CASTRO IN THE CLASSROOM... PAID TO TEACH, INSTEAD THEY PREACH

CASTRO IN THE CLASSROOM
PAID TO TEACH, INSTEAD THEY PREACH

By: Dave Franklin

If you can read this, thank a teacher. That is, unless the teacher is spending his or her time preaching leftist nonsense to a captive audience of students while you're paying them for it. The United States has a growing problem in the classroom -- public education has become a tool for collectivist indoctrination.

Are they being paid to teach, or to brainwash? Our public school system is very likely the only enterprise engaged by people who have the audacity to ask for more money when they fail. Johnny might not be able to read his diploma, so please give us more money. In other words, we're holding your children's future hostage; pay up!

Reports are heard over and over about some teacher ranting like Howard Dean in the classroom telling your kids Republicans are the demons of hell and that George W. Bush is Satan. Conservative radio talk shows regularly offer advice to callers whose kids have been subjected to left-wing schoolhouse propaganda -- make it easy on yourself. Just nod your head and agree... don't make any waves.

Meanwhile, parents are afraid to bring these problems to their local school board, knowing that the same anti-American left-wing hatred has long cemented its place among education's administration. Their kids would be marked, blacklisted, hope for the future destroyed. Saddam Hussein would be proud of what leftist teachers are doing in classrooms all over America. No parent dares standing up to the collectivist who holds such power over his or her children.

Instead, millions of families have taken the only course available, home schooling. Sure, they still have to pay their taxes; education tyrants still demand their money. But with the kids learning from Mom and Dad, at least the home school stalwart parents have peace of mind knowing that their offspring are learning something. At least they know the little ones are not subject to five days a week listening to an adult authority figure bad-mouthing their country.

What kind of cultural rape is going on here? It gets worse when the young people graduate and go to college. Insulated by tenure, with no hesitation, professors and teachers have a mission kindred to Fidel Castro's revolution. "Future developments in our education will have notable political, social and human connotations," said the communist dictator in 2003.

He killed their grandparents, and now his marxist tyrants in Cuba are stealing the children's minds. "Today, ideas are the essential instrument in the battle of our species for its own survival [read: battle to force communism on everyone], and ideas are born from education," Castro claimed.

The ATA, NEA, and college professors in America obviously got the message. No matter that they have been hired to teach Mathematics, English, History, Science... Political "ideas", the likes of which referred to by Fidel himself, are the "essential instrument" in 21st century America's classrooms.

Can you imagine? What if you hired someone to paint the house but instead they locked up your young ones and started preaching against your country. You would fire them in a second! But people you are paying to teach subjects that our students need to learn are instead promoting 18th century world socialism. This is intolerable.

There are some good teachers still out there (at least we hope there are). They keep their politics to themselves and instead focus on making sure students learn about the fields that they are supposed to study. We should be grateful to these last reverberations of real education fighting in the cesspool of "notable political, social and human connotations".

The teacher's job does not deal with the political or social. That is the realm of parents, relatives, and pastors. But in America's public education, far too many teachers don't care what their job is supposed to accomplish. Instead, they've appropriated a final venue for their failed ideology, a last stand for traitors in the Cold War.

If George W. Bush is to be the "education President", then he should deal less in Teddy Kennedy's "no child left behind". Rather, let the President focus on getting leftist drivel emanating from the Federal Government's Department of Education out of American schoolrooms.

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Dave Franklin is a writer for the American Reformation Project. He works in telecommunications and has over ten years of experience as a technology consultant for government agencies, including the Department of State and the Joint Staff. He is a regular columnist for Ether Zone.

Dave Franklin can be reached at:dfrankli@patriot.net

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