Social Impact Podcast with Lynn Davenport

Lynn Davenport
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Education researcher and advocate Lynn Davenport discusses the realities of ed-tech, data mining, public-private partnerships, and lack of transparency in the educational departments and agencies charged with creating policies and performance standards in the Texas State Board of Education and local ISD's. Lynn exposes fraud and misconceptions that keep parents out of the loop and unable to protect their children, and gives actionable insight to reverse these scenarios.

  1. Dr. Patrick Huff - The Takeover of Public Education

    01/27/2025

    Dr. Patrick Huff - The Takeover of Public Education

    Though there is no constitutional basis or justification for federal intrusion and legislation, George W. Bush worked alongside Ted Kennedy to pass No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2001 which was signed into law in 2002. The bill opened up a marketplace for corporations to position themselves to make huge profits as public schools struggle to gain acceptable ratings while nonprofits swoop in to rescue the children from “failing” schools.  Dr. Pat Huff, a Tomball, Texas resident, went to Kimball High School in Dallas ISD. He retired after 34 years in the Texas public education system after serving as a middle and high school principal. He went on to get his doctorate from an HBCU - Prairie View A&M where he took on the accountability system and high-stakes testing (STAAR) as part of his dissertation. He set out to prove NCLB was written with the intent to set up schools for failure and high-stakes testing was used to shutter them.  His book The Takeover of Public Education in America: The Agenda to Control Information and Knowledge Through the Accountability System is an informative and insightful look into the mechanism that controls school systems today. It provides a look back into the history of how the system developed and peels back the curtain to reveal what crippled the schools under Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and the infamous “Waiver.” Technology and high-stakes testing have served to limit a child's education through the agenda to control information and knowledge. As a result, children and their teachers have been reduced to data points and fed into social impact investing schemes for profit.  Follow Dr. Pat Huff on Twitter @pat_huff, Website http://www.aphuff.com/, Contact Dr. Huff at https://www.aphuff.com/contact/ Social Impact Podcast is on Spotify! Call 214-673-4018 to support the show or get exposure for your business. Subscribe to the OBBM Network Podcast on Apple Podcasts,Spotify, iHeart, Google Podcasts and more. OffBeat Business TV can be found on Youtube, Vimeo , Rumble , BitChute  and wherever you enjoy great on-demand podcasts and TV. Brought to you by: OffBeat Business Media, LLC The Epoch Times, https://TrustedNewspaper.com CitizenWatchServ.com

    33 min
  2. Collective Intelligence Experiment - "Freedom" and School "Choice"

    02/08/2023

    Collective Intelligence Experiment - "Freedom" and School "Choice"

    This is the second time Alison McDowell has been a guest on Social Impact Podcast. Alison is an expert researcher with a blog called Wrench In The Gears. The last time she was on the show we talked about Education and the Biosecurity State in 2021. She and I began our advocacy in public education by exposing the privatization agenda and the push for experimental technologies. School choice is a major platform being pushed in the 88th Texas Legislature. The quest to shift public dollars into private hands through vouchers and school choice dollars following the child has been in the works for decades.  Alison says there are a lot of discussions around school choice, what the future of school looks like, and tracking children in terms of behavior by shifting to competency or mastery-based learning with data privacy implications. She believes the conversation that is missing is the future economy and the push towards recreating children as “digital citizens” as part of a global workforce mediated by artificial intelligence (AI) based on all the little data points that are being collected on our kids in the classroom on what they know, how they think and what kind of “team” members they are.  She calls it the Collective Intelligence Experiment. All of this intelligence whether cognitive or emotional is being hoovered up to create a simulation of us – a digital twin – and then to make predictions about us as future citizens, workers, and human capital. Global investors are making bets on human capital extracted from our children.  The future of work is a remote, task rabbit economy of gig work collecting competency badges with metadata attached. The instability relies on the captive market of public school children to feed this economy. Those pushing school choice are no different than the progressive nonprofits pushing out-of-seat-time learning in urban settings. Polarization of both sides feeds the voucher agenda, tokenized economy and future of work. Brought to you by: https://MoveFreelyAmerica.org https://OBBMNetworkPodcasts.com https://OBBMNetworkBrands.com Junkluggers of Grapevine, Irving, and Denton 630-470-8307 Terrel Tipton, Insperity HR Services, 972-409-4316

    35 min
  3. Government Scoring Character Traits in Public Schools

    02/02/2023

    Government Scoring Character Traits in Public Schools

    Meg Bakich joins Lynn Davenport to discuss public education and the technology being used to score character traits. Meg is a graduate of Notre Dame and a mother of five children who went through Highland Park ISD schools. She has been a long time advocate who ran for a seat on the HPISD board in 2017. Meg is a remarkable champion for returning to a traditional classical model of education and eliminating experimental and harmful education technologies. She offers simple, practical solutions for parents to exercise their God-given rights to protect their children and give them an education of opportunity. She exposes the agenda to score and embed government-sanctioned character traits in our schools. Go to https://www.bakich4hpisd.com to learn more about Meg's message and education advocacy. Brought to you by: https://MoveFreelyAmerica.org https://OBBMNetworkPodcasts.com https://OBBMNetworkBrands.com Junkluggers of Grapevine, Irving, and Denton 630-470-8307 Terrel Tipton, Insperity HR Services, 972-409-4316

    30 min
  4. What's Going on With Aviation? Insider Speaks Out (Pt 2)

    01/25/2023

    What's Going on With Aviation? Insider Speaks Out (Pt 2)

    With over 21 years of Civil & Military aviation experience across a multitude of platforms covering fixed wing and rotary wing transport category aircraft, Michael Yanez is a committed aviation professional researching future trends affecting the global aviation industry. Hailing from a long line of educators, he is also a passionate FAA Certified Flight Instructor who enjoys sharing the challenges and joys of learning to fly small airplanes.  Listen to Part 1 here: https://socialimpactpodcast.buzzsprout.com/2039551/12113932-aviation-implications-covid-19-the-great-reset-the-fourth-industrial-revolution Closely studying the economic health and vitality of the Part 121 Scheduled Air Carrier Industry, he takes keen interest in the recurring “boom-bust” cycles affecting the air carrier industry since airline de-regulation. While focused on key economic indicators to best indicate the next downturn, the COVID-19 situation served as a watershed moment and wake up call that would, and continues to this day, drastically change the aviation industry now and into the future. This evolving subject launched him into a strategic qualitative analysis research project that delivers an overview of aircraft adaptive automation, human-machine teaming, and the future flight decks destined to carry the world’s paying passengers. What is more, picking up on recurring themes previously highlighted by renowned researcher, Alison McDowell, he discovered a repeating pattern of influences emanating from governmental, corporate and NGO strategic initiatives that sought to influence the future of humanity within the aviation industry in addition to redefining what it means to be human for everyone across the world. Call 214-673-4018 to support the show or get exposure for your business. Brought to you by: https://MoveFreelyAmerica.org https://OBBMNetworkPodcasts.com https://OBBMNetworkBrands.com Junkluggers of Grapevine, Irving, and Denton 630-470-8307

    32 min
  5. Aviation Implications: COVID-19, The Great Reset & The Fourth Industrial Revolution

    01/25/2023

    Aviation Implications: COVID-19, The Great Reset & The Fourth Industrial Revolution

    With over 21 years of Civil & Military aviation experience across a multitude of platforms covering fixed wing and rotary wing transport category aircraft, Michael Yanez is a committed aviation professional researching future trends affecting the global aviation industry. Hailing from a long line of educators, he is also a passionate FAA Certified Flight Instructor who enjoys sharing the challenges and joys of learning to fly small airplanes.   Closely studying the economic health and vitality of the Part 121 Scheduled Air Carrier Industry, he takes keen interest in the recurring “boom-bust” cycles affecting the air carrier industry since airline de-regulation. While focused on key economic indicators to best indicate the next downturn, the COVID-19 situation served as a watershed moment and wake up call that would, and continues to this day, drastically change the aviation industry now and into the future. This evolving subject launched him into a strategic qualitative analysis research project that delivers an overview of aircraft adaptive automation, human-machine teaming, and the future flight decks destined to carry the world’s paying passengers. What is more, picking up on recurring themes previously highlighted by renowned researcher, Alison McDowell, he discovered a repeating pattern of influences emanating from governmental, corporate and NGO strategic initiatives that sought to influence the future of humanity within the aviation industry in addition to redefining what it means to be human for everyone across the world. Call 214-673-4018 to support the show or get exposure for your business. Brought to you by: https://MoveFreelyAmerica.org https://OBBMNetworkPodcasts.com https://OBBMNetworkBrands.com Junkluggers of Grapevine, Irving, and Denton 630-470-8307

    34 min
  6. Families Engaged and Back in the Driver's Seat

    12/12/2022

    Families Engaged and Back in the Driver's Seat

    Mary Lowe is the cofounder of Families Engaged. The first half of the podcast, Mary and I gave a recap of our tour across Texas to Midland,  Huffman, Houston, Cypress, Woodlands and other areas. Our mission is to train families on how to get engaged in the education of their children. There are myriad tools we can use to fight lawlessness with the law.  When dealing with school board trustees, state board members and legislators, Mary said, “They don’t know what we don’t tell them.” So we are telling them what is really happening in our school districts.  We train parents on how to file grievances, public information requests and how to recognize when they are being “delphied.” We present solutions on how to build a bridge back to a classical model of education.  Some advocate for an escape hatch through school choice vouchers using deceptive semantics of “parent empowerment.” We believe the parental rights issue has been conflated with allowing education dollars to follow the child. Our rights as parents come from God. Mary and I understand the trojan horse of school choice legislation and discussed the nuances around language being used to promote school choice bills in the upcoming 88th legislature.  Regardless of your stance on school choice, we are paying for public education through our property taxes. School board trustees, state board members, the TEA and legislators have a fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers to ensure our money is going to students and teachers, not special interests, consultants and technology vendors. Mary Lowe can be reached at marydlowe@yahoo.com Families Engaged for Effective Education is on Facebook Website: Familiesengaged.org Texas Lawyers Creed Brought to you by: https://MoveFreelyAmerica.org https://OBBMNetworkPodcasts.com https://OBBMNetworkBrands.com Junkluggers of Grapevine, Irving, and Denton 630-470-8307 Terrel Tipton, Insperity HR Services, 972-409-4316

    34 min
  7. Crass Lawyers And Ungodly Behavior in Godley ISD

    11/28/2022

    Crass Lawyers And Ungodly Behavior in Godley ISD

    Marcy Galle is a Parent Advocate and Co-Founder of Families Engaged For Effective Education. She is a former city councilmember of Willow Park just north of Aledo, Texas. Marcy is an expert in public information requests, the Texas Open Meetings Act (TOMA) and the public education grievance process. When local ISDs lawyer up, she steps in to help families exercise their parental rights as outlined in the Texas Education Code.  There is a pattern of ungodly behavior in Godley ISD where she has dealt with the administration, the school board, and superintendent shirking their responsibilities and circumventing the law by propping up their lawyers against parents. She is also advocating for parents in Joshua ISD, Fort Worth ISD and others. Parents are being denied their constitutional right to speak at school board meetings. Districts across Texas are deploying antagonistic and disrespectful tactics to dissuade parents from testifying at board meetings. They often go into closed session for 1-2 hours at the beginning of meetings making working parents wait until the closed sessions adjourn before hearing public testimonies. DeSoto ISD is another repeat offender of TOMA.  Regarding the captive market of public school students fed into the predatory social-emotional learning cash cow for vendors, parents are benign denied their right to opt in or opt out of these experimental learning technologies and strategies. Marcy helps families understand the laws written to protect children and parents so they can be empowered with the law in order to fight lawlessness.  Marcy can be contacted at marcy.m.galle@gmail.com Families Engaged for Effective Education is on Facebook Website: Familiesengaged.org Texas Lawyers Creed Brought to you by: https://MoveFreelyAmerica.org https://OBBMNetworkPodcasts.com https://OBBMNetworkBrands.com Junkluggers of Grapevine, Irving, and Denton 630-470-8307 Terrel Tipton, Insperity HR Services, 972-409-4316

    38 min
  8. LawyerEd Up in Texas - Who is Walsh Gallegos?

    10/31/2022

    LawyerEd Up in Texas - Who is Walsh Gallegos?

    Walsh, Gallegos, Trevino, Kyle & Robinson is a law firm deeply entrenched in the Texas education landscape. They are often hired by school districts to fight parents advocating on behalf of their students with special needs. Districts use taxpayer dollars to lawyer up against parents who demand services under the law which are FAPE and IDEA rights. More than 70% of school districts in Texas enlist the help of Walsh Gallegos to undermine parental rights.  Walsh Gallegos was also a primary player in helping school districts uphold an arbitrary cap on special education students that was set in 2004. The Houston Chronicle did an exposé on the cap in 2016 called Denied.  In October, Mary Lowe of Families Engaged went before the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) to alert them about Walsh Gallegos. She uncovered a presentation given to Region 15 Education Service Center (ESC) by Walsh Gallegos. The presentation was designed to teach districts how to skirt Senate Bill 3. Her testimony can be found here.  Jim Walsh of Walsh Gallegos is a political donor to the Democrat party and can be found on Twitter. Perhaps he needs to be reminded of the Texas Lawyer’s Creed.  Mary and I closed with tangible solutions to fix public education in Texas. To start a chapter of Families Engaged in your area, contact Mary Lowe at marydlowe@yahoo.com. Social Impact Podcast is brought to you by: OBBM Network Brands https://obbmnetworkbrands.com Junkluggers of Irving, Denton, and Grapevine, 630-470-8307 Move Freely America,https://movefreelyamerica.com 1st Safety Training, 214-808-9757 Get the Social Impact Podcast at https://socialimpactpodcast.buzzsprout.com. Call 214-673-4018 to support the show or get exposure for your point of view. Subscribe to the OBBM Network Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, Google Podcasts and more. OffBeat Business TV can be found on Youtube, Vimeo , Rumble , BitChute and wherever you enjoy great on-demand podcasts and TV. https://obbmnetworkpodcasts.com

    33 min
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Education researcher and advocate Lynn Davenport discusses the realities of ed-tech, data mining, public-private partnerships, and lack of transparency in the educational departments and agencies charged with creating policies and performance standards in the Texas State Board of Education and local ISD's. Lynn exposes fraud and misconceptions that keep parents out of the loop and unable to protect their children, and gives actionable insight to reverse these scenarios.

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