http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Party-Communism-American-Industry/dp/customer-reviews/0761513760
Posted on 08/10/2007 7:43:28 AM PDT by NewMediaJournal
Any number of examples can be found these days to illustrate the poor or destructive education received by our children in the United States today. All across the country our children are being slighted by Teacher's Unions and organizations who don't wish to teach but wish to indoctrinate our children with their brand of political activism. From the whitewashing and PCing of our history textbooks to the failed "new" concepts in teaching being so regrettably foisted upon our little ones as an "education," the examples are legion and can be found with ease. That activism is almost universally in the socialist or communist mode of thinking, one antithetical to the whole of the American experience. It is a mode of thinking designed to destroy the things that make America great.
No better example can be found than that out of the Hilltop Children's Center of Seattle, Washington, where recently an experiment in communism was imposed upon the innocent children who were unfortunate enough to have had their unthinking parents force them to attend.*
In the face of a perfect example of the natural inclinations of man acted out by the children at this Seattle indoctrination center, the "teachers" there decided that their class room offered the perfect opportunity to, in their words, "launch a critical evaluation of ... the inequities of private ownership and hierarchical authority on which it was founded."
In other words, these teachers decided that the truly human characteristics exhibited by their students, those characteristics upon which our Founding Fathers based the greatest political experiment in liberty and freedom known to man, needed to be crushed, and that their children needed to have their humanity wiped clean in favor of a new, “collectivist” way of thinking.
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This is the same reason that Hillary wants to put our kids in schools at three years old. Early indoctrination. We need to get rid of the teacher unions or put our kids in private schools. Most schools, expecially in California, get the bulk of tax money that comes in. In our county, they get about 90% of all tax money. For what?
Another reason to homeschool.
Bully for you!
You should use Ann Coulter's Treason as your text. Heck, Ann herself might even be willing to come for a special visit on the subject. :-)
Ah, Seattle, the city that holds a touching annual memorial service for the poor Japanese on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. It wouldn’t bother me so much if the kids attending the “services” were also taught that the Japanese started the war with the vicious barbaric attack on Pearl Harbor. But somehow, that never gets mentioned.
The toxic German anti-enlightenment worldview of collectivism, altruism, and statism has created a toxic contemporary education system where the guiding principle is the principle of philosophical romanticism: irrational skepticism and the devaluation of man.
I've been wondering? Are you ~required~ to be an America basher to be a playwright or is it that it is just so helpful that rarely does anyone without this qualification manage to get anything produced?
Teach them also that there were witches in the Crucible just as there were Communists in America. The question is whether it was “okay” to be a witch or a Communist (some would also ask can you take the word of someone on trial to be honest in pinning others for the same crime).
Bring into it today’s partisan witchhunts and use the term “Nifongism”. Bring Johnny Sutton’s prosecution of the 2 border agents into the mix. Bring the trumped up charges (which are being dismissed slowly but surely) in the Hadditha “incident” (prosecution of US soldiers from the words of the insurgent terrorists). How about the partisan witchhunts of GOP leaders like Newt (who suffered an illegal wiretap of a cellphone call which was taped and released to the press), Tom DeLay (his case still hasn’t gone to trial), Bill Frist (his charges were dismissed)?
There is much to discuss with regards to The Crucible, just dismiss the Left’s talking points in the teacher’s plan.
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I am constantly amazed that the very people who want to teach these theories don’t realize they will become just another chattle of the government. When they are no longer useful; welcome to the slave labor camps.
u b tenured?
It isn’t just Seattle. My publik skool days in Maryland were loaded with communist agenda. I think it’s more of a good thing that kids don’t pay attention in school...that way they miss all the propaganda.
Unlike the Venona papers which should find a place in History class, On the Watrfront has as much place in an English class as the Crucible. You can accomplish the valuable goal of showing your students how to read and comprehend extended metaphor and present a valid point of view of the events of the 50 as well.
Also, stick to your guns about presenting another point of view. A very liberal professor, whom I admire, was asked by the NYC Bd. of Ed. to put togther a primary source unit on Apartheid. He did so by also including ideas of Paul Krueger and Jans Smuts and other Afrikaans which he presented without comment along with speeeches by Mandela and others. His goal was to let the kids come to their own conclusions. His work was rejected out of hand. He refused to deviate from his lesson plan and the Bd. cancelled his involvement in the project. He's still a liberal, and we have many discussions, but he actually expected the reaction he received. He knows too many see th schools as a place of indoctrination not education.
Don’t tell Hillary!!! She might want to move it to the White House lawn if (heaven forbid) she makes it to the Presidency.
“They were stunned when I refused to teach this material unless I could
also discuss with my students the Venona Project. Of course, they had
never heard of this project and insisted that it is a conspiracy theory.”
Here’s a bypass strategy (which would probably still get you fired/disciplined):
Just tell your colleagues you want to show a PBS NOVA show about the
McCarthy Era.
When they hear “PBS”, they’ll probably give you high-fives and say
“JUST DO IT!!!”
Then show this episode of NOVA:
Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/
I about had a freakin’ heart attack when I first saw this show:
it basically says that McCarthy was right...the US guvmint was riddled
with Soviet agents and sympathizers...his goof-ups started when he was
“naming names”.
This show aired a number of times on KCET (the PBS “superstation”
in Los Angeles) after it’s premeire.
I wonder if some of the SoCal lefties just wanted to see it so they
could see some of their Soviet “martyrs”.
Oh, and I’d recommend some anti-nausea medicine if you watch the show.
The smugness of traitor Ted Hall and his wife are pretty d-mned sickening.
Would you expect any different from a city that proudly has a statue of Lenin?
The Statue of Lenin in Seattle is a 16 foot bronze sculpture of Russian Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin located in the Fremont, Seattle, Washington neighborhood.
It should be noted that the Hilltop school is a small exclusive private school in Seattle.
Using it as an example to bash public schools is not a fair comparison.
Mind you, public schools in Seattle deserve plenty of bashing but complaints should be based on reality.
lol! keep up the good work.
i laughed when you said that your peers, or rather subordinates, did not know of the verona project.
and yes, the mccarthy era is a favorite brainwashing tool of the left. in one fell swoop they get nixon and reagan, too.
they never allow documented historical research, however.
Thanks for pointing that out, but my experience is that there is very little difference between public schools and some private schools. I’ll stand by my opinion.
Only in the mind of a Communist was “McCarthy” a bigger villian than Joseph Stalin.
yeah.
and these people read only books like howard zinn’s histories.
these are way out left.
he writes history from the point of view of the rear view mirror and spins it left and blames leaders of the past for not knowing what we know today.
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