Read about what is taking place in our public schools, and keep in mind that Diogenes is a public school teacher. That should give us a clue as to the mindset of many of our children's instructors. Diogenes is no isolated case.
Read an interview of Atlas Shrug's Pamela Geller from Front Page Mag, via Atlas Shrugs, and as you read the interview try to imagine this type of scenario under George W. Bush.
FP: Pamela Geller, welcome back to Frontpage Interview.
I would like to talk to you today about Organizing for America (OFA), formerly Obama for America, and what it is doing in public schools. Tell us about it.
Geller: Jamie, a reader of my website AtlasShrugs.com, Chuck, has a daughter in the eleventh grade in a public high school, Perry Local in Massillon, Ohio. The teacher in her government class passed out a propaganda recruiting paper – headed with Obama’s distinctive 'O' logo — asking students to sign up as interns for Organizing for America. You can see the entire intern recruiting form at AtlasShrugs.com.
The form indicates yet again that Barack Obama is using our public school system to recruit for his Alinsky-inspired private army. Organizing for America is recruiting in our high schools to 'build on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda' – that is, his agenda of socialism for the United States of America.
FP: So what would you say to the argument that this is just an internship program and that there’s nothing wrong with it?
Geller: Yes, Jamie, it is just an internship program, but what will these 'interns' be force-fed? The mother’s milk of the left — anti-war agitation, anti-capitalism, Marx, Lenin, Ayers, LGBT agenda promotion, global warming, soft-on-jihad, and illegal immigration. For starters. Maybe 'Ellie Light,' who has in the last few weeks published the same Letter to the Editor supporting and defending Obama in over a dozen newspapers across the country, can give lessons in astroturfing.
FP: Provide some evidence.
Geller: That’s easy.
The evidence for this is that the very form in question carries a recommended reading list, including Rules for Radicals by the notorious hard left community organizer and Obama mentor Saul Alinsky; two Huffington Post articles by Zack Exley, 'The New Organizers' and 'Obama Field Organizers Plot a Miracle.' The first of those, published in October 2008, enthuses about 'an insurgent generation of organizers' inside the Obama campaign that has, 'almost without anyone noticing … built the Progressive movement a brand new and potentially durable people’s organization, in a dozen states, rooted at the neighborhood level.'
During the 2000 presidential campaign, Exley operated the website www.gwbush.com, which was filled with lies about George W. Bush that were designed to kill his chance to become President. The site’s headline was 'Just Say "No" to a Former Cocaine User for President.'
Also included on the OFA internship recommended reading list are Stir It Up: Lessons from Community Organizing and Advocacy by the leftist activist Rinku Sen, and sections of Obama’s book Dreams from My Father dealing with his days as a community organizer in Chicago.
FP: What do you think the point is of all this 'community' organizing?
Geller: To elect more Democrats, of course. This internship program is geared towards the 2010 elections, using our kids as the Democrats’ goons. The internship form begins with a nakedly partisan and propagandistic appeal: 'Organizing for America, the successor organization to Obama for America, is building on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda of change. OFA is launching a national internship program connecting students all over the country with our organization on the ground – working to make the change we fought so hard for in 2008 a reality in 2010 and beyond.'
Jamie, can you imagine if the Republicans attempted such a stunt? Obama is using the public school system to help ensure Democratic victories in 2010, 2012, and thereafter.
This is incredible. And it’s profoundly wrong, to say the least. And it is no accident. Obama is poisoning our public school system. He acts as if it’s his own private recruiting farm.
FP: The Obama camp has done questionable things in public schools before, hasn’t it?
Geller: Yes, Jamie. In September 2009, all public school students were forced to listen to his creepy speech about working hard in school. During the campaign the Obama camp had 'Kids for Obama Parades.' And public school teachers more than once were caught indoctrinating children into the Obama cult.. Remember the uniformed children chanting about how Obama had motivated them to succeed? P.J. Gladnick wrote about that video at Newsbusters in October 2008 that it was 'reminiscent of North Korean kids chanting out their praises for the "Dear Leader."' And don’t forget those many videos of public school kids singing brainwashed tunes of Obama praise.
Long before he was President, Obama’s camp had targeted children and started building a cult of adulation around their hero. The children’s book Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope by Nikki Grimes sets Obama up as a demigod: 'Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Kenya, he has held on to Hope. Even as a boy, Barack knew he wasn’t quite like anybody else, but through his journeys he found the ability to listen to Hope and become what he was meant to be: a bridge to bring people together.'
And now once again our perverse public school system abandons academic standards and achievement, replacing them with radical leftist activism from leftwing Alinsky indoctrinators.
FP: What can parents do about this?
Geller: Be aware and proactive. Children must be advised to expose this propaganda. Children must tell their parents how they are being used and manipulated. Parents, warn your kids. Don’t let Barack Obama recruit his drones from your family.
FP: Pamela Geller, thank you for joining us."
More liberal indoctrination here.
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Much ado about LESS than nothing! This whole thing is just a tired retread of another post you made awhile ago.
But you're so right on one point: how DARE teachers get students involved in civic activities. Better to shuttle them off to home skool, or run them down to the local Religious Rightwingnut hive for REAL indoctrination!
Spoken like a true blue atheist bigot, dio
Do you not comprehend that many of us can believe in God and be Christian without subscribing to the ultra Rightwingnut aspect of some evangelical sects?
Diogenes screen name is a misnomer,the truth is the last thing he/she/it is interested in discovering.Diogenes pathetic life consists of blogging his pablum nonstop wherever he can find someone who will let him.I would not be surprised to find he is one of many the pathetic loser Dems are paying to post their agenda.We see through your weak BS Diogenes...let us miss you.
Ohhhhh another BOOOGAAAA moment!
The Dems are paying people 6 figures to troll rightwingnut blogs! To the ramparts, men! Stop the scourge of democracy and preserve the American Way!
What utter nonsense.
And check your mytholgical references, too. You're a bit off in your level of misunderstanding.
Give me a break, Diogenes. You'd be having a hissy fit if this were being done by a conservative president.
Diogenes: The fact is that teachers are paid to teach academics, not to try to replace the parent as the voice of reason to my child. If you want to skip around the countryside holding hands with illegal aliens, jihadists, socialists, communists, and welfare recipients be my guest. You have no right pushing your point of view on a child. No wonder our education system is failing. Either do the job you get paid to do or become a democrat politician. You should'nt do both.
An educated high school student HAS to understand political science. That IS academics! How does anybody teach that in a vacuum? I'm not holding hands with anyone except my wife, and I'm not trying to be the voice of reason to anybody. I push all points of view on my students... which is something that surely doesn not happen in a rightwingnut household where the victims are homeskooled.
I doubt that anything other than liberal points are given much time in your class. I have seen video of kids singing praises to obama. Kind of reminds me of Nazi Germany. As for home schooling, that is a parents right to decide how their children are taught, not yours. You are paid to be neutral!!!! FAT CHANCE
Are you really so simple-minded that you think kids all across America are literally singing the praises of Barack Obama on a daily, if not hourly, basis just because you saw a clip on YouTube? You need to get out more. Go visit your local school for a change; I bet you'd be hard-pressed to see even a photo of the sitting President.
I'm not paid to be neutral. I'm paid to educate my students, and I bring all points of view to the table. That doesn't mean I have to hold no opinions of my own, ESPECIALLY when I'm not on duty. I have just as much right as any of you rightwingnuts to express my opinions; you don't own me just because I draw a salary as a public school teacher.
As for homeskooling, it is certainly a parent's right to try to educate thier children. By the time a child gets to high school, homeskooling is closer to child abuse, but it's still legal. There's not a parent alive that could properly educate a high school kid in all subjects. But they're free to try, inflicting whatever damage they wish, since they view their child as their own personal property.
What's really disturbing is the fact that someone like diogenes can actually come in contact with impressionable children.
It’s a sad testimony for America when school administrators choose to hire radical teachers like this leftwing ideologue.
I got hired because I know American History, and I can teach it to kids. Do I challenge them to think about what they think they already know about American history? Yep. Do I encourage them to look at out past and try to figure out how it affects our present and future? You bet. But I don't say the things I say here in my classroom.
For one, it's not all relevant.
For another, the sophomores I teach are a lot smarter and a lot more thoughtful than anybody I've encountered on this little blog.
Diogenes: From the looks of it, now you have also become an expert on measuring intellect simply by reading a few blog comments!!! Amazing what gov't employees can accomplish.!!! In your eyes, my level of intellect and thoughtfulness seems to be measured with whether I agree with you or not. As for the virtues of public schools versus home SCHOOLED and private school children, in my state public schools are far behind in dropout rates and especially SAT scores. Public schools here are bottomless money pits that employ family members and connected folks into cush jobs and disgusting redundancy. We call it the EMPIRE!!! Huge money with pitiful results. It is my job, not yours, to protect my children, and do what is best for them.
Hmmmm... so I shouldn't comment on the examples of stupidity I see here, but you're free to define what I do in my classroom -- without ever setting foot in my classroom -- because of what you see on the same blog? Get real.
Private schools will ALWAYS score higher on standardized tests. It's not because the kids are any smarter or any better educated. It's because private schools decide who they'll accept and who they won't. Public schools don't have that luxury. But if you stack the top private school students against the top public school students, there's not much difference.
As for dropout rates, how does one drop out of homeskool? Run away to Florida to hide out in some evangelicals' basement?
Thankfully i don't have to worry about your teaching style. The problem with many students is that they have sorry welfare parents who don't care at all. This is the elephant in the room that is ignored. Public schools and teachers can't breed morality, but they think they can if enough money is thrown at the problem. Decency starts at home. As for private school scores, sure they are higher because the teachers aren't worried about tenure or gov't retirement. It's supposed to be about the STUDENTS, not some teacher's union who will strike on a whim. FACT#1: Test scores reflect knowledge, not origin of education. FACT#2 Home schooled students must pass public school standards here, so they can't hide deficiencies. Why do public schools keep lowering standards in the name of equality? It's about the MONEY. If a dumber, more gov't dependent population is created, then the liberal dream can finally be realized.
JD, I'd be more than willing to debate you about education issues but, for the lif of me, despite all the words you've offered, I don't see anything remotely close to an "argument" in the whole mess.
Then get your eyes checked. Mostly my comments have been a response to YOUR comments. The public school system is indoctrinating kids and has a liberal mindset(everyone must be equal). Failing academically too.
I've never once thought that all kids must be equal. That's Bush's "All Children Left Behind" mantra.
Unlike you, I think politicians from both sides are crooks. And schools have lowered standards to "make sure everyone gets a good education". No, it's only to keep more students in the seats to get more MONEY. FOLLOW THE MONEY!!! FACT: Liberals run the schools. FACT: We spend more money than anyone else on education: FACT: It ain't working!!!! FACT: The huge increase in single parent homes has caused most of this. We can't spend our way to better educated students. More and more parents who don't care is the problem. But the gov't mindset is that they know best. They like it this way.
Maybe you weren't taught this in Logic 101, JD, but merely claiming some nugget of misinformation is a "fact" does not, surprisingly, make it a "fact".
The idea that liberals run most school systems is just not so. It's a myth.
Now, as for lack of positive parental input being a huge factor, I can agree. And you seem to think that the educational system shouldn't try to fill that void for kids. OK, but who will?
You didn't mention the other 2 "facts", which are also true. Yes, i feel sorry for kids with selfish parents. This problem has steadily gotten worse over the years as the "nanny state" has expanded. Many parents have little responsibility and don't care. Schools filling the void has not worked very well. Until the family and real parenting are re-established it's going to get worse.
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