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US Surrenders Educational Institutions To Islamic Radicals
The Bulletin ^ | January 30, 2009 | Herb Denenberg

Posted on 01/30/2009 10:03:07 AM PST by jazusamo

There’s growing evidence that America may be meeting its educational Waterloo and that our educational system is being captured by radical Islamists. As Robert Spencer put it so well in his classic book, The Stealth Jihad, radical Islam is subverting America without guns or bombs.

The radical Islamists have scored dramatic victories in determining what students are taught in America about Islam, and we don’t even seem to know what is happening. The radical Islamists have managed a massive penetration of our educational system that teaches everyone from the youngest students all the way up to students at our colleges and universities.

Here is what the radical Islamists are doing at all educational levels, according to Mr. Spencer:

“Of all the arenas in which the stealth jihad is advancing, one of the most crucial is in our schools, where stealth jihadists have found a welcoming environment among teachers deeply steeped in the credo of multiculturalism. With the mandate of ‘tolerance’ robbing many educators of their ability to evaluate non-Western cultures critically, teachers are highly susceptible to an organized campaign by U.S.-based Islamic organizations and their primary benefactors, Saudi Arabia, to present a view of Islam that whitewashes its violent history and intolerant religious imperatives.”


In other words, if you can’t evaluate other cultures and decide whether our culture is better, you’re hardly in a position to defend your own culture against the rising tide of its enemies, including the radical Islamists also known as islamofascists.

You can’t effectively defend your culture if you think all cultures are pretty much the same.

The radical Islamist have launched a two-pronged assault on our educational system at the pre-college level:

1. In Islamic academies in America, with teaching materials from Saudi Arabia and other sources, the academies indoctrinate unequivocal hatred toward non-Muslims, and deep suspicion of our Western values.

2. The opposite approach is taken in our mainstream schools. U.S.-based Islamic groups place lesson plans and other educational materials that are about the opposite of the antagonistic materials placed in Islamic academies. In the mainstream public schools this is what Mr. Spencer says takes place: Islamic instruction “presents a picture of Islam that is so pristine and peaceful that it sometimes crosses the boundary from mere pro-Muslim bias to outright Islamic proselytizing.

So the radical Islamists are not only indoctrinating young students but may well be on the road to converting them to Islam.


The findings of a study released in June 2008 by the American Textbook Council, an independent national research organization that evaluates the quality of textbooks, finds where we are now with educational materials used in our schools. Mr. Spencer says here is what it found about what ten of the most widely used middle school and high school social studies textbooks teach. They “present an incomplete and confected view of Islam that misrepresents its foundations and challenges to international security.” Mr. Spencer writes, “The report found that the books present highly tendentious constructions as undisputed truth, making common cause with West-hating multiculturalists to bowdlerize the presentation of Islam, denigrate or downplay Christianity and Western civilization, and transform many public school textbooks into proselytizing tracts.”

Incredible as that is, even more incredible is that this tendency has only intensified since 9/11.

California seventh graders use a text that defines jihad as follows: “Muslims should fulfill jihad with the heart, tongue and hand. Muslims use the heart in their struggle to resist evil. The tongue may convince others to take up worthy causes, such as funding medical research. Hands may perform good works and correct wrongs.”

Mr. Spencer writes, “It gives no idea that Muslims have ever viewed jihad as involving, in whole or part, warfare against unbelievers, or have ever waged war on that basis. Muhammad, meanwhile, far from exhorting his followers to subjugate unbelievers, ‘taught equality’ and was a prototypical compassionate liberal who instructs Muslims ‘to share their wealth and to care for the less fortunate in our society.’”

In other words, this is classic Orwellian inversion of the false into the true. What’s even worse, the Textbook Council found, “While seventh-grade textbooks describe Islam in glowing language, they portray Christianity in harsh light. Students encounter a startling contrast. Islam is featured as a model of interfaith tolerance; Christians wage wars of aggression and kill Jews. Islam provides models of harmony and civilization. Anti-Semitism, the Inquisition, and wars of religion bespot the Christian record.”

Mr. Spencer asks whether publicly-funded schools and even private schools should be allowed to teach doctrines that flatly contradict the Constitution, as Sharia does? Should our students be taught to remove all obstacles to the spread and dominance of Islam? Should students be indoctrinated with an anti-Christian and anti-American bias?

It’s time these questions are studied, discussed, and acted on by an informed citizenry. Otherwise, we stand to lose our culture and America, as we know it. We are in the process of surrendering our children and our nation to radical Islam and we seem to be unaware of what is happening.

If that’s not disheartening enough, I’ve told only half the story of what is going on in our educational system — only at the pre-college level. Our colleges and universities are also going down the tubes and are being turned into centers of anti-Americanism, indoctrination of students to favor Islam, and placing thought and debate on this subject in an ideological straitjacket favoring Islam.

Our colleges and universities have abandoned their function and are now in the business of radical Islamic propagandizing. Here is what universities are supposed to do, according to a University of California at Berkeley’s Academic Personnel Manual. This section was inserted by President Robert Gordon Sproul in 1934.

But don’t be encouraged by what has been called a ringing affirmation of the commitment of the university to education, not propaganda. The universities are now in the business of propaganda, of brain washing, and indoctrination. It is no accident that this ringing affirmation of the true function of the university has been removed from its academic manual, as of 2003:

“The function of the university is to seek and to transmit knowledge and to train students in the processes whereby truth is made known. To convert, or to make converts, is alien and hostile to this dispassionate duty. Where it becomes necessary in performing this function of a university, to consider political, social, or sectarian movements, they are dissected and examined, not taught, and the conclusion left with no tipping of the scales, to the logic of facts.”

What goes on at our colleges and universities can be communicated in a case study of Professor Omid Safi, who should be called Propagandist for Radical Islam Safi. One of his assignments given students called for critical reports on Islamophobes, neo-cons, Western triumphalists, etc. included on a long list that named some of our greatest scholars and most distinguished authors such as Bernard Lewis, considered the West’s greatest authority on Islam, Samuel Huntington, Alan Bloom, Leo Strauss, Bat Yeor, Patricia Crone, William Bennett, William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, and many others.

Notice that Professor Safi labeled these people as Islamophobes or some other pejorative term to put them in the worst possible light. This is not teaching, but indoctrination, brain washing, and propagandizing. It is certainly not conducive to freedom of thought.

Would students evaluate these people on their own merits knowing that the professor is harshly condemning their work? Would a student say Bernard Lewis is a great scholar and his work represents some of the most important scholarship on Islam?

This is not a list of people to be evaluated on their merits. It is the professor’s enemies list and students are likely to write accordingly. You don’t get an A by proving your professor is a fool even if he is.

Professor Safi has abandoned all the traditional professorial ideal of pursuit of the truth, and is in the business of propaganda and thought control. He should have been fired immediately. So what happened?

He was teaching at Colgate, but his propagandizing soon meant he had a position at a more prestigious university, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Yes, our universities have come to that – academic promotions for propagandizing professors who have abandoned all the principles on which university education should be based.

Mr. Spencer says Professor Safi may not be a stealth jihadist, but he is certainly serving the cause of the stealth jihadists: “Professors who prevent their students from learning about Islam in an objective manner, and those like Safi who place an ideological straightjacket on their students, are performing a valuable service for the stealth jihad.

For in this manner Professor Safi signaled to students that any investigation of Islamic supemacism, violent or non-violent, would be classed as ‘Islamophobia,’ ‘unrepentant Orientalism,’ ‘Western triumphalism,’ and even ‘neo-conservatism’ — all the worst epithets in today’s academy.”

Professor Safi is all too typical of the propaganda professors and political agitators who have taken over many university departments and who are facilitating the programs of the stealth jihadists.

Professor Safi joined a whole team of like-minded people at the University of North Carolina. The school was in the news in 2002 when incoming freshmen were assigned a book on the Quran that focused only on passages that suggest relative tolerance and mutual coexistence between Muslims and nonbelievers. However, the doctrines of jihad and dhimmitude (second-class citizenship for nonbelievers), which mainstream Islamic scholars say supersede the more tolerant passages are not included in the book. So the passages that have proven so oppressive and even fatal to Christians Jews, and other non-Muslims throughout history are not in the book.

A North Carolina professor produced that sanitized version of the Quran. Another wrote a book, which said any criticism of Islam, was based on Jungian projection, i.e., the critics are projecting their negative characteristics onto others. Mr. Spencer asks whether 9/11 and a long list of other Islamic atrocities were somehow imaginary and merely projected onto the Islamists by critics.

The distorted thinking at the University of North Carolina is also illustrated by an experience Mr. Spencer had after speaking there on the threat of the stealth jihad. A University of North Carolina professor wrote a paper on Mr. Spencer’s appearance. That professor did not and perhaps could not challenge what Mr. Spencer said on the merits. So he said Mr. Spencer’s books were published by conservative publishing companies and were non-scholarly.

This shows how universities such as North Carolina have become propaganda mills, not true universities. The professor could not discuss Mr. Spencer’s ideas on the merits. He could only point out that they were published by a company that may be on the wrong side of the ideological fence.

North Carolina makes a perfect case study for another reason. That’s because on March 3, 2006, a 22-year old Iranian student drove his SUV onto the North Carolina campus and tried to kill people. He did injure nine people. After the incident, the student was pleased with himself and said he was “thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah.”

In a letter, he explained why he set out to murder the residents of Chapel Hill “by running them over with my automobile and stabbing them with a knife if the opportunities are presented to me by Allah.” In the letter he says he is just “a servant of Allah.” He justifies his acts by saying in the Koran “Allah states that the believing men and women have permission to murder anyone responsible for the killing of other believing men and women … After extensive contemplation and reflection, I have made the decision to exercise the right of violent retaliation that Allah has given me to the fullest extent to which I am capable at present.”

He said further, “Allah’s commandments are never to be questioned and all of Allah’s commandments must be obeyed. Those who violate Allah’s commandments and purposefully follow human fabrication and falsehood as their religion will burn in fire for eternity in accordance with Allah’s will.”

Mr. Spencer says this tragedy might have been averted if the North Carolina professors would have stopped denying the jihadist ideology and the Islamic supremacism found in the Koran and elsewhere, and called on local Muslim groups “to develop comprehensive programs teaching against the jihadist ideology and Islamic supremacism.” If the North Carolina professors had acted as professors instead of propagandists for jihadists the tragedy might have been prevented.

To understand how this is all happening, Mr. Spencer says follow the money. Saudis and others have been pouring Islamic money into our colleges and universities to buy up professors and departments to propagate their propaganda lines. Elite institutions, such as Harvard, Columbia, and Georgetown have demonstrated they are for sale, and have been sold to these anti-American, pro-jihadist forces. Our universities have become intellectual houses of prostitution for sale to any high bidder.

For more details on what is going on, you should read Mr. Spencer’s book,  Stealth Jihad. You will be shocked to the core, and also be shocked into realizing it is late in the game, and we better act now if we want to protect our nation, our culture, our freedoms, and our security.

Mr. Spencer says some of our first steps is to discard the politically correct orthodoxy that values “tolerance” of non-Western cultures above any objective search for truth.”

He says we are so far gone in the blindness of political correctness that “The mere suggestion that the jihadists’ hatred for us is rooted in the Qur’an [Koran] and other fundamental Islamic texts is simply not tolerated in academia. As a result, many American citizens as well as policy makers continue to cast about in vain for a way to satisfy our enemies’ grievances.” One such deluded policymaker is Barrack Hussein Obama who wants to talk to Iran and sweet talk them out of their firmly engraved objectives and ideologies.

Unless he is the Messiah the mainstream media claim he is, I can assure him his talking cure for terrorism and genocide is a waste of time and will simply give Iran more time to build a nuclear bomb.

Herb Denenberg is a former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioner, and professor at the Wharton School. He is a longtime Philadelphia journalist and  consumer advocate. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of the Sciences. His column appears daily in The Bulletin. You can reach him at advocate@thebulletin.us.


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To: metmom

That doesn’t make the federal government requiring they be part of a curriculum not a conservative position.


161 posted on 01/30/2009 10:00:22 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

There is nothing that the government can’t screw up once it gets its hands on it, education included and watching the decline of education and literacy with the increase in government interference bears that out.

The government shouldn’t be in the business of mandating anything *all for our own good*.

You can try to find excuses to try to justify it but just because you think that you have a good reason to impose your will on others doesn’t mean that you do.


162 posted on 01/30/2009 10:00:30 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
The government shouldn’t be in the business of mandating anything *all for our own good*.

Then why did the Founders empower them to do things like establish standard weights and measures, and require that they be used?

163 posted on 01/30/2009 10:02:10 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: yldstrk

“Islam is the tool of destruction and death forces”

Yep. So what? US citizens will do what the fed govt tells them to do. US citizens will believe what the fed govt tells them to believe. US citizens will follow the law the fed.gov tell thems to follow. Muslims figured this psyche glitch out long ago. Most US citizens are still blinded by a bogus faith which has long since passed them by.

As for those who won’t do, and won’t believe as mandated, well, they’re kooks and whackos.

Goodluck stopping this Islam thing. Gonna be tough though. The fed.gov is with the muslims celebrating the religion of peace. US observance of Ramadan is just around the next bend. How so? It’s already been acknowledged and honored by our past POTUS. In essence, applying a sense of credibility to the observance.

Now we will witness how Obama expands on it. I got my money on the official US observance of Ramadan within the next 5 years.


164 posted on 01/30/2009 10:03:29 PM PST by takenoprisoner
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To: tacticalogic; wintertime
That doesn’t make the federal government requiring they be part of a curriculum not a conservative position.

Sure it does. Supporting the government mandating anything is a liberal postition, through and through.

The government is not our master. It was not put in charge of us to make sure we toe the line, all for our own good of course. It is a representative republic, not an oligarchy.

165 posted on 01/30/2009 10:05:04 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: tacticalogic

Things are not people. Sheesh.

Mandating attendance at government controlled schools centers is not a power that the government was given.


166 posted on 01/30/2009 10:07:46 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: tacticalogic

“Then why did the Founders empower them to do things like establish standard weights and measures, and require that they be used? “

I’m thinking they didn’t want anything to do with the metric system. The measurements had to be measured differently.


167 posted on 01/30/2009 10:08:40 PM PST by takenoprisoner
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To: metmom
Things are not people. Sheesh.

Mandating attendance at government controlled schools centers is not a power that the government was given.

I said I was in favor of the federal govenment mandating some things. I didn't say what they were, and you didn't ask, you just assumed that if I was in favor of them mandating anything I must be in favor of them mandating everyting. That's your own polarizing logic at work.

The federal government is not empowered to require school attendance. Your state government is.

168 posted on 01/30/2009 10:12:56 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: wintertime
I propose that it be the same as is dished out to principals and teachers who willingly and knowingly pass illiterate and innumerate children from grade to grade.

What?!?! I'll get a raise????

169 posted on 01/30/2009 10:16:11 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: TruthConquers

The issues are separate. Public schools - SOME public schools - have issues.

As far as my attitude toward the average parent, I point to the election process of 2007/2008. The average parent’s grasp of history, math, economics, logic, and science is sub-fifth grade level.

You’ve seen the results of the history exam given to Harvard Seniors, right? 8th grade level American History exam - 30% passed.

It’ not just the average parent, it’s everyone.

It’s my belief that if we actually understood how to calculate net present value and future value, and understood what that meant in the context of TARP and Porkulus, we’d be assassinating elected officials everywhere.

We ‘hate’ math, however, and as such, Obama pledges the mortgaging of my daughter’s great, great grandchildren’s future, and he’s elected in an electoral landslide.

The argument, for example, that the idiots that signed up for their mortgages didn’t understand what they were getting into is just a metric ton of horse dung.

Their INABILITY TO COMPREHEND THE LOAN DOCUMENTS, in my mind, disqualified them from signing them - regardless of their age or educational level.

When they affixed the signature to the document, they SWORE they understood what they were getting into.

This is THE SAME CREW that you want teaching their own kids?

The school system is under some degree of public scrutiny, and the curicula is published. That’s at least something.

The average parent? Not qualified to sign a loan doc, apparently.


170 posted on 01/31/2009 10:18:21 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs

Ah!! The issues are NOT separate at all. It is the never ending beat of socialism that caused the politicization of taxpayer supported schools, run by the government.

It is really rich that you so complain about the average person as being too stupid to understand their loan docs, yet I BET EVERYONE OF THEM CAME FROM THOSE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, NOT HOMESCHOOLS!!!!!!!

Talk about irony. yesh.


171 posted on 01/31/2009 11:01:33 AM PST by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publici scholae)
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To: TruthConquers

“I BET EVERYONE OF THEM CAME FROM THOSE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, NOT HOMESCHOOLS!!!!!!!”

Your starting to track now. The people doing the homeschooling are the same people educated in the public school system. Remember, however, that in many, if not most, cases private schools have their own set of issues. If it isn’t burnout, it’s drugs, or its the math curriculum being shoddy.

Private schools lack the oversight.

MY WHOLE POINT: the average parent doesn’t have either the skill or the educational background in the basics to teach an elementary through middle school curriculum. That they don’t have the ability to teach High School shouldn’t even be a debate topic.

BECAUSE OF THIS: homeschooling isn’t a viable general fix for the public school situation. Worse, if adopted large scale, the quality of education would drop, not increase.


172 posted on 02/02/2009 9:38:36 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Kimmers

The parents are really the first and last line of defense in education. It’s that, or you get BLESSED and your kid figures out that EITHER I get an education, or I will never escape my circumstances.

For a LOT of kids, school is a safe place to be away from home. Homeschool would be a prison sentence for a lot of kids. Amazing how many HS seniors, once they turn 18, end up living either on the street or with a friend because they have been kicked LEGALLY out of their houses prior to HS graduation.

For a lot of kids, the meals they get at school are the only meals they are getting that day. In our neighborhood 42% of kids are on the free/reduced lunch program. 4 in 10.

Yet, gas is $2.00/gallon. If that isn’t price fixing, I don’t know what is.


173 posted on 02/02/2009 9:47:48 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs

You really don’t get it, do you?

Too bad, so sad, that you wish to encumber thousands of Americans with a sub system of slavery, instead of freedom.


174 posted on 02/02/2009 3:32:20 PM PST by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publici scholae)
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To: TruthConquers

‘Too bad, so sad . . .”

Are you six years old?

Seriously, do you not get the fact that the great bulk of parents just don’t have the skills?

Improper fractions, polynomials, point-slope formula, Brown v. Board of Education, ‘taxation without representation’, diagraming a sentence, unity of time and place, introductory clauses, igneous rock, symbiosis, acids and bases. . .

Most parents would just fold.

Retorts along the lines of ‘Too bad, so sad’ has to give a person pause in terms of considering educating their own kids.


175 posted on 02/02/2009 3:56:10 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs

“MY WHOLE POINT: the average parent doesn’t have either the skill or the educational background in the basics to teach an elementary through middle school curriculum.”

So, your whole point is NOBODY can teach if they have a public school education, and that includes ALL OF THE TEACHERS TEACHING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS TODAY!!!!!!Because we all know that the teaching credential has no classes covering the said curriculum that you claim the average parent lacks. And if you want to claim different you are going to HAVE to prove it because too many Freepers here have stated that there are NO SUCH CLASSES.

You want the children of the USA to remain in the dead, stupid, indoctrinating, soulless public schools. You want the children to die in ignorance and be enslaved by YOUR kind, so you can have a job. Heartless. Elitist snob.


176 posted on 02/02/2009 5:19:05 PM PST by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publici scholae)
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To: TruthConquers

Re-read my responses.

I said it isn’t a viable general alternative. For certain people, it works. For the majority, it doesn’t.

It’s all I’m saying.

The worst part is you can’t test the parent to see whether they are teaching their kids, or if you have a ‘blind leading the blind’ situation.

Public school teachers are degreed, go through student teaching, and have to maintain their certification. It doesn’t mean that ALL are good teachers. It does mean that someone’s regulating them. If the NEA weren’t around, you may have a shot at retaining the good ones and firing the bad ones.

By the way, the curriculum DOES have the classes on the subject matter they teach. You get certificated in a main subject area, with a sub-cert in a minor area.

Teaching is both art and science. You can have hyper-qualified people in an area of specialty, and they can have zero ability to reach students. Much of a teacher’s degree addresses this very thing, and more.

You’re suffering from media poisoning. The schools are a banquet. Kids pick what they want to eat and leave the rest. Some think it’ll be fat city forever, and the blow it off. Some know different, and make the most of it.

There’s some truth in what you’re saying about indoctrination, but the schools aren’t dead, or are they stupid, and they aren’t soulless either.

Schools are like any other opportunity - you deal with the limitations and make the most of the advantages. Funny how you don’t have to explain this to SE Asian kids.

I’ll tell you this much, I’d be dead right now if it were up to my parents teaching me school on a daily basis. Between school, and the military, I escaped.

You show me a myth that needs to die in America, and that’s the myth that mommy knows best. Mother’s are the most powerful legal entity in the USA.

You want to kill a union? The family court system would be a worthy adversary.

In the interest of full disclosure, I’m not a teacher. I’m an engineer. Any credit for me getting to this point belongs to the teachers I had in 3rd, 8th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades.

I had my share of bad ones too. From them I learned how to deal with bad bosses and survive. Same with the military.

They aren’t going to learn that from Mommy. You know what’s worse? If mommy can’t teach, they can’t wait until next year to get a fresh shot at a different teacher. They are stuck with mommy until they graduate. Year in and year out, sticking it out with mommy.

The good news for mommy is that since the kids don’t get another teacher, they never find out for quite a while how bad they were (or how good).

Either way, the kid doesn’t get a say in things, and even if they did, they’re ignorant about the matter because the one teacher’s all they’ve ever had (or two if dad’s involved). No principal’s going to come around and evaluate mommy to see if she’s any good at the job.

Here’s the thing: Public schools can be improved, like everything else. Looking at them ‘half-empty’ is one way to go about it. Parents, from my perspective, are OBLIGATED to teach their kids, even if the kids do spend all day at school.

My kids come home with neo-environmental cultism too. Then they sit and talk with dad. They come home with ‘black history month’, and I tell them it misses Dr. King’s point completely - that it was never about race, but character.

You can’t protect your children from different perspectives. Even homeschooling doesn’t work for that. Parents can, however, prepare them with tools for how to evaluate the merits of those perspectives.

If that’s being an elitist snob, then I guess you’re right.


177 posted on 02/02/2009 10:00:37 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs

Homeschooling is most certainly a viable alternative. A more wholesome and challenging one than any cookie cutter, red tape adder, parent discounting, students are just a number and a paycheck, system. And for the majority, the public schools are failing.

That’s all I am saying.

Your whole point about testing is unfounded. Homeless moms have homeschooled and her son who a perfect score on the SAT a few years ago. That mom wasn’t tested by anyone. And the teachers in the system WHEN THEY ARE TESTED, the majority don’t pass. The public school teachers in New York I believe couldn’t pass an eight grade test. Graduated teaching teachers couldn’t pass!!! What a royal rip off!! The idea that credentials have anything to do with ability is false and a paradigm of the left. Useless baloney.

The curriculum DOES NOT get taught. Just last week a Freeper posted a teaching friends confession that she was NOT taught enough math to teach well. MATH!! Never mind the shuffling of teaching assignments to classes that are not their area of study, and more than 70% of kids are taught by a teacher that is not in their area of study. Those teachers aren’t able to teach well and have their hands tied in knots.

The schools are dead soulless and full of indoctrination. Anyone who does not know this is got their head in the sand. This nation is going to lose its freedoms because of people like you who WANT to believe the schools can be saved and send their kids there. They are the reason why the left keeps making progress, while conservatives will become the bane of society. Do you not understand that is how 0 got elected? Are you asleep? The blind leading the blind?

The crack about media poisoning is a laugh. The media hates homeschoolers. HA!! Your the one that is poisoned by your own difficult past and the media. You believe that nonsense about homeschoolers are too “protected” HA! Your hate and pain makes it IMPOSSIBLE for you to be impartial towards homeschoolers.

If you think that some bureaucrat out there cares more about the kids in the schools, that is just sad. Truly. Do you know why the schools aren’t held responsible for the education of the kids FORCED to attend by law? BECAUSE THEIR IS NO LAW REQUIRING ANY CHILD TO BE EDCUATED BY THE TAXPAYER SUPPORTED SYSTEM. So you think this bastion of “hope” and failure should be in charge of who is worthy to teach? You want to give even more power to the feminazis in the schools? Where do you think all these metro sexual boys are coming from? They have only just started to turn over children to homo’s for adoption.

That is crazy. Your pain is short circuiting your brain. Your situation is not anywhere near “average” and the kids who have moms who really don’t care, those moms don’t homeschool.

As a personal note, the schools did not save me or my brothers. Our parents were too busy with their careers and putting each other though college to care about us. Not one teacher for the three of us helped or cared. Period. The schools may have saved you, but there are MORE kids they hurt and abandon than they help. Homeschooling moms are not YOUR mom. We are a feisty and dedicated bunch. We care more about the KIND of education that our children receive than ANYONE else. It does NOT take a village.

As far as I am concerned, credentialing, bureaucratizing, left leaning socialist institutions with mushy group think are not what made this country. It was FREEDOM. That your mom did not cherish you and care is a sin. But no school is going to care enough to make up for the loss of freedom you advocate. Do you really think that all homeschoolers should lose the freedoms we do have, just because your mom failed you? That is honestly, evil. Wake up.


178 posted on 02/03/2009 2:22:38 PM PST by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publici scholae)
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To: TruthConquers

That’s why your children must be kept away from the virulent influence of Quranic Islam. False religion.


179 posted on 02/09/2009 5:12:13 PM PST by myknowledge (Nothing beats Australia's F-22EMA Raptor)
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To: tacticalogic

What about teaching Islamophobic ideology to homeschooled kids?


180 posted on 02/09/2009 5:17:02 PM PST by myknowledge (Nothing beats Australia's F-22EMA Raptor)
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