Do parents really know what is happening

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         utah's freedom conference       educatio
n seminar 

• Do parents really know what is happening
• in Utah schools?
• Oak Norton Susie Schnell
• UtahsRepublic.org

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Background

• No times tables, long division, division by
  fractions
• IE. no future in math
• 20 failure rate on UBSCT
• UVU has Remedial Math Dept.
• "It's time to recognize that, for many students,
  real mathematical power, on the one hand, and
  facility with multidigit, pencil-and-paper
  computational algorithms, on the other, are
  mutually exclusive. In fact, it's time to
  acknowledge that continuing to teach these skills
  to our students is not only unnecessary, but
  counterproductive and downright
  dangerous.-Steven Leinwand 1994, NSF Expert
  Panel
• When I started into the math war I had no idea it
  was tied to the battle for the Constitution
• "Enculturating the Young into a Social and
  Political Democracy"
• 5 years to truly understand what this meant
• Formed UtahsRepublic.org since republic wasnt
  in state history standards

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Alpine school districtprofessional development
center
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Background (Cont.)

• Susie's Story
• We are a Democracy? The 5000 Year Leap is pure
  science fiction?
• Enculturating sign led to ASD website which
  stressed democracy training over academics
• Link on ASD website, America Republic or
  Democracy led to Green Party candidate, Bill
  Meyers, who believes Founding Fathers were
  predatory elitists only out for wealth and gain
  and they created the Constitution to give
  themselves power. We started out originally as a
  Republic but since the Constitution was such a
  terrible idea, people have been trying to change
  our nation into a democracy for two centuries.
  http//www.williampmeyers.org/republic.html Bill
  Meyers' beliefs anarchy, limiting families to
  two children, late-term abortions, Christ was
  actually a vampire disguised as a God. This is
  ASD's expert on America's government?
  http//www.iiipublishing.com/books/books_main.html
  
• Viral email to wake up community, over 200
  parents at next  board meeting, they call
  us 'special interest group' that they won't bow
  down to

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Why won't our school administrators listen to
reason?

• Why are parents the bad guys for bringing up
  these concerns to the school board? 
• Because there are two completely different
  purposes for education and parents are starting
  to figure that out.

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What is the purpose of public education?

• Founding Fathers

• Marxists/Communists/Socialists

• To perpetuate tyrannical government
• To produce non-thinking workers and followers
• To teach atheism
• To encourage immorality
• To take a child away from its parents as soon as
  possible so it belongs to the state
• Federally controlled and financed

• To have a well-informed citizenry
• To know and protect our God-given rights
• To teach religion
• To teach morality
• To ensure freedom
• To resist tyranny
• Localized control to keep it out of the hands of
  the federal government

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45 Goals of the communists

• From Cleon Skousen's "The Naked Communist"17.
  Get control of the schools. Use them as
  transmission belts for socialism and current
  Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get
  control of teachers' associations. Put the party
  line in textbooks.18. Gain control of all
  student newspapers.32. Support any socialist
  movement to give centralized control over any
  part of the culture-- education, social agencies,
  welfare programs, mental health clinics,
  etc.36. Infiltrate and gain control of more
  unions. (NEA-Endorses Alinsky)
• 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away
  from the negative influence of parents. Attribute
  prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of
  children to suppressive influence of parents.

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Yuri Bezmenov - KGB Defector

• 4 Steps to Communist Takeover of a Country
• Demoralization - 15-20 years
• Process of making a country immoral so they no
  longer believe truth when it is presented to them
• Destabilization - 2-5 years
• Create conditions where tipping points can occur
• Crisis - 6 weeks
• Tipping points to seize power
• Normalization
• Success Government Control

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who has been influencingAmerican public
education?

• Which Founding Fathers are we following?

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Karl Marx 1818-1883

• Communist Manifesto
• 10. Free education for all children in government
  schools...
• Ezra Taft Benson
• "There were several reasons why Marx wanted
  government to run the schools.one of them...that
  if every party in the State has the right of
  excluding from public schools whatever he does
  not believe to be true, then he that believes
  most must give way to him that believes
  least...It is self-evident that on this
  scheme, if it is consistently and persistently
  carried out in all parts of the country, the
  United States system of national popular
  education will be the most efficient and
  widespread instrument for the propagation of
  atheism which the world has ever seen.
  (Conference Report, October 1970.)

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Horace Mann 1796-1859

• Developed compulsory schooling model.
• What the church has been for medieval man, the
  public school must become for democratic and
  rational man. God will be replaced by the concept
  of the public good. The common (public) schools
  shall create a more far-seeing intelligence and a
  pure morality than has ever existed among
  communities of men.

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John Dewey 1859-1952

• Father of Modern Education
• 1894-Chairman of the dept. of philosophy,
  psychology, and pedagogy at the Univ. of Chicago
• 1899- President of the American Psychological
  Association
• Taught at Columbia Univ. from 1905 until he
  retired in 1929
• "The voice of liberal and Progressive Democracy"
  for over 50 years
• One of the original signatories on the Humanist
  Manifesto.

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Humanist manifesto - 1933

• Based on Communist manifesto (atheistic)
• Elevates man, eliminates God
• FOURTEENTH The humanists are firmly convinced
  that existing acquisitive and profit-motivated
  society has shown itself to be inadequate and
  that a radical change in methods, controls, and
  motives must be instituted. A socialized and
  cooperative economic order must be established to
  the end that the equitable distribution of the
  means of life be possible. The goal of humanism
  is a free and universal society in which
  people voluntarily and intelligently cooperate
  for the common good. Humanists demand a shared
  life in a shared world....
• So stand the theses of religious humanism

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Bill Ayers 1944-

• 1960's-Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in
  Chicago
• Weather Underground Founder
• Wanted Marxist Revolution
• Switched from revolutionary change to
  evolutionary change
• Became head of Education Dept at Univ of Chicago
• Candidate Obama announced his political career in
  Ayers' living room.

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Weather underground manifesto

• In the history of some external colonies, such
  as China and Vietnam, the struggle for
  self-determination has had two stages (1) a
  united front against imperialism and for New
  Democracy ... and (2) developing out of the new
  democratic stage, socialism.
• The goal is the destruction of US imperialism
  and the achievement of a classless world world
  communism.
• How do we reach youth what kinds of struggles
  do we build how do we make a revolution- What we
  have tried to lay out so far is the political
  content of the consciousness which we want to
  extend and develop as a mass consciousness the
  necessity to build our power as part of the whole
  international revolution to smash the state power
  of the imperialists and build socialism.

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John Goodlad 1917-

• Nationally recognized education reformer
• Invited to BYU's McKay School of Education 25
  years ago to set up his Democracy Agenda
• Set up a Public School Partnership with 5
  neighboring school districts(Alpine, Nebo,
  Provo, Wasatch and Jordan)
• Wrote book called Moral Dimensions of Teaching.
  One of the four dimensions is Enculturating the
  Young in a Social and Political Democracy
• Charlotte Iserbyt calls him America's premier
  change agent" in her book The Deliberate Dumbing
  Down of America

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john goodlad quotes

• Parents do not own their children. They have no
  natural right to control their education
  fully.
• Most youth still hold the same values of their
  parentsif we do not alter this pattern, if we
  dont resocialize, our system will decay.
• A standardized curriculum of basic skills such
  as reading, writing and arithmetic cannot prepare
  people to participate in a democracy. Enlightened
  social engineering is required to face situations
  that demand global action now.
• The state we should strive for is better
  described in Deweyan terms as a social
  democracy.  (Def. Democratic welfare state)
• The curriculum of the future 'will be what one
  might call the humanistic curriculum.'

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What is the difference between John goodlad and
bill ayers?

• (One used to blow up buildingsthat's about it)
• Education Department heads
• National speakers and authors on education reform
• Social justice
• Democracy
• Moral Relativism
• Humanism
• Socialism
• Ayers is the Keynote Speaker at Goodlad's
  2010 NNER Conference in which top McKay School of
  Education and Alpine School District leaders
  attend, serve on executive committees, and
  receive awards for pushing Goodlad's agenda.

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How is the Goodlad-ayers agenda  brought into our
utah schools?

• Universities
• Teachers and administrators then bring it into
  schools
• University/Public School Partnerships
• Professional Development Centers
• National Conferences
• Funding through universities and school districts
• Signs and posters in school hallways and classes
• Flatter teachers and leaders with awards and
  recognition (4 of 30 National AED Scholars are in
  Utah County)

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Educations Goal?

• "Education should aim at destroying free will so
  that after pupils are thus schooled they will be
  incapable throughout the rest of their lives of
  thinking or acting otherwise than as their school
  masters would have wished ..."
• Bertrand Russell quoting Johann Gottlieb Fichte,
  the head of philosophy psychology who
  influenced Hegel and others Prussian University
  in Berlin, 1810

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Outcome Based Education?

• This is the idea where we drop subject matter
  and we drop Carnegie Unites (grading from A-F)
  and we just let students find their way, keeping
  them in school until they manifest the
  politically correct attitudes. You see, one of
  the effects of self-esteem (Values Clarification)
  programs is that you are no longer obliged to
  tell the truth if you dont feel like it. You
  dont have to tell the truth because if the truth
  you have to tell is about your own failure then
  your self-esteem will go down and that is
  unthinkable.-
• Dr. William Coulson, explaining Outcome Based
  Education (OBE)-1964

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Higher order Thinking?

• "a student attains higher order thinking when
  he no longer believes in right or wrong. A large
  part of what we call good teaching is a teachers
  ability to obtain affective objectives by
  challenging the students fixed beliefs. a large
  part of what we call teaching is that the teacher
  should be able to use education to reorganize a
  childs thoughts, attitudes, and feelings."
• Benjamin Bloom, psychologist and educational
  theorist, in Major Categories in the Taxonomy of
  Educational Objectives, p. 185, 1956

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Children are insane?

• "Every child in America entering school at the
  age of five is insane 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. Its up to you as teachers to
  make all these sick children well by creating
  the international child of the future."
• Dr. Chester M. Pierce, Harvard Professor of
  Education and Psychiatry, address to the
  Childhood International Education Seminar, 1973

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Why the push for democracy in schools?

• C.S. Lewis in Screwtape Proposes a Toast (a
  satire on American education)
• Democracy is the word with which you must lead
  them by the nose. They should never be allowed
  to give this word a clear and definable
  meaning...whether democratic behaviour means
  the behaviour that democracies like or the
  behaviour that will preserve a democracy. For if
  they did, it could hardly fail to occur to them
  that these need not be the same...As an English
  politician remarked not long ago, A democracy
  does not want great men.
• Democracy is indispensable to socialism. 
  Vladimir Lenin
• Democracy is the road to socialism.  Karl Marx

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How to Hijack a word to dupe the public

• Constitutional Republic
• Democratic Republic
• Democracy
• Social Democracy
• Democratic Socialism
• Socialism
• Other examples to watch out for in schools Gay,
  Tolerant, Safe Schools, Morals, Values, Critical
  Thinking    
• (All are defined very differently by Progressive
  education elites than what parents assume they
  traditionally mean. This is a way Progressive
  programs slip into schools without parents
  knowing.)   

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subjects affected

• Alpine School District
• Thus, the task of readying the young for
  democratic life is the business of all educators.
  Along with our social studies and history
  teachers, others must incorporate this objective
  into their curriculum. Math teachers must help
  students gain a respect for inductive proof and
  certainty in argumentation. The music
  teachers could help students gain a sense of
  responsibility to the group and playing in
  harmony with other citizens. Our English
  teachers should teach the responsibilities of
  expression and choice. Of course, our
  administrators ought to help students understand
  that a democratic society cannot survive without
  respect for rules, law, and order. Every teacher
  should have this major board objective in mind as
  he/she prepares the curriculum. Parents, too,
  ought to incorporate these objectives into their
  familys environment.

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A specific exampleMath Moral Relativism

• If there is no God, there are no absolutes so
  everything becomes relative. We democratically
  arrive at a consensus based on the majority in
  areas of
• Knowledge, Morals, Patriotism
• Constructivist Math
• Dumbed-down math (no times tables, long division,
  weak homework)
• Group work / strategies
• De-emphasize results Emphasize process
• Common Core math standards - national standards 
  ?  national tests  ?  national curriculum ?
  teachers salaries tied to students test scores 
  ?  teachers teaching to the test each and every
  day  ?  national indoctrination of our public
  school children  ?  national database
• 100 of Utah state income taxes and 56 of
  property taxes go to fund education
• 9 of our school money comes from the Federal
  government which gives them 100 control.

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Summary

• Now we see why
• Parents' concerns fall on deaf ears
• Failed programs are allowed to continue
• Academics, Constitution, morality and religion
  are not being taught
• Global progressive political programs are pushed
• Until parents and teachers wake up to the truth
  that the federally-funded public schools have
  been taken over by people who want to use schools
  for indoctrination centers to change America
  instead of to keep America educated, moral and
  religious,  and we DO something about it, this
  cycle will continue.

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Some solutions to consider

• Legislative
• Partisan board elections-School board elections
  are the most important elections in the country
  because the rising generation determines the
  future of the country
• Backpack funding (money follows the child)
• Give school community councils more power and
  authority to function like a school board
• Adopt Texas history standards
• Solid K-8 math curriculum (Singapore or Saxon
  math)
• Home and Community
• Turn the populace to God - reinvigorate morality
  to reverse demoralization
• Know your board member and other representatives
• Know what is going on in your child's classroom.
  Watch for troubling homework

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Resources

• www.UtahsRepublic.org (contact us)
• www.AgendaDocumentary.com (fantastic video)
• www.DeliberateDumbingDown.com (Charlotte
  Iserbyts free book in pdf to download)
• www.UtahsMathFuture.com (Singapore Math Site)