What is wrong with celebrities? Their job is to act not to be activists! Apparently they did get that confused, quick someone stop them and explain the difference! By no means should activists-actors (or heck activists in general) be working on educational projects!

Too many actors are damaging to the youth just by existing, add their activist crap.. and then top it with them trying to seep further into the minds of children and turn them into obedient socialists of the future???

Side note, during Obama’s campaign there were already pro Obama text books being issued to schools, there were worship songs being sung by children… I had commented on this issue when Obama was campaigning. There were  people who argued why I was so concerned. So why am I concerned.. well with every step in the wrong direction, leads to.. well more steps in the wrong direction.. Obama’s school safety czar is pushing far edge of deviant gay sexual behavior reading to children. Add the promotion of Planned Parenthood & late term abortions, and other agendas that are simply scary. Next up… a Must NOT see TV program…

The two most important questions for society, according to the Greek philosopher Plato, are these: What will we teach our children? And who will teach them? Left-wing celebrities have teamed up with one of America’s most radical historians to take control of the classroom in the name of “social justice.” Parents, beware: This Hollywood-backed Marxist education project may be coming to a school near you.

 

On Sunday, December 13, the History Channel will air “The People Speak” – a documentary based on Marxist academic Howard Zinn’s capitalism-bashing, America-dissing, grievance-mongering history textbook, “A People’s History of the United States.” The film was co-produced/written/bankrolled by Zinn’s Boston neighbor and mentee Matt Damon. An all-star cast of Bush-bashing liberals including Danny Glover, Josh Brolin, Bruce Springsteen, Marisa Tomei, and Eddie Vedder, will appear. Zinn’s work is a self-proclaimed “biased account” of American history that rails against white oppressors, the free market, and the military.

Raising my hand.. question.. If these people hate everything this country has been based on, what has made this country strong and great.. um, why don’t they just move to one of the countries they feel we should be more like?

And don’t you just love how over-privileged rich actors, who became over privileged rich actors due to the benefits they received by living in this country.. don’t you just love how THEY somehow feel justified in bashing our country, and desiring to change our country into a socialist country, filled with self-loathing, obedient drones?

Zinn’s objective is not to impart knowledge, but to instigate “change” and nurture a political “counterforce” (an echo of fellow radical academic and Hugo Chavez admirer Bill Ayers’ proclamation of education as the “motorforce of revolution.”) Teachers are not supposed to teach facts in the school of Zinn. “There is no such thing as pure fact,” Zinn asserts. Educators are not supposed to emphasize individual academic achievement. They are supposed to “empower” student collectivism by emphasizing “the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements.” School officials are not facilitators of intellectual inquiry, but leaders of “social struggle.”

Instigate Change.. now who else was beating that word to death, darn just escapes me.

No individual achievement, goals are focused on “collectivism”.. and intellectual inquiry is frowned on. Now going against everything this movie supports, and in secret peeking at a history book.. where have we seen such plans in the past? What was that result? What was the “ultimate solution”?

Zinn and company have launched a nationwide education project in conjunction with the documentary. “A people’s history requires a people’s pedagogy to match,” Zinn preaches. The project is a collaboration between two “social justice” activist groups, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. Rethinking Schools recently boasted of killing a social studies textbook series in the Milwaukee school system because it “failed to teach social responsibility.” A Rethinking Schools guide on the September 11 jihadi attacks instructs teachers to “nurture student empathy” for our enemies and dissuade students from identifying as Americans. “It’s our job to reach beyond this chauvinism.” And a Rethinking Schools guide to early childhood education written by Ann Pelo disparages “a too-heavy focus on academic skills” in favor of “social justice and ecological teaching” for preschoolers.

Starting the reprogramming as young as possible. Focusing preschoolers on how they should be socially responsible, empathize with the enemy, denounced Americans, and look away from academics. Wow. I did mention scary before right?

Teaching for Change’s objective, in Obama-esque fashion, is to train students not to achieve actual proficiency in core academic subjects, but to inspire them to “become active global citizens.” Today’s non-achieving aspirants are tomorrow’s Nobel Peace Prize winners, after all.

When it came to his campaign, this is something I worried about. I worried about Obama’s ability to re-educate the youth, that he would and could. To devalue education and focus on the evils of being American.

PLEASE , How can we clean out the disease that has taken over the white house. The entire lot of them need to go. Make them work REAL jobs, and accept minimum wage. Lets get some people with a clue into the white house, I know politicians as a rule are hardly a clued in bunch, but can we do worse?

No part of the school curriculum is immune from the social justice makeover crew. Zinn’s partners at Rethinking Schools have even issued teaching guides to “Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers” – which rejects the traditional white male patriarchal methods of teaching computation and statistics in favor of p.c.-ified number-crunching:

Even numbers are not immune!!!

“Rethinking Mathematics is divided into four parts. The first part is devoted to a broad view of mathematics that includes historical and cultural implications. Part Two includes nine classroom narratives in which teachers describe lessons they have used that infuse social justice issues into their mathematics curriculum. Included here…an AP calculus lesson on income distribution. The third part contains three detailed classroom experiences/lessons. These include a physical depiction of the inequitable distribution of the world’s wealth, the results of a student investigation into how many U.S. Presidents owned slaves, and a wonderful classroom game called ‘Transnational Capital Auction’ in which students take on the role of leaders of Third World countries bidding competitively for new factories from a multinational corporation.

Short lessons, provocative cartoons, and snippets of statistics are scattered throughout Rethinking Mathematics. A partial list of topics includes racial profiling, unemployment rate calculation, the war in Iraq, environmental racism, globalization, wealth distribution and poverty, wheelchair ramps, urban density, HIV/AIDS, deconstructing Barbie, junk food advertising to children, and lotteries.”

Our students will continue to come in dead last in international testing. But no worries. With Howard Zinn and Hollywood leftists in charge, empty-headed young global citizens will have heavier guilt, wider social consciences, and more hatred for America than any other students in the world.

Michelle Malkin

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