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Sorry to say this is starting here in Minnesota! Is this something you want for your kids?

IS THIS WHERE OUR SCHOOLS ARE GOING!?! IS THIS FOR YOUR KIDS???

WorldNetDaily http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117313
BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS

Teaching plan: America ‘an oppressive hellhole’
University outlines ‘re-education’ for those who hold ‘wrong’ views

Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:15 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh, © 2009 WorldNetDaily

A program proposed at the University of Minnesota would result in required examinations of teacher candidates on “white privilege” as well as “remedial re-education” for those who hold the “wrong” views, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. (FIRE)

“The university’s general counsel should be asked to comment as soon as possible,” said the letter from Adam Kissel, an officer with The FIRE. “If the Race, Culture, Class, and Gender Task Group achieves its stated goals, the result will be political and ideological screening of applicants, remedial re-education for those with the ‘wrong’ views and values, [and] withholding of degrees from those upon whom the university’s political reeducation efforts proved ineffective.”

By any “non-totalitarian” standards, he wrote, the plans being made so far by the school are “severely unjust and impermissibly intrude into matters of individual conscience.”

“These intentions violate the freedom of conscience of the university’s students. As a public university bound by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, the university is both legally and morally obligated to uphold this fundamental right,” he wrote.

The demands appear to be similar to those promoted earlier at the University of Delaware. As WND reported, the Delaware university’s office of residential life was caught requiring students to participant in a program that taught, “all whites are racist.”

Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten said the developing Minnesota plan would require teachers to “embrace – and be prepared to teach our state’s kids – the task force’s own vision of America as an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic.”

“The first step toward ‘cultural competence,’ says the task group, is for future teachers to recognize – and confess – their own bigotry. Anyone familiar with the reeducation camps of China’s Cultural Revolution will recognize the modus operandi,” she said.

Nevertheless, FIRE’s concern included the apparent plan for demands that teachers “discuss their own histories and current thinking drawing on notions of white privilege, hegemonic masculinity, heteronormativity, and internalized oppression.”

“Here’s the kicker,” Fire said in its report. “The college even realizes that its efforts to impose such a severe ideological litmus test may be unconstitutional.”

Think, act, teach our way or we will ‘re-educate you until you do!
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1,796 posted on 11/28/2009 1:45:34 PM PST by WayzataJOHNN ( Poetry is the jazz of words, laid down by a feeling soul.)
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To: WayzataJOHNN

The California schools are already working on brainwashing our children.

I try to undo all that they do.

I said something earlier this week about some people being so dumb. Marissa said, “They are probably Democrats, Gramma.”

*smile* I had to agree with her.


1,822 posted on 11/28/2009 9:08:33 PM PST by JustAmy (Republicans think everyday is July 4th. Democrats think everyday is April 15th.)
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