Social Justice - Prostituted - 8 of 8

Social Justice – Prostituted - 8 of 8
In pursuit of the truth – cinops be gone – Saturday, February 21, 2009

The Phyllis Schlafly Report: Jan. 2009 “Social Justice” Code Word for Anti-Americanism

This Last Section is on - Ayers’s Friend: Barack Obama

Barack Obama claims that he knows William Ayers only as “a guy in the neighborhood.”

In fact, the unrepentant Ayers is a longtime friend and associate of Obama.
Is Ayers’s transformative public school curriculum the kind of “change” that President Barack Obama will bring us? Activists who teach “social justice” know that influencing public school teachers, who can then influence the next generation, is the most effective way to bring about the change they hope will soon become majority opinion.

Ayers and Obama worked closely together during the 1990’s when Obama headed the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) and Ayers co-chaired CAC’s Collaborative and also was ex officio a member of CAC’s board. Obama served on the CAC board until 2001.

The CAC board made the fiscal decisions and the Collaborative set education policy. It is obvious that they had to have significant consultations about the disbursement of the education grants. Obama was essentially authorizing the funding of education projects chosen by Ayers. The CAC gave $160 million is grants to so-called “school-reform” projects. Grant decisions initially put in place continued even after personnel changes.

Ayers was the founder and developer of a project known as the “small schools” movement, a scheme that enabled grants to be guided to “social justice” – themed schools built around specific political themes such as “inequality, war and violence.” The small-schools movement was heavily funded by CAC. CAC also funded teacher-training to “teach against oppression” and America’s alleged history of evil and racism.

According to Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a lot of CAC money was distributed through so-called “external partners” with whom the small-schools were required to affiliate, such as ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). ACORN is identified with the organizing tactics of the Chicago radical Sol Alinsky.

The Chicago Annenberg Challenge appears to be just another example of Republican Foundation money taken over by the leftists and used to advance leftwing causes. CAC’s own final report compared the progress of students at schools that received Annenberg grants and schools that did not, concluding that “There was no statistical significance in student achievement between Annenberg schools and demographically similar non-Annenberg effect on achievement.

Obama authored two autobiographies but never wrote about his important executive experience in the 1990s with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Nor did he mention that his first candidacy for public office, when he ran for Illinois State Senate, was launched at the home of William Ayers.

“SOCIAL JUSTICE’ TEACHING IS NOT ONLY A TERRIBLE WASTE OF PRECIOUS SCHOOL HOURS; IT IS GRIEVOUSLY HARMFUL TO POOR CHILDREN. SOL STERN OF THE MANHATTAN INSTITUTE SAYS THAT “TEACHING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IS A CRUEL HOAX ON DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.”

Barack Obama announced that his crony, Chicago School Superintendent Arne Duncan who also had ties to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, will be the new Secretary of Education. In the fall of 2008, Duncan announced plans to open “gay friendly” public schools called Pride Campus with 600 students, half homosexual and half heterosexual. Official materials proclaimed that the curriculum would “teach the history of all people who have been oppressed and the civil rights movements that have led to social justice and queer studies.” After the announcement of Duncan’s promotion, the opening of this unusual school was quietly postponed.

It’s no surprise that propaganda favoring B.O. is already finding favor with textbook publishers. The McDougal Littell 8th-grade advanced English literature book (Houghton Mifflin Co. 21008) has 15 pages featuring Barack Obama and his “life of service.”

A good way for parents to identify the bias of social studies textbooks is to check the index and then compare the coverage of Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan.

George H. Kubeck – FYI: Tomorrow, there will be a winter break of 3 weeks. (Bears hibernate)