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It is generally understood that today's youth are more supportive of equality for gay and lesbian people. Faced with losing the next generation, fundamentalists are ferociously scrambling to capture the minds of youth through homeschooling and the subversion of public education. By sequestering students at home or creating public schools where the only drink served in the cafeteria is Kool-Aid, they hope to reprogram tomorrow's leaders.
It appears America's religious fanatics are modeling their efforts on the success of radical Islamists in the Middle East, who reversed the trend of secularization in the region by hijacking education. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently wrote about this phenomenon:
Beginning in the 1970s, the trend in Yemen, Morocco, Egypt and the Persian Gulf "was to Islamicize education as a way to fight the left..."
...Then, in 1979, after the Saudi ruling family was shaken by an attack in Mecca from its own Wahabi fundamentalists, the Saudi regime, to fend off the anger of its Wahabis, gave them free rein to Islamicize education and social life in Saudi Arabia and neighboring states.
The rest is a very sad and tragic history.
In America, according to the Aug. 7, 2009 edition of The Economist magazine, the number of children who are home-schooled--1.5 million--has doubled in the past decade, and 83 percent of home-schooling families do so for religious or moral reasons.
It is important to realize that the goal of many in the homeschooling movement is to create an army of zealot zombies who are committed to transforming America into a fundamentalist "Christian Nation."
"We are not home-schooling our kids just so they can read," said Michael Farris, the founder of the Home School Legal Defense. "The most common thing I hear is parents telling me they want their kids to be on the Supreme Court. And if we put enough kids in the farm system, some may get to the major leagues."
Many of the cult-kiddies are coming of age and have already infiltrated Washington. Homeschoolers are well represented on Capitol Hill, and they played a disproportionate role in George W. Bush's administration.
While many of these students are educated in terms of test scores, they may lack critical thinking skills. In a sense, they are like computers with large hard drives that have been programmed with faulty software. No matter how fast they compute they always arrive at same flawed conclusions based on the Biblical bugs planted early in their memory chips.
For example, Children's Conferences International hosts events across the nation for homeschoolers. Their "2010 theme" is science fiction, except to keep the minds of the children pure there will be no extraterrestrials allowed.
"Parents won't have to worry about their children learning about aliens or some mysterious force in this fun filled futuristic space age theme," according to their website. "Children WILL learn important life lessons about trusting God, faith over atheism, and the dangers of being enamored by the world."
Instead of E.T. and space, these poor children have to endure crazy, spaced out adults determined to strip-mine their minds and corrupt their imaginations. In my view, this is a form of child abuse and deprives these students of real childhood experiences, while making them closed-minded.
Of course, funneling children into homeschooling is not enough for these predators. In order to succeed, the extreme right must hijack the curriculum of public schools. They are already making serious inroads in Texas, with zealots on the state school board rewriting history textbooks. This is vitally important because Texas is such a large consumer of textbooks, that they essentially have the ability to set the standards for much of the nation. So, if history is rewritten in Austin, the revisions will likely appear in your state as well.
One leader of the public school putsch, according to a recent cover story in The New York Times Magazine, is Cynthia Dunbar, a member of the Texas Board of Education. In 2008, she published a book called, "One Nation Under God" where she wrote: "Hence, the only accurate method of ascertaining the intent of the Founding Fathers is from a biblical worldview." She also stated, "this battle for our nation's children and who will control their education and training is crucial to our success for reclaiming our nation."
For all of her passion, Dunbar is opposed to public education, writing of, "The inappropriateness of a state-created taxpayer-supported school system," and says that sending children to public schools is akin to, "throwing them into the enemy's flames, even as the children of Israel threw their children to Molech."
Clearly, Dunbar's real agenda is infiltrating the school system in order to destroy it.
When it comes to support, the next generation was supposed to be a wash. However, this successful trajectory is threatened if we allow today's youth to be brainwashed. While paying attention to school boards is boring, it must become a priority for all Americans who want schools to be about education instead of indoctrination.
28 Comments:
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!! There are evil people who want others to remain narrowminded and fearful. They must get to them before they come of age or it is too late. You are so right Wayne. These right wing religious fundamentalists must be forced to pay taxes so they cannot have the freedom to run amok while the rest of us have to constantly swim upstream. EVIL and Mind Control. Sadly that is the definition of religion.
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Ewe. you are so right. It's past time to start taxing these groups. We shouldn't have to support their hateful agendas, which is what we are doing when they are tax-exempt.
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posted by Jason, at
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Jason: Athiest or Christian... You are antisocial and against having your children associate with others whether it be in pulic or private schools. It is not far from having a zealot army similar to the Michigan Militia hiding out in the middle of nowhere fearful to interact and violently opposed to assimilation. If you don't think children who spend their days either alone or only with siblings are going to grow up differently than those that learn with those within the community they inhabit, then there is an amish farm probably for sale somewhere in this country waiting for you to purchase. By the way, atheists are just as arrogant as those that say they have a direct contact with God. It is just the opposite extreme. How presumptuous of you. Not Wayne. I feel this post is implying people that isolate become zombie like zealots in their extreme thinking. It makes perfect sense because you have fewer options to hear others that think differently than you. So YES... NARROW VIEWS OF ANY SUBJECT CAN INDEED TRANSFORM A COUNTRY.
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Homeschooling is child abuse. Homeschooling parents should have their children taken away by child protective services.
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ewe and the others who responded to my post are rather clueless about homeschooling. Check out the life of Tim Tebow....he was homeschooled and played football on a local high school football team. Most homeschool kids are active in their local school system. They are not isolated zombies. They are taught by either their mom and dad. Home schoolers can get done in two hours of work what a public school kid will take 6 hours to get. There is so much wasted time in public school. My oldest homeschooled child is a sophomore at Princeton U. So, before you pop off about homeschooling, find out what you are talking about. One thing for sure...I don't want my kids associating with either you or your kids on a regular basis. You are narrow, bigoted and uninformed.
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Jason: you only wish what you said was across the board. It is you who is misinformed. I myself can think of three children from 11-20 years of age that i was introduced to that were homeschooled. While you may be right that they can score high on tests, they are not as socially skilled as children in school with other children who do just as well scoring on tests. They completely missed out on that very important and necessary human trait that is not only part of childhood but is best implemented in the formative years. Keep your arrogance to yourself. Before you snap back, it is far beyond just those three individuals i previously mentioned.
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