Brainwashing preschool peaceniks [A Must Read of the Day!]

TownHall.com ^ | April 15, 2003

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

What are you doing to protect your 3-year-old from the radical antiwar agenda?

Aggressive efforts by blame-America educators to indoctrinate college-age students are well-known. But even toddlers are not safe from peacenik proselytizers.

Example: The nation's largest and most influential organization of early childhood educators sells a teacher's guide that depicts the famed Blue Angels, our U.S. Navy's flight demonstration squadron of F-18 Hornet fighter pilots, as heartless killers threatening to bomb innocent American children.

According to the National Association for the Education of Young

Children (NAEYC), which oversees preschool teacher training, curriculum standards and daycare accreditation, "That's Not Fair! A Teacher's Guide to Activism with Young Children" is "an exciting and informative" resource for "developing community-building, deep thinking, and partnership . . . to change the world for the better."

On page 106 of the guide, co-author Ann Pelo details an activism project she initiated at a Seattle preschool after her students spotted a Blue Angels rehearsal overhead as they played in a local park. "Those are Navy airplanes," Pelo lectured the toddlers. "They're built for war, but right now, there is no war, so the pilots learn how to do fancy tricks in their planes . . . " The kids returned to playing, but Pelo wouldn't let it rest. The next day she pushed the children to "communicate their feelings about the Blue Angels."

Pelo proudly describes her precociously politicized students' handiwork:

"They drew pictures of planes with X's through them: 'This is a crossed-off bombing plane.' They drew bomb factories labeled: 'No.'"

"Respect our words, Blue Angels. Respect kids' words. Don't kill people."

"If you blow up our city, we won't be happy about it. And our whole city will be destroyed. And if you blow up my favorite library, I won't be happy because there are some good books there that I haven't read yet."

Pelo reports that the children "poured out their strong feelings about the Blue Angels in their messages and seemed relieved and relaxed." But it's obvious this cathartic exercise was less for the children and more for the ax-grinding Pelo, who readily admits that she "didn't ask for parents' input about their letter-writing -- she didn't genuinely want it. She felt passionately that they had done the right thing, and she wasn't interested in hearing otherwise."

So much for "community-building, deep thinking, and partnership."

On page 115, guide co-author Fran Davidson trumpets her own antiwar biases and her difficult struggle to tolerate pro-military parents' views:

"During the Persian Gulf War, I became acutely aware of how difficult it is to honor families' values when those values are different from mine. In the classroom, I emphasized peaceful resolutions to conflicts and talked often with the children about elements of peace. Most families felt comfortable . . . but when our conversations about peace expanded to include discussions of the Persian Gulf War, some families became uneasy. . . . (Some) families talked about the necessity of war to overthrow oppressors and to protect and free people. . . . This was a really uncomfortable time for me . . . "

Then get out of the classroom, dear, and let the kids have a teacher (calling Jessica Lynch!) who can lead the ABCs without raising her fist and turning it into a brainwashing session on Anti-imperialism, Blood for oil, and Conflict resolution.

Pelo and Davidson's guide is also promoted by the Early Childhood Equity Alliance (ECEA), a network of activist educators. Its statement against Operation Iraqi Freedom argues: "As the still relevant saying from the '60s aptly puts it: 'War is not healthy for children and other living things!'"

(And allowing Saddam Hussein to gas Kurds, imprison children who refused to join the Baath Party, torture their dissident fathers, and use pregnant women to shield his soldiers, is?)

ECEA encourages early childhood educators to "look to alternative sources of information beyond the mainstream media" such as moveon.org, the Clintonite Web site still fatuously promoting inspections over war.

Dr. Karen Effrem, a Johns Hopkins University-trained pediatrician and researcher who has tracked the radicalization of preschool teacher training, warns that these professional educators' groups are spreading "a very radical and dangerous curriculum to teachers and child care workers who, in turn, use it on our very youngest and most vulnerable children. This is no small campaign."

Welcome to the new preschool curriculum: play dough, finger painting and pacifism 101.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

"That's Not Fair! A Teacher's Guide to Activism with Young Children"...exciting informative resource. developing community-building, deep thinking, and partnership . . . to change the world for the better.

Bwahahaha...Accomplished, I imagine, with a deep thinking, exciting, blah, blah, blah whining, bratty kid in the background stomping his foot and throwing a wall-eyed fit while shouting "It's not FAIR!" for effect.

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[DeFault User]

Ms. Pelo should change her name to Ms. Pendejo.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

The speed in which you are able to immediately post in the last few days is absolutely astounding.

Astounding...in a creepy/stalker way.

Oops...was I speaking out loud again? My bad.

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[Mr. Mojo]

They can try to seperate red-blooded American boys from their natural instincts, but their efforts are bound to fail. They'll always like GI Joes, Tonkas, contact sports, etc. Problem is, their attempts to mess with nature could have the effect of instilling some guilt and fear.

[buzzsaw6]

Pretty scary stuff. My wife runs a preschool and brooks no nonsense like these whackos are dealing. "Our military is for killing bad people and breaking their things," she tells the young ones.

[quietolong]

Barf

[Cacique]

ping

[wgeorge2001]

"Dr. Karen Effrem, a Johns Hopkins University-trained pediatrician and researcher who has tracked the radicalization of preschool teacher training, warns that these professional educators' groups are spreading "a very radical and dangerous curriculum to teachers and child care workers who, in turn, use it on our very youngest and most vulnerable children. This is no small campaign."

The liars are everywhere in the government school systems and bueracracies; they're much like a killing cancer which is growing;destroying and undermining patriotism, morality, and proper education. The corrupt liberal run public school system no longer teachs America's children the important subjects of history,math, and english. Rather,liberal public schools systems teach hatred of religion and intolerace of moral values and patriotism, the 3 R's have been replaced by the study of sexual perversions and facist left wing ideology which undermine all moral values of children; all on the tax payer's dollar and with total disregard to parents wishes.The national education association of teachers is largly controlled by perverts and liberal facists that love the U.N. and hate America.
They will not stop until they have brainwashed American children into violent neo-nazi pacifists who burn and destroy our cities and undermine our culture; only a well informed and aggressive campaign against the liberal public school system can have an effect; the communist democrat party must be destroyed in America and the current liberal education system must be replaced.
American parents better wake up and demand an end to the teacher's unions and the dept. of mis-education.

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[MeekOneGOP]

Ms. Pelo should change her name to Ms. Pendejo.

LOL !

[FreedomPoster]

SFR is almost certainly an auto-generated post programmed in by JohnRob. I don't think posting replies to SFR gets you much.

[Illbay]

[Illbay]

You're not for one minute suggesting that since FR has reached its donation goal they should go take a hike, are you?

Oops, did I post that to you on the thread and not in private?

My bad!

[cmak9]

. (Some) families talked about the necessity of war to overthrow oppressors and to protect and free people. . . . This was a really uncomfortable time for me . . . "

Yeah, reality usually has that effect on idiots.

[Illbay]

"If you blow up our city, we won't be happy about it. And our whole city will be destroyed. And if you blow up my favorite library, I won't be happy because there are some good books there that I haven't read yet."

"And if you blow up our favorite dictator's palaces, he will have to leave and go away, and who will protect me from the bad people who want to bring me food and medicine?

"And if you destroy the dictator's weapons of mass destruction, who will rain down fire on the bad Jews that God hates?

"And if you break down the prison walls, where will I go, because I have to stay in here where the good dictator told me to stay because mommy and daddy were bad and you should have heard their screams when they died..."

[Ga Rob]

Me Me!!.....

I have already decided...home schooling for my son!!! I refuse to hand my child over to these...these idiots!!

[Illbay]

Look here:

http://www.ecetrainers.com/fair.html

Hm, there are email addresses there, for some of the "Early Childhood Educators" that simply L-O-V-E this book!

[M0sby]

She's from Seattle. Come on, this is nothin'!
Seattle teachers and educators can do WAY better than this!
I work with one who puts up anti-bush political PRO-ABORTION cartoons in the faculty work room comparing Bush's stance on women's health to Middle-Eastern dictators.
Another has the "No Iraq War" bumper sticker on her car next to a "FREE TIBET" bumper sticker!
I sometimes get upset about these nutjob people but then I just talk about my feelings and maybe draw a picture or two...then I feel much, much better (oh, and I also tear down the catoons and shred them... such violence!)

(please nobody lecture me about public ed... I feel the same way)

[Illbay]

EMAIL ADDRESS FOR LEFTIST CHILD-MIND-TWISTER ANN PELO

:

annpelo@WOLFENET.COM