Posted on 05/18/2011 8:29:37 PM PDT by Nachum
There are many conservative teachers sounding the alarm about the hijacking of their profession and the radicalization of school curriculums by left-wing union leaders. Exhibit A: Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis saying they’re not teachers but “education workers.”Dean Kalahar is a Sarasota, Florida high school economics teacher. On his blog, he says his guiding principles include private property rights, free market entrepreneurial capitalism and the U.S. Constitution.Kalahar recently brought attention to the new Florida high school senior exit exam, which he says will “indoctrinate children into a progressive and revisionist model critical of America.”
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The commies took over the media, the schools and have just about taken over all of the churches. Everything is going just the way Stalin said it needed to go.
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Far Left ACLU Wants Historic Cross Covered During Graduation
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 5:48 AM
The far left American Civil Liberties Union continues their assault on Christianity.
For generations, graduates of Neptune High School have walked down the aisle of the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, N.J., where the impressive 6,500-seat venue dominates the landscape of one of the area’s most historic beach towns. (FOX)
This time, the ACLU wants a Methodist community to cover a historic cross and signs during its graduation ceremonies. Apparently, a student was offended by the historic Christian displays.
FOX News reported:
A New Jersey high school with a 70-year tradition of hosting graduation ceremonies in a historic auditorium is standing firm against legal threats from the American Civil Liberties Union, which claims the event violates the separation of church and state because of the Christian-owned site’s religious displays.
How I would love to see the ACLU destroyed.
BUMP
I would say they’re making inroads into the military now. If they win there it is over.
Conservatives with kids in public school are kidding themselves. Also, they are indulging in welfare.
Would you let a liberal babysit your children? How about a liberal propagandist, pro-abortion, socialist union spokesperson and community organizer who calls islam peaceful and invaders “undocumented,” and who advocates gay marriage and teaching grade schoolers about kinky sex?
Because that’s what our govt is and does.
Should the kids be exposed to that because the parents have been forced to pay for it regardless?
Let the idiot student who was “offended” stay the hell home.
Whatever happened to “Majority Rules?”
Screw the ACLU.
The government schools currently serve two purposes:
1) propaganda centers for big labor communists, and
2) breeding grounds of fresh meat for homosexuals.
Parents who love their children should do whatever it takes to get them out of the government schools.
Most of the liberals on Free Republic who came out of the woodwork -following in the wake of the far left gains in our culture- have been kicked off of Free Republic.
They tend to ignore American history, American legal history (pre Warren court), and really have a zealous Bill Maher attitude attacking conservative social culture.
How I would love to someday see a GOP House with the spine to defund the ACLU.
No, I am not holding my breath.
Not all the churches, buddy.
READ CAREFULLY:
Communist Goals (1963)
Documention below
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Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:
[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Read post #12.
We home educate our children.
Former Indiana Congressman John Hostettler was on his way to getting that done with the "The Public Expression of Religion Act" that was sent to the full House from the Judiciary Committee back in 2006.
Unfortunately, he was voted out before the bill was voted on.
Bump.
Not all public school teachers are liberals. It’s liberal teachers that tend to make the most noise while the conservative teachers are actually doing their job.
Bump
“Also, they are indulging in welfare.”
I don’t think that argument holds any water in NJ; we pay thousands every year for schools whether we use them or not.
“The government schools currently serve two purposes:
1) propaganda centers for big labor communists, and
2) breeding grounds of fresh meat for homosexuals.”
Given that kids have stopped learning anyway, #1 isn’t working out. You’re ommitting the true #1 reason: daycare while parents work (or doing whatever else they’d like).
You pay for food stamps whether you use them or not. You pay for heat assistance whether you use it or not. You pay for public schooling whether you use it or not.
You pay so that someone can get it “free.”
It’s welfare.
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