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THE AMERICAN CREED
I believe in
the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for
the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed, a
democracy in a republic, a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect
union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom,
equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their
lives and fortunes.
I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies. –Written 1917 by William Tyler Page, accepted by the United States House of Representatives on April 3, 1918.
I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies. –Written 1917 by William Tyler Page, accepted by the United States House of Representatives on April 3, 1918.
THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO GOD COUNTRY & THESE TWO CHAMPIONS FOR AMERICA AND OUR CHILDREN!
CHARLOTTE ISERBYT
is an American freelance writer who served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education during the first term of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Charlotte was the whistle blower who informed America about the treasonous plans which were to ultimately lead to the internationalization and deliberate dumbing down of American education through a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America's classrooms. Charlotte is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000.
See her video's under the tab "the Dumbing Down." RITALIN DEATH! The Truth About ADHD
Deliberately "dumbing us down" By Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's new book, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America," is without doubt one of the most important publishing events in the annals of American education in the last hundred years. John Dewey's "School and Society," published in 1899, set American education on its course to socialism. Rudolf Flesch's "Why Johnny Can't Read," published in 1955, informed American parents that there was something terribly wrong with the way the schools were teaching children to read, and my own book, "NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education," published in 1984, explained in great detail how and why the decline in public education was taking place. READ MORE: http://www.ritalindeath.com/Education/dumbing-us-down.htm |
JOHN M. ASHBROOK
He served on the House Internal Security Committee (formerly the House Committee on Un-American Activities) and on the Education and Labor Committee. An ardent conservative and one of the most articulate anti-Communists in Congress, Ashbrook used his committee assignments to oppose the expansion of federal aid to education and other New Deal and Great Society programs. Throughout his political life he acquired a nationwide reputation as an intelligent, candid, and persuasive champion of the conservative cause. By the end of Richard Nixon's first term as president, Ashbrook had established himself as a national political leader with impeccable conservative credentials, and he contributed energetically to the national conservative movement.
The Ashbrook papers are in the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio. The collection spans the years 1950 to 1982 and consists of 309 linear feet of predominantly congressional papers with some personal and business files. See also John M. Ashbrook and Randy McNutt, No Left Turns: A Handbook for Conservatives Based on the Writings of John M. Ashbrook (1986); Charles A. Moser, Promise and Hope: The Ashbrook Presidential Campaign of 1972 (1985); and U.S. Congress, Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, Together with Tributes Presented in Eulogy of John M. Ashbrook, Late a Representative from Ohio, 97th Cong., 2d session., 1982. Obituaries are in the New York Times and the Washington Post, 25 Apr. 1982. |
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FROM Glenn Beck:
Every so often these types of videos pop up, but this video is one of the more stunningly sad you’ll ever see in this genre. From thinking the Vice President of the United States is Bin Laden to naming a country that starts with the letter U (‘Europe?’) this video is shocking – namely because these are the kids who will one day be running America. Scary. “I think there’s a problem in this nation. We keep talking about we’ve got to fix our schools. No, no. We have to have a real frank conversation with what our schools are really like,” Glenn said. ” This is from Washington State. This is one of the students saying, what I wanted to do is I wanted to see if — how dumb my fellow students were. Did anybody have any idea about American history at all?” |
Even prior to a quality education and shaping our children’s minds, we must have their HEARTS!
H – If their hearts are soft toward us and open to the Lord, this is of far greater value than anything else.
E – Education is education for eternity. We can impress on our children to keep their eye on eternity and not become distracted by the pleasures of the world.
A – Attitudes and abilities are developed during these years. Because of the closeness of the family, children with bad attitudes cannot fly under the parental radar undetected. We can also take pains to develop their abilities and encourage their talents.
R – Right relationships can be pursued by our children, leading to a healthy social life. If we can get the relationships right in the home, the children can interact rightly with the world.
T – For today and tomorrow, we cherish the thought of today and relish the thought of tomorrow. Homeschooling allows us to look to their tomorrow with confidence.
H – If their hearts are soft toward us and open to the Lord, this is of far greater value than anything else.
E – Education is education for eternity. We can impress on our children to keep their eye on eternity and not become distracted by the pleasures of the world.
A – Attitudes and abilities are developed during these years. Because of the closeness of the family, children with bad attitudes cannot fly under the parental radar undetected. We can also take pains to develop their abilities and encourage their talents.
R – Right relationships can be pursued by our children, leading to a healthy social life. If we can get the relationships right in the home, the children can interact rightly with the world.
T – For today and tomorrow, we cherish the thought of today and relish the thought of tomorrow. Homeschooling allows us to look to their tomorrow with confidence.
THE TRUTH IS OUT! WE KNEW IT, AND THEY PROVED IT!
America's
teachers unions have proven, with their actions, that they do NOT have the best
interests of America's schoolchildren at heart. They have placed our state capitols under siege, they have ruined untold
thousands of schools nationwide and subjected millions of American school children to a sub-par
education, they have endorsed Barack Hussein Obama, they have fought against family values, have promoted Satanic/Marxist Saul Alinsky, and have even admitted they're in it for the power and money, not for their
professed love of teaching. And now from Michigan, we see yet more evidence proving that they see our kids as 'useful idiots,' who they can exploit to help elect Marxists who they believe will push the education budget yet higher. Basically, teachers unions see our priceless school children as meal tickets, and nothing more.
Personally, I would like to see all public sector unions abolished, since they represent the narrow, selfish interests of taxpayer-funded employees, and I would like to see the teachers who actually do a good job, to be given raises, and those who don't, to be fired without years of bureaucratic red tape holding up the wheels of justice.
And I'd LOVE to see so-called 'administrators' reduced by two-thirds; we have far too many principals leeching off of taxpayers per school. One per public school, plus no more than two assistants, are plenty, especially for an elementary school. That's all we had in my school growing up, and it was more than enough. I suppose I'm just tired of our taxpayer dollars being used against us year after year, election after election. At some point, we must stand up for ourselves and throw the bums out!
Personally, I would like to see all public sector unions abolished, since they represent the narrow, selfish interests of taxpayer-funded employees, and I would like to see the teachers who actually do a good job, to be given raises, and those who don't, to be fired without years of bureaucratic red tape holding up the wheels of justice.
And I'd LOVE to see so-called 'administrators' reduced by two-thirds; we have far too many principals leeching off of taxpayers per school. One per public school, plus no more than two assistants, are plenty, especially for an elementary school. That's all we had in my school growing up, and it was more than enough. I suppose I'm just tired of our taxpayer dollars being used against us year after year, election after election. At some point, we must stand up for ourselves and throw the bums out!
FLORIDA LEGISLATORS NEED TO -
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Jeb Bush Is Not A Star But Just A Man!
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MICHIGAN TEACHER'S UNIONS EXPOSED!
For more than two years, the Michigan Education Association [MEA] has had a manual that urges its members to use students as propaganda in contract negotiations and also lays out how to organize strikes,” writes Tome Gantert of Michigan Capitol Confidential. Considering the fact that teacher strikes are illegal in Michigan, some may find it odd that the MEA has been encouraging this sort of behavior. In fact, the MEA has done a lot more than just “encourage” potentially illegal activity. As Gantert reports, the organization produced an anonymously written 28-page manual titled, “Building Full Capacity Locals — Crisis Planning, It’s Never Too Ear...” While much of the rhetoric in this “crisis planning” handbook is unsettling (”The worst time to plan for a crisis is when you are in the middle of one, so crisis planning should commence at the same time that planning for actual bargaining begins”), perhaps the most disturbing moment occurs when one section appears to quote almost verbatim Saul Alinksy’s “Rules For Radicals.” Alinsky instructs his followers to “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Likewise, the MEA manual instructs teachers to “Pick a target—personalize—and polarize the opposition [pg. 17].” And those are just the verbatim quotes; the entire manual is a handbook for creating, managing, and profiting from crises. Representatives of the MEA were unavailable for comment when The Blaze contacted them for more information. “What’s really troubling about this publication isn’t what’s inside, it’s right there on the cover. This organization has decided it is above the law that has empowered them so much in so many other ways,” said Paul Kersey, director of labor policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, according to the Michigan Capitol Confidential article. “We have given them the authority to represent employees who individually may not support them, and to collect dues and agency fees from them and have them fired if they refuse. But the union does not feel it is bound by the law’s prohibition of government strikes,” he said. The manual states that the “MEA (Michigan Education Assoc.)… supports and defends its members who engage in a strike,” which, again, is illegal in Michigan. But if an out-and-out strike isn’t your thing, don’t worry! With a variety of passive aggressive protest methods, the manual has you covered. One of the passive methods suggested by the MEA is “Work-To-Rule” actions where employees refuse to do anything outside of what is included in their contract. “Understand that a local is limited only by its collective imagination when it comes to specific work-to-rule actions,” the manual states. “If you carefully examine your contract you will probably find a number of work-to-rule opportunities. Keep in mind, however, that you don’t want to violate the contract or past practice; you want to adhere to it … exactly!” And of course, what union protest would be complete without the exploitation of children in the bargaining process? “In terms of a bargaining message, the public responds most positively when we talk about children, quality in the classroom and the future,” the MEA manual states. “There may come a time when it’s appropriate to talk about money and benefits, but lay the groundwork first. The manual even suggests one slogan that it claims has worked for other locals: “It’s not about dollars and cents; it’s about our children.” |
THE SADNESS IN TODAY'S EDUCATION!
_ Sadly, education today is not about the children. It is about control, money and the push for agenda's that will not only affect the lives of our children for years, but help to bring about the ruination of America if we cannot turn it around.
As far back as the 1800's, John Dewey, a strong Marxist, was implementing his ideas as to how education should be presented to our children and how. Today, we have our Secretary of Education, President and those on the left following Progressivism, Socialism or whatever you want to call it, implementing education programs under the guise of "making it better"; "improving our education system"; holding our teachers accountable and "better preparing our children for their futures".
Not so even our teachers will tell you! I have no problem holding our teachers accountable to a point. How can you expect teachers to teach your children and gain success when they continue changing the rules of the game? They change the standards, curriculum's and fail to include the teachers in the discussions or educate them in the "new" ways.
Around 1996 we would see political will began to focus around some key issues for education, specifically, what sort of student should emerge from a high school education. Important to some, but few knew what was actually happening. Large corporation heads began to become involved in education - people like Bill Gates and Louis Gerstner. They formed Achieve, Inc. which along with the help of the nation's governors and business leaders. Formed as a bipartisan, non-profit organization to help states raise academic standards, improve assessments and strengthen accountability to prepare all young people for post-secondary education, work and citizenship.
This idea might have worked if they had not lowered the standards, changed how they were grading and continued to focus on the tests that were to be taken rather than the actual education of the children. This was the fore runner in Florida for the "No Child Left Behind" program and a total focus on Comprehensive Assessment Tests. Every state formed their own version of the program. Teachers would spend more time teaching the children how to pass the tests for a particular year, rather than being able to focus on everything. Accountable! I think not!
Now they give us the "Common Core Standards" - written by David Coleman and Susan Pimentel - There are two really important reasons why this program is not good.
One, there is no scope or sequence which is an important aspect of curriculum requirements. When a student is sitting in a classroom and going from one grade level to the next, it is vitally important that the curriculum requirements be tightly linked from one grade level to the next or else huge chasms will occur of which the child will fall into. In other words, if a student has not learned in one grade level how to use a preposition they will certainly not know in the next grade level not to put one at the end of a sentence. If they did not learn in one grade level what a participle is then certainly they will not know in the next grade level what a dangling participle is.
Unless the standards used increase the depth and complexity in a smooth transition from one grade to another, holes in the children’s cognitive progression will occur. These holes represent the lack of prior knowledge. It is the lack of prior knowledge that keeps students from proceeding successfully to the next concept. This is particularly true in the area of grammar and usage which are competency based. Some would say how this is important when they have fallen into a world of “texting”. Have you paid attention to the result of how your children and grandchildren talk as a result of a life of texting?
Two, another concern about the new standards is that they are only for Math and English. The emphasis on those subjects in No Child Left Behind's assessment scheme led to a dangerous narrowing of curriculum in public schools; the arts disappeared in many systems, science and history and physical education took a back seat too. However, the test scores reveal our students are graduating without knowing how to read. In Florida, over 50% of our students are required to take remedial classes in their Freshman year of college.
I do not know about anyone else, but holding the teachers totally accountable for the progress of our children and the level of their ability does not seem quite fair to me when you have people who have never worked in education nor have they been trained in education, making changes and choices when they should stick to what they know best.
As far back as the 1800's, John Dewey, a strong Marxist, was implementing his ideas as to how education should be presented to our children and how. Today, we have our Secretary of Education, President and those on the left following Progressivism, Socialism or whatever you want to call it, implementing education programs under the guise of "making it better"; "improving our education system"; holding our teachers accountable and "better preparing our children for their futures".
Not so even our teachers will tell you! I have no problem holding our teachers accountable to a point. How can you expect teachers to teach your children and gain success when they continue changing the rules of the game? They change the standards, curriculum's and fail to include the teachers in the discussions or educate them in the "new" ways.
Around 1996 we would see political will began to focus around some key issues for education, specifically, what sort of student should emerge from a high school education. Important to some, but few knew what was actually happening. Large corporation heads began to become involved in education - people like Bill Gates and Louis Gerstner. They formed Achieve, Inc. which along with the help of the nation's governors and business leaders. Formed as a bipartisan, non-profit organization to help states raise academic standards, improve assessments and strengthen accountability to prepare all young people for post-secondary education, work and citizenship.
This idea might have worked if they had not lowered the standards, changed how they were grading and continued to focus on the tests that were to be taken rather than the actual education of the children. This was the fore runner in Florida for the "No Child Left Behind" program and a total focus on Comprehensive Assessment Tests. Every state formed their own version of the program. Teachers would spend more time teaching the children how to pass the tests for a particular year, rather than being able to focus on everything. Accountable! I think not!
Now they give us the "Common Core Standards" - written by David Coleman and Susan Pimentel - There are two really important reasons why this program is not good.
One, there is no scope or sequence which is an important aspect of curriculum requirements. When a student is sitting in a classroom and going from one grade level to the next, it is vitally important that the curriculum requirements be tightly linked from one grade level to the next or else huge chasms will occur of which the child will fall into. In other words, if a student has not learned in one grade level how to use a preposition they will certainly not know in the next grade level not to put one at the end of a sentence. If they did not learn in one grade level what a participle is then certainly they will not know in the next grade level what a dangling participle is.
Unless the standards used increase the depth and complexity in a smooth transition from one grade to another, holes in the children’s cognitive progression will occur. These holes represent the lack of prior knowledge. It is the lack of prior knowledge that keeps students from proceeding successfully to the next concept. This is particularly true in the area of grammar and usage which are competency based. Some would say how this is important when they have fallen into a world of “texting”. Have you paid attention to the result of how your children and grandchildren talk as a result of a life of texting?
Two, another concern about the new standards is that they are only for Math and English. The emphasis on those subjects in No Child Left Behind's assessment scheme led to a dangerous narrowing of curriculum in public schools; the arts disappeared in many systems, science and history and physical education took a back seat too. However, the test scores reveal our students are graduating without knowing how to read. In Florida, over 50% of our students are required to take remedial classes in their Freshman year of college.
I do not know about anyone else, but holding the teachers totally accountable for the progress of our children and the level of their ability does not seem quite fair to me when you have people who have never worked in education nor have they been trained in education, making changes and choices when they should stick to what they know best.
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