July 2013
Next
Generation Science Standards: Common Core Incognito:
"CC science creators and proponents claim the standards were created
by the states. They made the same untrue claim about CC English
and math standards. To give the science claim some credibility,
26 states were allowed some input into science standards....
"The science standards, like those for math and English, are
not based on empirical evidence of efficacy nor are they
tested in any environment. ... Proponents of evolution and
manmade climate change are ecstatic about the Common Core science
standards. Climate change is accepted as manmade in the standards
and children must accept this notion....
"The Fordham Institute suggests that the creators of the standards
'conferred primacy on practices and paid too little attention to
the knowledge base that makes those practices both feasible and
worthwhile.'”
See
Green Lies and
Deceptive Science &
Common Core: Who Will Rule the Global
Schools? Part 3
Chicago Public Schools
lay off 2,113 employees as union-made disaster worsens:
"About a month after Chicago school officials announced the closing
of 48 schools and 850 employee layoffs, they 'announced late Thursday
that 2,113 teachers and other employees would be laid off Friday,'
reports the Chicago Sun-Times. The 1,036 affected teachers
represent 'about 4 percent of the last year’s total faculty of 23,290....
Out-of-control employee pension costs are the culprit for CPS’ latest
round of downsizing."
See
God's
Warnings for our Times
Can't kids just be kids?
The U.N. wants to sexualize them:
"Graphic sex education for youth is the new battleground at the
UN.... While delegates are busy negotiating resolutions and outcome
documents, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and UN organizations
campaign for the installation of socially radical curriculums
in Africa and America alike. 'Oral sex, masturbation, and orgasms need to be taught in education,'
Diane Schneider told the audience at a panel on combating homophobia
and transphobia. Schneider, representing the National Education
Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in the
US....
"Comprehensive
sex education is 'the only way to combat heterosexism and gender
conformity,' Schneider proclaimed...'
Find help and answers
for parents in "How to Protect Your Child..."
June 2013
Suicide Note Homework Assignment
Has NYC Parents in an Uproar:
"Parents at a private New York City school are outraged that their
children were assigned to write first-person suicide notes as
part of an English class assignment.... Students as young as 14 were
reportedly instructed to write the notes last month from the perspective
of a character who kills herself in the book, 'The Secret Life of
Bees.' ... the assignment had students 'Justifying why they had
committed suicide.'”
See
Brainwashing
in America
Usurping Parental Rights:
“We all need to wake up and realize how much indoctrination is going
on in our public schools, including the promotion of man-made global
warming, Darwinism, LGBT affirmation, population control, feminism,
reproductive ‘choice’ and other social and political issues.” .... A
recent survey revealed the drastic decline in U.S. literacy: 21 to 23
percent, or some 40 to 44 million of the 191 million adults in the United
States, demonstrated incompetence in the lowest level of reading, writing,
and mathematical skill.”
See
No
Room for God: Reviving the 'Science' of 'Re-education'
May 2013
The
Global Roots of "Common Core" Education:
"According to
Julian
Huxley, the first head of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 'The task before UNESCO... is to help the emergence of a single
world culture...'
"Today's education goals were envisioned more than a century ago by
powerful elites who steered
the process from behind the scenes. The labels changed through the years,
but they all followed a globalist vision toward a totalitarian world
equipped to mold young minds for a socialist/Communist system. ...
Common Core' (CC)or "Common Core Standards" (CCS) or "Common Core
State Standards (CCSS). These deceptive labels hide the global agenda
-- at least for the moment....."
See
Bill Gates Teams Up With UNESCO
‘Heterosexual white male’...
student denied position on ‘diversity’ panel:
"Stephen Piotrkowski was apparently denied a position on Northwestern’s
student government because he is a 'heterosexual white male.'
Hiring Better Teachers May
Be Racist, Say Bad Teachers:
"Should schools hire better teachers or would that be racist? The answer
is, Yes, No, Maybe, Probably, and I’m Going to Sue. Slowly but surely,
a growing number of states are eyeing policies to select academically
stronger individuals for their teaching programs as one avenue to improve
the quality of new teachers."
See
Toward a Conceptual Model
of Life-Long Education
Bill Gates Teams Up With
UNESCO -- "Educating" the World through UNESCO-Based Common Core
"Values": "In
his 1947 book, UNESCO: Its purpose and Its Philosophy,
Julian Huxley, the First Director-General of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), wrote the
following:
'...The
task is to help the emergence of a single world culture with
its own philosophy and background of ideas and with its own broad purpose....
"On November 17, 2004 at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, UNESCO signed
a 26-page 'Cooperation Agreement' with Microsoft Corporation to develop
a [global] 'master curriculum.'"
See
The UN Seizure of Parental Rights
Two Moms vs. Common Core:
"Indiana has become the first state to retreat from the Common Core
standards.... Common Core is a set of math and English standards
developed largely with Gates Foundation money and pushed by the Obama
administration and the National Governors Association.
"...some parents saw that Common Core was actually lowering standards
in their children’s schools. ...'Instead of many arithmetic problems,
the homework would contain only three or four questions, and two of
those would be ‘explain your answer,’” Heather told me. 'Like, ‘One
bridge is 412 feet long and the other bridge is 206 feet long. Which
bridge is longer? How do you know?’ ... The 'right' answer involved
heavy quotation from Common Core language.
"Professor Milgram... concluded that the Common Core standards are...
'in large measure a political document that . . . is written
at a very low level and does not adequately reflect our current understanding
of why the math programs in the high-achieving countries give dramatically
better results.'”
We hope to post Part 1 of a
3-part series on the global roots and goals of Common Core by Wednesday.
Common Core Forcing Marxism/Nazism
on America’s Children:
"Common Core Standards are being mandated and implemented by the Federal
Government via organizations such as National Governors Association,
Achieve, and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)....
"The
comparison of Nazism and Common Core (CC) are uncanny. ...Nazism had
Leaders and Master Teachers in the National Socialists Teachers
League that visited schools and kept data files on Teachers. The
Obama Administration funded 10,000 Master Teachers (MT’S) to train
Teachers on CC and the MT’s will keep data files on students and Teachers.
Students were taught to spy on parents and teachers.
"In
Nazism, the curriculum was rewritten to provide a Nazi (government)
approved curriculum.. Common Core curriculum is being rewritten to provide
a global approved curriculum. Nazism kept huge data files on students
and teachers and Common Core will data mine the students with over 400
different data points on each child, their family and teachers from
pre-kindergarten to workforce….
"... the Master
Teachers will be instructing the Teachers to not teach our nations framework
or any form of nationalism. Instead they will be trained to be 'good
global, sustainable citizens'....They will become a 'managed work
force' for the New World Order.'" See
Preparing for Persecution
Missouri
moving to protect parental rights from federal tyranny over medicine,
education and discipline of children:
"A number of Missouri lawmakers are supporting an amendment to the state
constitution that essentially formalizes the fundamental right of
parents to raise their children.... Neither
the state nor any political subdivision...shall act to deny or impair
the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education,
and care of their children." [But the White House has another agenda
for the training of our children.]
See
Toward a Conceptual
Model of Life-Long Education
and
The UN Seizure of Parental Rights
April 2013
Marxism
in Education—The Infiltration of Our School Systems by the Common Core
Standards: A
set of five videos that explain the radical changes in education and
traditional freedom.
New
teaching standards delve more deeply into climate change
: "Middle school students,
for instance, will be taught that human activities, including the use
of fossil fuels and the subsequent release of greenhouse gases, are
'major factors' in global warming.... In California, climate and weather
are covered in earth science standards. But the proposed new standards
will more explicitly direct students to examine the [deceptive]
scientific evidence for how and why the climate is changing
and its impact."
See
Green Lies and Deceptive Science
Alabama Should Lead on Rejecting
National Standards:
"Across the country, policymakers, teachers, parents, and taxpayers
are waking up to the numerous problems Common Core national standards
present. The loss of classic literature, the mediocre mathematics standards,
the significant costs to taxpayers, the elimination of competitive pressure
to increase standards of excellence, and, most troubling, the massive
federal intervention and further disenfranchisement of parents."
But there are
much bigger problems with Common Core! I hope to write a report by the
end of next week.
Next
Generation Science Standards:
"What is the difference between the Common Core State Standards
for Literacy in Science and the NGSS? ... The literacy standards do
not replace science standards -- they supplement them. The NGSS will
lay out the core ideas and practices in science that students should
master in preparation for college and careers....
"The process for the science standards development takes into account
the importance of having the scientific and educational research communities
identify core ideas in science and articulate them across grade
bands. ... A committee of 18 experts in science, engineering, cognitive
science, teaching and learning, curriculum, assessment and education
policy, was responsible for writing the Framework....
"Achieve will facilitate
the next step: a state-led process where state policy leaders, higher
education, K–12 teachers, the science and business community and others
will develop science standards that are grounded in the Framework."
See
Chronology of the NEA
The Radical Transformation
of America’s Classrooms:
"Students no longer explore and discuss the history of America even
in the History Department of the local college—it has long been replaced
by courses that praise and promote sexual, 'racial and ethnic differences,'
instead of highlighting our common American heritage, what made America
great and an exceptional nation that has contributed to the betterment
of mankind. Socialist professors admire, teach, and laud the history
of non-western cultures as superior to our own culture....
"The first director of
UNESCO, Julian Huxley, stated that
UNESCO 'is to help the emergence of a single world culture, with its
own philosophy and background of ideas, and with its own broad purposes.”
See
Chronology of the NEA
Education,
Indoctrination and Data Mining in Common Core: Here’s Why America’s
Schools May Be in More Trouble Than You Think:
"One of the most troubling aspects of this federal program is that
government bureaucrats are currently mining sensitive and highly
personal information on children through Common Core’s tracking
system. The data will then reportedly be sold by the government to
outside sources for profit..."
Common Core opens a Republican
rift over education standards:
"The Common Core system is meant to unify K-12 education standards in
states across the nation. It’s having the opposite effect within the
Republican Party, as a rift grows between supporters including high-profile
figures such as Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels and other Republicans who had
a hand in crafting it and those who fear it’s a well-disguised
federal takeover of schools....
"...the Obama administration
strongly supports Common Core, though it didn’t have a hand in crafting
it." [What will
be the new standards for right and wrong -- global pluralism
or Christian values -- in the new, evolving classrooms.]
More on this topic
later!
The Radical Transformation
of America’s Classrooms:
"Students no longer explore and discuss the history of America even
in the History Department of the local college—it has long been replaced
by courses that praise and promote sexual, 'racial and ethnic differences,'
instead of highlighting our common American heritage, what made America
great and an exceptional nation that has contributed to the betterment
of mankind. Socialist professors admire, teach, and laud the history
of non-western cultures as superior to our own culture....
"The first director of
UNESCO, Julian Huxley, stated that
UNESCO 'is to help the emergence of a single world culture, with its
own philosophy and background of ideas, and with its own broad purposes.”
See
Chronology of the NEA
School apologizes for
'Nazi' writing assignment:
"Think like a Nazi, the assignment required students. Argue why Jews are
evil. Students in some Albany High School English classes were asked this
week as part of a persuasive writing assignment to make an abhorrent
argument: "You must argue that Jews are evil, and use solid rationale from
government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich!"
Students were asked to watch and read Nazi propaganda, then pretend their
teacher was a Nazi government official who needed to be convinced of their
loyalty. In five paragraphs, they were required to prove that Jews were the
source of Germany's problems.... One-third of the students refused to
complete the assignment..."
See
Mandatory Training in Orwellian Thinking
What CSCOPE and Common
Core...Lessons Look Like?
"Keven Card, a former Marine from Houston who has home-schooled his
children for the last six years, thought his family was safe from
the reach of Common Core, but soon learned otherwise. ... two years
ago Pearson Education, which is linked to Common Core, acquired
Texas Connections Academy, the online charter school Card uses to homeschool his ninth-grader. One lesson plan featured a video
dubbed, 'China Rises,' that appears to tout the virtues of Communism
over capitalism....
“'They make kids watch a video that makes capitalism look bad and
Communist China look good. It’s absolutely unbelievable.' Below are
several screenshots of the program, 'China Rises'..."
See
Bowing to the Dragon? America's
Perilous Partnership with China
Video:
Marxism
in Education—The Infiltration of Our School Systems by the Common Core
Standards: A
set of five videos that explain the radical changes in education and
traditional freedom.
March 2013
Alabama School Bans Word
‘Easter’: "Boys
and girls at an Alabama elementary school will still get to hunt for
eggs – but they can’t call them ‘Easter Eggs’. ...the principal banished
the word for the sake of religious diversity.... 'So we’re just
trying to make sure we respect and honor everybody’s differences.'"
See
Brainwashing aimed
at silencing Christianity?
Stanford
Kills Popular Course on Free Market:
"In 2009, Professor John McCaskey began teaching 'Moral Foundations
of Capitalism' at the Palo Alto, Calif. institution. The seminar
explored and evaluated historical arguments for the free-market model....
The course proved more popular than Stanford expected, drawing double
the planned number of students with even more sitting on the floor outside....So
what does a university do with a runaway academic hit? Cancel it, of
course....
[In contrast] Stanford’s Department of History presents such essentials
as 'Capitalism and Its Discontents...' and “Social Democracy
from Marx to Gross National Happiness.'"
See
Mandatory
Training in Orwellian Thinking
Most NYC High School Grads
Need Remedial Help Before Entering CUNY Community Colleges
: that nearly 80 percent
of those who graduate from city high schools arrived at City University’s
community college system without having mastered the skills to do college-level
work. In sheer numbers it means that nearly 11,000 kids who got diplomas
from city high schools needed remedial courses to re-learn the basics."
See
Chronology of the NEA
Sharia Education in Texas:
"In practice, Common Core evades transparency by peddling shoddy
curricular material authored by anonymous committees. It promotes
faddish experiments masquerading as 'world-class' math and reading
goals. Instead of raising expectations, Common Core is a Trojan horse
for lowering them. California, for example, is now citing Common Core as
a rationale for abandoning algebra classes for 8th graders.”
Cypress HS students suspended
for disarming gunman?
"A 16-year-old Cypress Lake High School student, who wrestled a loaded
revolver away from a teen threatening to shoot, is being punished. The
student grappled the gun away from the 15-year-old suspect on the bus ride
home. ...the Revolver was loaded. According to the arrest report the suspect...
was 'pointing the gun directly' at another student and 'threatening to shoot
him.'
"The
mother [of the rescuer] ...can't understand why her son, and two other students
who disarmed the gunman, were all suspended."
Now teenage
rescuers are punished along with gun carriers.
See
Turning Our Schools into Totalitarian
Enclaves
February 2013
Ohio congressman's
meditation crusade:
"Congressman Tim Ryan... is pushing a curriculum called S.E.L. --
social emotional learning -- that teaches kids to relax, calming
themselves into a state where they are better able to learn. ...
When they close their eyes, they can actually see themselves even
doing well in school. And when you can see it, it will happen.'...
Ryan will be introducing a bill that will help states
implement S.E.L. standards and promote mindfulness in medical
schools, teacher-training programs.... According to the magazine
'Psychology Today,' somewhere near 10 million Americans are
practicing some sort of meditation."
See
Your Child and the New Age
Imprinted: Kids’ Brains
“Branded” with Fast-Food Logos:
"If you think the millions that fast food restaurants spent on commercials
don’t have a profound effect on our brains, you may be in for a
surprise. It turns out their logos are having a serious impact on
the brain—in particular, the brains of children."
[Whether it's TV ads, computer games, or any other enticing offer,
today's clever suggestion are designed to build cravings for the
marketed product. Children and youth are especially vulnerable]
See
Steps toward Global Mind Control
Majoring in Minors: Turning
Our Schools into Totalitarian Enclaves:
"...young people are now being forcibly removed by police officers from
the classroom, strip searched, arrested, handcuffed, transported in
the back of police squad cars, and placed in police holding cells until
their frantic parents can get them out. For those unlucky enough to
be targeted for such punishment, the experience will....stay with them
for the rest of their lives in the form of a criminal record.
"Consider the
case of Wilson Reyes, a seven-year-old elementary school student
from the Bronx who got into a scuffle with a classmate over a $5 bill.
In response to the incident, school officials called police, who arrested
Reyes, transported him to the police station and allegedly handcuffed
the child to a wall and interrogated him for ten hours about his
behavior and the location of the money....
"A North Carolina public school allegedly strip-searched a 10-year-old
boy in search of a $20 bill lost by another student, despite the fact
that the boy, J.C., twice told school officials he did not have the
missing money. The assistant principal, a woman, reportedly ordered
the fifth grader to disrobe down to his underwear and subjected him
to an aggressive strip-search.... The missing money was later found
in the school cafeteria. ...
"A high school sophomore was suspended for violating the school’s no-cell-phone
policy after he took a call from his father, a master sergeant in the
U.S. Army who was serving in Iraq at the time....
"Students have also been penalized for such inane 'crimes' as bringing
nail clippers to school, using Listerine or Scope, and carrying fold-out
combs that resemble switchblades. A 9-year-old boy in Manassas,
Virginia, who gave a Certs breath mint to a classmate, was actually
suspended, while a 12-year-old boy who said he brought powdered
sugar to school for a science project was charged with a felony for
possessing a look-alike drug."
See
No Room for God: Reviving
the 'Science' of ' Re-education'
6th Graders Asked to
Design “Communist” Flag:
"6th graders are being asked to design new flags for communist
countries in school districts across Texas as part of a curriculum
critics have decried as 'mind control' intended to make children
sympathize with socialist ideals.... Other lesson plans, which
are included to ensure teachers, 'adhere to complicated state curriculum
requirements,' portrayed participants in the Boston Tea Party as
terrorists while promoting pro-Islamic ideals....Over the
years, there have also been several incidents of children being
suspended for “patriotic” drawings, such as pictures of a US Marine
firing a weapon."
See
Symbols and their
meaning
NYC High Schools Push
Morning After Pills:
"Your daughters are not yours, anymore, they are Mayor Bloomberg’s..
He and school health clinic personnel are now in charge of inculcating
values and sexual mores to your daughters.... How else are we to
describe New York City’s ongoing program that distributes morning
after pills to girls as young as 14 without parental knowledge or
consent." See
No Room for God: Reviving
the 'Science' of 'Re-education'
January 2013
Rotten to the Core:
Readin', Writin' and Deconstructionism:
"Thanks to the 'Common Core' regime, funded with President Obama's
stimulus dollars... deconstructionism is back in style. Traditional
literature is under fire. Moral relativism is increasingly the norm.
'Standards' is
Orwell-speak
for subjectivity and lowest common denominator pedagogy....
"Deconstructionism, of course, is the faddish leftwing school of
thought popularized by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in the
1970s. Writer Robert Locke described the nihilistic movement best:
'It is based on the proposition that the apparently real world
is in fact a vast social construct and that the way to knowledge
lies in taking apart in one's mind this thing society has built.
Taken to its logical conclusion, it supposes that there is at the
end of the day no actual reality, just a series of appearances stitched
together by social constructs into what we all agree to call reality.'
"Literature and history are all about competing ideological narratives,
in other words. One story or 'text' is no better than another. Common
Core's literature-lite literacy standards are aimed not at increasing
'college readiness' or raising academic expectations. Just the opposite.
They help pave the way for more creeping political indoctrination
under the guise of increasing access to 'information.'"
See
Brave New Schools:
A New Way of Thinking
Muslim
Brotherhood group to 'connect all U.S. schools':
"A Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization has partnered with
the U.S. Department of Education and the State Department to facilitate
an online program aiming to connect all U.S. schools with classrooms
abroad by 2016. Vartan Gregorian, a board member of the organization,
the Qatar Foundation International, was appointed in 2009 to President
Obama’s White House Fellowships Commission.
"...Gregorian served as a point man in granting $49.2 million in startup
capital to an education-reform project founded by former Weather Underground
terrorist William Ayers and chaired by Obama."
The Children's Story:
Please watch this important video on education!
Teachers
As Spiritual Leaders?
"Here we go again.
A teacher at an upstate New York high school has been told to remove
Christian symbols from her classroom, and stop participating in
the school’s Bible study group, or else. Or else what? Or else she’ll
be fired, of course....
"Not wishing to be bankrupted by an atheist jihad, school officials
'counseled' the teacher to keep her religion to herself. That’s how
they create an 'inclusive' environment—by excluding Christianity....
The teacher is filing a lawsuit of her own, charging the school district
with singling out her viewpoint for discrimination. Which of course
is exactly what they did.
"After all, the same high school has a 'gay-straight alliance' dedicated
to promoting homosexuality and exhorting teens to try it. That point
of view is perfectly acceptable to school officials. They wouldn’t dream
of 'counseling' a teacher to take down 'gay pride' posters. And if a
local church or Christian group objected to any of it, the school officials
would laugh in their faces. ...
"Progressive educators never liked the idea of parents passing their
social values on to their children. I mean, what kind of values can
you learn from 'the masses'? ...By imposing brand-new social values
on the children of the masses—like 'gay rights,' for instance—teachers
really do become the spiritual leaders of society."
See
No Room for God: Reviving
the 'Science' of 'Re-education'
Five-Year-Old Girl Suspended
For “Terroristic-threat” To Shoot Classmates With Pink Bubble Gun:
"In yet another hysterical over-reaction to last month’s Sandy Hook
school shooting, a girl of five-years-old has been suspended from school
following a three hour grilling when she joked that she would shoot
her classmates with a toy gun. The girl...was last week said to have
told other children at the school that she was going to shoot them,
and then herself with a pink Hello Kitty bubble gun; a toy that is filled
with a soapy solution to make bubbles with.
"School officials reportedly categorized the incident as a 'terroristic
threat'and labeled the girl’s actions a 'threat to harm others.'....'This
is a good-natured little girl,' the lawyer, Robin Ficker said. ...'You’re
telling me that this child was questioned by adults, in a situation
where there was no parent or parental guardian, and then she was, initially,
given an incident category of ‘making terrorist threats?... And this
from a 5-year-old? ... Can’t kids be kids anymore?'”
MontCo
school suspends 6-year-old for pretend gunshot:
"'The 6-year-old... made a gun with his hands, pointed [his finger]
at another student and said 'pow,' according to Robin Ficker, the boy's
attorney....'What they're doing is looking at the worst possible interpretation
of a young, naive 6-year-old....'
"'Your son ... was involved in a serious incident," Garraway wrote.
'[He] threatened to shoot a student...."
[Not true! He had no
gun! He was just pointing his finger and pretending -- as in a game!]
See
Brainwashing
in America
Teaching Americans to hate their
country:
[Thomas Sowell likens U.S. 'education' to indoctrination in 20th century
China, France] "Schools were once thought of as places
where a society’s knowledge and experience were passed on to the younger
generation. But, about a hundred years ago, professor
John Dewey of Columbia
University came up with a very different conception of education....
"Dewey saw the role of the teacher not as a transmitter of a society’s
culture to the young, but as an agent of change – someone
strategically placed, with an opportunity to condition students to want
a different kind of society. A century later, we are seeing schools
across America indoctrinating students to believe in all sorts of politically
correct notions. The history that is taught... emphasizes everything that...can be
made to look bad, in America – and that gives little, if any, attention
to the great achievements of this country."
See
Brave New Schools:
A New Way of Thinking
How
the MA 'transgender rights' law is changing the school: "In
late September, we got a phone call from a parent in West Springfield,
Massachusetts. The school committee there had quietly decided to add
to the non-discrimination policy in their school system: It was now
to include 'gender identity and expression.' .... Thus, the school system
was about to declare it official policy that boys coming to school in
dresses and calling themselves girls now constituted a 'protected class'
that must be accommodated. Girls who 'identified' as boys must be allowed
to use the boys' facilities, etc."
See
Moral and Spiritual Corruption
December 2012
Bill
Ayers: The Left Must Utilize Its ‘Absolute Access’ to America’s Classrooms:
"Bill Ayers, former domestic terrorist-turned university professor,
reemerged earlier this month to explain how the Left’s access to
schools and neighborhoods will help them shape the future of America.
Speaking at a New York University 'Change the Stakes' meeting on Dec.
4, he said the Left must utilize the existing 'movements on the ground.”'
See
No Room for God: Reviving
the 'Science' of 'Re-education'
How do we keep children
safe at school?
"The
days of 'it could never happen here' don’t exist anymore. If it
happened at Columbine or in an Amish schoolhouse, at Oakland’s Oikos
University or in a small Connecticut suburb, a school massacre can
happen anywhere – and every principal, teacher and police officer in
the country knows it.”
See
Chronology of the NEA
Obama's stealthy education
takeover:
"Obama... said: “You know, under my leadership, what we’ve done is reformed
education, working with governors, 46 states.'... Children will read
what’s described as 'informational texts,' government reports, computer
manuals and technical bulletins. There will be more 'reading' in science
and math classes. The focus will be on computer literacy with little,
if any, actual 'writing.' Cursive penmanship is already being
phased out....
"All schools will have to meet the same standards and tests, and all
students will be tracked by the feds. Ultimately even private and home
schools will be forced into this because national tests (i.e. the SAT)
will be geared to this curriculum.... Of the 50 states, 46 have agreed,
as well as D.C.
"Was there a vote of the people or the legislatures? No. Each governor
decided – pushed by the National Governors Association, and the lure
is $4.35 million in federal money from the Education Department’s 'Race-to-the-Top'
school plan. The Obama administration said you have to participate
to get the grants. The money was part of Obama’s stimulus plan."
See
Mandatory Training in
Orwellian Thinking?
School Removes God From First-Grader's Poem:
"Consider the story of a first-grade girl in West Marion, North Carolina,
who had the word 'God' stripped from a poem she wrote and was going
to read at her school's Veterans Day assembly earlier this month. The
poem honored her two grandfathers who served during the Vietnam War.
'He prayed to God for peace,' she wrote of one of them.... At
a McDowell County Board of Education meeting last week, employee
Chris Greene said, 'We had one parent concerned with the use of
the word God in this program. This parent did not want the word God
mentioned.... When the demand from this person was heard, the
rights of another stopped. It did so by hushing the voice of
a six-year-old girl.' ....'Courts have found that religious references
at school-sponsored events generally run afoul of the First Amendment,'
said Paulson."
[But the authors
of the First Amendment intended to preserve our freedom to honor God,
not to quench it. Today's classrooms can feature every other religion
-- except Biblical Christianity."
See
UNESCO's Declaration on the Role
of Religion in a Culture of Peace
Brave New Schools, Chapter 3:
A New Way of Thinking:
"The challenge to humanity is to adopt new ways of thinking, new
ways of acting, new ways of organizing itself in society, in short,
new ways of living." [UNESCO]
"What's happening in America today ...is a total transformation of
our society. We have moved into a new era... I'm not sure we have
really begun to comprehend...the incredible amount of organizational
restructuring and human resource development.... The revolution...in
curriculum is that we no longer are teaching facts to children."
[Dr. Shirley McCune]
"The classroom discussion came to a close, and Ashley began to pack
up her books..."
Students
Told to Disavow American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality:
"'Our language doesn’t make it easy to write in ways that are
inclusive,'
Howard said. 'We don’t have a generic singular, I mean we have he and
she. There is no pronoun that is gender-neutral there.'"
See
UN Declaration on Tolerance
November 2012
Feds: Teachers Embroiled
in Test-Taking Fraud:
"For 15 years, teachers in three Southern states paid Clarence
Mumford Sr. — himself a longtime educator — to send someone else to
take the tests in their place.... Each time, Mumford received a fee
of between $1,500 and $3,000 to send one of his test ringers with
fake identification
to the Praxis exam. In return, his customers got a passing
grade and began their careers as cheaters....'The propensity to
cheat on exams both through college and for licensure and
certification exams seems to be increasing.... 'People often
don't see it as something wrong.'"
See
Brainwashing &
How to Resist It
Chicago Teachers Strategize
on How to Indoctrinate Kids with Marxism:
"In September, the Chicago Teachers Union went on strike, shutting down
the Windy City’s schools for 10 days. Many of those same teachers were
in attendance on Nov. 10 at the Midwest Marxism Conference held at Northwestern
University in Chicago. The topics of the conference were:
• Marxism, Crisis
& Resistance
• The Meaning of Marxism
• Russia: A Case Study in Workers Power & Revolution
• Lenin’s Theory of the Revolutionary Party...
ACLU sues to force elementary
libraries to display lesbian advocacy book:
"In the Davis School District in Utah, children as young as kindergarten
age can check out a homosexual propaganda book called In My Mothers’
House, about three adopted kids and their lesbian 'mothers,' if
their parents sign a permission slip..."
Education
Briefs: "Between
350-400 doses a year of Plan B, 'the morning-after pill,' are being
dispensed from a vending machine in the campus health center
at a small Pennsylvania public college. Shippensburg University sells
the 'morning after pill' to be used after unprotected sex for $25 a
dose. Condoms and pregnancy tests are available from the same machine."
See
Moral and Social Corruption
October 2012
Virginia
Teacher Charged With Assault: Girl’s Hand Cut in Forced ‘Islamic
Hand Sign’ Drill:
"Harris [the teacher] has a disturbing trend of 'indoctrinating'
students with Islamic teachings. ...When Bennett’s daughter was
unable to do the Islamic hand sign correctly after two days of instruction,
Harris became frustrated. ...'[Harris] yanked her hand out of her
desk and my daughter’s hand got hung up on the metal wire on her
file folder and the skin got caught on it,' the mother explained....
'The other children saw my daughter’s hand dripping with blood after
the teacher had gotten so mad that she went to twist my daughter’s
hand into an Islamic sign.” See
Brainwashing
& How to Resist It
Leftists
Mobilize Schoolchildren for Obama:
"[On] October 9, the day after Columbus Day, newspapers reported
not one, but two, audacious initiatives: (1) an effort in
Denver to have teachers embolden youngsters to actively pursue
'social change' within the 'dominant culture,' which can be
taken for inciting insurrection, and (2) a voter-registration
drive in Florida schools aimed at getting kids registered as
Obama Democrats, with an outright refusal to do the same for
the Republican Party....
"...Pasco County Schools brazenly permitted a former teacher to
deliver Obama speeches to senior high-school students. ....Organizing
For America was 'given access to as many as a half dozen high
school and middle school campuses.'...A lawsuit might have been
winnable 20 years ago—in both cases. Today, you’d find it hard to
locate a sympathetic judge who’d touch either one....Quite simply,
the Left has been allowed to become too powerful."
See
The Socialist Vision
of the NEA
Obamacare - Obama Core
is another power grab:
"...let's not overlook his plans for education. They are as fundamentally
transformational, costly and dictatorial as Obamacare. It's well-known
that public schools are not graduating students as well-educated
as before, that Americans score poorly on international tests, and
that billions of federal dollars showered on public schools have
not achieved any of the designated goals... to raise test scores
and to eliminate the gap between higher income and lower income
students....
"Obama Core is a comprehensive plan to dumb down schoolchildren
so they will be obedient servants of the government and probably
to indoctrinate them to accept the leftwing view of America and
its history."
See
Brave New Schools:
A New Way of Thinking
Chinese funding Florida
charter schools:
"... through investments of at least $1 million — or $500,000 for
'targeted employment areas' — foreign nationals are able
to obtain legal residency in the US so long as the money they invest
will help secure or create at least 10 full-time jobs. A group of
Chinese investors have put $30 million into the state's charter
school program to date and are looking to invest three times that
amount in the next year..."
September 2012
Chicago
strike tells us answer is school choice:
"Unions are about the economic interests of the teachers. The mayor
is about his budget.... No one solely represents the interests of
the kids." See
The Socialist Vision
of the NEA
Academic
Dishonesty:
"Many of the nation’s colleges and universities have become cesspools
of indoctrination, intolerance, academic dishonesty and an 'enlightened'
form of racism.... Unfortunately, parents, taxpayers and donors
have little knowledge of the extent of the dishonesty and indoctrination."
Top U.S. educator touts
technology:
"In two days in Silicon Valley, [Arne] Duncan displayed the enthusiasm
for change that has marked
his 3½ years as educator-in-chief.... Duncan touted the federal
Dream Act, which would allow undocumented students to enroll in
college, join the military or legally work. 'We can't afford to
keep that talent on the sidelines,' he said to applause.... He stressed
the importance of preschool. 'The only way we can stop playing
catchup in education is if our babies enter kindergarten ready to
learn.'"
[To
learn what? To submit to the new amoral, anti-Christian values
rather than to their parents? That's what happened in the Soviet
Union under Lenin and Stalin!]
But God tells us,
"Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it."
Proverbs 22:6
Education for Social
Change.
Education for a New
World - Assaults on Faith and Family
: "...education for
social change transcends the school system - it has become a
culturally embedded reality, impacting media and entertainment,
churches, government programs, business practices, and law....The
twenty-year-old plus, United Nations Convention on the Rights of
the Child
(CRC),
has little to do with personal rights. It has everything to do with
changing values and undermining the traditional family. Since it
transfers parental authority to the state, Christian children
are legally free to reject safe family guidelines....
"This process
started long ago. Its milestones include
the birth of the United Nations in 1945 and, starting
in 1948, its consultative relationships with the new
World Federation for Mental Health. The Federation’s founding
document,
Mental Health and World Citizenship,
exposed the mind-changing agenda behind the social sciences: 'Studies
of human development indicate the modifiability of human behaviour
... especially during infancy, childhood and adolescence...
"'Social institutions such as family and school impose their imprint
early... It is the [traditional Christian] men and women in whom
these patterns of attitude and behaviour have been incorporated
who present the immediate resistance to social, economic and political
changes.' ...The CRC is designed to erode that resistance! ...'double-speak”
is central to UN propaganda. UNESCO’s
Declaration on the Role of Religion
is a good example. It calls for tolerance and dialogue - but shows
no tolerance toward Christianity."
July 2012
The NEA Shows Its Politics:
"The billions spent on education have not achieved any of their designated
goals, which were to raise the test scores and to close the gap between
kids from upper-income and lower-income families. The handouts, however,
produced a lot of cheating by teachers and administrators trying to hide
their failure to achieve designated goals....
"The
most powerful union of government employees is the
National Education Association
(NEA), which held this year’s annual national convention as usual over
the Fourth of July weekend, attracting 9,000 delegates. To no one’s surprise,
it resembled a re-election campaign rally for Barack Obama."
See
A New Way of Thinking
Separation of Child and
State: "Educational
excellence has eluded Louisiana for generations under government-managed
schools, and the children of Louisiana have suffered irreparable damage.
These impermissible results are the sole reason for the recent Jindal
remedy proposed and passed in the 2012 Legislative Education Reform.
The central principles to the Jindal Education Reform Plan remain:
parental choice, money follows the child, accountability follows
the money to that child..."
See
The UN Seizure of Parental
Rights
Muslim congressman tied
to terror co-conspirator:
"Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., who now is under fire for suggesting the
U.S. needs to be 'looking at' the Islamic madrassa model of education
which teaches the Quran, has a history of association with a
radical Muslim group that was an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme
to raise money for Hamas....He stated: '...America will never tap into
educational innovation and ingenuity without looking at the model that
we have in our madrassas...where innovation is encouraged, where the
foundation is the Quran.'... ISNA was established in 1981 by activists
from the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Muslim Students Association."
See
Islamic Villages
(in America) and European Muslim 'No-Go' Zones
June 2012
Schoolchildren could be
given lessons in being transgender:
"The action plan, launched by equalities minister Lynne Featherstone,
said that a child’s early years have a 'profound influence on their
life chances'. It said it aimed to 'help schools become more inclusive
for gender variant children and to help provide more support and
protection to transgender pupils in schools'....'The Government
is committed to tackling transphobic bullying and we want to support
schools to act as leaders and advocates for change.”
$1.1
million-plus Gates grants: ‘Galvanic’ bracelets that measure student
engagement: "...the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is
spending about $1.1 million to develop a way to physiologically measure
how engaged students are by their teachers’ lessons. This involves
'galvanic skin response' bracelets that kids would wear so their engagement
levels could be measured."
It's
None of the Government's Business:
"The use of nosy questionnaires by the public schools has been a bone
of contention between schools and parents for years, but New Jersey
recently came up with a question that has parents up in arms. Third-graders
were asked on a standardized test to reveal a secret about their
lives and explain why it is hard to keep.....This question about
a secret should have been banned as a violation of the New Jersey law
that requires prior parental consent before a student can be required
to reveal personal information."
Teen wins right to wear
'Jesus Is Not a Homophobe' T-shirt to school:
"In the judgment entered May 21, U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett
ordered school officials to allow Maverick to wear the T-shirt to school
whenever he chooses. He also ordered the school district to pay $20,000
in damages and court costs to the teen. 'We’re very happy for Maverick
and all LGBT students in Ohio,' Christopher Clark, senior staff
attorney for Lambda Legal, which sued on Maverick’s behalf, said in
a press release. “If school officials had any doubt before, it’s clear
now: First Amendment rights apply to all students on every day
of the year, and efforts to silence LGBT youth will not go unchallenged.'”
Yet Christian expression are criticized and
censored across the country.
See
"...and a little
child shall lead them"
Can
you really teach a kid to become bullyproof?
"Teaching kids to become 'bullyproof' is all the rage. Books, videos
and websites promise to show parents how to protect their kids from
being bullied; school districts are buying curricula with names like
'Bully-Proofing Your School,' a well-regarded program used in thousands
of classrooms. Even martial arts programs are getting into the act:
'Bullyproofing the world, one child at a time,' is the motto for a jujitsu
program called Gracie Bullyproof."
May 2012
School officials fear a
federal policy takeover:
"...the Obama administration has left some state education chiefs feeling
elbowed out, saying Washington is trying to establish itself as the
national school board.
"They’re calling for the local leadership to report directly to the
federal government on reform strategies, essentially making the
leader of the U.S. Department of Education the superintendent of the
United States.... States have the predominant role in driving education
policy. This concept upsets that apple cart quite a bit."
NC teacher captured on video
suggesting student could be arrested for Obama criticism:
"A North Carolina high school teacher was captured on video shouting
at a student who questioned President Obama and suggesting he could
be arrested for criticizing a sitting president.... According
to the Salisbury Post, the teacher ...has not been suspended."
See
The Socialist Vision of
the NEA
Revealed: The evil lurking in libraries:
"Since 1876, the American Library Association has had a stated mission of providing
leadership for improving libraries in the U.S., but watchdogs point to radical
shifts in policies that make the once reliable institution...a genuine threat
to America. In recent years, the ALA has become more and more 'terrorist friendly,
child unfriendly and outright dishonest and unethical,' according to Dan Kleinman
of SafeLibraries.org. ... Earlier this year, ALA received a large grant from
the Soros-funded Open Borders Foundation and has now released a professionally
produced video that states: 'It’s our hope that...libraries, schools, and community
groups will watch the film and use it as a springboard for a discussion about
privacy and surveillance in a digital age.'... George Soros is using the ALA
as the pretty face to obtain access to American school children.”
See
The Ominous "Success" of Re-Education
(A warning for parents)
Sex-slavery documentary yanked from
Ukiah 5th-grade class:
"A wrenching film that documents child sex slavery in Bombay no longer will
be shown to Yokayo Elementary School fifth graders [California]. '...'It's age
inappropriate,' said Troy Sherman.... He said school district officials were
unaware teacher Stephanie Anderson was showing the documentary to her fifth
grade class until the issue was raised by an outraged parent....The film also
contains grainy images captured with hidden cameras taken inside brothels."
See
Brainwashing & How to Resist It
April 2012
Textbooks Promote Islamist Agenda:
"Islamist revisionism in U.S. textbooks can be traced back to Saudi money....
Late in 1974, a state-of-the-art, well-funded Saudi-financed plan was undertaken
by Arab states to seize hold of American public opinion and increase their influence
over U.S. foreign policy. A central aspect of this plan was a rewrite of
20th century Middle Eastern history with the specific intent of altering American
public opinion and policies pertaining to Israel. ...revisionists realized
that the imperialistic, violent and anti-Semitic history of Islam would
undermine the [preferred] narrative that Israel and the Jews have been the aggressors
in the Middle East and Arab Muslims have been the victims."
See
Spreading Islam through Public
Schools
Higgins guides
parents on how to pull child from activist schools on Friday, April 20:
Below is a statement issued by the [liberal left] ACLU, emphasizing the limits
of political activism during instructional time: 'You DO have a right
to participate in Day of Silence and other expressions of your opinion.....You
do NOT have a right to remain silent during class time
if a teacher asks you to speak.'
"This
site, sponsored by pro-family groups listed below, is for the sole purpose of
giving parents the tools needed to oppose the GLSEN-sponsored Day of Silence.
The Day of Silence, which is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education
Network (GLSEN)...will take place in most public schools on April 20, 2012."
See
Brainwashing & How to Resist It
Protecting Calif. students from
'adult seduction': "Assembly
Bill 1861 would make it a felony for teachers in the state to send sexual text
messages or have suggestive communication with their students."
School Removes 'God' From Lee Greenwood
Song: “We can’t take
God out of the song, we can’t take God out of The Pledge of Allegiance, we can’t
take God off of the American currency. ...The song is played at every naturalization
ceremony behind The National Anthem....”
See
Purging
the Memory of Our Christian Roots
Marriage and family are obscene:
"...a girl at Pilgrim High School in Warwick, Rhode Island, had her artwork
censored by 'educators.' The student had painted a mural that was deemed objectionable
because it depicted a boy growing up, marrying, and having a child. In fact,
the 'educators' found it so offensive that they ordered it blotted out by painting
over it....
"What do Christian fathers and mothers
think they’re getting, by sending their children to be educated by persons who
find marriage so offensive that they must paint over a picture of a family?
Day after day, five days a week for thirteen years, kindergarten through twelfth
grade, the children of Christians see and hear what their 'teachers' think of
Christian life and faith.... A Christian father once told me it didn’t matter
what his children were being taught in public school, 'because I just de-program
them every day.'"
[What a hard choice
for parents today!]
See
A New Way of Thinking
26-ingredient school lunch burger:
[Dozens of additives ranging from thiamine mononitrate to pyridoxine hydrochloride]
The school burger has gotten more than its share of the spotlight lately as
parents set off a media firestorm in a rally to remove the controversial, ammonia-treated
'lean finely textured beef,' nicknamed 'pink slime,' from schools. The U.S.
Department of Agriculture responded, electing to scale back on a planned purchase
of 7 million pounds of ground beef mixed with the processed beef filler.
March 2012
Parents furious as Occupy Toronto
assignment has students writing protest slogans for class
work: "Students at Glenview,
therefore, have parents with high expectations.... One of those parents was
at home recently with his daughter, a Grade 7 student, who was working on an
English exercise in 'critical thinking.'
'I asked her what she was doing,' said the parent....She said her class was
learning about Occupy Toronto, and they were being asked to write a slogan
or a chant as if they were down at one of the Occupy protests. 'She said this
is about the 1% ... This, in my mind, is indoctrinating the kids...'"
See
3 Sets of Meanings
for Education Buzzwords
Reasons to Be Concerned about Having
Your Child in Public Schools:
"Your child will be subjected to sexual indoctrination. ...California now has
EIGHT state laws promoting homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality
to children as young as kindergarten, with no parental opt-in or opt-out....Children
in public schools are more likely to have earlier experiences and develop negative
habits in these areas: lying, cussing, cheating, excessive dieting, wearing
revealing clothes, pornography, sexual activity, smoking, drugs, alcohol, and
even violence." See
Schools and "Values Clarification"
Obama's Education Dept. partners
with Soros: "The Department
of Education has partnered with billionaire George Soros’ Open Society
Institute to promote a global education initiative that seeks 'a world
where each and every person on Earth can access and contribute to the sum of
all human knowledge.
[Do you wonder what global "knowledge"
would be censored? And what would they promote?]...
"A
2007 O.E.R forum announced the education group’s mission of creating 'a world
where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of
all human knowledge.'...The 'Why Open Education Matters' competition
is sponsored and organized by three groups – the U.S. Department of Education,
Soros’ Open Society and a group known as Creative Commons.....Creative Commons
was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig.... Lessig works closely with a Marxist
activist who has argued for the dismantling of the U.S. capitalist system and
whose George Soros-funded group petitions for more government control
of the media....
"McChesney,
an avowed Marxist who favors the dismantling of capitalism. McChesney
founded Free Press, a Soros-funded organization with close ties
to the White House that petitions for more government control of the
news media.... McChesney is a professor...and former editor of the Marxist
journal Monthly Review....The board of Free Press has included a slew
of radicals, such as Obama’s former 'green jobs' czar Van Jones, who resigned
after his founding of a communist organization was exposed."
Censoring the ex-homosexual message:
"Public Schools Superintendent
Joshua Starr called it 'reprehensible,' 'deplorable' and 'disgusting.' What
could trigger such a response? Child sexual abuse by a teacher? Drug dealing
in the high schools? A drunk driving accident that killed students?
"No
- it was a one-page flier distributed to students in several Montgomery County,
Md., high schools.... The flier included disgusting declarations such as, 'All
individuals deserve the right to self-determination and happiness' and such
'reprehensible' advice as '[I]mportant decisions should not be made
on feelings alone.'
"The
controversy arose not because of its relatively innocuous content, but because
of its source: an organization called Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays....
The flier states, 'Every year, thousands of people with unwanted same-sex attractions
make the personal decision to leave a gay identity,' and asserts that such people
should be able to 'seek help and information on overcoming their feelings.'"
Of course, such an old-fashioned
notion clashes with today pro-gay education system. The new global values are
incompatible with the slightest reminder of Christian beliefs."
See
Ban truth - Reap tyranny
Rescue the Perishing:
"We must rescue our children. They are perishing.... Our children no longer
share our values....WAKE UP!! WE ARE LOSING OUR CHILDREN!!! The evidence is
everywhere. ... Rejecting knowledge is worse than ignorance. Willfully ignorant…hear
no evil…see no evil…speak no evil… Don’t worry, be happy!" See
Brainwashing in America
Freedom of religion, R.I.P:
"...the full court held that it's okay for Quebec's education minister to
compel believers to describe God to their children, not as they see him, but
as non-believers do. ...What exactly is religious freedom, if it isn't teaching
God to your children as you see him?...
"In 2008, Quebec's
provincial education ministry saw fit to replace religious instruction in elementary
and secondary schools with a curriculum of its own. ...About 2,000 parents
requested to have their children exempted from having to take their religion
from the state....The parents lost in every forum, from administrative tribunals
to the Quebec Court of Appeal. ... Canada's top court sees its task as defending
the state against the rights and freedoms it guarantees....
"But what about
parents having to send their children to be indoctrinated in values different
from their own? Sorry, says Justice Deschamps, 'the early exposure of children
to realities that differ from those in their immediate family environment is
a fact of life in society.' Well, er, no, it isn't, Judge. Early exposure
is very much under parental control in any society, except in tyrannies. Canada
is turning into a theocracy with its own jealous God: The smug, self-worshipping
state." See
What can parents do?
February 2012
Homeschoolers can't be taught 'gay'
sex sinful: "Homeschooling
families will soon be forbidden from teaching that homosexual sex is sinful
as part of their schooling program, according to the government of Alberta,
Canada. Under the province’s Education Act, homeschoolers and religious schools
will be banned from 'disrespecting' people’s differences....'Whatever
the nature of schooling – homeschool, private school, Catholic school – we
do not tolerate disrespect for differences...”
Must Christian parents
teach their children that gay sex is okay and Biblical guidelines are wrong?
What about the government's
"disrespect" for people who trust God and His guidelines? Will the law favor
immorality and punish Christianity? Are we facing the end of freedom and morality
in the West?
Afraid of Your Child’s Math Textbook?
You Should Be: "That
math homework you’re trying to help your child muddle through might include
problems with no possible solution.... Let’s say a publisher hires a developer
for a certain low-bid fee to produce seven supplemental math books for grades
3-8....The publisher wants these seven books ready for press in five weeks.
...in the not too recent past at least six months would be allotted for a project
of this size....
"A more
recent math project I was hired to edit was not only full of content errors,
the books were so peculiar in the execution of math concepts and instruction
that I hadn’t seen anything like it in all my 20+ years of experience. I asked
the project manager if she’d ever seen math approached in this manner. She gave
a resigned groan and said no, but this was what the publisher wanted...."
American Library Association] Enables
Soros to Indoctrinate Children and Communities Nationwide in a Manner that Threatens
Freedom of Speech: "The
American Library Association is enabling noted 'open society' advocate George
Soros to indoctrinate or propagandize children, media, and communities nationwide
in a manner that furthers Soros organizations's efforts to curtail freedom of
speech.....Soros-funded MMfA uses an American institution, the Girl
Scouts, to promote MMfA as a source to clear up 'media misinformation,'
while the Soros-funded Open Society Foundations uses another American institution,
the American Library Association, to teach communities and students 'how to
identify propaganda and misinformation.'"
Please see the link -- an older warning
School systems hit by insurance
costs: "Georgia school
systems are taking another big financial hit — a 200 percent jump in health
care costs for bus drivers, cafeteria workers and other traditionally low-paid
school employees....This is on top of the double whammy districts are taking
from declining property taxes and cuts in state education funding."
See
Smiling at Socialism
No Time For Homework (including
term papers): "With technology
allowing nearly 24-hour media access as children and teens go about their daily
lives, the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media
has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth....Today, 8-18-year-olds
devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media
across a typical day....At precisely the moment when we need more education
to bring the bottom up to the average and the American average up to the global
peaks, our students are spending more time texting and gaming and less time
than ever studying and doing homework."
January 2012
School District Sues California
Over Lower-Than-Expected Budget Cuts:
"California's largest school district, Los Angeles Unified (LAUSD), announced
on December 13 its plans to sue the state for the loss of $248 million in school
transportation funding. The transportation cuts, set to go into effect in January,
are part of Governor Jerry Brown's decision to cut $1 billion from the state
budget due to lower than expected revenues. Education officials are furious..."
US Textbooks: Muslims Discovered
America: "...did you
know that Muslims discovered America? Or that Jerusalem is an Arab city? That’s
just some of the 'history' that students in America’s K-12 classrooms have been
taught in recent years–with the help of taxpayer money. A new report by the
non-profit Institute for Jewish and Community Research finds that American high
school and elementary textbooks contain countless inaccuracies about
Christianity, Judaism, Israel and the Middle East."
See
Spreading Islam through Public
Schools
Pagan mom challenges Bible giveaway
at North Carolina school:
"Ginger Strivelli, who practices Witchcraft... said she was upset when her 12-year-old
son...came home from North Windy Ridge intermediate school with a Bible. The
Gideons International had delivered several boxes of the sacred books to the
school office. The staff allowed interested students to stop by and pick them
up."
[Note: Public school libraries contain unthinkable
books -- occult and pagan as well as immoral. But one rarely finds a Christian
book on its shelves!].'"
See
Establishing a Global Spirituality
An Ignored 'Disparity': Part II:
"One of the ways of trying to reduce the vast disparities in economic success...
is by making higher education more widely available, even for people without
the money to pay for it.... When institutions of higher learning turn out highly
qualified doctors, scientists, engineers... the benefits are obvious. What is
not so obvious...is that colleges and universities can also turn out vast
numbers of people with credentials, but with no marketable skills with which
to fulfill their expectations. There is nothing magic about simply being in
ivy-covered buildings for four years....
"In countries
around the world, people with credentials but no marketable skills
have been a major source of political turmoil, social polarization and ideologically
driven violence....Those who cannot compete in the marketplace, despite their
degrees, not only resent those who have succeeded where they have failed, but
push demands for preferential treatment, in order to negate the 'unfair' advantages
that others have."
In schools, self-esteem boosting
is losing favor to rigor, finer-tuned praise:
"For decades, the prevailing wisdom in education was that high self-esteem would
lead to high achievement....Now, an increasing number of teachers are weaning
themselves from what some call empty praise. Drawing on psychology and
brain research, these educators aim to articulate a more precise, and scientific,
vocabulary for praise that will push children to work through mistakes and take
on more challenging assignments." See
Chronology of the NEA
Hamas-linked CAIR in Your Kid’s
Classroom: "They are
maybe 1% of the population but they are at your libraries, in your schools,
making security policy, and hampering law enforcement across the nation. Imagine
what life will be like when they are 10% of the population…in just a few years?...
“'Why is a representative of
a terror-linked organization, a defender of jihad terror groups and an apologist
for Islamic supremacism welcome to speak in public schools?'...
"When the
parent tried to explain to [the Assistant Principal for Curriculum] that 'the
school was associating itself with a religious-based political organization
that propagandizes for Islam & Sharia and are terrorist apologists, Miliziano
[the Social Studies teacher] 'completely dismissed these concerns.'"
When drugging replaced spanking:
"There used to be a day in America when parents loved their children enough
to chastise them, because they taught them to know the difference between right
and wrong – which is love.
"... today,
the pharmaceutical companies and their minions in government are at work trying
to convince you that spanking your child is abuse rather than love. And their
resolve is to label your child mentally ill (ADHD, ADD, etc.) and put them on
dangerous psychotropic drugs....Some of the side effects include: Confusion,
Depersonalization, Hostility, Hallucinations, Manic reactions, Suicidal ideation....
"More and
more public schools have brought in TeenScreen, a manipulative survey for children
that sets them up for a prescription. For example, one of the questions asked
is: 'Has there been a time when you felt you couldn't do anything well or that
you weren't as good-looking or smart as other people?' ...a founding member
of the Royal College of General Practitioners, in 1998 stated, 'ADHD is fraud
intended to justify starting children on a life of drug addiction.'"
See
A New Way of Thinking
Turning Schoolchildren Into Informants?
"The same anti-family policy apparently is becoming a policy of the United States
government. And just like in the Soviet Union, it will implemented through the
government schools. Last week, the White House revealed a broad new strategy
for 'battling homegrown terrorism.' ...it will include all levels
of government, including local governments and agencies. ...schools will now
become 'battleground America,' a place for gathering information.....
"'Prevent,'
of course, is a word of the vocabulary of the Soviet Union of the times of Stalin,
when 'enemy infiltration' was 'prevented' by a wide-scale system of informants,
spies, and infiltrators who will look for 'behavioral signals.' ...the children
will be encouraged to spy and inform on their parents.”
See
Your friendly community spies
November 2011
North Carolina Principal Resigns
For Suspending Student Who Called Teacher ‘Cute’:
"School officials offered an apology to Emanyea Lockett and his mother...after
the boy was accused of calling a teacher 'cute.' A statement from the system
said it was determined that the fourth grader at Brookside Elementary
School didn’t engage in sexual harassment. The school system said the
suspension won’t count against the student."
The Problem Facing California Public
School Parents: "1. Homosexual-bisexual-transsexual
indoctrination, without parental consent, including off-campus pro-homosexuality
counseling.
2. Pro-abortion indoctrination, 'confidential'
abortion referrals...without parental consent.
3. Condom/birth control pills indoctrination
and distribution without parental consent...
4. Anti-God, pro-evolution indoctrination....
9. Anti-Christian indoctrination
and widespread rejection of religious and moral values.
10. Anti-parent sentiments. A raft
of recent California laws will eventually require all public school instruction
and activities to positively portray transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality
to children as young as kindergarten."
See
Comprehensive Sex Ed Violates our Children
Forstmann's Not So Little Idea:
"Mr. Forstmann thought the failure of the education status quo was so obvious
and the need for change so dire that change of some sort would come soon to
American public education. Needless to say, he was wrong. Change did not
come to public, inner-city education. The teachers unions won't allow
it.."
New Jersey Teacher Bullied Special
Needs Student (VIDEO):
"Armed with a cell phone in hand, Julio recorded his teacher's tirade. The video
shows Julio asking not be referred to as 'special,' just as a 'normal' kid.
The teacher curses, yells, insults, and even gets into Julio's face.... The
footage he brought home school on Oct. 24 turned their skepticism into horror."
[From the video: “Who cares that you’re special?" the teacher asks Julio on
the video. “No one,” replies Julio in a dejected voice. 'Nobody dude, nobody,
'his teacher heartlessly replies.... He swears and calls Julio a “tard.” "You
want me to call you normal and you don't even know what it is..."]
Occupying the Minds of Our Youth:
"'Considering Democracy in Occupy Wall Street,' was the title of a teaching
guide recommended for grades 4-7. The lesson plan was assembled by the Morningstar
Center, a leftwing organization that teaches 'social responsibility.'
In the guide we read, '..there are some ways that our country isn't always democratic,
even though people do have rights such as a vote and free speech. Ask students
if they can think of some examples. (Examples include: people and corporations
with lots of money can make political contributions that give them more influence
over our government than other people....
"The guide
goes on to describe the Occupy movement for the school children: 'Occupy Wall
Street is a group of activists who want to change the way money, wealth, and
income are distributed in the U.S....'
"Morningstar's
tactic to assist the students as to 'the way the money, wealth, and income are
distributed...' is to have the pupils participate in a
group activity:.."
See
The Ominous "Success" of Re-Education
Taking the 'bull' out of anti-bullying
programs: "Your sixth-grader,
Zack, comes home from school. 'Mom, Dad, guess what we talked about today? There
are kids all over the country who are trying to kill themselves, just because
they were born gay or born in the wrong-sex body!. ...and I have to be really
careful, so it's not my fault!' If you are a well-informed parent, you will
sit your son down and separate fact from fiction as you unburden his manipulated
young conscience." See
Discrediting morality
Is student loan, education bubble
next? "...the fundamental
risk for individual student borrowers: they could borrow heavily to pay for
a college education and find the return much less than expected..... At community
colleges and for-profit schools, roughly one in five aiming for a bachelor’s
degree fail to secure it....Anyone who borrows a large amount of money and then
fails to complete a degree is in a world of hurt — quite possibly worse off
than if they’d never even tried to go to college in the first place."
See
Deceit, Delusion and the Destruction
of America
LAUSD teachers to offer positive
gay images as part of anti-bullying program:
"Los Angeles Unified teachers will offer lessons that promote positive images
of gay individuals and their contributions to the nation as part of an anti-bullying
program approved Tuesday by the school board....'Schools have always been leaders
of social justice,' Chiasson
said."
Teaching Your Child to be a Dictator’s
Lackey: "The Model UN
program teaches American students that global government is better than national
government....Twenty-two Model UN events are scheduled to take place in November
alone and many more are set to follow month after month throughout the school
year as the advocates of global government exploit the school system to indoctrinate
a new generation....The UNA-USA’s agenda includes AMICC or the American
Coalition for the International Criminal Court, whose goal is to ...place the
United States under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court and
would preempt the Constitution. ...Islamic indoctrination also plays a role
at Model UN’s." See
Destroying America from Inside the Classroom
October 2011
Parent furor at bawdy sex ed:
"Sex ed, which becomes mandatory in city middle and high schools next year,
is meant to stem unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases among
teens. ...Workbooks...include the following assignments: * High-school students
go to stores and jot down condom brands.... * Teens research a route from school
to a clinic that provides birth control and STD tests, and write down its confidentiality
policy. * Kids ages 11 and 12 sort 'risk cards' to rate the safety of various
[sex] activities."
I don't recommend reading the rest of this very disturbing list.
Will it be the Bible or the bayonet?
"...the schools have now become testing and training grounds for a monitored
police state. ...you now have fences around the schools, metal detectors before
entering school buildings, surveillance cameras and even armed guards.
".. in many schools across this country of ours there were Bible courses that
you would have to pass before you could graduate high school. All the way up
until 1962 prayer was the norm for virtually every school in America, and the
Ten Commandments were posted in school hallways. The obvious fruit was safety
and security, as well as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.....
"High
school in 1962 vs. 2011 --Scenario
1:
Johnny goes duck hunting before
school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's
gun rack.
1962
– Vice principal comes over, looks at Johnny's shotgun, goes to his car and
gets his shotgun to show Johnny.
2011
- School goes into lockdown and the FBI is called. Johnny is hauled off to jail
and never sees his truck or his gun again. Counselors are called in for traumatized
students and teachers."
Scenario 3: Jeffery will not sit still in class; he continuously disrupts
other students.
1962
- Jeffery is sent to the principal's office and given a good paddling. He then
returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt other students again.
2011
- Jeffery is given huge doses of Ritalin after being diagnosed with Attention
Deficit Disorder (ADD). Jeffery now becomes a zombie. The family now gets a
check from the government and Jeffery becomes disabled.
Scenario 5: Bradley gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
Bradley shares aspirin with another student who also has a headache.
1962 - Bradley's fellow student thanks him and they both feel better.
2011 - The police are called. Bradley is sent to jail and then to treatment
for drug violations. Bradley's car is searched for drugs and weapons."
[Texas] High School Students Made
to Recite Mexican National Anthem, Pledge of Allegiance:
"Wearing red, white and green, students had to memorize the Mexican anthem
and pledge and stand up and recite them in individually in front of the
class. That didn’t go over well with sophomore Brenda Brinsdon....'Reciting
pledges to Mexico and being loyal to it has nothing to do with learning Spanish.'
She said she was particularly offended because the presentations... took place
during 'Freedom Week'...on U.S. Constitution Day — the same day as Mexico’s
Independence Day." See
Reviving the 'Science' of 'Re-education'
September 2011
High School Coaches in Trouble for
Bowing Their Heads During Student-Led Prayer in Tennessee:
"...the coaches didn’t say anything aloud themselves, but bowed their heads
in observance alongside the students. Word got back to the principal and the
school district, which found the coaches’ participation to be an uncomfortable
mix of religion and public school."
See
Purging the Memory of Our Christian
Roots
Middle School Assignment Depicts
‘Positive’ Aspects of Shariah Law:
"A Georgia middle school adjusted its lessons after a father complained that
his daughter’s homework assignment promoted Shariah law."
See
Spreading Islam through Public
Schools
Too much Facebook time may be unhealthy
for kids: "The social
network feeds into a narcissist’s M.O. perfectly by allowing people to broadcast
themselves 24/7 on their own terms. ..the more people used Facebook,
the more likely they were to have antisocial personality disorder, paranoia
and anxiety. When Rosen and his colleagues observed middle school, high school
and college students for 15 minutes while they studied for an exam, they found
that most students were only able to focus for two to three minutes before
turning their attention to less scholarly matters, like text messages.... The
average teenager sends out more than 2,000 texts per month."
See
Chronology of the NEA
ACLU: Give Students Access to Gay
Websites: "An American
Civil Liberties chapter has filed a lawsuit against a Missouri school district
demanding that it allow K-12 students to access LGBT (lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender)
websites on school computers. The superintendent...Tim Hadfield, acknowledges
that his school computers use filtering software called URL Blacklist that does
block out LGBT sites....Hadfield said the district can’t comply because allowing
access could expose students to pornography."
See
Purging the Memory of our Christian Roots
August 2011
Please Stop Sexualizing Our Children:
"How many children watch MTV and VH1, mimicking the moves and memorizing the
lyrics of the latest song by Britney Spears or Lady Gaga. ...There is the sexualizing
of our children in the public schools... teaching gay history to elementary
school children, as now mandated by law in California. ...[In] Massachusetts....Judge
Mark Wolff of the US Court of Appeals ruled that the schools have a greater
responsibility to teach 'diversity' than to honor the requests of the parents."'
July 2011
The Progressive Mask Slips:
"July 9, at the
Aspen Institute's
Ideas Festival, a mask slipped... We get a fascinating glimpse at hardball
politics inside the progressive left.... Education reform has taken on a new
way of doing business in the past few years. ...Obama mentioned 'a wonderful
new superintendent' (Michelle Rhee)...in October 2008...to transform public
education. Since then, Rhee has been at the forefront of creating a whole
new brand of nationalized government schools: top-down management from
the public sector combined with privatization through charter schools."
See
The Seamless Communitarian System
Less Academics, More Narcissism:
"California’s budget crisis has reduced the University of California to near-penury....
Even as UC campuses jettison entire degree programs and lose faculty to competing
universities, one fiefdom has remained virtually sacrosanct: the diversity
machine. The University of California at San Diego, for example, is creating
a new full-time 'vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion.' This
position would augment UC San Diego’s already massive diversity apparatus, which
includes the Chancellor’s Diversity Office...the assistant vice chancellor for
diversity, the faculty equity advisors, the graduate diversity coordinators
[and many more]...the Campus Council on Climate, Culture and Inclusion... the
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center, and the Women’s Center....
"UC
San Diego is adding diversity fat even as it snuffs out substantive
academic programs. In March, the Academic Senate decided that the school
would no longer offer a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering....
At the same time, the body mandated a new campus-wide diversity requirement
for graduation."
See
The Global Connections of the
NEA
Failing Liberty 101:
"Here are some typical [student] responses: 'We just had (American citizenship)
the other day in history. I forget what it was.' Another said, '"Being American
is not really special...." Another said...'I don't want to be a citizen. ...It's
stupid to me."
"A
law professor [wrote]... 'Longstanding notions of democratic citizenship are
becoming obsolete. ... American identity is unsustainable in the face of globalization.'
... This law professor's vision is shared by many educators who look to 'global
citizenship' as the proper aim of civics instruction, de-emphasizing attachment
to any particular country, such as the United States, pointing out that
our primary obligation should be to the universal ideals of human rights and
justice. To be patriotic to one's own country is seen as suspect....
"According
to one survey, only 28 percent of students could identify the Constitution
as the supreme law of the land.... The fact that Obama became president
and brought openly Marxist people into his administration doesn't say so much
about him as it says about the effects of decades of brainwashing of
the American people by the education establishment, media and the intellectual
elite." See
Mandatory Training in Orwellian
Thinking
Who's Responsible for the Government
Schools Cheating Scandals?
"The 55,000-student Atlanta public school system rose in national prominence
during the 2000s, as test scores steadily rose and the district received notice
and funding from the Broad Foundation and the Gates Foundation. But behind that
rise...were teachers and principals in 44 schools erasing and changing test
answers....When teachers tried to alert authorities, they were labeled 'disgruntled.'
One principal opened an ethics investigation against a whistle-blower.
...The problems in these school districts point to systemic corruption in
public schools across the board. The fraud begins at the top with the DOE
and spreads far and wide into a complex network of Obama administration officials,
private foundations and independent school reformers."
"They are deeply corrupted.... They became an abomination like the thing
they loved." Hosea
9:9-10
June 2011
The dead hand of federal education
reform: "Washington’s
ever-expanding role in education has been paralleled by a huge increase in
non-teaching staff on school payrolls. Since the 1950s, the number of teachers
as a percentage of school staff has declined from 70 percent to about 51
percent. Meanwhile, administrative support staff [including secular counselors
and therapists, etc.] increased from 23.8 percent to 30 percent.... It’s estimated
that only 65-70 cents of every education dollar leaving Washington makes it
into the classroom."
Battling education factions should
put animosity aside:
Ponder this
accusation:
"Private schools have
been 'stealing' students (and therefore the state-allotted money for those
students) from districts for years. Now along come charter schools that
are doing the same thing....
"Charter
schools in San Jose [California] have been at odds with school districts for
years because of accusations that charter schools take the students away from
the district schools. Charter schools, in turn, claim that some district schools
are not doing the job they should...and should be shut down."
Indoctrination
in pluralism,
"tolerance"
and global values is now the duty of public schools-- an assignment that many
private (Christian) and charter schools refuse to do.
See
Molding Human Resources for a
Global Workforce
Charter Schools Tied to Turkey Grow
in Texas: "Operating
under the name Harmony Schools, Cosmos has moved quickly to become the
largest charter school operator in Texas, with 33 schools receiving more
than $100 million a year in taxpayer funds. ....Some of the schools’ operators
and founders, and many of their suppliers, are followers of Fethullah Gulen,
a charismatic Turkish preacher of a moderate brand of Islam....Nationwide, the
primary focus of complaints has been on hundreds of teachers and administrators
imported from Turkey ...Gulen...and the movement that bears his name have been
surrounded by controversy in Turkey. He came to this country in 1999 while under
pressure from secular Turkish authorities who accused him of promoting an
Islamic state.
"...at
a San Antonio school...the lobby ceiling is decorated with images of the sun
and a star and crescent moon. ...most of its foreign teachers are Turkish
men....'The main purpose right now is to show the positive side of Islam and
to make Americans sympathize with Islam,' Dr. Yavuz said."
Obnoxious Classroom Curricula:
"Elementary school curriculum isn't just about the three R's any more....The
lessons promoted 'gender neutrality,' the concept that no distinctions between
male and female should be legally allowed....Gender Spectrum boasted that
its goal is to confuse the children and make them question traditional ideas
about who is a boy and who is a girl. It is not surprising that many parents
were upset..."
Christians, Shut Your Mouths:
"[According to] gay author Daniel Villarreal...the quest to expand laws against
bullying, and to force homosexual personalities into social science textbooks
is all about the normalization of homosexual life....'our very future
depends on it.' Senate Bill 48 would mandate that social science curriculum
in public schools include the contributions of homosexual, bisexual and transgender
people of influence. ...no information that reflects adversely on those lifestyles
may be included." See
God's Warnings for our Times
Activist South Bay students secure
computers for schools, save teachers:
"They've rejected the notion that students should be seen and not heard. And
they insist that as the people most affected, they need to raise their voices.
'We are not whining, not moping, just trying to get what we deserve and
need,' Emily Spacek, 14, blogged."
This reminds
me of Isaiah 3:4-12
Videos: The transgender agenda in
elementary school: "#1:
'Gender coach' indoctrinating fourth grade students on transgenderism. #2: Homosexual/transgender
activist defends mandatory transgender training for elementary school children....Young
children are being taught that they can choose to be a boy or a girl -- or both.
Boys, for example, should be comfortable wearing girls' clothes and nail polish,
etc. ...the school does not allow parents to opt their kids out."
See
Human Nature
The Vanishing West:
"What happened to the study of Western Civilization? Why has it nearly
disappeared? What has replaced it?...The widespread emphasis on 'multiculturalism'
is an inadequate answer. ...a historical overview of the Western ascent toward
freedom, scientific and technology mastery, and world power, is no less essential
to the current generation than it was to those past."
May 2011
Protect your children from 'Harvey
Milk Gay Day': A [California]
state law...calls upon all K-12 government schools to teach children as 5 years
old to honor homosexual activist and sexual predator* Harvey Milk. It's up to
teachers and schools to decide every May whether kids will perform pro-Milk
'exercises' (the week before or after May 22, Milk's birthday). There
is NO parental permission or notification."
See
The UN Seizure of Parental Rights
Video:
The story of the Deliberate Dumbing
Down of America: "The
teacher said that marking the spelling wrong would hurt the child's self-esteem...There
was no right or wrong.... They now have...inventive spelling... spell anyway
they want. 2+2 could equal 5 and no one's feelings would be hurt.... Death education....
Psychological tests....Recommend drugs.... [History of the transformation
follows the examples]"
The 'Education' Mantra:
[Thomas Sowell] "Students can graduate from some of the most prestigious institutions
in the country, without ever learning anything about science, mathematics, economics
or anything else that would make them either a productive contributor to the
economy or an informed voter who can see through political rhetoric. On the
contrary, people with such 'education' are often more susceptible to demagoguery
than the population at large.
"Nor is
this a situation peculiar to America. In countries around the world, people
with degrees in soft subjects have been sources of political unrest, instability
and even mass violence. Nor is this a new phenomenon..."
Resisting the Transformational Tactics
in Our Schools: "...the
aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with
knowledge and awaken their intelligence. ...nothing could be further from the
truth. The aim...is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the
same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry to put down dissent
and originality....'"
See
Brainwashing in America
Bullying: The Left’s Trojan Horse:
"...one of the reasons that groups on the left come out so hard against individuals
or organizations that stand up for such biblical truths is in part because
they don’t like it when the behavior that they are advocating is referred
to as 'sin.' They want it to be accepted as 'normal.' They want it legitimized
and taught to our children as an acceptable option. But this is not limited
to the homosexual agenda, it is a societal problem. We all like to make sin
more palatable by rebranding the particular practice. For example, we remove
the focus from the taking of an innocent life by claiming a woman’s 'right to
choose.' It doesn’t sound quite so bad that way."
See
Purging the Memory of Our Christian
Roots
April 2011
Mandatory Training in Orwellian
Thinking? "John Dewey
wrote...that the Bolsheviks [Lenin's Communists] were engaged in 'a most interesting
sociological experiment...'using progressive educational ideas and practices
to 'counteract and transform... the influence of home and Church.'"
Looking Backward 123 Years Later:
"The year 2011 marks the 123rd year since the publication of Edward Bellamy’s
famous utopian novel, Looking Backward, in which the author
depicted a happy, socialist America in the year 2000. In Bellamy’s optimistic
fantasy, greed and material want ceased to exist, brotherly harmony prevailed....
The book became enormously popular, selling 371,000 copies in its first two
years and a million copies by 1900. Its influence on American progressive educators
and intellectuals was enormous.
"Even after
the rise of Hitler’s National Socialism in Germany and Marxist-Leninist
communism in Russia, Dewey still clung to Bellamy’s vision of a socialist
America....Dewey wrote: 'I wish that those who conceive that the abolition
of private capital and of energy expended for profit signify complete regimenting
of life and the abolition of all personal choice and all emulation, would read
with an open mind Bellamy’s picture of a socialized economy....It is an American
communism that he depicts..."
See
The Global Connections of the
NEA
The Toxic Influence of Progressive
Education: "In the 1960s,
America’s education schools began conditioning teachers to peddle impossible
social and economic theories to captive human sponges in K-12 classrooms. Since
then, teachers taken in by progressive indoctrination have been planting fallacies
in students’ minds using a pernicious device: the 'deconstruction' of reality.
"Starting
in the 1960s, academics took heightened interest in Italian
Marxist Antonio Gramsci’s
cultural Marxism. Members of the political class glommed onto the resulting
'social justice,' affirmative action, 'diversity,' multiculturalism, political
correctness, and other malignancies spawned by cultural Marxism."
See
A New Way of Thinking
Free Condoms for 11-Year-Olds? Philadelphia
and Its Sex Problem:
“'If you live in Philadelphia and are between the ages 11 and 19 you can now
have condoms mailed directly to you for free,' reads the youth-oriented website
Take Control Philly, managed by the city’s health department....'We hear from
teachers and school counselors and sometimes the principals that kids are cutting
schools in the afternoon and leaving early to go have orgies – and that’s in
middle school....They get groups together with kids of different genders –
sometimes same-sex and sometimes mixed. The parents are not home and
so they go there and have sex and trade partners.'....
"Philadelphia
health officials hope the website giving away mail-ordered condoms will help
lower the STD rate among youths in the city. But perhaps the city should focus
more attention on abstinence education..."
CA Senate bill mandates gay history
in schools: "Gays, lesbians,
bisexuals and transgender people would be added to the lengthy list of social
and ethnic groups that public schools must include in social studies lessons
under a landmark bill passed Thursday by the California Senate. If the bill
is adopted by the state Assembly and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, California
would become the first state to require the teaching of gay history."
And how much
of that "history" will be distorted, falsified or invented?
See
Chronology of the NEA
California sexual brainwashing bill
passes another hurdle:
"If SB 48 becomes law:
1.Textbooks and instructional materials
must positively promote 'lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans as
'role' models.
2.Children as young as 6 years old
will be taught to admire homosexuality, same-sex 'marriages,' bisexuality, and
transsexuality (sex-change operations).
3.Children will be taught to support
the political activism of 'Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and
Questioning'....
4.Teachers will be made to positively
portray homosexuality, same-sex 'marriages,' bisexuality, and transsexuality...because
to be silent can bring the charge of 'reflecting adversely.'"
See
Sex Ed and Global Values
March 2011
Congratulations! You've Been Accepted
to BSU: "BSU...invited
our just-accepted son to bring his parents for a special program over an April
weekend. A bright and energetic upperclassmen led us on a campus tour.... He
spoke of the majesty of the new gym, the Olympic size pool, the hot tub....
Various campus organizations offered fliers and information. ...representatives
of the LGBT Resource Center boasted that free condoms... were available round-the-clock....
"
Our only contact with academics
came in an early morning presentation....The professor boasted of his history
course, which had transformed merely curious students into 'social activists.'
Under his guidance the young scholars read ...[books by] the socialist historian
Howard Zinn,' and [the students] emerged 'ready to change the world...'"
Do you still
want your kids to go to college?
Young Scholars charter school faces
scrutiny over ties with Islamic leader:
“...federal agencies — including the FBI and the departments of Labor and Education
— are investigating whether some charter school employees are kicking back part
of their salaries to a Muslim movement founded by (Fethullah) Gulen,'
a major Islamic political figure in Turkey.... 'Our greatest concern was the
secrecy of the [school] administration, the unwillingness to communicate
with parents,' she said, '...obvious preference they were giving to hiring
Turkish teachers who were uncertified over American teachers who were more
qualified.” See
Spreading Islamic idealism through
Public Schools
U.S. charter-school network with
Turkish link draws federal attention:
"Fethullah Gulen is a major Islamic political figure [Iman]
in Turkey... [who] gained his green card by convincing a federal judge in
Philadelphia that he was an influential educational figure in the United States.
As evidence, his lawyer pointed to the charter schools, now more than 120
in 25 states, that his followers - Turkish scientists, engineers, and businessmen
- have opened.... The schools are funded with millions of taxpayer dollars.
Truebright alone receives more than $3 million from the Philadelphia School
District for its 348 pupils....
"But federal
agencies...are investigating whether some charter school employees are kicking
back part of their salaries to a Muslim movement founded by Gulen known as
Hizmet....Gulen schools are among the nation's largest users of the H1B
visas. In 2009, the schools received government approvals for 684 visas....
Officials at some of the charter schools, which specialize in math and science,
have said they needed to fill teaching spots with Turks, according to
parents and former staffers.
"...popular,
certified American teachers were replaced by uncertified Turkish men
who often spoke limited English and were paid higher salaries. Most were
placed in math and science classes. ...Ohio, California, and Texas have the
largest numbers of Gulen-related schools....Texas has 33.... 'In his position
as the founder and head of the Gulen Movement, Mr. Gulen has overseen the establishment
of a conglomeration of schools throughout the world, in Europe, Central Asia,
and the United States."
School in Philadelphia teaches
brotherly 'jihad':
"You won't believe instruction at U.S. campus tied to Osama....The school originally
was founded as the International Muslim Brotherhood [IMB], which
boasted of educational input from a radical cleric who was an associate of Osama
bin Laden. The institute's website promotes jihad 'in the context of self-defense
or guarding the sacred, holy lands of Islam.' The school is allied with
a Muslim student association known for hosting anti-American extremists....
The Quba Institute...is a full-time, state-accredited school that enrolls about
100 students from pre-kindergarten to the 12th grade....Quba also initiated
other IMB expansions, including...a community development corporation."
Compare it to
this school:
Duncan To Step Up Civil Rights Enforcement:
"The Education Department is launching 38 investigations into possible civil
rights violations by schools and colleges....Rosalyn Ali, assistant secretary
in the Office for Civil Rights...says her office gets about 6,300 complaints
[every year], violations that include suspending and disciplining black children
more often and more harshly than other children, ignoring the needs of
non-English speaking students, and denying students access to college preparatory
and advance placement programs, just to name a few. The results, says Ali, are
tragic....Latinos can't even register for school without proof of their immigration
status." See
The Global Connections of the
NEA
You won't believe where recovery money is going:
"A Chicago charter school that recently received a grant of federal
funds was founded and is led by activists who have been closely tied to
the Nation of Islam while its campuses are named after former Nation
of Islam activists and black radicals....Shabazz Charter School's official profile
says the academy 'incorporates culture from countries throughout the continent
of Africa and throughout the Diaspora....' The school is named after Betty
Shabazz, an early Nation of Islam activist best known as the wife of slain black
nationalist leader Malcolm X. ...
"The
author of the 'Quality in Education' blog recounted attending a June 2010 ceremony....[They]
brought in an African flag and with one fist risen in the air they, in
unison, said their pledge to their future....liberation and being risen (power)."
It reminded me of a youtube
video shown soon after Obama's election:
Obama's Youth Regiment:
Notice the repetitious and militant promotion of "Obama's health care plan."
[The language here is
offensive. But this summary is a warning of what our children may hear and read
in schools] 'Sex
talk' in U.N., compliments of National Education Association
[NEA]:
"A social policy research group is exposing a radical sexual ideology
that was on display at a United Nations' meeting..... Diane Schneider, a representative
with the National Education Association (NEA), said that graphic sex education
needs to be taught in the classroom..... Speaking to a panel on combating 'homophobia'
and 'transphobia,' Schneider stated.... that comprehensive sex education is
-- quote - 'the only way to combat heterosexism and gender conformity,'' he
reports. 'She said that 'gender identity expression' and sexual orientation
are a spectrum, and...that those [who are] opposed to homosexuality are stuck
-- quote -- 'in a binary box that religion and family create.'"
Spiritual Warfare
Latino kids now majority in state's
public schools: "In comparison,
27 percent of California's 6.2 million students identified themselves as white,
9 percent as Asian and 7 percent as black. Students calling themselves Filipino,
Pacific Islander, Native American or other total almost 7 percent. ...the shift
underscores the huge impact Latinos already have on California's politics, economy
and school system.....
"'A lot
depends on the extent to which Latino parents come together and organize,' Fuller
added. 'These are parents who historically have not had much political power.
But as they are coming together... they may organize around education.'"
See
The UN Plan for Global Migration
Marxist Education: Marxist teachers
in a capitalist system:
(This series of lectures
on training communist teachers is alarming!)
"...from the Marxist perspective
the current capitalist system is an immoral system, and exploitative system...
a system that alienates the worker from their products.... As Marxist educators
we're not in a position to institutionalize socialism directly.... What we then
need to do is to either be... subversively critical and smuggle in a certain
amount of anti-capitalist instruction into our classroom....
"Our primary
job is to critique [the capitalist system]... to engage our students in the
critical enterprise of coming to understand the true nature of the system....
We need to play up the struggles and the difficulties...of the underclass society...
[and] develop our students' sympathy and identification with those classes..."
See
Deceit, Delusion and the Destruction
of America
Ravitch: 'A moment of national insanity':
"...we are living in a moment of national insanity. On the one hand, we hear
pious exhortations about education reform, endlessly uttered by our leaders
in high political office.... Yet the reality on the ground suggests that the
corporate reform movement --- embraced by so many of those same leaders, including
the president --- will set American education back, by how many years or decades
is anyone's guess....
"Consider
a few events of the past week: In Detroit, the school system will reduce its
deficit by closing half the city's public schools and placing students into
classes of 60. These are among the poorest and lowest performing students in
the nation.... The school board of Providence, Rhode Island, sent notice to
all of its teachers that they could be terminated at year's end to address its
deficit. Most will be retained, but now the board has maximum flexibility to
choose which ones....And the business leaders in Idaho have a plan to lay off
770 teachers and replace them with online learning."
Safe Libraries?
"Collective
bargaining by public teacher unions is now being recommended by New York
University Professor Jonathan Zimmerman as the means to override courts and
local school boards so school children may access material unfit for school
curricula." See
The Ominous "Success"of Re-Education
February 2011
When Teachers Strike.
"In 1980, teachers at all the schools in the town of Sierra Vista decided to
go on strike. They were encouraged by the NEA to do so, since the NEA was powering
up to unionize in other states....I was one of the volunteers.... What happened
next was my introduction to the really ugly world of unions, picketing, and
terrorizing brought at the hands of hired strike agitators from back East,
who were brought on to agitate and to win the concessions. It became really
ugly in the town of Sierra Vista for the next six weeks....
"I arrived
at my assigned school and parked, said a quick prayer, and stepped out into
a line of protesters, agitators, teachers, and others who shouted hideous things
and called us by name.... I learned that the students were being coached
outside school by their teachers to be disrespectful and uncooperative with
the substitute teachers....
"After school
was out for each day, we substitutes...[faced] union agitators who were...known
for physical confrontation, violence, and intimidation.....After the
first week the phone calls in the evening began..."
See
Endurance with Joy
Idaho
Senate votes to curtail teacher's union:
"Crafted by the state's schools chief and endorsed by the legislature's Republican
leaders and Governor Butch Otter, the bill bans collective bargaining unless
the teachers union could
prove it represented more than 50 percent of educators in a school district.....The
Idaho Education Association, the union representing more than 12,000 elementary
and secondary school teachers, has criticized the bill as anti-teacher and anti-union.
The legislation has come under fire from Idaho's minority Democrats as well
as many teachers and parents. As many as 2,000 people protested the bill and
other education proposals in rallies across the state on Monday."
See
Chronology of the National Education
Association [NEA]
Eye-popping power grab: Licensing
of U.S. colleges: "President
Obama's Department of Education, where Secretary Arne Duncan appointed a longtime
homosexual activist who was part of the sometimes-violent Act Up organization
to head his 'safe schools' office, now is proposing to force colleges and universities
to submit to a political agenda.... Under the proposed federal rule change,
institutions of higher education 'would be required to have a document of
state approval'…to operate an educational program, including programs leading
to a degree or certificate.'"
See
Mandatory Training in Orwellian Thinking
Duncan will speak at the Teach
for America celebration about the role of young activists in the
future of education:
"Obama administration officials will flock to the Teach for America 20 Year
celebration in Washington this weekend, dovetailing the president’s focus next
week on changing the education system. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will
speak on a panel about the role of young activists in the future of education....Joshua
DuBois, who directs the White House office for faith-based initiatives,
and Roberto Rodriguez, a White House domestic policy adviser, will also join
the group of administration officials and politicians at the three-day event."
See
Faith-Based Partnerships Ban Truth & Freedom
Texas FLAP over Arabic classes in
schools [slow to open]:
"...a school district in Texas wants to alter their entire curriculum to
embed elements of the Arabic language and culture throughout, and it's all
part of a federal grant [$1.3 million over a five year period]. Have
we really lost our grip with reality?
"...the
school district in question is doing a quick 'oops' and backpedaling on their
program. But that's not even the point. The point is that the program was considered
in the first place....
"The Mansfield
Independent School District was awarded a FLAP grant. The acronym (which is
oh so appropriate) stands for Foreign Language Assistance Program. ...Mansfield
ISD was 'selected as one of only five districts across the country to participate...'
Arabic studies include language acquisition, culture, government, art, traditions
and history....
"Rather
than focusing on bringing Arabic into our schools, how about if we focus on
making sure American students can read and write English and do math? ... Instead
of taking out the Pledge of Allegiance, let's reemphasize what it means to be
an American."
Mandatory Arabic Classes Coming
To Mansfield
[Texas]: "As part of the five-year
$1.3 million grant, Arabic classes would be mandatory at Cross Timbers Intermediate
School and Kenneth Davis Elementary School.... Parents at Cross Timbers say
they were caught off-guard by the program, and were surprised the district only
told them about it in a meeting Monday night... The DOE [US Department of Educaton]
has identified Arabic as a ‘language of the future.’...
"...in addition
to [Arab] language, the grant provides culture, government, art, traditions
and history as part of the curriculum. Some parents had concerns over religion.
'The school doesn’t teach Christianity, so I don’t want them teaching Islam,'
said parent Baron Kane."
January 2011
Federal Money Hasn't Bought Better
Schools: "One in 10 high
schools is a dropout factory. And our students' performance in one of the most
prestigious global math competitions has been so abysmal that the U.S. simply
withdrew altogether.... Obama's fiscal 2011 budget already represents 'one of
the largest increases' in federal education spending history, and hikes total
discretionary spending to nearly $51 billion. Toss in an additional
$35 billion for mandatory Pell grants. And add another $4 billion for
the illusory 'Race
to the Top' charade to improve academic standards.
"Then there's
the $10 billion for the Education Jobs Fund signed into law last August
— a naked payoff to the public teachers union...Despite massive multibillion-dollar
'investments' in teacher training, America's educators are horrifyingly incompetent.
Explaining why American grade-school students can't master simple fractions,
one math professor confessed: 'Part of the reason the kids don't know it is
because the teachers aren't transmitting that.'"
See
Education Plan by Obama and Duncan
The Rope with which We Hang Ourselves:
"V. I. Lenin may or may not have actually declared that 'the capitalists will
sell us the rope with which we will hang them,' but something of the sort is
occurring nowadays between American educators and the Communist regime in Beijing.
Consider what happened last week in Chicago....Beginning with outgoing mayor
Richard Daley, community leaders fell all over the Chinese as part of their
multifaceted effort to transform Chicago... into the hub of Sino-American
commercial activity of every sort.
"But it
isn’t just commerce and art at stake here, much less China’s immense stash of
U.S. bonds and growing leverage over our national economy. Chicago also seems
willing to turn its school kids over to Beijing—and Beijing is only
too happy to help cover these costs. It’s not the only place in America
where this is happening, to be sure....
"On Friday
morning, [Hu] and his entourage visited Walter Payton College Prep, a decade-old,
high-achieving, selective-admission public high school that focuses on science,
math, and languages and which has hosted a 'Confucius Institute' since 2006.
This is one of almost 300 centers like this now operating worldwide. All are
affiliated with and financially supported by Hanban, the executive arm of the
Chinese Language Council International....
"The Chinese
regime is advancing its own interests in the West—including Walter Payton College
Prep—by, in effect, bribing school systems, educators, and students to see
the world through Chinese eyes and, of course, to turn blind eyes and deaf
ears toward anyone who might raise concerns about the innumerable threats that
Beijing poses to America’s future.... I’ll wager that [Chinese government officials]
are at least smiling at the ...naïveté of Western educators—and how cheaply
China can buy them off. They are, one might say, giving us the rope with which
they will shackle and bend us to their will."
See
Deceptive alliances
[UK]
Gay messages built into school maths
lessons for children as young as FOUR:
"Young children are to be taught about homosexuality in their maths, geography,
science and English lessons." See
The Ominous "Success" of Re-Education
Re-Learning.
Generation Y Radicals:
"Just before the Christmas holidays, the Norwegian students' union decorated
a hallway in my school with propaganda posters....At around the same time a
friend of mine, who is active in the students' union, opined that the youths
who were then rioting in London over tuition fees had every right to throw bricks
and smash plate-glass windows....
"Most every
teacher, government official, journalist, celebrity, or family member they have
encountered spouts the same leftist talking points; most everything they
have read, watched, and listened to to has been carefully bowdlerized to make
apparent the wickedness of Western culture, the division of history into oppressor
and oppressed....
"Given the
state of Norwegian schools and culture, most of them have probably never even
heard of
Lukács, Adorno, or
Marcuse. They are not only committed to the Cultural Marxist
Weltanschauung, but unaware that there is any alternative to it."
See
Mandatory Training in Orwellian
Thinking?
36 Percent of Students Show Little
Improvement after 4 Yrs of College:
"One problem is that students just aren’t asked to do much, according to findings
in a new book, 'Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses.'
Half of students did not take a single course requiring 20 pages of writing
during their prior semester, and one-third did not take a single course requiring
even 40 pages of reading per week."
