Texas Schools To Promote God & Guns

aerial wrote:

thoughts on this?

In the 1980s, many radical anti-war activists of the 1960s and 1970s acquired a new identity and became tenured college professors. Among them was William Ayers, a founder of the infamous Weather Underground, the organization that set bombs in public buildings such as the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon.

Ayers escaped prosecution only because of government misconduct in collecting evidence against him. Ayers later boasted: "Guilty as hell. Free as a bird." In a remarkable coincidence, Ayers was quoted in the New York Times on the morning of 9/11 as saying, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough." Later that week, Ayers was quoted in the New York Times Magazine as saying "This society is not a just and fair and decent place."

Ayers enrolled in Columbia Teachers College, where he picked up a Ph.D., and emerged as a Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.He launched a new career, directing his revolutionary energy into changing classroom curricula instead of setting bombs.

Ayers's political views are as radical now as they were in the 1970s. "Viva President Chavez!" he exclaimed in a speech in Venezuela in 2006, in which he also declared, "Education is the motor-force of revolution."

Ayers has been on a decades-long mission to transform education into anti-American indoctrination and to get young people to demand that government control the economy, politics and culture. We see the result in 2008 post-election surveys: seven out of every ten voters between the ages of 18 and 29 now favor expanding the role of government, and agree that the government should do more to solve the nation's problems. It's obvious which party and which candidates will get their vote.

One might assume that Ayers's peculiar resumé would put him on the outer fringe of the leftwing education establishment. However, Ayers developed quite a following as he taught resentment against America. In 2008 he was elected by his peers as vice president for curriculum of the American Education Research Association, the nation's largest organization of education professors and researchers.
http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2009/jan09/psrjan09.html

keeponrockin wrote:

Aerial, I think the difference from your examples is most of those are colleges, thus private institutions and students have a choice where they attend. The choice isn't offered in public schools.

Flagg wrote:

In defense of the people of Texas, no one here is in favor of these changes. No one. The people on the board of education that pushed them have either already lost their primary elections or are retiring this year. Yet they are setting the standards for the next decade before they leave office.

Texas doesn't elect these board members. They are appointed by the governor. We can only change them if they lose their state senate or state legislature elections.

Before you all generalize this entire state, and thereby committing the same offenses as this stupid board of education, just know that no one down here supports these changes, yet we are powerless to stop them. Even voting out the people responsible doesn't help.

Some of you people are just as guilty by generalizing. That's like someone saying they wished all Americans would disappear just because you don't like Bush or Obama.

This is a sensative subject to me as I was a history major in college and I actually fear what my kids are being taught in school, knowing they will have to forget everything once they get into college.