Purple Vindication!

By Jeff Simpson

It has been an interesting week, first I posted this one Purple Wisconsin. 

Jim Bender is the President of the poorly named "school choice" Wisconsin.  Mr. Bender is also the face of the "For-Profit" School movement.   While Scott Jensen actually calls the shots, Jensen's tarred history makes it impossible for him to be the face of anything.   

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. 

Mr.  Bender however, has reached a new low.   He wants to know everything about YOUR children.  

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.

Being exposed to the light is not something that plays particularly well, it led to incredible faux outrage by Mr. Bender, a hissy fit a 12 year old could be proud of by Charley Sykes and Jimmy Wigderson spinning it in an incomprehensible garble of words that we have come to expect from him.     

The Faux outrage was strong in these ones.  

However, Simpson's post at Purple Wisconsin was enough to send Bender on a bender.  Bender went whining and crying to Ernst-Ulrich Franzen, a member of the paper's editorial board, complaining that Simpson compared him to a pedophile.  Even though Simpson went to great pains to do just the opposite, Franzen jumped on the chance to stifle the truth and took down the blog site.

On Monday, squawk show host and adulterer Charlie Sykes went on a rampage against Simpson.  With the sound of his spittle hitting the microphone, Sykes said that Simpson lived in a "fever swamp" and called him "demented," "sick," and "a liar."

Sykes went on to say how MJS was wrong for ever giving Simpson their format to use and that he should be banned from the site.

 Then this happened:

 Green Bay, Wisconsin, February 18, 2015 - School Choice Wisconsin has revised its original open records request made on February 9, 2015 to the Green Bay Area Public School District for student directory data in order to address concerns that were raised by parents, legislators(progressive bloggers) and the Green Bay Area Public School District.

If Mr. Bender can release a press statement, so can I:

This doesnt happen without public pressure.  I am proud that I had a hand in this,even if it meant that Jim Bender & Wisconsin School choice got me kicked off of JSOnline, because Charles Sykes and Jimmy Wigderson had a hissy fit.
I will stand up for the kids every single time. It is unfortunate that standing up for the privacy rights of our children, and against the privatizing of our public education, is something that comes with consequences. EVERY word I wrote was the truth, and the truth was too much for them.

Make sure and ask David D. Haynes, who in our media will now stand for the truth and the kids, regardless of the consequences. It sure isnt Christian Schneider or Rick Esenberg .

I get that Purple Wisconsin wants to promote a nicer agenda, and my passion comes through too strong at times, but I think they should make truth and facts equal to niceties.

Thanks to Cognitive Dissidence & Chris Capper Liebenthal and John 'Sly' Sylvester for allowing me to have a forum to get the real truth out there!

Now lets help Dave Hansen and Eric Genrich pass legislation to stop this from happening in the future.

Vindication and Onward!

 So thanks to Charley Sykes and Jim Wigderson also for helping put the spotlight on the despicable acts School Choice WI was attempting to get away with.  If this ever happens in your district in the future, let us know and here is Mr. Bender's contact information:

No media interviews will be granted by GBAPS or School Choice Wisconsin. Clarifying questions should be directed to GBAPS Director of Communications Lori Blakeslee at 920-448-2025 or School Choice Wisconsin President Jim Bender at 414.319.9160.

Public School Predators!

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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Jim Bender is the President of the poorly named "school choice" Wisconsin.  Mr. Bender is also the face of the "For-Profit" School movement.   While Scott Jensen actually calls the shots, Jensen's tarred history makes it impossible for him to be the face of anything.   

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. 

Mr.  Bender however, has reached a new low.   He wants to know everything about YOUR children.  

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.  

*In a 2012, the New York Times magazine detailed a long list of pedophilia charges at the Horace Mann Schoo which at the time was led by(the school and the scandal) legendary school reformer " R. Inslee Clark Jr.

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.  

 

*  In 2004, the founder and principal of a Milwaukee voucher school, Mandella School of Science and Math, is being charged with felony theft for cashing more than 200 checks issued by the state Department of Public Instruction for families whose children never enrolled at the school.

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?

* On the Wisconsin No-call list?  Good luck with that, the movers in the school choice movement have shown that the laws of the system mean nothing to them.  

*  It was not very long ago, that a prominent Milwaukee leader of voucher schools, was arrested for first degree sexual assault.  

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.   

-  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!  

1.  Representative Genrich and Senator Dave Hanson are working on a legislative fix, but we know the Republicans have no interest in any legislation put forth by Democrats.  Call your Representative and Senator and tell them to sign on. 

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.

Wisconsin's Republicans are too Literal!

We all know that there is a "war on women" being waged by the republican party! The problem in Wisconsin is that some of our republicans have taken their marching orders literally! 

Of course there is the old stand by of David Vanderleest. Who apparently does NOT smoke rocks or beat his family!!

Now Mr. Vanderleest is running as the republican to represent the 90th Assembly district!!!

Eric Genrich will be opposing Mr. Vanderleest on the Ballot in November!


Let's hope the good people of the 90th district do the right thing and send David home to do NOT smoke more rocks!

Unfortunately for our great state, Mr Vanderleest is not alone in disgusting allegations.
Republican Bill Feehan, State Senate Candidate for the "fighting 32nd" has actually been charged with Domestic Battery(but later cut a deal).

From the police files(do you really want to vote for someone you can use that intro with?)

According to court records, Feehan was arrested in September 2000 after an argument with his girlfriend at the time. The girlfriend had accused Feehan of leaving her stranded at a La Crosse bar after a disagreement and then taking a dog from her apartment. He maintained that the dog was his.

She told authorities that she went to his residence, rang his doorbell and when he didn't answer, began throwing boxes and other items from his garage. In response, she said, he came outside, grabbed her by the throat and choked her, tossing her to the ground - something he denied. He accused her of kneeing him in the groin; she later acknowledged that she had done this but said it occurred while being choked.

Police described Feehan as difficult during an interview and after his arrest. "He remained beligerant (sic) and cocky throughout the encounter," wrote Sgt. Dale Chroninger of the Holmen Police Department. In October 2000, Feehan was charged with misdemeanor counts of battery and disorderly conduct.

Three months later, prosecutors reduced the charges to an ordinance violation, and he pleaded no contest.

Then we find out that in order to win, he is going after the David "Ike Turner" Prosser Supporters!!

In an interview last week, Feehan said he was wrongly accused.

He added that those guilty of domestic abuse do it repeatedly. He said he has only the single allegation from years ago on his record.

It was not his fault(do republicans ever take personal responsibility)and besides he only beat her up once!!

Is that the man that anyone wants representing them in Government?


Vote Jennifer Schilling in District 32!