Indoctrination Of Our Youth

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2006/02/22/187189.html

By Walter E. Williams

Feb 22, 2006

Let's start off with a few quotations, then a question. In reference to the president's State of the Union: "Sounds a lot like the things Adolf Hitler used to say." "Bush is threatening the whole planet." "[The] U.S. wants to keep the world divided." Then the speaker asks, "Who is probably the most violent nation on the planet?" and shouts "The United States!"

What's the source of these statements? Were they made in the heat of a political campaign? Was it a yet-to-be captured leader of al Qaeda? Was it French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin? Any "yes" answer would miss the true source by a mile. All of those statements were made by Mr. Jay Bennish, a teacher at Overland High School in Aurora, Colo.

During this class session, Mr. Bennish peppered his 10th-grade geography class with other statements like: The U.S. has engaged in "7,000 terrorist attacks against Cuba." In his discussion of capitalism, he told his students, "Capitalism is at odds with humanity, at odds with caring and compassion and at odds with human rights."

Regardless of whether you're pro-Bush or anti-Bush, pro-American or anti-American, I'd like to know whether there's anyone who believes that the teacher's remarks were appropriate for any classroom setting, much less a high school geography class. It's clear the students aren't being taught geography. They're getting socialist lies and propaganda. According to one of the parents, on the first day of class, the teacher said Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto" was going to be a part of the curriculum.

This kind of indoctrination is by no means restricted to Overland High School. School teachers, at all grades, often use their classroom for environmental, anti-war, anti-capitalist and anti-parent propaganda. Some get their students to write letters to political figures condemning public policy the teacher doesn't like. Dr. Thomas Sowell's "Inside American Education" documents numerous ways teachers attack parental authority. Teachers have asked third-graders, "How many of you ever wanted to beat up your parents?" In a high school health class, students were asked, "How many of you hate your parents?"

Public education propaganda is often a precursor for what youngsters might encounter in college. UCLA's Bruin Standard newspaper documents campus propaganda. Mary Corey, UCLA history professor, instructed her class, "Capitalism isn't a lie on purpose. It's just a lie," she continued, "[Capitalists] are swine. . . . They're ******* people." Professor Andrew Hewitt, chairman of UCLA's Department of Germanic Languages, told his class, "Bush is a moron, a simpleton, and an idiot." His opinion of the rest of us: "American consumerism is a very unique thing; I don't think anyone else lusts after money in such a greedy fashion." Rod Swanson, economics professor, told his class, "The United States of America, backed by facts, is the greediest and most selfish country in the world." Terri Anderson, a sociology professor, assigned her class to go out cross-dressed in a public setting for four hours. Photos or videotape were required as proof of having completed the assignment.

The Bruin Alumni Association caused quite a stir when it offered to pay students for recordings of classroom proselytizing. The UCLA administration, wishing to conceal professorial misconduct, threatened legal action against the group. Some professors labeled the Bruin Alumni Association's actions as McCarthyism and attacks on academic freedom. These professors simply want a free hand to proselytize students.

Brainwashing and proselytization is by no means unique to UCLA. Taxpayers ought to de-fund, and donors should cut off contributions to colleges where administrators condone or support academic dishonesty. At the K-12 schools, parents should show up at schools, PTAs and board of education meetings demanding that teachers teach reading, writing and arithmetic and leave indoctrination to parents. The most promising tool in the fight against teacher proselytization is the micro-technology available that can expose the academic misconduct.
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Since 1980, Dr. Williams has served on the faculty of George Mason University in Fairfax, VA as John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics.


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Blah, blah, blah.

Oh those poor conservatives. So misunderstood, maligned, and disenfranchised. Makes me think there is a Democrat in the White House, a Democratic House of Representatives, and a Democratic US Senate.

Oh wait, there isn't. Maybe conservatives are just bigger whiners then liberals. They own all three branches of government and they still whine like bare assed little infant children.

Hell, there just following your wimpy arsed lead.
or are they just sick and tired of people like you. Ones that cant understand some thing, even if they just said it them selves

Daaaanngg Vhawk,

Thats a pretty inflamatory post there! Are you campaining for TK of the lib posters? Or was it just a bad hair day?

Someone must need to feel persecuted again... Anyone else see the same pattern?

S flows down hill. Maybe they learned propoganda techniques from their POTUS? With all the wrong the POTUS has done why worry about what goes on at the high school level?

Well, the kids DO need to be taught that there are alternative ways of thinking, but you would usually see this at the college level instead of high school. Call it "propoganda" if you will....I say the truth hurts, and it'd be nice if our society was a little less focused on the almighty dollar.

Yep Kids need to be taught how to use the gray matter between their ears. They need to see that the attempt at thinking with your head in a dark place is counter productive. Too bad they have so many dark side of the force examples.

Academia definitely leans toward the liberal. Probably has something to do with free thinking, which conservatives seem less tolerant of. However, in regards to the above examples, they're just a cherry picked batch of left wing academic proselytizing. With a little work, a batch of right wing examples could also be had. Admittedly, more left wing than right wing examples will generally occur in the academic environment, but neither side has a monopoly on proselytizing.

When I was a kid, right wing propaganda was more common in public school. Maybe because Eisenhower was Prez. Times change.

"Once in a while
you get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right"

"Cross over children...all are welcome...all are welcome"

we have engaged in atleast 7000 terrorist acts agains Cuba......when the facts dont look good for us they are propaganda?????

good to hear that there is still a teacher out there teaching the truth........so sorry that we have to hear the truth sometimes but USA is one of the largest exporters of terrorism in the world.... like Johnny Cash said---i dont like it but i guess things happen that way

Here's you what your hard earned tax dollar$ are paying for in the current state of Liberal-Democrat controlled 'publik edukashun':


http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/sex-change-teacher-back/2006/03/01/1141095772975.html


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Sex change teacher gets job back


March 1, 2006 - 9:58AM

To students at a US primary school, she was Mr McBeth. Now, after undergoing a sex change, 71-year-old Lily McBeth will return to the classroom as Miss McBeth.

Despite criticism from parents, the board of Eagleswood Elementary School in New Jersey is standing by its decision to allow McBeth to resume working as a substitute teacher.

After two hours of public debate and a private meeting with McBeth and her lawyer, the board took no action on calls by several parents to bar her from returning to the school where she taught for five years before becoming a woman.

"It was magnificent," McBeth said afterward.

"You saw democracy in action."

McBeth, a retired sales executive who was married for 33 years and had three children, underwent gender re-assignment surgery last year and re-applied for her job under her new name.

McBeth yesterday told the school board and the crowd she loves teaching and children, and looks forward to returning to the classroom.

"This is not something I got into just as a whim," she said.

Several parents said children in the school - which consists of kindergarten through sixth grade - were not old enough to understand the concept of changing one's gender.

"I, as a parent, am appalled to have this issue brought into my child's psychology," Steve Bond said.

Vincent Mustacchio predicted "chaos" at the school when the students learned of McBeth's surgery.

Young children will be confused by the conflicting appearance of McBeth, who has a deep voice and masculine features but otherwise looks like a woman, other parents said.

"I will not allow you to put my kids in a petri dish and hope it all turns out fine," said Mark Schnepp, who had taken out an ad in a local newspaper urging parents to turn out for the meeting.

Several people spoke in support of McBeth, including three transgender people, two former students of McBeth's and a handful of others, saying the fact she is a good teacher was more important than whether she appears as a man or a woman in class.

"There's really nothing to fear because a person is transgender," said Karina Mari, a mother of three school-age children who said she has transgender relatives.

School board lawyer Paul Carr said McBeth was a good teacher who had received favourable reviews during her tenure as a substitute.

Earlier this month, the board voted 4-1 to accept her application to return to the classroom.

AP

Here's what tax dollars did for a former conservative republican politician........
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/jimwest/

Allegations shadow politician throughout his career

By Bill Morlin / Staff writer

For a quarter century, the man who is now Spokane's mayor has used positions of public trust – as a sheriff's deputy, Boy Scout leader and powerful politician – to develop sexual relationships with boys and young men.

One man claims in a court deposition that Jim West molested him in the mid-1970s when he was a boy and West was a Spokane County sheriff's deputy and Boy Scout leader. A second man also accuses West of sexual abuse during the same era, including an incident at Camp Cowles, a Boy Scout camp on Diamond Lake.

In addition, an investigation by The Spokesman-Review has revealed that 17 months after leaving the state Legislature, West has used the trappings of the mayor's office to entice and influence young men he met on a gay Web site

A teacher teaching the truth. Whose truth? like the 7000+ acts of terrorism against Cuba. How many acts of terrorism has Fidel and his hit man Che' perpetrated against the Cuban population?
Your right 7000 sounds inadequate. Do you really believe that stuff Lupo?

yep i really do and if you do any amount of studying ont he subject- you will too

sorry sard but fidel isnt a terrorist.... please read up on the subject before you cement your opinions- yiou have allready admitted to knowing alnmost nothing about che and i doubt your depth of knowledge knows much about fidel if you admittedly know very little about che

hard to actually have a conversation when one person has been to the country in question and one admitttedly knows nothing about the subject..... study up and then ask me if i really believe that stuff - cuz yeah i believe it and you will too

Rory,

So what's your point? Public tax dollars are being used to pay a teacher to teach in a public school. That's supposed to be news? If the teacher is a good teacher, as the school board maintains, why shouldn't he/she/it continue to be employed? The kids won't care, and if they did, consider the rule of problem ownership: whoever has a problem with the teacher's gender issue owns the problem.

It's neocons like you who have major issues with things that are non-issues to people who can actually think for themselves. Your continued postings corroborate your ineffectual capacity for rational thought. I sometimes wonder if we're supposed to feel sorry for you.

Sincerely,

Salmo g.

"Young children will be confused by the conflicting appearance of McBeth, who has a deep voice and masculine features but otherwise looks like a woman, other parents said."

These parents should see pics of some of my grade school teachers. A couple of them could have used some mustache wax, but you know the goofy thing is that they were great teachers. Of course, I was taught by my parents to not judge people by appearance but by what they bring to the job that they've been hired to do. Wierd parents weren't they?

Good Lord! What will the wingnuts fret about next? Maybe they will want to fire all the male teachers who have a high pitched voice and "non-masculine" features!

Did you 'enlightened' guys ever have any male influences in your lives in your formative years other than Phil Donahue?

What a bunch of S.N.A.G.'s )


If you want your children to be taught and influenced by Mr/Mrs (? ) McBeth http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/sex-change-teacher-back/2006/03/01/1141095772975.html and think that will be beneficial to them, then you should support School Vouchers so you can use the tax dollars you already pay to specifically send your kids to a special school chock full of mentally ill teachers who've mutilated themselves by having the <b>addadictomy or chopadicfrom-me surgury.

Let me know how that works out.

Rory thinks teachers teach with their genitals.

Maybe his teachers did.

Please demonstrate to us Rory how having a teacher like the one in the article is going to harm anyone's child? It will confuse them right? They might question their own anatomy and some day may even wish to follow in said teacher's footsteps right? Didn't you know that the transgenders have started a recruiting drive! Some Liberal Dr's are even offering discounts for sex changes if you recruit enough new members!

Perhaps parents are afraid to have discussions about the realities of life and would rather choose to avoid such "controversial" topics or even better have someone else teach em!

You really are as dumb as everyone thinks you are!

Maybe someday you will be able to stand upright!

"Did you 'enlightened' guys ever have any male influences in your lives in your formative years other than Phil Donahue?"

My Dad is now and always has been one of the most stand up guys I know. As a WW2 Marine, ex-logger, self-employed self-made millionare, he taught us to not be judgmental unless the person proves otherwise. He's been on his own since he was 13 yrs. old and at the age of 83, he's as accepting or more so then he ever was. All 8 of us kids feel very fortunate to have him as a father. Too bad you obviously didn't have a real man with big heart when you were growing up, Rory.
Maybe then you would not be the misguided, judgmental, bitter person that you present yourself to be on this forum.

If you guys want your kids taught by this person http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/sex-change-teacher-back/2006/03/01/1141095772975.html go right ahead--I'm sure that would make you seem very 'enlightened' in some small circles of Fremont and San Francisco--But the reality is that given a choice most people in this country would not choose to send their kids to his/it's(?) class . That's the problem with the current state of public education--there is very little choice for parents in how their tax dollars are spent to educate their children if they're enrolled in public schools.

That was the theme of this thread--just teach--don't indoctrinate!

If you guys are really pro choice, do you support school vouchers so parents have some choice in how their children are taught?

Oh Krusty's just bitter 'cause he can't have kids of his own and his father-figure is a founding member of NAMBIE or NAMBOO or NAMBLER or whatever he keeps referencing about boys and men doing stuff together.

Civility I cannot ignore Lupo. I suspect that I can discuss the history of Cuba as well as you. I spent 2 years in Japan, 6 mo in Korea and 6 months in Indo-China with side trips to the Philippines, Hong kong as a free port and assorted and sundry other R&R resorts thanks to Uncle. The fact that I have been there does not make me an expert on any of those cultures. Even tho' I have read not a little about Asia.
I also suspect that if you could interrogate the victims of Fidel and Che' you would find that they would have diffuculties in seeing them as other than murderous tyranical Marxists. Fidel had a law education. I can understand his abberations. Che' a medical degree, he and Joseph Mengele would and could have been soul mates

How in the world can you compare someone you have admitted knowing nothing about to anyone let alone Joseph Mengele?

"if you could interrogate the victims of Fidel and Che' you would find that they would have diffuculties in seeing them as other than murderous tyranical Marxists."

I wonder what the innocent victims in Iraq would say if you could interrogate them about their thoughts on Bush. I wonder if they would have difficulties seeing him as a "liberator" or just the dumbass the rest of us know him to be?

Piece of cake Wailuku. I see the libs comparing Bush to Hitler all the time, ala the latest flap in the Colorado school system. Mengele and Che' are at least as good a match as Bush and Schickelgruber, the paper hanger. Che' and company are as good examples of monsters in human guise as you can find. Right up there with Timur the Lame.

"I see the libs comparing Bush to Hitler all the time, ala the latest flap in the Colorado school system"

So all the time in your mind is one professor using his free speach to offer his opinion as a scholar! That qualifies in your mind as "all the time"! Imagine if there were TWO professors that thought that way! oooooooooooooooooooo scary!

"Mengele and Che' are at least as good a match as Bush and Schickelgruber"

Are you trying to tell us you know nothing about Mengele? I mean the only way you can make that comparison admitting you know nothing about Che is to admit you know nothing about Mengele?!

That's some messed up logic?

Is that an example of your circular logic Wailuku? If there only two making that comparision it would be a pleasant surprise. Not a week goes by that some explosive gas threaded screwball doesn't blather that Bush/Hitler routine the the waiting media. By the way, nothing is free, not even the speech of some of our nitwits in academia. Someone has paid the price for their oral irresponsibility. Ours too.
I'm not trying to tell you anything beyond your comprehension. I'm just voicing my opinion. You can put it wherever it pleases you.

There isn't a week that goes by? Whatever, maybe inside your own head!

I wouldn't say my logic is circular. I would say your's words speak for themselves.

I dont get the big argument here. Isnt it the teachers job to give kids the information and skills they need to form ther own opinions? When did schools turn into political recruitment centers? Why are there teachers now giving one sided lectures. Why are there some communist teaching in our universities? Why are the kids failing in our schools compared to other countries? I cant believe how long this thread has gone on.

Last time I checked it is not against the law to be a communist! Why shouldn't there be communist teachers? If kids are never exposed to what communism is then how are they going to be able to form their own opinion?

"Isnt it the teachers job to give kids the information and skills they need to form ther own opinions?"

Very idealistic! Unfortunately today the teachers job is to prepare students to take tests so that none of them need to be left behind!

sard- can you provide some similarities between che and mengele? how bout just 3...... mengele was a fascist and che and fidel fought against fascism.... mengele was an imperialist and che fought against imperialism....... che worked in lepper colonys and mengele worked in concentration camps....your histrory is bent to try and meet your warped perspective on the world......

you better suck up to the environmentalists sardonicus because you neo-cons are quickly becoming an endangered speciese

your right- the teachers of the midwest trying to teach creationism are letting the kids think for themselves.....

what the hell is so evil about communism? there are as many ways to go about it as there are way to go about democracy....if it wasnt for the embargo...cubans would have a much much higher standard than the USA....they allready have better literacy rates and home ownership is 100% and they have access to a health care system that is top notch.......it is also the country that provides its black citizens the highest level of equality in the world

Thats because there is no country that really is a communist state. It always manages to be come some form of dictatorship.

Communisim could be looked at as a lack of government. Like that will ever happen.

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BW got it right. There are no and have been no truly communist countries. They always exist as a dictatorship or an oligarchy. The leader/leaders maintain their grip on power by incarcerating or killing any opposition. (Che's Job, kill the opposition for Fidel) ?Both Che' and Mengele were MDs. Both worked for the tyrant in control of their respective countries, and both were essentially assassins on a major scale.
The only form of civil relationship that approached the Communist Ideal was practiced by some of our Native American tribes. We fixed that in a hurry didn't we?
Btw Lupo. The labels don't mean much, Facist, Communist, Imperialist, Colonialist. All just labels useful for the name callers that like to label everything to fit their convoluted view of the world.