld's NEA TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION (1984).  I cannot write that enough... this book was published in 1984.  What does the American Education system look like 39 years after the publication of this seminal work?  Frankly -- a little known work.  If I had read this book in 1989, I wonder how I would have felt about the American Education and / or the National Education Association?

Another example of NEA pushing a social agenda versus an academic agenda is what they are supporting, such as this article indicates.   Schools To Host Black Lives Matter At School Week Which Teaches Kids About ‘Trans Affirmation,’ ‘Restorative Justice’ | The Daily Caller

From 1989-2021, I taught high school music.  Three of those years, I was at a private school!  I have an understanding what the American Education has morphed into and now I have one idea (NEA TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION) how the American Education system is where it is today.   

Teachers who actually will listen to this series, THANK YOU!  There will be many parts of the book that will challenge you.  Challenge you on ... what a load of crap Blumenfeld is or my goodness... I KNOW THIS IS HAPPENING TODAY and it was happening in 1984 and it is still happening over 38 years later?!

Please consider giving the book a chance.  Learn where the angst towards the teachers / American Education System is coming from.  This book helps give an explanation for the angst.

https://www.amazon.com/NEA-Trojan-Horse-American-Education/dp/091498103X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=30SHK1DU2M779&keywords=nea+trojan+horse+in+american+education&qid=1655841738&sprefix=NEA+trojan%2Caps%2C1408&sr=8-2

We need your financial support for our business expenses (podcast / website / marketing / etc.).  We appreciate any amount of money you are willing to give to help continue are mission.  THANK YOU.

https://bit.ly/3g7Rn1p

My email is [email protected]

 

My website is https://www.conductingmylife.com

From this riveting and insightful chapter:  In April 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued its now historic report, A Nation at Risk, in which it said:  "The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and as a people."  Then it added a comment which must have raised a lot of eyebrows:  "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.  As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves."  In other words, our own educators have done to American education what only our worst enemy would have done if it could!  Never were American educators more seriously indicted for their failures, for, as the evidence clearly reveals, what we have today (book published in 1984) is what the progressives have wanted.  They have not failed.  They have succeeded in their efforts to rid American school of independent intelligence."  And it goes on from there!! 

I find the election results from November 8, 2022, to be very interesting.  Mark Thiessen points out:

Fox News Pundit Declares, 'This Is an Absolute Disaster for the Republican Party' as Midterm Results Roll In (mediaite.com)

This is my question about the NOVEMBER 8, 2022, ELECTION RESULTS:  Is there a chance that the direction of "Public" (Government) education played bigger role in these results? When you listen to the entire series on this FANTASTIC book, I do believe you will have an idea of the current situation in our BEAUTIFUL nation.   We are being purposely disorganized.

This series will focus on Samuel L. Blumenfeld's NEA TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION (1984).  I cannot write that enough... this book was published in 1984.  What does the American Education system look like 39 years after the publication of this seminal work?  Frankly -- a little known work.  If I had read this book in 1989, I wonder how I would have felt about the American Education and / or the National Education Association?

Another example of NEA pushing a social agenda versus an academic agenda is what they are supporting, such as this article indicates.   Schools To Host Black Lives Matter At School Week Which Teaches Kids About ‘Trans Affirmation,’ ‘Restorative Justice’ | The Daily Caller

From 1989-2021, I taught high school music.  Three of those years, I was at a private school!  I have an understanding what the American Education has morphed into and now I have one idea (NEA TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION) how the American Education system is where it is today.   

Teachers who actually will listen to this series, THANK YOU!  There will be many parts of the book that will challenge you.  Challenge you on ... what a load of crap Blumenfeld is or my goodness... I KNOW THIS IS HAPPENING TODAY and it was happening in 1984 and it is still happening over 38 years later?!

Please consider giving the book a chance.  Learn where the angst towards the teachers / American Education System is coming from.  This book helps give an explanation for the angst.

https://www.amazon.com/NEA-Trojan-Horse-American-Education/dp/091498103X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=30SHK1DU2M779&keywords=nea+trojan+horse+in+american+education&qid=1655841738&sprefix=NEA+trojan%2Caps%2C1408&sr=8-2

We need your financial support for our business expenses (podcast / website / marketing / etc.).  We appreciate any amount of money you are willing to give to help continue are mission.  THANK YOU.

https://bit.ly/3g7Rn1p

My email is [email protected]

 

My website is https://www.conductingmylife.com

From this riveting and insightful chapter:  The simple truth is that the American classroom has become a place where intense psychological warfare is being waged against all traditional values.  A child in an American public school is little more than guinea pig in a psych lab, manipulated by a trained "change-agent."  All of this is being done with billions of federal dollars in the greatest scam in human history.  If Americans put up with this much longer, they will deserve the ruin they are paying for. - SAMUEL L. BLUMENFELD in 1984!!!!  39 years later, we are seeing the results of this paragraph!!  

I find the election results from November 8, 2022, to be very interesting.  Mark Thiessen points out:

Fox News Pundit Declares, 'This Is an Absolute Disaster for the Republican Party' as Midterm Results Roll In (mediaite.com)

This is my question about the NOVEMBER 8, 2022, ELECTION RESULTS:  Is there a chance that the direction of "Public" (Government) education played bigger role in these results? When you listen to the entire series on this FANTASTIC book, I do believe you will have an idea of the current situation in our BEAUTIFUL nation.   We are being purposely disorganized.

This series will focus on Samuel L. Blumenfeld's NEA TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION (1984).  I cannot write that enough... this book was published in 1984.  What does the American Education system look like 39 years after the publication of this seminal work?  Frankly -- a little known work.  If I had read this book in 1989, I wonder how I would have felt about the American Education and / or the National Education Association?

Another example of NEA pushing a social agenda versus an academic agenda is what they are supporting, such as this article indicates.   Schools To Host Black Lives Matter At School Week Which Teaches Kids About ‘Trans Affirmation,’ ‘Restorative Justice’ | The Daily Caller

From 1989-2021, I taught high school music.  Three of those years, I was at a private school!  I have an understanding what the American Education has morphed into and now I have one idea (NEA TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION) how the American Education system is where it is today.   

Teachers who actually will listen to this series, THANK YOU!  There will be many parts of the book that will challenge you.  Challenge you on ... what a load of crap Blumenfeld is or my goodness... I KNOW THIS IS HAPPENING TODAY and it was happening in 1984 and it is still happening over 38 years later?!

Please consider giving the book a chance.  Learn where the angst towards the teachers / American Education System is coming from.  This book helps give an explanation for the angst.

https://www.amazon.com/NEA-Trojan-Horse-American-Education/dp/091498103X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=30SHK1DU2M779&keywords=nea+trojan+horse+in+american+education&qid=1655841738&sprefix=NEA+trojan%2Caps%2C1408&sr=8-2