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What are your children being taught to believe?
Social Engineering at your expense, both in your children's virtue and your tax
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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
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.
The primary
responsibility of education DOES NOT belong to schools.
Don't let the indoctrination of your
children bring shame to you.
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While many get angry with God
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Public Education Against America
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
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 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.”
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.
Did you know..."The fate of empires depends on the education of youth." Aristotle
"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."
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."
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
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