Social Justice - Prostituted - 4

Social Justice – Prostituted – 4
In pursuit of the truth – cinops be gone – Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Preface: I can understand THAT voluntary unionism is as American as apple pie. But forced unionism is not. It is a disaster for public school teachers and professors. The Rodda Act of 1975 is a collective bargaining law for union teachers. IT LEGALIZED AND CHANGED THE NATURE OF THE PROFESSION!

And that is my beef! I was a voluntary member of the N.E.A., CTA, and WTA when they were a professional teacher organization, (1963-68). THEN THEY CHANGED THEIR PRINCIPLES BECAUSE THEY FEARED THE COMPETITION FROM THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN UNION. FALSE TEACHER POWER AND PROFESSIONAL UNION AGITATOR, SAUL ALINSKY, CAME UNTO THE SCENCE. Saul is still with us. Ask Ayers and Obama.

We continue with an analysis # 4 of the “Phyllis Schlafly,” V. 42, No. 6, Jan., 2009 “Social Justice” Code Word for Anti-Americanism - Indoctrinating Teachers

The lobbyists for “social-justice teaching” and “critical pedagogy” sponsor conferences to mold the thinking of teachers, which are well attended at taxpayers’ expense. Teachers 4 Social Justice attracted 1,000 educators to an October 2008 seminar in Berkeley, California.

The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) sponsors seminars with sessions entitled “Our Work as Social Justice Educators,” Teaching for Social Justice in Elementary Schools,” “DISMANTLING WHITE PRIVILEGE AND SUPPORTING ANTI-RACIST EDUCATION IN OUR CLASSROOMS AND SCHOOLS,” “TALKING ABOUT RELIGIOUS OPPRESSION AND CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGE,” and “Creating Change Agents Who Teach for Social Justice.”

School boards and principals allocate large amounts of money for teachers to receive this type of so-called “professional development.” Registration for NAME’s November 2008 conference in New Orleans cost $375 per NAME member or $475 per non-member, in addition to airfare and hotel expense.

Lesson plans are available from a 30-year-old magazine called “Radical Teacher,” which was founded as “a socialist, feminist, and anti-racist journal on the theory and practice of teaching.”

Education schools are lining up behind “social justice” teaching and forcing it on aspiring teachers so they will possess politically correct liberal attitudes and character traits. At Humboldt State University in northern California, Professor Gayle Olson-Raymer teaches the social studies methods class, which is required for prospective high school history and social studies teachers. Her syllabus states: “IT IS NOT AN OPTION FOR HISTORY TEACHERS TO TEACH SOCIAL JUSTIVE AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, IT IS A MANDATE.”

When a teacher engages in this type of advocacy in lieu of teaching literature, math, or science, the TEACHER IS ENGAGING IN POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION.

Some “social justice” professional development seminars have urged teachers to begin inculcating “correct” sociopolitical attitudes in children as young as age two because it is so easy to impose their views on children who enter school at such a young age.PROFESSOR AYERS DECLINED TO BE INTERVIEWED FOR THE EDUCATION WEEK article. His comments were unnecessary since the article was generally favorable to “social-justice teaching” and dismissive of its critics.

George H. Kubeck