Root Cause of US Education System Failure

[ScreamingEagle]

You just lost ALL credibility with me when you provided a link to end-timer Berit Kjos.

You far right wing Christians need to start your own country. America was NEVER, EVER yours.

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the Republican party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
Barry Goldwater

Well buddy just go stick your head in the sand......you're not the first in your myopic world to reject stuff written by ordinary people (a lawyer and a registered nurse) raised as Lutherans because they are....omg....outspoken CHRISTIANS....

Barry Goldwater also said ""Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." ...so maybe you shouldn't be knocking the "far right wing" so much......

fyi i just found the referenced page to be informative and IF YOU WILL NOTICE it was provided with FOOTNOTES which list the SOURCES from where he got the quotations.....

....many supplied by Dennis Laurence Cuddy, PhD., former Senior Associate of the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION...
....and Charlotte Iserbyt, former Senior Policy Advisor with the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.....

....but maybe you don't believe them either because maybe they are Christians too....

Dennis Laurence Cuddy...the author of 'Now Is the Dawning of the New Age New World Order' and a writer for News With Views.com, a Christian right website?

Charlotte Iserbyt...another NWO nutbag who accuses FDR of conspiring to goad Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor and and is also a writer for News With Views.com, a Christian right website??

It's amusing that you think accusations and insulting pictures constitute a valid argument.

Dennis Laurence Cuddy, historian and political analyst, received a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (major in American History, minor in political science), and taught in the public school system and at the university level. Dr. Cuddy has also authored hundreds of articles appearing in newspapers around the nation, and served as a senior associate with the U.S. Department of Education in Washington. He has been a guest on numerous radio talk shows in various parts of the country, such as ABC-Radio in New York City, and he has also been a guest on the national television programs "USA Today" and CBS' "Nightwatch."
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Nea-Chronology-National-Education-Association/dp/1575580527/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286049674&sr=1-6]Amazon.com: Nea: The Grab for Power : A Chronology of the National Education Association (9781575580524): Dennis Laurence Cuddy: Books[/ame]


What are your credentials....?

 

[Againsheila]

I think it's the high rate of illegitimacy and divorce in our society. Children having children. More than 30% illegitimacy nationwide and more than 68% among blacks. Children need TWO parents. Too many parents are children themselves and don't take care of their kids like they should. As someone once said "We're raising children when we should be raising parents"

 

[ScreamingEagle]

This is a great little article that pretty much outlines what has been/is happening in our schools. The NEA is the most powerful political force in our country....it has been backing Democrat progressives for decades....that is a FACT.

The unions (NEA, AFT) are involved in virtually every aspect of education this includes curriculum, text book selection, discipline, the cost of education, etc. The unions have a profound influence.

Parents are not the problem. Teachers aren't the problem. Students are not the problem. Sure all 3 could use improvement, nobody's perfect. However......anti-American political philosophy via the unions and politicians is the REAL underlying problem of our school system....

Why Our Schools Teach Socialism
By Joe Larson

Marxism and Humanism are the predominant philosophies of America's education establishment, yet every day we send the public schools our most precious gift, our children, to be "educated."

Our schools are filled with sex education, political correctness, environmental extremism, global unity, diversity training (pro-gay indoctrination), and "higher-order thinking skills" boldly claiming that, in order to become a higher order thinker, one must first believe absolutely that there are no absolutes!

Our schools are filled with violence, murder, extortion, rape, unwanted pregnancy, drug use, disrespect, and foul language. Test scores have been declining for decades as the numbers of children who cannot read continue to increase.

While the pontificators wonder why this is so, many parents and citizens have figured it out. Although earth worship, paganism and the occult flourish in public schools, the Greatest Story Ever Told, based on the greatest book ever written, the Holy Bible, which tells of the greatest teacher who ever lived, Jesus Christ, is not used or even allowed. The Bible was America's first textbook, but today it is referred to as a collection of fables.

America's educational system began to decline with the introduction of socialism, given impetus by the increasing involvement of the federal government. Lenin said: "Communism is socialism in a hurry." Socialism, therefore, is Communism by gradualism rather than by revolution. The socialist "Fabian Society," forerunner of most socialist groups in America, had as its motto "Make Haste Slowly."

"Democratic socialism" became the battle cry for socializing the United States. The goal was to "permeate and penetrate," then control from within. The socialists' first target was education, and they attacked with deceitful language. There were no badges or socialist labels; followers described themselves as "liberal," "progressive," and even "moderate." Words were the weapon of choice in this new war. By changing the meanings of words, socialists concealed their true purpose.

This massive social engineering was carried out under the banners of "reform" and "social justice." These innovations are in the public interest, Americans were told. They promote true democracy, humanitarianism, and, of course are "for the children." The buzzwords of socialism were and still are "social" and "democracy" (i.e. social science, social studies and socialization of the child).

In the early 1900s, unrest in Europe brought thousands of socialists to America. Many held degrees in psychology, sociology and psychiatry (the behavioral sciences) and a number of them became university professors.

Norman Thomas, a socialist and member of the American Civil Liberties Union, boldly told the world: "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."

John Dewey, known as "the father of modern education," was an avowed socialist and the co-author of the "Humanist Manifesto." The U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities discovered that he belonged to 15 Marxist front organizations. Dewey taught the professors who trained America's teachers. Obsessed with "the group," he said, "You can't make socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society, which is coming, where everyone is interdependent."

Author Rosalie Gordon, writing about Dewey's progressive (socialist) education in her book What's Happened To Our Schools, said: "The progressive system has reached all the way down to the lowest grades to prepare the children of America for their role as the collectivists of the future. The group - not the individual child - is the quintessence of progressivism. The child must always be made to feel part of the group. He must indulge in group thinking and group activity."

After visiting the Soviet Union, Dewey wrote six articles on the "wonders" of Soviet education. The School-To-Work program, now in our public schools in all 50 states, is modeled after the Soviet poly-technical system.

In 1936, the National Education Association stated the position from which it has never wavered: "We stand for socializing the individual." The NEA, in its Policy For American Education, opined: "The major problem of education in our times arises out of the fact that we live in a period of fundamental social change. In the new democracy [what happened to our republic?], education must share in the responsibility of giving purpose and direction to social change. The major function of the school is the social orientation of the individual . . . Education must operate according to a well-formulated social policy."

NEA specialist Paul Haubner, tells us, "The schools cannot allow parents to influence the kind of values-education their children receive in school; . that is what is wrong with those who say there is a universal system of values. Our goals are incompatible with theirs. We must change their values."

Chester M. Pierce, M.D., Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard, had this to say: "Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our Founding Fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well - by creating the international child of the future."

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Why Our Schools Teach Socialism -- September 2001 Education Reporter

 

[rightwinger]

Our schools and education system went to hell when segregation started. It's true.

I agree

Segregation was the worst thing to ever happen to our schools

 

[rightwinger]

I think it's the high rate of illegitimacy and divorce in our society. Children having children. More than 30% illegitimacy nationwide and more than 68% among blacks. Children need TWO parents. Too many parents are children themselves and don't take care of their kids like they should. As someone once said "We're raising children when we should be raising parents"

I agree with Sheila...

It is the breakdown of the family structure that is having the biggest effect on our education system