Teachers Warned: There is to be no heterosexism or classism in Schools
More and more our teachers in this country are being forced to use the school rooms of America as liberal indoctrination centers for political change, making of a generation of Obamanites. They are no longer to concentrate on basic skills education, but rather the emphasis of all education is to be directed towards changing social, religious and political attitudes.
In short, despite our lowering educational standards over many, many countries; we in America seem to feel these antiquated basic skills should give way to brainwashing our children in social liberalism.
Candidates for certification to teach in public schools in Texas are being told that they will be held accountable for any “heterosexist” [See below] leanings and must become agents working to change society, according to one candidate who was alarmed by the demands.
One warns that “teachers and administrators must be held accountable for practices deemed to be racist, sexist, heterosexist, classist [see below], or in any other way discriminatory.” And a second warned that educators must not define education as the basic skills.
”How do we create a better world? How do we do more than simply survive? As educators, we must help people to become committed to social change,” the article demanded.
There it states that there are several focuses for such programs, including those that insist “on education change as part of a larger societal transformation in which we more closely explore and criticize the oppressive foundations of society and how education serves to maintain the status quo – foundations such as white supremacy, capitalism, global socioeconomic situations, and exploitation.”
The article demands, “Schools must be active participants in ending oppression of all types, first by ending oppression within their own walls, then by producing socially and critically active and aware students.”
“The underlying goal of multicultural education is to affect social change. The pathway toward this goal incorporates three strands of transformation: 1. The transformation of self; 2. The transformation of schools and schooling; and 3. The transformation of society,” the teaching material said.
The traditional teaching approaches, it continued, “must be deconstructed to examine how they are contributing to and supporting institutional systems of oppression.”
“In the Pedagogy of the Oppressed [the author] says that we must teach students to read the word, which is basic skills, but we also must teach them to read the world, and that is to critique and change society,” the article said.
“One of the things that is happening in this assessment mania that is going on is that we’ve defined education too narrowly. We’ve defined it as only basic skills: reading, writing, and arithmetic. We’re missing that the biggest problem of humankind is not basic skills but how to get along. How do we create a better world? How do we do more than simply survive? As educators, we must help people to become committed to social change,” it stated.
By any “nontotalitarian” standards, he wrote, the plans being made so far by the school are “severely unjust and impermissibly intrude into matters of individual conscience.”
In Minnesota, among the issues discussed in the plans, are requirements that teachers would be able to instruct students on the “myth of meritocracy” in the United States, “the history of demands for assimilation to white, middle-class, Christian meanings and values,” and the “history of white racism.”
Heterosexism is a term that applies to a system of negative attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality and relationships. It can include the presumption that everyone is heterosexual or that opposite-sex attractions and relationships are the only norm and therefore superior. Although heterosexism is defined in the online editions of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary as anti-gay discrimination and/or prejudice “by heterosexual people” and “by heterosexuals,” people of any sexual orientation can hold such attitudes and bias. Nonetheless, heterosexism as discrimination ranks gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals as second-class citizens with regard to various legal and civil rights, economic opportunities, and social equality in the majority of the world’s jurisdictions and societies
Classism is prejudice and/or discrimination on the basis of social class. It includes individual attitudes and behaviors, systems of policies and practices that are set up to benefit the upper classes at the expense of the lower classes.
The real emphasis here appears to be, through new and specially indoctrinated generations of Americans, to cause society to above all else accept homosexuality as being normal and heterosexuality as being the enemy of a healthy society. It also is clear in this new direction in our schools that capitalism, liberty and Judeo-Christian values are to be denigrated, moved to the same status as racism in society,and viewed as being destructive of a brave new world.
