Posted on 10/21/2008 2:20:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Will William Ayers be secretary of education in a Barack Obama administration? All parents should ponder that possibility before making their choice for president on Nov. 4.
After all, Ayers is a friend of Obama, and professor Ayers's expertise is training teachers and developing public school curriculum. That's been his mission since he gave up planting bombs in government buildings (including the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon) and assaulting police officers.
Ayers brashly admitted that he was "guilty as hell" in planting bombs in the 1970s, and that he has no regrets and feels that he and his Weather Underground associates "didn't do enough." After successfully avoiding trial and prison because of legal technicalities, he picked up his Ph.D. at Columbia Teachers College for a second career, landing a tenured job as distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Ayers's political views are as radical now as they were in the 1970s. "Viva President Chavez!" he exclaimed in a speech in Venezuela in 2006, in which he also declared, "education is the motor-force of revolution."
From his prestigious and safe university position, Ayers has been teaching teachers and students in rebellion against American capitalism and what he calls "imperialism" and "oppression." The code words for the Ayers curriculum are "social justice," a "transformative" vision, "critical pedagogy," "liberation," "capitalist injustices," "critical race theory," "queer theory," and of course multiculturalism and feminism.
That language is typical in the readings that Ayers assigns in his university courses. He admits he is a "communist street fighter" who has been influenced by Karl Marx, as well as Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X.
Ayers speaks openly of his desire to use America's public school classrooms to train a generation of revolutionaries who will overturn the U.S. social and economic regime. He teaches that America is oppressive and unjust, socialism is the solution, and wealth and resources should be redistributed.
In Ayers's course called "On Urban Education," he calls for a "distribution of material and human resources." His left-wing notions would be very compatible with those of Obama, who publicly told Joe the Plumber that we should "spread the wealth."
Ayers's books are among the most widely used in America's education schools. Ayers even uses science and math courses as part of his "transformative" political strategy to teach that the American economic system is unjust.
Ayers is an endorser of a book called "Queering Elementary Education" by William J. Letts IV and James T. Sears, a collection of essays to teach adults and children to "think queerly." The blurb on the cover quotes Ayers as saying this is "a book for all teachers … and, yes, it has an agenda."
Unfortunately, Ayers's far-out education theories are already having an effect in education schools. One after another, teachers colleges are using their courses to promote socialist notions of wealth distribution, "social justice," diversity and environmentalism, and to punish students who resist this indoctrination by giving them low grades or even denying them graduation.
The U.S. Department of Education lists 15 high schools whose mission statements declare that their curricula center on "social justice."
Propaganda about Obama is already finding favor with textbook publishers. The McDougal Littell 8th-grade advanced-English literature book (copyright 2008, Houghton Mifflin Co.) has 15 pages featuring Obama and his "life of service."
Most of Ayers's socialist propaganda is financed with taxpayer money at state universities and teachers colleges. Some of the schools that have adopted Ayers-style pedagogy have received grants from ACORN or from Bill Gates' charitable foundation.
You might assume that Ayers's political ideas would put him on the outer fringe of the left-wing education establishment. However, his peers recently elected him to serve as vice president for curriculum in the American Education Research Association, the largest organization of education school professors and researchers.
Is an appointment to the U.S. Department of Education his next career advancement? Is Ayers's transformative public school curriculum the kind of "change" Obama will bring us?
Ayers won’t be the Sec of Education. Obama isn’t that stupid to nominate a guy who “lived in his neighborhood” and “ghost wrote Dreams of my Father”
Anybody who doesn’t think Bill Ayers is AT LEAST going to be Secy of Ed is crazy. You’ll see not only Ayers, but probably his wife, the awful Bernardine Dohrn, and a number of other radical blasts from the past (such as Angela Davis) and some of our most awful modern rabble rousers (Al Sharpton, Farrakhan, and Jesse Jackson) holding important and probably even Cabinet level positions.
Secretary of Education — William Ayers
Secretary of Treasury — George Soros
Secretary of State — Jeremiah Wright
Secretary of Housing & Urban Development — Tony Rezko
Secretary of Health & Human Services — Larry Sinclair
Secretary of Defense — vacant
what are the grounds for impeachment?
Ayers won’t get much public recognition. But what’s to keep Obama from talking with him in secret?
They should reinvestigate this man and his wife and throw their you know whats in jail to rot for the rest of their lives.
nothing...but he’s probably ALWAYS been doing that. We will see if Obama’s rhetoric matches his actions should he become the Socialist leader of American.
If something as crazy and unsavory as Obama gets elected, I doubt that there’d be anything horrible enough to constitute grounds for impeachment. I think we’re plain out of luck if he gets elected.
Actually, I think Ayers will get a publicly visible post. After all, the election will be over and he can’t do any damage to Obama that way. And Ayers himself is totally comfortable with everything he’s ever done - as, apparently, are the media and other politicians. Nobody seems to think his opinions of the US or his actions are particularly a problem. When people here ask why the Ayers connection isn’t making more of an impact, it’s simply because most other people think it’s just fine that he plotted to overthrow the US government, and that he still wants to overthrow the US government and political-economic system.
40 years of leftwing brainwashing has made people willing to accept anything.
“When people here ask why the Ayers connection isn’t making more of an impact, it’s simply because most other people think it’s just fine that he plotted to overthrow the US government, and that he still wants to overthrow the US government and political-economic system. 40 years of leftwing brainwashing has made people willing to accept anything.”
I refuse to believe that Americans are more far gone than Kenyans. Even the people of Kenya expect Odinga to speak out against terrorists.
I believe that position is going to John F'n Kerry
Now THAT is scary
Secretary of Defense—Colin Powell. The position is not vacant...
Many Americans have been American Idolized, they vote according to popularity, not with their brains— “Oooohhh, he’s just so cute.”
Gag me.
Yeah, 0bama wants to put Bush administration officials in his cabinet... that doesn’t sound like ‘CHANGE’ to me...
In fact, the guy who advised Bush on Saddam’s WMDs and even went to the UN to sell the Iraq war to the American people and the world is now advising 0bama.
Hell, I can’t even tell 0bama apart from George Bush anymore.
When it comes to cute — Sarah Palin!
Phyllis Schafly ping.
I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Schlafly a few years back. What a nice lady! I have yet to see her wrong about anything — and I’ve been reading her for 30 years!
Look at it this way...Home schooling might be in for an increase...
The teaching profession in public school districts might be in for a severe loss...
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