If there was ever a case for homeschooling our children, this is it. After all, that’s how they gained a majority; through education. If we sent our offspring to parochial school or taught them at home, the indoctrination would never take place…
[typography font="Ubuntu Condensed" size="24" size_format="px"]Northwestern U. Marxism conference packed with teachers[/typography]
Teachers filled the ranks at the 2012 Midwest Marxism Conference, which was held Saturday at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Jesse Sharkey, who spoke at one of the breakout sessions, was just one of the hundreds of attendees, many of them teachers, there to strategize about the next phases of the partnership between Chicago Socialists and the Chicago Teachers Union.
Of course, all recording was strictly verboten unless you had been preapproved by the Chicago Socialists.
The event kicked off with Becca Barnes’s keynote speech. Barnes, a Chicago teacher, spoke about the new era of Marxism in America stemming from the Chicago Socialists’ recent successes in running the show during the Chicago Teachers Strike. Said Barnes, who referred to everyday American capitalists as “capitalist vampires,” “the struggle here in the United States has entered a new phase. Nowhere have we pointed the way forward more clearly than here in Chicago with the teachers union strike.” From her talk and other succeeding events throughout the day, it was clear that the Teachers Union and Marxists were one and the same.
I attended three break-out sessions in addition to the opening plenary. Each began with the speaker congratulating Barack Obama on his win. Rather than allowing discussion, the Chicago Socialists had a policy that disallowed actual person-to-person interaction; rather, the moderator required that you “raise your hand in a fist” in order to be placed in line to discuss. If you didn’t raise your hand in a fist, you were placed after those who did conform and raise their hand in a fist. As a queue formed, the result was that no comment addressed the previous issue raised.
Also, at Breitbart: Teachers Flock to Northwestern University for ‘Marxist Conference’
The schedule for said conference:
If I had kids they would be going to Catholic School, we have a few good ones around here.
My sis is sending my niece to private school, she looked around for quite awhile before deciding on one that wasn’t left leaning. It’s also a school for brainy kids, she’s paying quite a bit to send my niece there but says it’s worth it because she is learning like she should and not being exposed to public school teacher rantings.
What’s even more funny is the school is located in Ann Arbor, basion of left thinkers.
I gently suggested Catholic school for the grandkids… but it was too expensive. Our falling off a Marxist cliff is too expensive, IMO.
Yup – but what we’ve got to do is weasel some conservatives into the public system too. I’ve done my part….
you know how I feel about home school. I want Whittle to get his idea up and running – like, yesterday!
You’ve totally done your part!
Haven’t heard anything else about his idea, but I’m sure Bill’s cooking on all burners!
Nothing wrong with public education as long as parents don’t just deposit their children at school and expect everyone else to do all the hard work of raising the kids properly.
I’m the product of a public education and proud of that fact!
I’m also very proud of the teachers my kids have had (for the most part…two bad apples in the whole bunch). LD’s 5th grade teacher, especially, was a true gem. She recognized my son’s patriotic and musical passions and encouraged him to use those as his inspiration in all his schoolwork. Didn’t hurt that she had a HUGE American flag hanging in her classroom.
Seems that the real rabble rousers are mostly situated in high schools, when our kids are most vulnerable and confused and searching for answers to questions they haven’t even thought to ask yet.
I’ve also come across plenty of private school teachers who are just as cuckoo and left as anyone else.
The fact that these “educators” have such closed minds and are so focused on pushing their agenda goes against everything education is about.
Let’s face it: no matter where you go, there WILL be assholes who just don’t understand there are things bigger than themselves
I’m the product of public education myself… but that was a very long time ago.
I’ve personally seen what Dade county schools has done to grade school children and it’s sick. In 2007 kids came home singing the obama song and told everyone they had to vote for obama. When grandpa said that he was not voting for obama, the children were upset. obama was going to heal the earth, dammit! He is who we’ve been waiting for to make things FAIR!
After the election, the children were very disappointed… in grandpa… for not voting for their hero. Grandpa turned into the enemy.
SO. I would have stormed the school, but the damage has been done. Parents were involved, saying NO, obama is just another politician… but it wasn’t effective against the teacher’s propagandizing.
I’m not saying every teacher is like that… obviously. But there are enough. Kids were singing obama songs nationwide in 2007.
Coincidentally, I was reading an article by Rush and this popped out at me:
“I really think that we’ve gotta adopt a very, very long game if we’re going to recapture the country, and we have to do what the left did. And I don’t know how yet. But we are going to have to recapture the public education of this country, because that, folks, is where decent, honorable, really good, normal people like Mitt Romney end up being thought of as despicable human beings. It is through 30 or more years of public education run totally by liberals and the way they have characterized their opponents. I see it every day.”
Later on in the article he talks about the fact that when he went to school [like me, it was so long ago] there was no indoctrination by the left.
Also, when the education system tells you that climate change is real and that you’re killing the planet, kids grow up believing it. They believe that making “too much” money is bad and that corporations are evil.
“They really believe, folks, that multinational corporations and that Big Oil, they really believe the planet’s being destroyed. They really believe that the temperature’s rising. So Obama in his press conference yesterday just lies through his teeth and says that global warming is taking place at an even more rapid rate than anybody knew. There hasn’t been any warming — and this is science — in 16 years. But I am automatically discounted. There’s not even the slightest consideration that what I’m saying might be right. I’m just automatically discounted, and mistakenly, because I’m in the back pocket of big business. Pure and simple. So I am automatically disqualified. It’s not politics per se. It’s got politics in it, but that’s cultural, and dealing with it’s cultural.”
We’re not so much dealing with politics as an ideology… but we’ve just not really understood that til now…
And it’s more than education. My neighbor lady is seventy and she believes in global warming. She also believes Obama is a “nice man”. And she doesn’t even have network TV!
Holy crap! She must have been indoctrinate somehow!
I went to public school, but it is definately differnt from then than it is now.
I hear stories about teachers now a days and I freak out. When I was in school teachers would never let their opinions known and would teach strictly from the book and the books were a lot more true to history back then than now a days also.
That’s very true! At no time was I told anything about politics in school. Thank God!
There was also a time when “news” was unbiased and facts were simply reported.
Why oh why don’t you have a Don Quixote tilting at windmills smilie?
Yup.