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To: EdReform
Have a look at this:
THE GAMES THEY TEACH OUR CHILDREN

What Is This Intellectual Development?

What is the base for the technique of mindwarp being
imposed throughout our education system?

If you are a grandparent you may recall that, when a
child, you were often told you were allowed to be seen but
not heard. Our change-agents today throw up their hands in
horror at such a suggestion; they would claim it, at very
least, an intolerable denial of child rights.

But ask these advocates of (what they call) 'child rights'
on what moral or factual base they rest their claim and
they will only splutter like a broken record ... child
rights ... child rights ... child rights ... just as they
have been brainwashed to repeat.

Any person not mindwarped beyond all appreciation of
reality knows that decisions made by 5-year-olds will not
be as valid as those made by ten- year-olds; those of ten-
year-olds not so good as twenty-year-olds; and twenty-year-
olds not so sound as a forty-year-olds; all this assuming
that natural mental development is unhindered.

It follows then that the longer one can leave opinion-
forming the more mature will be the opinions formed. Or,
conversely, that the earlier one is induced to form
opinions, then the more immature will be the opinions
formed.

Our grandparents had it right: it was made clear to
children that their opinions, on matters beyond their
experience and understanding, were of no value. They were
neither encouraged to give them nor, therefore, did they
have to defend them.

When a person gives an opinion then that is the first step
to possession. Once that opinion is defended then that is
the second step to possession. If this process is repeated
then possession becomes nine points of the mind's law;
meaning that the mind possessed by an opinion tends to see
it as law. It is not so much the mind that possesses the
opinion as the opinion that possesses the mind.

Once a person makes an opinion public, then ego becomes
involved and that person begins to search out evidence to
feed the opinion and, while doing so, tends to reject
information that might harm the opinion. Dogmatism sets
in, the mind tends to become rigid and biased against
truth. The younger this process begins the less experience
the mind has of coping with these pressures and so the
more inflexible and dogmatic it becomes.

Values clarification games are very cleverly designed to
force children to 'adopt' opinions and defend them in a
peer group situation. This imposition goes well beyond
dogmatizing children to adopt adolescent ideas because
the ideas dogmatized are not those that children of
tender age would naturally have. Young children do not
naturally despise their parents; they do not naturally
take an anti-moral outlook; they do not naturally fight
for an anti-defense position; etc. So although the self-
admitted change agents fiercely maintain that they do not
interfere with the opinion-forming process, it is self-
evident that they have introduced their concepts and
attitudes as the 'correct' concepts and attitudes, which
are then fixed into minds by values clarification games.
This appears to be the sole purpose of the 'game'.
363 posted on 01/08/2005 10:32:37 PM PST by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: DaveTesla
VALUES CLARIFICATION games are very cleverly designed to force children to 'adopt' opinions and defend them in a peer group situation. This imposition goes well beyond dogmatizing children to adopt adolescent ideas because the ideas dogmatized are not those that children of tender age would naturally have.

This is but ONE of the techniques taught to future teachers in the TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS at many/most colleges.

This Values Clarification has been USED IN SCHOOLS FOR YEARS. The HATCH AMENDMENT was put in place to protect children from these types of PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIPULATIONS. The HATCH AMENDMENT gave parents a tool to use against schols/teachers that put their children into psychological exercises WITHOUT THEIR PARENTS' CONSENT OR WRITTEN PERMISSION, subjecting the school/teacher to violation of FEDERAL LAW.

President Reagin was extremely concerned about this, along with Orrin Hatch. Phylis Schlafly of Eagle Forum, testified before congress, along with parents all over the country, concerning these different kinds of "games" that were being forced onto innocent children, from K-12. Another psychological technique used in school is MAGIC CIRCLE. It's goal is to break down the "wall" to a child's "self," and can be used to FORCE a child to SHARE (all kinds of things) in a group setting.

THIS IS DANGEROUS, as children are PROMPTED to speak about what they otherwise wouldn't---and in a group setting.

Teachers are NOT health care officials. They are NOT trained to deal with the resultant TRAUMA to other students that can/does occur when ALL those OTHER children (even 5 year olds) ARE forced to LISTEN to and hear about acts of violence or deviant sexual behaviors that may be occurring in, say, another Kindergartener's home.

The NEA, teachers' unions, colleges which teach future teahcers, JUSTIFY these techniques being used because of the ONE CHILD WHO MAY BE ABUSED at home....

They're on a FISHING EXPEDITION, using children as "bait," if you will.

377 posted on 01/09/2005 7:34:30 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: DaveTesla; EdReform; All
Model Hatch Amendment Letter

EdReform, please see my post #377; it may interest you.

381 posted on 01/09/2005 7:52:47 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: DaveTesla; EdReform; All
Here's another link to a bit more information: The American Experience: For those who say, ''It could never happen here''
In March 1984 a remarkable real-life drama took place in seven American cities as hundreds of parents from all over the U.S. attended Hearings on the proposed 'Protection of Pupils' Rights Amendment'. Thirteen hundred pages of testimony were recorded from parents, public school teachers and citizens, giving eyewitness account of the psychological abuse of children in public schools......

383 posted on 01/09/2005 7:57:55 AM PST by nicmarlo
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