Adding to
Hunter's diary on loony education theories of the reich wing
.. [his] problem is that we're not teaching our children according to the proven principles of [18th] century England...
It's much worse:
Conservatives see liberal bias in class - and mobilize
"Complaints that teachers push liberal ideology are trickling down from college campuses to the K-12 level.. activists have generated a wave of efforts to limit what teachers may discuss and to bring more conservative views into the classroom
The founder of this loony bin in college is
right-wing activist David Horowitz [who] has a distinguished history of intellectual defamation, historical inaccuracy and political bullying.
The founder of this craziness on K-12 and under is ex Reagan staffer Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, author of the delusional book "the deliberate dumbing down of america"
Ignore them, they're just crazy ?
Think again! David Horowitz already got the Ohio State Senate GOPpies to consider legislation to "restrict what university professors could say in their classrooms" and halt liberal "pollution" on campus."
David Horowitz
Think Progress
Conservatives in the Ohio State Senate are considering a bill that would prohibit public and private college professors from introducing "controversial matter" into the classroom and shift oversight of college course content to state governments and courts. The language of the bill comes from right-wing activist David Horowitz [who] has a distinguished history of intellectual defamation, historical inaccuracy and political bullying. He has freely compared American liberals to Islamic terrorists.. Most recently, when African-American historian John Hope Franklin questioned Horowitz's 2001 claim that black people benefited from slavery and owed a "debt" to white America, Horowitz responded by calling the eminent historian "a racial ideologue rather than a historian" and "almost pathological." Horowitz has no academic credentials and routinely distorts facts - exactly the crime he accuses "liberal" professors of committing - to fit his political bias.
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
loony, batshit crazy author of the horrible
the deliberate dumbing down of america she is delusional in her zeal to twist any and all material she doesn't like (a sheet w/ a happy face) into a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy to brainwash "smart" Americans
As an American who had spent many years working abroad, I had experienced traveling in and living in socialist countries. When I returned to the United States I realized that America's transition from a sovereign constitutional republic to a socialist democracy would not come about through warfare (bullets and tanks) but through the implementation and installation of the "system" in all areas of government-federal, state and local.
The brainwashing for acceptance of the "system's" control would take place in the school-through indoctrination and the use of behavior modification, which comes under so many labels, the most recent labels being Outcome-Based Education, Skinnerian Mastery Learning or Direct Instruction. In the seventies I and many others waged the war against values clarification, which was later renamed "critical thinking," which regardless of the label-and there are bound to be many more labels on the horizon-is nothing but pure, unadulterated destruction of absolute values of right and wrong upon which stable and free societies depend and upon which our nation was founded.
In 1973 I started this long journey into becoming a "resister," placing the first incriminating piece of paper in my "education" files. That first piece of paper was a purple ditto sheet entitled "All About Me," next to which was a smiley face. It was an open-ended questionnaire beginning with: "My name is _____." My son brought it home from public school in fourth grade. The questions were highly personal; so much so that they encouraged my son to lie, since he didn't want to "spill the beans" about his mother, father and brother. The purpose of such a questionnaire was to find out the student's state of mind, how he felt, what he liked and disliked, and what his values were. With this knowledge it would be easier for the government school to modify his values and behavior at will-without, of course, the student's knowledge or parents' consent.
That was just the beginning. There was more to come: the new social studies textbook World of Mankind. Published by Follett, this book instructed the teacher how to instill humanistic (no right/no wrong) values in the K-3 students. At the text's suggestion they were encouraged to take little tots for walks in town during which he/she would point out big and small houses, asking the little tots who they thought lived in the houses. Poor or Rich? "What do you think they eat in the big house?...in the little house?" When I complained about this non-educational activity at a school board meeting I was dismissed as a censor and the press did its usual hatchet job on me as a misguided parent... it gets even loonier after this -- law
To see what censure does to a country see my
bossa nova trip through South America Censorship years