Warning: Obama Ed Aims at U.S. Takeover!

[Jake Martinez]

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Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On November 2, 2011:

“An organization that monitors the U.S. government’s influence on education, and specifically on parents who choose to school their own children, is warning of a pending move in Washington that would result in “de facto national education standards.”

The measure could not only require parents who homeschool their children to teach certain government agenda issues but also effectively remove much of the decision-making authority of local school boards and districts, warns the Home School Legal Defense Association.

The organization focuses on issues affecting homeschool students and their parents in the United States and overseas but also keeps an eye on the larger picture of education policy.

Just exactly what’s wrong with Washington? Let Sen. Tom Coburn’s “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders into Insiders” explain it.

The concern is about Democrat-driven plans in the U.S. Senate to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, a massive federal program last reauthorized in 2001 as the No Child Left Behind Act.

“HSLDA’s federal relations staff have read this 868-page bill, and we believe that while it does not directly impact homeschool freedom, the bill will 1) increase the federal role in education at the expense of state, local and parental control, and 2) will greatly increase the pressure on states to align their curriculum and standards, resulting in de facto national education standards,” said the report compiled by Melanie P. Palazzo, the organization’s congressional action program director, and William A. Estrada of the organization’s federal relations office.

HSLDA said the Senate Education Commission already has voted to approve the plan, but at the request of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., there will be a hearing Nov. 8. The homeschooling group is urging its constituents to contact committee members and express concern.

The group fears the bill “will greatly increase the federal government’s control over education.”

HSLDA said that as an organization it remained neutral on the 2001 NCLB update, “because it included strongly written protections for homeschoolers, and prohibitions on federal funding for national teacher certification, national standards, national testing, and national databases.”

“A decade later, nearly all education policy makers agree that NCLB is too inflexible. HSLDA believes this illustrates that the federal government should not be in the business of establishing education policy for the nation’s schoolchildren,” the report said.

Now the reauthorization plan raises concerns over “the failed ‘Washington-knows-best, one-size-fits-all’ approach.”

One provision of the bill specifically mandates that any state taking federal funds “must put in place ‘college and career ready aligned standards.’”

“Mandating that each state have aligned standards with aligned coursework will guarantee the creation of national academic standards, national curriculum, and national testing,” this week’s report on the controversy said.

“We believe this will result in the eventual requirement that homeschoolers use these national standards, curriculum, and testing,” the report said.

While some specifics that could be included in a final bill remain unclear, “the trend of national standards could lead to homeschoolers losing the freedom to choose the curriculum for their children.”

An earlier HSLDA report by Estrada pointed out that national standards would remove control from local boards and districts and allow “unelected bureaucrats, not parents” to decide what subjects should be taught.

“National standards are a first step to a national curriculum and national testing,” Estrada wrote. “Certain federal education funds to the states would be contingent on the states adopting the standards, which would place incredible pressure on the states to accept these national standards. And if some states resisted efforts to adopt the standards, this could easily lead to calls to make the standards mandatory in the name of being fair to all students. Furthermore, unelected bureaucrats would be able to choose what they believe every school child should be taught.”

Just last year, Estrada said that such was the situation with the Washington “Race to the Top” funding for schools.

“If the federal government funds something, the federal government is going to control it. What we have is a de facto set of nationalized education standards being created.”

Source:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=363153

Note: The following report, articles and/or blog posts and videos relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. Report: Indoctrination without Apology: Social Studies Teachers Share Strategies on How to Mold Students!-Posted on America’s Survival, Inc.-By Mary Grabar:

http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Grabar_report.pdf

I. Video of ASI "Communism in the Classroom" Conference; Learn how Communist Professors Like Bill Ayers Are Brainwashing College Students. Speakers include Paul Kengor, Mary Grabar, and Cliff Kincaid-Posted on USASurvival.org:

http://www.usasurvival.org/communist-n-classrm.html

II. Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection!-Report Posted on USASurvival.org-By Cliff Kincaid, President of America’s Survival, Inc.:

http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/hawaii-obama.pdf

III. Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection!-Report Posted on USASurvival.org-By Cliff Kincaid, President of America’s Survival, Inc.:

http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/chicago-obama.pdf

IV. Barack Obama and the Communist Party!-Posted on KeyWiki:

http://keywiki.org/index.php/Barack_Obama_and_the_Communist_Party

V. Video: Jon Voight calls out Barack Obama-Posted on Personal Liberty Digest-By Bob Livingston-On April 18, 2010:

http://www.personalliberty.com/feature-video/jon-voight-calls-out-b...

Note:  What follows is a two-part series of articles and/or blog posts that reveal the ongoing Progressive indoctrination that is taking place in our public schools, which were written by Chuck Norris-You Decide:

U.S. Public Schools: Progressive Indoctrination Camps (Part 1 of 2)-Posted on WND.com-By Chuck Norris-On March 7, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=271521

US Public Schools: Progressive Indoctrination Camps (Part 2 of 2)-Posted on The Patriot Update-By Chuck Norris-On March 18, 2011:

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/us-public-schools-progressive-ind...

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Social Studies Teachers Share Strategies on How to Mold Students:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/social-studies-teachers-sh...

Confucius Classrooms in the U.S.!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/confucius-classrooms-in-th...

The Strange Case of Kevin Jennings!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/the-strange-case-of-kevin-...

The Midterm Elections and the Communist Manifesto!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/the-midterm-elections-and-...

Progressives and Communists Are Out of the Closet Together!

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Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/communism-in-hawaii-and-th...

Revolutionary Communist Party!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/revolutionary-communist-pa...

The Audacity of Socialism:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/the-audacity-of-socialism/

New World Order By Executive Order!

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What we haven’t been told about the President’s background!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven’t-been-told-...

The Russian View of What Has Been Happening In America!

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Note:  If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts please copy web site and paste it on your browser. Be aware that some of the articles and/or blog posts or videos listed within the contents of the above blog post(s) may have been removed by this administration because they may have considered them to be too controversial.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may shed some negative light on this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

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Jake