Posted on 02/25/2015 6:07:24 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A Liberty Blitzkrieg reader who is a resident of Naples, Florida recently sent me a note highlighting a video in which he, and several other concerned parents, were reprimanded and treated like little children in a School Board Workshop as a result of them expressing concerns about school curriculum.
In order to give you some background on the issue, see the Letter to the Editor he wrote to the Naples Daily News on 1/28 to say what he was prevented from saying at the 1/20 School Board Workshop. Letter reprinted below:
Patton the cause
The controversy behind the recent parents’ review of school textbooks lays squarely at the feet of Superintendent Kamela Patton.
Specifically, Collier County School Board Policy 2240 reads, “Furthermore, the Superintendent shall prepare administrative procedures detailing the manner in which students and parents will be adequately informed, each year, regarding their right to inspect instructional materials, and the procedure for completing such an inspection.”
By failing to prepare procedures to implement Board Policy 2240, Patton created the perception the textbook review was a nighttime Watergate-style break-in masterminded by conservative political operative and School Board member G. Gordon Lichter.
I examined seventh-grade “Civics in Practice” and it contained numerous factual inaccuracies. For example, on Page 100 it states, “The Constitution can be changed in two ways; formally by Amendment, and informally by Government.” This notion of dictatorship is enhanced by eighth-grade textbook “United States History,” which states on Page 185, “The President issues Executive Orders. These commands have the power of law.”
While some called us book-burning Nazis, Page 274 of “Civics in Practice” states, “Citizens must be alert to propaganda” and glittering generalities is a “type of propaganda which often uses words such as freedom and patriotism.” This world government indoctrination is augmented on Page 425, where a geographical map of North America eliminates the United States, and places our great nation in nine new “cultural nations.”
For pointing this out, one public speaker at the School Board textbook workshop called us “narrow-minded, racist Bible-thumpers.”
Thank you, Superintendent Patton.
The author has assured me that there is absolutely zero racist or religious angle to any of his concerns, and that this is being shamelessly injected into the argument due to an inability to debate the actual concerns.
*As a disclaimer, I am not well versed in the intricacies of this debate, nor have I personally reviewed Collier County school materials. I welcome and encourage open debate in the comment section.
Without further ado, take a look at how contemptuously and dismissively these parents’ concerns are dealt with at the Collier Country School Board Workshop.
It’s high time that every parent in this country, to take their children out of these government schools, and start HOME SCHOOLING their children. Any parent that still puts their children in government schools should be indicted for “CHILD ABUSE”. They could also start “NEIGHBORHOOD” schools. We have to begin to take our schools back from these people.
“treated like children”
You mean they were fed substandard school lunches and indoctrinated into the homosexual agenda?
While I was in college, so many of the under-achievers went into education. It was the easiest path to a degree. After that, masters degrees were pretty easy to get too. The woman that is head of this school board has a bA and an MA. I am not impressed.
I know a woman that had to take the ACT four times to make a 16 so she could student teach. She somehow managed to get into a four year college. She has a BA and a MA. She is now a know-it-all educator.
Certainly not all are like this but education is often the path of least resistance in college. Then the unions get hold of these people it’s downhill even more.
Is there is a non-pop up video version without the sound track?
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Just WOW! How can they get away with that??
What possesses people to send their children to public school? Would they send their children to eat at a state soup kitchen, should one become readily available (as one day it will)? At least the soup kitchen doesn’t poison them for six hours of the day.
But like public school, it’s welfare. Soul-rotting welfare. Partake of it and you are no better than the EBT entitled gibsmedats. And your children are no better educated than theirs.
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how dare these parents question their masters!
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Get your children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!!
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