Multiculturalism Run Amuck in the Public Schools.

Today, I felt it upon myself to right about a very serious problem in our country. No, I'm not talking about the Taliban, bombs, biological warfare, etc., though those are some very legitimate concerns. Instead, I am refering to the rampant "multiculturalism" and "diversity" mantra that is being used through propagandic techniques in the brainwashing of our children.

As a substitute teacher, I come in contact with propagandic material on a near weekly basis. This material comes in the form of magazines, pamphlets, textbooks, and curricula that is set-aside and funded by the state.

For example, the Federal Government, in coordination with state governments and local schoolboards, publishes a quarterly magazine that deals with America's Diversity. The magazine falsifies history and talks about America's "rich culturally diverse past" (Despite multiculturalism was not tolerated pre-Clinton). I'm not talking about having various cultural backgrounds, but rather a technique being used that is having the effect of misinforming our children to the point where they may believe that many cultures have lived together in harmony all throughout America's past. Many of these same magazines feature children from various ethnic and racial backgrounds on the front cover. What I don't get, though, is why there are very few white children on these covers. I mean, they'll have higher numbers of Asian and black children in these pictures as opposed to white children which, I might say, still have a much larger share of the population than either of the above groups. In some pictures, I've seen as few as two white children, while there'll be five Asian children and four black children. I have no problem with there being different races and ethnic groups represented, but why do they have to misrepresent the numbers in these types of magazines all the time?

In pamphlets and textbooks, I have witnessed the systematic selectivity of historic events. For example, history textbooks in some fifth grade classes that I have taught fascade the entire Civil War era in a Slavery "Cloak". The whole War is shown to have originated from slavery starting with the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dread Scott Decision, along with Lincoln, yet there is a total omission of states' rights, high taxes, unfair tarrifs, differences in economies, U.S. law and the Constitution, and blockading of southern ports to the point of southern weakness. I've seen time lines of U.S. History drawn up in which it is made to appear that the European settlers were the worst things to ever have come to this land, for it resulted in the displacement of Indians. In fact, I've seen some textbooks where it says that the "Indians lived a harvesting life for thousands of years until the European settlers came in and disrupted their peaceful lifestyle forever". Not exact words, but close. The point, though, is that only one side of the story is shown, and it is generally the one the Socialist elite wants your children to see. That is, it is the one that omits many facts while blurring and scewing the truth and reality.

As far as Curricula goes, this deals mostly with the government funded "diversity" education and studies/subjects that are being pushed down the throats of teachers and students. That is, many teachers have no choice but to teach the material that the state says to teach. For example, many of these "Diversity Education" subjects/programs focus on "diversity in the educational environment", "why all of us are different", "why diversity is a good thing", etc. My point about this is why pay money for something that should come naturally, or shouldn't come naturally? I mean, whatever environment a child will become exposed to will be the one that he/she becomes accustomed to. There is no reason to spend time and money on programs that will be used to brainwash many young minds. I mean, why would we need programs such as these in the mountains of West Virginia, in Montana, etc. Generally, why would you need them in areas where there is a dominant American culture? To me, it appears that there must be a hidden agenda to change America's culture, and that they are attempting to desensitize the young to the coming, forced/manufactured/non-natural change. Shouldn't assimilating be the goal? Why is E Pluribus Unum on our money if we are teaching many cultures instead of one? It's very odd, I'd say.

Take a little more time before you hit the post button, I was trying to duplicate your "conversating" and missed the "n"; you make valid points but it is wise to make them cogently and accurately.

I always gave my daughter references for contrasting views on subjects such as the ones you mentioned when I learned what some of her books had as "truth."

She is almost 18 now, in college and still politically conservative, but not rabidly so, as I am.

I'm also in your age range and am an American who happens to be black (My preferred designation after 9/11).

Obviously, there was little "diversity" or "multiculturalism" in the textbooks we used. What did we do? My parents, being proud of our racial heritage and wanting us exposed to it, made sure to support supplemental studies in black/African culture and history, which was reflected in our home and in many of the forms of entertainment we chose. I never owned a white doll.

At the same time, they made sure we were exposed to classical music, art, and other aspects of Western Civilization since that was the civilization we lived under. We read most, if not all, of the "Great Books." We were taught to appreciate other cultures, to the point that we sometimes went to school wearing green, carrying green cupcakes on St. Patrick's Day that my mother baked.

My point- instead of forcing the schools to teach "multiculturalism," particularly at the expense of the greatness of the civilization that has allowed us all the standard of living that we enjoy, parents and communities need to make sure their kids get exposed to the variety of multiculturalism that they want them to learn.

Parents must be held partially responsible for the diet of propaganda we see in government primary and secondary schools. They are not paying attention to their children's education, they are not reviewing textbooks and other classroom materials, and they are not complaining to educrats and school boards. They have entrusted the malleable minds of their children to social engineers and low-IQ educators who have been dumbed down by years of Marxist cirricula on so-called "teaching" campuses.

State-run indocrination centers, posing as "schools," are a scourge on America. They have turned several generations of our children into uncritical adherents of the nanny state and devotees of cultural Marxism.

We need an all-private school system. Government should be kept out of education -- for reasons that by now are all too obvious.

Thanks for the flag.

Exactly. Multiculturalism imposes on public education, purely private beliefs. It is, constitutionally speaking, no different than if the schools imposed Episcopalianism on students.

Great Response, and I agree.

Parents obviously are not reviewing the material, or they agree with it as a result of the brainwashing they received at one of the universities.

Multiculturalism is so deep in any and everything governmental, that it's now reached the hospitals. Upon visiting the hospital, today, I noticed that there was a card on top of the nurses station that said, "Spanish for kids". I read what the card said, and it indicated that they were offering classes at the hospital to help your child "learn the Spanish language and culture". This was visually upsetting, for why would anyone need to take Spanish culture classes? What about French, German, etc.? Why merely Spanish? I asked the nurse what it was about, and she stated that because of the huge influx of Spanish speaking people into the area, they had decided to start teaching Spanish. I asked her, "why aren't we teaching English to them, since they are clearly in the minority". Why would we need to teach the overwhelmingly larger population another language in their own country, as opposed to teaching a smaller group of Spanish speaking people, many of whom are illegal aliens, our language, English. The nurse answered my question with, "I agree with you. However, we have to". I stated that this is inciting division in our country and is a threat to our stability. She agreed. I then asked her if it was the government who was making them give Spanish speaking classes to children. She stated that it was the government who was dictating to the Hospital system that they teach Spanish.

Thus, there is really no area that the government doesn't have control.

Personally, what you're talking about is more of your ancestory, not broad scale multiculturalism in a public school. For example, our history is western and it is Americanized. In the past, Italian and Irish did not have various examples of their cultures taught in the public schools, though they were studied in a historical context. That's not the same as today whereby outright historical lies are littered throughout the textbook, and multiculturalism and diversity are spread throughout all textbooks, perhaps with the exception of math. Furthermore, it's usually not taken from a historical perspective.

Nice post, though.

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