Best, brightest being indoctrinated, parents say

Washington Times Weekly Addition ^ | 1/26/2004 | George Archibald

[JohnGalt]

Welcome to the New World Order education system, designed to produce citizens of the world, brought to you buy the folks who can "build a democracy anywhere."

[stainlessbanner]

"students who learn how to think globally"

'Nuff said

[laotzu]

I'm just terribly proud to think that possibly, if I'm lucky, some of my tax dollars go towards this "educators" salary.

Extortion, for a socialist cause, feels so very cozy.

[ClearCase_guy]

Anyone who has "learned how to learn" will quickly realize that property rights, individual liberty, and free-market capitalism are the ONLY ways to truly help humans have better lives.

These academic programs are being taught by people who have NOT "learned how to learn".

[jonno]

Very well put.

[hosepipe]

bump

[JohnGalt]

"'When they came for the Confederate flag, I did nothing for I was not a Southerner..."

Northern Copperhead Regards,

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

On IB exams, she noted, high school students are scored on a scale of one to seven...

1= The US is a good country.

2= The US has many, many problems.

3= The US needs to learn a lot from France & other enlightened countries.

4= The US needs more socialism & big government.

5= The US needs a LOT more socialism & big government.

6= The US is a sad, hateful, oppressive place. Workers of the world, unite!

7= Close down Washington DC. Let the UN take over & govern us directly.

Extra Credit:.....Show why American culture & values are inferior to all others in the world. List at least ten reasons you are ashamed to be an American.

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Think globally, shoot locally.

[billbears]

that all students who learn how to think globally

I'd say that's already well in the works. Considering we have so many in the Republican Party that are more concerned with enforcing UN resolutions than practically anything else

[Piquaboy]

Who would have thunk it? We can thank our Rat socialist for screwing up our school system. FUBAR!I certainly hope not.

[Landru]

FYI children.

OK, whadda y'all wanna bet this -- or something damned close -- will become "The Model" for all education -- public or private -- in the not too distant future?

...the betting window's open.

[Gerasimov]

One more reason for us all to get our children out of government schools NOW

You don't have to be rich ... we're a single income family (not counting my wife's 10-15 hrs a week at a sub joint to give us some 'extra' money.) With three kids it's hard ... we don't have a lot to spend, and as I often remind my kids, their college fund is called "The G.I. Bill." But it's worth every sacrifice to keep them out of the clutches of government schools!

[BlackElk]

Well, at least they are indoctrinating in pacifism to satisfy the paleo-ostrich set.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Having high school age kids, I think the "best and brightest" are hard to indoctrinate. They resent it and like to reach their own conclusions. It could be my beneficent influence, but I don't think so.

Nevertheless, educational indoctrination is very bad, because it does influence the majority of the students, who then go on to vote and distort the field we all play on.

[kitkat]

***"After all, it is our students who will change the world, and we need to allow them to be the fine citizens of America and the world that they have the potential to be," she said. ***

Sounds good at first glance, doesn't it? Just like the German-American Bund literature before WWII which glorified Hitler. And people BELIEVED IT!

[metesky]

Reston, Va.'s Langston Hughes Middle School

What would one expect from a school named after an open Commy sympathizer and fellow traveler?

[Steely Tom]

My wife (PhD in physics, masters degrees in materials, computer science, and [soon] an MBA) grew up in China during the height of the cultural revolution. She got the full treatment: communist propaganda every single day, from kindergarten through graduate school.

She rejected it all. She learned about America by reading Readers' Digest, after teaching herself English. She came to America two weeks after the Tiennamen Square uprising.

Smart kids will not be swayed by the foolishness of socialism. It's the wannabees, what my high-school friends called "pseudo-intellectuals," that buy into the idea that "all of us are smarter than any of us," the collectivist myth.

(steely)

[JohnGalt]

If you look at our own country's history, those who look to defend their own Southern heritage are looked on with disdain from both the 'psuedo-intellectuals' and many Yankee Northerners who employ the same arrogance as the psuedo-intellectuals in denigrating the others culture.

[banjo joe]

"that all students who learn how to think globally, how to make connections between subjects, and how to 'learn how to learn' will be better prepared to be IB diploma students when they get to 11th grade."

Used to be the objective for all students, except for that "think globally" crap. This is elitism disguised as "egalitarianism".