VERIFIABLE NEA viewpoints
Sex Education:
“The NEA recognizes that the public school must play an increasingly important role in providing the instruction. Teachers … must be legally protected from censorship and law suits.” (Resolution B-36, 1998)
Diversity:
“Funds must be provided for programs to alleviate race, gender and sexual orientation discrimination and to eliminate portrayal of race, gender and sexual orientation stereotypes in the public schools.” (A-13, 1996)
Abortion:
“The NEA supports family planning, including the right to reproductive freedom….” The NEA “urges the implementation of community-operated, school-based family planning clinics that will provide intensive counseling by trained personnel.” (I-12, 2003)
Gay & Lesbian Activism:
“Work with the school district, the parent-teacher organization, and community groups to provide information to other members, parents, and counselors about the developmental and health needs of homosexual, lesbian, and bisexual students.”
“Recommend … that the library include positive learning materials about homosexuals, lesbians, and bisexuals.”
“Encourage the establishment and maintenance of peer support and community self-help programs for homosexual, lesbian, and bisexual students.”
“Work with the school district to develop or expand school policy and curricula, including accurate portrayals of homosexuals, lesbians, and bisexuals throughout history, and to ensure respect for diversity, including homosexuals, lesbians, and bisexuals.” (i.e. In 1999, the then-director of communications for GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network) stated that “we’re going to raise a generation of kids who don’t
believe [the claims of] the Religious Right.”)Natural Loyalties:
“Allegiance to a nation is the biggest stumbling block to the creation of international government. National boundaries and the concept of sovereignty must be abolished. The quickest way to do this is to condition the young to another and broader alliance. Opinion favorable to international government will be developed in the social studies curriculum in the public schools.”
“Conditioning is a process which may be employed by the teacher to build up attitudes in the child and predispose him to the action by which those attitudes are expressed.”
It’s just another organized front in Satan’s kingdom. When dealing with government schooling advocates (that is pretty much everyone around), it’s like dealing with zombies. They come at you relentlessly, chanting, “Public school! Socialization! Friends! Socialization! Experts! Socialization!”
We even were in a church where people looked askance at homeschoolers. This was before our oldest was of “school age.” The mantra there was using your children as outreach. I kid you not. We found a church where most of the children are homeschooled, so we wouldn’t have to deal with that garbage.
You could add to this your list of quotes:
“From a penultimate perspective, it’s hard to see how a history prof teaching the survey of the United States at Cow College U. is doing the job any worse than the prof at Consistently Calvinist College. The standards for that evaluation are not Scripture or the creeds; they are set by the American Historical Association and the leading graduate departments of history.” D.G. Hart.
Mark,
That is perhaps one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read by Hart…. and believe me, I’ve read some stupid things that have fallen from his cyber ink pen.
Just wondering exactly HOW Christian Calvin College is, and WHO sets their standards and “creeds.”
Hsmama: Hart was naming some ideal which he called “Consistently Calvinist College”– not the actual Calvin College.
Yeah, but his point is that consistently Calvinist College will teach the same history as Charles and Mary Beard at consistently Humanist College.
I know you know this but it is maddening.
Or what could they be indoctrinated into by your local church
http://www.ppl.org/documents/Spotlight_ROC.htm