Most people believe that the public school system exists to educate their children: reading, writing, ‘rithmatic, science, and the like. They also expect that biases of any type would not enter into that process, right? If only that part were true.
As a conservative, I would like to believe the first sentence. What we have seen, however, is that there is a real problem in that standardized testing has shown great problems in demonstrating that educational staffs have done their jobs (or are even up to doing so). Educational staffs decry the use of these tests; yet, they show that the educational system has many holes that have gone unfilled for years and those same educationalists put up all kinds of excuses as to why it is not their fault.
If not their fault, then whose? And I do not accept the premise that it is the kids (at least, the vast majority of the time).
Especially when I see that biases of that same staff are not tamped down. In fact, most parents would be irate if they really knew how their kids’ teachers were actually trained:
Perhaps the judge should consider that the aim of public education is to interfere with the beliefs of children. Here is the proof:
Chester Pierce, for example, is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychiatry at Harvard University, and a major architect of the development of the "new" American citizen for the global village. Professor Pierce told 2,000 teachers attending the Childhood International Education Seminar in Denver, Colorado in 1973: "Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our Founding Fathers, toward his parents, toward our elected officials, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity.
It’s up to you, teachers, to make all of these sick children well by creating the international child of the future." Could his intentions have been more clear?
Time for America to wake up. The judge is protecting the agenda of those who want a "global village". Christianity stands in their way, so they must kick God out of their indoctrination centers, which we call public schools. The tactic is the same that communist China is using to protect their tyranny.
(H/T: Sibby Online; go read the whole thing)
I wonder if this guy is/was associated with the International Baccalaureate program?
It is NOT the role of government public schools to "teach" our children a way of thinking that is antithetical to their God, their parents, and their country; that is sheer indoctrination! Yet, I bet if you dig enough, you’d find it in your local school system (one teacher here in Gilford was heard to say something in a similar philosophical manner "WE have your children 6 hours a day and WE know what is best for them". In other words, as it was taken "we know better than parents what is needed to be taught!" Needless to say, it was eye opening to say the least).
Heh! Then the NEA and AFT (teachers unions) wonder why their enrollments are going down and those of charter, private, and home schooling are going up. Andy why taxpayers are starting to "not fork it over" anymore.
Oh, there’s more on this after the jump!
From Betsy’ Page:, we have a commentary about Bill Ayer’s – you know, the former (and unrepentant) Weatherman who blew things up. Well, he’s still trying to blow up American, but not using bombs,
He’s using the teachers that teach
Your Kids
While risk jail (and smithereening yourself) when you can get much more bang for the buck by indoctrinating other that will then indoctrinate, as Rush puts it, the young skulls full of mush, as their parents have no clue….
All that is wrong with education schools
Sol Stern has an article in City Journal about "Obama’s Real Bill Ayers Problem"
Stern instead is focusing on Ayers’ work as a professor of education, the same work that has won him a spot as an adviser to Mayor Daley of Chicago. Given Ayers’ background and his lack of repentance for that personal history, you won’t be surprised to learn the focus of Ayers’ education beliefs.
Instead of planting bombs in public buildings, Ayers now works to indoctrinate America’s future teachers in the revolutionary cause, urging them to pass on the lessons to their public school students.
So, you think your kids are merely learning the three R’s? Add the fourth – Revolutionary! And that certainly means that what you expect, you will not get. Instead, it will be a complete attempt at a complete disassociation of what many of us conservatives consider to be good and great about this country.
After all, who gets to talk to your kids more – you, or their teachers?
Think of the problems that we have today in teaching literacy and basic math skills. Would any of those problems be ameliorated by teaching "social justice and liberation?" And Ayers isn’t a pariah among the educrat crowd. Instead, he has a leadership role.
Ayers’s influence on what is taught in the nation’s public schools is likely to grow in the future. Last month, he was elected vice president for curriculum of the 25,000-member American Educational Research Association (AERA), the nation’s largest organization of education-school professors and researchers. Ayers won the election handily, and there is no doubt that his fellow education professors knew whom they were voting for. In the short biographical statement distributed to prospective voters beforehand, Ayers listed among his scholarly books Fugitive Days, an unapologetic memoir about his ten years in the Weather Underground. The book includes dramatic accounts of how he bombed the Pentagon and other public buildings.
AERA already does a great deal to advance the social-justice teaching agenda in the nation’s schools and has established a Social Justice Division with its own executive director. With Bill Ayers now part of the organization’s national leadership, you can be sure that it will encourage even more funding and support for research on how teachers can promote left-wing ideology in the nation’s classrooms—and correspondingly less support for research on such mundane subjects as the best methods for teaching underprivileged children to read.
Doesn’t that just put the cherry on top for all that is wrong with education schools – that they would have elected him to a national leadership role to insert even more social justice blather into curriculum?
The mind shudders. A satire by Tom Wolfe couldn’t have done more to encapsulate the idiocy that is our system for educating teachers than the fact that those professors just elected Bill Ayers to a leadership position.
If you want to know more about the type of education that Bill Ayers advocates, read this illuminating, albeit depressing, account that Sol Stern wrote earlier before Bill Ayers became part of our political conversation.
Future teachers signing up for Ayers’s course “On Urban Education” can read these exhortations from the course description on the professor’s website:
“Homelessness, crime, racism, oppression—we have the resources and knowledge to fight and overcome these things.”
“We need to look beyond our isolated situations, to define our problems globally. We cannot be child advocates . . . in Chicago or New York and ignore the web that links us with the children of India or Palestine.”
“In a truly just society there would be a greater sharing of the burden, a fairer distribution of material and human resources.”
For another course, titled “Improving Learning Environments,” Ayers proposes that teachers “be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and . . . be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, a teacher teaching for social justice and liberation.”
I keep reading this, and I keep wondering -> and when do the basics come into play? How much of this complete nonsense and gibberish is going to keep on before our system completely comes undone?
Social justice teaching is a frivolous waste of precious school hours, grievously harmful to poor children, who start out with a disadvantage. School is the only place where they are likely to obtain the academic knowledge that could make up for the educational deprivation they suffer in their homes. The last thing they need is a wild-eyed experiment in education through social action.
So why do education professors who claim to care for the poor continue to agitate for instruction that holds back poor children? Either the professors are stupid (possible), or (more likely) they care more about their own anti-American, anticapitalist agendas than they do about the actual education of children. The literature of social justice education is obsessed with the allegedly “dark” side of American political, social, and economic life
And with Bill Ayers now leading the curriculum efforts for the
nation’s education schools, this situation will deteriorate before it improves.
It makes me wonder if we should be loading classrooms with real time webcams to monitor what is taught to our children….and that thought scares the tar out of me!
But, how else would we know?
