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My theory on this is that the anti-American animus (or lack of pro-American animus) among some immigrants including Hispanics is a product of the educational system and the public posture of left wing advocates. Past immigrant groups also felt a strong identity with their culture to the point of resisting learning English and assimilating. However, from the 19th century until the 1960s the states insisted that schools teach in English (there were a number of law suits involving all-German speaking elementary schools in the 19th century) and the majority of those who attended elementary school in America were taught the virtues of the American way of life. This has changed because of identity politics, “social justice” education, political correctness and similar movements advocated by groups like the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), public school administrators, teachers unions and, most of all, the education schools, which are a terrible influence on the American polity (by education schools I especially mean the graduate schools of education such as Teachers College that develop education theories, virtually all of which have been complete failures and have aimed to sabotage the American community). Therefore,I would claim that the attitudes among Hispanics and other recent immigrant groups are a direct result of the “progressives’” control of the educational system, and can be reversed by eliminating left wing domination. This is a tall task, given that the Bush administration has done all it can to support the aims of the progressive educationist establishment. I attended a meeting of the Department of Education committee that approves accrediting organizations, and some of the people who reviewed NCATE’s recognition as an accrediting agency were as left wing as the Democratic appointees would have been. Until the public starts demanding that the public schools teach the three r’s and insist on teaching accurate history and insist on encouraging a sense of participation in the American community (to include learning English, and the virtues of limited government and the free society) nothing will change. The public’s indifference and incompetence with respect to left-wing domination of the education field has encouraged the left to proceed unperturbed by the majority of Americans’ views.

Yes, they need to find distribution. Their website is at http://www.indoctrinate-u.com/intro/

Check the website at http://www.indoctrinate-u.com/intro/. I believe that they are seeking a distribution outlet.

You might consider checking your own state's legislative docket for similar pro-terrorist, anti-profiling legislation, which the pro-terrorist lobby has been pushing recently. If you live in NY, please consider contacting your Assemblyman and Senator.

NY SENATE BILL #S6336 NY ASSEMBLY BILL #A10098

TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to creating an academic bill of rights

SUMMARY: Creates an academic bill of rights that ensures an academic environment for both students and faculty members that allows freedom of political viewpoint, expression and instruction; requires institutions of higher education to publish such bill of rights and to adopt a grievance procedure to address complaints of violations of such rights.

PURPOSE: To ensure that students enrolled in institutions of higher education receive exposure to a wide range of scholarly viewpoints, and to recognize the academic rights of faculty members.

Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan (Chair Education Committee) New York State Assembly Legislative Office Building 424 Albany, NY 12248 Phone: 518-455-4851 Fax: 518-455-3847 nolanc@assembly.state.ny.us

Assemblyman Sheldon Silver (Assembly Speaker) New York State Assembly Legislative Office Building 932 Albany, NY 12248 Phone: 518-455-3791 Fax: 518-455-5459 speaker@assembly.state.ny.us

Senator Joseph Bruno (Senate Majority Leader) New York State Senate 909 Legislative Office Building Albany, NY 12247 Phone: 518-455-3191 Fax: 518-455-2448 BRUNO@senate.state.ny.us __________________________________________________________________________

SAMPLE LETTER:

Assemblyman Sheldon Silver

New York State Assembly Legislative Office Building 932 Albany, NY 12248

Re: BILL #A10098 (ACADEMIC BILL OF RIGHTS)

Dear Assemblyman Silver :

As a (student/parent/alumni/teacher) from (a New York) College/University, I am concerned about political bias in the classroom, especially in the social sciences and humanities. Ideological bias compromises education. College and university professors should not abuse their authority by injecting irrelevant political agendas into the college classroom. Too often, university faculties have engaged in indoctrination rather than education, and have silenced and penalized students who have disagreed with them.

(You may add a brief synopsis of your own experience of abuse by professors)

I write in support of the Academic Bill of Rights, a powerful act of legislation that will lead the way in providing a positive academic environment that offers both students and faculty freedom of intellectual expression and the spirit of healthy debate. Higher education ought to be reformed to ensure that students enjoy free speech to the same degree as their professors do. The Academic Bill of Rights is a first step to accomplishing the necessary reform.

The Unions will fight this measure until the bitter end to preserve unaccountability and the status quo. Please be a voice for the people and insure that students at New York State Universities are receiving the best possible education, not the worst type of propaganda.

Sincerely,

Michael R. Cuevas, Chair Public Employment Relations Board 80 Wolf Road Albany, New York 12205

Dear Mr. Cuevas:

I am researching a newspaper article on the Taylor Law and would like to set up a meeting with you and James R. Edgar. I aim to publish a newspaper article concerning the Taylor Law and your agency’s role. I am specifically interested in various problems that have appeared with respect to the Professional Staff Congress. I have previously published articles about the Professional Staff Congress in Frontpagemag, and have written in the New York Sun. This would be a follow up piece.

Please call me at 212-595-2366 to set up a meeting.

Sincerely,

Mitchell Langbert, Ph.D.

140 Riverside Drive #16-k New York, NY 10024 February 6, 2006

James R. Edgar, Executive Director Public Employment Relations Board 80 Wolf Road Albany, New York 12205

Dear Mr. Edgar:

I am researching a newspaper article on the Taylor Law and would like to set up a meeting with you and Michael R. Cuevas. I aim to publish a newspaper article concerning the Taylor Law and your agency’s role. I am specifically interested in various problems that have appeared with respect to the Professional Staff Congress. I have previously published articles about the Professional Staff Congress in Frontpagemag, and have written in the New York Sun. This would be a follow up piece.

Please call me at 212-595-2366 to set up a meeting.

Sincerely,

Mitchell Langbert, Ph.D.

An adjunct professor at SUNY Farmingdale, Phil Orenstein, and I have been lobbying for a version of the Academic Bill of Rights. A copy of the prosposed bill is on my blog (URL listed and below). I am an associate professor at Brooklyn College. I would like to ask all social conservatives, libertarians, free marketeers and classical liberals who reside in New York State to contact their State Assembly and Senate members in Albany in support of the bill.

The purpose of the bill is to redress discrimination against conservatives, libertarians, social conservatives and pretty much anyone else who isn't a leftist in universities. For example, last year a student at a public university in New York was harassed by his professors because he objected to watching "Farenheit 9/11" in class. It turns out that the accreditation agency for teacher education, that accredits the majority of education programs in America, advocates a left wing approach to indoctrination called "dispositional assessment." This kind of 1984-ish extremism is all too common, and too many students have suffered.

The best evidence that the Academic Bill of Rights, S 6337 is at least somewhat effective is that the two chief public university faculty unions, the Professional Staff Congress and the United University Professions have begun an intense lobbying campaign against the bill, which to Phil amd my surprise has been referred to the State Senate higher ed committee as S 6337.

We are at a juncture now where letters from people who are tired of seeing conservatives mistreated, expelled and given low grades for disagreeing with their professors would count very much.

Would you kindly consider contacting your State Senators and Assembly people on behalf of S 6337 and let the left wing extremists in the faculty unions know that you are concerned about bias in universities?

Best Wishes,

Mitchell

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