Thursday, August 31, 2017

"So", they asked me, "What is Eagle Forum?"

Eunie Smith on the far left and Phyllis Schlafley on the right
Eunie Smith and Anita Hogue
"So," they asked me, "What is Eagle Forum?"

How shall I answer that, I wondered. I thought for a moment before replying.

Once a group of women were strolling by a rushing river. They heard a cry from the river and saw the head of a small child bobbing about in the waves.

"We must save him!" one exclaimed.

"But the river runs swiftly there," someone else said.

"Look there comes another!"

Without another thought they clasped hands and walked out as far as they could in the rushing water, grabbing each child as they drifted by and passing the child back down the line to the safety of the shore.

More and more children were caught up in the current. Their numbers grew until they could not save them all. The women's shoes got lost in the flood as they frantically passed one child after another back to the safety of the shore. Others joined them and vast numbers strove to save the children cast into the dangerous waters. 

Finally one woman broke away from the human chain and turned barefoot to head back up the river.

"Where are you going," the others demanded. "There are more coming down the river that must be saved."

"I am going back upstream to find out who is throwing them in!" she responded.

That is the Eagle Forum.

It was the illiteracy of the students in my classrooms that caused me to turn away from the efforts to continually remediate the flood of children who had not learned to read by middle school to find out who had thrown them in. According to their records, many of my students who were having trouble reading had made As and Bs in elementary school. And yet they could not read their secondary textbooks. So I went to the local college of education library and did research on the books teaching teachers to teach reading. My own children attended a private school using the ABEKA curriculum and were reading in four year old Kindergarten using Phonics. Yet those books teaching teachers had few mentions of Phonics.

But how does an individual stand up to a well-funded, circle the wagons educational establishment? The professors in the colleges of education have careers built upon the methods taught in those hallowed halls. Administrators then use children in our schools as guinea pigs for these methods to advance their own careers. Money from the federal government is tied to certain curriculum despite the fact that that curriculum promotes a political agenda and not academic excellence.

With a story to tell about what I saw in my classrooms, I answered a call by the Alabama legislature to address a Committee that claimed to be interested in grassroots voices speaking on what works in education. The legislators could barely keep their eyes open and got up and walked around or rudely turned and whispered to their aides while citizens spoke. Regardless of the many voices that came to speak, the Alabama First plan promoting Outcome Based Education in our schools became the official document. It was written by David Hornbeck who wrote Human Capital (something I have written on in other posts). http://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/02/use-court-to-create-sense-of-crisis.html

So much for grass roots. We were merely processed under the pretense that public input was wanted.

How do I know Hornbeck wrote the document? While we were in Montgomery participating in that supposed "grassroots meeting," the friend who came with me to Montgomery, said, why not go try to speak to the Superintendent of Education and tell him what I was seeing in my classrooms? Naive as we were, we thought he might simply not be aware of something that was so obvious to those of us brave enough to come and speak. Apparently many others saw the same thing because they also testified at that hearing. I must say I was discouraged.

Though discouraged we went to seek out the Superintendent of Education. Unfortunately, he was out of town, but the Assistant Superintendent of Education spoke to us. He pointed out a man he identified as David Hornbeck who walked in and out of the Superintendent's office. He was waiting for something to come in over a fax machine. It was no doubt the plan that got promoted as our "grassroots" education plan. I think it was actually the Kentucky Plan rewritten for Alabama coming in over that fax machine.

But, at that meeting, I met Eunie Smith, now the president of the National Eagle Forum. She came up to me after I spoke and invited me to share what I had said at a meeting of an organization with which I was unfamiliar. There I was introduced to other women who shared my concern about education. This group of women constituted the Eagle Forum of Alabama. They were an impressive group of college educated or extremely intelligent self-educated women who actually did research to find out what really works in education and just why it isn't making its way into our schools.

But there were so many more issues. These dedicated woman spent hours doing research at their own cost to track the source and consequences of curriculum choices, social, governmental and cultural issues. Thus armed, these women (and many men, as well) travel to legislatures throughout the country to lobby our representatives. They are not paid lobbyists. They pay their own expenses. They are patriots who love our country. They are Christians who love our God.

Progressive education has fallen prey to the bigotry of low expectations. But, even more, the schools are now hotbeds of demagoguery promoting radical ideology.

Who will stand for the children? Who will write? Who will call? Who will persist until our legislators listen?

A group I truly admire.

The Eagle Forum.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength 
They shall mount up with wings of eagles 
They shall run and not be weary 
They shall walk and not faint. 




Monday, August 28, 2017

What is True Bigotry


It would seem that some espouse tolerance and diversity for gender, race and religion, but not of opinion. The definition of bigotry is: "intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself." Hillary Clinton was "horrified" that people would not support the results of an election when she thought she would be the winner, and yet, her supporters are now leading the march toward anarchy with their "resistance."

I voted for President Obama. I wanted my Black students to see that people from all races have the opportunity to be successful with hard work. I have written books promoting Black History. I am disgusted with identity politics, the disrespect for the laws of our nation and the undermining of the opportunities our system of government affords All people. I am disgusted by the venom and judgmentalism spewed by those who presume they hold the "high ground" simply by calling others "racist", a slanderous accusation meant only to incite. Where is reason? Where is proof of those accusations? 


I support President Trump wholeheartedly because as a History and English teacher I have seen our Education System caught up in the bigotry of low expectations. I have seen opportunities for ALL CHILDREN lost with the shift from academics to politics. Without the open forum of ideas and the castigation of a group as "deplorable", we limit our understanding, stifle progress and undermine our nation!

WHY SHOULD CONSERVATIVES, CHRISTIANS AND THE THE FAITH COMMUNITY BE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS? SUBSCRIBE TO THE PANAMA CITY NEWS HERALD AND GET WASHINGTON POST FREE
http://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/why-should-conservatives-christians-and.html

THE GENEALOGY OF COMMON CORE: BILL GATES/UNESCO/ROBERT MULLER//ALICE BAILEY/LUCIS TRUST 
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-genealogy-of-common-core-bill-gates_5.html


PEACE EDUCATION? CONFLICT RESOLUTION? TEACHING TOLERANCE? COMMON CORE 
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/peace-education-conflict-resolution.html

TRADITIONAL OR PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION. DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE? HAS POLITICS AFFECTED YOUR CHILD'S MATH EDUCATION?

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/look-at-this-headline-and-now-according.html

DELPHI TECHNIQUE, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT CONVINCED A GULLIBLE PUBLIC TO BUY INTO COMMON CORE
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/so-what-is-thedelphi-technique-let.html

COMMON CORE: PORNOGRAPHY 101
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/common-core-pornography-101.html

RADICAL POSSIBILITIES: YOUR CHILDREN 
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/radical-possibilities-your-children.html

Response to AL.Com article "Alabama Superintendent Proposal to Raise Academic Standards."
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/response-to-alcom-article-alabama.html

THE CHICAGO CONNECTION TO COMMON CORE
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-chicago-connection-to-common-core.html

MIDDLE SCHOOL AGENDA FOR SEXUAL ORIENTATION AS A PART OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/09/middle-school-agenda-for-sexual.html


TEACHERS AS LIBERATORS PRODUCE STUDENTS AS REVOLUTIONARIES https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/02/teachers-as-liberators-produce-students.html

SECULAR HUMANISM IS NOW THE RELIGION OF OUR SCHOOLS
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/08/secular-humanism-is-now-accepted.html

COMMON CORE: THE EMPEROR IS WEARING NO CLOTHES
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/common-core-emperor-is-wearing-no.html

COMMON CORE=PETRI DISH FOR RADICALS
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/common-core-petri-dish-for-radicals.html

SOCIAL STUDIES AND COMMON CORE
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/social-studies-and-common-core.html

EDUCATION TODAY:

Politics, Profits, Position, Power, and Prejudice published 1995

CONFLICT RESOLUTION OR POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION?
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/02/conflict-resolution-or-political-and.html

DELPHI TECHNIQUE, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AND THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT CONVINCED THE GULLIBLE NATION TO BUY INTO COMMON CORE
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/so-what-is-thedelphi-technique-let.html

WHO DO WE HOLD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE FAILURE OF OUR SCHOOLS?

PUBLIC EDUCATION SHOULD EMPOWER PARENTS

CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN EDUCATION


SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

TAKE A KNEE

CAPSTONE EDUCATION (UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA) AND MY CONCERNS

RETARDING AMERICA THE IMPRISONMENT OF POTENTIAL

NOTE FROM ROBERT SWEET OF THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO READ FOUNDATION

REVOLUTIONARY PEDAGOGY

MATH WARS. ONCE AGAIN INTO THE FRAY

Friday, August 25, 2017

Secular Humanism is now the accepted religion of our public schools.


Secular Humanism is now the accepted religion of our public schools. 

The establishment of a state religion exists now and violates our Constitution. Secular humanism is now the accepted religion of our public schools (1961 case of Torcaso v. Watkins). When people of faith abandon the field legion fills the void.
A high school coach is fired because he takes a knee in prayer to thank God that no one was injured in the football game he just coached. Someone in that crowd is offended and sues. The coach loses his job. A moral role model is fired by a batch of moral midgets. And that is legal, praised in some quarters. 
School boards across the country are intimidated. If you do not adhere to the party line you are labeled racist, an epithet that needs no validity, and that is sufficient. Because who dares defend someone against that accusation without being labeled by association even if it is untrue and slanderous? Who dares stand for right? You think those you have elected to your school board just because they attend church with you will have the moral courage to stand up against this? 
Your child's teacher says, "I am not going to just teach your child facts, I am going to teach him to think!"
Really? Sounds great doesn't it? 
We want them to think, don't we? That is the top of BLOOMS TAXONOMY, highly touted in colleges of education, the source of the national secular humanist philosophy percolating wildly in our schools. The highest level of that taxonomy is "challenging the fixed beliefs of their parents." Apparently, that is exactly what God fearing parents want for their children. 
That's why they vote to tax themselves more and more to put these experimental programs into the schools and enable administrators to use their children as guinea pigs. That is why they sit quietly on the roofs of their houses while the water rises and their children drown in illiteracy and false teachings. 
Don't think private schools are immune. They all want to shine among their peers with their progressive techniques.
We pay to send middle school teachers to conferences where they learn NOT how to be better teachers of literature, science or math, but how to help their middle school children know if they are gay, lesbian or transgendered. They have reached that higher level of thinking. So now they "all do what is right in their own eyes." (Judges 17:6)
What really happens here?
Values clarification teaches that behavior should be the result of free, uninfluenced, autonomous choice, based on personal analysis of a given situation coupled with the moment's emotions and desires. The fundamentals of modern classroom values clarification techniques are based on the ideologies of Vermont born John Dewey (1859-1952), the philosopher and author credited to have written The Humanist Manifesto I, creed of the secular humanists. Dewey was convinced that education should be experienced-based rather than academic-based, and he advocated an approach in which "the child himself should pick and choose what he wanted to study." He was convinced that education "must guide the child, so that through his participation in different types of experience, his creativity and autonomy will be cultivated rather than stifled."
http://theroadtoemmaus.org/RdLb/21PbAr/Ed/VlsClrfVsConsc.htm
Abraham Maslow and William Coulson repudiated VALUES CLARIFICATION, the method they created along with Carl Rogers because they realized realized that they had created a monster, and campaigned to stop the use of non-directive education. It was too late. The genie was out of the bottle with DARE, sex education, Conflict Resolution, and all the other forms of psychotherapeutic subject matter to be handled by teachers acting as untrained therapists. History became Social Studies, Multiculturalism supplanted time tested and revered texts and the Pandora's box toward undermining respect for our country and its founding fathers forged ahead. Deliberately. Why, every religion, every nation, every form of government (socialism, communism, capitalism, fascism) is equal, isn't it? And if you don't believe that then you are racist! Challenge that and violent acts will be perpetrated against you and free speech is denied you. You just might offend someone and the snowflakes must be protected against such incendiary words!
Recently I spoke with a new senator to the Florida legislature. I told him I wanted to talk with him about education. He said he had made a new friend who had been involved in education for 30 years whom he trusts to guide him. I cringed. This representative has rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic for 30 years and we want to listen to him about fixing education? His answer will be more money and less testing. Something for the teachers and for the parents. 
But where are our children and grandchildren in this?
I suggest it is time to say a prayer and call for the lifeboats. And it is past time for us to look at the result of Secular Humanism controlling curriculum.

Parents have rights Against Intrusive Surveys PROTECTION OF PUPIL RIGHTS AMENDMENT and SEL (Social Emotional Learning)



If I Ruled the Schools

THE BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATIONS: PROFITS, POSITION, POWER, POLITICS PRODUCE A CIVIL WAR IN EDUCATION
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-bigotry-of-low-expectations-profits.html 
  
FREE OUR CHILDREN FROM THE OPPRESSION OF COLLEGES OF EDUCATION. CHICAGO. TWO DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES.  

Common Core, Sylvia Plath, and Death Education

Tales from the Crypt. True stories of our Dead Schools. 

The Truth about Phonics that will Help You Help Your Child! Whole Language: A Fraud Perpetrated upon Our Students. One of Many?

The Tragedy of the Math Mess and Another Way

MATH WARS. ONCE AGAIN INTO THE FRAY

COMMON CORE MATH

The Reality of Bay District Schools. Only Fifty Percent Read Proficiently. Is there hope?

The Four Period Day: Students as Guinea Pigs and Professional advancement for "innovators"

The Tale of Last Hope for Local Control

DEMONIC ROOTS TO COMMON CORE? VISIT YOUR CHILD'S THERAPEUTIC CLASSROOM.

THE GENEALOGY OF COMMON CORE: BILL GATES/UNESCO/ROBERT MULLER//ALICE BAILEY/LUCIS TRUST 

THE CHICAGO CONNECTION TO COMMON CORE

does anybody really believe anymore? does anybody really care?https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/does-anybody-really-believe-anymore.html

Sounding the Alarm! Today's Therapeutic Classroom. What are you going to do about it?

Spalding Writing Road to Reading and John Winston of Parks Elementary Natchitoches, Louisiana
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/spalding-writing-road-to-reading-and.html

RETARDING AMERICA THE IMPRISONMENT OF POTENTIAL

NOTE FROM ROBERT SWEET OF THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO READ FOUNDATION

The DARE PROGRAM 20 years later.
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-dare-program-20-years-later-more.html

Merry Christmas! Meet Alliwishus, The Elf Mother Met at the Battle of the Bulge

My Mother. My hero who won a Battle Ribbon at the Battle of the Bulge. December 16, 1944. A SCRAPBOOK LOOK FROM JEAN BRONSON GILLIS BURSON.

LEONARD COHEN HALLELUJAH PROJECT AT BAY HIGH SCHOOL AND ESTABLISHMENT RELIGION, SECULAR HUMANISM, IN OUR SCHOOLS
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/leonard-cohen-hallelujah-project-at-bay.html

WHY SHOULD CONSERVATIVES, CHRISTIANS AND THE THE FAITH COMMUNITY BE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS? SUBSCRIBE TO THE PANAMA CITY NEWS HERALD AND GET WASHINGTON POST FREE

PEACE EDUCATION? CONFLICT RESOLUTION? TEACHING TOLERANCE? COMMON CORE 

TRADITIONAL OR PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION. DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE? HAS POLITICS AFFECTED YOUR CHILD'S MATH EDUCATION?


RETARDING AMERICA THE IMPRISONMENT OF POTENTIAL

NOTE FROM ROBERT SWEET OF THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO READ FOUNDATION
DELPHI TECHNIQUE, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT CONVINCED A GULLIBLE PUBLIC TO BUY INTO COMMON CORE

COMMON CORE: PORNOGRAPHY 101

MIDDLE SCHOOL AGENDA FOR SEXUAL ORIENTATION AS A PART OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

BEHAVIOR MODELS ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS

CULTURE WAR AND COMMON CORE

SOCIAL STUDIES AND COMMON CORE

TEACHERS AS LIBERATORS PRODUCE STUDENTS AS REVOLUTIONARIES: Whole Language Live On!

RADICAL POSSIBILITIES: YOUR CHILDREN 
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/radical-possibilities-your-children.html

Response to AL.Com article "Alabama Superintendent Proposal to Raise Academic Standards."
SECULAR HUMANISM IS NOW THE RELIGION OF OUR SCHOOLS

COMMON CORE: THE EMPEROR IS WEARING NO CLOTHES

COMMON CORE=PETRI DISH FOR RADICALS
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/common-core-petri-dish-for-radicals.html

REVOLUTIONARY PEDAGOGY

Revolutionary Pedagogy: Or, so you thought reading, writing and calculating were why you sent your child to school?
EDUCATION TODAY:

Politics, Profits, Position, Power, and Prejudice published 1995

CAPSTONE EDUCATION (UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA) AND MY CONCERNS

CONFLICT RESOLUTION OR POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION?

DELPHI TECHNIQUE, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AND THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT CONVINCED THE GULLIBLE NATION TO BUY INTO COMMON CORE

WHO DO WE HOLD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE FAILURE OF OUR SCHOOLS?

PUBLIC EDUCATION SHOULD EMPOWER PARENTS

CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN EDUCATION

THE CIVIL WAR IN EDUCATION 

SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

TAKE A KNEE