Posted on 03/06/2008 8:42:24 PM PST by SeafoodGumbo
Yes, that's right. The headline is no exaggeration. California Democratic Sen. Alan Lowenthal has proposed an amendment to the Educational Code that will explicitly allow the promotion of Communism in schools, and also allow groups who want to violently overthrow the US government to meet on public school property.
Here’s the PDF file: sb_1322_bill_20080220_introduced.pdf
(1) The Civic Center Act requires the governing body of a school district to grant the use of school property, when an alternative location is not available, to nonprofit organizations, and clubs or associations organized to promote youth and school activities. Existing law also prohibits an individual, society, group, or organization from using school property for the commission of any act intended to further a program or movement the purpose of which is to accomplish the overthrow of the government of the United States or of the state by force, violence, or other unlawful means.
This bill would permit the school board to require the furnishing of information as it deems necessary to determine that the use of school property for which application is made would not violate that provision. This bill would also delete provisions regarding a person who intends to use school property on behalf of an organization to deliver a statement, signed under penalty of perjury, that the organization is not a Communist action organization or Communist front organization required to be registered with the Attorney General of the United States or does not, to the best of that person’s knowledge, advocate the overthrow of the government of the United States or of the State of California by force, violence, or other unlawful means.
(2) Under existing law, a permanent or classified school employee, or a classified community college employee may be dismissed from employment for specified causes, including, but not limited to, commission of a felony.
This bill would delete provisions that a permanent or classified school employee, or a classified community college employee may be dismissed from employment if he or she is a knowing member of the Communist Party.
(3) Existing law prohibits a teacher from giving instruction and prohibits a school district from sponsoring any activity that reflects adversely upon a person because of his or her race, sex, color, creed, handicap, national origin, or ancestry.
This bill would delete provisions that prohibit a teacher giving instruction in a school or on property belonging to an agency included in the public school system from teaching communism with the intent to indoctrinate or to inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism. The bill would also delete provisions that a teacher may be dismissed from employment if he or she teaches communism in that way.
(4) Under existing law, a public employee is required to answer, under oath, specified questions, including, but not limited to, knowing membership in an organization advocating the forceful or violent overthrow of the government of the United States or of any state. This bill would delete these provisions. The bill would also delete related findings and declarations by the Legislature regarding communism and the Communist Party.
Interesting. I think I’ll email this to my holier-than-thou BIL who graduated from UT-Austin and has no problems with Communism or the dictators who stick with it.
It’ll be fun to see what he says.
Wow is this really happening on our watch?
So Churches that wanted to over throw the government could use the the school, but those who support it could not?
Real or satire? I can’t tell anymore when it comes to California politics.
Will Californians ever wake up ..??
I’m not holding my breath!
...and the appeals court outlawing Homeschooling all in one day. You guys out there need a midnight Basketball League or something. Too much time on your hands.
California Court Rules Homeschooling Illegal
Close ALL NEA Union Schools.
ping
Kalifornia will not wake up.
As this crap progresses, those who would oppose it will move out in ever increasing numbers. Add to this the economic evacuation of companies and people because of out of control taxes and socialistic loss of freedom and you have a recipe for a Kalifornia in economic blight.
They will begin to pull the country in as the RAT electoral lock on it acts like a political black hole, forcing the rest of the country further and further to the left.
In all honesty, I see the only way out is a cleanup after the collapse.
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