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?
If children were protected, nurtured, and fed with the same love, devotion, and dedication given to investment portfolios, these destroyers would never take root. Children are the future, not material wealth, yet they are treated as disposable income. In this economic era, many people have lost disposable income.
Frankfurt School and more recently Post Modernism. All the top guns for Post Modernism were at one time French and socialist/communist. What did America do? Import them over like they were going out of business. Cross cultural studies, sociology, literature, history, etc., pretty much all the humanities were infested with them. Like the Frankfurt School, they were embracing another anti-American strain of infestation. Look at the publications that come from these departments and you wonder why America is in trouble.
“They must be completely defeated and never allowed to any position of influence or power ever, ever again.”
A person wants to ask, “How far are you willing to go to accomplish that?”
Or is it a jailing offense to say?
It is time to replace the Big Lake School Board pronto!
That, or a close-knit, closely held private parochial school. That's where my nieces go, and ALL the parents and teachers know each other.
If this isn’t Mao’s Cultural Revolution, I don’t know what is.
“If it’s too private for a parent to see it, it’s darn well too private for the kids to see it.”
Excellently put.
Ping!!!
Liberals send their kids to public school. Conservatives - don’t.
You do know, that there was a massive movement to change the schools by changing the school boards back in the 1980’s to the 1990’s.
Didn’t work, did it.
People have to understand that these liberals won’t quit. And you can NOT change them. They are out to change YOU.
Implode the system by leaving. Opt out by whatever means necessary. They mean to destroy your authority and your influence.
They mean to destroy Western Civilization. They plan on winning.
Are you going to play by their rules?? Really???
Removing your child from the public schools leaves the problem unsolved. You may save your child...but he will still have to live with those educated in the public schools. Someday, the sooner the better, conservatives must take back the public schools. That means attending school board meetings, running for the school board, inspecting school textbooks. It can also mean becoming a teacher or a coach. It won’t be easy...but conservatives cannot afford to let liberals have their way.
“Marxists took root in Chicago, Wisconsin, and Minnesota generations ago.”
Probably because it’s the area of the US where the climate is most similar to Moscow and European Russia;)
“Liberals send their kids to public school.”
Actually, RICH lefties and public school teachers send their children to private schools...
Probably because it’s the area of the US where the climate is most similar to Moscow and European Russia;)
Could have something to do with it.
It stems from before the Russian revolution. Chicago was the labor union activist hub (see the Haymarket Square Riot).
One of the instigators, though he immigrated from Russia to New York, was Billie Ayers & Bernie Dohrn's charge Chesa Boudin's grand uncle -- a big-time Russian Communist organizer in the early 20th Century.
Billie and Bernie's charge and staunch ally of Hugo Chavez, Chesa Boudin, is American Communist "royalty."
Removing children from the public schools is not the only or best answer. The best answer in this case is for concerned parents to take over the Big Lake School District’s school board. Abandoning the public schools turns them over to the deviants even more! Why should they be allowed control? I say, if they want to teach crap, let THEM home school!!!
This is completely unacceptable. Our public schools have become indoctrination centers.
> Change the school board.
They will only be replaced by more busybodies.
It’s mostly the busybodies that run for public office, because they think they know what’s best for you. Rare is that person who runs for public office to offer his talents as a SERVANT, rather than as a MASTER.
Such servants do not serve long, either, since they have their own lives and their own families and their own pursuits to look after.
But the busybodies live to be masters and nothing else.
The entire concept of “public school” is a busybody exercise. You see, the busybodies know what’s best for you. They will impose their compass upon you, because they KNOW they’re going in the right direction. They are doing it for your own good, after all.
Communism is just another form of institutionalized busybody exercise. As is Mohammedanism. These are examples of industrial strength busybody enterprises that will kill you if you don’t measure up.
The fight has always been between the busybodies and those who just want to be left alone to pursue their happiness in their own way. What the busybodies don’t understand is that real change comes from within. They are either too stupid or too conceited to allow good people to live their own lives in peace without intervention.
They don’t understand that evangelism is not a matter of imposition or compulsion or even of winning arguments, but a matter of the heart won by example.
Few of the busybodies in public office live exemplary lives.
This is much more than an “unbelievably overreaching bureaucratic decision”.
Call it what it is: evil, directed by evil people at children.
“Privacy laws” have been used for decades now as a pretext
for government secrecy, e.g. prisoners in the 1980s in
a NYS prison were initially refused access to the dates
of his own medical appointments because of “privacy concerns”
The most emergent, life-and-death instance is denying
contact with hospital patients who don’t go in with an
approved contact list.
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