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To: steve harris who wrote (657686)	6/5/2012 9:28:19 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1570830

Political Correctness in Public Schools 06/05/2012 setourchildrenfree.com On May 15th and 16th of 2012, Channel One, which is shown to six million middle and high school students each school day, aired a two part video series that gave a very sanitized view of Islam and Muslims in America. Schools accepted Channel One a few years ago because it put free TVs in every classroom, and it was paid for by a few brief commercials which pedaled products that appealed to teens. The initial programming was apolitical, but like everything else connected to public schools, it apparently has succumbed to political correctness. Political correctness, as practiced in today’s schools, is pressure to conform to the prevailing philosophies of federal, state, and local education officials. These philosophies encompass a very humanistic point of view where government is the center of the universe, and the nurturing and indoctrination of its children its most important function. The only morality comes not from God, but from the sacred collectivist view of conformity to group values. Therefore, the overriding goal of the system is to foster trust in this statist dogma, which includes evolution, feminism, globalism, social engineering, income redistribution, stewardship of the earth, a commitment to equality of results for all, and a submission of personal goals to those of the state. No education official will openly admit that these are the goals of the educational system, but that is exactly what it has become in practice. In fact, I’m sure that most school administrators and teachers are not consciously aware of the mindset that has gradually and insidiously taken over the curriculum and administration of our schools during the past couple of generations. Many of them have never even been challenged in their core beliefs, and blindly assume that everyone else feels the same way they do. Despite this, those who speak out against the established orthodoxy will do so at their own peril, since education policymakers as well as teachers’ unions are adept at silencing all dissent. I’ll be kind and say that some of this started with good intentions, but much of it is purposeful. But purposeful or not, our public schools have devolved into public indoctrination centers for the political left. Anti-bullying programs become gay lifestyle sensitivity sessions. Environmental science becomes U.N. Agenda 21 training. Civics class becomes social justice indoctrination. Abraham Lincoln said that the philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow. America will be unrecognizable to us soon, if we don’t act now. We must demand school choice at the state level. The Supreme Court last year basically gave a green light to states to give tax breaks, even for private religious schools, in its *Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization* ruling. Don’t buy the argument that this will mark the end of public schools. There will be the same number of students and teachers - only the logistics and buildings that house them will change. Not that we should give up on public schools, because what happens there will still affect most students. We need to oppose the International Baccalaureate Program, which encompasses much of the globalist, earth-loving agenda of the left. And we need to oppose all mandates and efforts to control education from the federal level. We are a nation of states, and the feds don’t share our values. The Tenth Amendment guarantees that things like education are the purview of the states, but the Obama administration has corrupted local education officials with our own money. Programs like Race-To-The- Top tempt cash-strapped school districts with money that comes with strings attached – federal control, and federal control always means political correctness. But above all, demand that your state legislators let you use your money to educate your kids the way you see fit. That is the essence of school choice and we should demand nothing less. America must be saved one student at a time.