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"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain." John F. Kennedy

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Public Schools Teach the ABCs of Islam By Erick Stakelbeck - Muslims discovered America? Or that Jerusalem is an Arab city? That's just some of the "history" that students in America's K-12 classrooms have been taught in recent years--with the help of taxpayer money.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. 1 Corinthians 15:33

"A trained intelligence can do much, but there is no substitute for morality, character and religious conviction." President Calvin Coolidge, 1924

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." President Theodore Roosevelt

Ronald Reagan: "If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit." ..."Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States when men were free."

Rewriting American history - The Bradley Project on America's National Identity recently issued its report, called "E Pluribus Unum" ("from many, one"). It calls attention to a decline in civic and historical literacy and a system of education that emphasizes ethnic identities over shared citizenship. In other words, it suggests that we are not doing a good job of teaching students the fundamentals of American history, but we are succeeding in teaching them to be hyper-aware of the divisions among us rather than all that unites us. So two things are happening here. We are producing students with the scantest of knowledge of American history, and planting in them a distorted vision of it.

American Minute for September 20th: Fisher Ames helped ratify the U.S. Constitution and authored the final House language of the First Amendment. At age 46, Fisher Ames was elected Harvard's president, but declined due to an illness which led to his death on July 4, 1808. An orator, Fisher Ames stated no one could be eloquent "without being a constant reader of the Bible and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language." In January 1788, Fisher Ames stated: "The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the...ignorant believe to be liberty." In his Dangers of American Liberty, February 1805, Fisher Ames warned that democracy without morals would eventually reduce the nation to the basest of human passions, swallowing freedom: "A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction." In Palladium Magazine, SEPTEMBER 20, 1789, Fisher Ames wrote: "We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more textbooks into our schools...containing fables and moral lessons...We are spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools." Fischer Ames concluded: "The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other manmade book."

American Minute for January 4th: A proponent of public education, Dr. Benjamin Rush wrote his Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic, 1786: "I proceed...to inquire what mode of education we shall adopt so as to secure to the state all of the advantages that are to be derived from the proper instruction of the youth; and here I beg leave to remark that the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid on the foundation of religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments." Benjamin Rush continued: "But the religion I mean to recommend in this place is that of the New Testament...Its doctrines and precepts are calculated to promote the happiness of society and the safety and well-being of civil government."

When the Light is absent, darkness inevitably is present.
When moral virtue is absent, secular humanism is present.
When moral righteousness is absent, evil is present.
When responsibility and discipline is absent, "political correctness" is rampant.

Click here for education resources for parents, teachers, students, home schooling, and more.
Click here for a report on a rally against "Virtue Terrorism."
Click here for Mission America's "Choice 4 Truth" and "Truth at Schools."

"Why don't they tell the truth at school about homosexuality?" It's Mission America's companion web site, Truth At School. A great resource on the issue of homosexuality in our schools. The site contains sections on "The Hidden Agenda," "Talking Points," tips for parents and students, how to get organized in your community, and a long list of helpful resources.

While many get angry with God for "allowing" terrible things to happen within our schools, many of those same people have "allowed" God to be kept out of our schools. He that has ears to hear, let him hear. (For more on the question of evil click here.)

The primary responsibility of education DOES NOT belong to schools.
Don't let the indoctrination of your children bring shame to you.

And you shall love the LORD thy God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: And you shall teach them diligently unto your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. Deuteronomy 6:5-7

"And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." Ephesians 6:4

"Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6

"My, son hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother." Proverbs 1:8

"Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding." Proverbs 4:1

"He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy. A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him." Proverbs 17:21,25

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. Hosea 4:6-10

“Parent-centered education reforms continue to proliferate nationwide. This year, more than 1 million children will be able to attend safe and effective schools chosen by their parents, thanks to reforms implemented at the state and local level. I urge you to become better acquainted with the many schooling options now available. Heritage [Foundation]’s ’Types of School Choice’ is a great place to start. It outlines just about everything, from tax credits and education savings accounts to scholarships and charter schools. And it shows why parents should settle for nothing less than excellence when it comes to the supremely important task of educating their children. We need to remember that parents—not federal bureaucrats—are best situated to direct their children’s education.” —Rebecca Hagelin (PatriotPost.us)

School choice expands, kids benefit More and more children are benefiting from school choice, Heritage education expert Dan Lips writes in a new in-depth analysis. Millions of students are taking advantage of programs like charter schools, public school choice and vouchers, reflecting a dramatic improvement in education options over the past two decades.

Click here for education resources for parents, teachers, students, home schooling, and more.

"A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday,
does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do."
President Woodrow Wilson, 1911

Did you know..."The fate of empires depends on the education of youth." Aristotle

In Palladium magazine, SEPTEMBER 20, 1789, Fisher Ames wrote: "We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more textbooks into our schools...containing fables and moral lessons...We are spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools." Fischer Ames concluded: "The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other manmade book." (American Minute)

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." Theodore Roosevelt

Schools were originally set up by Churches for the purpose of Bible teaching.

In 1690 Connecticut established a Literacy Law with a fine of $25 (extremely considerable for that time) because children must be able to read if they are to read the Scriptures.

On March 28, 1787, when Dr. Benjamin Rush - a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the man considered "the father of modern medicine" - proposed his plan for public education in America, he wrote: "Let the children who are sent to those schools be taught to read and write - - (and) above all, let both sexes be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education." In 1791, Dr. Rush wrote a pamphlet titled, "A Defense of the Use of the Bible as a Schoolbook." AND a letter to John Armstrong,, March 19, 1783: "[T]he only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments." And "Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind." AND warned if America ever removed the Bible from the classroom, all of our time will be spent fighting crime.

In 1690, Benjamin Harris' New England Primer textbook with a memorization rhyming alphabet was introduced using Scripture to teach reading and pronunciation. This Primer was reprinted and used for 210 years, until 1900, which the framers of our Republic were reared.

In 1781 Congress ruled that a new English edition of the Bible be printed and used by schools. (Where was the ACLU?)

Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788: The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

John Adams: "It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives."

Samuel Adams: "Since private and public Vices, are in reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public, to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated on the minds even of children, and the moral sense kept alive, and that the wise institutions of our ancestors for these great purposes be encouraged by the government. For no people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when Knowledge is diffus'd and Virtue is preserv'd. On the contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauch'd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders."

American Minute for September 14th: Son of a butcher, his family died when a plague swept England, leaving him an estate. He attended Emmanuel College, was ordained, married and sailed for Massachusetts where he pastored the First Church of Charlestown. At age 31, he died of tuberculosis on SEPTEMBER 14, 1638. His name was Rev. John Harvard. The College at Cambridge was renamed for him. Fifty-percent of 17th-century graduates were ministers, as were ten out of twelve of Harvard's presidents prior to the Revolution. Harvard's founders wrote: "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we...rear'd convenient places for God's worship...dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust...it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard, a godly gentleman and a lover of learning...to give the one half of his estate...towards the erecting of a college and all his Library." As 106 of the first 108 schools in America were founded on Christianity, Harvard's Rules & Precepts stated September 26, 1642: "Let every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life. John 17:3."

American Minute for September 21st: On SEPTEMBER 21, 1924, America's 30th President, Calvin Coolidge, addressed the Holy Name Society in Washington, D.C., saying: "The worst evil that could be inflicted upon the youth of the land would be to leave them without restraint and completely at the mercy of their own uncontrolled inclinations. Under such conditions education would be impossible, and all orderly development intellectually or morally would be hopeless." Calvin Coolidge continued: "The Declaration of Independence...claims...the ultimate source of authority by stating...they were... 'appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of' their 'intentions.'...The foundations of our independence and our Government rests upon basic religious convictions. Back of the authority of our laws is the authority of the Supreme Judge of the World, to whom we still appeal." President Coolidge concluded: "It seems to me perfectly plain that the authority of law, the right to equality, liberty and property, under American institutions, have for their foundation reverence for God. If we could imagine that to be swept away, these institutions of our American government could not long survive."

A DEFENCE OF THE USE OF THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS By Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813), distinguished physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Dr. Rush was an outspoken Christian, statesman, and pioneering medical doctor. He was a prolific author, publishing the first American chemistry textbook. In 1797, President John Adams appointed Rush as Treasurer of the U.S. Mint, a position he held until 1813. He also founded America's first Bible society. At the time of his death in 1813, he was heralded as one of the three most notable figures of America, the other two being George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

AmericanMinute.com for May 28th: He left Yale for four years to fight in the Revolutionary War. After graduation, he became a lawyer and taught school in New York. Dissatisfied with the children's spelling books, he wrote the famous "Blue-Backed Speller," which sold over one hundred million copies. After twenty-six years of work, he published the first American Dictionary of the English Language. His name was Noah Webster, and he died MAY 28, 1843. In his 1788 essay, "On the Education of Youth in America," printed in Webster's American Magazine, Noah Webster wrote: "Select passages of Scripture...may be read in schools, to great advantage. In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper and in schools is read with nearly the same degree of respect." Noah Webster continued: "My wish is not to see the Bible excluded from schools but to see it used as a system of religion and morality." In his book, "The History of the United States," published in 1832, Noah Webster wrote: "All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."

Unbelievable videos of homosexual indoctrination in elementary school classrooms. (MassResistance.org) You won't believe this! These two videos are so hot that national homosexual activists forced YouTube to remove them. But you can see them here. Since we posted this on Thursday, we have literally gotten feedback from AROUND THE WORLD. See with your own eyes what goes on in elementary school classrooms in more and more public schools. This is how the youngest of children get brainwashed by the most odious propaganda techniques - in both public and private school classrooms - and most parents don't have a clue of what's going on. And this is why David Parker is spending his savings to take this to federal court. You will cry when you see this. This is why you need to be involved!

Are your children the property of the State?
What are your children being taught to believe?
Social Engineering at your expense, both in your children's virtue and your tax dollars.

Without a heritage every generation starts over.

"The philosophy of the schoolhouse in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." Abraham Lincoln

"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again." Ronald Reagan

In 1833, Justice Joseph Story wrote, “Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.” Joseph Story (Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833) Reference: Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 718. PatriotPost.us Quotes:

Darkness (GLSEN) results when Light (Christ) is removed. (John 3:19-21)
Using the The "Trojan Horse" of "safety" our children are now learning "accepted" immorality and no longer moral virtue.

Risk Audit: Measure the Promotion of Homosexuality in Your Local Schools - MissionAmerica.com

101 Reasons to Home School Highlights the shortcomings of government-run schools and believe strongly in the importance of father's having a vision for their family, and encouraging Christians to constantly develop a more biblical worldview.

Why doesn't the mainstream media report these FACTS? The increase in children being born out of wedlock in Scandinavia since marriage was redefined! William Murray, the chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition, warns of the dangers of legalizing same-sex marriage in the United States. He says Scandinavia has had nearly a decade of legal homosexual marriage, and it has nearly destroyed the institution of marriage altogether. More details: http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/132004c.asp (See more facts at Lifestyle Consequences of homosexuals.

Public Education Against America Late Author Marlin Maddoux documented probe Into U.S. Educational System. The most thorough, fully documented inside-look at the public school system to be published. Every parent in America should read this book to learn what the government schools are actually teaching their children. From the Publisher: "Political correctness" replaces freedom of speech on college campuses, Moral Relativism slithers into high school sex education classes, and brainwashing techniques take root in kindergarten. These are just a few of the unsettling realities that emerge from today’s public school system. In his book Public Education Against America: The Hidden Agenda, Marlin Maddoux uncovers how America’s public education persistently erodes the faith and values of American children in an ongoing effort to create a godless, humanistic society. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic went out the door, and in stepped Secular Humanism. Maddoux unveils the truth about what happens behind closed doors in classrooms across the nation. He uses actual events to disclose the warped worldviews that adversely affect how and what American children are taught, blacking out the Christian foundation of our nation and thrusting those values into the abyss of distant memory. Discover how patriotism is shunned and acts of terrorism defended. Thoroughly researched and documented, this is one book that every taxpayer, parent, and college student must read.

March 17, 2006: Several weeks ago, The Patriot noted an ABC "20/20" documentary by John Stossel on America's schools called "Stupid in America." Stossel's thesis, in essence, was that market competition supported by vouchers would drive the quality of education upward. Seems a no-brainer to us. However, we're shocked—SHOCKED—to report that teachers unions were not at all happy with Stossel or ABC. In fact, "several hundred" teachers showed up at Stossel's door recently to protest. One of them was accidentally candid, saying competition would "take money away from...our union leaders." And here all this time we thought it was about "the children." Meanwhile, students are being indoctrinated by teachers who aren't teaching the subject they're hired to teach, and poor kids are forced to stay in failing schools based solely on their geography (the subject not being taught by one Jay Bennish of Colorado's Overland High). This much is clear: Teachers unions exist to benefit teachers, not students. They exist to extort from local governments higher salaries, greater benefits and fewer accountabilities. Were it not so, these unions wouldn't be so deathly afraid of the free-market competition that makes the rest of American enterprise the envy of the world. PatriotPost.us 06-11 Digest

The Washington Post has published a "news" article titled: "Putting Parents in their Place." "They are needy, overanxious and sometimes plain pesky--and schools at every level are trying to deal with them." Educators are annoyed at these meddlesome parents and are now devising programs "to help them separate from their kids--and [educators] are taking a harder line on especially intrusive parents." I'm not making this up. Of particular concern to these "experts" are parents who hover. During my time in the legislature when we would call the educational "establishment" onto the carpet for their poor results they would point the finger at mom and dad saying there must be more parental involvement. One overlooked issue here is trust. A report out this week details how New York City schools are instructing kindergartners in HIV/AIDS. A few years back, New York educators faced a parents' revolt when they assigned Heather Has Two Mommies to grade schoolers. In Overland Park, Kan., a parent-run website (www.classkc.org) protests graphic and offensive assigned readings. Happily, the Kansas State Board of Education has now changed policy on sex education. Previously, parents had to opt their kids out. Now, if they want sex ed they must opt their kids in. This is a far more family-friendly policy. Parents realize that they can delegate the authority to educate their children but they cannot delegate the ultimate responsibility.

Will your kids be Christian? December 20, 2005 By Bruce Shortt - WorldNetDaily.com - Many evangelicals were shocked last June when Dr. Albert Mohler, the Southern Baptist Convention's leading theologian, wrote that it is now time for responsible Southern Baptists to develop an exit strategy from the public schools. But why should it have been shocking? For years innumerable, journalists, activists and scholars have been chronicling the metastasizing pathologies of the public school system. Surely few today are wholly unaware that the government's schools have become foundries of ignorance and bad character. Surely few are wholly unaware that the government's schools are the nation's largest pusher of psychotropic drugs. Surely few are wholly unaware that violent crime and sexual abuse of students in the government's schools are far from uncommon. And surely few can be wholly unaware that the government's schools now incorporate curricula and programs that both are a threat to our children's physical and psychological health and are, in many instances, pornographic. Read Complete column.

"Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." George Washington

"Knowledge unenlightened by the truth of God is dark knowledge. We may have a B.S., an M.S., and a Ph.D., but without the Lord all we have is dark information. It may help navigate us in the world of darkness, but by itself will never lead us to the truth. Apart from the revelation of the Spirit of God, none of us could ever find our way into the light. Darkly educated people are like those whom Paul described to his young protégé', Timothy, as 'always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.'" (2 Timothy 3:7) Rediscovering the Kingdom by Myles Munroe

In an article published September 20, 1789, in the Palladium magazine, Fisher Ames wrote: "We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools...little books into the hands of children containing fables and moral lessons... We are spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools... The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other manmade book." At the young age of twelve, Fisher Ames was admitted into Harvard College and after graduation became an attorney in Boston. Rising in Massachusetts politics, he participated in ratification of the U.S. Constitution and was elected to the first session of the U.S. Congress, where he helped write the Bill of Rights. He was offered the presidency of Harvard, but declined due to ill health. His name was Fisher Ames. Ames considered private property as essential to a freedom, and that the government's role was to defend it. www.AmericanMinute.com 1-888-USA-WORD

"The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head." -- Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788

What are your children being taught to believe?
Are these pro-homosexual materials in your child's school?

Are they being taught that homosexuality, that which goes against nature, is "normal and has devastating consequences?" Is this in direct opposition of how faith-based parents are raising their children, with a high regard for morality.

Has the American Christian Heritage been removed from History, from your child's Public School, College or Universities, and been replaced with the basics with OBE - the psychology of producing worker bees, utilizing drugs? The drugging of American children under the guise of ADD and like-minded "psychoanalysis" of keeping kids from being kids, because aggression and competition is contrary to the liberal quest of controlling "drones."

"The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effectual means of extirpating Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools. The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life. It should be read in our schools in preference to all other books from its containing the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public temporal happiness." Benjamin Rush

Patriotism, commitment, discipline, and respect are being programmed out of America's education system, because these attributes will build strong self-confident individuals that will not be deceived into relinquishing the individual freedoms and rights upon which America was founded. The liberals will never be able to to form their New World Order, replacing God with a One World Government.

"Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence." Joseph Story

"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives." John Adams

"Few subjects are as important to the future of America as a thorough understanding and appreciation of the U.S. Constitution by every school student. It is not enough to simply praise the document as one of the foundations of our nation. It is essential that students learn why and how the Constitution governs the structure and function of government. It is crucial that students learn that government is empowered by the consent of the governed, not the other way around. They must learn that this power is transmitted to the government through the election process and that they, individually, bear the responsibility to choose candidates who reflect their views. They must learn that freedom in America is the reason why the nation has prospered. Freedom is neither granted nor guaranteed by the government. Government can only limit freedom. Freedom is granted by the Creator and guaranteed by responsible individuals who hold their government accountable. A thorough knowledge and appreciation of the U.S. Constitution is the first step toward becoming a responsible citizen. The next step is to act continually on that knowledge, to keep government within the limits of power to which the people consent." Henry Lamb

Revisionism: How to Identify It In Your Children's Textbooks by David Barton

U.N. influence in U.S. schools - Toward World Understanding, a UNESCO textbook, says: “As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism.”

The International Baccalaureate (IB) program: “administrators do not tell you that the current IB program for ages 3 through grade 12 promotes socialism, disarmament, radical environmentalism and moral relativism, while attempting to undermine Christian religious values and national sovereignty.”

Do you think U.S. Students should be taught: 1. Primarily as American citizens or global citizens? 2. That the U.S. is an independent sovereign nation or under the United Nations? 3. The "New Civics" curriculum while eliminating teaching the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights? 4. The UN's Declaration of Human Rights as being superior to the Bill of rights? With the American History and Civics Education Act (deceptive terminology) which replaces the teaching of traditional American history and civics with the "New Civics" curriculum of a global village, one world government, and open borders?

Indoctrination In High School By David Horowitz ...When I visited this teacher's classroom some days later this suspicion was confirmed by the posters of Che Guevara and Mother Jones she had adorning her English classroom walls along with a sign that said "Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam." ...I confronted several of the teachers present over what I considered the abuse of students in their charge. Using students as a captive audience on whom to inflict one's political prejudices was entirely unprofessional, I said, and a violation of the students' academic freedom. Students are in school to be educated and have a universally recognized right at least in American schools not to indoctrinated. ...The scene I had witnessed is part of a drastic change in the educational culture in America which is coming more and more to look like the educational systems in Havana and pre-liberation Iraq. It's time for the rest of us to do something about this. I have formed a national organization called Parents and Students for Academic Freedom. Information is available at (web site). Chapters are local and are independent so long as they follow our guidelines for academic freedom. Parents and students need to begin forming them now. On the website you can find a model bill of rights for your school and model legislation for your legislature. I hope by the fall to have an Academic Bill of Rights for K-12 schools, which would prevent political indoctrination in K-12 classrooms pending in several legislatures. You can help by starting chapters of Parents and Students for Academic Freedom in your school and in your state.

"Don't mention God" (ACLJ.org) - that's what a professor told a college student who was writing a paper on religion and its place in government! Now we've learned this student will be penalized and DENIED the appropriate review and grade on her paper - because she mentioned God! The English 101 student, whose name is Bethany, was told she could pick the topic for her quarterly term paper. She made her choice, and the professor approved - but he also told Bethany not to mention God in the paper. In fact, in an email, he specifically said: "no mention of big 'G' gods, i.e., one, true god argumentation.... perhaps 'Religion has no place in government' would be a more viable and topical subject."

Mona Charen's article The most important book of the year depicts Abigail and Stephen Thernstrom who have produced a book that should rock the nation. "No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning" is an absolutely brilliant analysis of what ails American education today.

Left-Wing Groups Silent on Schools' Muslim Indoctrination - By Wes Vernon 1/21/2004 - Parents who are furious that their children are receiving indoctrination in Islam in their schools have yet to hear support from most of the same left-wing groups that loudly lecture Americans on what they call “separation of church and state,” a phrase that appears nowhere in the U.S. Constitution.

As America approaches its 225th birthday, a recent poll shows that almost a quarter of America's teenagers have trouble passing a fourth-grade level U.S. history test. In fact, 22 percent could not name the country from which the United States declared its independence. Fourteen percent thought 'France' was the correct answer. In addition, 17 percent did not know there were 13 original colonies, and 15 percent were unaware that the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation commissioned the study, which surveyed 1,000 teenagers nationwide. Source: CNSNews.com

One of the nation's leading constitutional scholars says a majority of Americans are ignorant when it comes to understanding the basis of their freedoms. Howard Phillips of The Conservative Caucus believes the problems Americans are facing -- specifically, an activist judiciary and its efforts to stifle religious freedom -- are a direct result of the failure of the public education system to teach the basis of American freedoms: the Constitution. "We have generations of young people and now middle-aged people -- and law school graduates -- who have not studied the Constitution, who don't recognize its importance, don't recognize that it is the anchor of our liberty, and don't recognize that the Supreme Court and all the federal courts are under the Constitution -- not over it," the conservative icon says. Several members of Congress want to craft a thorough bill that would mandate the teaching of the U.S. Constitution and its principles to all American students. Phillips says that would ensure the survival the nation and its freedoms. AgapePress.org NEWS BRIEFS (http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/52003h.asp)

Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth Shapiro, Ben - Townhall columnist Ben Shapiro reveals how America's university system is one of the largest brainwashing machines on the planet. Examining this nationwide problem from firsthand experience, Shapiro shows how the leftists who dominate the universities use their power to mold impressionable minds.

Teaching our children sin is "normal"

Click here for details on GLSEN's agenda in our schools.

Planned Parenthood's 'Teenwire': Debauching Our Children Web site openly promotes fornication, bisexuality and homosexuality.

NEA and GLSEN show their hateful attitudes at convention (Washington times 7/27/2004): What's really amazing in the article below is how Kevin Jennings and GLSEN must realize how deceitful they are being. On our web site are articles about GLSEN, quoting from their own material, where they encourage kids to learn about things like the Kinsey scale of "flexible" sexual desires, and about how kids should be allowed to experiment with any sexual orientation until they find what's right for them. This is a reckless and irresponsible message, but if that's their position, why not be able to go from homosexuality to heterosexuality? It reveals the purely political motivations involved, and their determination to absolutely shut down the opposition by any means possible. Reasonable debate and genuine tolerance are not desired by these folks. If you want to read pertinent excerpts from GLSEN's material go to www.missionamerica.com/oldagenda26.php.

Teachers Union Honors Homosexual Activist The National Education Association has honored noted homosexual activist Kevin Jennings. In his own book, Jennings admits that as a teacher he did not report a case of teacher-on-student sexual abuse. Jennings, who now heads the GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, has also taught homosexuality to kindergarteners, and participated in a conference where graphic sexual practices were taught to teens among other notable misdeeds. Bob Knight, director of CWA's Culture and Family Institute has more.

A leading pro-family advocate says "sexual orientation codes" in schools are simply a vehicle homosexuals use to try and brainwash children. Pete LaBarbera is with the Culture and Family Institute, an arm of Concerned Women for America. He says homosexuals activists are using "Nazi-like" tactics to reach the nation's schools and promoting their agenda to an impressionable and captive audience of children. He says parents should know homosexuals are using "sexual orientation policies" as a means of disguising their true agenda: capturing young minds. Beside the obvious morality issues, LaBarbera says parents should be outraged that homosexuals would attempt to indoctrinate children into such an unhealthy and deadly lifestyle. LaBarbara says kids are being "practically brainwashed" because they do not even know what sex is yet -- and yet they are being taught about homosexuality.

Gay activist groups, with teachers’ union applause, are importing a disturbing agenda into the nation’s public schools. See Article: Queering the Schools

MASS FistGate: Although the focus has changed somewhat. the object is still to normalize homosexuality in the schools, beginning in preschool and kindergarten. MassNews

ACLU Launches Nationwide Effort to Force ‘Gay’-Straight Alliances on Schools By Martha Kleder 1/29/2003 Concerned Woman For America. “They admit this is a Trojan horse,” said Culture and Family Institute’s senior policy analyst Peter LaBarbera. “Homosexual activists know that rural communities are the most resistant to their agenda, so in order to force their way into schools, they are using the cover of the well-funded ACLU.”

Money & Public Education

Education plus money does not equal achievement by Cal Thomas (7/6/2004) Observation and common sense have told me for years that there is no relationship between the amount of money spent on education and student achievement. Now a study to be released July 7 by the Cato Institute provides irrefutable facts that lead to the same conclusion.

High on Cents, Lacking Sense by Edwin J. Feulner (7/30/2004) (Excerpts) They believe that if they just had more money, their problems would vanish. But it seldom works out. ...Since 1965, federal spending on education has quadrupled, from $25 billion then to an inflation-adjusted $108 billion in 2002. ...The Education Department recently reported that all 50 states, the District of Columbia and eight territories are sitting on piles of federal cash -- some $2.7 billion. It’s probably unfair to judge a federal program on spending alone -- we also should consider whether or not it’s delivering “bang for the buck.” But it is safe to say, when states are returning hundreds of millions of dollars, that education isn’t under funded. And our children have little hope of winning the education lottery until we stop pretending that it is.

Vouchers and votes by Thomas Sowell (10/15/2003) During a recent visit to Washington, I was told by a high official there that he had posed this question to Democrats: "Why are you so opposed to vouchers?" The reply: "We aren't going to give you guys (Republicans) a victory." One of the tragedies of the public schools is that they have become so enmeshed in bureaucratic rules and constrained by court decisions that they can do little to prevent a handful of classroom clowns and hoodlums from making it virtually impossible to educate other students in many ghetto schools. Nor can public schools get rid of even a grossly incompetent teacher without administrative and legal processes that can drag on forever and cost tens of thousands of dollars. Public schools are also trapped in rigid hiring rules that keep out highly qualified people who have not suffered through enough mind-numbing education courses to be called "certified." Private schools, and to some extent charter schools, escape these rigidities. Teachers' unions and others in the education establishment say that it is "unfair" that public schools have to compete with other institutions that do not have these and other bureaucratic and legal handicaps. Fairness applies to people. Institutions are just means to an end -- serving people. If other institutions can get the job done better, then that is the way to go. Maybe vouchers and charter schools can give teachers' unions incentives to try to free the public schools from their handicaps, instead of trying to impose the same handicaps on other schools, in the name of "fairness." The greatest unfairness today is denying a decent education to poor children, for whom that is often their only way out of poverty. Click here for entire article.

School prayer.
Attributed to an Arizona Student

Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.

If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.

Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.

We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.
They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such "judgments" do not belong.

We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.

It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!
Amen

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