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"Harry Hope" |
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06 Jun 2005 12:01:46 PM |
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The fascist attack on America's classrooms |
From USA Today, 6/5/05:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-05-liberal-teachers-csm_x.htm
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, The Christian Science Monitor
Concerned that public schools are becoming sites of liberal
indoctrination, activists have generated a wave of efforts to limit
what teachers may discuss and to bring more conservative views into
the classroom.
Tyler Whitney's conservative publication, The Right Way, faced
resistance at his high school in East Lansing, Michigan.
By Katie Rausch, The Christian Science Monitor
After all, they say, if related campaigns can help rein in doctrinaire
faculty on college campuses, why not in K-12 education as well?
So far this year, at least 14 state legislatures have considered bills
aimed at colleges that would restrict professors and establish
grievance procedures for students who perceive political bias in
teaching.
None have become law, but the movement has momentum: Four state
universities in Colorado, for instance, adopted the principles under
legislative pressure in 2004.
"The last six months [have] been kind of a watershed for the
academic-freedom movement," says Bradley Shipp, national field
director for Students for Academic Freedom, a group founded by
conservative activist David Horowitz in 2003.
"It is going to filter itself down to the K-12 level."
It's an important battle front, proponents say, because younger
students are more impressionable.
They are concerned about multicultural lesson plans that go into
detail about the Muslim faith, and cite incidents such as a young
child being reprimanded by a teacher for writing about wanting to
become a soldier.
An aggrieved faction of conservative high school students and parents
appears eager to take up the cause:
----- ProtestWarrior.com has equipped 160 high school chapters and
about 100 individual students with materials to publicize, for
instance, whenever a teacher "tries to shove his ideology down
someone's throat."
----- A group known as Christian Copts of California has distributed
5,000 booklets in Florida and California this year denouncing a
seventh-grade world history section as an "attempt to engrave Islam in
the minds of ... children."
----- Parents and Students for Academic Freedom formed in August 2004
to give parents a forum to address "the one-sided teaching and
partisan indoctrination in our nation's secondary schools." The group
urges school boards and legislatures to adopt the same
speech-restricting principles that its parent organization (Students
for Academic Freedom) urges at the college level.
----- A cybercommunity, Republicanvoices.org, based in Massachusetts,
is soliciting testimony from K-12 students about political bias in the
classroom. Led by a 12-year-old editor (with guidance from adults), it
aims to leverage support for reform of what it calls "the liberal,
bureaucratic, public school indoctrination machine."
These proposed remedies will spawn their own set of problems, some
observers say.
Teachers who are "ideologically coloring a subject" in any direction
are troublingly out of line, but "the risk is that teachers will feel
even further restrained than they already do," says Patricia Sullivan,
director of the Center on Education Policy, a Washington think tank
that advocates for public schools.
Current events discussions, for instance, would become next to
impossible in such an environment, Ms. Sullivan says.
"[It would be] very difficult to not cross the line.... A teacher
could very easily in a course of normal conversation express views,
and I just don't know how you regulate that."
American Federation of Teachers spokeswoman Leslie Getzinger would not
comment specifically on the trend, saying the group is for the moment
focused on priorities such as meeting the standards of the federal No
Child Left Behind law.
But the AFT does oppose on principle efforts to curtail a perceived
liberal bias at colleges, stating in a 2004 resolution that "political
control and/or interference in scholarship and teaching are totally
incompatible with the maintenance and development of a free,
democratic and progressive society."
Some self-described conservative students, however, are not content
with the status quo.
Tyler Whitney, a junior at East Lansing High School in Michigan, says
teachers and administrators let him circulate his newspaper, The Right
Way, only after a public protest this spring and coverage of the
standoff in the local news.
Principal Paula Steele says the school permitted distribution of The
Right Way as soon as editors deleted submissions by college students,
because "we do not want to be a forum for outside speakers."
Ideology, she says, was never a factor.
In class, Tyler says, he still keeps his views to himself.
When a world history teacher last year characterized the Iraq war as
an empire-building bid for oil, he says, "I just shook my head and
went along with it because I didn't want to get a bad grade."
Students in primary and secondary schools tend to feel "intimidated,"
due to the "imbalance of power" in the classroom, says Gerard Balan,
managing editor of Republicanvoices.org.
"[Students] are not really going to want to rock the boat even if they
disagree with what the teacher is saying."
And when most of those teachers belong to unions that support
Democrats, he and other activists say, the political compass tends to
tilt left.
For some, the new assertiveness among parents and students is a
response to restrictions at security- conscious schools.
One example from the libertarian Rutherford Institute: the use of dogs
in drug searches.
The institute, based in Charlottesville, Va., also objects to the
"uniformity and conformity" required by some schools, says president
John Whitehead.
It filed suit May 17 against Hudson (Mass.) High School for allegedly
tearing down posters for the High School Conservative Clubs of
America.
The posters, hung by senior Chris Bowler, were provocative.
They touted the clubs' Web site, which links to footage of beheadings
at the hands of Islamic extremists.
The site says the images show "the true doctrines of Islam put into
action."
"Unfortunately, students are treated as semi-inmates in lots of
schools," Mr. Whitehead says.
"The problem is there aren't many people like Chris Bowler who will
stand up and fight back."
Hudson High School did not respond to requests for comment.
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http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Nazis_Education.htm
Education played a very important part in Nazi Germany in trying to
cultivate a loyal following for Hitler and the Nazis. The Nazis were
aware that education would create loyal Nazis by the time they reached
adulthood. The Hitler Youth had been created for post-school
activities and schools were to play a critical part in developing a
loyal following for Hitler - indoctrination and the use of propaganda
were to be a common practice in Nazi schools and the education system.
Enforcing a Nazi curriculum on schools depended on the teachers
delivering it. All teachers had to be vetted by local Nazi officials.
Any teacher considered disloyal was sacked. Many attended classes
during school holidays in which the Nazi curriculum was spelled out
and 97% of all teachers joined the Nazi Teachers' Association. All
teachers had to be careful about what they said as children were
encouraged to inform the authorities if a teacher said something that
did not fit in with the Nazi's curriculum for schools.
Subjects underwent a major change in schools. Some of the most
affected were History and Biology.
Harry
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| User: "Fredric L. Rice" |
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06 Jun 2005 08:40:15 PM |
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Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From USA Today, 6/5/05:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-05-liberal-teachers-csm_x.htm
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, The Christian Science Monitor
An ignorant, fearful, superstitious populace is a Republican populace.
No wonder this fascist regime has destroyed education in America.
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End Republican race hatred: http://www.thedarkwind.org/
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| User: "Joe Lunchpail" |
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06 Jun 2005 12:28:00 PM |
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The attack on America's classrooms has been by the left! It's about
time that trend was stopped. When it's ok to teach about the Muslim
faith in school, but it's not ok to do anything
Christian........Something went wrong folks. This reversal is simply a
positive step in ANTI-liberal ideology indoctrination.
You liberals out there are just pissed because your party mouthpieces
aren't being listened to anymore.....
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| User: "Topaz" |
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07 Jun 2005 06:05:56 PM |
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The goal of America is to destroy the White race. The
multi-culture and pluralism they push is only at the expense of
Whites. No one is trying to push multi-culture in China or Japan or
anyplace but on the Whites. And they promote racial intermarriage.
If things continue as the are the White race is doomed.
And who is doing all of this? It is the USA government and the
media, in other words the Jews.
Many Whites are traitors. They support the USA government and their
own destruction. We should look for allies. And anyone who wants to
remove the Jews from power is our ally. In the past the Japanese were
our allies. Today it is the Muslims.
Osama bin Laden
September 24th statement published in Pakistan
"I have already said that we are not hostile to the United States. We
are
against the system, which makes other nations slaves of the United
States,
or forces them to mortgage their political and economic freedom. This
system
is totally in control of the American Jews, whose first priority is
Israel,
not the United States. It is simply that the American people are
themselves
the slaves of the Jews and are forced to live according to the
principles
and laws laid by them. So, the punishment should reach Israel. In
fact, it
is Israel, which is giving a blood bath to innocent Muslims and the
U.S. is
not uttering a single word."
www.spearhead-uk.com http://www.natvan.com
http://www.thebirdman.org http://www.RealNews247.com
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| User: "Rich Travsky " |
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07 Jun 2005 12:35:03 AM |
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Joe Lunchpail wrote:
The attack on America's classrooms has been by the left! It's about
time that trend was stopped. When it's ok to teach about the Muslim
faith in school, but it's not ok to do anything
Christian........Something went wrong folks. This reversal is simply a
Organized prayer is not allowed. Get over it, Mikey.
positive step in ANTI-liberal ideology indoctrination.
You liberals out there are just pissed because your party mouthpieces
aren't being listened to anymore.....
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| User: "Robert R." |
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| Title: Re: The fascist attack on America's classrooms |
07 Jun 2005 06:05:52 AM |
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Joe Lunchpail wrote:
The attack on America's classrooms has been by the left! It's about
time that trend was stopped. When it's ok to teach about the Muslim
faith in school, but it's not ok to do anything
Christian........
What do you mean by "do anything Christian"? I have no problem with
public schools teaching students about Christianity from an academic
point of view. You can't understand much of post-Roman Western history
otherwise. But I'll be damned if I'm going to put up with some fundie
evangelical teacher using a taxpayer-funded classroom as a pulpit.
Robert R.
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