Social Justice - Prostituted - 6

Social Justice – Prostituted – 6

In pursuit of the truth – cinops be gone – Thursday, February 19, 2009

There something about unions in public education that the liberals, socialists and Marxists just salivate. The exclusivity aspect gives them a chance to get complete control of the organization. In an election 51% represent the other 49%. They feel that they need to indoctrinate and brainwash the other 49% who may happen to be independent, conservative or Republican. Yearly, the dues are about $1,000. for educators. Now, we are all set for political correctness. Read on.

We continue with study # 6 of Phyllis Schlafly Report, Jan. 2009
AYERS’S INFLUENCE ON EDUCATION

Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute describes Education Professor William Ayers as one of the leaders in “bringing radical social-justice teaching into our public school classrooms.” Most of Ayers’s socialist propaganda is financed with taxpayers’ money at state universities and teachers colleges.

Ayers teaches that America is oppressive and unjust, that wealth and resources should be redistributed, and that only socialism can solve our problems. He speaks openly of his desire to use America’s public school classrooms to train a generation of revolutionaries who will overturn the supposedly imperialistic regime of capitalist America.

From his prestigious and tenured university perch, Ayers for years has been teaching teachers and students’ rebellion against American capitalism and what he calls “imperialism” and “oppression.” The code words for the Ayers curriculum are “social justice,” a “transformative” vision, “critical pedagogy.” “liberation,” “capitalist injustices,” “critical race theory.” “queer theory,” and of course multiculturalism and feminism.

That vocabulary is typical in the readings that Ayers assigns in his university courses. He admits he is a “COMMUNIST STREET FIGHTER” who has been influenced by Karl Marx, as well as Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh, and Malcom X.

Ayers see his education work as carrying on his radicalism in a new sphere. What he calls education “reform” focuses almost exclusively on teaching a “social justice” agenda in the classroom and a race-based approach to education policy. That’s been his mission since he realized that revolution could be achieved easier by teaching lies about America to public school students than by planting bombs.

Ayers wants teachers to be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to supposed racism and oppression. His education philosophy calls for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and downplaying achievement tests in favor of activism. His books are among the most widely used in America’s 1,500 schools of education. Ayers even uses science and math courses as part of his “transformation” political strategy to teach that the American economic system is unjust.

Ayers teaches a course at University of Illinois at Chicago called “On Urban Education,” in which he calls for a “distribution of material and human resources.” The course description states: “Homelessness, crime, racism, oppression – we have the resources and knowledge to fight and overcome these things. We need to look behind our isolated situations, to define our problems globally. We cannot be child advocates …. In Chicago or New York and ignore the web that links us with the children of India and Palestine.” The readings he assigns for the course include Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 2 of Ayers own books & Teaching to Transgress by a radical black feminist.
George H. Kubeck