Having given the Obama administration just what it wanted with the education bill (ESSA), the Senate has now passed (without a recorded vote) a bill called SETRA that will encourage governments to analyze our children’s social and emotional makeup. Here is an article that explains the problem: http://thepulse2016.com/karen-r-effrem/2016/01/04/13210/
SETRA will come up in the House very soon.
The bill will probably be on the consent calendar, which means no recorded vote will be taken. But any member of Congress can object to its inclusion on the consent calendar, in which case politicians who want the government to create psychological dossiers on our children will at least have to go on record as supporting that Orwellian practice.
Please call your member of Congress at 202.224.3121 and tell him or her to
— object to SETRA’s inclusion on the consent calendar;
— vote NO if/when a vote is taken.
Remember that only Rep. Frank Guinta (R) resisted the pressure to vote for the fed-ed bill (ESSA), which passed as a result of collusion between the Obama administration and Republican leadership: http://thepulse2016.com/emmett-mcgroarty/2015/12/21/duncan-describes-how-republican-leaders-betrayed-their-constituents/
Rep. Anne Kuster (D), and Senators Kelly Ayotte (R) and Jeanne Shaheen (D) all voted against the will of the people and for ESSA.
The other members of the delegation need to understand that selling out our children yet again is unacceptable. As the ESSA experience proves, Republican leadership cannot be relied on to tell the truth about what these bills do or don’t do, so they should be listening to you rather than to Paul Ryan or John Kline. Please make the call. Thank you!
Ann Marie Banfield currently volunteers as the Education Liaison for Cornerstone Action in New Hampshire. She has been researching education reform for over a decade and actively supports parental rights, literacy and academic excellence in k-12 schools. You can reach her at: abanfield@nhcornerstone.org
