HRearden
Even in the government schools the curriculum varies from state to
state and perhaps even counties or school districts within a state.
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"With the addition of this most recent No Child Left Behind
'education' law, and all of its destructive ramifications,
contingencies and attached strings, the federal government now holds
90% of the control over the schools."
100% Control for 6.5% Funding
by Linda Schrock Taylor
03 October 2005
We are selling the souls and minds of our children, and the future of
our country, for 6.5 cents on the dollar! The federal government pays
only a few cents of each dollar needed to fund public schools, yet a
large percentage of school expenses have been forced upon local
districts by federal mandates to test, consolidate, and adhere to
innumerable laws, including ADA and IDEA...laws, laws, laws, most
illegal and harmful to the interests of States' Rights, and to the
citizens of each state.
Now consider the other side of this 'balance' sheet. With the
addition of this most recent No Child Left Behind 'education' law,
and all of its destructive ramifications, contingencies and attached
strings, the federal government now holds 90% of the control over the
schools. THINK ABOUT IT -- 90% control in exchange for 6.5 cents on
the dollar. Are you agreeable to such terms? You should not be. Every
American should challenge this travesty; this violation of the
Constitution and of the rights of the People.
Why have we allowed the federal government to illegally worm its way
into our lives; into our local decisions regarding curriculum and
teaching methods? Why do we allow this federal Blob to absorb the
states, and then control how we, the people of supposedly free and
independent states, educate our children?
What have we been thinking? Have we been thinking? Is the almighty
federal dollar (our own money, returned to us after being inflated,
laundered, then shrunken) so valuable that we should compromise our
integrity and sell our children for 6.5 cents on the dollar? Few
people would permit such power over their pets, so why do they allow
it over their children?
The feds have pulled a fast one on us, and to understand the
deviousness behind this federal curriculum, which is actually a plan,
a plot, to 'reshape human resources for a global worldview and
future,' read Steven Yates' review of FedEd: The New Federal
Curriculum and How it's Enforced, the book written by Allen Quist.
Consider purchasing the book and joining the Maple River Education
Coalition in their efforts to throw the federal government, and its
harmful curriculum, out of states.
The federal curriculum, with its mandates to reshape perceptions and
loyalties, is a stage show with Fabian socialism disguised as
'academics'; the shaping of attitudes disguised as 'knowledge'; the
Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, especially the Second
Amendment, disguised as ugly, damaged antiques, headed for the
incinerator. Beware of this wolf, clothed, as it is, in comforting,
American-sounding terminology -- "a core curriculum of
civics and government."
The FedEd curriculum's purpose is definitely not to teach our
children how to be literate, knowledgeable, responsible citizens,
willing to defend the Constitution. On the contrary, FedEd
orchestrates the last movement in the dissolution of national
sovereignty, and mandates the final takeover of our children, and
their thought processes. Fabian 'civics and government' will be
taught in every mislabeled and misleading subject; in every
classroom; in every school. For too long, we have been blinded with
wool pulled over our eyes, but the time has come to expose the evil
and take back our birthrights, our schools and the lives of our children.
Normally, when parents discuss their frustrations regarding the
federal takeover of the public schools, and possibly dream of 'tar,
feathers, and rails,' the issue of 'financing' rears its threatening
head, and the dreams vaporize. We have erroneously been lead to
believe -- we have been repeatedly told until we are basically
convinced -- that local schools could not possibly survive without
federal money. What a shell game! We can manage without the 6.5
cents, for we need not send it to the federal government in the first
place! We have been mis-led and mis-educated on this, as on most
school-related issues.
We are capable of supporting local schools without federal money, and
we can, in fact, do it far more efficiently and effectively. With
decisions made locally, we can return to teaching reading, math,
history, knowledge, and government. With decisions made locally, we
can educate future generations capable of appreciating and guarding
the essence of America, hard won by the sacrifices of our Founding Fathers.
Working at local levels, we can make better curricular decisions, and
we can educate children at less expense. We can cancel busing; reopen
rural schoolhouses; limit the size of town schools; accept no
decision made at any level above the local, taxpayer-monitored,
school board. With local education, we can bring our children back to
our neighborhood schools and let them again walk to school, maybe
even walk home for lunch, as so many of us once did. Truly, children
will be better prepared for life if they are raised within their
neighborhoods and taught the wisdom and the history of the ages.
Truly, children can be happily educated in small schools, and
actually blossom without those new ABC's -- Athletics, Band and Cheerleading.
Form groups to pressure public officials, at all levels, to stop the
federal takeover of the states, and to return school decision-making,
and supervision, to the local citizenry. Challenge every official and
every agency to revise budgets to accommodate the loss of the
6.5-cent federal pittance. Insist that every agency in the state
curtail unnecessary expenses, and that every unnecessary agency be
closed forever. Insist that local school boards never again accept
anything -- money or mandates -- from the feds, and monitor officials
closely to be sure that they do, actually, end federal involvement in
schooling, forever.
Send the feds away, and bring your children home. Children should be
raised by a local village of neighbors, friends and family, rather
than by 'a global village' -- (foolish, irrational term that that
is). Never allow yourself to forget that 'federal monies' are only
your own tax payments, reduced by the costs involved in supporting
the federal wolves, then returned to you under the pretense of a gift!
Recall Hitler's calm reminders to his challengers -- that older
citizens will pass on, leaving children who know little but the
propaganda taught in state schools. Our children do not deserve the
future that is quickly being ushered in by the lure of federal cents,
and the mandates of federal curriculum. Think about it.
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