One slice of American Marxism's massive assault upon our children's minds
Reported by the Minnesota Family Council
After parents of Big Lake School District students began protesting the high school’s diversity lessons, district officials proposed a policy to control parental access to the schools.Parents in the District have spoken out against the Diversity Perspectives class textbook that promotes what one parent described as “an extremely liberal agenda.” And, parents state, the text includes concepts promoting socialism and homosexuality.This unbelievably overreaching bureaucratic decision exemplifies the mindset of the governing class: we are smarter than you, we are in charge, and anyone who challenges us must be put down.After bringing their concerns forward, word spread that the Big Lake School Board is considering a policy that impairs parents’ ability to monitor what and how their children are being taught during school.
The policy gives school principals and/or officials autonomous control over whether or not parents can come into their child’s school or observe a class.
Further research turned up a little more information, but I can not find this reported in the local news.
Parents in the District have spoken out against the Diversity Perspectives class textbook that promotes what one parent described as 'an extremely liberal agenda.' ...the text includes concepts promoting socialism and homosexuality...Before a meeting in the high school, parent Teri Dickinson video taped student work hanging on the walls of the Diversity Perspectives classroom. The papers depicted Christopher Columbus, a man of deep faith and convictions, as a rapist and murderer. The projects also called him a pillager and terrorist. 'I just couldn’t believe what I saw,' Dickinson said. 'I wanted to be able to share it with other parents.'...
Bob Barrett, parent of Big Lake first and third graders, is so concerned about the class that he read the Diversity Perspectives textbook, Oppression and Social Justice: Critical Frameworks. He says the book propagates a political viewpoint of oppression foisted upon others by white males, beginning with Columbus. ...an entire chapter, say parents, is devoted to anti-capitalism. And, the parents note, the book endorses gay and bisexual agendas....
Mary Stultz contacted her 9th grade son’s Life Skills teacher when she learned a public health nurse would be giving a condom-showing presentation on contraception. At first, the teacher welcomed her to attend the class. 'The speaker (also) welcomed me in.'... But the morning of the presentation, Big Lake High School Principal Darrel Easterly banned her from the school, via the teacher, citing data privacy laws. Stultz was stunned.
And again I say, "Remove your children from public schools immediately!" ...IMHO.Meet the Author of several chapters of the curriculum: Julie Andrzejewski.
Scholarly and Professional Activities: Andrzejewski's scholarly work includes five editions of an anthology entitled, Oppression and Social Justice: Critical Frameworks. She also co-authored a book,Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home, which was positively reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and Publisher's Weekly among others. She recently co-authored a monograph with Dr. John Alessio, Education for Global Citizenship and Social Responsibility, for the John Dewey Project on Progressive Education (www.uvm.edu/~dewey) and a article for the American Sociological Review titled, Unveiling the Hidden Glass Ceiling: An Analysis of the Cohort Effect Claim.
She is a member of the American Education Research Association and many of the social and environmental Special Interest Groups (SIG's) within it (i.e. Critical Educators for Social Justice, Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class, Environmental and Ecological Education, Research on Women in Education, Democratic Citizenship in Education, Peace Education, Lesbian and Gay Studies, Research Focus on Black Americans, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas). At the 2002 AERA conference, she chaired an interactive symposium with panelists from many of these SIG's titled: Social and Environmental Justice Education: Should it be evaluated by guidelines or standards?
Why would concerned parents hand their impressionable offspring over to an influential group whose ideology is contrary to their own, for daily propaganda lessons?
Cultural Marxism in the Classroom: Parental Complaints Result in Restrictions of Parental Access
Gulag Bound ^ | September 2, 2010 | Janet Smiles - Posted on Thu Sep 02 2010 19:08:05 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by unspun
Spell check OK for students taking tests
Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:42:16 PM · by markomalley · 20 replies - UPI ^ | 9/2/2010
SALEM, Ore., Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Oregon students will be permitted to use their computers' spell check feature when taking the state writing test, state education department officials said. The test judges the seventh-grade and high school students' essays, written in response to a prompt, on six criteria, including organization and sentence fluency -- but the single more important part of their score is English conventions, which count for twice as much as any other criterion, The Oregonian newspaper in Portland reported Thursday. A computer's spell checking feature can correct errors in spelling and capitalization. "The increasing use of computers with spell checkers for communication in the work place, college, postsecondary training and the military," were cited as reasons for the policy change in Salem.
Digital Versions Allow Instructors to Rewrite the (Text)book - Is This a Big Deal? Absolutely!!
A dummy textbook page, with an instructor’s insert, shows what students will see in the upcoming DynamicBooks.
The worst thing that we can let happen is allow book stores to vanish, online stores to go all digital, old books to be destroyed, libraries to be closed and all our reading materials and history to be put online and in digital form, often editable by leftist professors.
The written word is forever, a printed book or handwritten journal or letters cannot be destroyed or altered with the stroke of a key on a computer keyboard by people with sinister agendas.
Our history has been re-written and then the newest version has been taught to our children to change their beliefs, their morality, our history and both control and narrow their thinking. Luckily there are still sources to be found of the truth in printed form… Each one of us must join the cause to save original sources.
Help save and restore the truth: Start some private libraries with discarded and donated books (great projects for 9/12 and tea party groups as well as individual patriots, volunteer at the local public library so they don’t have to close due to budget constraints; collect books at home; insist that your bookstore and their chain carry books from all perspectives (many chains owned by liberal progressives hide Beck or Palin books and a lot of others in the back or even off the floor… or don’t carry them at all); donate old and original sourced books to Beck and other Conservative Private collectors who will preserve the knowledge; try to buy hardcover books whenever possible and create a permanent family library; scan in original source materials and whole books if you can and then burn them to discs, print out copies and store them offline as well as on your computer; purchase and give books as gifts so that there is a financial incentive to keep printing them; start ‘reading time’ with your kids and grandkids; make yourself read at lead 30-minutes a day, even if you don’t think you like to read; insist that your children’s high school (all public schools) and colleges do not allow their teachers and professors to subscribe to programs where they can edit the outrageously expensive textbooks online to reflect their own agenda and perspective, which is happening daily all over our Country!
The Education Department has posted its proposed "gainful employment" rule. The draft rule, released on [July 22, 2010], would cut off aid to programs at for-profit colleges whose students have the highest debt burdens and lowest loan-repayment rates.
Secretary Duncan,
I urge you to reconsider the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed “Gainful Employment” rule, which would severely limit a student’s ability to attend the college or university of his or her choice. The rule is unfair to students – particularly among low-income, minority, female, working adult, and other populations – by making entire programs ineligible for Title IV federal financial aid if they fail to meet one-size-fits-all metric tests that have little to do with academic quality.
Specifically, the Gainful Employment rule would:
* Limit choice for any University students who require financial aid to earn their college degrees.
* Restrict the ability of students to receive a career-oriented education that is marketable to prospective employers.
* Impact some students’ quality of life. Students should be afforded the opportunity to pursue any career that offers them the chance to fulfill their professional aspirations.
Earning a degree has been a dream of mine that will come true upon my graduation from any University. Through my current program, I am gaining the necessary skills and education for a successful career. Graduates in my program can attest to the fact that a degree from our school gave them the competitive edge to get their dream job in this tough job market.
Please protect future students’ access to the same type of quality education I enjoy by working with all stakeholders to achieve our shared goals on student debt while avoiding negative unintended consequences.
Here, I going to answer my own question. This is Obama’s doing. I think you’ll see #14 being the most controversial. -
http://www.google.com/gwt/x?source=m&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ed.gov/news/student-aid-rules-protect-borrowers-and-taxpayers&wsi=bdceabc375ebcedd&ei=3CCATIPlJoKWwgXapuCQCQ&wsc=yq
Home-Schooling, Christian Schools, Teams of Vigilant and Out-Spoken Parent Volunteers at Public Schools, Adults Educating Themselves, and Dinner with Lively Thought Provoking Conversation at the Family Dinner Table are all at the Heart of Changing a Frightening Trend!
Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Revised and Updated Edition
Celebrate with Books: Booktalks for Holidays and Other Occasions
Also… send your kids to colleges who teach free thinking and use original sources like Hillsdale College - Educating Patriots and law schools that teach Constitutional, not Case, Law.
Other Resources:
DVD: Expelled
Books:
30 Ways in 30 Days to Save Your Family...
The Dumbing Down of America Series
We are living in crazy times; time where Constitutionalists are being listed in the Extremism Guide by the Department of Justice and schools are teaching your children Marxism and about porn and gay sexual positions beginning as young as in elementary school in some areas. Is there anything you own or want that you cannot do without to avoid your child’s exposure to those ideas and graphic visions?
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