The Nanny State Take-over of All Children

The Nanny State Take-over of All Children: Birth – 5

Urgent
EdAction Alert —
March 29, 2005

The following alert
is being forwarded to give notice to other states regarding the system
Minnesota is about to implement for all children birth to 5.

It is our
understanding that other states are headed down a similar path this year.
2005 appears to be the year for a shocking power grab over our kids.

Pending federal
legislation (S 503) is adding elements of this plan through more federal
initiatives, expanding “Parents as Teachers.”  More will be sent on that
federal bill.

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The Nanny State Take-over of
All Children:  Birth – 5

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 Legislator contact information may
be found at EdAction.org,
Or call the Capitol 800-657-3550 or 651-296-2146.

 
The plan includes the following:

• Government-required
  curriculum for all children, birth through four
  — controversial Early Learning “Standards” (Curriculum) of
  social and emotional indoctrination that teach the political agendas of
  gender identity, diversity training, vocations, environmentalism, and
  social activism. [SF 592 Kierlin; Kubly; Robling; Scheid; Pappas,
  and SF 1278 / HF 1323 – The Governor’s bill];
• Tests (“screening”)
  of all children for compliance with the required government
  curriculum at least once by age three, [SF
  906, Kelley; Wergin; Sparks; Nienow; Pappas], including mental
  health testing, [SF 1365 (Tomassoni; Solon; Hottinger;
  Anderson / HF 1513 Greiling; Goodwin; Abeler; Slawik and SF 905
  Kubly; Hottinger; Kierlin; Pappas; Scheid],  and assigning a Child
  ID, [S.F. 1278 / HF 1323 – the Governor’s bill, and
  S.F. 1853 Wergin]; 
• A preschool rating
  system of public and private child care
  centers based on the required government curriculum that endangers
  private and religious options. (Sweden has witnessed this negative
  impact already.)  [SF 592. See above for authors.]; 
  
• A transfer of
  elected authority to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are
  unaccountable to the voters.  These NGOs
  with a liberal political agenda will be positioned to replace elected
  officials to establish, monitor, and market the system of standards and
  tests for all Minnesota children and set up the rating system for
  child care centers. [SF 907 / HF 1419 (See above for authors.]
  

The government required political curriculum (Early Learning Standards) is
the core of the Nanny State system. They are primarily state-defined
social and emotional outcomes for kids that
are deliberately vague, subjective, non-academic, and psychosocial. 
They direct care-givers to teach controversial political agendas, such
as gender identity, diversity,  homosexuality, career exploration,
environmentalism, and childhood activism. Remember that these are
three-year old children that are being indoctrinated!
 
Minnesota’s Early Learning curriculum is endorsed by the National
Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) who publish the
radical Anti-Bias Curriculum. The highly politicized
Anti-Bias Curriculum is currently listed as a primary reference for
the Minnesota Standards, though that reference will likely be erased to hide
from the public its influence on the standards.
 
The following examples of NAEYC’s Anti-Bias Curriculum demonstrate
what developers of the Early Learning system will incorporate into
Minnesota’s vague outcomes. Minnesotans cannot naively ignore the
implications of this covert indoctrination of our children. The NAEYC
Anti-Bias Curriculum is required for NAEYC teacher certification.

·         The MN Dept. of Ed’s early childhood curriculum includes
gender identity. It says: “Support children’s developing
understanding of their gender and cultural identity.”  The NAEYC
Anti-Bias Curriculum directs teachers to provide anatomically
correct dolls for visual aides. “Tell a person a doll story where a few
of the dolls ask questions about what makes them a boy or a girl.” [p.
53].

·         The MN Dept. of Ed’s early childhood curriculum requires
diversity training. The NAEYC Anti-Bias Curriculum includes
homosexuality in diversity and castigates “homophobia” as “A fear and
hatred of gay men and lesbians backed up by institutional policies and
power that discriminate against them…” [p. 3]. 

·         The MN Dept. of Ed’s early childhood curriculum includes
environmental training. It says: ”[Children will] share
responsibility in taking care of their environment.” 

·         The MN Dept. of Ed’s early childhood curriculum includes
social activism. It says: “[Children will] participate in activities
to help others in the community.” The NAEYC Anti-Bias Curriculum
states, “Young children have an impressive capacity for learning how to
be activists.” [p. 77]

 The
Minnesota Early Childhood Standards (Curriculum) will be the basis for:

1.     
Screening, evaluating and labeling all toddlers by age 3;

2.     
Rating and ‘certifying’ child care centers;

3.     
Training teachers;

4.     
Monthly home visiting to all families vaguely labeled “low-income”;

5.     
Training parents to teach their children according to the new standards
and evaluating parents according to their conformity to
                them.

This
Minnesota “Nanny State” take-over is an unprecedented, massive, and
expensive
political agenda for babies, toddlers, and families that usurps parental
authority
and the personal privacy of all Minnesota families.
 

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