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. See The UN Seizure of Parental Rights

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."

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

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."

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