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The "new" Educational system

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posted on Mar, 11 2010 @ 10:09 PM
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In this period of time, with political correctness and special interests, we need to question drastic changes. The Texas textbook debate has been in the news for a couple of days. The schools want to not teach some of our history, like the revolutionary war, or Thomas Edison and Alert Einstein are not looking so good now.
Multiculturalism has students in the south west learning Mexico's history to appease the flood of illegals that want to be treated equal. Seems like something that should be taught in world history later down the road and not in elementary schools to me.


www.foxnews.com...

Our schools need to teach the basics to our kids. And while we're at it, they should be taught that our republic is a republic, and what we as a nation has gone through to try to keep it that way.

Instead we are teaching some liberal agenda, our schools seem to need to also go back to basics, and teach facts and not their version of said truth.



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 02:08 PM
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First, I agree that in most states, the public school education system has a lot of problems... budget, agenda, politics, all play a part.

This puzzles me though:


Instead we are teaching some liberal agenda, our schools seem to need to also go back to basics, and teach facts and not their version of said truth.


What and How and Who's "version of truth" should be taught?

Who decides?



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 07:42 PM
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Thanks for the question.

Who decides the truth, in my opinion should be decided by a group of individuals analyzing both sides of the story, and coming to a conclusion based on facts.

By our definition of terrorism today, our founding father were terrorists. Yet they fought for what they thought was right so they were freedom fighters.

So today if England was not one of our allies, they would probably teach, that our revolution was fought by criminal terrorists. While we would still teach our founders were patriotic heroes.

The truth is hardly every black and white as they teach in school.

So I guess a small group of people that can be very objective about the subjects at hand.



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 09:55 PM
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This has been intended all along. It just took a few years.



From the beginning of America's colonies until nearly 1837, education in America was purchased through private schools of choice. The churches provided free schools to all who would come. Horace Mann, a Harvard elite, believed his mission was to remove educational control from the communities and the people - delivering control to the state.

One of the NEA's founders Zalman Richards, at the Union's 1858 convention, condemned private education with scorn. He asserted that private schools were degrading to the teaching profession. By 1885 some in the NEA were espousing that both property and children belong not to the people, but to the state. By 1905 the American government was spending nearly 22% of all public funds on public education. "Remember" the tenth plank of the Communist Manifesto:

"Free education for all children in public schools [and] combination of education with industrial production…"
John Dewey, father of modern education, in 1933 coauthored the"Humanist Manifesto" The manifesto confidently asserts that:

Man evolved by chance,

Man created god,

Man is his own authority,

There are no absolutes,

All men should be exposed to diverse “realistic” viewpoints –including profanity, immorality and perversion,

ALL forms of sexual expression are acceptable,

Government ownership or control of the entire economy,

Global Citizenship, replaces self-determination and nationalism, and
No existence beyond the grave - no heaven or hell.

The United Nations education program was approved in 1946 at the first United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) General Conference. One of the first items on its agenda was the creation of 'A Study Of Education For International Understanding in the primary and secondary schools and in institutions of higher learning of Member States, to be conducted by the Member States with the assistance of the UNESCO Secretariat'. Each nation was required to conduct a study of how textbooks treated the subject of international agencies and world government. The National Education Association in 1954 published a book [in compliance with UNESCO] to instruct educators in the proper methods of teaching children about the benefits of world government. It had specific chapters dealing with each benefit and one chapter on how to develop world-minded teachers. The issue of altering world history through educational textbooks was so important that two chapters were dedicated entirely to that subject.

The "Soviet Education Programs; Foundations, Curriculums, Teacher Preparation" was published in 1960 by the U.S Department of Health, Education and Welfare. This document was the blueprint for the School-To-Work restructuring that would take place in America. In 1961, Rep. John M. Ashbrook tried to alert Congress as to the U.S. adoption of a soviet approach to education by citing a HEW document called "A Federal Educational Agency for the Future". Ashbrook called the new education program “a blueprint for complete domination and direction of our schools from Washington." Remember Thomas Jefferson's warning?

Two major federal initiatives were developed in 1965 with funding from the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act" which was passed in that same year. One was the Behavioral Science Teacher Educational Program; the other was a government publication “Pacesetters In Innovation" - a 584-page catalogue of behavior modification programs to be used by America's schools. No, not 584 pages of educational programs, but 584 pages filled with behavior modification programs. In summary, the intent was to create future Americans who would accept the United Nations and the concept of a global nation and one world government.

If schools really taught American history and government, people would know that in 1970 Congress recognized that the federal government had limited authority in education. In an amended General Education Provisions Act clearly stated a "Prohibition against Federal Control of Education":

forbidding the federal government from exercising any "direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration or personnel of any education institution, school, or school system, or over the selection of library resources, textbooks, or other printed or published instructional materials by any educational institution or school system."
In case you are wondering, this law is still valid! The government and educational elite get around this law by a loophole, which allows federal funding of "research and development". All 790 federally mandated programs are using America's children as research projects. Do the words guinea pigs come to anyone’s mind?

Catherine Barrett, then president of the National Education Association (1976), gave a speech in which she said,

"First, we will help all of our people understand that school is a concept and not a place. We will not confuse “schooling” with education. The school will be the community, the community the school."

This reflects the Communist view of education and lifetime control of the masses.
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www.citizensforaconstitutionalrepublic.com...

I think more people are starting to realize this now as we see where our country is headed and it is harder to ignore this transformation.



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 09:56 PM
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Other countries solve this problem by simply attaching monies to the students instead of to the school. In other words, the government gives each student an allotted amount of money to attend any school they chose. The better school get the most students. Those schools that are ran poorly nobody attends them and they go broke. Free market education with a splash of socialism makes an excellent mix for a solution.



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 10:09 PM
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I don't disagree with that. Unfortunately TPTB are more worried about votes than taking action.
However the people could change this by action. Home school could pull the money makers out of the feds little game and then watch them try to laugh all the way to the bank. haha



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 10:26 PM
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I agree with LadySkai about version of truth.

I always wonder why some people are more famous than others.

Have you ever heard the name Israel Bissell or sybil ludington's mentioned in your history class?



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 10:36 PM
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Originally posted by ExPostFacto
Other countries solve this problem by simply attaching monies to the students instead of to the school. In other words, the government gives each student an allotted amount of money to attend any school they chose. The better school get the most students. Those schools that are ran poorly nobody attends them and they go broke. Free market education with a splash of socialism makes an excellent mix for a solution.


This would be an excellent solution!!! FOR THE United States...

Let me think this through out loud...

I buy a house in a neighborhood in anytown, USA.
There are 3 elementary schools that my 5 year old could attend. I'm a taxpayer... and my 5 year old receives a "5 year old school package" with 274 tickets in a bag. My 5 year old and MOM of course decides school number 1 is the best choice for our 5 year old. So she starts school. More and more students "OVER-POPULATE" this school because the teachers are so nice and the school is clean and the students don't have to go through metal detectors... While the school down the street.. both 2 and 3 are deteriorating... they can't keep the lights on.. yet some of my tax money could go to keep this school alive and looking better...

NO... this won't work. We have the best system in place... CALLED COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Each BOE takes a look at county standings and builds schools to fit the population. Makes for better football games when the schools compete!



[edit on 13-3-2010 by biblenet]



posted on Mar, 13 2010 @ 11:21 PM
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Keep an eye on the U.N. Rights of the Child.

The government will decide what is best for your children.

I doubt that home schooling or private schools will be legal for very long.




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