The whole issue of what is taught in school is not as simply as this thread implies.
Here is an article from the beginning of Bush's first administration in 2000--
2000_UNESCO_REDEFINE_FAMILY.--UNESCO's, "World Core Curriculum"
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, was established in 1945 to disseminate educational, cultural and
scientific materials deemed essential for establishing toleration and peace. During the Reagan administration, the U.S. pulled out of UNESCO, charging
the agency with rampant waste and fraud, and a hard-left pro-Soviet slant. Sharing many of these concerns, Great Britain also withdrew from UNESCO at
about the same time.
Prior to his decision to rejoin UNESCO, President Bush reached out to social conservatives, and was warned that many groups were increasingly
concerned with UNESCO's ongoing support of the UN's radical social agenda. UNESCO collaborates with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and its main Non
Government Organization (NGO) partner, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). In line with these groups, UNESCO now advocates for
reproductive health services for children. In UN parlance, reproductive health services includes abortion. For instance, one UNESCO document praises
Thailand's provision of abortion-causing "emergency contraceptives" to children as an "innovative strategy."
UNESCO is also a proponent of the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, a document written by UNAIDS and the UN High Commissioner on
Human Rights. The document calls on governments to ensure a right to safe and legal abortion, to legalize same-sex marriages, to legalize
prostitution, and to provide graphic sexual and homosexual education to children. The document also seeks the establishment of "criminal penalties"
for people engaged in speech construed to be a "vilification" of homosexuality.
In the name of AIDS-reduction, UNESCO has fully embraced reproductive and sex education. In concert with UNAIDS and UNFPA, UNESCO has created
curricula that many social conservatives would believe undermine parental authority, show disdain for traditional cultures and religious worldviews,
and introduce dishonesty into education. A great deal of UNESCO's other educational materials fall squarely in the camp of political correctness,
endorsing liberal stances on such issues as gender and environmentalism.
In 1982, the UN (UNESCO) adopted Robert Muller's World Core Curriculum as a model for all nations to follow. Robert Muller, former United Nations
Assistant Secretary General, wrote the "World Core Curriculum." Broadly speaking, the World Core Curriculum is a tetrahedron based on 4 primary
components:
Our Planetary Home and Our Place in the Universe,
Our Place in Time,
The Family of Humanity, and
The Miracle of Individual Life.
Muller, adopted ideas for his Curriculum from questionable philosophies espoused by the founders of the Theosophical society in pre-revolutionary
Russia. The objective of Muller's Curriculum is to produce an egalitarian society, working cooperatively, in harmony, without competition or strife,
and without individual thought or opinion.
More significantly, the Curriculum advocates taking away the student's early childhood and family influence--replace it with a "global family." He
suggests that education of a child should start at birth and be oriented to the "macrocosm" and that early family influences somehow promote "an
egocentric mind set" and will result in a negative or undesirable outcome. In other words, the influence of the traditional family must be abolished
for the good of society. Our modern Outcome Based Education curriculums and the U.S. Goals 2000 closely resemble the guidelines of the World Core
Curriculum.
Recognizing the fact that under "Treaty (or Convention) Law" America's participation in UNESCO brings with it the "treaty requirement" that
America adopt and implement UNESCO's World Core Curriculum.
Recognizing the well documented and undeniable fact that such involvement in UNESCO spells instant death to American "academic" education upon which
our great country was founded and which has made it the greatest country in the world, U.S. Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tx) has introduced in the U.S.
Congress the following Concurrent Resolution. ... ETC. blah blah blah [snip]
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...Bush has RESTORED the US/UNESCO connection, and with it, the push toward a unified world curriculum that discourages BREEDING and "Family."
The Bush Administration ITSELF has taken the stand that the UN's push to REPLACE FAMILY LIFE with HOMOSEXUAL LIFE [so that the birth rates in the
most populous nations will GET CUT DOWN] is LEGITIMATE.
...The UN wants to reduce planetary population. They consider "alternative lifestyles" to be the way to do that. They are TOP-DOWN ruling and
establishing and promoting and developing curricula that FAVOR homosexual unions and divergent sex practices--just to keep the birthrate down.
...As a result of this movement toward lower birth rates, children in KINDERGARTEN are now being taught about families with two mommies and families
with two daddies, as being the norm. Honest. I kid you not!
...What do you want to do about this? I dunno. But it seems to me that attacking the very fabric of human family life is not going to produce the
kind of outcomes that we want in our nation--the natural outcome of such policies is to produce a nation of ANTS!! whose ONLY loyalty is the
State!!
[edit on 10-11-2004 by Emily_Cragg]
[edit on 10-11-2004 by Emily_Cragg]
