For more information, go to www.EdWatch.org.
Also, you need the book,
FedEd by Allen Quist.
In 1994, Congress passed and President
Clinton signed into law 3 bills
to restructure America's educational system. Most Congressmen
were not
aware of its implications or implementation. These bills were: (1)
Goals
2000:Educate America Act; (2) School to Work: Opportunities Act; and
(3)
HR6, the appropriations bill for most federal education programs.
HR6 authorized
the Secretary of Education to enter into a contract and award a grant
to
one NGO - the Center for Civic Education (CCE). That single
NGO now determines
the mandated curriculum to all states that accept federal education
funding.
(That includes all 50 states as far as I know. My
suggestion for 100 Ideas
for Florida's Future was to stop accepting federal education funding.
It
is eaten up in administration anyway and never makes it to the
classroom
to accomplish anything positive).
In 1994, the CCE published the federal
government's standards for civics
and government. These standards were to be implemented as
interdisciplinary
standards (i.e. taught in all subjects) and were to include a
"political
action" component. The primary purpose of the new curriculum
is to move
America from a national to a global society. Its primary
focus is the restructuring
of American education from teaching "reading, writing and arithmetic"
to
teaching "civic education." Education is now considered
political and designed
to achieve a political purpose. No Congressmen or citizen
group approved
this change or curriculum. It was the product of the CCE.
A copy of the
standards can be purchased at the CCE 1(800)591-9330. In
addition to the
CCE, the Department of Education has established a "partnership" with
"The
Communitarian Network." The Network's platform includes
eliminating the
right to bear arms. According to the Network, only the
government should
own and bear arms.
In order to achieve its new educational
goal, the CCE and its approved
textbooks, such as "We the People: the Citizen and the Constitution"
present
only the facts that support its political viewpoint. Other
factual information
is ignored or undermined. (For instance, the Second Amendment is never
mentioned,
even when discussing the Bill of Rights). Therefore, the
federal curriculum
is designed to indoctrinate, not educate. Education is about
teaching facts
so that free citizens can make informed decisions.
The federal curriculum also affects private schools and homeschools
because
these students must pass the same tests that public school students
take,
such as the Iowas Basics, SAT and ACT. These tests require
the corrent
answers to those "themes" in the federal curriculum.
The principal themes required by the federal curriculum are:
1. Undermining national sovereignty.
2. Redefining natural rights (i.e., truths that
are self-evident/inalienable rights-the only legitimate purpose of
gov't according to our Declaration
of Independence is to secure those God-given rights)(Under the federal
curriculum, as in totalitarian governments, human rights have second
priority over the "needs of society," making these rights meaningless).
3. Mininizing natural law (God's
absolute, immutable laws that are to
be discovered and applied).
4. Promoting religious environmentalism.
5. Requiring multiculturism, including
homosexuality.
6. Restructuring government.
7. Redefining education as job skills.
These themes, as you will notice, are
not "subjects," but attitudes
or worldviews. All these themes, you will also notice, have
the overreaching
objective of promoting globalism/one-world government. As an
example, the
National Standards on Civics and Government published by the CCE
states:
"The world is divided into nation-states that claim sovereignty over a
defined
territory and jurisdiction over everyone within it." The
primary polical
entity, according to the CCE is "the world." The
"nation-states" simply
"claim" sovereignty. The National Standards states that our
forefathers
"argued that the principal purpose of government is the protection of
individual
rights ... . However, another view is that the primary purpose of
government
is to promote the common good of the whole society rather than that of
one
particular class or segment of society." The CCE's model
textbook, "We
the People" states, "As fundamental and lasting as its guarantees have
been,
the U.S. Bill of Rights is a document of the eighteenth century,
reflecting
the issues and concerns of the age in which it was written...other
national
guarantees of rights also reflect the cultures that created them."
In other
words, the doctrine of natural rights may have been fine for the 18th
century,
but we are more enlightened now. The National Standards asks
students to
"Explain how awareness of the nature of American constitutional
democracy
may give citizens the ability to reaffirm or change
fundamental constitutional
values."
Under the Iowa Basics Test, the number of questions dealing with:
The U.S. Constitution 0
Any U.S. President 0
Any explorer such as Christopher Columbus
0
Any U.S. leader 0
Any U.S. wars 0
Life, liberty or property rights 0
Importance of free enterprise 0
Meaning of republic or democracy 0
Location of any state, river, city, territory, ocean or
nation 0
Environment 12
NAEP Questions:
Environment 10
Multiculturism
4
Basic principles of freedom 0
Geography 0
History other than Native American
history 0
National sovereignty, natural law, natural
rights 0
In the curriculum, students are taught
religious environmentalism, such
as that “trees are your brothers and sisters.” (Language arts
text). Religious
environmentalism is the religion of paganism, spiritism and
pantheism.
Required activities include: discussing the spiritual value of water in
Walden; reading and analyzing the river myths of various cultures;
Dalai
Lama’s Spirit of Nature video; meditating and maintaining field
journals.
The curriculum also contains attacks against Christianity.
The 6th grade
Iowa Basic Test, for instance, asks this question:
“What is the best evidence that the Roman Catholic Church was a
powerful
force in the Middle Ages?
J. Many people were serfs.
K. Most European languages are based on
Latin.
L. Most Christian leaders could read and
write.
M. Large armies were persuaded to fight
for the Holy Land.
The correct answer is “M.” There is, of course, no mention of
the Moslem
invasion of most of Europe and its fight for the preservation of
western
civilization.
Christians are also pictured as primitive, such as its reading sections
involving the Amish.
European settlers are described as gold worshippers and
“crazy.” (NAEP test).
Native Americans are described as peace-loving and noble.
Islam is portrayed
in a positive light. Christianity is associated, in contrast,
with the
Salem witch hunts and the Inquisition.
Teamwork is considered more important
than efficiency under the federal
curriculum (i.e. collectivism and socialism). Students are
considered “human
resources,” i.e. human “capital” and it is considered a waste of
resources
to educate someone who will be a truck driver the same as someone who
will
need a college degree. Thus, students are supposed to pick a
career path
by 8th grade. (An educated citizenry is only necessary in a democracy).
The federal curriculum teaches the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
and puts it on an equal, if not superior, plane with our Declaration
and
Constitution. The UDHR states that “rights and freedoms may
in no case
be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United
Nations.”
The United Nations trumps human rights!
I hope that this helps you with your public service and your
understanding
of the changes and problems within our educational system.