Posted on 03/26/2011 9:09:00 AM PDT by Tribune7
When did the Department of Education become the Department of Speech Monitoring? Add the Dept of Ed to the list of Obama agencies that need to be reined in, hard and fast.
Education Department officials are threatening school principals with lawsuits if they fail to monitor and curb students’ lunchtime chat and evening Facebook time for expressing ideas and words that are deemed by Washington special-interest groups to be harassment of some students.
There has only been muted opposition to this far-reaching policy among the professionals and advocates in the education sector, most of whom are heavily reliant on funding and support from top-level education officials. The normally government-averse tech-sector is also playing along, and on Mar. 11, Facebook declared that it was “thrilled” to work with White House officials to foster government oversight of teens’ online activities.
The only formal opposition has come from the National School Board Association, which declined to be interviewed by The DC.
It’s no great surprise that federal bureaucrats, Facebook, and the ACLU are on board with this. But…the teachers’ unions are fine with teachers and administrators being put in legal jeopardy for what kids do on Facebook, on their own time? Really?
Even creepier than the policy itself, is who has been charged with overseeing it.
The leading advocate for the expanded rules is Kevin Jennings, who heads the Education Department’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.
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What the...? So the nanny state wants lunch monitors to spy on our kids? Is this what Democrats and liberals think of as a "free" society?
In the long run, the Dept. of Education has the potential to be the most tyrannical arm of gov’t next to the IRS. It must be disbanded. It has no reason to exist but to serve the marxist agenda of supplanting parents in the role of nurturer.
My state is trying to do the right thing:
VA Board of Ed Sets Guidelines for Social Media Use in Schools
http://wmal.com/Article.asp?id=2144400
“The guidelines list behaviors that are deemed inappropriate for teacher-student communication. While the board does not call to end the use of social media in schools, Department of Education spokesman Charles Pyle emphasized the need for boundaries and transparency when using such websites.”
The role of hate speech is now expanding. I have no idea why these laws are even Constitutional.
I will also say that teachers will not, not be reading facebook pages of their students.
Correct. The DOE is what is destroying our country (with the help of Positive Law). Unconstitutional—both.
The DOE is forming the worldview of the masses. It was set up in the Prussian style to eliminate “think outside the box” individualism to create mass conformity. One age in a grade creates peer pressure that is used by the curricula to indoctrinate and humiliate anyone who does not “group-think”.
It is designed by communists in the 30’s and 40’s. Dr. Rugg and Dr. Counts and many other sick and twisted minds like Bill Ayers have designed the curricula using Pavlovian and Skinner techniques.
It is well -documented in Eakman’s Cloning of the American Mind.
It is no accident that our public schools are producing useless idiots....ex-kgb in the 70’s told about the cognitive dissonance put into the curricula to prevent logic and knowledge.
Focus of Dewey—lower ages of children while their minds are more “plastic”...so they can effect their worldview: attitudes and values.
They wanted to promote collectivism and destroy individualism (group projects in school—dependence on teacher for everything like even personal things like bathroom priviledges to infantilize children—keep them immature and irresponsible as long as they can.
Unlike those great minds of Franklin, Lincoln, Edison, Wright Bros, Mark Twain that never entered school til the age of reason (so they couldn’t be manipulated by propaganda as much and most left school by age 13. Some like the brilliant independent thinker, Lincoln, hardly ever set foot in a school house.
Education has got to get back to McGuffey Reader days—when the worldview being taught was not the Marxist German Philosophy which is now all our kids get....It used to be the Christian Classical Western Civ ideas that were taught in the classroom which put out moral, productive, responsible people==unlike that pathetic, narcissistic, self-absorbed nihilism and materialists that we get in the graduates of today.
My guess is the Dept. of Ed. won’t be the only resource the Leftist Socialists currently in power will use to tweak the First Amendment.
To expedite their hoped for “change” it’s necessary for the Socialist movement to isolate the people from non controlled information resources, or to debunk those resources with disinformation.
Isolate, and control. Watch for it.
Our local police department stalks facebook by joining the local high school classes to see what students are up to.
I think it is quite easy to overgeneralize about the short comings of public school. I think it really depends on the state, county and school district...
My oldest, never attended public school while my youngest has been in public school since grade four. Although there are some things they can’t do in public school... as a general education my youngest child’s has been better... more resources, and better preparation for the SAT and access to so many AP classes!
Again...it really depends on where you live... we happen to have moved to a great school district with a wonderful community of parents that support the school.
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