1988. The year I graduated high school! In this look back at thirty years ago, I cover my life and the world we lived in. You may see some familiar faces. For the younger crowd looking at this, I have no doubt you will crack up at the society we called our own! But my generation owned the 1980s!
Thank you to my friend for putting this document together based on this map. It is frightening how much of these events are happening right now. The Every Student Succeeds Act is allowing a great deal of this to come to fruition. In many states, legislation is happening right now to ensure this future comes to pass. We are seeing this with personalized learning initiatives in many school districts. Students with disabilities and those who don’t conform will be re-engineered through medicine and simulations. Teaching as we know it will be gone.
Why was 2015-2016 so important for education? If you haven’t been paying attention, there is a flurry of activity going on with more changes than any one person can keep track of. These events were planned years ago. Some say 2007, but I estimate much of this has been planned since 1992. There are more political and corporate players involved in these agendas then we can imagine. It is a cabal of billionaires and futurists carefully and methodically transforming society to their warped ideals.
People wonder why I get so upset about education and lose patience quickly. This is why. We don’t have time for the endless chatter about what we should be doing. Especially when more than half the people at the table are already sold on these ideas. They may not know the full scope and chances are I don’t either. But the pieces are coming together fast and if we don’t get a handle on this and expose all of this we have no chance of stopping any of it.
If you wonder why I shudder at the possibility of President Hillary Clinton, this is why. I’ve been slammed for only looking at education for her qualifications. This goes way beyond education. This is a complete remodeling of society as we know it. If you don’t think Hillary is involved in this, think again!
Updated, 12:33pm, EST: The Scribd document embedded in this article keeps disappearing. I don’t know if I am being hacked or what is happening. It is still on scribd, which you can see https://www.scribd.com/doc/304979065/GEFMap
Updated, 4:37pm, EST: I changed my WordPress password after the Scribd document disappeared a third time. It has not disappeared since. Which means someone knew my password. Which I have never shared with anyone. Which also means I ticked someone off big time. I would hope logging into the State of Delaware or the Delaware Department of Education’s free wi-fi doesn’t mean they could possibly get into my accounts. Or that one of the big boys thinks they can do what they please. I will find out who got into my account and I will pursue it.
Transparency. We hear that word so much these days. It is real, it is a force, and it is changing our view on every subject matter in seconds. In the pre-internet days, we relied on word of mouth as well as what was shown in print media. As students, we read the history books and we accepted whatever we read at face value. But now the rules have changed, and with this comes more enlightenment than Voltaire ever counted on.
I was watching an episode of Sleepy Hollow yesterday, and someone said something to Ichabod Crane about freedom of the press. Crane, trapped in the year 2015, after magic put him in a dark sleep in the ground for over two centuries, responds with “I don’t think the forefathers counted on a 24-hour news cycle.” They certainly did not. No one could have predicted that.
A state Department comes up with an idea. They work feverishly for months to plan it. The day comes when they announce their agenda to the world. They put it on their website, send press releases to the major print media, and it is out there. Someone shares the Facebook post, it spreads, and the next thing you know some blogger is tearing it apart. Within hours, the blog post spreads. People don’t know what to think.
Meanwhile, the blogger found out about this agenda months before, and has been planting seeds for readers warning them about the latest doom and gloom coming from this Department. The pony express is dead. Long live the digital age.
I was wrong. I fully admit it, and I laugh about it to this day. Twenty years ago, at Thanksgiving dinner, I was having a discussion with my eldest brother about this new internet thing. He was telling me how it would change the world and open people up to things never before seen. I told him it would be an invasion of privacy and would take away from what we already had. I proved myself wrong on that nearly every day since.
We do everything on the Internet anymore, whether it is on a secured or unsecured network. We interface with people thousands of times a day, and don’t even realize it. We have become a nation glued to a screen, and we see the world. The key to all of this is understanding what is real and what isn’t. As a blogger, I focus on Delaware education for the most part. I see what goes on backstage curtain while the audience is enamored with the play unfolding before their eyes. I find out, and I publish. It’s that simple.
We have never had more power in America as we do right now. Our opinions and views on issues can be relayed to the world in an instant. We publish, we comment, we react and we punish. We tell people when they’re wrong or allow others to go back and forth while we sit back and watch the show.
On the flip side of this, we take away. We delete. I have seen, just in my fourteen months of blogging, quite a few bloggers come on the scene and disappear months later. All that hard work, all the research and care, gone with a push of a button. When things get to hot or the pressure starts bearing on us like a freight train barreling at us, some of us make it disappear, forever. But we always leave a thumbprint. Someone does a copy and paste, or a screen shot, or takes a picture on their phone. Nothing is buried forever anymore. If it is, nobody ever saw it.
This is our world, and until the great worm comes and unleashes a virus that destroys all, it will stay that way. Public policy is weaved into a web that spreads until nobody knows what to think of it anymore. The haves and have nots go at it until they are digitally black and blue in the face. Welcome to transparency. Chaos and order, both sides win.
The Season Of Myths 