By Jeff Simpson
For some of you who have been following along(including internet trolls), I posted the following blog on Purple Wisconsin yesterday. Apparently after much complaining from Jim Bender, it was taken down.
We know via data, that voucher schools, do not perform as well as public schools, but I was not aware that they were so far behind us in reading comprehension. In NO WAY did I say or do I believe, or do I infer that Wisconsin School Choice = pedophilia. They are not. They do not.
They are predators in the sense of wanting to get their hands on every public school penny they can but not beyond that.
That being said, when they demand this much personal information of public school students(which is not public records in my mind) it opens the door to many problems. Now that people are aware that they can get these lists, Pandora's Box is wide open. ANYONE can request these and ANYONE can then get them(sexual predators, ex-spouses, abusers, athletic stalkers, people looking to break into houses, tobacco companies, etc...). This door is now open, and ONLY open because of what Mr. Bender has done here, and the public school children will be the ones paying the price.
We know this to be true and probable in Wisconsin, thanks to the predecessor of this - Verify the Recall. Our friends on the right, thought it important to put everyone's personal information who signed the Recall Walker petitions, and our press was compliant in that. This website led to anger confrontations, firings, and even death threats. Even our governor checked it regularly to make sure and exact revenge on anyone who signed. Now we are supposed to pretend by giving out such personal information to Wisconsin School Choice only good things will happen?
Wisconsin School Choice and Mr. Jim Bender are NOT pedophile's. Period. They also do not need to have this information.
Here is the blog in question(now the internet trolls, and hate radio fools, can stop pretending they have something on me):
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Mr. Bender has decided to make the public
schools, and public money continue to work for him. Mr, Bender is paid a
King's ransom to take as much Wisconsin taxpayer public education
dollars as he can get his hands on, and funnel to the private/voucher
schools.
A parasite is someone that exists to take from another.
School choice advocates have requested the names, addresses,
phone numbers and grade levels of every student enrolled in 30 different
public school districts, gearing up for a marketing campaign should
lawmakers lift the enrollment cap on Wisconsin's statewide voucher
program.
Directory information includes information such as students'
names, addresses, telephone numbers, date and place of birth, major
field of study, height, weight, athletic team participation, awards
achieved and schools attended.
The information is key to rounding out important school items
such as yearbooks, playbills, sports rosters, announcements to the media
about student accomplishments and contact lists that help families
communicate with each other.
Yes. You read that right! Mr. Bender wants to know everything about YOUR children. There is a long history of private/voucher school employees run-in's with the law. Let's look at this in context.
While Mr. Bender is no way Mr. Clark Jr., we do not
know who will be handling these open records request, or who will ask
for them now that they have been given the idea.
Now anyone who grabs this personal information will be able to know
who is in the school musical, and will not be home every night for the
few weeks of the performances.
* We know the tight knit group that Scott Walker has surrounded
himself with includes Mr. Bender and Mr. Jensen. It also includes Tim
Russell, who has been described as Mr. Walkers right hand man.
Mr. Russell has had some very serious problems of his own. Will Mr. Russell be in possession of this information?
Luckily he was caught.
Thanks to Mr. Bender, for those who are in the system and have not been caught, he just
handed them a menu!
- Someone is now able to get the phone number and address for every
15 year old public school athlete in Wisconsin.
- What if a sexual predator wants the names and addresses of every 13
year old public school boy in Wisconsin? We have all seen Dateline. Then we must release this information.
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The over the top fans,
can now get the home addresses and phone numbers of all the possible
Division one athletes in WI and stalk them trying to make sure they
attend their school of choice.
- Ex-Spouses, who have not been given custody, can now use ORR to find their children.
- There is of course the possibility that Mr. Bender wants this
information so he can make sure and heavily recruit just the best
students who were actively involved in all activities. Or maybe he
wants to stay away from any student who is obese.
- Numerous other possibilities that we have not even thought of yet. The possibilities are endless, as to what can be done with the private information of your children in the wrong hands.
There really is no good that can come of this, as the people who
would want this are just predators using public school children as
prey(to increase their profits or worse).
This needs to be stopped and there are ways you can do this!
2. Call your local Superintendent and tell them that this is
unacceptable and you want to be notified and opted out if anyone makes
this request of your children.
3. Contact "school choice" Wisconsin and tell them to leave your children alone.
School Choice Wisconsin
219 N Milwaukee Street, 1st Floor
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Phone: 414-319-9160
Fax: 414-765-0220
Email: bender@parentchoice.org
4. Contact your local paper and alert them to this despicable breach of privacy.
5.
According to WI statute 19.35 2 (a)
2. Any record containing personally identifiable information that, if disclosed, would do any of the following:
a. Endanger an individual's life or safety.
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