Posted on 09/02/2010 7:08:05 PM PDT by unspun
One slice of American Marxism's massive assault upon our children's minds
Reported by the Minnesota Family Council
After parents of Big Lake School District students began protesting the high school’s diversity lessons, district officials proposed a policy to control parental access to the schools.Parents in the District have spoken out against the Diversity Perspectives class textbook that promotes what one parent described as “an extremely liberal agenda.” And, parents state, the text includes concepts promoting socialism and homosexuality.This unbelievably overreaching bureaucratic decision exemplifies the mindset of the governing class: we are smarter than you, we are in charge, and anyone who challenges us must be put down.After bringing their concerns forward, word spread that the Big Lake School Board is considering a policy that impairs parents’ ability to monitor what and how their children are being taught during school.
The policy gives school principals and/or officials autonomous control over whether or not parents can come into their child’s school or observe a class.
Further research turned up a little more information, but I can not find this reported in the local news.
Parents in the District have spoken out against the Diversity Perspectives class textbook that promotes what one parent described as 'an extremely liberal agenda.' ...the text includes concepts promoting socialism and homosexuality...Meet the Author of several chapters of the curriculum: Julie Andrzejewski.Before a meeting in the high school, parent Teri Dickinson video taped student work hanging on the walls of the Diversity Perspectives classroom. The papers depicted Christopher Columbus, a man of deep faith and convictions, as a rapist and murderer. The projects also called him a pillager and terrorist. 'I just couldn’t believe what I saw,' Dickinson said. 'I wanted to be able to share it with other parents.'...
Bob Barrett, parent of Big Lake first and third graders, is so concerned about the class that he read the Diversity Perspectives textbook, Oppression and Social Justice: Critical Frameworks. He says the book propagates a political viewpoint of oppression foisted upon others by white males, beginning with Columbus. ...an entire chapter, say parents, is devoted to anti-capitalism. And, the parents note, the book endorses gay and bisexual agendas....
Mary Stultz contacted her 9th grade son’s Life Skills teacher when she learned a public health nurse would be giving a condom-showing presentation on contraception. At first, the teacher welcomed her to attend the class. 'The speaker (also) welcomed me in.'... But the morning of the presentation, Big Lake High School Principal Darrel Easterly banned her from the school, via the teacher, citing data privacy laws. Stultz was stunned.
Scholarly and Professional Activities: Andrzejewski's scholarly work includes five editions of an anthology entitled, Oppression and Social Justice: Critical Frameworks. She also co-authored a book,Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home, which was positively reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and Publisher's Weekly among others. She recently co-authored a monograph with Dr. John Alessio, Education for Global Citizenship and Social Responsibility, for the John Dewey Project on Progressive Education (www.uvm.edu/~dewey) and a article for the American Sociological Review titled, Unveiling the Hidden Glass Ceiling: An Analysis of the Cohort Effect Claim.And again I say, "Remove your children from public schools immediately!" ...IMHO.She is a member of the American Education Research Association and many of the social and environmental Special Interest Groups (SIG's) within it (i.e. Critical Educators for Social Justice, Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class, Environmental and Ecological Education, Research on Women in Education, Democratic Citizenship in Education, Peace Education, Lesbian and Gay Studies, Research Focus on Black Americans, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas). At the 2002 AERA conference, she chaired an interactive symposium with panelists from many of these SIG's titled: Social and Environmental Justice Education: Should it be evaluated by guidelines or standards?
Why would concerned parents hand their impressionable offspring over to an influential group whose ideology is contrary to their own, for daily propaganda lessons?
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HOMESCHOOL!
No amount of money and the things one can buy equal the education of one’s children.
The commies are trying to force their beliefs on our children.
The only answer is to homeschool.
Go to school board meeting and raise hell. Just to see what the reaction is, but go armed with information.
Change the school board. Vote them out. Stay involved or pull the students out of the school. The parents need to stay on top of the school. Their taxes pay for the school, they need to have a say in what goes on.
One supposes it was bound to happen.
It seems that every day, there is a new reason to homeschool. I don’t know how one can keep track of them all.
Data privacy laws? I’d love to see what they cite for that, and love to hear what the school’s attorney would do in light of a lawsuit.
If it’s too private for a parent to see it, it’s darn well too private for the kids to see it.
Throw these bums out.
How about a thermonuclear strike to melt all those 10,000 lakes and solve the West's water crisis for the next hundred years or so by doing something productive with the residue after the radiation dies down.
Unspun, the amount of ammo the wackos give the GOP, and it is not used, is staggering.
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And conservatives are called all sorts of names because they want to do away with the Dept. of Education. Homeschool.
The left is doing their best to keep parental influence out of our children’s lives.
Marxists took root in Chicago, Wisconsin, and Minnesota generations ago.
My belief is the university is the lair where liberalism or leftist thought flourishes and breeds. It has to be fumigated of the indoctrination courses and radical professors. They are bedbugs killing America with the slow death of a thousand bites and now that process has been sped up because one of the important bedbugs is in the Lincoln bedroom. Usually reality and religion is an antidote for students but those days are over. We need stronger medicine to ward off becoming a bug as in Kafka’s Metamorphosis. A lot of kids don’t know what is happening to them once they become university students and it just seems like a continuation of their education. But the university is the source from which the left breeds it’s activist journalists, professors, teachers, judges and tomorrow’s leaders.
My two youngest daughters will be in a private Christian School. Here in the Houston burbs the public schools haven’t quite deteriorated to the level of the Houston schools, but meeting some the teachers over the last year shows a definite AA approach to credentialing teachers.
All in the plan..
The Frankfurt School: Conspiracy to corrupt
The Frankfurt School and 'Political Correctness'
Remember Edward R. Murrow's "heroic" opposition to Joe McCarthy? Meet Edward R. Murrow, Marxists, and the Frankfurt School
“Marxists took root in Chicago, Wisconsin, and Minnesota generations ago.”
Out of all posts, you got it exactly right.
If you are a parent in an area like this where you know your children are being subjected to material like that,
then there really is only one answer...
TAKE YOUR KIDS OUT OF THAT SCHOOL!!!
Shame on you if you don’t
When are you going to learn that complaining doesn’t help with these people!!!
HOME SCHOOL
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Destroying civilization, one generation at a time.
It is the ruling class against the country class. They literally think that THEY are endowed with some special knowledge and wisdom that we mere peasants are incapable of understanding.
They must be completely defeated and never allowed to any position of influence or power ever, ever again.
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