Right Reason

My friend over at Truth About IB has received emails from teachers across the globe, affirming our concerns that the IB programmes are damaging to our children’s education. Check them out here.

My blogger friend at ‘Truth About IB’ has posted a letter on her website from a teacher, who has been participating in the International Baccalaureate schools PYP programs. It is a great assessment of what we have been trying to shed light on about this “international” education. It does not focus on teaching our children mathematics or language skills and truly harms them, as they will be unable to compete in the challenging job market they will face after they leave school. Please read this letter from someone on the inside, as he or she speaks from personal experience.

• WND: President Obama appoints Samantha Powers as new “Atrocities Czar” – She is the wife of Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s Regulation Czar

• WND: Eco-Tyrannists have our kids believing we are better off dead! – Our children are being taught that humankind is responsible for the destruction of the planet, and that it would be better if they did not exist at all. This begins in elementary school and goes all the way through college. Help your children by teaching them the facts and that they are being told lies. Get MAD and then get ACTIVE!

• The Blaze: ‘Justice for Trayvon’ – Alabama Man in Critical Condition after Mob Beating – UPDATE – This will not be treated as a hate crime!

Moveon.org has launched a massive recruiting and training program across the country to prepare for a “99% Spring in America”. Here is a link to several videos, including Van Jones being interviewed by Chris Hayes on MSNBC.

They are enlisting disaffected Americans to join together to take on the wealthiest 1% in the name of social and economic justice, stating “You could be a part of a huge wave of progressive direct action this spring. Learn how to practice nonviolence in the spirit of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. at a 99% Spring action training.” The email continues, “We’re coming together from every corner of our movement to provide in-depth direct action training to 100,000 people from April 9 to 15. The goal is to pave the way for a 99% Spring filled with a huge wave of progressive direct action nationwide.”

They will be staging rallies across the country on Tax Day to demand that the 1% pay their fair share and plan on gathering en masse at shareholder meetings of several Wall Street banks, confronting “dirty energy polluters, and corporations that refuse to treat workers fairly”.

With unemployment continuing at record highs, the environment is ripe for Progressive mischief.  But there is a deeper issue here that needs to be addressed.

Why are so many of our youth becoming involved with this movement?

We have a generation of young adults who have attended colleges and universities where the liberal dogma flows from the mouths of self-aggrandized aging hippies who never stepped a foot outside the halls of higher education.  These sixty-somethings protested the Vietnam War while hiding in undergraduate and post-graduate academia enjoying their 2-S draft exemption or fighting for abortion rights for women.

In his book The Naked Communist, originally published in 1958, W. Cleon Skousen listed the then “Current Communist Goals”.  Goal number 17 states: “Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teacher’s associations. Put the party line in textbooks.” He lists additional goals of: breaking down cultural standards of morality; present aberrant sexual behavior as normal, natural and healthy; discredit the Bible and eliminate prayer in schools; discredit the U. S. Constitution and the Founding Fathers; discredit the family as a valued institution and; encourage children to be raised separate and apart from negative parental influence.  Does any of this sound familiar?

As an adult returning to college it has become apparent that many of the young adults of today have been psychologically and socially influenced by our educational system and the media.  The environmentalists have them convinced that the planet is doomed.  They are repeatedly told that humankind (that is the required verbiage) has destroyed the earth and there is little hope that it can be saved.  Perhaps this is why we are seeing so many of our youth into tattoos, piercings, drugs, promiscuous sex and other self-destructive activities. They have no hope for their future and are ripe for the picking.  They will follow anyone who promises an easy path for them.  There have been no demands made on them for personal responsibility and accountability as they pursue their bachelor’s degrees in “bitterness studies”.   And they wonder why they cannot get a job! They have been protected from failure to prevent them suffering from low self-esteem, but in the end, they have NO self-esteem and have never been able to discover what makes them unique…what special talents God has given them.  They have all been told they are special and expect an easy path to a six-figure career.  No wonder they have attached to the Occupy movement, they have not been properly prepared to enter the adult world of business and having to pay their dues as they climb that corporate ladder.

The current liberal arts curriculum depicts America as a racist, class-driven society that must bow to the rest of the world for the sins of their fathers and distribute its wealth through economic, environmental and social justice.

From an early age our children are encouraged to become good “global citizens” where morality is relative.  Other cultures, although different, can also be right.  There is no good or evil.  There is no one singular truth and the concept of individuals possessing inherent rights and freedoms that come from our humanity is outdated and not discussed without mockery and ridicule.  They are told they are no more valuable than the other animals or plants on the planet.  Is it any wonder we have seen photos of a young Occupier defecating on the American flag?

We must challenge our school systems and demand that our children are taught American history, along with returning to the basics.  Our schools should not be social laboratories, and educators must be held accountable for providing our children with the necessary tools to compete in an ever expanding global market.

Hitler has been quoted as stating “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future”.

In order to save this country, we must start by reclaiming our children.

Original article posted on Big Government.

Secretary Napolitano Disrespects and Disarms Pilots – This woman is head of our Department of Homeland Security! Do you feel safer?

A syllabus for the “Occupy” movement

Video: Robert Muise, AFDI’s Islamic Law in America at CPAC 2012

NRA Ad – Trigger the Vote

At Tuesday evening’s Hillsborough County School Board Meeting, over sixty concerned citizens were present to express their concerns after learning about the presence of Hassan Shibly, Executive Director of the Florida Council on American Islamic Relations at Tampa (CAIR), in several Hillsborough County High Schools in the past year.

This was discovered through a CAIR news alert on its Face Book page in December, announcing that CAIR – Tampa had spoken to five hundred high school students about Islam, stating:

“The Council on American-Islamic Relations of Florida, Tampa chapter (CAIR-Tampa), gave seven presentations on Islam this week to over a dozen different AP world history and world religions public high school classes in the Tampa area. The presentations covered topic such as basic Muslim beliefs, Islamic history, Islam and human rights, religious tolerance and diversity, and popular misconceptions about Islam.”

Pamela Geller, of Atlas Shrugs and Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA) reported on Shibly’s presence in our high schools and reached out to parents for more information. A mother responded and related that after an innocuous comment related to the Middle East, or Islam, her daughter revealed that her Steinbrenner High School history class had a guest who spoke to the students about Islam. This parent spoke to the principal of the school and the teacher, Kelly Miliziano, revealed that she regularly had Mr. Shibly come and speak to the class about the tenets and beliefs of the Muslim faith, as a part of the unit on the history of religion.

The concern of this parent, and other parents, is that Mr. Shibly is not an Imam and is not qualified to speak about the Muslim faith.  The concern is his affiliation with CAIR, an organization with which the FBI severed its relationship until it determines “whether there continues to be a connection between” CAIR leadership and Hamas terrorists. Although Ms. Miliziano assured the mother that representatives of other religions had been invited and were also going to speak to her daughter’s class, when she asked her daughter if other speakers had come to make presentations, she was told that no other speakers had addressed her class.

It should be of great concern that no parents were advised prior to this class that a representative of CAIR would be addressing their children in this way.

At the school board meeting, board member Dr. Stacy White (District 4) proposed that they have a workshop to look into ways to investigate speakers who are invited to present to our children and to verify their scholarly credentials before allowing them to come into our classrooms. After much back and forth, this motion came to a vote.  Dr. Stacy White and Susan Valdez (District 1) voted in support of a workshop.  Dr. White stated that he when he ran for the school board position, he committed to listening to the people and he will continue to listen to them and address their concerns, which drew applause from the audience.  The board members who voted against a workshop were Jack Lamb (District 3), April Griffin (District 6), Carol Kurdell (District 7), Candy Olson (District 2), and Dorethea Edgecomb (District 5).

Upon further investigation, parents should be aware that Kelly Miliziano, the history class teacher at Steinbrenner High School, is the UNA-USA Tampa Bay Chapter President of Global Classrooms Tampa Bay. The website states: “Now in its 10th year, Global Classrooms: Tampa Bay has over 75 teachers who teach the curriculum to more than 3,500 students in 89 schools.” This organization holds a model United Nations Conference annually and is affiliated with the United Nations Association of Tampa, with links to the United Nations and its global governance ideology, similar to the International Baccalaureate program covered in a previous article.

The indoctrination of our children is occurring in our public schools under the watchful, but apparently un-concerned, eyes of the School Board of Hillsborough County.

From Morning Bell: The Heritage Foundation:

You don’t need to log on to President Barack Obama’s Facebook page to find out who his friends are, and you don’t need to read tea leaves, gaze into a crystal ball, or consult a psychic to learn where his priorities lie. No, you only have to take a look at his 2013 budget, just released on Monday, to see what kind of company the president keeps and to what extent he will go to lend his pals a helping hand. Read more here.

I am sharing this video because I feel there may be a bit of truth in it. Be aware of what your child is being taught at school and how involved the schools seem to be with their mental and physical health in addition to what they are supposed to be teaching them. I have seen some of the educational material, and there seems to be a deliberate omission of what we would consider a “family unit”. Parents are being taken out of the picture in many cases.

Schools are prisons The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America.

How much do you really know?  The website reports that the average score of all who have taken it is 49%, and college professors averaged 55%.  Click to take this Full Civic Literacy Exam.

If you have any comments or questions about the quiz, please e-mail americancivicliteracy@isi.org. You can consult the following table to see how citizens and elected officials scored on each question.