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Study: 'Language police' harming children {Education}
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| Posted: May 10, 2003
| WND staff
Posted on 05/10/2003 12:03:09 PM PDT by George Frm Br00klyn Park
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To: George Frm Br00klyn Park
REAL conservatives take back education!
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posted on
05/10/2003 1:49:10 PM PDT
by
jd777
To: George Frm Br00klyn Park
George Orwell's epic
1984 had it right "Newspeak" has finally gone from fiction to reality.
War is peace
Love is hate
Big Brother Is Watching
Comment #23 Removed by Moderator
To: Criminal Number 18F
"Wow. That whole site (http://www.rethinkingschools.org/) is an eye opener. It's basically a resource for teachers who want to use schools as a vehicle for far-left propaganda.We went to an afternoon seminar a few weeks ago in a school multi-purpose room. The walls were PLASTERED with politically correct slogans. "Readers are leaders." "Don't say 'NO!' say maybe!" And on and on. All around the room, covering every bulletin board, and every possible surface. It was kind of frightening. I remembered something about the Communists and their sloganeering. A cheap and easy way to brainwash.
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posted on
05/10/2003 2:04:23 PM PDT
by
redhead
(Les Français sont des singes de capitulation qui mangent du fromage.)
To: George Frm Br00klyn Park
Wonder how much it cost to find out exactly what I (or most FReepers, for that matter) could have told them for nothing using basic common sense.
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posted on
05/10/2003 2:24:33 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: George Frm Br00klyn Park
Public school is a no win situation for the children, and their parents. The only way to confront the problem is to take kids out of these dangerous indoctrination centers and place them in private schools or homeschool them. Allow the public schools to implode. They will never be improved as long as there is a stinking socialist masquerading as a liberal, with a lust for power and visions of a socialist/communist utopia who has any say in the matter. It is too far gone. I grieve for what we have lost, and even more for the future of our children and grandchildren.
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posted on
05/10/2003 2:34:13 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: upchuck
Where do you go to get textbooks that are free of all this PC bullsh*t?
You don't necessarily have to use 'textbooks', especially at the younger grades. I loosely follow classical education, which relies on tried and true classics and history the way it really happened, not watered down. You just read to them if it's above their level and have them read what you feel is appropriate and at their level. The only textbook I use is Saxon Math. The rest is from suggested reading lists and things I pick out on my own.
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posted on
05/10/2003 2:41:05 PM PDT
by
usmom
To: maxwell; Mo1; nicmarlo; Budge; TheBattman; wirestripper
"And isn't all this foolishness just another form of stereotyping?" What it amounts to is the removal of the essence from every side of life. It is like removing the taste from food, or the heat from fire or the pleasure from sex. Liberalism and the god of political correctness that it demands we serve, is draining the life-force from our nation. What are we DOING about it?
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posted on
05/10/2003 2:45:13 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: George Frm Br00klyn Park
"Characters must not be orphans... or dirty associations"
I trust Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist, and I, will be rewritten with relish.
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posted on
05/10/2003 2:45:16 PM PDT
by
Darheel
(Visit the strange and wonderful.)
To: sd-joe
The differences in people and cultures and places were the stuff which allowed imagination to flourish. I loved to daydream about other lands and other ways of life when I was a kid. I cannot imagine growing up without the wide variety and richness of reading materials I was exposed to. It is much more than a disservice to deny children the truth along with all the myriad possibilities for exploration and discovery and innovation. It is a crime, in my opinion, and we need to hold those responsible accountable and not allow our kids to be subjected to the cultural and intellectual deprivation that is being inflicted upon them in the name of diversity and "sensitivity".
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posted on
05/10/2003 2:53:50 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: Motherbear
And also look at any form of entertainment today. All parents are well meaning idiots and the kids always save the day. My husband turned on Rugrats one day and I nearly wet myself coming off the potty to flip the channel. Crap, just crap.
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posted on
05/10/2003 2:58:24 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Bush/Rice 2004- pray for our troops)
To: George Frm Br00klyn Park
The California, Masschusetts and Vermont education systems are at the head of the pack as they run downhill into SOCIALIST REALISM. Lenin would be proud of these Bolsheviki...
To: George Frm Br00klyn Park
BTTT for later...
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posted on
05/10/2003 3:29:16 PM PDT
by
EdReform
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To: Nea Wood
"When I was a kid, I LOVED reading about areas that were different from the area I lived in!"
lol. I've been reading science fiction since 5th grade. The places in these books are WAY different than the area I live in.
But these idiots would probably have a heart attack at the thought of a child reading about completely different planets (not to say creatures)! Apparantly imagination is not acceptable today.
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posted on
05/10/2003 3:35:04 PM PDT
by
serinde
To: George Frm Br00klyn Park; sweetliberty; All
If someone,
anyone doesn't put an end to this
highly communistic "political correctness" bull**** it will
completely destroy the United States of America! If you doubt it, look what it has
already done to education.
If you doubt "political correctness" is NOT rooted in Marxism, I suggest you obtail the VCR tape "Political Correctness: The Frankfurt School Story"
You may check this site out: http://www.cofcc.org
This is the Consertive Citizens Foundation site
P.O. Box 221683
St. Louis, MO - 63122
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posted on
05/10/2003 3:47:29 PM PDT
by
Budge
(God Bless FReepers!)
To: George Frm Br00klyn Park
archive
To: George Frm Br00klyn Park
The following is an excerpt from an article printed in the Chicago Tribune. Any opinions either stated or suggested are not necessarily those of GLSEN or its members.
By V. Dion Haynes
Tribune staff reporter, July 26, 2001
Los Angeles-- A new California plan aimed at protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students and staff from harassment in public schools is creating controversy as administrators prepare for a new school year.
Moving to enforce a 2-year-old law that prohibits schools from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or sexual [sic] identity, the California Department of Education in August will send all 8,500 public schools a dozen recommendations for making classrooms less hostile and more hospitable to gays and lesbians.
The recommendations call for schools to use textbooks and classroom materials that feature gays positively; to discuss the contribution of gays in all subject areas, from kindergarten to grade 12; to include books on the gay lifestyle in high school libraries; and to consider alternative restroom and locker room accommodations for transgender youths.
In the wake of recent school shootings sparked by bullying, public school officials nationwide are faced with making campuses safer.
The recommendations, issued by a state Department of Education task force, have not been mandated by the Legislature or state superintendent of public instruction. Nevertheless, the task force recommendations have propelled California into the forefront of the emerging gay education movement--and at the epicenter of debates over free speech and religious rights of other students and over whether the state is pushing schools into social advocacy.
Schools taking steps
Around the country, some elementary school teachers have introduced gay themes through videotapes, such as "That's a Family," that show traditional families, single parent-headed families and families with either two mothers or two fathers. Some middle school teachers have delved into James Baldwin's homosexuality through his writings. And some high school campuses have invited gay activists to speak and allowed students to establish clubs for gay and lesbian students.
Seeking to expand the movement, the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union, drafted a proposal encouraging schools to develop materials addressing the needs of gay and lesbian students. But, facing strong opposition from within its ranks, the union withdrew the proposal early this month and opted to establish a committee to study sexual orientation issues.
"This is often a polarizing issue," said Dennis Meyers, assistant executive director of the Association of California School Administrators, which represents the principals and superintendents in the state. Referring to the recommendations, he said: "I expect some controversy."
Some of the recommendations could be more controversial than others, he added. "If the schools are required to have separate showers [for transgender students], people are going to wonder, Who is going to pay for that? And how will we fit that into our campus?"
California is among a handful of states, including Massachusetts, Vermont and Wisconsin, that approved laws adding sexual orientation to the classifications--race, gender, religion and national origin--on the basis of which schools are prohibited from discriminating. Illinois does not have such a law. The laws were passed in the wake of research showing gays as victims of widespread discrimination in schools.
Reinforcing civil rights
The 1999 California law, aimed mainly at spurring a cultural shift in the schools, offers no new protections for gay and lesbian students but reinforces civil rights contained in other laws.
"We'd like to see every one of the recommendations implemented over time," said Mike Marshall, interim executive director of the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center Project and co-chairman of the task force.
Some observers, while supporting the concept of school safety and tolerance for all students, say the recommendations go well beyond the 1999 law.
"Fat kids, kids with pimples, kids who wear glasses and kids who play in the band are all harassed," said Dick Carpenter, education policy analyst for Focus on the Family, a Colorado Springs-based organization that promotes conservative values.
The California recommendations "are setting up a structure where some students are more equal than others," added Carpenter, whose organization rallied many teachers against the National Education Association proposal.
Randy Thomasson, executive director of the Sacramento-based Campaign for California Families, said he fears schools will use the recommendations to quash the free-speech rights of religious students who oppose homosexuality.
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posted on
05/10/2003 4:23:25 PM PDT
by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get)
To: George Frm Br00klyn Park
November 4, 2002
GLSEN Announces Launch of New Online BookLink
Welcome to the new GLSEN BookLink!
The new BookLink (formerly The GLSEN Bookstore) is GLSENs link to the highest-quality resources for students, educators, families and community allies working to end anti-LGBT bias in K-12 schools!
Click on link to see recommended reading for grades K-6.
http://www.glsen.org/templates/booklink/index.html?section=2
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posted on
05/10/2003 4:30:52 PM PDT
by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get)
To: George Frm Br00klyn Park
GLSEN would like to thank and recognize our corporate sponors. We are proud to work in partnership with each of these companies. To learn more about our sponsors, please click on the links below.
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posted on
05/10/2003 4:32:24 PM PDT
by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get)
To: philetus
NAMBLA/North American Man Boy Love Association P, The GLSEN outfit seems to be something like NAMBLA. A government sponsored {tax free organization} interest group. It seems that NAMBLA had to move it's web site to Germany. Figures. Peace and love, George.
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