I am sure the question is rhetorical.

Obama is hellbent on changing America as we have known and cherished it, into something ugly and repulsive and entirely alien to what the Founding Fathers envisioned, and what Americans have always fought for.

As we have just seen on Saturday, Americans clearly want America to remain free of big government intrusions everywhere it has no business being.

But obviously, the change Obama wants aside from all else he’s attempted in pursuit of his evil agenda, will also include changing what our children learn in school, and have it become the national curriculum which he believes will ensure that all future students are more thoroughly brainwashed than they have already become, in accordance with his tyrannical ideology – and that of the Left.

How can we stop this man from continuing to destroy the most exceptionally great nation on the face of the earth?

To me, that is the only question we need to answer, the sooner the better.

Absolutely nothing good for America’s people is forthcoming from this man’s reign.

Putting on my conspiracy hat (which in this case has empirical evidence already at hand), given the Education Departments curriculum guides for Obama’s speech, it sure looks like the Communists in positions of power want to create a uniform curriculum that will indoctrinate all U.S. students into a government dictated instructional program. This is the kind of education/indoctrination that is part and parcel of every left dictatorship in the past century.

What makes this more insidious is it looks like this federal curriculum will be outsourced to private textbook companies who will find it most profitable to create “independent” texts that conform to the federal government mandates.

Two canaries in the mind to see if they start gasping or keeling over:

1) The federal government taking away the autonomy of states to set curriculum standards (probably under threat of withholding federal funds)

2) The regulation of homeschool curriculum to require them to conform to federal requirement or banning them outright as ”

a) injurious to children’s socialization or mental health by denying them interaction with other children, etc,” or

b)”failure to provide them an education with sufficient diversity of views [with the government determining what gets included in this “diversity” and what gets excluded) – as happened in NH recently or

c) deciding that children belong to the state and that therefore the state has the responsibility to educate them in that state’s value system (c.f. Germany)

Be very watchful; if our children are captured, the future by definition is grim.

Can you search diaries and posts by ocleverone? She knows a lot about this and has posted a lot about this issue. Maybe you can link her post and diary.

behind the push to change the health care delivery system.

It’s a smokescreen to hide the same process as it’s being pushed on the national education delivery system.

This idea for a national curriculum illustrates everything that is wrong with a centrally directed economy. I recently responded to a writer in our local paper, who tried to make a comparison between public education and public health. Her contention was that private schools aren’t driven out of the market place by public schools, so private insurance should be able to complete equally with a national public health plan.

Among other things, one difference is that at the present time public education is controlled and funded by local people. It isn’t directed from Washington. That means there is almost no opportunity for ideological indoctrination of the school population by any Washington authority. If Washington gets into the business of telling schools exactly what to teach and how to teach it, that protection goes away.

Public school course content is bad enough as it is, but at least some school districts can insist that the British Invasion of 1812 deserves more teaching time than does the British Invasion of 1963 to today.

This is another good reason to eliminate the Department of Education. It’s only natural that they’d be looking for something to do with themselves. Put in an activist like Secretary Arne Duncan to write a prescription for oppressive government intrusion in education, and the Department gives him the vehicle to carry it out.

Even if the motives were completely innocent (which is doubtful), centralized direction of educational curriculum is a terrible idea.

1. Indoctrination
2. Outlawing homeschools.

Both of things are at the heart of this piece of tripe.

Please look over the links and files in this Yahoo group to find out what they are doing to us.

Education is just another ACORN!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/USPEIN

www.thetruthaboutib.com

www.illinoisloop.org

Goals 2000 already handed the kids over to the UN.
They are being taught Marxism.

I was targeted when I taught and driven out for being conservative and wanting to TEACH.

The House Resolution is simply the legislative mechanism to allow the Secretary of Education to require states to adopt the national academic standards currently being drafted as part of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

The initiative is sponsored by the National Governor’s Association and backed by the US Dept of Education. They working group has been meeting since early this year and issued it’s first draft of college readiness standards in July. The draft of K -12 grade specific standards will be given to the states this week or next and will be issued in final in December.

Each state participating in the effort (and I believe 46 or 48 are) will be required to adopt at least 85% of the standards drafted by the CCSSI. Federal Education funds will only be given to states which have adopted at least 85% of the common core standards.

Secretary Duncan has already released $350 million in stimulus funds to support developing a common national assessment – though the date that will be available has not been released.

The entire effort has been cloaked in a veil of secrecy and getting people to pay attention has been a nightmare. I hope this bill finally gets people to wake up and realize that the public schools will have their standards and curricula set by the federal government next year unless we do something to stop it..

this administration exudes, I thought in the Joint Session speech we were just promised no bill would be signed that would add to the deficit, I believe the quote was “Not one dime”

AMERICA—DO NOT LET ANY GOVERNMENT CONTROL YOUR CHILDREN. I HAVE MY OWN THOUGHTS ABOUT THE BIG O’s LEGITIMACY TO BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE, BUT REGARDLESS OF THAT, HE IS NOT A TRUE AMERICAN AT HEART. THEREFORE, I REFUSE TO CLAIM HIM AS MY PRESIDENT AND WILL NOT GIVE IN TO HIS PROPAGANDA. I AM ALSO DOING ALL I CAN TO HELP MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS STAND AGAINST HIM.

STAND UP FOR THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. EXERT YOUR RIGHTS IN SUPPORT OF THE LOVE OF GOD, COUNTRY, YOUR FAMILIES, AND YOUR VERY LIVES.

Unless all of a sudden the Gov’t pulls a one-eighty and develops something of use (history tells a different story), this will be a non-starter. Plus, it isnt like ‘most’ kids listen that much in school, anyhow.

So, the leftist content that they develop would have to be interesting enough to keep a bunch of non-caring, attention-deficit jr. high and high schoolers involved.

I don’t know. Seems like a ‘Mountain Too Far’ to me. You cannot even teach them ‘Math’, nowadays.

Now, but seriously. This needs to be shouted down. “Public” education should remain at the state. NEA should not fall under the “General Welfare” clause.

This bill should be no surprise at all, two reasons:
The Annenburg Trust. Money to the Chicago School System to promote Leftist educational goals and the Union.

1) This was Obama’s job as the Titular head of the Annenburg Trust in Chicago. His partner was none other than William (the bomber) Ayers whose career has been in promoting Left Wing education in the US.

2) Obama has made no secret that as soon as he gets “finished” with Health Care it is his intention to “nationalize” public education in the US.

What you see here is “The Camel’s Toe”.

PC is Thought Control
LEE

Camel toe refers to something else. It wouldn’t be surprising if “curriculum development” was being done by some ACORN like group specifically organized for this purpose. They can collect $millions for a few thousands worth of work. BHO is building multiple pipelines into the Treasury for the Left.