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Why Liberals Want Ignorant Voters
Our founding fathers knew that an educated public was necessary to protect and preserve our republic. Therefore, they passed the Old Deluder Satan Law in 1647 which required towns to provide a school where reading, writing, and the Bible would be taught. Since then, progressive educational policy makers have been undermining that early view of our republic.
Preserving our republic is still possible if the root of the problem is understood, if energies are focused, and if reformers are determined to eradicate the cause. To date, the approach to educational reform has been like that of a neighbor whose yard is a bed of dandelions. He picks the flower heads and leaves the roots to grow deeper and stronger to produce multiple flowers next week. The root of the problem facing education has grown thick as a sequoia tree.
The Department of Education disseminates federal educational funds to the states to make sure the mandates which follow those funds are properly implemented. Common Core Standards are federally mandated standards which define what is to be taught in each subject in every classroom across the United States.
According to the Aspen Institute’s “A New Civic Literacy: American Education and Global Interdependence,” increased federal control of education is essential to provide policy experts unfettered access to school curricula and to programs for teacher preparation. According to the proposal, this move is vital to “enhance the capacity of Americans to cope with interdependence,” a phrase meaning a one-world order. These policies are focused on changing the values and traditions of the American public—not on improving the academic achievement of America’s students.
Hundreds of federal policies and policy papers by educational experts indicate that once the Federal government gains sufficient control of schools, the next step is to increase UN involvement and to change the way schools are funded. Once the states no longer fund the educational system, citizens will have no more control over education than they do over their retirement or their health care.
When the federal government decides that homeschooling curricula does not enhance the capacity of Americans to cope with global interdependence or a global economy, what will happen to homeschooling?
Those who have focused on charter schools as the solution seem unaware of ways the program is being exploited to create a federal crisis that will eventually result in the elimination of all charter schools. Albert Shanker, President of the American Federation of Teachers, encouraged establishment of charter schools in 1988. Created in Minnesota in 1991, charter schools were originally intended to be privately funded and free from state laws and regulations.
When private funding was not available, federal and state tax dollars provided this educational option. Providing federal dollars without state laws has resulted in an exploitation of charter schools. Foreign money has created Islamic charter schools, and groups like LaRaza have created schools which advocate a return of portions of the United States to Mexico. Once those schools are in place, private money typically dries up and is replaced by state and federal tax money which funds these anti-American schools.
Corruption, fraud, and embezzlement run rampant in the charter-school system. Whenever progressives embrace an idea, one must wonder why. Are these people looking forward to the day that tax payers will be made aware of these problems, a crisis will be created, and tax payers will rebel against the misuse of their tax dollars by charter-school programs? If so, what will Federal Governmental Policy become regarding charter schools?
A website called “Charter School Scandals” is a quick resource for research in this area. The Advocates for Academic Freedom website blog page has numerous articles that provide in-depth coverage of all issues presented in this article.
The only effective solution to the problems facing education today is to eradicate the source: the federal funding and federal mandates imposed on the educational system. If we want to protect our right to choose an educational setting for our children, if we want to protect our republic, we must commit to a long, difficult battle.
Progressives have never relented nor must we. Our mantra should be: Remove the federal mandates and federal funding from education and reallocate those funds to the states.
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Comment by amanda choate on March 7, 2013 at 11:38am
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Patricia, If Karen or anyone wished to debate the effectiveness of the US Department of Education, fine, let's do it. But if you wish to link your argument to the founding fathers, well then, therefore a teaparty iniative, then facts matter. It is a fatuous statement which only leads me to conclude that the whole argument is fatuous.
To accept anything less lessens the dignity of the discussion.
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Comment by Patricia M. McBride on March 4, 2013 at 9:29am
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Well thank you for clarifying how wonderful the school system is doing at educating our young people..........that must be why the drop out rates are what they are and why they have to keep lowering the bar to keep our schools at a high enough grading to meet mustard. Or perhaps the problem is I agreed with part of what you said before and you are looking for an argument :).
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Comment by Paul Davis on March 3, 2013 at 9:23pm
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WIth all respect, I volunteer regularly with DCPS and am frankly amazed at the high level of accomplishment of the students with whom i come in contact. Last week I heard a complete overview of the Protestant Reformation from Queen Isabella to Elizabeth I by a sixth grader that totally blew me away.
I am no fan of federal involvement with education, but on the other hand I see little that I would characterize as "useless propoganda". Education process, by its nature, involves looking at an issue from more than one perspective, turning it over in one's mind, evaluating options and consequences, and learning how to obtain accurate information, categorize it, prioritize it, evaluate it and draw conclusions. That process will sometimes take one down a blind alley, but will always provide a way back to a more clear path. There is clearly a differance between education, indoctrination, and job training. Useful citizens must be educated rather than merely trained and indoctrinated.
I expect that anyone borrowing another's article would, at a minimum, verify its value and accuracy, and qualify any obvious errors because once one publishs it, one owns it by endorsement.
Otherwise, one risks irrevokably damaging one's own and one's community's ethos through indiscriminate propogation of errors, falsehood and unwarranted insinuations.
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Paul, this is a commentary that obvious isn't factually correct in some areas. I don't do a historical check on commentary by someone else, but I did read it. It was the stand of the person who wrote it, and we look at a great many people's comments. Several of her statements are correct.
As you said, I favor local decisions for our schools, but at least one thing pointed out in the article is the federal government's nasty little habit of using black mail and threats to get you to teach pretty much anything they want taught which is why the department of education should have been shuttered a very long time ago. Most of what they are teaching children today is useless propaganda.
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As Amanda points out, the founding fathers hadn't yet arrived in 1647. Neither would the Progressives for another 200 years or even the Republic; they were still operating under a monarchy. The colonist no doubt thought that progress was a good end to seek.
There would not be a public education system without Progressives, in that was Progressives who promoted universal education and first organized the systems to deliver it. What would account for a change from promotion of education to desiring ignorant voters? This article does not even attempt to explain that implied transformation.
I personally am all in favor of local control of school curriculum, but the argument presented in this article, and the supporting reasoning, is fatally flawed.
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To start with, no founding father was even born when this act was passed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Secondly, it was a tax act. It described how taxes were to be raised in each village and town. Centralized government. Thirdly, progressives have fought against charter schools from the beginnings, so it may be a problem, but it ain't progressives faults. Finally, a hundred and fifty years later, when there was a USA, only landed white men voted. That is not what this was about. Karen, do not make up history.
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