Posted on 09/06/2009 6:35:42 PM PDT by khnyny
American news outlets (well at least those not in Barack Obama's lap) are filled with criticism on the Department of Education plans to bring Obama's agenda into our nation's classrooms. The ploy to reach and teach our children through a presidential speech and through instruction guides (little red books?) appears to be stalled for now as parents -- if nor educational unions -- resist the idea of brain-swaying our children into writing paeans to Obama and his agenda. However, few have wondered how such an idea ever emerged in the first place. We do have some clues and they are unsettling.
I have previously reported that this idea of inculcating revolutionary goals in our children's minds stems from the philosophy of Bill Ayers, Obama's friend, collaborator, and campaign supporter. But Obama's ideological mentors appear to reach farther back to an influential radical Italian communist, Antonio Gramsci.
Barack Obama ties to Ayers are personal as well as professional. Obama chaired the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an educational effort that blew through tens of millions of dollars of foundation money with little to show for its efforts. Ayers headed up a key operating body of the Challenge. Stanley Kurtz writes that Obama "clearly aligned himself with Ayers's radical views on education issues".
What might those views be?
Bill Ayers, former Weatherman bomber and now professor of education, sees teachers as the vanguard of the revolutionary proletariat. He propounds that view though his teaching, textbooks, and speeches.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The federal education business has been brain washing students for decades.. its not new..
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Bill Ayers, former Weatherman bomber and now professor of education, sees teachers as the vanguard of the revolutionary proletariat.
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This is what I have been posting for years!
Marxism is our nation’s most urgent and serious threat. Government K-12 schools are the Marxist’s **most** powerful weapon against us.
Yet...Conservatives are CLUELESS!
I would like the same one-on-one time with the Obama children. I would teach them about the evil mass murdering of Marxist dictators. For some reason their father seems to favor this evil and I would ask them to speculate why. I would ask them to write reports on why their father follows the politics of mass murders and the suffering of the people under those who think themselves to be god on earth.
Government schools were a socialist scheme from their very beginning in the mid to late 1800s and early 1900s!
The moment a child steps foot in a government school , he learns that the government has the police power to take money from his neighbor to pay for an educational service his parents want for FREE! The was true even in the late 1800 to early 1900s when government schools become statewide throughout the nation.
It is a short step from accepting government school welfare to having our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents voting for the income tax, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the entire New Deal. It's been a downhill slide into communism from there.
Government schools are socialist! They are a daily, minute by minute, object lesson in being comfortable accepting taxpayer money. Socialism can NOT be fixed!
Again, we just have to remember that the TOTUS-reader was the first to use kids as political pawns, singing songs to him, ala the Hitler Youth.
And they are shocked — SHOCKED — that parents don’t want their kids further indoctrinated?
“The federal education business has been brain washing students for decades.. its not new..”
they push leftist ideas such as evolution and global warming but such ideas can be debated using facts and reason. What Obama is doing is different: it’s all about him and his cult of personality.
Source: www.youtube.com
What's brainwashing? And what's the difference between "education" and "re-education"? The movie is from the 80's and has since disappeared. Therefore this copy which i got from Xenu TV is crappy, but it still sends a chill down my bones everytime i watch it. ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZzNVx4ZN9A&feature=player_embedded
We’ve discussed this before. I think conservatives need to start making a plan to counteract the ongoing socialist indoctrination going on in the schools from the university level on down. I’m planning to post an interesting and really just infuriating article in World magazine on a related subject.
I have always thought he kept his blackberry to be in touch with Ayers/Dohrn since both are radical leftists when it comes to education in particular.
Wouldn’t shock me if Ayers wrote the propaganda books and literature that was to be handed out and why the Chicago Superintendent was chosen as the Secretary of Ed when he presided over one of the biggest failure for a public school system in the Country.
I have thought exactly the same since I first read how hard Obama fought to keep his Blackberry and that he told a room full of congressmen that they would NOT get his email address. Just who is so important that Obama has to be in touch with that person on a constant and immediate basis? Only Bill Ayres. Maybe some day we’ll find out what his Blackberry records show.
Please let me know when you do. I would like to read it.
We need to out law unions in any government organization. PERIOD!!
Government K-12 schools can not be fixed because it is impossible to fix socialism.
Conservatives must provide a tuition-free, private, and conservative alternative. They must work to shut down the government K-12 schools.
Oh, I’m entirely there with you on that. But for that to happen would take a radical reformation of thought in this country. And we need some conservatives with very, very deep pockets to step up to the plate on that. I know they are out there.
Ayers. An education ‘leader’. Yeah, a real treat. After rebelling against the establishment, this boomer group of lefties has bided their time and is ready to use the same tactics they rebelled against on today’s children, only with a socialist twist. Lucky us. /sarc
Harvard has an endowment of 35 BILLION. Universities across this nation ( state and private) have endowments in the billions and multi-multi-millions. Plenty of conservatives gave money to grow endowments like this.
First we need to educate conservatives that:
1) Communism is our nation's **most** serious threat. I am astonished when I read posts here on Free Republics at the number of conservatives who are completely unaware that this is the case. They will fight the symptoms by opposing specific bills in congress but consistently fail to understand that these “liberal” programs are merely a symptom. The disease is Marxism.
2) Few conservatives understand that government schools are the Marxist's most powerful weapon.
3) Few conservatives understand that it is impossible to fix government schools. Few understand that government schools **are** socialism in action. They are welfare to the middle classes, and teach children on a daily basis to be comfortable with having taxpayer pay for a service their parents want for free. Since it is impossible to fix socialism, it is impossible to fix government schools.
3) Few conservatives are capable of thinking out of the box regarding schools. They immediately associate schools with bricks and mortar. We must help them understand that it is relatively inexpensive to fund an individual teacher, who would then open his or her one room school house, mini-school, or homeschool co-op. Brick and mortar schools are expensive, and have many zoning issues. Why should a one room school house have more regulations than the common home centered day care? Conservative educational foundations could certify the teacher, approve the curriculum, and test the students.
Everything begins with an idea. I see my role in educating conservatives and introducing them to new ideas.
Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education
September 8, 2009
Before the Speech
• Teachers can build background knowledge about the President
of the United States and his speech by reading books about
presidents and Barack Obama. Teachers could motivate
students by asking the following questions:
Who is the President of the United States?
What do you think it takes to be president?
To whom do you think the president is going to be speaking?
Why do you think he wants to speak to you?
What do you think he will say to you?
•
Teachers can ask students to imagine that they are
delivering a speech to all of the students in the United
States.
If you were the president, what would you tell students?
What can students do to help in our schools?
Teachers can chart ideas about what students would say.
•
Why is it important that we listen to the president and
other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members
of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?
During the Speech
•
As the president speaks, teachers can ask students to write
down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally
meaningful. Students could use a note‐taking graphic
organizer such as a “cluster web;” or, students could
record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children
could draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students
listen to the speech, they could think about the
following:
What is the president trying to tell me?
What is the president asking me to do?
What new ideas and actions is the president challenging me
to think about?
•
Students could record important parts of the speech where
the president is asking them to do something. Students
might think about the following:
What specific job is he asking me to do?
Is he asking anything of anyone else?
Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
•
Students could record questions they have while he is
speaking and then discuss them after the speech. Younger
children may need to dictate their questions.
Menu of Classroom Activities
(PreK‐6)
President Obama’s Address to Students Across America 2
After the Speech
•
Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they
recorded, exchange sticky notes, or place notes on a
butcher‐paper poster in the classroom to discuss main
ideas from the speech, such as citizenship, personal
responsibility, and civic duty.
•
Students could discuss their responses to the following
questions:
What do you think the president wants us to do?
Does the speech make you want to do anything?
Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?
What would you like to tell the president?
Extension of the Speech
Teachers could extend learning by having students:
•
Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted
in quadrants, puzzle pieces, or trails marked with the
following labels: personal, academic, community, and
country. Each area could be labeled with three steps for
achieving goals in that area. It might make sense to focus
first on personal and academic goals so that community and
country goals can be more readily creaed.
•
Write letters to themselves about how they can achieve
their short‐term and long‐term education
goals. Teachers would collect and redistribute these
letters at an appropriate later date to enable students to
monitor their progres.
•
Write goals on colored index cards or precut designs to
post around the classroom.
•
Interview one another and share goals with the class to
create a supportive community.
•
Participate in school‐wide incentive programs or
contests for those students who achieve their goals.
•
Write about their goals in a variety of genres, such as
poems, songs, and personal essays.
•
Create artistic projects based on the themes of their
goals.
•
Graph individual progress toward goals.
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/how/lessons/prek-6.pdf
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