By: SARTRE

For well over a century, the systemic dismantling of traditional education is an essential objective of transforming America into a despotic dependency. Education is a process, not an indoctrination. Schools should be about tutoring in the methods of critical thinking. Sound techniques and competent teachers can assist learning development. However, it has been decades since public schools provided a positive function. Dysfunctional Public Education Is No Accident sums up the issue:

“Government schools have worked their socialization for several generations, with alarming success. Their objective is not the education of the individual pupil, but the assimilation of the next generation into society. The kind of conversion that is sought, impedes independent thinking. Areas of inquiry are now limited to ‘PC’ approved viewpoints.”

The “TC” mindset is an outgrowth of the “PC” culture. Government schools primary mission is to program underdeveloped minds with a State approved curriculum. The net result of this civic brain washing machine is a dumbed down idiot that is unable to function as an independent individual. Totalitarian Collectivism is all about the supremacy of the State and a genuinely educated population is the greatest threat to the regime.

Government schools act as community social welfare centers. Outreach and remedial education is not just for “special needs” students, it is a staple of the state syllabus. Can this reality be attributed to genetic defects alone? Blaming it on the drinking water just does not fly. The more money spent on public education, the greater the decay in intellectual standards.

Culture, media influences and peer group pressure all reinforce the limited world vision that is the hallmark of producing obedient servants. Instead of working the fields, these serfs supply a boundless stock of sheep to eat the grass of government addiction. Their function is to consume useless products and services by running up debt. Honest work is discouraged, while government employment is preached as an ongoing community service. Service to the State and servicing the corporate economy is the sure recipe to become a valedictorian.

Lost in this assembly line factory and pseudo erudite mess is character development and moral values.

The National Character Education Center provides 10 reasons to Cultivate Virtues in Schools.

1. Value-based schools and homes develop value-driven children.

2. Children who are clear about their values have minimum problems in decision-making!

3. Children learn how to respect others when there is a program on respect.

4. Cooperation and collaboration are priorities in a value-driven school and home!

5. Rules and laws alone will not improve our society!

6. When children encounter problems, schools with a values program have clear performance and behavior reference points.

7. A values program fosters personal responsibility and initiative in each child.

8. A values program will develop an understanding, an appreciation, and an acceptance of diversities in children and in their cultures!

9. Values develop inner strength and integrity, which builds a “you-can-count-on-me” generation!

10. A value-driven program develops children with a positive mental attitude who have determination and perseverance.

Sounds good, but the question is what kind of value-based education should parents allow for the education of their children? National Education is too important to allow government control. “The children of America are not wards of your collectivist vision. Parents must retain the ability to educate their offspring according to the values that they hold. The scam of a national education policy is the kiss of death for our Nation.”

A new Rasmussen Report concludes that sixty percent (60%) of Americans with children in elementary or secondary school say most school textbooks are more concerned with presenting information in a politically correct manner than in accuracy.

This point is timely with the recent Texas Board of Education approval of a new school curriculum, which influences all textbooks. Some of their additions include:

Question the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government

• Cover the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation’s Founding Fathers, but not highlight the philosophical rationale for the separation of church and state

Stress the superiority of American capitalism while eliminating the word “capitalism” from the text

Refer to the United States form of government as a “constitutional republic,” rather than “democratic republic”

• Give Confederate president Jefferson Davis equal footing with Abraham Lincoln

The “TC” society is appalled at such heresy as constitutional restraints, which might be taught to young virgin minds. All that matters to the didactic validation masters is the official approval pedagogic propaganda. No, wonder that any challenges to the education establishment meet with vicious abhorrence.

The National Center for Policy Analysis refers to “a report out of Stanford University shows that parents like the idea of school choice and that children in the voucher system are more apt to stay in school, learn more and earn their high school diplomas.

The study surveyed programs operating in Milwaukee (which has two), New York City, Indianapolis and San Antonio. Together, the five programs are serving more than 7,000 students from low-income families.”

Here are some of the findings:

Two to three times as many parents of voucher-school students gave “A” ratings to their schools as did parents of public school students.

While children of low-income families tend to change public schools during the year — often at a rate of 20 percent to 30 percent of the enrollment — the rate for voucher students in Milwaukee was no more than four percent to five percent.

Voucher students attending religious schools (New York and San Antonio) made remarkable test score gains; but data concerning those attending secular choice schools is flawed or incomplete because of lack of information about family background.

In New York, 69 percent of voucher students are staying in school and graduating, versus 39 percent of all students in public high schools, and 29 percent in the high schools voucher students would have attended.

The teachers union reflects the notion that government schools are untouchable and parents or local government must continue unlimited funding for excessive benefits and extravagant retirement costs.

School Vouchers Long Overdue cites the mindset that creates this accountability disconnect. “Writing for the New York Times, Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers referred to the potential of turning an education endeavor into a profit-making venture as the “threat of an educational industrial complex.”

Eliminating coerced government school attendance with a viable private sector educational competition could break the reckless cycle of pouring more money down the drain of “TC” brainwashing. Abolishing property taxes to finance destructive institutions of mass disinformation needs to become a national cause.

In an exhaustive and comprehensive study from the Cato Institute – They Spend WHAT? The Real Cost of Public Schools, Adam B. Schaeffer provides evidence of financial disparities.

“To put public school spending in perspective, we compare it to estimated total expenditures in local private schools. We find that, in the areas studied, public schools are spending 93 percent more than the estimated median private school.

Citizens drastically underestimate current per-student spending and are misled by official figures. Taxpayers cannot make informed decisions about public school funding unless they know how much districts currently spend. And with state budgets stretched thin, it is more crucial than ever to carefully allocate every tax dollar.”

He outlines aspects of the Financial Transparency in Education Act, as a needed policy. This formula uses a base state and education fiscal transparency model for legislation that is adopted by the American Legislative Exchange Council.

Schools need to become cherished institutions for cultivating natural instincts and curiosity for intellectual development. What Price We Pay For Incompetent Education illustrates a case study in a broken educational system. “Public education has become government schooling by the ignorant, administered by the incompetent. . . . Embedded in the very composition of its organization are the kind of personnel that create and perpetuate this bureaucratic tragedy.”

College and higher education experience is worthless when functional idiots are granted matriculation for the price of an average starter house. The student loan fiasco is just another tyrannical entrapment into a system of endless debt consumption with diminished benefits. As the economic prospects for our offspring evaporate, future progenies will seek the rewards of real education and avoid the snares of compulsory stupidity.

The Totalitarian Collectivists fear an enlightened populace. A populist political schooling, based upon traditional values, classical training, founded upon a comprehensive study of history; has the best chance of producing individuals of character and moral fiber. The American chronicle is grounded and based upon this foundation. The “TC” educational, politically correct, absolutism is anti-intellectual at its core. A purely secular government is a curse in the American Saga. The Texas Board of Education has its history right.

Related article:
TOTALITARIAN COLLECTIVISM PART 1 – INTRODUCTION
TOTALITARIAN COLLECTIVISM PART 2 -STATE

TOTALITARIAN COLLECTIVISM PART 3 – CHURCH

TOTALITARIAN COLLECTIVISM PART 4 – FAMILY

TOTALITARIAN COLLECTIVISM PART 5 – ECONOMY

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Can “Obama Youth” Be far Behind?

“Give me the children, I will give you a nation.” “When an opponent declares ‘I will not come over to your side’, I calmly say ‘your child belongs to us already. What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.” — Adolph Hitler (1939)

I, along with a few million other parents and grandparents, are troubled by Obama’s speech to the school kids.

It is a known fact that if you can reach the kids with your propaganda you can mold their malleable minds into practically any kind of adult you want. They are young, they are impressionable, and frankly, they are not very smart — not YET, at least. Obama’s speech to the students of America smacks of a propaganda machine in high gear. It is all a part of the “Obama Cult Machine”.

The parents in my state are raising a considerable amount of “Cain.” They don’t like it. As a grandparent, I don’t like it, either. Whether Obama’s minions deny it, or not, it IS an indoctrination speech. The very nature of it’s “setting” renders it that.

Here in North Carolina, parents are up in arms about it. There will be many kids staying home from school, entirely, tomorrow, and, in my opinion, that is the correct thing for parents to do. A number of schools have declared their intention of recording Obama’s speech and playing it back at a later time. The question, then, is — will parents be alerted in time to get their kids out of school for that day? I don’t have the answer to that question but I have my suspicions.

Many parents in my state have been busy over the past few days attempting to ascertain whether or not their children’s school will be allowing Obama’s speech in their school — and when. It has been akin to hitting a brick wall. It seems as if each school district has a different answer to the question. Frankly, none of them are satisfactory.

Look, anyway you parse it; Obama’s speech to the student’s smacks of an Orwellian tactic and it is a rotten idea. For a President who is said to have the creame de la creame of intellects around him, this has to be the dumbest idea to come out of the White House in a while. There has been so much objection raised by parents that reports now say the speech has been rewritten and plans to televise Obama’s speech have been dropped and instead it will be streamed live on the Internet at the Whitehouse website. That means anyone can watch and listen to Obama’s golden oratory, including Homeschoolers. How thoughtful — what? Somehow, I doubt many homeschoolers will be allowing their students to listen to the indoctrination speech. Isn’t this sort of thing one of the reasons those same homeschoolers pulled their children out of the government school systems in the first place?

If there was even the slightest doubt in your mind that the public school system in American is now the “Government school system,” then these antics, by the Obama Regime, should remove all doubt.

This is the sort of thing one expects in a socialist society. It is not the sort of thing one expects in a free republic. But, as we have been warning, even before the election in 2008, the socialists now in charge in Washington are disassembling the democratic representative republican form of government in America.

If I still had school age children they would be at home tomorrow. They would certainly not be in school where they will be exposed to socialist propaganda as espoused by the nation’s leading socialist, the President of the US, Obama.

As the President’s popularity wanes and his standings in the polls drop like a stone, it is time for conservatives across the nation to turn up the heat. The elections of 2010 are not that far away. We must make every effort to defeat as many of the socialists in the Congress as we can and increase the clout of conservatism in the national legislature. We must return the US to its former status as a democratic representative republic.

Conservatives must stay alert. This is only the beginning. There are still approximately 3-1/2 years of the Obama Regime left. That is plenty of time for all sorts of leftist/socialist mischief. That is a sobering thought – is it not?

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J. D. Longstreet is a conservative Southern American (A native sandlapper and an adopted Tar Heel) with a deep passion for the history, heritage, and culture of the southern states of America. At the same time he is a deeply loyal American believing strongly in “America First”.

J. D. Longstreet blogs daily at INSIGHT on Freedom

 

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