Bill Ayers' Plans for Public Schools # 2 of 2

Bill Ayers’ Plans for Public Schools # 2 of 2
The website – cinops be gone – Monday, November 24, 2008

We finish Phyllis Schlafly’s article in the Westminster Herald, Westminster Ca. Oct. 30, 2008.

Ayers’s books are among the most widely used in America’s education schools. Ayers even uses science and math courses as part of his “transformative” political strategy to teach that the American economic system is unjust.

Ayers is an endorser of a book called “Queering Elementary Education” by William J. Letts IV and James T. Sears, a collection of essays to teach adults and children to “think queerly.” The blurb on the cover quotes Ayers as saying this is “a book for all teachers … and, yes, it has an agenda.”

Unfortunately, Ayers’s far-out education theories are already having an effect in education schools. One after another, teachers colleges are using their courses to promote socialist notions of wealth distribution, “social justice,” diversity and environmentalism, and to punish students who resist this indoctrination by giving them low grades or even denying them graduation.

The U.S. Department of Education lists 15 high schools whose mission statements declare that their curricula center on “social justice.”

Propaganda about Obama is already finding favor with textbook publishers. The McDougal Little 8th-grade advanced-English literature book (copyright 2008, Houghton Miffin Co.) has 15 pages Obama and his “life of service.”

Most of Ayers’s socialist propaganda is financed with taxpayer money at state universities and teachers colleges. Some of the schools that have adopted Ayers-style pedagogy have received grants from ACORN or from Bill Gates’ charitable foundation.

You might assume that Ayers’s political ideas would put him on the outer fringe of the left-wing education establishment. However, his peers recently elected him to serve as vice-president for curriculum in the American Education Research Association, the largest organization of education school professors and reseachers.

Is an appointment to the U.S. Department of Education his next career advancement? Is Ayers’s transformative public school curriculum the kind of “change” Obama will bring us?

Phyllis Schlafly is a lawyer, conservative political analyst and the author of the newly revised and expanded “Supremacists.”
George H. Kubeck