Posted on 04/27/2010 7:32:07 PM PDT by ConservativeHideout
One of the other school districts that I worked in has a gifted and talented program that I thought would interest some of my readers because it shows how possible and how extensive the liberal agenda can stretch into the government-run schools in our country.
In some schools, gifted and talented programs for students may offer increased enrichment opportunities, ask students to take more leadership on important issues, hold seminars to improve critical thinking skills, or include visits to local museums. But in other schools, just the the program that I observed in a local middle school, the gifted and talented programs instead are serving as laboratories for molding future communist-left-leaning Democrats.
In this government school, gifted and talented students are usually identified in elementary and middle schools and then put into a program apart from other students, where they learn and work on an additional or alternative curriculum. They are told over and over that they are not different from other students, just unique- separate, but equal. Myself, I’d just tell these students the truth- ‘hey, you’re farther along and advancing more rapidly, so let’s put you in a different class or give you additional projects and challenge you.’ But the liberals who run the education system instead say to these students ‘we’re all equal, but we’re going to put you in a special class to mold your unique skills.’
And the scary part is what they are trying to mold the best and brightest into. Apparently what this school is trying to mod its most gifted and talented students into is government planners, communists, bureaucrats, and solid liberal Democrats. They do this molding in several ways.
These gifted and talented students have to create and run United Nations type projects. That is, the United Nations projects that are funded with other people’s money, unaccountable, full of corruption, and tend to make the situation they are supposed to ‘fix’ worse. Students work on projects that have to deal with environmentalism (how to force businesses through government power to do certain things, or propose laws to do this, etc.), global appeasement policies (peace on earth, how to stop the war, stop the war in Iraq, how to make friends with France, etc.), tax and spend schemes (pretend money comes from air and isn’t stolen from hard working people’s pockets, and think up ways to spend it, etc.), wealth-redistribution schemes (collect for charities, can drives, etc.), and focus on human rights abuses (especially caused by the US).
The gifted and talented programs that some government-run school districts are setting up for their impressionable youth steer clear and never mention anything related to individualism, morality, or personal rights. In fact, not a single project touched on those issues. The goal apparently with these programs is to emphasis themes of government control and elitism, but steer clear of morality, individual rights, and individual responsibility.
The students get the time to put together these projects by being pulled out of classes that are deemed ‘unimportant’ by the liberal elites who run the school- they are pulled out of business or economics classes, they are pulled out of shop, home economics, or auto mechanics classes, and they are pulled out of gym and physical education classes. According to the liberals who run the school, these are ‘dumb’ classes for the ‘dumber students’, and the gifted and talented students should instead be learning how to rule us, make decisions for us, and control our behaviors.
Where gifted and talented students could take on more real life examples and challenges, and begin to train to be our future business leaders, and improve their discipline and teamwork skills, and be part of the tradition that made our nation great once- skilled mechanics, dedicated farmers, good shop keepers, smart accountants, and hard-working factory workers- these students instead spend vastly more time talking and learning about government intervention in business and society in the belief that if our country had more lawyers, bureaucrats, and communist leftist pinko’s, it would be a better country.
It is a scary thought- in schools all around the nation, our future leaders- our most gifted and talented- are being put into government re-education programs designed to make students into liberal Democrats. Scary indeed.
Original Post: A Conservative Teacher
Oh I’m aware they are gunning for mine. Hence why I’d homeschool.
We switched private school this year. Last year, my daughters had a very liberal enviromental whacko teacher at their Christian school.
She didn’t eat meat because it uses too much water. She had them composting the whole year. She didn’t use paper towels in her classroom.
I could go on and on about her.
Now, they are at a conservative Christian school, and their history teacher was making jokes about tree huggers.
Money. There are now too many families that need 2 incomes. Private schools are outrageously expensive.
In many Indian families (I'm Indian), the teenage years are not thought of as a time to rebel but to get serious in academic pursuits and prepare for a future career.
Sounds like someone got stuck with the “dumb” kids and is going “scorched earth”
It’s intersting how different cultures “construct” adolescence. We could learn a lot.
Not new.
My mother experienced this in Northern Virginia in the 70s/80s.
One of the many reasons my siblings and I were homeschooled.
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