Multicultural Educators: Disciples of Social Justice

School Reform News/The Heartland Institute ^ | 01/01/05 | Robert Holland

[Torie]

I don't know how much "good" their propoganda campaign will do, if their charges can't read. I must say that the article presents the most compelling case for illiteracy I have yet read.

[FITZ]

Excoriating textbooks that continue to be dominated by "white middle-class values,"

Middle class values --- we wouldn't want those taught.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Only the enemy within can destroy America.

[Rudder]

The silent but deadly oppressor of the ethnic minority child's spirit is a state of injustice that is imbedded in a systemic society of a one-sided truth espoused through the Eurocentric lens of American education," Uzziel Pecina and Catherine Frazier said in their prepared presentation.

And all along I thought communism's rhetoric was passe...

[Noachian]

We need a deep-rooted transformation of values and dispositions:

No problem. This is what's going on in muslim-Europe right now.

[Frank_2001]

Agreed!

[therut]

My sister who is a teacher told me at the last so-called teachers learning conference she had to attend,that they were taught when talking about any subject that could be controversial that they should not make kids raise their hands for questions. They should have a little piece of paper that the teacher could see on each desk that says question and the teacher can go to that kids desk and talk with them in a low voice. Or they could have hand signals like a clinched fist or open palm for the signal. Now this is the crap teachers spend their time on supposidly learning to teach with better methods. Don't want to hurt or embaress a student. Tax money being put to good teacher training.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Get yer kiddies out of the Publik Skools - NOW!

[Dan Evans]

Don't want to hurt or embarrass a student.

Unless it's to handcuff them and haul them off to the cop station because they had a pair of scissors.

[turnrightnow]

This article validates our decision to homeschool our children. This is war, and they're using our children as pawns on the battlefield. If they can indoctrinate the next generation, they win.

[Wolfhound777]

This crap needs to be stopped at all costs, or we won't have a United States of America to worry about anymore.

[Noumenon]

More of America's domestic enemies. When will they be called to account?

[thombo]

If i had kids i would never send them to public school. Am i correct in assuming that these teachers return to their respective schools and in turn indoctrinate their students re political correctness?

[26lemoncharlie]

It is time for some HEADLINES that PARENTS have met in the Nations school districts and elected representatives for a Parental Summit to be held wherever to demand that they are in charge of their schools and must approve the Curriculum that will be taught to their Children.

For those of you who have not read this before, this link will be very enlightening for you and your family. This is where they plan to take our children. Everything that you have taught them about Patriotism, Religion, Moral Values is WRONG. They want to Control your Children and turn them into MULTICULTURIST, so here it is:
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=954

[longun45]

I don't suffer cockroaches in my house, why should we have to suffer them in school.

[dufekin]

When I was in school, students oftentimes had to change classes outdoors, whether going to, from, or between the dozens of portable classrooms that dotted the schoolyard or to make better time around the onerous (and sporadically violent) traffic jams in the narrow hallways. Trapped all day in a decaying building in which the torrential rains poured through the porous roof and long-lost windows and seeped through the second floor into the first, some enterprising students decided to keep at least partially dry by using umbrellas on relatively calm days.

This move drew the ire of the educrats on the school board, who decreed that bringing an umbrella to "school" was the "moral equivalent of detonating a thermonuclear bomb" and would be punished appropriately. Such punishment, levied inconsistently at best, usually consisted of having some school employee (never a teacher) taking the umbrella and using it for him/herself. I guess the poor educrats just wanted to stay dry when they had to go visit their schools and didn't want the burden of buying their own umbrellas.

I'm not sure what's happening there these days. It would be interesting to see.

[Dan Evans]

I guess the poor educrats just wanted to stay dry when they had to go visit their schools and didn't want the burden of buying their own umbrellas.

Redistribution of property is consistent with a leftist notion of "social justice".

But these people are lousy with contradictions. I know a teacher who confiscated a radio that a student insisted on playing during class. She was severely reprimanded by the more enlightened in the administration.

[ClaudiusI]

Now why do I think that this multicultural curriculum is going
to conveniently leave out such facts as Africans selling their
own people into slavery, and the people of India burning
widows alive before the British made them stop?

[dufekin]

I erred in describing the educrats as "poor." They were generally affluent and grossly overpaid despite no perceptible accomplishments.