And the school didn't even get that right.
Valentina Tereshkova beat Sally Ride into space by 20 years.
Posted on 08/16/2005 5:06:01 AM PDT by hildy123
Parents are on the warpath about the way 63,000 public schools are now starting their fall term in August, some even in hot July. Thousands of parents have organized Save Our Summers campaigns, and protests in Georgia, North Carolina, Texas and Florida have hit the national media.
I wish them well with their demands for schools to return to their traditional post-Labor Day opening. But I also wish those parents would show as much concern about what is being taught in the classroom.
The largest teachers union, the National Education Association, held its annual convention this summer in Los Angeles displaying its usual favoritism toward gays and feminists, hostility to parents, and support of liberal causes.
Badges worn by delegates included messages bashing President Bush and supporting gays and lesbians. There is a Conservative Educators Caucus within the NEA membership, but all its proposals were buried in committee except one on academic freedom, which delegates voted to send back to committee without allowing floor debate.
The NEA convention handed a big victory to its large Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus by easily passing its proposal calling on the NEA to "develop a comprehensive strategy" to deal with the attacks on gay curricula, policies and practices by what the NEA calls "extremist groups" (that's the NEA's term for parents). A delegate who asked for respect for ex-gays was loudly booed, while delegates cheered the speaker who pronounced that there is no such person as an ex-gay.
Resolutions passed by the NEA convention that have nothing to do with education included a call to boycott Wal-Mart, statehood for the District of Columbia, affirmative action, opposition to private accounts in Social Security, opposition to capital punishment, gun control, "single-payer health care" (i.e., government medicine), and endorsement of the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights.
NEA resolutions pertaining to education called for the teaching of global, multicultural, suicide, environmental and bilingual education. Somehow, resolutions about the need for improvement in the teaching of phonics or basic math didn't make the cut.
NEA resolutions endorsed all feminist goals, including abortion, comparable worth, the Equal Rights Amendment and taking over the baby-sitting of children "from birth through age 8." The gay lobby's influence extends even over these infants, whom the NEA wants to provide with "diversity-based curricula" and "bias-free screening devices."
In another manifestation of hypocrisy about educational diversity, the NEA resolved that "home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools." At the same time, the NEA demands that home-schooled students should be taught only by people who are "licensed" by the state and use a curriculum approved by the state.
About one-third of NEA members are estimated to vote Republican, and there is a Republican Caucus within the NEA. However, the powers-that-be running the NEA launched a coup this year and took it over (so that "Republican" NEAers will be able to bash Bush), after which three-fourths of the real Republicans quit and joined the Conservative Educators Caucus.
One of my readers recently sent me a book published by the NEA in 1951. It provides a look down memory lane of what public schools used to be a half-century ago.
Called "The American Citizens Handbook," this nearly-600-page book was intended to promote good citizenship among public school students. It includes essays on citizenship, brief biographies of "heroes and heroines of American democracy," and reprints of historical documents that are the "great charters of American democracy." The book unabashedly celebrates old-fashioned virtue and patriotism. One section entitled "A Golden Treasury for the Citizen" offers passages suitable for memorization by children.
This NEA civics handbook embraces "the creation of national unity" and "Americanization" as explicit tasks for the public schools. The book states, "It is important that people who are to live and work together shall have a common mind - a like heritage of purpose, religious ideals, love of country, beauty, and wisdom to guide and inspire them."
Numerous Old and New Testament selections are included, including the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer. The golden rule, the Boy Scouts oath, national songs and uplifting poems appear along with geography facts and a household budget.
"The American Citizens Handbook" is a stunning contrast to the radical resolutions adopted by the NEA at its convention this year.
In one comical action by the 2005 NEA convention, the delegates defeated New Business Item No. 1 calling for conducting a "survey of members and potential members to determine the extent which NEA resolutions affect membership."
Apparently, NEA members don't want to know how hurtful these radical resolutions are to their own membership. It's no wonder that NEA membership is not increasing.
Speaking of "hostility to parents", schools have now started arresting parents who dare to assert their parental rights and request that the school notify them when homosexuality is introduced in kindergarten:
David Parker, Lexington Parent arrested for "trespassing"
Support the Parkers!
Why not, it is just like any other fetish. Human behavior is very changeable. You just need to train with methods of negative reinforcement to make the behavior seem horrible, and positive reinforcements to replace those attractions with something else. What people are attracted to sexually changes over time.
As opposes to the NEA slogan, "Support the Packers"...
Bump
When will the NEA easily pass a proposal calling on the NEA to "develop a comprehensive strategy" to deal with the sexual attacks on students by members of the NEA?
...and isn't it about time for this week's headline - Teacher Charged with Sexual Involvement with Students?
Ugh. Last week our 9 y.o. son came home from school and when asked what he learned that day, told us "Sally Ride was the first woman in space." OK, well enough. My husband asked him who the first person in space was, and then who the first American in space was, and of course he hadn't learned those.
So we taught him the first person (Yuri Gagarin) and the first American (Alan Shepard).
He came home yesterday and told us his teacher told him Alan Shepard wasn't the first man in space, John Glenn was.
We knew that wasn't right, but we double checked to make sure we didn't tell him wrong. And no, we were right. Alan Shepard was the first American into space, John Glenn was the first man to orbit the earth.
He said he was going to tell his teacher that today.
The real kicker? This is his gifted teacher.
Actually that is possible, and happens more often than the homosexual lobby would like people to know. Check out the websites for "Exodus International" and/or "Transforming Congregations" (among others) for more information.
Time to homeschool. We did, and my kids are in rave demand by employers who laud their reliability, honesty, and work ethic.
My wife and I sacrificed a lot, but we did it for the children. The dividends are fantastic!
They are Government controlled indoctrination centers. The term "public schools" is kept only as a front so as to not arouse the unwashed masses.
Gifted? With ignorance!
And the school didn't even get that right.
Valentina Tereshkova beat Sally Ride into space by 20 years.
Pio - in Massachusetts.
Yowza!!
I'll have to make sure it was woman, not American, but if it is I'll make sure he knows that also.
Thanks.
Hey! Leave Green Bay out of this! 8-)
Here's a good one for his teacher. Ask the teach if he knows the difference between "Martin Luther" and "Martin Luther King". That'll set the guys head spinning.
Ex-homosexuals are a rapidly growing group. They haven't been able to organize themselves and make a splash on the national seen because the homosexuals deny their existence and block coverage and the rest of us see them as people who used to be homosexuals.
Someone will eventually realize that these people are getting their lives together and their message that the homosexual lifestyle is unsatisfying and unhealthy, will sweep through parents' groups.
I'd hate to do that to *her*. She's nice enough, and it gets my son out of the regular classroom and with other kids more his speed, he gets to play chess etc.
She did vote for Kerry, and my son said he would tease her about it, and then after Bush won, he did also.
Good thing the school is terrified of my husband. He's the parent they see walking in the door and the principal and vice principal hide under their desks and tell the secretary to tell him they aren't in.
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