tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43885208100747567002024-03-13T08:00:31.002-07:00Author: Sharman Burson RamseySharman Burson Ramsey writes
Historical Fiction and Mint Julep Mysteries
as well as the website Southern-style: A Downhome Look at All Things Southern.Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.comBlogger375125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-14226262809263021352024-02-25T09:15:00.000-08:002024-02-25T09:19:43.890-08:00Surviving The Flu<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgclCOKSSVNyJsHZqeMj-uKKxfG94Xcm4CcL6eDkeHCOWfpQStO8-UTFwsWj9A1dgwBxBlpKkviRvlAhFlFbuhr7Y62azNWnKkcc0MOz8SRczo8iAch8V-1iHrzJtwlHMq9izzCPSLO1tYf2O4IYfwdHbnrYRUb_kwEpiY7xadsYEYceT8jftvfRvcB6U81/s430/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-25%20at%2010.53.10%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="286" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgclCOKSSVNyJsHZqeMj-uKKxfG94Xcm4CcL6eDkeHCOWfpQStO8-UTFwsWj9A1dgwBxBlpKkviRvlAhFlFbuhr7Y62azNWnKkcc0MOz8SRczo8iAch8V-1iHrzJtwlHMq9izzCPSLO1tYf2O4IYfwdHbnrYRUb_kwEpiY7xadsYEYceT8jftvfRvcB6U81/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-25%20at%2010.53.10%20AM.png" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Surviving the Flu</p><p><br /></p><p>I have just survived a bout with the flu. No special name other than debilitating. For days I eliminated fluids fast and furious (diarrhea and vomiting) and could not drink or eat. My bed was my refuge. </p><p>I used my heating pad to help with the back pain. I discovered that my dogs large pee pads made the perfect sheet cover so I did not have to constantly change sheets. My oldest daughter who lives with me who also got sick recommended that I order a heated mattress pad cover and so I did, but it did not arrive until I was nearly well. </p><p>However, upon recovery I did discover several things that I could eat and I want to share then with you. </p><p>Through Walmart delivery, I ordered deli potato salad with mustard. Nibbling on the potatoes with that tangy bit of mustard taste, along with sips of ginger ale, helped give me strength to survive that miserable illness. </p><p>When I got stronger and less inclined to faint from dehydration, I was ready to cook something. </p><p>______________________</p><p>I have always enjoyed chicken and rice together. But I have never done this:</p><p>1 gallon water </p><p>3 cups of rice</p><p>1/2 Walmart delivered roasted chicken </p><p>4 chicken boullion cubes</p><p>1/2 stick of butter</p><p>salt and pepper</p><p>Add rice to boiling water with butter and salt. Boil the rice in the water. Drop in bouillon cubes. Add chopped up chicken and continue to simmer. Add more water if the rice gets too dry. I do not cook anything precisely. You may like rice firmer than I do. But this makes a tasty come back to solid food. This makes a pretty good batch. Remember my daughter was sick as well. She really liked this!</p><p>-----------------------------------</p><p>Don't forget adding fluids. When I made my Walmart order I ordered LOTS OF FLUIDS! For some reason apple juice and ginger ale hit the spot the best. Ginger has always been an herbal remedy for stomach issues. When I first got sick, I drank a Coke. It did not settle my stomach like it always had before. It led the way with initiating the vomiting. A day or two later, Ginger Ale really worked! I also ordered Gator Ade but I have never been able to keep Gator Ade down. However, my daughter, who soon came down with the flu as well, finds that to be the best remedy. It is what my sister, the cardiologist, recommends as she goes into the litany of replacement stuff. </p><p>The next recipe is so simple but delicious if you like mashed potatoes and English peas. When you make your delivery order to Walmart for the roasted chicken from the deli, also order some Bob Evans mashed potatoes and a couple of small cans of LeSeur English peas. </p><p>You will need:</p><p>one bowl full of Bob Evans mashed potatoes</p><p>1 small can of LeSeur English peas</p><p>1/4 stick of butter </p><p>salt and pepper</p><p><br /></p><p>Pour the English peas on top of the mashed potatoes. Cut up the butter around the bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste. Put in Microwave for 1 minute. Then stir. Put it back in microwave for 1 minute more. Stir once more. Then eat. Not all at once. But I find that delicious!</p><p>_______________________</p><p>Of course, everyone recommends Tylenol for fever and Phenergan suppositories, etc., but when one is nauseous and afflicted with diarrhea, keeping those in long enough to do any good is nearly impossible. </p><p>I am told the flu in its many varieties is everywhere. It is survivable. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-20106596984915193162024-02-06T10:10:00.000-08:002024-02-06T10:10:09.018-08:00A Tragedy of Modern Medicine <p><span style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21;"><div class="" dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r1fv:" style="padding: 4px 16px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x4zkp8e x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I want to share with you a tragedy of modern medicine. Yesterday Cecily and I attended the funeral of the 43 year old daughter of two of Joe's and my oldest friends, Robert and Judy Grimes. Kristi, a truly beautiful and loving special education teacher, died of ovarian cancer. </span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Remember Gilda Radner? She also died of ovarian cancer in 1989. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kristi, one with a high tolerance for pain, went to the doctor with pain in the abdomen. The doctor gave her antibiotics and told her to <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>take tylenol for pain. An ultrasound or CAT scan at that time could have identified the real cause for the pain and perhaps saved her life. By the time they decided to find out the real cause for her pain, the tumor had grown huge. The surgeon burst the tumor while removing it and the cancer spread throughout her body. No chemotherapy worked because the cancer was the aggressive type and whatever chemo was administered slid off the cell. The pain was excruciating. No medications could stem the pain and yet she had a smile for everyone. Robert and Judy are skin and bones from their own very real pain and the constant care they gave their precious daughter. Finally Kristi asked to be taken to the hospital and its hospice care. There she queried all who came in to care for her if they knew the Lord and Savior she served so well all her brief life and soon would see face to face.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On our drive to Elba yesterday we drove through torrential rain and I was reminded of the song "Tears in Heaven." </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Time can bring you down</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Time can bend your knees</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Time can break your heart</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Have you begging please</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Begging please</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Beyond the door</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There's peace, I'm sure</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And I know there'll be no more</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tears in heaven</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Judy told me Kristi awoke once to find her doctor there and said "I did not want to wake up here." So the words of this song I sang yesterday are truly meaningful. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My chains are gone</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I've been set free</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My God, my Savior has ransomed me</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And like a flood His mercy rains</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unending love, Amazing grace</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Earth shall soon dissolve like snow</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The sun forbear to shine</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But God, Who called me here below</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Will be forever mine</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Will be forever mine</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You are forever mine</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The point of this post is to remind all my female friends of the necessity of taking charge of your health. My mother at 53 had a hysterectomy where they found a fibroid tumor that had become a sarcoma, a very aggressive cancer. It was "well encapsulated" meaning it did not burst. She lived to be 89. When I was 46, a fibroid tumor caused me to have excessive bleeding caused by a huge fibroid tumor. I had an emergency hysterectomy and told them to take ovaries and uterus. I did not want to take the chance that I would meet Gilda Radner's fate. When Cecily, my oldest daughter, was just a bit younger than Kristi she had a cancer scare and the doctors in PC wanted to do her surgery in two phases after bursting the tumor. Perhaps they wanted a smaller incision. She went to Birmingham and the cancer doctor did her surgery. Praise God she did not have cancer but she did have a total hysterectomy so as not to take the chance. My mother's three sisters had fibroid tumors and hysterectomies. We do not know if we have that gene that makes cancer a greater probability, but just looking at Mother's experience has led me to warn the women of our family to have their children early and do not be vain enough to care about the size of incision or negligent about letting the gynecologist know about the history of our family. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And I am telling you, my dear friends to be conscientious about your own health. 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Sing it proud!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24OJcxbNUqHEKJlS0gcvRZX8gqt8x2AoHPo-KLSt-40RMPEL89fDHmu3ZQnGFr0ISNyc-3QoPw8TFu9Bg-I4W-TeQy17FZdPEyesdxHEPvN2Tp0Zhte8Dw1RocpJ8lWuLhSeQTX5u7lTnLGOL3gmJaQs8PeyOLnRAjEP4o1X1pjEhnyk9CEJjncQUkJyT/s1210/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-18%20at%208.11.22%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1210" data-original-width="1082" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24OJcxbNUqHEKJlS0gcvRZX8gqt8x2AoHPo-KLSt-40RMPEL89fDHmu3ZQnGFr0ISNyc-3QoPw8TFu9Bg-I4W-TeQy17FZdPEyesdxHEPvN2Tp0Zhte8Dw1RocpJ8lWuLhSeQTX5u7lTnLGOL3gmJaQs8PeyOLnRAjEP4o1X1pjEhnyk9CEJjncQUkJyT/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-18%20at%208.11.22%20AM.png" width="286" /></a></div><p></p><p>I sometimes think I should have titled my blog "The Guilty Gaper" because that is exactly what I am. I am old enough now to claim it. I think Norman Rockwell painted this thinking of me.</p><p> I love to sing. When I was a little girl, my mother thought I went up to my piano teacher's house (Mrs. Ina Harrison who played with Chautauqua. Her husband owned a pharmacy downtown.) to learn to play the piano. I learned one piece a year, but got her to play for me to sing the rest of the lesson. That was my joy. Then I would sing those songs to the trees in my front yard from the balcony of our home, pretending I was singing on the stage of an opera. </p><p>On Sunday mornings before my mother took me to church at the old Presbyterian church downtown, But first, I would climb to the top of the slide and sing made up songs of praise to God. My father and mother encouraged my singing. Back then there were booklets you could purchase at the IGA with the words of the songs on the radio. When we would travel, Daddy, who hated the radio, would turn it on for me to sing along. Mother's favorite was "When You Walk Through A Storm."</p><p>When I listened to Miss Essie Mae Smitherman sing "The Star Spangled Banner" at the football games where I stood on the field as an unexpected cheerleader, I aspired to become a teacher at Dothan High School and maybe one day do the same. There was something thrilling there in the dark watching the flag raise over the stadium hearing her clear, beautiful voice and our wonderful Dothan High School band play. </p><p>I have many happy memories of singing. I sang "The Little Drummer Boy" at First Baptist and watched my little son, Drew, walk down the aisle with his little drum. My heart swelled and the words were hard to come as I watched God's gift to me walk down that aisle.</p><p>I sang "The Old Rugged Cross" at my grandmother's funeral. My grandfather, Pat Gillis, had sat listening to the Gospel Hour on the radio the Saturday before his death. He heard the words of that song and said to my grandmother who sat rocking her six month old baby next to him, "When I die, I want them to sing that song." The next weekend, the ropes broke on the truck in front of him as he was on his way to TR Miller Mill Company in Brewton, Alabama and he was crushed. That song meant something to the precious woman who raised my mother and her four siblings alone all those years that followed. As she died in the hospital, she lifted a hand, looked beyond those gathered beside her, and said, "Pat?" </p><p>I sang "The King is Coming" at Joe's cousin Dick Moseley's funeral. </p><p>My dear friend, Agatha Bennett in Panama City, requested that I sing "The Lord's Prayer" at her funeral. She was Presbyterian but the funeral was held at the Baptist Church because it was bigger and she and Julian were much loved and respected. The pianist of the church and I practiced a bit before the service. I do not think the others who sang, or spoke, really knew her and their delivery was staid and mechanical, But I knew her and I knew her faith. The song and the music gelled and it created a praise moment that still sings in my heart. One I knew she would have loved. Hands raised in praise and a true moment of worship occurred. But not everyone received it well to my consternation. </p><p>And then, after attending church one Sunday with my father so he would not have to sit alone, the pastor's wife walked past me and said, "You sure sing loud." Yes, the Norman Rockwell picture reminds me of me singing in church. And yes, there have been times when small children turned to look. But, with her words, every doubt, every weakness, every inhibition I ever experienced returned. I must say her words took me back to Sunday school at that church when no one wanted to sit beside me. Until I was 12, my mother took me to the Presbyterian Church. Then Daddy decided we would all attend church in the denomination he had grown up in. I was a chubby little girl, the last to be picked for any sport. Truly a late bloomer. Two of the boys in that Sunday school class had been the boys who said to me one day in Junior High, "You are so fat, how do you get down that hall." Such wit. Both were chubby themselves. A mean bunch of children who considered themselves the elect. One died long ago. Someone said of AIDS. And the other is going blind, I hear. And I guess the girls in that church thought fat was contagious. </p><p>Lauren Daigle's song, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIaT8Jl2zpI" target="_blank">You Say</a>, expresses it best...</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I'm not enough</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Every single lie that tells me I will never measure up</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Remind me once again just who I am because I need to know</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Ooh-oh</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">You say I am loved when I can't feel a thing</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">You say I am strong when I think I am weak</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">And you say I am held when I am falling short</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">And when I don't belong, oh You say I am Yours</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">And I believe (I)</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Oh, I believe (I)</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">What You say of me (I)</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">I believe</span></div></blockquote><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But, God gave me a mother who won a battle ribbon for her participation at the Battle of the Bulge. She told me to tell them "You don't buy my groceries, so don't worry about it!" Not a great comeback, but good enough for me. Much better than tears. She was the oldest of those children my grandmother raised after my grandfather died. She went to work keeping the books for a dime store and helped her mother as early as possible. Her gumption and big heart led her to sign up for the Army after borrowing money for nursing school and graduating. </span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I found out later that some girls' mothers forbade them from being my friends. They called my mother coarse and vulgar. I called my mother loving, courageous and a wonderful example of stepping out of her comfort zone to do what she felt God called her to do. And yes, she could curse like a soldier and loved a good joke. She had an infectious laugh and people from all over town would call her to tell her the latest joke they heard. Yet, she washed my mouth out with soap if a curse word escaped. </span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mother once saved a horse destined for the glue factory and set him to work on our farm. When you rode that horse, he went hell for leather and you had to run him into a fence to stop him. Sometimes I think that is how I do things. I write and tell it true. I sing and I sing with every feeling I experience. That horse died when his heart burst while herding cattle. Not such a bad end. Dying while doing what you love. </span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I loved my Joe and love my children and grandchildren with every fibre of my being. As someone once said, "You are only as happy as your unhappiest child."</span></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I remember how hurtful children (and their parents) can be. And so now, when my precious gifted granddaughter tells me that her hands shook and she could barely speak in a spelling bee or that they had a singing contest and everyone ran away before she could begin singing, I get her to sing this Lauren Daigle song for me and tell her...What you have is a gift from God. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Those who try to rob you of your gift are not speaking from God's heart. We know from where their crippling words of doubt and destruction come. I get taken back to those early painful years and remember. And I tell her the lessons my mother taught me. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sing it loud and sing it proud.</b> Sing it from your heart and articulate every word so that people will hear the words and not just the music. Music speaks to our very soul.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think of the arrogance of that woman who meant to shut me up and I want to ask her if she has ever heard of the church of Laodicea. </span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-47639254026331681322023-09-12T09:03:00.001-07:002023-09-12T09:03:49.627-07:00The History of America's Children Being Groomed: How We Got to Sodom and Gomorrah<p> <span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">America's children are in real trouble. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">While some may have thought the domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, had turned over a new leaf when he got his PHD in education at Columbia, the truth is Ayers still works on dismantling America from the inside, and, through Barach Obama he set up a framework to do so. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">For those who are not well-versed on 60s politics, Ayers was a leader of the Weathermen, the most radical of all 1960s revolutionaries. Among other things, the Weathermen bombed the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol and sprung Timothy Leary from jail. His wife, Bernadine Dohrn, was on the FBI's list of most wanted criminals.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As Ayers puts it, “There’s a lot in white Americans that we do have to fight, and beat out of them and beat out of ourselves,” Ayers said in a speech. “We have to be willing to fight white privilege, racism, male supremacy–in order to build a revolutionary movement.”</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Ironically, Bill Ayers is allowed to speak on college campuses, unlike conservative speakers. His T-shirt reads: “America is like a melting pot: The people at the bottom get burned and the scum floats to the top.”</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><span>He is <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156;">formerly Distinguished </span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-weight: bold;">Professor of Education</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156;"> and Senior University Scholar at the </span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-weight: bold;">University of Illinois</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156;"> at </span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-weight: bold;">Chicago</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156;"> (</span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-weight: bold;">UIC</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156;">)</span>. </span>He works i<span>n the university’s elementary teacher education program. His specialty is school improvement. <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">He has written one book on early childhood education</span> and another about teaching. He publishes regularly in scholarly journals. Each year he trains dozens of would-be teachers for private, public, and parochial schools. And he was the director of the Chicago Annenberg Project which Barach Obama chaired from 1991-1995. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">As Ayers sees it, teachers and students are victims of an oppressive schooling system that “manages and controls” instead of “opening possibilities.”</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">At the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, “the brainchild of Bill Ayers,” they funneled more that $100 million to radical groups which used the funds to promote radical education. This initiative was also promoted by Arne Duncan, who became Secretary of Education. Also as board members of the Woods Fund, Ayers and Obama channeled money to ACORN (</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)</span> <span>and the Midwest Academy: Organizing for Social Change.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8WJml-a6JOM95F5io310QwBGrlYgdBNvceocyg3suhEU6f4Z_-nS0F4Ry_cZ9S5_dyeCueJhUGOfUqE8M2cKj3TkVPfX39dz-JzHITdX-Qtmkmjm346mecNJrn7W9TYG3FmOb4sQBStClxZVX_ZIhsHZT3Zo05Dvf-8nHVCYtEUu2Tvu3m27e1QX6dg/s1126/Screen%20Shot%202017-11-10%20at%204.54.42%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="1126" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8WJml-a6JOM95F5io310QwBGrlYgdBNvceocyg3suhEU6f4Z_-nS0F4Ry_cZ9S5_dyeCueJhUGOfUqE8M2cKj3TkVPfX39dz-JzHITdX-Qtmkmjm346mecNJrn7W9TYG3FmOb4sQBStClxZVX_ZIhsHZT3Zo05Dvf-8nHVCYtEUu2Tvu3m27e1QX6dg/s320/Screen%20Shot%202017-11-10%20at%204.54.42%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In 2003, Barach Obama supported Illinois Senate Bill 99, which despite his denials and false claims by the mainstream media was not a bill to protect children from sexual predators. On the contrary, it was a sweeping, comprehensive sex-education bill that lowered the age of instruction from sixth grade to kindergarten. It gutted an abstinence emphasis and prohibited "bias" based on "sexual orientation." The term "sexual predator" is nowhere in the bill. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In 2007, a group from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), including Ayers, demanded major accrediting organization for schools, colleges, and departments of education include categories of "social justice, sexual orientation and gender identity" in its standards. Ayers and colleagues called their effort "Call to Action: A RED Campaign for Social Justice and Queer Lives." Formerly vice president for curriculum of the AERA, Ayers was the spokesman on behalf of the effort and called on the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) to include these categories.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Would all schools in the U.S., under the muscle of an Obama administration, be forced to drill youth in the talking points of "gay" sex and gender–switching, calling it "justice"? Would Ayers' idea that America is an oppressive regime with way too much heterosexuality become a core tenet of your child's value system?</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Ayers wrote an endorsement on the book, <i>Queering Elementary Schools: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling</i> for which Kevin Jennings, founder of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian &Straight Education Network), wrote the foreword. Ayers recommended Jennings to be</span><span> </span><span>Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education for the Office</span><span> </span><span>of Safe and Drug Free Schools.</span><span> </span><span>According to the GLSEN website, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">the National Association of School Psychologists, the Learning First Alliance, the National Education Association, the Council for Exceptional Children, Social Workers Association of America and the American Federation of Teachers are their longtime partners in the education world. They say the purpose of GLSEN is to transform America's K-12 schools into an "affirming environment".</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Please take note: </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">The Alabama Psychological Association (aPA) was established in 1950 and</span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"> is a state affiliate of the American Psychological Association. So when the Alabama legislature passed the Numeracy Act and included putting psychologists in every school, you might wonder why.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt 0.75in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilPses4g-DpSyxyWsnSK6dTwTZWDYnXpPMX_9wI4GKoIwjs4CK1swQIUpK6jNe1_yEWJl93oxoWBeh2NgnJDOzAZqj-QiOBnuipCNy14OQflPj5hsLWhv9XYeXntL2rKog_8FkmnAJkFI0bteYxs3yCIGZefirhRtleD3Mlc5707ybG5UqSO4eqH5XAQ/s1326/queering%20elementary%20education.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1326" data-original-width="864" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilPses4g-DpSyxyWsnSK6dTwTZWDYnXpPMX_9wI4GKoIwjs4CK1swQIUpK6jNe1_yEWJl93oxoWBeh2NgnJDOzAZqj-QiOBnuipCNy14OQflPj5hsLWhv9XYeXntL2rKog_8FkmnAJkFI0bteYxs3yCIGZefirhRtleD3Mlc5707ybG5UqSO4eqH5XAQ/s320/queering%20elementary%20education.png" width="209" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">A transcript from a 1997 speech shows </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Kevin Jennings, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Office of Safe Schools chief in the U.S. Department of Education, expressing his admiration for Harry Hay, who was one of the nation's first homosexual activists who launched the Mattachine Society in 1948, founded the Radical Faeries and was a longtime advocate for the North American Man-Boy Love Association, NAMBLA. </span></span></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span>“One of the people that's always inspired me is Harry Hay,” the transcript shows Jennings saying, “who started the first ongoing gay rights groups in America. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">“Hay was a prominent American gay rights activist, communist, pro-pedophilia activist (NAMBLA), and … founder of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States as well as the Radical Faeries, a loosely-affiliated gay spiritual movement.” Among these, NAMBLA is the infamous North American Man/Boy Love Association. (Wikipedia)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white;">Harry left Communist Party of the USA and in 1950 joined a group of homosexual communists in forming the so-called Mattachine Society, the pioneering organization of gay communists. From there, Hay did remarkable work in spreading both gay-rights propaganda and communist propaganda and forging the two under a mighty left-wing rainbow umbrella that would revolutionize what we now called the wider “LGBTQ” movement. (Actually, writers at </span><em style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">People’s World</em><span style="background-color: white;">, flagship publication of Communist Party USA, have now started using the term “LGBTQIA.”)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span>“Well, [in] 1993,” Jennings continued, “Harry Hay marched with a million people in Washington, who thought he had a good idea 40 years before.</span></p></span></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Bob Hamer writes about a SEXUAL PREDATOR’S STRATEGY: GROOMING. He states: "</span>For the persuasion sexual predator, “grooming” is the vehicle used to manipulate and seduce the vulnerable child. I didn’t learn about grooming in a college classroom or from a textbook. I learned it from the pedophiles themselves." Read more below. </span></p><p><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Is this part of multicultural education? Are our children supposed to celebrate this? </span></p></div><div class="widget-content"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">And now we come to one of the most radical of all agents of change: the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, that has been promoting this agenda for years under the guise of "Conflict Resolution" and "Teaching Tolerance." </span></div><div class="widget-content"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdUj98st_hgnIKVBJnKqSxvSKGV-aWmRHC7jUSTRyRkVKGuZpQZdBowJSkuyoZvNpx-Nd0RBE_mpt1QdBdxuqG1GQZeAYt7bDVhxYepB0xra5VFtKyKSZpDT3pDOSfMN9Qib792OOh_a-qVhLwZhe4DC7gIkJCZVNN9E8p4TFMp_DoT-0atiQJmQdgvQ/s3578/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.40.34%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="3578" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdUj98st_hgnIKVBJnKqSxvSKGV-aWmRHC7jUSTRyRkVKGuZpQZdBowJSkuyoZvNpx-Nd0RBE_mpt1QdBdxuqG1GQZeAYt7bDVhxYepB0xra5VFtKyKSZpDT3pDOSfMN9Qib792OOh_a-qVhLwZhe4DC7gIkJCZVNN9E8p4TFMp_DoT-0atiQJmQdgvQ/w546-h268/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.40.34%20PM.png" width="546" /></span></a></div></div></blockquote><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="widget-content"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMM4uRbuQ7HlZacieBC7flF3nHYMoAAhkfbZo8RsY9V31nTLCkYo2eyyQsXKutn4--sFVRuZmjSzwJ0kytqGks01hL5aG3ggHlgYKEwNw3-emzUcvvNv_nb1hDm5NIkDS31Kyte-4buRIvVo6hP_YcwVihKk4qa7-vTDN1uOQeXd7tfQlkFlYYuejvQg/s3604/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.40.46%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="3604" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMM4uRbuQ7HlZacieBC7flF3nHYMoAAhkfbZo8RsY9V31nTLCkYo2eyyQsXKutn4--sFVRuZmjSzwJ0kytqGks01hL5aG3ggHlgYKEwNw3-emzUcvvNv_nb1hDm5NIkDS31Kyte-4buRIvVo6hP_YcwVihKk4qa7-vTDN1uOQeXd7tfQlkFlYYuejvQg/w550-h319/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.40.46%20PM.png" width="550" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBubPJlGv1WeowML7cJE4dw4KhrKfBQ_Tv6e_60AOGXQOke0WFRC19zYvfDSMQNlMf0LiEOY4ir18eSfQ4HPfVATwEoqtTWJfHIk9qqKqNChuf2dXcKWaYzRHItGuRuBSnZg2yEHnMhuEVbQZK9na81lcrMG_61DmzjUHr7BneuJcjvxuxsg44qh_iCw/s3500/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.40.59%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2198" data-original-width="3500" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBubPJlGv1WeowML7cJE4dw4KhrKfBQ_Tv6e_60AOGXQOke0WFRC19zYvfDSMQNlMf0LiEOY4ir18eSfQ4HPfVATwEoqtTWJfHIk9qqKqNChuf2dXcKWaYzRHItGuRuBSnZg2yEHnMhuEVbQZK9na81lcrMG_61DmzjUHr7BneuJcjvxuxsg44qh_iCw/w547-h343/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.40.59%20PM.png" width="547" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div class="widget-content"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Dr. Tommy Bice, former gay Superintendent for the state of Alabama, is a board member of the Magic City Acceptance Academy (grades 6 through 12), one of Alabama's first charter schools. They state on their website:</span></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span> </span>"...educational pedagogy and curriculum design that best meets our needs as a community of learners will be rooted in Constructivism. The basic tenet of Constructivism is that learners, simply put, construct learning through a variety of experiences. Learners construct knowledge rather than simply sit and take in information. As people experience problems and situations they reflect on what they experience and they create or build their own representations and incorporate new information into their pre-existing knowledge (schemas).</span></div></div></div><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>The essential components in constructivist theory are to elicit prior knowledge, </span><span><b>create cognitive dissonance</b></span><span><b>,</b> and apply the knowledge with feedback and reflection on learning. These components are best utilized in project-based, cooperative, learning activities that reflect elements with meaning to, or are relevant to the students’ lives and community." </span></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is nothing innocent about the phrase <b>"create cognitive dissonance</b>." Cognitive dissonance is a state of confusion brought about by conflicting beliefs. There are a number of different situations that can create cognitive dissonance, such as "Forced Compliance." </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>"Sometimes you might find </span>yourself engaging in behaviors that are opposed to your own beliefs due to external expectations, often for work, school, or a social situation. This might involve going along with something due to peer pressure..," according to the <i><a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-cognitive-dissonance-2795012">verywellmind</a> </i>website. </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So, are kindergarteners strong enough to withstand the peer pressure and proselytizing of an agenda "contrary to the fixed beliefs of their parents?" And how is this Constitutional? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">"Constructivist</span><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">" equals "</span><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">cognitive dissonance"</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Alabama scores dead last nationally on math scores. We have two Auburn College of Education professors, Gary Martin and Marilyn Strutchens, who have been awarded nearly $600,000 to establish professional learning communities in mathematics. Strutchens served on the board of directors of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. </span></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> National Council of Teachers of Mathematics encourage the move away from the traditional emphasis on computational skills like multiplication tables and algorithms—a teaching method that university mathematicians still favor but that many K–12 math teachers dismiss as “drill and kill.” Teachers (particularly liberal and left-leaning teachers) instead use a “<b>constructivist</b>” or “discovery-based” pedagogy, sometimes called “fuzzy math.” Here students learn mathematical concepts by trying to solve real-life problems, like social justice lessons on how military budgets for the war in Iraq deny poor Americans their fair share of resources as an advance beyond problems about baseball statistics, shopping, or building.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Remember "<b>Constructivist</b>" equals <b>cognitive dissonance</b>. And when you see "social justice" you might as well think about the Bill Ayers and all he supports and why he promotes "constructivist" education and the creation of cognitive dissonance. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Martin and Strutchens have been on nearly every state math committee in Alabama; in fact, Dr. Strutchens chaired the committee in 2019. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">With math teachers more concerned with social justice lessons than actually teaching math we fear that Queer Mathematics will soon be in our schools if it isn't already. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"For the last decade or so, largely working beneath public or parental notice, a well-organized movement has sought to revolutionize the curricula and culture of the nation’s public schools. Its aim: to stamp out “hegemonic heterosexuality”—the traditional view that heterosexuality is the norm—in favor of a new ethos that does not just tolerate homosexuality but instead actively endorses experimenting with it, as well as with a polymorphous range of bisexuality, transgenderism, and transsexuality. The educational establishment has enthusiastically signed on. What this portends for the future of the public schools and the psychic health of the nation’s children is deeply worrisome." writes Marjorie King. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="about://"></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6Yb3QX5J6GX9gPznQYqKmbf0VmCLZmApoDP6PMxXbWiQwaLtNeZ6Xy5_xJlJ1_Hk1HesqJ1PEAE68psaNG8V1r4P16umXyqdcHFF2DNreZZtyMVHKeNT0C1WopNKjiwxCuFtVX9Wxsz0RgB99Jgcr2xs7Vr5lCkoSL8pJEutj1RT3PHWIK2_05KKng/s664/Queer%20Mathematics.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="664" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6Yb3QX5J6GX9gPznQYqKmbf0VmCLZmApoDP6PMxXbWiQwaLtNeZ6Xy5_xJlJ1_Hk1HesqJ1PEAE68psaNG8V1r4P16umXyqdcHFF2DNreZZtyMVHKeNT0C1WopNKjiwxCuFtVX9Wxsz0RgB99Jgcr2xs7Vr5lCkoSL8pJEutj1RT3PHWIK2_05KKng/s320/Queer%20Mathematics.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="about://">https://gellerreport.com/2022/08/queer-mathematics-in-public-schools.html/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> And now we discover a leftist organization called "The Queer Mathematics Teacher" is seeking to embed gender theory in K-12 math classes. Brandie Waid, the director of The Queer Mathematics Teacher, laid out a plan for incorporating gender theory into math classes in a blog post on the Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotion Learning (CASEL) website. <b>CASEL is sponsored by the Allstate Foundation</b>. </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><o:p>Once again we find Bill Ayers. </o:p><span style="background-color: white;">Linda Darling-Hammond is a radical left-wing educator and close colleague of William “Bill” Ayers. </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Hammond was Professor Bill Ayers’ choice for secretary of education during the first Obama administration. Hammond served as an education adviser and transition team leader</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> in 2008. </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Hammond serves on the board of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (</span><a href="https://casel.org/" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">CASEL</span></a><span style="text-align: justify;">), the godfather of SEL in the U.S., and co-chaired </span><span style="text-align: justify;">the Aspen Institute’s National Commission </span><span style="text-align: justify;">on Social, Emotional and Academic Learning. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; text-align: start;">"Schools should be focused on teaching children core curriculum and not on asking intrusive questions that have nothing to do with core subjects," Parents Defending Education President Nicole Neilly told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/controversial-florida-math-textbook-ignites-social-emotional-learning-debate">Fox News Digital</a>. "Injecting Social Emotional Learning into math class not only distracts from teaching students the basics, but it also undermines the program's purpose - because higher self-esteem is a direct result of subject mastery."</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Contrary to what parents want in their children's math education, the Queer Mathematics Teacher site states, "The ability to consider sexuality irrelevant in the mathematics context is a heteronormatively </span>privileged position." They note that some areas of their expertise include "queer pedagogy," "teaching mathematics for social justice," "Fostering Students' Growth Mindset (While Advocating for Systemic Change," and "Humanizing Mathematics Education for LGBTQ+ Students."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Brandie Waid, the left-wing activist promoting the Queer Mathematics Teacher, even goes so far as to suggest that activist educators should teach critical race theory and gender theory, even if it means breaking the law. Waid writes, “I implore my colleagues to ask: How can we work within (or outside) the confines of these laws to center Transformative SEL and student thriving in our teaching?”</span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> So, not only do we find Bill Ayers' agenda, we find that the National Education Association, and therefore its affiliate, the Alabama Education Association, supports-- I would say-- even promotes this sexualization of children. </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION C-12 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Student Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> "The National Education Association believes that all persons, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, should be afforded equal opportunity and guaranteed a safe and inclusive environment within the public education system. The Association also believes a safe and inclusive environment ensures that all transgender students have access to the bathroom or locker of their choice and protects them from breaches of confidentiality. The Association believes that LGBTQ students have the right to privacy and confidentiality regarding their sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. Further, educators must respect these students and their choice of whether or not to reveal their orientation, identity, or expression. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> The Association further believes that, for students who are struggling with their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, every school district and educational institution should provide counseling services and programs--staffed by trained personnel--that deal with high suicide and dropout rates and the high incidence of teen prostitution. The Association further believes that therapies designed to alter a student's orientation or identity are harmful to the emotional development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, and questioning (LGBTQ+) students. Therefore, students should have access to <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">gender affirming health care. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Association believes that all transgender students should be able to use the bathroom or locker room of their choice."</span></p></blockquote><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />What do they mean when they say students should have access to gender affirming health care? Do parents get to be involved in this "gender affirming" health care? Do these people support the mutilation of small children whom they have confused (gender dysphoria) with their "lessons" (cognitive dissonance)? Are they coming at innocent children during a time of their natural development when they prefer playing with children of their own sex and confuse them into thinking this is a "trans" issue? <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">They admit, no they boast, that they intentionally use </span><span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">constructivist methodology to create cognitive dissonance in children. </span><o:p style="background-color: #fcff01;"></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="background-color: white;">Jane Robbins, </span><span style="background-color: white;">a</span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(112, 112, 112);"><span>ttorney, researcher, and author in Atlanta, GA</span></span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(112, 112, 112); color: #707070;">.,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> writes in "<a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/07/54272/ ">The Cracks in the Edifice of Transgender Totalitarianism</a>, "The epidemic of supposed gender dysphoria among children and adolescents—“transgenderism”—has often been described as a </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">cult</span><span style="background-color: white;">. The designation is in some ways apt. Though lacking a charismatic leader usually found in such movements, other</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span> </span><span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cults-Our-Midst-Hidden-Everyday/dp/0787900516/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=cults+in+our+midst&qid=1556650059&s=books&sr=1-1">expert descriptions</a></span><span> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">of cults certainly apply: </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">“designed to destabilize an individual’s sense of self by undermining his or her basic consciousness, reality awareness, beliefs and worldview, [and] emotional control.” </span><span style="background-color: white;">Cults also lead the target to believe that “anxiety, uncertainty, and self-doubt can be reduced by adopting the concepts put forth by the group.” The promise is a “new identity” that will solve all problems, even as it separates one from family and previous life."</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">And so you can see the effects of creating cognitive dissonance through Constructivist methodology.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A program established under the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013 establishes a tax-credit scholarship that students assigned to "failing" schools can use to attend any "non-failing" public or private school in the state. A "failing" school in this case has a broad definition: It includes any school getting a D or F grade on the state's accountability system; any school in the lowest 10 percent of scores on the state's standardized assessment in reading and math; any school labeled as "consistently low-performing: by the state education department in a state application for a federal School Improvement Grant; or any school otherwise deemed as "failing" by the state superintendent. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The tax credit is equal to 80 percent of the state's per-pupil cost of attending a public school, or the actual cost of attending a non-failing public school. For parents applying for tax credits, the legislation creates a new Failing Schools Income Tax Credit Account to distribute the funds. The law also allows for scholarship-granting organizations to receive donations from both private individuals and corporations, and in turn provide the funds for parents to use in the school choice program. The donation cap for individuals is $7500 annually, and corporations may receive a tax credit of 50 percent of their total donations. The law also institutes a statewide cap on tax credits of $24 million annually. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When one considers the failure of our schools to teach our children reading and math, and the massive intrusion into parents right with psychological manipulation of small children contrary to the attitudes and beliefs of their parents, perhaps parents could consider this when claiming "tax credits" or "vouchers" to take their children from the schools violating their trust to the school of their choice. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Accreditation remains a problem as the entities promoting this agenda control credentialing of teachers. The only way to really eliminate the progression of this agenda is to bypass credentialing by giving the money to the parent who can choose schools who hire teachers with degrees outside of education and to attend schools that adhere to curriculum that is knowledge based.<i> </i>Like Saxon Math and reading programs using Systematic Intensive Direct and Early Phonics education. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Parents need to be aware that the "award winning" books available to their child sometimes contain graphic information on sex that may not fit their idea of appropriate. Those who determine those awards have themselves accepted an agenda that may not fit that of the child's parents. These books are available through the Media Center at Dothan Preparatory school, grades 6 through 9. There is no parental group to oversee physical books chosen for the library like there once was. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.dothan.k12.al.us/domain/2074">This is your child's media center. </a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_IKCj3258C283kUopfL7UiPH6ohbde3Uo5_-KyoXQUQ3nlcKgBRmQgyyVcwH-a_oZe8D3GA3iUK5Mrmd4zJvxBnpkDVOuS3IreLCeDFB10X-ixeSFTpaFXwNfX-pbAzEnVnEccXWTTvPS7otEAPpDSxqlqK9rGW-pHBKOv-CS5JOAiL8uDdgN1eb8Q/s4330/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-15%20at%207.22.45%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1714" data-original-width="4330" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_IKCj3258C283kUopfL7UiPH6ohbde3Uo5_-KyoXQUQ3nlcKgBRmQgyyVcwH-a_oZe8D3GA3iUK5Mrmd4zJvxBnpkDVOuS3IreLCeDFB10X-ixeSFTpaFXwNfX-pbAzEnVnEccXWTTvPS7otEAPpDSxqlqK9rGW-pHBKOv-CS5JOAiL8uDdgN1eb8Q/w689-h328/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-15%20at%207.22.45%20AM.png" width="689" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ1nkqyp-hXa4qm0KtExpTx7eBwirH33ksOxr9Eo3v9uNnBVzFnByBNsRZAz6gt2YuPiJ8mz1jkngG2Px3Ns5_jTKiRvVG0e-aIxLSQnIzEAVz93vV0D0cJRrvD0haXJqkyRiyOMi3tPHmQNuYMYZzVUzsPBVq-nNN9Y8vOWbVH3AGoXLR4ixgArfMtQ/s868/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.20.29%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="868" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ1nkqyp-hXa4qm0KtExpTx7eBwirH33ksOxr9Eo3v9uNnBVzFnByBNsRZAz6gt2YuPiJ8mz1jkngG2Px3Ns5_jTKiRvVG0e-aIxLSQnIzEAVz93vV0D0cJRrvD0haXJqkyRiyOMi3tPHmQNuYMYZzVUzsPBVq-nNN9Y8vOWbVH3AGoXLR4ixgArfMtQ/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.20.29%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As Ayers puts it, “There’s a lot in white Americans that we do have to fight, and beat out of them and beat out of ourselves,” Ayers said in a speech. “We have to be willing to fight white privilege, racism, male supremacy–<b>in order to build a revolutionary movement</b>.”</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Maybe it's time to protect our children and fight back!</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-21147184704373509832023-08-26T15:05:00.007-07:002023-08-27T06:46:10.577-07:00TIPS ON HIP AND KNEE REPLACEMENT SURVIVAL<p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">TIPS ON HIP AND KNEE REPLACEMENT SURVIVAL</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGXfIbeu_eMHjvgLtM_lAmVrLBlAh4cYMp1NhVowYPHNo6TJsj5u_OpoLJEZLwKaUXKaG2Z6lv8oRhVm9ns5z25qk-sQ67Y6hrF6Afxm78-sfulTmDJ-TMEjemJ9BiSZrw5UrFGuAONXU7uCjnddCsNpeQ15EW4PTXGnt74yZmOdqBypm9rnUP1lgj-idr/s312/Screen%20Shot%202023-08-26%20at%204.36.02%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="306" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGXfIbeu_eMHjvgLtM_lAmVrLBlAh4cYMp1NhVowYPHNo6TJsj5u_OpoLJEZLwKaUXKaG2Z6lv8oRhVm9ns5z25qk-sQ67Y6hrF6Afxm78-sfulTmDJ-TMEjemJ9BiSZrw5UrFGuAONXU7uCjnddCsNpeQ15EW4PTXGnt74yZmOdqBypm9rnUP1lgj-idr/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202023-08-26%20at%204.36.02%20PM.png" width="306" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> Nearly five weeks out from the total right knee replacement, I am finally able to sit at my desk without too much pain. I have now had two hip replacements and a right knee replacement and I can say with great assurance that the knee replacement is pretty much the greatest pain I have ever experienced, including having babies which was formerly my top register for pain. As my granddaughter told me, I am pretty much a bionic woman now. So, let me share some things that just might help should you ever venture forth with these surgeries. </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">1. DIAL SOAP Bathing and washing hands with Dial soap helps kill the bacteria that might cause problems later with the surgery and its healing. </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">2. BUY CLOROX LAUNDRY SANITIZER and LYSOL to go in with your laundry detergent when you wash your sheets and clothes you will wear beginning with the Hibilens regime five days before surgery. </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">3. PRESS AND SEAL OR SARAN WRAP. Make sure you have someone close to you with you for the first two weeks because when you bathe, someone will have to wrap the incision to keep the incision dry and stay close by to make sure you do not pass out because you have lost a lot of blood. </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">4. BIDET I ordered the $39 version on Amazon recommended by my friend. I wish I had known earlier that you could make your toilet into a bidet. I had the plumber come and install it. This would have been so helpful when I had the hip replacement because it hurt so badly to turn and reach behind me. Do not think this is a female thing. One setting is for one’s aft and one is for one’s fore. </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">5. FRAME FOR A BEDSIDE TOILET. You can take the bowl out of the bedside toilet and place the frame over the authentic toilet to give you a higher elevation when you go to the toilet and the pain of bending your knee is diminished. Also the rails on the sides help with getting up and down. Just don’t use the bidet then as the water will squirt all over if you do. </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">6. ELEVATED TOILET An elevated toilet with rails beside it and rails in the shower are near necessities for those of us with hip and knee issues. </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">7. BED RAIL A friend recommended getting one that projects pretty far under the mattress so you have something to pull on to help you turn over and get in and out of bed. </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">8. HIP AND KNEE REPLACEMENT KIT. When I had my hip replacement at the Hughston Clinic in Columbus/Phoenix City, I was given what I call THE SURVIVAL PACK-- </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Times;">6 Piece Hip And Knee Replacement Kit - Surgery Recovery Set - Handicap Aid, Leg Loop Lifter, Reacher Grabber, Long Handle Shoe Horn, Shower Loofah Scrubber, Sock Assist, Dressing Stick (6 Pieces). Apparently this isn’t standard equipment. I did not get that in Panama City at Bay </span><span style="font-family: Times;">Medical when I had my left hip replacement nor was it suggested when I got my knee replacement. I saw it in the gift shop in Mobile but it was not mentioned to my brother when he had his hip replacement. Fortunately, I was able to bring my equipment to share with him until I needed it again. (You can order this from Amazon as well.) </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">9. PAIN MEDICATION Take it. Have someone with you to help you remember what and when you are to take it. Just don't take it longer than you need it. </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">10. STOOL SOFTENERS There is no sick like the constipation you will have after taking the opioids necessary after these extremely painful surgeries. Keep an extra garbage can beside your toilet because it may be necessary should you also get nauseated.</span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">11. INFINITE POSITION LIFT RECLINER CHAIR WITH MASSAGE AND HEATING I finally bit the bullet and ordered mine from ASJMREYE online and it arrived right before my surgery. <span style="background-color: white;">It has been wonderful. </span></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">12. ALEXA My daughter set up multiple ALEXAs throughout the house so that if I needed her all I had to do was say "Alexa Announce" and then give the command and the word reached my daughter upstairs. </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Throughout this experience I have been reminded that “no man is an island.” One week after my knee replacement, the pain was so bad I thought I should have just let them shoot me instead. I went to my text messages where a group of my friends had become my encouragers. It is amazing what a friend can do in lifting pain. I decided I would live and hopefully be a better person. Friends called. Friends prayed for me. Friends brought food and sent flowers. They set for me a wonderful example. I am blessed. </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Hopefully some of these suggestions will be helpful. 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</style>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-58217571115318596862023-04-27T08:35:00.003-07:002023-04-27T12:00:13.475-07:00<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Genomic Research for High School Students: Breeding Ground for Dr. Moreau?</span></b></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>Sharman Burson Ramsey, BSE, MSE</p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>Cecily Cathryn Ramsey, BSEE/Computer Engineering</p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">The program Monday night at the Houston County Republican Party was delivered by Doug <span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;">Mitchell, the former executive director of the Dothan Area Chamber of Commerce where he was responsible for the overall </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;">operations of the chamber and supported projects related to economic, community and workforce development. </span>The company involved in the “Genomics” research is called “Hudson Alpha.” They are a 15 year old, non-profit business based in Huntsville, Alabama. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">The building in Dothan will be called the “Wiregrass Innovation Center.” The new building will be downtown near the Art Museum and will be built by the City of Dothan. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">They will focus their initial efforts on peanut research. Their overall goal is to “recruit Agriculture Tech Companies to the Dothan area.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">The Power Point Presentation with high school students in lab coats using pipettes to engineer genetic alterations to DNA led the audience to appreciate the experience of hands on learning. But, what were we really watching? Are there concerns that should be considered before free-falling into a brave new world. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">1. Should our children now have access to DNA altering equipment? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Children are precocious and innovative. They have not even begun to think through their own ethics. Who can assure that their limitation would be with a peanut and not human DNA? What can we expect of these children whose first inclination would be to prick a finger, look at the DNA in the equipment provided by Hudson Alpha and apply it wherever the whim might take them. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">There are not enough teachers to oversee these experiments. They are encouraged to use their imaginations and to "face their fears." While we understand the desire to get kids involved in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), giving them DNA equipment before they are given the basics is not wise. Just as a child would not be given a Lamborghini, a car that goes 200 miles an hour, you start them off in basic transportation and teach them limits. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Doug Mitchell does well in public relations. But, I imagine he also supported Common Core and promoted it in our schools. And where has that gotten us? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">2. Do peanut farmers want GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) peanuts? Organisms have DNA. DNA is not just in peanuts, it is in all organisms. That goes from bacteria, to seeds, to people. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">3. Do Dothan residents want more GMOs in the food supply? Why are more people purchasing Organic foods? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">4. God made things the way they are because of how we are created. Look at the increased number of children with special dietary needs. Part of the diet for these children is non GMO. Organic produce inherently means Non GMO. That means NOT Genetically Modified. And yet the pollen from the altered crops will encroach upon neighboring farms that strive to be organic and by no fault of their own, the genetically modified seeds come over their property lines. Hence the lawsuits. </span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJzmEPQuWCZVp5nY5MRE870Vu7E274P4Hv-GPusZbGiLN7y9IqIr1_rs8eHxSN9LCAT_GAfvgbWN9FWlkNxmgvMDgpaUsMlMVoBrwdDlTtpiXNOvsZnTUiw_9E-2ApozvJ-r0rS56mgCkZUlWfVpF48XHqC3-Tu1yQgrcy3NDRbTEs1M_Dr1st3KOMA/s1368/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-27%20at%2010.18.05%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="1368" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJzmEPQuWCZVp5nY5MRE870Vu7E274P4Hv-GPusZbGiLN7y9IqIr1_rs8eHxSN9LCAT_GAfvgbWN9FWlkNxmgvMDgpaUsMlMVoBrwdDlTtpiXNOvsZnTUiw_9E-2ApozvJ-r0rS56mgCkZUlWfVpF48XHqC3-Tu1yQgrcy3NDRbTEs1M_Dr1st3KOMA/w551-h381/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-27%20at%2010.18.05%20AM.png" width="551" /></span></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5EajAoJiJS7LQ1jaaP9nY7OouQxoD1zIHSYl9c6dIII9-LTc7cxk4n69t_lnPqXFf9L2TMu5pdWPjvwEOVKG67smUP5_v6Ih97B85_aT-rkiDlsxPwFVogs0jNeCCYTE2sIOZCzQL_UrW0VrMsQUQtG6tnhDe4rT73cwLHcx1HuvyU_jKQdxyJuf_mg/s1326/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-27%20at%2010.18.17%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="1326" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5EajAoJiJS7LQ1jaaP9nY7OouQxoD1zIHSYl9c6dIII9-LTc7cxk4n69t_lnPqXFf9L2TMu5pdWPjvwEOVKG67smUP5_v6Ih97B85_aT-rkiDlsxPwFVogs0jNeCCYTE2sIOZCzQL_UrW0VrMsQUQtG6tnhDe4rT73cwLHcx1HuvyU_jKQdxyJuf_mg/w505-h117/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-27%20at%2010.18.17%20AM.png" width="505" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">And yet, the public relations folks have yet again sold us a bill of goods. And Dothan residents through their taxes will be funding this aberration. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Are you prepared to make Dothan the new Island of Dr. Moreau? </span></p>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-91520460408477089932023-01-15T06:02:00.008-08:002023-05-13T09:57:58.554-07:00Requiem for a School System/Society<p>Jesus will come soon. (Matthew 24: 1-3 (David Jeremiah <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q710SSEyQy8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q710SSEyQy8</a>) Look around you. What do you see and hear every night on the nightly news?</p><p>Recently the Representative who sponsored the 123 Bill in the House of Representatives was elected leader of the majority party (Republican) of that august House. And so the consequences of putting school psychologists in every school, the purpose of that bill, begins. Just what do these psychologists believe and even if they don't what MUST they support?</p><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://1819news.com/news/item/baldwin-county-schools-requiring-school-counselors-to-affirm-students-preferred-pronouns-gender-identity">Baldwin County Schools requiring school counselors to affirm students' preferred pronouns, gender identity</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">All of this will be a part of the Comprehensive sex education agenda to pollute the minds of our children beginning in Kindergarten. You have lost the moral authority as parents. <span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: GaramondPremrPro, serif; letter-spacing: 0.22px;">Both the Counselor’s Handbook and the BCPS mental health guidebook, “Mental Health Matters: Everyone has a Story,” suggest the Trevor Project and other LGBTQ+ organizations as a resource.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: GaramondPremrPro, serif; letter-spacing: 0.22px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: GaramondPremrPro, serif; letter-spacing: 0.22px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.22px;"><span style="color: #262626;">In another document provided by BCPS, titled “2022-2023 School Counselors’ Handbook,” </span><span style="color: red;">confidentiality</span><span style="color: #262626;"> between student and counselor is thoroughly stressed.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: GaramondPremrPro, serif; letter-spacing: 0.22px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: GaramondPremrPro, serif; letter-spacing: 0.22px;">Just imagine the images that your innocent child will be influenced by through their efforts. "</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: GaramondPremrPro, serif; letter-spacing: 0.22px;">Further, the training manual states the counselor’s “duty to self” is to “develop knowledge and understanding of historic and systemic oppression, social justice and cultural models (e.g., multicultural counseling, anti-racism, culturally sustaining practices) to further develop skills for <b>systemic change</b> and <b>equitable</b> outcomes for all students.” (Equity is NOT equality! Equity means equality of Outcome not opportunity.) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: GaramondPremrPro, serif; letter-spacing: 0.22px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: GaramondPremrPro, serif; letter-spacing: 0.22px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyYM1h2GKbu62HRSU7bEM8sc5-ArfVHDXCklck4D98h1jZp2PY4INV_4dMEnpLl4aGZrA1Q2di_sVlOiqF7psqcFJxmupZlHDHyBOlstePPRCHzHQu774bkkW4ekDGtHd4XMIMhWElkREJVEkWOglgOqR1rmzFPuN2fBZfB47JHVf4n6qO2FHHoCHAw/s606/Screen%20Shot%202018-01-10%20at%203.05.40%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="606" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyYM1h2GKbu62HRSU7bEM8sc5-ArfVHDXCklck4D98h1jZp2PY4INV_4dMEnpLl4aGZrA1Q2di_sVlOiqF7psqcFJxmupZlHDHyBOlstePPRCHzHQu774bkkW4ekDGtHd4XMIMhWElkREJVEkWOglgOqR1rmzFPuN2fBZfB47JHVf4n6qO2FHHoCHAw/w372-h288/Screen%20Shot%202018-01-10%20at%203.05.40%20PM.png" width="372" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>As for depending on your representatives to carry on your values? How do you think we got here? The NEA/AEA has a lot more money than you or I do. They will elect those who kowtow to their standards and beliefs and they have been taken over by the radical Left. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: GaramondPremrPro, serif; letter-spacing: 0.22px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: GaramondPremrPro, serif; letter-spacing: 0.22px;">Whether this will be published on my own blog is questionable. I am not sure what post this notice refers to. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: GaramondPremrPro, serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); letter-spacing: 0.22px;"><br /></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: GaramondPremrPro, serif; letter-spacing: 0.22px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc9sJQDC86xhQSM0J12fYgpxoT6_0svLn0PmuoQcbGGhOJ_xJfsaDXLgevlALDNYu8r8UcvNvqP5drMKttfcFmybVYHHHG2n9fwguk5BX75PoDEWC9ngal4C9NKDpXOePp29DbGW3K5Fztw1pWDkFvAljvoVr5UBeMFjSFwc4AUuMO5862qhT-v1qqpQ/s2022/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%206.47.33%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="2022" height="39" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc9sJQDC86xhQSM0J12fYgpxoT6_0svLn0PmuoQcbGGhOJ_xJfsaDXLgevlALDNYu8r8UcvNvqP5drMKttfcFmybVYHHHG2n9fwguk5BX75PoDEWC9ngal4C9NKDpXOePp29DbGW3K5Fztw1pWDkFvAljvoVr5UBeMFjSFwc4AUuMO5862qhT-v1qqpQ/w779-h39/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%206.47.33%20AM.png" width="779" /></a></div>I obviously no longer know what community standards are. </span></div><p>I am seriously considering ending my education activism. When I first began battling Whole Language in the early 90s, after seeing how many illiterate middle schoolers I had in my classrooms, I really thought the teachers in Dothan would join with me to battle this foolishness. Recently Judith Hanford, an investigative journalist produced a podcast that is an expose of this ridiculous "method" of reading instruction that actually teaches children "how not to read." (<a href="http://www.soldastory.org">http://www.soldastory.org</a>)</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7sTRYATwlVhj1gz7Embr5T8GdtYKk4a-3NZXkPdDVjW1GPKILVrLDhPBCB9p9-HHNo8mDrRfeXQCT1wkOO1vQ8_agczz4Qrx5DZ0PrC9lw3_yLK9aXZC9npEiu0rRWLAlqkjxOSoq2R4fLYIRskmZejaqyO8P7w0wAAZoepmyLCdjb1_S-lGjLRnrbA/s1180/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.31.59%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="1180" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7sTRYATwlVhj1gz7Embr5T8GdtYKk4a-3NZXkPdDVjW1GPKILVrLDhPBCB9p9-HHNo8mDrRfeXQCT1wkOO1vQ8_agczz4Qrx5DZ0PrC9lw3_yLK9aXZC9npEiu0rRWLAlqkjxOSoq2R4fLYIRskmZejaqyO8P7w0wAAZoepmyLCdjb1_S-lGjLRnrbA/w637-h295/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.31.59%20AM.png" width="637" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">What happened in Dothan was a Whole Language hootenanny at the Dothan City School Board led by Dr. Patty Fritchie, the reading instructor at Troy State University. I do wish Judith Hanford could have been there to hear and see teachers supporting this method that had principals demanding that good/successful teachers leave their phonics books outside the door to be destroyed. The Hootenanny occurred when a group of parents (my husband and me included) flew an expert from a successful school that was 90% Black, served 3 housing projects, and had 40 identified dyslexics each year. The principal was given a mandate to improve that schools scores and he took a group of grudging teachers to participate in a seminar in learning the Systematic, Intensive, Direct and Early Method, The Writing Road to Reading, developed by Romalda Spalding a colleague of Dr. Samuel Orton founder of the Orton Dyslexia Society. Dr. Orton calls most dyslexia "school induced." After one year the scores in that school rose from the 25th percentile to the 80th, the number of identified dyslexics dropped from 40 to less than 5, and discipline problems declined. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">My detractors will say everything I write is sour grapes because I was defeated in my run for Chairman of the Dothan City School Board where I refused donations because I did not want to be obligated to anyone. Twice. The campaign for the opposition was run out of the central office I was told by someone who was there. In the meantime, a local obstetrician who "had a heart for the children" and the president of Troy University became chairman of the Dothan City School Board and so everything the Director of Instruction and fellow "progressives" wanted got rubber stamped -- and still does. It is a <i>circle the wagon </i>mentality in education today. Don't rock the boat. Or as one principal of a very unsuccessful school put it, "Let's not get anybody hurt here." Losing one's retirement by going against the crowd isn't a wise move. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And though the reading scores reveal the failure, more money gets spent on programs like Reading Recovery as discussed by Judith Hanford. Each child who cannot read thinks <span style="color: red;">they</span> are defective. Their remediation in the school is more intensive more of the same. Parents who can afford it get private tutoring. Those who can't have children who follow year after year of depression and failure and probably drop out early. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq2sZHULpaoEWZphc6hCz9OqPL26iNZk3i_lQM88DzcjGxKtQ7DtIc28QRyUIPN1NSOmhVwUYeIUc-a8kLnXlJi2u0ahXMBA8xNocNUEBXCZdBros3RnS7fiKcWMMVGJMfIw2deL5_nCm3GSsWh6FdaMdIAllcJzfuvaM5FYyJwkfUUmfvNQWRlQjpxQ/s1270/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.32.09%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="1270" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq2sZHULpaoEWZphc6hCz9OqPL26iNZk3i_lQM88DzcjGxKtQ7DtIc28QRyUIPN1NSOmhVwUYeIUc-a8kLnXlJi2u0ahXMBA8xNocNUEBXCZdBros3RnS7fiKcWMMVGJMfIw2deL5_nCm3GSsWh6FdaMdIAllcJzfuvaM5FYyJwkfUUmfvNQWRlQjpxQ/w620-h345/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.32.09%20AM.png" width="620" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3GNjWmOxZ3YaVN_lQOnijonqaTXYYNp5_AnkjxR3HiE0zctq_E5Jx5YO_SQ43ai_s_q-WmuFKbI8VGTKsvNzP-Ru9n2Nxsj8bwc3v6QB-C1mQSRWcYX4IxIuG2tU_nG4cw87-1-NYvOu3_KDXclaAXWzlaXpy56xGPAytKixoFW5DBEn92qfe7S5-w/s1278/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.32.36%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="1278" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3GNjWmOxZ3YaVN_lQOnijonqaTXYYNp5_AnkjxR3HiE0zctq_E5Jx5YO_SQ43ai_s_q-WmuFKbI8VGTKsvNzP-Ru9n2Nxsj8bwc3v6QB-C1mQSRWcYX4IxIuG2tU_nG4cw87-1-NYvOu3_KDXclaAXWzlaXpy56xGPAytKixoFW5DBEn92qfe7S5-w/w587-h127/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.32.36%20AM.png" width="587" /></a></div><br /><div>Unfortunately, the legislators cannot legislate success in Math when the math instructors in the colleges of education pretty much do what the reading instructors do--teach how not to do math (successfully that is). Social Justice Math is more important than real Math instruction. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKChOu6hx4Ch6UWNkYU6eiw42YHIZdwQdZ-1nuJjeK5znPv5gG6yG93TDdt1vFXqBCFPFY0Jk-F-Cshg3HCEFlcWNs83shjAxLdBOIzX7uQqrrGNWS0-Fh5jX0AkURP5zZMif-uj1cPK4PwTdCroKoXvEvL2k0fh9SQYJxR9ZMRqR7o8VvFpDFmm54ig/s1176/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.32.27%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1176" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKChOu6hx4Ch6UWNkYU6eiw42YHIZdwQdZ-1nuJjeK5znPv5gG6yG93TDdt1vFXqBCFPFY0Jk-F-Cshg3HCEFlcWNs83shjAxLdBOIzX7uQqrrGNWS0-Fh5jX0AkURP5zZMif-uj1cPK4PwTdCroKoXvEvL2k0fh9SQYJxR9ZMRqR7o8VvFpDFmm54ig/w615-h267/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.32.27%20AM.png" width="615" /></a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is integrated into every subject in the Curriculum. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE1DXxcdICiiUW0c4fsvmynVPcYI2VvQPrRE5aUvM9MN0dCtMgWr0P6Lkhx3ngdw7Q_--WouUjuxURWFfvsOJpwJv9BO_wBoysFtWEbPXXs8Tp7k9XYVqU-cPQk2SW9kLz-uJ76dPlvGNlaWtEXZ44ytmiG0UIkc_0G3GHobNLk0DKUyCDORUp1lmzmA/s1134/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.32.50%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="1134" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE1DXxcdICiiUW0c4fsvmynVPcYI2VvQPrRE5aUvM9MN0dCtMgWr0P6Lkhx3ngdw7Q_--WouUjuxURWFfvsOJpwJv9BO_wBoysFtWEbPXXs8Tp7k9XYVqU-cPQk2SW9kLz-uJ76dPlvGNlaWtEXZ44ytmiG0UIkc_0G3GHobNLk0DKUyCDORUp1lmzmA/w582-h321/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.32.50%20AM.png" width="582" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oh, and during that time, with the debate over Goals 2000 and <a href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-bigotry-of-low-expectations-profits.html">OBE/Mastery Learning/Outcomes Based Education</a> (now called Equity) David Hornbeck (who wrote the Alabama First document promoted by A Plus, a clone of the Kentucky document) rewrote the Bylaws of Dothan City Schools replacing sequential learning with thematic learning. The Goals 2000 document also forbade drill and repetition (which Bear Bryant thankfully ignored). Phonics was kicked out and contemptuously labeled "drill and kill." Memorizing Addition/Subtraction/Multiplication/Division tables was now considered old fashioned so our children suffered through New Math and its later renamed clones. History Classes were shifted to Social Studies and the thematic lessons foreshadowed Critical Race Theory. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR_uhzbGyXnJ3GUbkXIuHScmSXZjsDxmtsE5a4z1Y1VJjdCoXp37p91dcgILiW0B7YPv7vDER10-LZuWv3KStzYBqjHdekUDQPbZ1m38KE2bxJJUui0BjhoG67vxu8s1yQR77GBEuRvFqd1Cd480mcxbCB0iYJT3TJop2KFx7mtLXILbcBZNOStsNiJg/s716/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.32.59%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="716" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR_uhzbGyXnJ3GUbkXIuHScmSXZjsDxmtsE5a4z1Y1VJjdCoXp37p91dcgILiW0B7YPv7vDER10-LZuWv3KStzYBqjHdekUDQPbZ1m38KE2bxJJUui0BjhoG67vxu8s1yQR77GBEuRvFqd1Cd480mcxbCB0iYJT3TJop2KFx7mtLXILbcBZNOStsNiJg/w456-h395/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.32.59%20AM.png" width="456" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdxZJ61Nmt9C82NLQLrVi9pyjk0tCmMD7dj9yaduGadYXTJn9XZQNrLuTXc1hrX0s9h88AAnuJgLSTWhXYRTdXOGgWMAFNWanSFECwFcU8FQflJTFfppPI7u1jIWGnsG9S_Hj1YZ3-B5iCpnyQxwb_sSThNPGO5mpcnKdpR3JKsH7Jh5Wjcss_AWUF3w/s634/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.33.05%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="634" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdxZJ61Nmt9C82NLQLrVi9pyjk0tCmMD7dj9yaduGadYXTJn9XZQNrLuTXc1hrX0s9h88AAnuJgLSTWhXYRTdXOGgWMAFNWanSFECwFcU8FQflJTFfppPI7u1jIWGnsG9S_Hj1YZ3-B5iCpnyQxwb_sSThNPGO5mpcnKdpR3JKsH7Jh5Wjcss_AWUF3w/w434-h294/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.33.05%20AM.png" width="434" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjggmbCcFCM6mykNC71kcdIL8mGHs8Ye-2auqHDDCLojvQIbm824g3ca8CQALJKQqJevpGJPMG-QQFuy-x62SxUAwqPJp9mWO6O2jUlU3TGSACHPBBovrk09mr6F_925JZg9I8kw-9qipJfanymUAzuKc3C0l7HHrIdY5JbcKI45IJygoNw4hkSS17sA/s794/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.33.13%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="794" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjggmbCcFCM6mykNC71kcdIL8mGHs8Ye-2auqHDDCLojvQIbm824g3ca8CQALJKQqJevpGJPMG-QQFuy-x62SxUAwqPJp9mWO6O2jUlU3TGSACHPBBovrk09mr6F_925JZg9I8kw-9qipJfanymUAzuKc3C0l7HHrIdY5JbcKI45IJygoNw4hkSS17sA/w497-h344/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.33.13%20AM.png" width="497" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC_nFOBRb3-c2vpvnjOPDsMufcYyf5CISLoddVlm4O2R77B0Fpa7DRzoMzVaxSzeN3qJeDgBk2sE5LW0YkTR5XMymC32P6c0C4Sb7SZCi_NGR4geX-8Vvnx-10Zf3HfLvY3unDdmopCqIsJLyyEEsx-AqteDVkkfMC5rErUW-RH0mspLNenLI-AX_flA/s588/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.33.21%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="588" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC_nFOBRb3-c2vpvnjOPDsMufcYyf5CISLoddVlm4O2R77B0Fpa7DRzoMzVaxSzeN3qJeDgBk2sE5LW0YkTR5XMymC32P6c0C4Sb7SZCi_NGR4geX-8Vvnx-10Zf3HfLvY3unDdmopCqIsJLyyEEsx-AqteDVkkfMC5rErUW-RH0mspLNenLI-AX_flA/w510-h244/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.33.21%20AM.png" width="510" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Social Emotional Learning now includes Eastern Meditation and the access to books the gatekeepers of the past would never have allowed in our libraries. And now, since I made them public, I no longer have access to them. But, Dothan City School students do. Oh yes, welcome to Comprehensive Sex Education beginning in Kindergarten. Words, activities, and pictures most of us have never seen or heard (and wish we would never see or hear) are now a part of the comprehensive education of students in Alabama schools. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimO-5YqzIoR4IR-SyKV2wI2o6VfQ5GMHoutqxESoh5VH7rlqGBXa1mOcsdsoxVJhSzMXCoQWAnrDpmF162gf7N0wzCnNfqWOniZneR4UcNhF_Y4FdhSB23JxZP62qsLlb5sOKbykMQA7E8Zs0bkjIyDmhOVae58idRMEteyIQgkjD5SloOX5AKTZysFg/s1028/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.33.28%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="1028" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimO-5YqzIoR4IR-SyKV2wI2o6VfQ5GMHoutqxESoh5VH7rlqGBXa1mOcsdsoxVJhSzMXCoQWAnrDpmF162gf7N0wzCnNfqWOniZneR4UcNhF_Y4FdhSB23JxZP62qsLlb5sOKbykMQA7E8Zs0bkjIyDmhOVae58idRMEteyIQgkjD5SloOX5AKTZysFg/w550-h199/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.33.28%20AM.png" width="550" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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His philosophy? "These standards are the most serious attempt this country has yet made to come to grips with those early sources of inequality." So now with a salary of over a million a year he heads the College Boards. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjycqow2pIIAxveJm7DFB7jbsw_SqLnpe_XAnFdVBHSz_XjJisctRpAn3zdQh6kzlpld6PUz5emNBuUUVqq2cJDC84m8OvfgB0j3yR46KFIu8IaUiyvc_5EHqxnDQgHwWTzvLwGqSke4bsjpLghzXIxrtb6TuNzc4xmKTW2D7n1U7Ve0X9bMeCJ1sNXfQ/s1086/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.34.03%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="1086" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjycqow2pIIAxveJm7DFB7jbsw_SqLnpe_XAnFdVBHSz_XjJisctRpAn3zdQh6kzlpld6PUz5emNBuUUVqq2cJDC84m8OvfgB0j3yR46KFIu8IaUiyvc_5EHqxnDQgHwWTzvLwGqSke4bsjpLghzXIxrtb6TuNzc4xmKTW2D7n1U7Ve0X9bMeCJ1sNXfQ/w627-h141/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%207.34.03%20AM.png" width="627" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41);">Anyone who really researches education or asks questions knows that Common Core is not dead. They spent too much on it! They just renamed it and the public bought it. Because I really don't think most people really care. </span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The same passion that brought Patty Fritche's Whole Language Stepford Teachers to the Dothan City School Board to yell down the words of the Principal from the successful school teaching phonics ought to bring the same passion for getting rid of it! And reclaim our schools for the sake of our children! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But that won't happen and I am tired of banging my head against the wall of apathy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Pray for Rick Rehm. He seems to be the only elected politician who actually understands what is happening here. All of us have family/friends employed by the school system. If they realize what is happening they dare not rock the boat if they want the retirement benefits for which they have worked so hard. If they don't it is because all of this comes from the colleges of education and the Department of Education that has been taken over by they purveyors of "Progressivism".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">New World Order? One world religion? Guess what is happening every day in our schools. Do you ever wonder how Germany, a Christian nation, could succumb to the commands of the Nazi party, the Third Reich and produce the holocaust? It begins in the schools. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkwmInozqS1RQX2l0w7lwUYI2xUpPklXdkUgPuvPM6kNrsVLLR6Jh6NTNJc5977dSaE7QwIe1sjXwwaL7AbvDUdj8nbfrUmxgiIX1tL8fR7E3nax6Kr8gIr8Kj65zhY4XMVsMZP3wqnX7H0XO5qBrni1Tv8Fiqqd_h9VQ4HmyeR6KXSGjj4A_Ju6O9Yg/s1298/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%2011.18.34%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="1298" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkwmInozqS1RQX2l0w7lwUYI2xUpPklXdkUgPuvPM6kNrsVLLR6Jh6NTNJc5977dSaE7QwIe1sjXwwaL7AbvDUdj8nbfrUmxgiIX1tL8fR7E3nax6Kr8gIr8Kj65zhY4XMVsMZP3wqnX7H0XO5qBrni1Tv8Fiqqd_h9VQ4HmyeR6KXSGjj4A_Ju6O9Yg/w523-h301/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%2011.18.34%20AM.png" width="523" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">See also: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57008360">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57008360</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The word Requiem came to me first thing this Sunday morning as I said good morning to my Lord and prepared for Church. I am sure there is a reason God wanted me to use that word as a title for this post. I also think there is a warning there. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The Lord gave me a verse after I wrote this: "Be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only deceiving your own selves..." What are we doing producing a situation where our children DO NOT HEAR ..."<span style="color: #5f6368; font-weight: bold;">whatever things</span><span style="color: #4d5156;"> </span><span style="color: #4d5156;">are true,</span><span style="color: #4d5156;"> </span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-weight: bold;">whatever things</span><span style="color: #4d5156;"> </span><span style="color: #4d5156;">are honorable,</span><span style="color: #4d5156;"> </span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-weight: bold;">whatever things </span><span style="color: #4d5156;">are just,</span><span style="color: #4d5156;"> </span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-weight: bold;">whatever things</span><span style="color: #4d5156;"> </span><span style="color: #4d5156;">are pure,</span><span style="color: #4d5156;"> </span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-weight: bold;">whatever things</span><span style="color: #4d5156;"> </span><span style="color: #4d5156;">are lovely, ..." but just the opposite.</span></div><div><span style="color: #4d5156;"><br /></span></div><div>The bigotry of low expectations has replaced excellence in education. Social justice is not the cure. You will be told that parents who care have snatched their children out of public schools and put them in private schools and the public schools are left to deal with those with special needs. </div><div> </div><div>The schools are creating the special needs with its educational malpractice and social justice malfeasance. Of course, there is a very small percentage of children with true dyslexia (according to Dr. Samuel Orton, founder of the Orton Dyslexia Society) and physical handicaps, but the immense amount of school induced dyslexia and consequential violence comes from the miseducation (see Pete Hegseth's book and series on Fox) that has come from the radical Left now running the NEA/AEA, Department of Education, and the colleges of education. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6YOOQhi7coA-Et_AsNiPCR5eVkeCRgiThOXZNGcQ7A6BjcTyU8FP8reX9TWM0KbVwGwNl8JjZn6mrblAdpX5p5Do2VGMTKePqkGaz1X4UbGtncFC226NihstrsGvM3WrQcHqqKGPEe_LVNarqzG20JMxliyw_Y-w_59kirScK42tcFXt1sZsYgl87Yg/s2306/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-09%20at%2012.31.50%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: CG Times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1128" data-original-width="2306" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6YOOQhi7coA-Et_AsNiPCR5eVkeCRgiThOXZNGcQ7A6BjcTyU8FP8reX9TWM0KbVwGwNl8JjZn6mrblAdpX5p5Do2VGMTKePqkGaz1X4UbGtncFC226NihstrsGvM3WrQcHqqKGPEe_LVNarqzG20JMxliyw_Y-w_59kirScK42tcFXt1sZsYgl87Yg/w500-h245/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-09%20at%2012.31.50%20PM.png" width="500" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.dothan.k12.al.us/domain/2031"><span style="color: black; font-family: CG Times;">Access the Equity Plan of Action</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">I write this article in an attempt to analyze the purpose and consequence of Dothan City Schools Equity Plan of Action. I share it on my blog for the purpose of alerting others about what is happening in their own schools and school boards across the country. No man (school system and school board) is an island in this nation of ours with the common contagion of teachers unions, Department of Education, and colleges and universities having adopted this philosophy of education. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">We, as parents, can see the problem clearly when presented in a chart like this. But this chart exists because I dug out the information and presented it in this chart. The problem is that children come home with A's and B's on their report cards throughout elementary school. Parents are unaware of the problem until secondary teachers tell them their children cannot read secondary text books or the questions on a test. The scores are blatantly obvious, but hidden from parents' knowledge by the public relations people who write the articles that local papers print. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">(Remember to double click on the images for the image to increase in size.) </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzMSICNJPGusccCLGx-Bi6kU_foy0B0_NVSIFkqaw9Qlyw2P2tiyDFplw9suo_J5dKFC9MdiQ-sf12ZbviumAKC8pQIYCERr2diDcFY0k5xsJyetbAmelx5VrVEZa29WS9gUZUhmMH-_7WVtsduPmJMFO11EcFRrD9gMVsqdJkDeJCG_eoZhS47cbCrg/s1332/Dothan%20City%20Reading%20Scores.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: CG Times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="1332" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzMSICNJPGusccCLGx-Bi6kU_foy0B0_NVSIFkqaw9Qlyw2P2tiyDFplw9suo_J5dKFC9MdiQ-sf12ZbviumAKC8pQIYCERr2diDcFY0k5xsJyetbAmelx5VrVEZa29WS9gUZUhmMH-_7WVtsduPmJMFO11EcFRrD9gMVsqdJkDeJCG_eoZhS47cbCrg/w555-h295/Dothan%20City%20Reading%20Scores.png" width="555" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><a href="http://parcalabama.org/category/education-workforce-development/">http://parcalabama.org/category/education-workforce-development/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">What was the purpose of this Equity Plan of Action? </span></p><div class="page" title="Page 5"><div class="section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Section 1: Culture of Academic Equity</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Our data reflects that 40% of our student population identified as white are outperforming the slightly more than 60% of nonwhite students by a margin of 45% (2018) & 42% (2019) difference in Math and 45% (2018) & 45% (2019) in Reading. This trend reflects a gap in achievement over two years of data (2018 & 2019).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">One might look at the number of students who are unable to read on the 3</span><sup style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">rd</sup><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">grade level in Dothan City Schools and assume that the administration would focus on the curriculum. No. They focus on an equity action plan to convert attitudes and beliefs using multicultural, social justice, and culturally responsive teaching.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> This is their gateway into the minds and hearts of our children, their justification for SEL (Social Emotional Learning). </span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: CG Times;">Please note that the second book mentioned, <i>Culturally Proficient Instruction</i> was published by Corwin Press, an entity of Sage Publications that publishes domestic terrorist Bill Ayers' books. Ayers' goals? </span></p><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">"Education is the motor-force of revolution." Bill Ayers</span></h1><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">"I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism." Bill Ayers</span></h1><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"></span></h1><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon." Bill Ayers</span></h1><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">"The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war." Bill Ayers</span></h1><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at." Bill Ayers</span></h1><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">"I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent." 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What are computer adaptive tests?</span></h3><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.78; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><span>MAP dynamically adapts to a student’s responses – as they take the test. Answer a question correctly and the test presents a more challenging item. Miss a question, and MAP offers a simpler item. In this way, the test narrows in on a student’s learning level, engaging them with </span><span>content that allows them to succeed.</span></span></p></div></div></div></div><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 3pt; text-transform: uppercase;">----------------------------------------------------------- </span></h1><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 3pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span></h1><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 3pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="https://www.dothan.k12.al.us/domain/2031">DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS EQUITY ACTION PLAN</a><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Updated April, 2022 DCS Board approved June, 2022</span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><i><span>The DCS Culturally Inspired Expertise Professional Learning Community Team Members gathered as a committee to address inequities in academic achievement between subgroups as evidenced in 2 years of state assessment data (Scantron/Performance Series) as well as local benchmark data (NWEA Maps) for the 2019/20 school year. This committee of 15 members across all aspects of the instructional community in DCS met monthly throughout this school year to discuss ways to address this gap in learning for our students. Our process for arriving at our </span><span><span>Equity Action Plan began with a book study (Hammond, Z. (2014). Culturally responsive teaching and the brain: Promoting authentic engagement and rigor among culturally and linguistically diverse students. Corwin Press). </span></span></i><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><i><span>As we engaged with the content of this work, we reached out to various resources i.e. data gathering within our schools and school community to ascertain the breadth and depth of cultural responsiveness understanding and equity in access to devices or Internet, in addition to support provided by Dr. Deloris Lindsey and colleagues in their work (Robins, K. N., Lindsey, R. B., Lindsey, D. B., & Terrell, R. D. (Eds.). (2005). Culturally proficient instruction: A guide for people who teach. </span><span><span>Corwin Press)</span></span><span>. Using this knowledge, we collaborated, researched, and developed the following plan for moving DCS forward. </span></i><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><a href="https://www.dothan.k12.al.us/domain/2031">Expand All</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Phase 1: Investigate Implementation Practices<o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Phase 2: Empower Stakeholders for Inclusive Partnering<o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Phase 3: Institutionalize Cultural Knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: CG Times; letter-spacing: 3pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ACTION RESEARCH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><b><span>Abstract/Rationale/Process</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">The Culturally Inspired Expertise Professional Learning Committee Team Members gathered as a committee to address inequities in academic achievement between subgroups as evidenced in 2 years of state assessment data as well as local benchmark data for the 2019/20 school year. This committee of 15 members across all aspects of the instructional community in our school district met monthly throughout to discuss ways to address this gap in learning for our students. Our process for arriving at our Equity Action Plan <b>began with a book study Hammond, Z. (2014</b>). Culturally responsive teaching and the brain: Promoting authentic engagement and rigor among culturally and linguistically diverse students. (Corwin Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><span>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><u><span>Culturally responsive teaching and the brain: Promoting authentic engagement and rigor among culturally and linguistically diverse students. Corwin Press) </span></u><span>is the title of the book studied by the “Culturally Inspired Expertise Professional Learning Committee” of Dothan City Schools. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><span><span>Z Hammond is not a doctor and has not studied the brain. She has a Masters in Secondary English literacy.</span><u><br /><br /></u><span>These are her credentials taken from the </span><a href="https://www.collaborativeclassroom.org/blog/instructional-equity-with-zaretta-hammond/">COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM</a><span> website. </span><br /></span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><em><span>She is a former high school and community college expository writing instructor. Ms. Hammond has also served as an adjunct instructor at St. Mary’s College School of Education in Moraga, California, where she taught The Foundations of Adolescent Literacy. As a consultant, she has advised and provided professional development to school districts and non-profit organizations across the country around issues of equity, literacy, and culturally responsive teaching for the past 25 years</span><span>.</span></em></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">25 years as a </span></em><em><span>consultant</span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">. And yet, she is considered an expert and the foundation for Dothan City Schools Equity Action Plan. </span></em><i><span><br /></span></i><span><br />One might challenge her credentials as we have no empirical data or research to refer to as the consequences of her plan of action in our schools. Nor do we have any real facts upon which to base her assumption that “</span><span style="background-color: white;">What I call ‘inequity by design’ was historically the brick and mortar of our school systems.<span class="apple-converted-space">” And yet, this is the basis of her philosophy of education. <br /><br />No, this is another example of the public schools using our children as fodder for their experimentation. Our children are mere lab rats now. I will guarantee you that professional journals will receive articles written by those in administration promoting this agenda. These people will rise in the ranks upon the backs of our children whose cultural literacy will be limited to oppression and diversity. <br /><br /></span></span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><u><span>In Hammonds' words: </span></u><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.6pt; margin-left: 1.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><i><span>“Other educators have come to understand that multicultural education has its limits when it comes to instruction. Instead </span><span>they focus on social justice education. </span><span>But the misunderstanding that some educators have is, “If I simply </span><span>discuss issues of oppression</span><span>, </span><span>read books about civil rights</span><span>, their leaders, and people who worked against oppression, then my students’ cultural identity will be affirmed.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.6pt; margin-left: 1.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><i>Here’s a thought to consider: Second graders don’t want to talk about oppression, and when we as educators make that our sole focus, we’re doing students a disservice.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.6pt; margin-left: 1.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><i>Instead we must build their background knowledge across a wide array of topics. To comprehend texts with critical literacy and critical consciousness, students must be equipped with that deep background knowledge. The social justice paradigm would have us only talking about issues of inequity, bias, or how we become non-racist.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.6pt; margin-left: 1.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><i><span>But we know that’s not enough; the tendency is for that to get reduced into diverse books about boycotts and basketball or injustice topics of the day. </span><span>Many social justice educators push back on the teaching of phonics and word study as oppressive </span><span>when in fact, those elements of reading development are liberatory. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Keep in mind that social justice and multicultural education are useful and necessary in the equity conversation, but they play supporting roles. On their own they are not sufficient for effectively promoting instructional equity.”</i></span></span></h1></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;"> </span></p><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><i><span><a href="https://www.collaborativeclassroom.org/blog/instructional-equity-with-zaretta-hammond/">Collaborative Classroom</a> <br /></span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">"A Conversation with Z Hammond About Instructional Equity" <o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br />Even Z Hammonds recognizes the need for real reading instruction and the <span>unwillingness of teachers to actually teach phonics and word study because they have been led to believe that such education is “oppressive.” </span>Yet, rather than focusing on literacy as the ticket out of their oppressive situations, they choose to focus on attitudes and beliefs, brainwashing children as to their oppression. <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 align="center" style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h1><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-left: 1.5in;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><h1 align="center" style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">IN OTHER WORDS, YOUR CHILD IS NOT MEMORIZING THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER, THE PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION OR THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, IMPORTANT MILESTONES IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION THAT GAVE US OUR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Now that we know that Z Hammond is the guru for Dothan City Schools Equity Plan of action, we need to go deeper into her belief system. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Hammond cites Gloria Ladson-Billings as an expert she respects. <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><i><span style="background-color: white;">“I believe that culturally responsive teaching as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><i><span><a href="https://naeducation.org/our-members/gloria-ladson-billings/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 250ms ease 0s;" target="_blank"><span>Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">framed it is the heart of instructional equity.<span class="apple-converted-space">” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></i></span></h1><div><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><i><span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span><a href="https://www.collaborativeclassroom.org/blog/instructional-equity-with-zaretta-hammond/">Collaborative Classroom</a> </span></i></div><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><div style="text-align: center;">"A Conversation with Z Hammond About Instructional Equity" </div></span></div></span></div><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">So, who is Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings so highly touted by Z Hammond upon whose book Dothan City Schools’ Equity Plan of Action is based? <o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bill Ayers, convicted domestic terrorist, recommends Ladson-Billings' writing “</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;">Also, check out this </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/NOLAed4Liberation/videos/742369486602720" target="_blank"><span>Critical Race Theory in Education Teach-In</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> today with Gloria Ladson-Billings...” So Bill Ayers tells us that Ladson-Billings is an expert in Critical Race Theory education, something Alabama has supposedly forbidden in our public schools by our governor and denied by most politicians…and yet, here it is touted by the author of the book upon which Dothan City Schools Equity Plan of Action is based. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h1><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-weight: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLOmBKfOXhlHW7yB79NKhCoT-QLyUqVF6RD7cpih7AzIT3CnseZ6ViFUM8OgQ9bbKrkVwrfRC3ntM11eIVsuaJP4rdmoIvKmJ7jkbXUH5zJUQD4ijZj_n6zsv2DtOX56OJntd_6bUQMaqOyaUq_1xl1jyDS9EWDrOv6Q2xrneweOn1sjihymDCBDInA/s986/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-07%20at%2012.19.48%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="986" data-original-width="960" height="647" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLOmBKfOXhlHW7yB79NKhCoT-QLyUqVF6RD7cpih7AzIT3CnseZ6ViFUM8OgQ9bbKrkVwrfRC3ntM11eIVsuaJP4rdmoIvKmJ7jkbXUH5zJUQD4ijZj_n6zsv2DtOX56OJntd_6bUQMaqOyaUq_1xl1jyDS9EWDrOv6Q2xrneweOn1sjihymDCBDInA/w631-h647/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-07%20at%2012.19.48%20PM.png" width="631" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></div></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><strong><span><a href="https://billayers.org/2020/09/17/critical-race-theory/"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">Critical Race Theory in Education Scholars Respond to Executive Memo M-20-34</span></span></a></span></strong></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">On September 4, 2020, Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget for the Executive Office of the President issued M-20-34, a “memorandum for the heads of executive offices and agencies.” The document states that “Executive Branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars, to date, on “training” government workers to believe divisive, anti-American propaganda.” As critical race scholars working in universities and communities across the globe, the following statement is our response to Mr. Vought’s memorandum.</span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><i><span>Critical Race Theory (CRT) </span><span>is committed to the historical documentation and naming of atrocities carried out in this country in the name of “freedom” and “liberty.” In spite of this historical context, the claim that the United States is founded on freedom from tyranny, freedom of expression and speech, and the right to exist as a whole person, are ideals that all citizens of the US are taught in school to value, cherish and honor. From our purview as scholars of race and education, the United States of America has struggled to uphold not only the Constitution but also the Preamble of the Constitution. We are clear that racial healing cannot occur absent the recognition of the historical and current struggle against all forms of structural oppression that encumber the U.S. from ever fully living up to its democratic ideals.</span></i></span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">You need to read this to understand the goals of these people. This was written eight months after President Biden took office.The following Alabama "scholars" signed on.</span></span></p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScE-zJ_xwagn4mW01lZeVBImt_zUTR-wG6TgAyYWz-02_8iAw/viewform">Critical Race Theory in Education Scholars Respond to Executive Memo M-20-34</a>. These are Bill Ayers Alabama Comrades in CRITICAL RACE THEORY.</span></span><span style="font-family: "CG Times"; text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: "CG Times"; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Steve D. Mobley, Jr. University of Alabama </span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Fayth Owen Hope, The University of Alabama</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">A K Lewis-Maddox, University of Alabama at Birmingham</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); white-space: pre-wrap;">Denise Davis-Maye, Alabama State University </span> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Tonya E. Perry, Alabama A & M University</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Jesus Tirado, Auburn University</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Sara Demoiny, Auburn University</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Megan Burton, Auburn University</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Hannah Baggett, Auburn University </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Carey Andrzejewski, Auburn University</span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white;">In 1994, Ladson-Billings wrote: “</span></span>All learning should be anchored in texts and other resources that reflect student’s cultures. She also suggested that culture plays an important role in not only communicating and receiving information, but also in the thinking process of groups and individuals. She defined Culturally Responsive Teaching as a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including cultural references </span><span><span style="font-size: small;">in all aspects of student learnin</span><span>g</span></span><span>.”</span></span> </span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span><span style="font-family: "CG Times";">Obviously, the Equity Plan of Action is based on CRT (CRITICAL RACE THEORY) a concept supposedly </span><span style="font-family: "CG Times";">banned in Alabama. </span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><span>(Please note that none of this Equity Plan is objective. It all has to do with attitudes and beliefs.) <br /><br />Now, let’s take a minute to analyze this statement. In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Goals 2000 and Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) “</span><span style="background-color: white;">committed themselves to specific plans for </span><span style="background-color: white;">systematic reform of K-12 </span><span style="background-color: white;">education.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">At that time Dothan City Schools signed onto Whole Language as the method of reading instruction. Whole Language is based on Paolo Freire’s book, <i>Pedagogy of the Oppressed</i> (read the <i>Whole Language Catalog</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by Ken and Yetta Goodman and see the references to Freire and other Marxist leaders like Giroux, Apple, etc.). </span></h1><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times;"><br /></span></div><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><br /></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZztVcoxBafKz-tNy9BPewv_ikPUnPeH8Vm7eWiY3tot679qIlN1Xaqf8F91LXIlg2MDxEexRl3iBR-smGmqejR8bQ1WNphGVTnUKonXqhfxvkbui5G5ZUWQJQglcmUsqBSvEl_euARJ5oIFesUVOfku2PaUQWCnx6RRWwpjck0K0KFnzI7YrObQeaw/s2530/PP%20Whole%20Language%20Catalog.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1426" data-original-width="2530" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZztVcoxBafKz-tNy9BPewv_ikPUnPeH8Vm7eWiY3tot679qIlN1Xaqf8F91LXIlg2MDxEexRl3iBR-smGmqejR8bQ1WNphGVTnUKonXqhfxvkbui5G5ZUWQJQglcmUsqBSvEl_euARJ5oIFesUVOfku2PaUQWCnx6RRWwpjck0K0KFnzI7YrObQeaw/w563-h316/PP%20Whole%20Language%20Catalog.png" width="563" /></span></a></div></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><br /></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">At the same time, Hillary Clinton sat on the board for the NCEE, National Center for Education and the Economy. Marc Tucker and David Hornbeck also sat on that board. Hornbeck edited a book titled Human Capital, the manifesto of this group. They proposed the idea of using the courts to achieve their goals. </span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><br /></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">"Court orders can be exceptionally good vehicles for creating a sufficient sense of crisis and an imperative to act so that supporting legislation can be enacted." (Human Capital, p. 367)</span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><br /></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">Thus we got Goals 2000/Alabama First. Thank you, A Plus. (Sarcasm here. The Alabama Legislature still allows them to write legislation.) </span></h1><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times;">"</span></div><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLac-ECE8V3jtcZZiAqUdbchu1t3cQB7pOiQXuEkYNEZVoqxNCWMFq3qg2KDqrj_5vbc9IfDGTRqTC5j_WYjH90F9QY18HHTxjwJxvf87QBqXBiWF5SoCb_54qLFbxlug-ht5haHbgeDCqmqeSkD6nPLCEH3pr_iH_hPnSrQfYro9Ygw7JkJb8bAOcIw/s342/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-07%20at%2012.27.40%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="228" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLac-ECE8V3jtcZZiAqUdbchu1t3cQB7pOiQXuEkYNEZVoqxNCWMFq3qg2KDqrj_5vbc9IfDGTRqTC5j_WYjH90F9QY18HHTxjwJxvf87QBqXBiWF5SoCb_54qLFbxlug-ht5haHbgeDCqmqeSkD6nPLCEH3pr_iH_hPnSrQfYro9Ygw7JkJb8bAOcIw/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-07%20at%2012.27.40%20PM.png" width="213" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: CG Times; 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font-size: small;"><br /></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><br /></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">David Hornbeck wrote Alabama First, Alabama’s version of Goals 2000, promoted by A Plus, a supposed “research” organization that turns out to be a PR group for these radical new goals. </span></h1><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times;"><br /></span></div><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">Another aside: Ken Goodman wrote “Reading a Psycholinguistic Guessing Game” (1969) that became a major player in the shift from Phonics Intensive reading instruction to the Look-Say/Whole Language method of reading instruction. <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white;">As cited in <a href="https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2020/03/17/in-memoriam-kenneth-s-goodman">Goodman’s obituary</a>, </span></span><o:p></o:p></span><span face="adelle-sans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(78, 75, 72);">“At the core of his work was a </span><span face="adelle-sans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(78, 75, 72);"><span>constructivist view of learning</span></span><span face="adelle-sans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(78, 75, 72);"> that insisted that students should be active participants in their learning, not mere recipients of some static ‘stuff’ called ‘knowledge.’” Brian Cambourne </span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">Constructivist education boasts of producing cognitive dissonance.</span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><br /></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><span>The term cognitive dissonance is used to describe the mental </span><span>discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes. People tend to seek consistency in their </span><span><a href="about://"><span>attitudes</span></a></span><span> and </span><span><a href="about://"><span>perceptions</span></a></span><span>, so this conflict causes feelings of unease or discomfort.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span></i></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">Please note the intrusion of affective education (attitudes, values and beliefs) being manipulated here. There is no objective data. No empirical research. See also the condescending attitude toward objective knowledge. <o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">But there is more about Gloria Ladings-Billings that should be known by the public, referred to frequently as stakeholders, because the public funds this protections racket promoted by "consultants" and now called the Equity Plan of Action. <o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white;">Back to Z Hammonds who comments in the article on the Collaborative Classroom: </span></span><span face=""PT Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">We have to make the brain work. This is [psychologist Lev] Vygotsky’s “zone of proximal development,” commonly called the “ZPD.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />So, Vygotsky is Hammonds’ source for brain expertise. <o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;">Who is Vygotsky? <o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><div><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: CG Times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUMLWY_3SznPiMZGQeMEHkWV6cUKAix-b4oQaGRoqDf8wIpTTdXZ_QxXi76e0uYzbBEvDZLgBt-PKhmkvMFERHqNGw-5zIaX0pI9_LdFtHeSsZuahG3k0HrMzmRK8gmFo3YdJuIUwOAxfn3GhnWX0YOKtxwaVTu2gvYBM-NeE-Kq_ec0VNIN3XJuykA/s2472/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-07%20at%209.55.10%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2202" data-original-width="2472" height="537" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUMLWY_3SznPiMZGQeMEHkWV6cUKAix-b4oQaGRoqDf8wIpTTdXZ_QxXi76e0uYzbBEvDZLgBt-PKhmkvMFERHqNGw-5zIaX0pI9_LdFtHeSsZuahG3k0HrMzmRK8gmFo3YdJuIUwOAxfn3GhnWX0YOKtxwaVTu2gvYBM-NeE-Kq_ec0VNIN3XJuykA/w603-h537/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-07%20at%209.55.10%20AM.png" width="603" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Note: "Inspired by the writings of Marx and Engels..." "cultural laboratories" to..."modify thinking." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"social and cultural resources" "primary tools for mediating and promoting change."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Please understand the purpose for "collaborative activities" and the potential development as </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">determined through "problem-solving" under adult guidance or in "collaboration" with more capable peers."</div></span></div><h1 style="line-height: 17.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those are all contemporary buzz words for "higher order thinking skills", terms that educators use to make their sales pitch appear scholarly and based on objective data. And the "stakeholders" buy it. </span></span></h1><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: CG Times;">This is taken from the <i>Whole Language Catalog.</i> Whole Language is a “method/philosophy of education” voted on by Dothan City Schools Board of Education (rejecting systematic, intensive, direct and early phonics) in the early 1990s that continues to be the method of choice for reading instruction (though they may claim to be eclectic, throwing in a smattering of phonics to appease those parents who who might come looking). I was there when that vote occurred because I was a part of a group of parents who financed bringing a principal in from Louisiana who had turned his school (90% Black, serving 3 housing projects) around (from the 25th to the 80th percentile on the then administered nationally SAT) with the phonics intensive <i>Spalding Writing Road to Reading</i>. Dr. Betty Fritche led a Whole Language Hootenanny drowning out the efforts of the parent group who brought the expert from the successful school to Dothan. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">I sometimes find a bit of irony in the fact that one Chairman of the Dothan City Schools Board of Education was president of Troy University Dothan which university hired Betty Fritche and supported Whole Language instruction. </span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><span>Now, let's ask the question why do we let our school curriculum be dominated by Marxists? </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><span><span>"A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds </span><b><span>to the revolution to end capitalism</span></b><span>, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism." Saul Alinsky</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "CG Times";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><b><i><span>Outcomes<br /><br /></span></i></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">We want educators to know and be able to implement guidelines for addressing cultural proficiency instructional practices to close achievement gaps between subgroups. We want educators to know and be able to implement guidelines for addressing stakeholder relationships in regard to barriers with socioeconomic status and equal access to online learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">We will measure success by our state and benchmark data reflecting closing achievement gaps among subgroups; internal and external climate surveys, implementation surveys, and reflections through Q/A documentation; school culture and climate data i.e. discipline data, SPED/ELL students, poverty/non- poverty. We will </span><span style="font-family: CG Times;">measure success</span><span style="font-family: CG Times;"> with evaluation feedback 3 times a year </span><span style="font-family: CG Times;">through surveys </span><span style="font-family: CG Times;">for implementation via staff, students, parents, community.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"><a href="http://www.dothan.k12.al.us/"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">www.dothan.k12.al.us</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">May I point out that these outcomes are psychological? Mainly Affective data. How does one measure benchmark data when testing is affective/subjective? Suddenly education is no longer academic but SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">The important measure is how well the achievement gap is closed. How best to do that? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Apparently it is to lower the academic standards. Then judge attitudes and beliefs, the true goal for this social engineering. <br /><br />Look back at the Reading Scores. Thirty years ago, Whole Language, something Dean Kunkel of Auburn said was "current wisdom" unsupported by any empirical data, was voted on by your Dothan City Schools Board of Education. Recently, accepting their poor performance and vowing to do something about it, Dothan City Schools endorsed the Equity Plan of Action. They now dig the hole deeper than ever. No longer with a goal to educate. The public schools exist to change the attitudes and beliefs that your child may come to school with. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">No change to actually address the failure of the curriculum --just everything and everyone else. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">If you live in another area, I challenge you to research your own school district's "equity plan of action."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"> </span></p><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: small;"><br /></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: CG Times;"> </span></p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-51699583444031502202022-11-05T16:58:00.002-07:002022-11-05T16:58:34.792-07:00A Grandparent's Day to Remember<p><br /></p><p> <span style="font-family: CG Times;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;">Today at Providence </span></span><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;">Christian</span></span><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;"> School Grandparents Day brought us all to our feet with our grandchildren's performance. My Molly is in the fourth grade, a part of the Grammar School. Her grade led us in the pledge of allegiances to the American flag and the Christian flag. They then led us in singing the Star Spangled Banner. The fifth grade recited the Preamble to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Then the second and third grades sang each of our Armed Services' songs, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">while displaying their flags, honoring the many veterans in the gymnasium. They then sang God Bless America, Yankee Doodle Dandy. And then their rendition of I'm Proud to be an American brought us all to our feet. </span></span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Of course, I had tears in my eyes with my pride in our country, my gratitude to those veterans called to stand as each service's flag was displayed, those men and women willing to make the ultimate sacrifice and ...the mission of this precious school to actually teach our children the basics of reading (they use the phonics intensive Orton Gillingham Method), writing and arithmetic (Saxon Math), developing their mental capacity to memorize, guiding their moral development in teaching biblical principles of right and wrong and honoring the sacrifices and principles upon which our wonderful country was founded. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Molly got to leave early with me and we went to breakfast at the Waffle House and then went to buy her a calligraphy set. She wants to improve her handwriting and already has a beautiful hand. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: CG Times;">What a blessing this day was for this grandmother who longs to see all of my babies in Heaven when "the roll is called up yonder." Thank you, God, for this wonderful school, and for the many blessings it gives these precious children.</span></div></div>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-43594732136699868422022-11-05T16:55:00.002-07:002022-11-05T16:59:53.909-07:00The Co-opting of Hallelujah <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnE2unASSIPa3asKS3zEs8cqkOSoXy-5HEtSNCX4qVlHIGEensnqq8OY9DVb__Ms88AUg6vbqHggbESLx-zaOUFWwuyOlwu7VIYJU4F0uTSboPE7bqH8A5L8GFrGFkSc4r4tq4ua1_2vMDw1B2ljmnkXWAwdjBj6aCpKtXKqQmdQ4WZQpuRYsdEV7n2A/s1268/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-05%20at%206.46.33%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="1268" height="92" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnE2unASSIPa3asKS3zEs8cqkOSoXy-5HEtSNCX4qVlHIGEensnqq8OY9DVb__Ms88AUg6vbqHggbESLx-zaOUFWwuyOlwu7VIYJU4F0uTSboPE7bqH8A5L8GFrGFkSc4r4tq4ua1_2vMDw1B2ljmnkXWAwdjBj6aCpKtXKqQmdQ4WZQpuRYsdEV7n2A/w369-h92/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-05%20at%206.46.33%20PM.png" width="369" /></a></div><p>Remember when Hallelujah brought joy to your heart because it brought memories of the Hallelujah Chorus? Well, several years ago, I got duped by an article in the Panama City News Herald about some teachers from the public school doing a community sing-a-long with the Hallelujah. Of course they said Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, but I thought it was just a community sing with a rendition of the wonderful music by Handel. I was wrong. </p><p>I expressed my concerns in a letter to the Bay County Superintendent and <a href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/response-to-my-expressed-concerns-about.html">this is his response</a>. </p><p>I have learned a lot since 2017. Some of it is from the messianic rabbi, Jonathan Cahn, in his book, The Return of the Gods. He points out that Christian symbols in this Woke World get co-opted and perverted so that the original meaning gets lost. Think of the Rainbow. Are children taught the Christian/original meaning of the rainbow? The promise of God not to destroy the world again by flood? The same has happened to the joyous word Hallelujah. </p><p>This song touched many a Democrat heart when Kate McKinnon opened Saturday Night Live after Hillary's loss with this version of Hallelujah and the original meaning has gotten lost. Co-opted. But, I want you all to read the words and tell me you think this is appropriate for students. Or do you think this is just another example of the social justice agenda replacing Christianity? </p><p>I point this out because I did so enjoy the patriotic Christian program at my granddaughter's program. I will almost guarantee this song will appear at some program during the Holiday season. This is the America your social justice warriors proclaim. Is it any wonder so many young people now commit suicide? This hopeless world bereft of God's love?</p><div class="xaAUmb" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 16px 0px;"><div jsname="WbKHeb"><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Baby I've been here before</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I know this room, I've walked this floor</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I used to live alone before I knew you</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Yeah, I've seen your flag on the marble arch</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">But listen love, love is not some kind of victory march</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">No it's cold and it's ever a broken Hallelujah</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">There was a time when you'd let me know</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">What's really going on below</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Oh but now you never show it to me, do ya?</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Oh but I remember yeah, when I moved in you</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And the holy dove she was moving too</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Yes and every single breath that went through us, Hallelujah</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Maybe there's a God above</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">As for me all I ever seemed to learn from love</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Yeah but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">It's not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">No it's cold and it's ever a lonely Hallalujah</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">I did my best, it wasn't much</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I couldn't feel so I learned to touch</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I've told the truth, I didn't come all this way to fool you</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Yeah and even though it all went wrong</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I'll stand right here before the Lord of Song</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc" jsname="U8S5sf" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hallelujah</span></div></div></div><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p><p><br /></p>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-3555971566689740452022-10-25T07:46:00.001-07:002022-10-25T07:46:42.074-07:00Camellia Garden at the Dothan Area Botanical Garden Gains Recognition<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Camellia Garden at the Dothan Area Botanical Garden Gains Recognition</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">By Sharman Burson Ramsey, President of the Southeast Alabama Camellia Society<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Gulf Coast Camellia Society held its 60<sup>th</sup> conference in Mobile on October 21 and 22, 2022. The Mobile Botanical Gardens and Bellingrath Gardens hosted the events. The Rock Stars of the Camellia world made presentations. Dothan’s own Forrest Latta served as Master of Ceremonies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><h2 style="break-after: avoid; margin: 2pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Maarten van der Giessen spoke on Mobile’s Great Camellia Nurserymen: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sawed, Rubel, Kimono, Dodd, Bellingrath, Drinkard, Bower and Jarvis.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Bobby Green introduced New Breakthroughs in Hybridization. Kip McConnell, filling in for Mark Crawford (suffering with Covid) educated the group on the ACS/Gao Plant Trials Report (a combination of azalea and camellia?). Then a panel consisting of Bobby Green, Seth Allen, Robin Kirchak, and Vaughan Drinkard spoke on the development of the K. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sawed</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wintergreen.</span></span></h2><h2 style="break-after: avoid; color: #2f5496; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 2pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></h2><h2 style="break-after: avoid; color: #2f5496; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 2pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vaughan Drinkard informed us about how the K.Sawada Wintergarden came to be. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It took the leadership of Bobby Green, Vaughan Drinkard, Rhan Vander Giessen and others to develop the Sawada Wintergarden as an homage to K. Sawada. It is the goal of these camellia societies to preserve the historic camellias, to present them to the public to appreciate, and to propagate even more beautiful camellias. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Dothan’s own Mark Cannon was spoken of with near worship. He was a true leader in the Gulf Coast Camellia Society and in the camellia world of Dothan, Alabama. Seeing the Sawada Wintergreen garden inspires one to fulfill the dream of the founders of the camellia garden at the Dothan Area Botanical Garden to develop our camellia garden to be as lovely as the one in Mobile. And it is possible. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Gulf Coast Camellia Society has placed the Dothan Area Botanical Garden’s Camellia Garden on the Camellia Garden Tour. That is quite an honor and one not to be taken lightly. We hope to honor those who came before by setting aside a special area in the camellia garden for Dothan. Leaders in the Camellia world and propagation were <span style="background-color: white;">Dothan gardeners: Marilyn Latta, Marion Grant Hall, Mark Cannon, Paul Angeloff, Bill and Linda Nicholls, and Max McKinny. I am sure there are others that I have missed and would appreciate that information as well as the donation of those camellias for our Dothan area garden from family members. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">According to Max McKinney, also an early member of the Southeast Alabama Camellia Society, our club was founded around 1956 by Dr. Ralph Moon, Bill Nichols, Jim Brown, and Marion Hall. McKinney (who has a garden of about 700 camellias) joined the club a couple of years after the founding. He recalls Mark Cannon being an early propagator as well as nursery owner. The nursery was named after his wife Marjorie, and his two daughters, Dorothy (Dot Cannon Culver) and Char (Charlotte Cannon Blount). MA-DOT-CHA HOBBY NURSERY was located at 300 Montezuma Avenue. Dr. Skeeter Mazyck had a yard full of beautiful camellias he propagated and was an early member of the club. We are hopeful some have been preserved since a bank has now been built where his home once sat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Southeast Alabama Camellia Society meets the first Tuesday of every month at 3 PM at the Dothan Area Botanical Garden. We are members of the Gulf Coast Camellia Society which is a member of the American Camellia Society which is also a member of the International Camellia Society that hosts biennial trips to different countries around the world. This year’s trip will be to Italy. All are welcome to join each of these organizations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-36501418497438315662022-10-23T13:08:00.002-07:002022-10-25T07:51:00.024-07:00Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Marxism in our Schools<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: garamond, serif;">Just in case you thought I have misrepresented what is going on in our schools, read this. A group of parents viewed <i>Teaching Tolerance</i> produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center in the early 90s. They were using it then. I have sent you the reading scores in a separate email with scores that are abominable. Remember DEI is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. You can see how our schools are controlled from above, not by the citizens here who support those schools. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: garamond, serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: garamond, serif;">Who is Paolo Freire? He is a former Jesuit defrocked priest who participated in Liberation Theology in Nicaragua and then was introduced to the leading Marxists in our country where they decided education was the way to infuse Marxism into the people of America and produced Liberation Pedagogy. Please notice the mention of Paolo Freire in one of the screen shots Barbara Moore took and shared with me. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: garamond, serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: garamond, serif;">Notice the mention of Howard Zinn's textbook. It is a diatribe of hatred toward America. And many districts adopt it because this is what is coming out of the Department of Education and colleges of education. If you want to advance in the world of education you had better be ready to parrot this philosophy. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: garamond, serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: garamond, serif;">I share these things with you because there is a battle for the American mind. If you have children in our public schools or not, your taxes are supporting this. And you must live with the consequences. I do not want you defenseless. Please notice this information was posted by a woman who is apparently well-paid as a "Better Lesson Coach". 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margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In 1923, Lenin recognized the Socialist Movement would not spread to industrialized nations so he brought together a group of scholars to retool their strategy. To camouflage its nature they called it the Institute of Social Research. This group has also been known as the Frankfurt Group. Key members of the group moved to the US, mainly Columbia University. In the US they developed what they called "Critical Theory." They designed it as a strategy to change, revolutionize, and bring down America by criticizing it. </span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202122;">Marcuse ... advocated the </span><span style="color: red;">"long march through the institutions" </span><span style="color: #202122;">and recommended educational institutions as a refuge for radicals in the US.</span></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202122;">The</span><span style="color: red;"> Frankfurt School </span><span style="color: #202122;">was a significant influence on Paolo Freire</span><span style="color: #202122;"> in the conception of critical pedagogy</span><span style="color: #202122;">, alongside influences from orthodox Marxism. </span><span style="color: #202122;">Critical pedagogy was meant initially to address the needs of peasants resisting oppression rather than students in the United States, who attend universities as part of a process of entering the social or economic elite.</span><span style="color: #202122;"> Amidst the decline of the New Left</span><span style="color: #202122;">, the rise of neoconservatism</span><span style="color: #202122;">, and the election of Ronald Reagan, </span><span style="color: #202122;"> animated by Aronowitz's</span><span style="color: #202122;"> reminder of Marx's dictum, </span><span style="color: red;">"the ultimate task of philosophy and theory was not merely to 'comprehend reality' but to change it"</span><span style="color: #202122;">, </span><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_4299833741866203010_" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Henry Giroux">Henry </a>Giroux <span style="color: red;">sought to make the university classroom a site for class struggle</span><span style="color: #202122;">.</span><span style="color: #202122;"> Giroux drew on the work of Gramsci and the British cultural marxists </span><span style="color: #202122;">in conceiving of</span><span style="color: red;"> teachers as a revolutionary vanguard</span><span style="color: #202122;">.</span><span style="color: #202122;"> Alongside Michael Apple</span><span style="color: #202122;">, Giroux popularized Freire in educational studies,</span><span style="color: #202122;"> to the point that Freirian language and techniques of critical pedagogy became ubiquitous in liberal arts classrooms</span><span style="color: #202122;"> of the 1990s.</span><span style="color: #202122;"> The value of these practices were questioned in the broader cultural conversation on political correctness.</span></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202122;">McLaren has developed a social movement based version on critical pedagogy that he calls revolutionary critical pedagogy, emphasizing </span><span style="color: red;">critical pedagogy as a social movement for the creation of a democratic socialist alternative to capitalism.</span></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202122;">In 1992, Maxine Hairston took a hard line against critical pedagogy in the first year college composition classroom and argued, "everywhere I turn I find composition faculty, both leaders in the profession and new voices, </span><span style="color: red;">asserting that they have not only the right, but the duty, to put ideology and radical politics at the center of their teaching.</span></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: start;">Though no one has as yet surveyed how far social justice teaching has pervaded America’s 1,500 ed schools, education researchers David Steiner (now Hunter College ed-school dean) and Susan Rozen did a study two years ago on the syllabi of the basic “foundations of education” and “methods” courses in 16 of the nation’s most prestigious ed schools. The mainstays of the foundations courses were works by Paolo Freire, Henry Giroux (a leading critical pedagogy theorist), and the radical education writer Jonathan Kozol (“</span><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_4299833741866203010_" style="color: #1155cc; text-align: start;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #00afcf; padding: 0in;">America’s Most Influential—and Wrongest—School Reformer</span></a><span style="text-align: start;">,” Winter 2000)</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If you see, Paulo Freire's book, <u>Pedagogy of the Oppressed</u> or Ken Goodman's <u>Whole Language Catalog,</u> you can be guaranteed your university is producing radicals not educators.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.25in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times;"><b>CRITICAL PEDAGOGY and Bill Ayers</b> (domestic terrorist and Obama's boss at the Chicago Anenburg Project). Ayers’s spectacular second act began when he enrolled at Columbia University’s Teachers College in 1984. Then 40, he planned to stay just to get a teaching credential. (He had taught in a “Freedom School” during his pre-underground student radical days.) But he experienced an epiphany in a course taught by Maxine Greene, a leading light of the “critical pedagogy” movement. As Ayers wrote later, he took fire from Greene’s lectures on how the </span><span style="color: red; font-family: times;">“oppressive hegemony” of the capitalist social order “reproduces” itself through the traditional practice of public schooling</span><span style="color: black; font-family: times;">—critical pedagogy’s fancy way of saying that the evil corporations exercise thought control through the schools.</span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.25in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Critical pedagogy theorists nurse a rancorous view of an America in which it is always two minutes to midnight and a knock on the door by the thought police is imminent. The education professors feel themselves anointed to use the nation’s K–12 classrooms to resist this oppressive system. Thus Maxine Greene urged teachers not to mince words with children about the evils of the existing social order. They should portray “homelessness as a consequence of the private dealings of landlords, an arms buildup as a consequence of corporate decisions, racial exclusion as a consequence of a private property-holder’s choice.” In other words, they should turn the little ones into young socialists and critical theorists.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The reading list for his urban education course includes the bible of the critical pedagogy movement, <b>Brazilian Marxist Paolo Freire’s <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Pedagogy of the Oppressed</span></i>;</b> two books by Ayers himself; another by bell hooks, a radical black feminist writer and critical race theorist; and a “Freedom School” curriculum. That’s the entire spectrum of debate.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="color: #888888;"><br style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="caret-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); color: #888888; font-family: garamond, serif;"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="caret-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); color: #888888; font-family: garamond, serif;"><br /></div><p><span style="color: #888888;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></p>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-37237635086038448642022-10-20T15:22:00.005-07:002022-10-21T05:29:59.653-07:00THE BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATIONS<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Remember the phrase “the Bigotry of Low Expectations.” Then replace that with Equity in any situation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">That is what has happened to Education in Dothan, Alabama. What has happened in Dothan is pretty much the same that has happened around the country, but this is what I know. I attended Mrs. Grubb’s Kindergarten. Then for elementary school I attended Girard Elementary (1-6) and then Girard Junior High School (7-9) and then Dothan High School on North Oates Street. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In high school we had six subjects: English (not Language Arts), Math (Algebra I and II, Geometry, or Calculus, not social justice Math), History (American or World History, not Social Studies), Latin, Spanish, or French, Science (Biology, Physics and Chemistry), and Political Science. We also took Physical Education and sometimes had a Study Hall. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The material in those subjects was presented sequentially as per school board policy. In English we learned the structure of a word, how sounds came together to make a syllable and syllables came together to make a word and words came together to make a sentence and sentences came together to make a paragraph and paragraphs came together to make a story or an article.—or maybe a book. We conjugated verbs and learned the difference between present, past and future tense and how verbs changed to show those tense changes mostly regularly and sometimes irregularly. We diagrammed sentence to actually see the structure of sentences.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We had a group of parents who read the literature books and books that would be read by students to see if they passed community standards. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Parents were involved not just in making cookies for the teachers’ lounge or purchasing a microwave or running off copies or reading books to children to “inspire them to read.” They knew the teachers. They knew the standards for hiring those teachers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Goals 2000 changed things. The liberal teachers’ unions and powerful “progressives” got appointed to positions within the Department of Education who promoted programs meant to “help” those “less fortunate” -- eduspeak for our Minority students, basically Black children, by using our schools for social engineering. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">And this is where the “Bigotry of Low Expectations” comes to the fore. We once called it Outcome Based Education because we want all children to achieve the same outcome. Unfortunately, that costs gifted children of all races. And it is an assumption that Minority children are not as capable of achievement and must be given advantages to lift them up. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Grading has changed. Children graduate from elementary school and come to Middle School unable to read their textbooks. They have been taught reading as if it were Mandarin which has words in pictographs. They memorize a rolodex of words and then cannot sound out unfamiliar words in their secondary textbooks. And yet they have As throughout elementary school. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">History is no longer presented chronologically, building year upon year with fact upon fact. A theme is presented like “the atomic age.” The bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima is presented as one of many war crimes of the United States. Language Arts teachers ask students write an essay sharing their feelings about the event. (A part of SEL, Social Emotional Learning as well). The children lack the foundational knowledge of Hitler’s near win over England and the Allies before the Americans entered the war, the impact of the attack on Pearl Harbor on America, or what might have been the consequences of a Nazi win on the rest of the world. Science teachers focus on the environmental impact rather than the lives actually saved from a war that would have continued and lives lost under the Axis regimes. They do not learn the consequences of socialism whether through the fascism of Hitler or the communism of Stalin, or Mao, or Kim Il-sung.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Through thematic learning, a string of single events in human history are presented in order to achieve the goal of the teachers’ unions that have become so critical of the United States. Who were the leaders at that time? White men? And thus we have Critical Race Theory. But that is only the beginning. Rather than look at our history with the perspective of those who then lived, the critical judgement of those who label themselves “progressive” dominate the Department of Education, the colleges of education, the administrators and teachers who those colleges of education produce and therefore the impact on our children. That goal is revolution. And it is working from the inside out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">God got exiled from public schools and the demons who found the schools empty brought home legion. Meditation is accepted as a form of Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Every yoga pose is a prayer to a different God. The mind, emptied for meditation, visiting the happy place, is an invitation for “Ascended Masters” -- like “the Tibetan” who guided A<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">lice Ann Bailey who was one of the first writers to use the term New Age. She describes a wide-ranging system of esoteric thought, covering such topics as meditation, the destiny of nations, and prescriptions for society in general. She described the majority of her work as having been telepathically dictated to her by a Master of Wisdom, initially referred to only as "the Tibetan" or by the initials "D.K.", later identified as Diwal Khul, an “Ascended Master.” Her writings are among the teachings often referred to as the “Ageless Wisdom.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Robert Muller served in UNESCO for forty years and rose to the rank of Assistant Secretary of the United Nations. He founded a School of Ageless Wisdom in Arlington, Texas, and the University of Peace in Costa Rica. He is considered the “father of global education” by the United Nations. Mullers’ education programs are based on </span><span style="background-color: white;">the teachings of Alice Bailey who first called her publishing company, the Lucifer Trust. Therefore the father of global education has based his curriculum on “an ascended Master” -- or what Christians would call a demon. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Bailey</span> taught that the practice of meditation is one of the most important means of recognizing one’s own divinity and tapping into the wisdom of the universe. She founded the Arcane School, which brings together groups of three people in a New Age triangle to meditate and study together. She organized meditation groups to meet on the full moon “to create lines of spiritual force” She described meditation as the transmission of spiritual energy from mystical realms (<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">A Treatise on White Magic</em><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: normal;">, p. 90). She considered it as a means of communicating with her Ascended Masters.</span><br /><br />This is what and who has replaced<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> traditional education that sent our first astronauts to the moon. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Education has now evolve into Social Justice and the teachings of the defrocked Jesuit priest who began with Liberation Theology and then with Marxist friends became Liberation Pedagogy (also known as Whole Language) founded on Paolo Freire's book the <i>Pedagogy of the Oppressed</i>. Ergo Outcomes Based Education and Equity. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Social Emotional Learning in Dothan, Alabama, now uses Meditation as its center. Meditation is founded on the teachings of Ascended Masters through Alice A Bailey who inspired Robert Muller of the United Nations Education Science and Education Organization (UNESCO) considered the Father of Global Education” who created World Core Curriculum. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">And yet, because we are all afflicted with the “bigotry of low expectations” we buy the claims of administrators who ask us, “Do you realize how many free lunches we distribute?” blaming the high illiteracy rate, declining ACT scores and low national standing in Math on our minority students and not our monstrous curriculum. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Establishment educators will continue establishment curriculum as long as the establishment public endorses them. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="font8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">I invite you to research all that I have written. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-7506123248292026082022-09-26T18:10:00.006-07:002022-09-26T18:14:34.636-07:00The Plight of our Students in Dothan City Schools<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Dothan City Schools implements Peer Helpers program reads the headline on the article written by <u>Eagle</u> writer Megan Reardon in November of 2021<b>. </b> Using that alongside Meditation, an eastern religious practice banned by law (</span><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_861463777577769024_" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">https://legiscan.com/AL/text/HB246/2021</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">), but promoted through the Mental Health Wellness of Dothan City Schools, children are losing quite a lot of academic time. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">That is time our children do not have to waste. Look at the Reading Scores for Dothan City Schools and those of the surrounding area. When you have 61% of students in a school unable to read on grade level, or 48 % or 47% or even 7%, it looks like one would take a look at the curriculum and ask why they continue using methods that have failed our schools for 30 years. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17XIGQV_5jTgFzULgmfiD1QU-zXVkzjnpXhyl7YjUOU5PxNCqcynWQCg7nq_ekKP2yLaA5XUnt8h9Rwfqn3_44DxsJUaehcG01ni3adN99kIYT-84yHccEpzxgQ1rlA6PBAcGzxEByfpb9v-S27IlHKMG2iMUS0yo0Sl6yniLwpVg_ppo8OGB0VkCiw/s904/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-26%20at%208.11.27%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="904" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17XIGQV_5jTgFzULgmfiD1QU-zXVkzjnpXhyl7YjUOU5PxNCqcynWQCg7nq_ekKP2yLaA5XUnt8h9Rwfqn3_44DxsJUaehcG01ni3adN99kIYT-84yHccEpzxgQ1rlA6PBAcGzxEByfpb9v-S27IlHKMG2iMUS0yo0Sl6yniLwpVg_ppo8OGB0VkCiw/w694-h424/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-26%20at%208.11.27%20PM.png" width="694" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Not only those methods have gotten enshrined in our schools, but we now have "constructivist" math to deal with that intentionally creates "cognitive dissonance." Cognitive dissonance is a state of confusion brought about by conflicting beliefs. And thus, we have another movement afoot, “Queering Elementary Schools: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling” promoted by the Leftist group self-titled the Queer Mathematics Teacher that plan to put gender theory in k-12 math. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />Remember Weatherman and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers? </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In 2007, a group from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), led by Ayers, now with a Ph.D. in education, demanded major accrediting organization for schools, colleges, and departments of education include categories of "social justice, sexual orientation and gender identity" in its standards.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Now might be the time to mention that critical theory means what it says, condemnation and dismissal of our culture. It is not higher order thinking. It was designed as a strategy to change, revolutionize, and bring down America by criticizing it. It was developed by the Frankfurt School of immigrant German socialists and adopted by Paolo Freire and the Whole Language/Marxist Liberation Pedagogists. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">So, here we have a</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> child who cannot read, finds math intentionally creating confusion, then throw in critical race theory, critical gender theory, critical pedagogy ...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">You don't think that might create a situation that upsets the mental balance of a child? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Rather than blindly accept the assertion that children, failed by the curriculum, need to resort to psychological "peer" tutoring to build their confidence and self-worth so they will not commit suicide, seems to me to be a bit ridiculous! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><h1 style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">With this number of children unable to read on grade level, I submit that their major problem is inadequate basic skills-- and the gullibility of the administrators responsible for this and the rest of us for not demanding accountability. </span></h1><h1 style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 24pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">"Education is the motor-force of revolution." Bill Ayers</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">"I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism." Bill Ayers</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">For more information visit </span><a href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-new-world-order-beckons-and-our.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-new-world-order-beckons-and-our.html</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Sharman Burson Ramsey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">BSE University of Alabama<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">MSE Troy University Dothan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-26639763943237524952022-09-04T12:59:00.016-07:002022-09-10T07:22:02.655-07:00Dana McCain and Katie Britt: Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and Pelosi's WRAP IT UP SMEAR<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="_5pbx userContent _3576" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_a" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 6px;"><h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv_ozQXrowysF5XcD3VCRv-xLsrTTjmwfcRlXoRhvglRkwRpz63Wi9Wi4nmFM_9F5zvjhB2njnB5zMjHJqogD2xC6Zf7t0AZ3GS-8vvizB9YtrlNzI5wp7t-IJU2D5KqwPfWU8Nz5SHhEHWAcfKhNCZmJ9YAGy0ei9BD0l-qQ9B-mplgvqTBWMjO11VQ/s312/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%2011.09.58%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="312" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv_ozQXrowysF5XcD3VCRv-xLsrTTjmwfcRlXoRhvglRkwRpz63Wi9Wi4nmFM_9F5zvjhB2njnB5zMjHJqogD2xC6Zf7t0AZ3GS-8vvizB9YtrlNzI5wp7t-IJU2D5KqwPfWU8Nz5SHhEHWAcfKhNCZmJ9YAGy0ei9BD0l-qQ9B-mplgvqTBWMjO11VQ/w453-h302/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%2011.09.58%20AM.png" width="453" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></h2><h2><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">I am appalled at Dana McCain's <a href="https://www.al.com/opinion/2022/01/dana-hall-mccain-mo-brooks-wants-to-talk-about-roy-moore.html">character assassination of Roy Moore and Mo Brooks</a>, both Republicans, like she claims to be. It was done with enough snide and spiteful rhetoric to make it appealing to those who opposed them and humorous enough to those DEEP STATE REPUBLICANS who claim to be part of the Conservative Right, but think religion ought to stay in the closet. And, since she is now a recognized "opinion journalist" her words had clout with those who had enough faith in her that her demonization of Roy Moore gave us Doug Jones. </span></h2><h2><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">She did not do it alone. Katie Britt helped. But, I must point out to the AL.com readers that it was done with Alinsky's Rules for Radicals tactics. </span></h2><h2><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-style: italic;">3. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. </span></span></span></h2><h2><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-weight: 400;">Well done, Dana. </span></span></h2><h2><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Nancy Pelosi's direction to </span>Use of the Wrap Up SMEAR. “You demonize and then you…We call it the WRAP UP SMEAR…You want to talk politics…You smear somebody, with falsehoods and all the rest, and then you merchandise it. And then you (THE PRESS) write it and they will say it is reported in the Press saying this, this, this and this and it gives it validation And then you merchandise it. It’s a tactic “ Pelosi, October 13, 2019</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> certainly shows up here. </span></span></span></h2><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZyY5Xkq3xGnVr_-7xvGLTKpMSCRle1UgWS1t1-1X103a3MsBvgnOhqQfDyYKxVElCcgukiCYmsoD7uDSsQGKG4bk7u_Df1jwd9YwAyuN8mduI8msDgR6DenKa-DjQVilI81j-YrEriqlXNjCGFTJ88eOjM4vjs5nOErEhq8aaDPMxT4-iiSG8PFJdg/s584/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%2011.13.38%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="584" height="457" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZyY5Xkq3xGnVr_-7xvGLTKpMSCRle1UgWS1t1-1X103a3MsBvgnOhqQfDyYKxVElCcgukiCYmsoD7uDSsQGKG4bk7u_Df1jwd9YwAyuN8mduI8msDgR6DenKa-DjQVilI81j-YrEriqlXNjCGFTJ88eOjM4vjs5nOErEhq8aaDPMxT4-iiSG8PFJdg/w609-h457/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-04%20at%2011.13.38%20AM.png" width="609" /></a><a href="https://www.al.com/opinion/2022/01/dana-hall-mccain-mo-brooks-wants-to-talk-about-roy-moore.html" style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: left;">DanaHall McCain: Brooks and cronies play the sexism card</a></span></div></div><h2><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><ul class="dateline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 1rem; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="dateline__updated" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px 0.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2022-06-03165426438710908:53:07" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Updated: Jun. 03, 2022, 8:53 a.m.</time><span aria-hidden="true" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">|</span></li><li class="dateline__published" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Published: Jun. 03, 2022, 7:00 a.m</li></ul><ul class="dateline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 1rem; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="dateline__published" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">McCain writes: </li></ul><ul class="dateline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1rem; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="dateline__published" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px;">Well, congratulations, Mo. Your problem is that we’re not brain damaged, and we know that this means you voted </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">for Roy Moore</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px;">. And there’s a whole generation of younger Republicans and college-educated Republican women who are repelled by that. But thanks for reminding us of who you are and how easily you shed the values that make us who we are in a pinch.</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px;">As for McCain's accusation of Sexism against Mo Brooks? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px;"><span style="color: red;">Since US Senate race frontrunner Katie Britt declined to participate in a debate, the Mo Brooks campaign has checked down to not-so-subtle sexism in desperation. You can agree or disagree with her decision, but most political practitioners worth their salt would advise her to skip it at this point. </span></span></blockquote><p> <span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! McCain played the sexist card and knew what she was doing! </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px;">What is wrong with Mo Brooks asking for a debate on the issues? That doesn't sound sexist to me. It is the label McCain put on it, a great weapon now for nasty women to use. What counter does a gentleman have?</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span></span></p><ul class="dateline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 1rem; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="dateline__published" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span>I, a college-educated Republican woman, am disgusted by her mockery. By her claim to be the only intellectual in the room because she is "college-educated" she intentionally demeans other women who support Moore and Mo, and also vote. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">"Shed the values?" What values did she, Katie Britt and Doug Jones share?</span></p></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span>DEMOCRATS LOVE KATIE BRITT</span></p></li></ul></span></h2><h1 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0.1in 0in 0.1in 0.5in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>– 'Pretty awesome,' 'super helpful' to Doug Jones.<span> </span></span><i><span>Outgoing Alabama Democratic </span></i></span></h1><h1 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0.1in 0in 0.1in 0.5in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><span>Party executive director Wade Perry touts Katie Britt</span></i><span>, 1819 News, Jeff Poor, 06.04.22</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;"> </span></span></h1><h2><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><ul class="dateline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 1rem; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="dateline__published" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 15pt 0.5in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">---Perry partially credited Britt for Jones' 2017 victory in response to a Twitter post from State Rep. Allen Farley (R-McCalla). In addition to calling her "pretty awesome" and "super helpful" to Jones' cause, he also credited her for <span style="color: red;">supporting the fuel tax increase component of the 2019 Rebuild Alabama Act.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">---Perry is not the only prominent Alabama Democrat to pledge his support for Britt. Late last year, former Democrat U.S. Rep. Parker Griffith also voiced his support for the Britt effort.</span></p></li></ul></span></h2><h2 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; break-after: avoid; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 16.8pt 0.5in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">--</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">May 2021, when the news broke that Katie was about to enter the Senate race, Donald Trump Jr. called Katie Britt “the Alabama Liz Cheney”</span><b><span> </span></b><b><span style="color: black;">Just doing what you gotta do to win Trump’s endorsement. </span></b><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.85pt; text-transform: uppercase;">BY MOLLY OLMSTED, SLATE, </span><span style="color: black;">APRIL 18, 2022</span><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></h2><h2><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><ul class="dateline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1rem; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="dateline__published" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">DEEP STATE REPUBLICANS FUND </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">BRITT'S</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"> CAMPAIGN</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"><o:p> McCain cites the Club for Growth's support for Mo Brooks as a bad thing, and yet she had no concern about the money coming to Britt from </o:p></span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Senator Mitch McConnell.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span>---A super PAC aligned with <b>Senator Mitch McConnell has funneled $2 million to a group attacking Mr. Brooks in television ad</b>s. That means McConnell supports Britt. Why?<br /><br /></span><span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 15pt 0.5in; orphans: auto; vertical-align: baseline; widows: auto;"><span>Elaine Chao, McConnell’s wife, quits her position as Secretary of Transportation shortly after Jan. 6. McConnell begins passing the word that Trump should be impeached. But hold on. In December 2020 the House Oversight Committee began an investigation into the closely held Foremost Group and whether Elaine Chao acted improperly to benefit herself or her family’s shipping company. BTW, can you guess where Foremost Group shipped most of their cargo to and from? “The New York Times and Politico) have reported that Chao may have used her Cabinet position to benefit the company and increase its influence…”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 15pt 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline; widows: auto;"><span>When you see and hear all the hype about Mitch, his agreement with convicting Trump in a Senate trial, and now rumors of his encouragement for more senators to fall in line with him, you at least know the reason. Follow the money. <b>Jim DeJarnett, letter to the Editor, The Landmark, Platte County, Missouri Newspaper</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 15pt 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline; widows: auto;"><span><b>Or </b></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 15pt 0.75in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span>Senator Richard Shelby<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span><a href="applewebdata://6A553347-3533-4AB5-B697-3619752FED2C/%0dSen.%20Richard%20Shelby%20to%20spend%20$5%20million%20to%20boost%20former%20aide%20...%0dhttps:/www.washingtonpost.com%C2%A0%E2%80%BA%C2%A0politics%20%E2%80%BA%202021/11/11%0d"><o:p></o:p></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 2.25pt 0.5in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span><a href="applewebdata://6A553347-3533-4AB5-B697-3619752FED2C/%0dSen.%20Richard%20Shelby%20to%20spend%20$5%20million%20to%20boost%20former%20aide%20...%0dhttps:/www.washingtonpost.com%C2%A0%E2%80%BA%C2%A0politics%20%E2%80%BA%202021/11/11%0d">Sen. Richard Shelby to spend $5 million to boost former aide ...<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span><a href="applewebdata://6A553347-3533-4AB5-B697-3619752FED2C/%0dSen.%20Richard%20Shelby%20to%20spend%20$5%20million%20to%20boost%20former%20aide%20...%0dhttps:/www.washingtonpost.com%C2%A0%E2%80%BA%C2%A0politics%20%E2%80%BA%202021/11/11%0d">https://www.washingtonpost.com › politics › 2021/11/11<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span>Nov 11, 2021 — </span><b><span>Sen</span></b><span>. </span><b><span>Richard</span></b><span> C. </span><b><span>Shelby</span></b><span> (R-Ala.) speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 19. ... Moore lost that election to Democrat </span><b><span>Doug Jones</span></b><span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 15pt; orphans: auto; vertical-align: baseline; widows: auto;"><b><span>KATIE BRITT IS FORMER CEO AND PRESIDENT OF THE BUSINESS COUNCIL OF ALABAMA --- THAT PROMOTED COMMON CORE--</span></b><b style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;"><span> and brought Alabama to 52<sup>nd</sup> in the nation behind Washington DC and Puerto Rico. </span></b></p></li></ul></span></h2><h3 style="margin-bottom: 2.25pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2.25pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="applewebdata://6A553347-3533-4AB5-B697-3619752FED2C/%0dAlabama%20Republican%20Party%20incorporates%20repeal%20of%20Common%20...%0dhttps:/www.alreporter.com%C2%A0%E2%80%BA%C2%A02018/08/31%20%E2%80%BA%20alabama-re...%0d"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Alabama Republican Party incorporates repeal of Common ...</a></span></span><a href="applewebdata://6A553347-3533-4AB5-B697-3619752FED2C/%0dAlabama%20Republican%20Party%20incorporates%20repeal%20of%20Common%20...%0dhttps:/www.alreporter.com%C2%A0%E2%80%BA%C2%A02018/08/31%20%E2%80%BA%20alabama-re...%0d" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400; text-indent: -0.25in;">https://www.alreporter.com<span> </span>›<span> </span>2018/08/31 › alabama-re...</a><span class="muxgbd" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span>Aug 31, 2018</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span></span><span class="muxgbd" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span>—</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 400;">... that favor<span class="apple-converted-space"><span> </span></span><em><b><span>Common Core</span></b></em>. The most powerful special interest<span style="color: red;"> opposing repeal legislation</span> has been the<span class="apple-converted-space"><span> </span></span><em><b><span>Business Council of Alabama</span></b></em>.</span></span></h3><h2><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><ul class="dateline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 1rem; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="dateline__published" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 15pt; orphans: auto; vertical-align: baseline; widows: auto;"><span>Is Katie Britt equipped, as former CEO of the Business Council of Alabama, to debate these issues? If Shelby was part of the Deep State, if McConnell is part of the Deep State, will Katie Britt have the courage to resist succumbing to their influence? </span></p></li></ul></span></h2><div><div id="tkANj5" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); line-height: inherit; margin: 1.2rem; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“If the mere allegation, the <b>mere assertion of an allegation, a refuted allegation </b>from 36 years ago is enough to destroy a person’s life and career, <b>we will have abandoned the basic principles of fairness and due process that define our legal system and our country</b>,” Brett Kavanaugh said after the attack on <i>his</i> character.</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>The precedent for Kavanaugh's attack and destroy mission was laid with the character assassination of Roy Moore. Like Kavanaugh, something about the character of Judge Moore set the Left (and DEEP STATE REPUBLICANS) off. So they set out to demolish a good reputation. And Dana McCain led the charge.</span><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Apparently Roy Moore's support of the Ten Commandments garnered pure rage on the Left (and Near Left aka DEEP STATE REPUBLICANS). Now, you tell me the Left is not rallying AGAINST traditional values of our country. So much so that promoting lies is not beyond them, and sadly conservatives are gullible enough to fall victim to their propaganda. </span><br /><span><br /></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hA4PANKWI50/W7jWmDe6ApI/AAAAAAAAKWI/GhGLMvQ0x7c2spxLWG4-pAuQryK7jWR2wCLcBGAs/s1600/roy%2Bmoore%2Band%2Bten%2Bcommandments.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="376" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hA4PANKWI50/W7jWmDe6ApI/AAAAAAAAKWI/GhGLMvQ0x7c2spxLWG4-pAuQryK7jWR2wCLcBGAs/s320/roy%2Bmoore%2Band%2Bten%2Bcommandments.png" width="244" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Do you see where the "Idiot of the Week" is standing? In front of the Ten Commandments. What do you think God will say about that on Judgment Day? Where were Britt and McCain? Providing the eggs to throw at the man supporting Christianity or as McCain put it "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">a creepy, business-killing culture warrior."</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Just as they did with Roy Moore, opponents searched for Resist Movement candidates willing to come forward to lodge a complaint against Kavanaugh, preferably of a sexual nature because they are the hardest to prove, especially without a place or a time</span><span>, as far back as possible and bring it forward in a crucial race. And in the Kavanaugh case, just as in the </span><span>campaign of personal destruction against</span><span> Moore, they used a yearbook as well, falsified in Moore's case. That character assassination got Doug Jones elected. And now Doug Jones, who McCain and Britt helped elect, supports mob rule.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span><span>Sexual accusations worked pretty well when Potiphar's wife accused Joseph of sexual assault. But, God made something meant for evil into something Good. Perhaps the public will become aware of the mean spirited, hateful, methodology of those with this Socialist agenda. They believe the ends justifies the means. Read Animal Farm, Brave New World, 1984 -- amazingly prophetic!.</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>Now we are able to see their <i>Modus Operandi</i>. How many ruined lives does it take to identify the technique. It is a scorched earth policy. </span></span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The fact t<b>hat the <i>Washington Post,</i></b> the source for many of these accusations, has as one of its major reporters someone who is in cahoots with George Soros to promote Soros' agenda, ought to give one pause about jumping to assumptions about Roy Moore. That WP reporter wrote about Kavanaugh<b> and</b> Moore. She, and Soros, realized the importance of that one vote.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">And one should also remember that none of us should be acting as judge and jury of someone else based on simple allegations. The story of Potiphar's wife's accusations against Joseph should be a case in point for Christians.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Radical Left won the propaganda battle in Alabama between Roy Moore and Doug Jones with the help of Dana McCain and Katie Britt. </span></div><div><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">But none could possibly have been more vituperative than what Dana McCain wrote about Roy Moore and Mo Brooks in her article on AL.com <span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem;">Jan. 10, 2022, 8:04 a.m. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><b><a href="https://www.al.com/opinion/2022/01/dana-hall-mccain-mo-brooks-wants-to-talk-about-roy-moore.html">Dana Hall McCain: Mo Brooks wants to talk about Roy Moore</a>. </b>McCain must be vying for the Queen of Nasty award. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Just as I </span></span><span>predicted</span><span><span> in 2017, Doug Jones stood with the Democrats in everything from Tax cuts to Kavanaugh.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Roy Moore? That man had proven his mettle. Now, I have met Roy Moore and I was impressed with this man who actually served his country in the military. Where did Katie Britt serve? Business Council of Alabama president? A lobbyist. Where did Dana McCain serve?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">After graduating from West Point, he served in the U.S. Military as an M.P. and was a company commander during the Vietnam War. After graduating from the University of Alabama, where did Katie Britt serve? In a law firm, then as deputy campaign manager and public relations director and then as Chief of Staff for Richard Shelby. Where did Dana McCain serve? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zPtHXz51utc/W7jTtoStxYI/AAAAAAAAKV8/UQrxYodvhy0gcHCb_kS5MNYP3q2gg3Z3ACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-10-06%2Bat%2B10.23.08%2BAM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="624" height="210" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zPtHXz51utc/W7jTtoStxYI/AAAAAAAAKV8/UQrxYodvhy0gcHCb_kS5MNYP3q2gg3Z3ACLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-10-06%2Bat%2B10.23.08%2BAM.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Moore had a resume filled with public service. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Now, by her vituperative writing against Moore and her vehement endorsement for Doug Jones, Dana McCain automatically aligned herself with this agenda of personal destruction. She and Britt successfully turned innocent until proven guilty on its head. Now a mere accusation makes a man guilty. </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii insists that the accuser “needs to be believed,” and that men need to “just shut up and step up.” Is that also the belief system of these Christian Republicans? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Just a reminder -- Roy Moore would have been "standing in the gap" for us. That vote mattered during the Trump years. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Alinsky Rules for Radicals no. 5: </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(65, 65, 65); color: #414141;">“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating.</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(65, 65, 65); color: #414141;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(65, 65, 65); color: #414141;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(65, 65, 65); color: #414141;">Dana McCain ridiculed Mo Brooks for his support of Roy Moore, accused him of "sexism" and in the process revealed an arrogance and meanness of a nasty woman. Maybe, like for Ashley Judd, Nasty Woman is a feminist accolade </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sMJU7ulu9_g/W7KvrG2ycGI/AAAAAAAAKLA/pc9Q8h6jR00zx8MarfMcfaxOVPcP3AVfACPcBGAYYCw/s1600/Truth%2Bis%2Bthe%2Bnew%2Bhate%2Bspeach.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Also, Doug Jones supported the nationalized curriculum known as COMMON CORE that I call child abuse on our children! But so did Katie Britt, through her lobbying for the Business Council.</span></span><span face=""Nunito Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(117, 127, 143); color: #757f8f;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(117, 127, 143);"><span>Their stand was to urge senators NOT to co-sponsor legislation to repeal Common Core standards.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sMJU7ulu9_g/W7KvrG2ycGI/AAAAAAAAKLA/pc9Q8h6jR00zx8MarfMcfaxOVPcP3AVfACPcBGAYYCw/w545-h300/Truth%2Bis%2Bthe%2Bnew%2Bhate%2Bspeach.png" width="545" /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If the Right to Life mattered to you and a baby in the womb deserves your protection, Doug Jones does not even believe in protecting the life of the unborn after 20 weeks! And this was what Britt and McCain supported through their demonization of Roy Moore. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uxXSwyBXmTk/W7jQchXwtlI/AAAAAAAAKVg/1edtw4LumeU0iAS1I3yU_Pme18C18X3AACLcBGAs/s1600/price%2Bof%2Bbaby%2Bparts%2Bplanned%2Bparenthood.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="998" height="376" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uxXSwyBXmTk/W7jQchXwtlI/AAAAAAAAKVg/1edtw4LumeU0iAS1I3yU_Pme18C18X3AACLcBGAs/w557-h376/price%2Bof%2Bbaby%2Bparts%2Bplanned%2Bparenthood.jpg" width="557" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">President Bill Clinton announced on August 18, 1997, his intent to appoint Jones as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, and formally nominated Jones to the post on September 2, 1997. He is a Bill Clinton Democrat.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Now the stuff of the accusations against Roy Moore were <b>merely accusations. There is no proof of those accusations </b>except what appears to be a forged yearbook and many questions about the "testimony" forty years later of the other accusers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is time for us to realize there is a serious spiritual and culture war going on in our country. Don't think the Enemy will not seek to search out liars and those so politically involved that they can be convinced that their agenda makes the ends justify the means. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Especially when it means money to help them buy a new SUV which is a part of some of the stories coming out of Gadsden regarding those who accuse Roy Moore.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The manager of that Mall refutes the supposed "evidence" that Moore was banned from the Mall. Let's get off our high horse and get upset about jumping on the bandwagon like they did in California about those people that destroyed the lives of those day care owners and workers that were falsely accused by children under the influence of a psychologist or the lives of the Lacrosse players!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Do you recognize their Modus Operandi now? </span></div><ol><li><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Enlist them in an elaborate ruse to frame the innocent.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Have those one has enlisted in this ruse to publicly and </span><span>falsely</span><span> lodge false accusation.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Continue the attacks to totally eliminate our country's most faithful servants.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Is their purpose to eventually eliminate the faithful servants of God in public service?</span></li></ol></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;">And now, Katie Britt's mother, Debra Byrd, a friend of Dana McCain's, is starting a new Republican Women's Club, The Wiregrass Republican Women's Club. Why? Because many in the Coffee County Republican Women's Club and Houston County Republican Women supported the conservative, the tried and true Mo Brooks. Katie Britt will be their first speaker. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;">Divide and conquer.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="_5pbx userContent _3576" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 6px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"</span>The first step in community organization is community disorganization. <span style="font-weight: 400;">The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new." Saul Alinsky</span></span></h1></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="_5pbx userContent _3576" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 6px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What will Katie's stand on education be? The same as the Business Council of which she once was president and major lobbyist, I imagine. They promoted Common Core.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is McCain's byline on AL.com</span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">: Dana Hall McCain writes about faith, culture, and politics for </span><a href="http://al.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1565c0; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AL.com</span></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. She has a very low tolerance for sexual misconduct involving grown men and teen girls, and a long memory. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She should add that she also has a very low tolerance for Truth. But she does stick by her friends. I wonder if we will see McCain become Britt's Public Relations manager in her new office. </span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This old, not yet brain dead college educated Republican woman thinks a serious cross-over vote and a war chest from <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/08/alabamas-katie-britt-surrounds-herself-with-never-trumpers-allies-of-anti-trump-former-sen-bob-corker/">DEEP STATE REPUBLICANS</a> got Katie Britt elected in the runoff where cross-over voting is allowed. Still, <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I will be voting straight Republican because at least Britt will support three things that I believe in: </span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 56, 57); color: #383839; white-space: pre-wrap;">right to life, securing and defending our borders, and putting Alabama first. </span></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 56, 57); color: #383839; font-family: times; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will not do as McCain and Britt did when they voted for a Democrat-- and then proclaimed moral superiority to a man mocked for supporting the Ten Commandments or ridicule a man who supported that godly man. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I personally believe Jesus will be coming soon. Like Jonah was sent to Ninevah, I believe Roy Moore was also sent. Those who have belittled and betrayed him will have a lot to answer for. I can imagine the same tactics were used against Jonah when God called him to tell Ninevah it was time to repent. McCain and Britt managed to "rid us of that troublesome" man and now they will stand accountable. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By the way, I did vote for Roy Moore. McCain and Britt are younger that is true, but I am not brain damaged and I am college-educated. And I am reminding Britt and McCain how easily <b>they</b> "</span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;">shed the values that make us who we are in a pinch</span></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Once again, quoting McCain: </span></span></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="_5pbx userContent _3576" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 6px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.23399999737739563px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;">Well, congratulations, Mo. Your problem is that we’re not brain damaged, and we know that this means you voted </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">for Roy Moore</span><span style="color: red;">. And there’s a whole generation of younger Republicans and college-educated Republican women who are repelled by that. But thanks for reminding us of who you are and how easily you shed the values that make us who we are in a pinch.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Both Roy Moore and Mo Brooks know their values. And now we all know the values of McCain and Britt.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><div class="_5pbx userContent _3576" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 6px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I pray on behalf of our nation, that the spirit of pride must bow its knee and that in its place, we ask for a spirit of humility to fill our land so we can see and know the truth. We command the spirit of deception to go.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Lord help us to see what You see. Help us to see what we are missing and see from Your vantage point today and to walk in truth. We ask for Your glory to be revealed and for revival in our land.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Interesting side note: After mentioning Jonah and Ninevah, I did a YouTube search and discovered that Ninevah was a very large very sophisticated city in Assyria with quite educated people of their day. They had a written language and a library. According to the rabbi that I listened to, the King said that the people (and animals) should don ashcloth, repent and humble themselves. According to that rabbi, there was one person who survived crossing the Red Sea when the war chariots were destroyed by Moses. It was the Pharaoh. He had experience with God's prophets and he did not want to make the same mistake. So God did not destroy Ninevah much to Jonah's displeasure. </span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-3-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">Jonah (the book of Jonah is considered a part of the Torah)</span></span></span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-3-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">3 </span>Then the word of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> came to Jonah the second time, saying,</span> <span class="text Jonah-3-2" id="en-ESV-22561"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.”</span> <span class="text Jonah-3-3" id="en-ESV-22562"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-ESV-22562a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-ESV-22562a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+3&version=ESV#fen-ESV-22562a" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> three days' journey in breadth.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-ESV-22562b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-ESV-22562b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+3&version=ESV#fen-ESV-22562b" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span> <span class="text Jonah-3-4" id="en-ESV-22563"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”</span> <span class="text Jonah-3-5" id="en-ESV-22564"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.</span></span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="text Jonah-3-6" id="en-ESV-22565"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The People of Nineveh Repent</span></span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-3-6"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>The word reached<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-ESV-22565c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-ESV-22565c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+3&version=ESV#fen-ESV-22565c" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.</span> <span class="text Jonah-3-7" id="en-ESV-22566"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water,</span> <span class="text Jonah-3-8" id="en-ESV-22567"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.</span> <span class="text Jonah-3-9" id="en-ESV-22568"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the </span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.</span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-4-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">4 </span>But it displeased Jonah exceedingly,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-ESV-22570a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-ESV-22570a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah%204&version=ESV#fen-ESV-22570a" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> and he was angry.</span> <span class="text Jonah-4-2" id="en-ESV-22571"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>And he prayed to the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> and said, “O <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.</span> <span class="text Jonah-4-3" id="en-ESV-22572"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Therefore now, O <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”</span> <span class="text Jonah-4-4" id="en-ESV-22573"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>And the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> said, “Do you do well to be angry?”</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-4-5" id="en-ESV-22574"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-4-5"> He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.</span> <span class="text Jonah-4-6" id="en-ESV-22575"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Now the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-4-6"> God appointed a plant<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-ESV-22575b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-ESV-22575b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah%204&version=ESV#fen-ESV-22575b" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his </span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-4-6">head, to save him from his discomfort.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-ESV-22575c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-ESV-22575c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah%204&version=ESV#fen-ESV-22575c" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #517e90; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> <span class="text Jonah-4-7" id="en-ESV-22576"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-4-7"> it withered.</span> <span class="text Jonah-4-8" id="en-ESV-22577"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-4-8"> on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-4-8"> for me to die than to live.”</span> <span class="text Jonah-4-9" id="en-ESV-22578"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the </span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-4-9">plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”</span> <span class="text Jonah-4-10" id="en-ESV-22579"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>And the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> said,</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-4-10"> “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-4-10"> being in a night and perished in a night.</span> <span class="text Jonah-4-11" id="en-ESV-22580"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in </span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-4-11">which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left,</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="text Jonah-4-11"> and also much cattle?”</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><div class="wDYxhc" data-md="61" lang="en-US" style="border-radius: 8px; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); clear: none; color: #202124; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div aria-level="3" class="LGOjhe" data-attrid="wa:/description" data-hveid="CB8QAA" role="heading" style="overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 20px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="hgKElc" style="padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px;"><b>The king of Nineveh was the pharaoh of the Exodus</b>, who had been installed by the angel Gabriel.</span></span><span style="text-align: center;">Nineveh | Encyclopedia.com</span></span></div><div aria-level="3" class="LGOjhe" data-attrid="wa:/description" data-hveid="CB8QAA" role="heading" style="overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 20px;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In The Aggadah</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 87); color: #575757; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Nineveh was a huge city, covering 40 square parasangs and containing a million and a half persons. The "six score thousand persons" alluded to in Jonah 4:11 refer to the population of only one of the 12 districts into which the city was divided. The voice of the prophet Jonah was so stentorian that it reached every corner of the city and all who heard his words resolved to turn aside from their ungodly ways (Mid. Jonah, 99–100, in A. Jellinek, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beit ha-Midrash</i>, 1 (1938<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">2</span>)). Under the leadership of their king, the people of Nineveh justly compelled God's mercy to descend upon them. The king of Nineveh was the pharaoh of the Exodus, who had been installed by the angel Gabriel. Seized with fear and terror he covered himself with sackcloth and ashes and with his own mouth made proclamation and published this decree through Nineveh: "Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock taste anything, let them not feed nor drink water, for know that there is no God beside Him in all the world; all His words are truth, and all His judgments are true and faithful" (Yal. Ex. 176). The repentance of the people of Nineveh was sincere. They held their infants heavenward, crying, "For the sake of these innocent babes hear our prayers." They separated the young of their cattle from their dams and both began to bellow. Then the Ninevites cried, "If Thou wilt not have mercy on us, we will not have mercy upon these beasts" (Ta'an. 16a; Mid. Jonah 100–2). The penitence of the people of Nineveh manifested itself not only in fasting and praying, but also in deeds. If a man had usurped another's property, he would return it, even at the cost of leveling his castle in order to restore a stolen beam to its owner (Ta'an. 16a). Others publicly confessed their secret sins and declared themselves willing to submit to their punishment. According to the Palestinian <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">amoraim</i>, however, the repentance of the Ninevites was not sincere (tj, Ta'an. 2:1, 65b). After 40 days they departed again from the path of piety and became more sinful than ever. Then the punishment foretold by Jonah overtook them and they were swallowed by the earth (pdre 43). The attitude of the Palestinian aggadists in their evaluation of the repentance of the Ninevites may have been a reaction to Christian criticism of the Jews for their stubbornness in not following the example set by the people of Nineveh.</span></p></div></div><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a data-jsarwt="1" data-usg="AOvVaw36LNsZ7pr_K_1OGY41RVac" data-ved="2ahUKEwi3rqPBqP75AhV8omoFHZvmDegQFnoECAcQAw" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/asia-and-africa/ancient-history-middle-east/nineveh" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #681da8; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a> And so, I become a "creepy culture warrior" like Roy Moore and Mo Brooks. I cannot think of better company. </span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="_3x-2" style="font-family: inherit;"><div data-ft="{"tn":"H"}" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="mtm" style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 10px;"></div></div></div>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-31160768512682716412022-08-29T19:54:00.002-07:002022-09-01T09:02:15.175-07:00 15 HARMFUL ELEMENTS OF Social Emotional Learning (SEL)<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">From the <a href="http://www.protectohiochildren.net">ProtectOhioChildren.Net </a> website. Important information available there!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"> <b style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.protectohiochildren.net">15 HARMFUL ELEMENTS OF SEL</a></b></span></p><p><br /></p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">(Social and Emotional Learning)<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">1.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>ALL </b><b><a href="https://www.comprehensivesexualityeducation.org/15-harmful-elements-of-cse/">15 HARMFUL ELEMENTS OF CSE</a></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><b> <a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="color: black;">[1]</span></b></span></span></a> (COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION) MAY BE PRESENT IN VARIOUS SEL PROGRAMS. WE STRONGLY EMPHASIZE NUMBER 14: SEL UNDERMINES PARENTAL RIGHTS -</b> This program is designed by <a href="https://casel.org/about-us/our-history/">CASEL</a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u>[2]</u></span></u></span></a> and similar organizations and is authorized by governing authorities to indoctrinate students and to collect the most personal data of students and their families. SEL is designed to become the “parenting voice” to encompass the “whole child” in the so-called “missing piece” of education and is promoted with dire importance as stated by their president: <i><span style="color: #2c2c25;">“Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an <u>integral</u>part of education and human development. SEL is <u>the</u> process through which <u>all young people and adults</u> acquire and apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.” </span></i><a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/niemi-casel-is-updating-the-most-widely-recognized-definition-of-social-emotional-learning-heres-why/"><i>Karen Niemi, President, CASEL.</i></a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><i><u><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><u>[3]</u></b></span></u></i></span></a><b> </b> By design, this <i>“framework”</i> is in the process of being woven throughout every subject, evolving like proverbial kudzu. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">2.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>PROMOTES</b> <b>DATA COLLECTION</b> –See <a href="https://www.projectunicorn.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Project Unicorn</span></a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u>[4]</u></span></span></u></span></a>, <a href="https://ceds.ed.gov/domainEntitySchema.aspx"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Common Educational Data Standards </span></a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u>[5]</u></span></span></u></span></a>Government longitudinal data bases are collecting data on students to follow them for life to measure outcomes for the working classes of society and the “collective good.” Parents have not consented to this data collection and many responses are private information best suited between a counselor and a patient. Phone apps among others are also used for students to <a href="https://me2ba.org/school-mobile-apps-student-data-sharing-behavior/">provide data</a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u>[6]</u></span></u></span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">3.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>IMPERSONATES MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES –</b> Many SEL programs are designed to shape the child’s <i><u>developing brain</u></i> to accept particular worldviews regarding sexuality, racial attitudes, and other social issues under the guise of providing a mental health benefit. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">4.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>PROMOTES PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS BY UNQUALIFIED TEACHERS – </b>“Interventions” may be “prescribed” by a teacher with limited training that may adversely impact a student’s permanent data file. The numbers of trained counselors are limited in most schools, so most SEL interventions likely will be administered by untrained or poorly trained personnel.<a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[7]</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">5.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>INVOLVES PROBLEMATIC PRIVACY POLICIES</b> may disclose student data that could be used against parents in regard to the personal choices they make for their children. If situations are detected regarding gender, sexual orientation or other “sexual rights” violations, this could become a window for family disruption or separation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">6.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>SEL IS A BELIEF SYSTEM OR WORLDVIEW WITH OCCULT ORIGINS</b> - originally hosted at the <a href="https://fetzer.org/about/history">Fetzer</a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[8]</span></span></span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span>Institute, where “New Age” religion was founded. According to the <a href="https://fetzerlibrary.com/search/result?keyword=alice">Fetzer Library</a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u>[9]</u></span></u></span></a>, Mr. Fetzer is also linked to <a href="https://www.lucistrust.org/books/about_alice_a_bailey">Alice Bailey, an occultist</a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u>[10]</u></span></u></span></a> and she founded the Lucifer Publishing Company (now known as the Lucis Publishing Company) and is also affiliated with the <a href="https://www.lucistrust.org/">Lucis Trust</a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u>[11]</u></span></u></span></a>. <a href="https://casel.org/about-us/our-history/">David J. Sluyter, Senior Advisor, Fetzer Institute<span title=""><sup><u><sup>[12]</sup></u></sup></span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, is also listed as one of the founders of CASEL.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">7.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>SPIRITUALLY, MENTALLY AND EMOTIONALLY ABUSIVE</b> –Sacred family beliefs may be classified as unkind or unacceptable instead of a matter of morality. SEL teachings force students to choose between two leaders in authority over them (their parents versus their teacher) with opposing directives. The child is then left to “flesh out” which path is the one that will bring him the most relief in order to survive. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">8.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>REQUIRES THAT STUDENTS ACCEPT FALSE CONCEPTS – </b>SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) These identities are not based in science and present false concepts as if they are based in factual truth. <u>Some assignments force students to produce false confessions or coerced admissions</u> regarding oppression and expressed acceptance of ideologies that may contradict sincerely held beliefs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">9.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>SYSTEMATICALLY UNDERMINES ESTABLISHED PROTOCOLS AND LAWS</b>–according to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210905145829/https:/casel.org/history/">CASEL</a>: <i>“<span style="background-color: white;">Schools were being inundated with a slew of <u>positive youth development</u> programs such as drug prevention, violence prevention, sex education, civic education, and moral education, to name a few. SEL was introduced as a <b>FRAMEWORK</b> that addresses the needs of young people and helps to align and coordinate school programs and programming.”</span></i><span style="background-color: white;"> By asserting this non-academic, incognito “framework”, they are able to circumvent parental rights protections such as Health Advisory Committees, parent reviews, opt-out forms, etc.<a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><i><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="color: black;">[13]</span></b></span></i></b></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">10.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>PREVENTS MEANINGFUL REGULATION OR SURVEILANCE-</b>Integrated into the publisher’s live website, updates and changes can occur at any time. When first purchased, lessons may seem helpful and desirable with little to no controversial elements; however, in some cases later investigations reveal a “bait and switch” tactic with controversial lesson updates, (woke ideology, CRT, etc.). Due to the size of these video libraries, it is impossible to pre-approve or monitor lessons, especially in live form. Investigations are time-consuming and working parents (if even aware) would not have the amount of time needed to adequately safeguard their student. SEL programs may also be coupled with virtual learning software platforms. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">11.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>REVISIONIST LESSONS –</b> Due to the progressive integration of SEL with other classes, revisionist history, science, “human” geography and even math concepts have been observed in schools that fully embrace SEL. CASEL promotes itself as the “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPWrnBA2274">lever for equity and social justice</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">.</span>”<a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black;">[14]</span></span></span></a> With this in mind, it would not be difficult to transition any of these software programs into an infrastructure for a totalitarian reset. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">12.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>SCHOOLS ARE HEAVILY FUNDED WITH TARGETED GRANTS –</b><a href="https://edsource.org/2021/why-mental-health-is-the-key-to-dealing-with-learning-loss/653087">Learning loss is identified as a primary need</a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u>[15]</u></span></u></span></a> for SEL with <a href="https://casel.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SEL-Policy-Brief-on-ARP.pdf">abundant</a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[16]</span></span></span></a><a href="https://www.ncsl.org/ncsl-in-dc/standing-committees/education/cares-act-elementary-and-secondary-school-emergency-relief-fund-tracker.aspx">funding</a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u>[17]</u></span></u></span></a>. This point alone requires constant investigation and becomes very detailed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">13.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>WAS FOUNDED & FINANCED BY GLOBALISTS</b> – CASEL’s website reveals its corporate and foundational connections. <a href="https://casel.org/about-us/supporters/">Corporate Partners</a>: Allstate Foundation, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, LG, Susan Crown Exchange. <a href="https://casel.org/about-us/supporters/">Foundation Partners</a>: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, New Profit, The NoVo Foundation (Warren Buffet family), <a href="https://casel.org/about-us/our-history/#founding">Founders</a> Eileen Rothschild Growald and more.<a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black;">[18]</span></span></span></a> The goal of these organizations is global education and indoctrination.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">14.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>PROMOTES ACTIVISM, ALLEGIANCE AND DIVISION- </b>SEL is promoted as the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPWrnBA2274">“lever for equity and social justice”</a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><u>[19]</u></span></u></span></a>. Critical Race Theory and Marxist lessons are taught regarding oppression, oppressors, “intersectionality”, race, gender, and religion in ways that promote illegal, sectarian concepts. Community organizing events and afterschool programs are routinely promoted. CASEL is committed to the morally bankrupt “woke doctrine” of radical progressives. Consider their <a href="https://selexchange.casel.org/Together-for-SEL-Pledge"><b>SEL PLEDGE</b></a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><u><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><u>[20]</u></b></span></u></b></span></a>: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><i>I pledge to contribute to a caring, just, and thriving world by <b>prioritizing</b> social and emotional learning for myself <b>and others</b>. </i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><i>I will examine my own emotions, <b>identities</b>, <b>beliefs</b>, and biases to understand how they impact the way I interact with others. </i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><i>I will create spaces for others to explore their emotions, strengths, and assets, and how they can be channeled to serve the <b><u>collective well-being</u></b>. </i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><i>I will listen to young people, elders, and <b>those who are different from me</b>. </i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><i>I will work to build meaningful relationships so that I can better understand others’ perspectives, experiences, cultures, and stories. </i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><i>I will create inclusive environments where everyone feels a sense of belonging and where young people find purpose and passion. </i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><b><i>I will work alongside others to <u>IDENTIFY AND DISMANTLE inequities</u>, <u>stand up to injustice</u>, and use our <u>collective voice</u> and power to create spaces where everyone thrives. </i></b><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><b><i><u>I will use: my power, my privilege, my time, my work, my influence, my lived experience, my love, my passion, my energy, and my resolve. </u></i></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">Because, when we <b>commit</b> to social and emotional learning, we can build stronger schools and communities today, and a more just and caring world tomorrow. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">15.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>REQUIRES SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE TO EXPOSE SHIELDING STRATEGIES</b><b>- BUT YOU CAN FIGHT BACK WITH THE INFORMATION BELOW:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 74.95pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: red;"><b>You will need digital access to review curriculum. This is accomplished with your own “student account” and you must insist that the administrators provide it to you, (if necessary, use an open record request).</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 146.95pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Administrators may say you need the publisher’s permission to review curriculum. Tell them digital curriculum is subject to review just like a book. Show them your state laws on parental rights of review. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 146.95pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->If a school uses the excuse of “FERPA” (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) to refuse access, insist you only want to see curriculum, not personal work completed by students. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 146.95pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Copyright infringement is another tactic they may use to discourage access. Politely tell them you are just reviewing it and not selling it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 146.95pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Schools may try to provide “scope and sequence” documents for the program to see if you will accept that as a curriculum. This is more like a table of contents, not the actual curriculum. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 146.95pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->This <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RbjDnGKVB9h70Fzwm2q6-QdGGWTe8Xv1/view?usp=sharing">toolkit</a><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[21]</span></span></a> may help to opt students out of these classes – use it to push back and to let the school administration know where you stand. <b>Sharing this information with the entire community is important for change. <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br clear="all" /></span><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[1]</span></span></a> https://www.comprehensivesexualityeducation.org/15-harmful-elements-of-cse/<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn2"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[2]</span></span></a> https://casel.org/about-us/our-history/<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn3"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[3]</span></span></a> https://www.the74million.org/article/niemi-casel-is-updating-the-most-widely-recognized-definition-of-social-emotional-learning-heres-why/<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn4"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[4]</span></span></a> https://www.projectunicorn.org/<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn5"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[5]</span></span></a> https://ceds.ed.gov/domainEntitySchema.aspx<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn6"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[6]</span></span></a> https://me2ba.org/school-mobile-apps-student-data-sharing-behavior/<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn7"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[7]</span></span></a> https://pioneerinstitute.org/featured/new-study-finds-multiple-problems-with-push-for-social-emotional-learning-in-k-12-education/<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn8"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[8]</span></span></a> https://fetzer.org/about/history<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn9"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[9]</span></span></a> https://fetzerlibrary.com/search/result?keyword=alice<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn10"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[10]</span></span></a> https://www.lucistrust.org/books/about_alice_a_bailey<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn11"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[11]</span></span></a> https://www.lucistrust.org/<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn12"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[12]</span></span></a> https://casel.org/about-us/our-history/<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn13"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[13]</span></span></a> https://web.archive.org/web/20210905145829/https://casel.org/history/<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn14"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[14]</span></span></a> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPWrnBA2274<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn15"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref15" name="_ftn15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[15]</span></span></a> https://edsource.org/2021/why-mental-health-is-the-key-to-dealing-with-learning-loss/653087<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn16"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[16]</span></span></a> https://casel.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SEL-Policy-Brief-on-ARP.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn17"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref17" name="_ftn17" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[17]</span></span></a> https://www.ncsl.org/ncsl-in-dc/standing-committees/education/cares-act-elementary-and-secondary-school-emergency-relief-fund-tracker.aspx<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn18"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[18]</span></span></a> https://casel.org/about-us/supporters/<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn19"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref19" name="_ftn19" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[19]</span></span></a> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPWrnBA2274<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn20"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref20" name="_ftn20" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[20]</span></span></a> https://selexchange.casel.org/Together-for-SEL-Pledge<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn21"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="applewebdata://E57F16F9-24C2-453F-A969-81D738919775#_ftnref21" name="_ftn21" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[21]</span></span></a> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RbjDnGKVB9h70Fzwm2q6-QdGGWTe8Xv1/view?usp=sharing</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">Do not delude yourself into thinking Common Core has magically disappeared. The schools spent too much money on it for it to have evaporated. </span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">See also: </span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">The Genealogy of Common Core</span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-genealogy-of-common-core-bill-gates_5.html">https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-genealogy-of-common-core-bill-gates_5.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText">Demonic Roots to Common Core</p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/demonic-roots-to-common-core-visit-your.html">https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/demonic-roots-to-common-core-visit-your.html</a></p></div></div>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-58600020846990381372022-08-29T13:53:00.002-07:002022-08-29T18:35:45.827-07:00MEDITATION FOR SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING IN DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS<p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p><a href="https://www.dothan.k12.al.us/Page/1501">https://www.dothan.k12.al.us/Page/1501</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4OWiasmeTbqFfqUOwrApLTLVc2xZn-WoU_fN912bUHKBTCvpw5T3Ht_LFLsNTRyiR19fI9HLdCaIJZkfNEzPJWHSIpwym_Fuhjx0h8_9vVd8tWsxysMKLmm95H9rs6k9HTX2tkktMsBR-A26w6winFO0yyAXoUylEpn_Jh0bN9jZ8eRSqhaMaxYEkw/s2260/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-29%20at%203.11.04%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1494" data-original-width="2260" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4OWiasmeTbqFfqUOwrApLTLVc2xZn-WoU_fN912bUHKBTCvpw5T3Ht_LFLsNTRyiR19fI9HLdCaIJZkfNEzPJWHSIpwym_Fuhjx0h8_9vVd8tWsxysMKLmm95H9rs6k9HTX2tkktMsBR-A26w6winFO0yyAXoUylEpn_Jh0bN9jZ8eRSqhaMaxYEkw/w640-h424/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-29%20at%203.11.04%20PM.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588235294118; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647058823529em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span face=""Neue Helvetica W01", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 24px;">Smiling Mind is series of modern meditation activities in a unique web and app-based format.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588235294118; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647058823529em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #333333;">"Chanting, mantras, mudras, use of mandalas, induction of hypnotic states, guided imagery, and namaste greetings shall be expressly prohibited," </span><a href="https://legiscan.com/AL/text/HB246/2021" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the Alabama bill states</a><span style="color: #333333;">. </span><span style="color: red;">Meditation is not allowed. </span></span><a href="https://legiscan.com/AL/text/HB246/2021" style="color: #333333;">https://legiscan.com/AL/text/HB246/2021</a></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588235294118; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647058823529em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;">And yet, <a href="https://www.dothan.k12.al.us/Page/1501">YOGA MEDITATION</a> is the method of choice for Dothan City Schools for Social Emotional Learning. The Smiling Mind is filled with Meditation as well as other apps recommended for Dothan City School children.</span></p><aside aria-label="advertisement" id="ad-secondary-wrap" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></aside><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588235294118; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647058823529em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;">Interestingly enough, each yoga pose was designed not as an exercise but to "be an offering of worship" to Hindu gods. So while Christianity has been booted from our schools, Hindu worship has been invited in. </span></p><h2 class="jsx-1066837550 Heading Heading--section-headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; line-height: 1.16; margin: -0.225em 0px 0.85em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.classcraft.com/blog/the-5-best-social-emotional-learning-apps-for-teachers/"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">https://www.classcraft.com/blog/the-5-best-social-emotional-learning-apps-for-teachers/</span></a></h2><h2 class="jsx-1066837550 Heading Heading--section-headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; line-height: 1.16; margin: -0.225em 0px 0.85em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">5. <span class="Heading__no-wrap jsx-1066837550" style="box-sizing: border-box; white-space: nowrap;">Smiling Mind</span></span></h2><p class="jsx-2533019974 Text Text--body-copy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.45; margin: -0.2em 0px 1.7em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">This Australian app beefs up <a class="TextLink TextLink--truePurple TextLink--underlined TextLink--body-copy jsx-4005840649" href="https://www.classcraft.com/blog/bring-meditation-classroom/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6932dc; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.45; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.375s cubic-bezier(0.645, 0.045, 0.355, 1) 0s;" target="_blank">SEL skills through meditation and mindfulness</a> activities. <a class="TextLink TextLink--truePurple TextLink--underlined TextLink--body-copy jsx-4005840649" href="https://www.smilingmind.com.au/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6932dc; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.45; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.375s cubic-bezier(0.645, 0.045, 0.355, 1) 0s;" target="_blank">Smiling Mind</a>’s activities i</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(58, 58, 58); color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 16px;">ntegrate daily meditation into a classroom routine and lets kids choose when and where they want to practice.</span></p><p class="jsx-2533019974 Text Text--body-copy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.45; margin: -0.2em 0px 1.7em; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqny0Thz81YPRFoW9rPi1fwzi7tYyUmSuBgVq8-nu3Pte_7d_yuzB0qRSgtpMt04Ds23j5IsE6cR00QUqcYvtFoTVNhIgvT_OD0MMo9xrgTmONdS707YBZHpm291q5DVHIYL8tITJ_f_dzbLwyo21a4wDholqOb9mfY4QIesB5mFKwXPtObwY0lmr3g/s1566/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-29%20at%203.42.46%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="1566" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqny0Thz81YPRFoW9rPi1fwzi7tYyUmSuBgVq8-nu3Pte_7d_yuzB0qRSgtpMt04Ds23j5IsE6cR00QUqcYvtFoTVNhIgvT_OD0MMo9xrgTmONdS707YBZHpm291q5DVHIYL8tITJ_f_dzbLwyo21a4wDholqOb9mfY4QIesB5mFKwXPtObwY0lmr3g/w653-h418/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-29%20at%203.42.46%20PM.png" width="653" /></a></div><br /> </div><br /><span face="Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(58, 58, 58); color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="jsx-2533019974 Text Text--body-copy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.45; margin: -0.2em 0px 1.7em; padding: 0px;"><span face="Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(58, 58, 58); color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-58403730221004120872022-08-28T13:05:00.024-07:002022-08-29T05:41:48.098-07:00Vygotsky, Student of Karl Marx, hero of the Dialogic Method now imposed on Dothan City Schools<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>What brought Dialogic Reading to my attention? The minutes of the Dothan City School Board for </span><span style="font-weight: 700;">05/16/2022 05:30 PM </span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3y1Pnd50OohPnrV8scc88D1XfKfZcyx_NPK0NgR8rX9-8X7cz91r3m6Vs8JdTGV1O49qvMUldQ8R2oWSPV48R5UiEZCLc6Kw-r8JQkre3pOS7yTx3H_EnpDZeSoBMIRLZMK28z66vFJPm-61FS7IxypsNU_7JtyCqg47cnDWusiLzQe_5sbB4GgYuOA/s3544/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%2012.28.41%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2442" data-original-width="3544" height="433" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3y1Pnd50OohPnrV8scc88D1XfKfZcyx_NPK0NgR8rX9-8X7cz91r3m6Vs8JdTGV1O49qvMUldQ8R2oWSPV48R5UiEZCLc6Kw-r8JQkre3pOS7yTx3H_EnpDZeSoBMIRLZMK28z66vFJPm-61FS7IxypsNU_7JtyCqg47cnDWusiLzQe_5sbB4GgYuOA/w629-h433/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%2012.28.41%20PM.png" width="629" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 700;">There is hope on the horizon with READING HORIZONS and HEGGERTY IF ONLY THE SCHOOL BOARD WOULD LET THE ALABAMA READING INITIATIVE GUIDE K-12 READING --AND NOT JUST REMEDIATION. </span></span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Instead, it appears they must create dyslexics with whole language--and then remediate them. Great if you happen to be making money off of failure. Or have an ulterior motive. </b></span><div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhajFSiVtzgaKTA0D6CYRqgZVakEBd5AMCH0m2rhzPfosiPqpvnSKhfKnrE7dWqvmJxCUYFMT1Q8VuOHmTyyM19nJaglQ0zk59ZsozFleRl-Nn4r4-yMxHgDDXNFLGzChms1c9fYHYZn7kmdcDpPeauRcSY0QHyidnBdrPd0f4zvhtjNNjHut-vAPIEvw/s1886/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%207.34.57%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1886" data-original-width="560" height="775" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhajFSiVtzgaKTA0D6CYRqgZVakEBd5AMCH0m2rhzPfosiPqpvnSKhfKnrE7dWqvmJxCUYFMT1Q8VuOHmTyyM19nJaglQ0zk59ZsozFleRl-Nn4r4-yMxHgDDXNFLGzChms1c9fYHYZn7kmdcDpPeauRcSY0QHyidnBdrPd0f4zvhtjNNjHut-vAPIEvw/w230-h775/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%207.34.57%20AM.png" width="230" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: red;">However, I am concerned now about DIALOGIC READING. Read about Vygotsky. Would you want this Russian Marxist teaching your child? Then why do we adopt the methods he helped create? And why did he create the dialogic? </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8oXalxfoeFaCqtBMCXRNlhyGe8pcvfB_cHiFqY0UtipySKfraqJl6Bo2tGMmMUxTDddL1BjfwSAkZlsp0zEuxwTgMqa8YhirkvNy5C7bjaUkBteT-R43smsvR4CKATdARD_Han7_1vt8EOUmuqHRakUmiDok7gapiAUUIgUDQVM6FiXq15nNkqSWD0Q/s3816/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.24.18%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2462" data-original-width="3816" height="417" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8oXalxfoeFaCqtBMCXRNlhyGe8pcvfB_cHiFqY0UtipySKfraqJl6Bo2tGMmMUxTDddL1BjfwSAkZlsp0zEuxwTgMqa8YhirkvNy5C7bjaUkBteT-R43smsvR4CKATdARD_Han7_1vt8EOUmuqHRakUmiDok7gapiAUUIgUDQVM6FiXq15nNkqSWD0Q/w648-h417/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.24.18%20AM.png" width="648" /></a></div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiZQDlKUQTDORIfz_yx6AR76glFPrpZp6vJCOvTyjyL4WUP7rOlItTzsADHwZrvKLT2NapzflI2lxRoeSkr15UYQrD8JW1Bb0_lf5FVniwoP5bwvvomo3IvzL7hvPaIpSDVXoPefsGi5VymX3YIxghv91Q7S2lsdeR4uY-TNv-fdjaSOR_OBxH594-bA/s246/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%209.29.46%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="162" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiZQDlKUQTDORIfz_yx6AR76glFPrpZp6vJCOvTyjyL4WUP7rOlItTzsADHwZrvKLT2NapzflI2lxRoeSkr15UYQrD8JW1Bb0_lf5FVniwoP5bwvvomo3IvzL7hvPaIpSDVXoPefsGi5VymX3YIxghv91Q7S2lsdeR4uY-TNv-fdjaSOR_OBxH594-bA/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%209.29.46%20PM.png" width="162" /></a></div><br />Through outlining core principles in Marxist psychology, the book offers a framework for continuing Vygotsky's Marxist legacy in new areas of the field</b><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-size: 16px;">.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Now, let's ask the question why do we let our school curriculum be dominated by avowed Marxists? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds </span>to the revolution to end capitalism<span style="font-weight: 400;">, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism." Saul Alinsky</span></span></h1><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You could identify a Marxist if you saw one, couldn't you? </span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span></span></div><div><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within." Saul Alinsky</span></h1></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">THEN let's ask the question, "What is AFFECTIVE data? That was about all I heard when I listened to the Power Point presentation on Social Emotional Learning. And I mention it only because it would appear that emotions are what have guided our School Board to adopt Dialogic Reading because I see no empirical data to support its use. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"<span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;">Although the issues around </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><span style="color: red;">emotions and learning </span></span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;">are not new, the term <b>affective learning</b> has only recently been defined as </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;">the learning that relates to the learner's interests, attitudes, and motivations</b><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;">. In the digital age we live, affective learning is destined to be technology driven or at least enhanced."</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In other words how do the children "feel" about it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSOmP_fGJXfVwZfd0Z4MDaejPMG5EEnHC87pq_2UzMAoxagMDnb3oE7LQMz3h0zf7NRrmh7tm-kEaCz7_3XxE6oF9z426QiU77uNMYkWUmEQwBwmmFjBesk4Hu-Vx6wVaiUQTSUkMEOka5Et6t7t7qZs1SnGwOZ8af0iOe5JWwnzpfoOYGMaFC2bIa1Q/s1180/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.15.18%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="616" height="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSOmP_fGJXfVwZfd0Z4MDaejPMG5EEnHC87pq_2UzMAoxagMDnb3oE7LQMz3h0zf7NRrmh7tm-kEaCz7_3XxE6oF9z426QiU77uNMYkWUmEQwBwmmFjBesk4Hu-Vx6wVaiUQTSUkMEOka5Et6t7t7qZs1SnGwOZ8af0iOe5JWwnzpfoOYGMaFC2bIa1Q/w522-h1000/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.15.18%20AM.png" width="522" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is nothing objective here. Everything is subjective. And remember, our teachers ARE NOT PSYCHOLOGISTS. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>So, why is <b>Vygotsky </b>even on our radar? In reviewing the minutes of the Dothan City School Meeting that I attended in May of 2021, I stumbled upon two things that had not registered on me. I did recall Social Emotional Learning in the Dothan Preparatory School presented with a full Power Point presentation by Ms. Lauren Parker and Ms. Jeanette Randal. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>But, in re-reading the <a href="https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/meetings/TempFolder/Meetings/May%2017_%202021%20Board%20Approved%20Minutes_267861wlgrvt3wuo3kmmf1zne12wzi.pdf">Minutes of the meeting</a>, I found one good thing. Though it is only for one month (June 21 to July 15) of remediation-- they are using </span><span>a very good reading program that would have eliminated the need for those 600 students to attend summer school because of their poor reading skills had it been used for initial reading instruction. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRTsS41sAXwqSAUz1tnO_5bSnduEp61FG--sSKNJ4Iy3fnrCu6dCmRgE67JmEgSbHPb0tfpXvhTZY1GrABvT3wz0bni5Fn9orY0TpVEZrCn5E_1ciyOiHAN5EM7-FpHj63K3taN7_OQrRQv_rihxVNaIrRoo0d9CSc9UGQHrkQSPgfBkiteImM5yhW7A/s3450/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.02.33%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2456" data-original-width="3450" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRTsS41sAXwqSAUz1tnO_5bSnduEp61FG--sSKNJ4Iy3fnrCu6dCmRgE67JmEgSbHPb0tfpXvhTZY1GrABvT3wz0bni5Fn9orY0TpVEZrCn5E_1ciyOiHAN5EM7-FpHj63K3taN7_OQrRQv_rihxVNaIrRoo0d9CSc9UGQHrkQSPgfBkiteImM5yhW7A/w613-h436/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.02.33%20AM.png" width="613" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Look at the number of teachers and support that had to go into this summer school program. If READING HORIZONS (uses the Orton Gillingham Method) had only been used beginning in kindergarten instead of the Look/See/Guess program of Whole Language they would be proficient readers instead of perceiving themselves as "losers" attending summer school.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">But the second thing I noticed while reading the minutes--and the reason I know they are still using WHOLE LANGUAGE? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"<b>DIALOGIC READING!"</b> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So, what is Dialogic Reading? It did not take long to find articles on "dialogic reading" and to discover that Vygotsky and Freire are the heroes of dialogic instruction. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">But, we also see the influence of Gestalt psychology and Max Wertheimer.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLXuG02oaRbAkrBiv5TuToa6BSQPot2_JjRCFINNVpdyBewySLqzsCPzlwayRAq3fLzIOF6iVsDlhNPXbxkak4K3yCxxLRTEM92OuRujqitklrUC8lbi4mYgau5-4c9O-Y0E0hI3z2xjra0bMihgJZHK7yIFaz-mh5kDFm8z3U4CmTqkBtx4ciDfiijg/s1416/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%2011.43.11%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1416" data-original-width="740" height="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLXuG02oaRbAkrBiv5TuToa6BSQPot2_JjRCFINNVpdyBewySLqzsCPzlwayRAq3fLzIOF6iVsDlhNPXbxkak4K3yCxxLRTEM92OuRujqitklrUC8lbi4mYgau5-4c9O-Y0E0hI3z2xjra0bMihgJZHK7yIFaz-mh5kDFm8z3U4CmTqkBtx4ciDfiijg/w289-h554/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%2011.43.11%20AM.png" width="289" /></span></a></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; text-align: left;">Gestalt psychology is a </span><a data-component="link" data-ordinal="1" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.verywellmind.com/psychology-schools-of-thought-2795247" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #642f6f; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: color 0.15s ease-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">school of thought</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; text-align: left;"> that looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole. When trying to make sense of the world around us, Gestalt psychology suggests that we do not simply focus on every small component. Instead, our minds tend to perceive objects as elements of more complex systems.</span></span></div><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-5" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; counter-reset: section 0; margin: 1.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A core belief in Gestalt psychology is <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="1" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-holism-4685432" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #642f6f; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.15s ease-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">holism</a>, or that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.<span class="mntl-inline-citation mntl-dynamic-tooltip--trigger" data-id="#citation-3" data-tooltip-position-x="center" data-tooltip-position-y="bottom" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0000ee; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; vertical-align: super; white-space: nowrap;">1</span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> This school of psychology has played a major role in the modern development of the study of human sensation and <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="2" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.verywellmind.com/perception-and-the-perceptual-process-2795839" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #642f6f; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.15s ease-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">perception</a>.</span></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Traditional Educators believe in sequential learning. Taking the small, establishing the foundation and then building up. Phonics (systematic, intensive, direct and early SIDE) does this. <span style="color: red;">Whole Language/Paolo Freire/Vygotsky/Michael Apple </span>do not. </span></p><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> Vygotsky is listed in the journals as the <b>leader of the Dialogic movement</b>. Please notice Vygotsky's major influencers. One you will immediately recognize, of course, is <span style="color: red;">Karl Marx.</span> </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So, our teachers must DIALOG with the children, rather than teach reading or math. They will call this reading because they usually select a book as their jumping off point for classroom dialoguing. Look at the reading and math scores. Look at the rise in suicide, violence, etc. And this is what we get out of our schools?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">When you see WHOLE LANGUAGE, PAOLO FREIRE, MICHAEL APPLE, VYGOTSKY, LET THE ALARM BELLS SOUND</span>. </span></p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><h1 class="fw-bolder" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory of Cognitive Development</span></h1></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p class="text-muted" style="--bs-text-opacity: 1; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6c757d; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">By Saul Mcleod, PhD | Updated August 18, 2022,</span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><h2 class="accordion-header" id="headingOne" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><button aria-controls="collapseOne" aria-expanded="false" class="accordion-button collapsed" data-bs-target="#collapseOne" data-bs-toggle="collapse" style="align-items: center; background-color: white; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; 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margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Vygotsky's sociocultural theory views human development as a socially mediated process in which children acquire their <span style="color: red;">cultural values,</span> <span style="color: red;">beliefs</span>, and problem-solving strategies through collaborative dialogues with more knowledgeable members of society. </b>Vygotsky's theory is comprised of concepts such as culture-specific tools, private speech, and the Zone of Proximal Development.</span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Vygotsky's theories stress the fundamental role of social interaction in the development of cognition (Vygotsky, 1978), as he believed strongly that community plays a central role in the process of <span style="color: red;">"making meaning."</span></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Unlike Piaget's notion that childrens' development must necessarily precede their learning, Vygotsky argued, "learning is a necessary and universal aspect of the process of developing culturally organized, specifically human psychological function" (1978, p. 90). In other words, social learning tends to precede (i.e., come before) development."</span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It gets worse. This high brow educratese can make a person sick to their stomach, but it is the names of these people that sound off the alarm bells. It only took reading the <u>Whole Language Catalog </u>once to make me recognize these "philosophers," upon whom Dothan City Schools has based their entire curriculum, as Typhoid Marys of our school curricula. In the <u>Whole Language Catalog,</u> I met Paolo Freire (liberation theology and liberation pedagogy and author of <u>Pedagogy of the Oppressed</u>), Michael Apple, and others cited in this DIALOGIC support system. I could go on...</span></p></div></blockquote><div><p class="text-muted" style="--bs-text-opacity: 1; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6c757d; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a name="intro" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"></a><span class="ezoic-videopicker-video" id="ezoic-pub-video-placeholder-48" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"></span><span id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-888" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"></span><span class="ezoic-videopicker-video" id="ezoic-pub-video-placeholder-47" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Notice the term CONSTRUCTIVISM in the article below. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Dr. Tommy Bice, former gay Superintendent for the state of Alabama, is a board member of the Magic City Acceptance Academy (grades 6 through 12), one of Alabama's first charter schools. They state on their website:</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span> </span>"...educational pedagogy and curriculum design that best meets our needs as a community of learners will be rooted in Constructivism. <span style="color: red;">The basic tenet of Constructivism is that learners, simply put, construct learning through a variety of experiences. </span>Learners construct knowledge rather than simply sit and take in information. As people experience problems and situations they reflect on what they experience and they create or build their own representations and incorporate new information into their pre-existing knowledge (schemas).</span></div></div></div><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>The essential components in constructivist theory are to elicit prior knowledge, </span><span style="color: red;"><b>create cognitive dissonance</b></span><span><b>,</b> and apply the knowledge with feedback and reflection on learning. These components are best utilized in project-based, cooperative, learning activities that reflect elements with meaning to, or are relevant to the students’ lives and community." </span></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is nothing innocent about the phrase <b>"create cognitive dissonance</b>." Cognitive dissonance is a state of confusion brought about by conflicting beliefs. There are a number of different situations that can create cognitive dissonance, such as "Forced Compliance." </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>"Sometimes you might find </span>yourself engaging in behaviors that are opposed to your own beliefs due to external expectations, often for work, school, or a social situation. This might involve going along with something due to peer pressure..," according to the <i><a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-cognitive-dissonance-2795012">verywellmind</a> </i>website. </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So, are kindergarteners strong enough to withstand the peer pressure and proselytizing of an agenda "contrary to the fixed beliefs of their parents?" And how is this Constitutional? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">"Constructivist</span><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">" equals "</span><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">cognitive dissonance"</span></span></b></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji8uHtYcNBW9HHkdHb-sRVUqlefcWWmYGR-3NafFWCAq4oWvF7mOttLfA4XtzdE6-JuQ1TA39qvvCcKrwnFtiFn2d_xraL_F5WDTOoYM8WFW_re0m2N-Dol1ow5ZTtupUHAtFtNONtEVtE_QHsoeVavVhLqMZfXCcDZhpWCM99NHaVgCD_-IgjVJLWMA/s3696/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.38.05%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2036" data-original-width="3696" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji8uHtYcNBW9HHkdHb-sRVUqlefcWWmYGR-3NafFWCAq4oWvF7mOttLfA4XtzdE6-JuQ1TA39qvvCcKrwnFtiFn2d_xraL_F5WDTOoYM8WFW_re0m2N-Dol1ow5ZTtupUHAtFtNONtEVtE_QHsoeVavVhLqMZfXCcDZhpWCM99NHaVgCD_-IgjVJLWMA/w543-h298/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.38.05%20AM.png" width="543" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Remember Constructivism = Cognitive Dissonance = Confusion </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeY71Xr9m_C-SBgPSl-22GvSmoDC8RM47Tx-wwaqczEUaGBSRYLELdhYPPddo2H8hRFEp7v_-Pbi8HaUMwiDWIptv8ZUdCt1iyLNYcY3yuURlE6WWuaSzRjLJZ3r3KPzQh0Tl3gqFivJlsZc6uykucGgsJ2cIMK0io1NgQJNmrjBANNBN5_H8-phHCFA/s3864/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.38.33%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2426" data-original-width="3864" height="377" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeY71Xr9m_C-SBgPSl-22GvSmoDC8RM47Tx-wwaqczEUaGBSRYLELdhYPPddo2H8hRFEp7v_-Pbi8HaUMwiDWIptv8ZUdCt1iyLNYcY3yuURlE6WWuaSzRjLJZ3r3KPzQh0Tl3gqFivJlsZc6uykucGgsJ2cIMK0io1NgQJNmrjBANNBN5_H8-phHCFA/w599-h377/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.38.33%20AM.png" width="599" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Notice the importance of VYGOTSKY IN THE DIALOGIC.</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8oXalxfoeFaCqtBMCXRNlhyGe8pcvfB_cHiFqY0UtipySKfraqJl6Bo2tGMmMUxTDddL1BjfwSAkZlsp0zEuxwTgMqa8YhirkvNy5C7bjaUkBteT-R43smsvR4CKATdARD_Han7_1vt8EOUmuqHRakUmiDok7gapiAUUIgUDQVM6FiXq15nNkqSWD0Q/s3816/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.24.18%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2462" data-original-width="3816" height="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8oXalxfoeFaCqtBMCXRNlhyGe8pcvfB_cHiFqY0UtipySKfraqJl6Bo2tGMmMUxTDddL1BjfwSAkZlsp0zEuxwTgMqa8YhirkvNy5C7bjaUkBteT-R43smsvR4CKATdARD_Han7_1vt8EOUmuqHRakUmiDok7gapiAUUIgUDQVM6FiXq15nNkqSWD0Q/w636-h409/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.24.18%20AM.png" width="636" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><span><br />Notice below how Michael Apple focuses on <b>TRANSFORMATION</b>. "<span style="color: red;">Transformation requires emphasis on the instrumental dimension of dialogue as a means for knowledge making. </span>Such instrumental dimension refers to those aspects of school knowledge which are <span style="color: red;">required to trespass the doors of socio-economic access</span> to the Information Society (Apple and Beane, 2007). Also in a society where social change is constant, it is easier to see more processes of loss of meaning (Habermas, 1987). Participation in dialogic learning emerges as an important instrument for the <i><span style="color: red;">creation of meaning</span></i> (Elbow and Puigvert, 2004). <br /></span><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdS2Ztfiu7E_TmaWxbGdUQTvOTWOqlZGtqOqw0IapXOFTFl-3xlTPbJKfrB3gLwHOELLvGBfiLuPls5EUArqzCRJ8biKa49hJCIeg2q_ajS8YqVj9Jr2ZqtldSnU68ZgNVms5czmVfpWsTPcy6bbJgGfxJMiTOSK8yPB4xeyxwbbt5Ns00yCxzc2w-DA/s3812/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.27.24%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2386" data-original-width="3812" height="401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdS2Ztfiu7E_TmaWxbGdUQTvOTWOqlZGtqOqw0IapXOFTFl-3xlTPbJKfrB3gLwHOELLvGBfiLuPls5EUArqzCRJ8biKa49hJCIeg2q_ajS8YqVj9Jr2ZqtldSnU68ZgNVms5czmVfpWsTPcy6bbJgGfxJMiTOSK8yPB4xeyxwbbt5Ns00yCxzc2w-DA/w642-h401/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.27.24%20AM.png" width="642" /></span></a></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Importantly, by sharing different points of view and ways of solving problems though dialogue guided by validity claims, transformation occurs at two levels: intrapsychological and inter psychological. Intrapsychological because through dialogue existing knowledge gets <b>transformed and expanded. </b>Interpsychological because what is shared mentally is the result of the addition of every person's knowledge in dialogue with the knowledge of others, which generates a new state of mind. Overall, <span style="color: red;">dialogic learning is aimed at transformation, personal and socio-cultural, and not to adaptation.</span></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Transformed/TRANSFORMATION are the operative words here. </span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">And here comes the Marxist priest Paolo Freire, the god of Whole Language and Liberation Pedagogy and now the source for the Dialogic. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BsEPyIcw74v4Rir1lw0npLe9nzKa332Ml22-rd_fMKiCj0Q4-vfUe-XLj63gDEuhIiYbMzmFNfNwpYaxTsf1wx-BnjjqbUmAL9XiWcifj-oVargySiDW362NHimRUYiDkrC04BWlkZ_toX0yUlZCkCAUrHrSkqg6WQPQ5iYB2N1eb1CFQTXmMFYAjw/s3800/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.25.57%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2388" data-original-width="3800" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BsEPyIcw74v4Rir1lw0npLe9nzKa332Ml22-rd_fMKiCj0Q4-vfUe-XLj63gDEuhIiYbMzmFNfNwpYaxTsf1wx-BnjjqbUmAL9XiWcifj-oVargySiDW362NHimRUYiDkrC04BWlkZ_toX0yUlZCkCAUrHrSkqg6WQPQ5iYB2N1eb1CFQTXmMFYAjw/w624-h392/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.25.57%20AM.png" width="624" /></span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Transcription of above.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In Freire (2003), the concept of <span>"unity in diversity"</span> is central and embodies the notion that dialogue and unity among different people, unity in diversity of their origins and life projects, are necessary to enable individuals to fight for decent living conditions and to respect different ways of being. The opposite is what produces inequalities (Freire,1970).This analysis shows how society and culture are present in the constitution of identities. Note that Freire (2003) draws attention to the fact that <span style="color: red;">multiculturalism</span> is not a "natural process, but a product of colonialism, domination, and wars. Hence to be experienced as a source of knowledge and human enrichment, <span style="color: red;">a political decision must be made </span>about how to achieve co-existence and the protection of those that are different (Mellon 2009a) For Habermas (1987), the co-existence of different cultures, not just side by side but also with one another requires communication between them. The author claims the need for <span style="color: red;">deliberative democracy</span> to ensure the rights of citizens with different cultural backgrounds to live under the same rights. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>These are terms cloaked in morality just as Alinsky in his Rules for Radicals delineated. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 30, 32);">"All effective actions require the passport of morality. You do what you can and clothe it in moral garments." Saul Alinsky</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 30, 32);">And there we have the purpose of Dialogic Reading. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjErVS_UBftLLL2RBYnh2HSdnKDwDCuN08E4Ut35PNulKPr3i3HibOOdWBPP9Ab-DDVs0VdD5QA-1AjbBmgMhHC-iQgwFHNW806-uof5p2_Ag6ULRdXTACwzgyb3kNK25Tz31ZlOBPkxQWItjq2yxh5Ni1KZwQIj-uuj3rfonXNiR_4Au53Igec1OEYTQ/s3796/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.27.00%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1344" data-original-width="3796" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjErVS_UBftLLL2RBYnh2HSdnKDwDCuN08E4Ut35PNulKPr3i3HibOOdWBPP9Ab-DDVs0VdD5QA-1AjbBmgMhHC-iQgwFHNW806-uof5p2_Ag6ULRdXTACwzgyb3kNK25Tz31ZlOBPkxQWItjq2yxh5Ni1KZwQIj-uuj3rfonXNiR_4Au53Igec1OEYTQ/w644-h227/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.27.00%20AM.png" width="644" /></span></a></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Overall, dialogic learning is aimed at transformation, personal and socio-cultural, and not to adaptation. </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Did you get that?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There, now you know why you send your children to school. TRANSFORMATION, PERSONAL AND SOCIOCULTURAL. </span></p><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666;">"Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. </span><span style="color: red;">He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest</span><span style="color: #666666;">." Saul Alinsky</span></span></h1><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This is the dialogic. And what is its purpose?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Freire's purpose is not to unify, but divide because his end goal is REVOLUTION. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDlMK0zh1GcJrx7XFfEYncQepzvEBYAaDcJOrmsgcqe4Lu961HUDb35IJU4rJ9JqCpH7BQyszIG04Y2So8e-hqiDDx7DoM960xk-G4G7krc_RGfQjUsOZXVYtuwHCXPl_QVrO5UrD10JZrSiXDbsWkMqARotZS2H_Llus0TYoCMsUpiUrDAG_PJUXduw/s1396/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%2012.03.06%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1330" data-original-width="1396" height="531" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDlMK0zh1GcJrx7XFfEYncQepzvEBYAaDcJOrmsgcqe4Lu961HUDb35IJU4rJ9JqCpH7BQyszIG04Y2So8e-hqiDDx7DoM960xk-G4G7krc_RGfQjUsOZXVYtuwHCXPl_QVrO5UrD10JZrSiXDbsWkMqARotZS2H_Llus0TYoCMsUpiUrDAG_PJUXduw/w556-h531/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%2012.03.06%20PM.png" width="556" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">And then here with Apple & Beane, 2007, we get to the true meaning of their purpose. They are to be guided to do what? </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As Saul Alinsky said,:</span></p><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666; font-weight: 400;">"The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization.</span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Present arrangements must be </span>disorganized <span style="font-weight: 400;">if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and </span>organization of the new<span style="font-weight: 400;">."</span></span></span></h1><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div><span style="color: red; font-family: times;">We know</span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: times;">1. The constructivist methodology they claim to use creates cognitive dissonance (confusion). </span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: times;">2. Because our traditional schools promote what parents expect of our schools: children who can read, write, and calculate and maintain the morals and values of their parents, those views are now to be imposed, according to <i>their</i> ideology.</span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: times;">3. This <i>crisis of meaning</i>, in their perspective, can be changed in the argumentation of the dialogic method. </span></div><div><span style="color: red;">4. Hereby, they gain solidarity toward the goals of the Marxist ideologies upon which the philosophies the dialogic is founded. </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span>They are playing with our kids' minds here, friends. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">Transcription of jpeg below: </span></div></span></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Also in a society where <span style="color: red;">social change</span> is constant, it is easier to see more processes of loss of meaning (Habermas, 1987). Participation in dialogic learning emerges as an important instrument for the <b>creation of meaning</b> (Elbow and Puigvert, 2004). Faced with <b>multiple possible choices of how to live</b>, it is difficult to design a single project for all groups or people, and it is difficult for the school to know which values to foster. But usually <b>dominant groups impose their views and discourses, also in schools, and this generates <span style="color: red;">crises of meaning</span>. </b>However, in dialogues where different points of view emerge and are acknowledged <b><span style="color: red;">on the ground of argumentation,</span></b> individuals come to know more possibilities and thus choose more freely and <span style="color: red;">critically</span>. Such process creates more opportunities for gaining greater coherence between dreams and actual life. This in turn relates to the <b>principle of<i> solidarity</i></b>. In dialogic learning environments participants share their knowledge for the benefit of all members of the group. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPGCTX1VKkk3cv-sgsHTwPXTSPTAteniV8ECxlNtx3d2xNXpmsg0X0rSef2CvFMlMZpstJB-axZa5rDVilo0bs3cuvBbLXGG82OnvurTe_DI4JMXB2B4-mcfk2d72YyHLj2bZC09yuShRihkvOs9OEPcFtw5gLs-98Iq0t5vDjQ_quwy3aYILtVUdWOQ/s3828/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.28.03%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2472" data-original-width="3828" height="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPGCTX1VKkk3cv-sgsHTwPXTSPTAteniV8ECxlNtx3d2xNXpmsg0X0rSef2CvFMlMZpstJB-axZa5rDVilo0bs3cuvBbLXGG82OnvurTe_DI4JMXB2B4-mcfk2d72YyHLj2bZC09yuShRihkvOs9OEPcFtw5gLs-98Iq0t5vDjQ_quwy3aYILtVUdWOQ/w648-h419/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%208.28.03%20AM.png" width="648" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If by now you have not absorbed the true goal of this, let Bill Ayers let you in on it. </span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">BILL AYERS</span></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Education is the motor-force of revolution." Bill Ayers</span></h1></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism."</span></h1></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,"</span></h1></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war."</span></h1></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at."</span></h1></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent."</span></h1></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span face=""varela round", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: #999999;">-</span><span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: #999999;">-</span>"Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country."</span></span></h1></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire."</span></h1></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"I don't regret setting bombs."</span></h1></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p>I scrolled through the Alabama Reading Initiative. I did not see Dialogic Reading anywhere.</p><p>To the Dothan City School Board: </p><p>I think you earn a salary to occupy that seat. I recommend that you research for yourself the things that come before the board. Ultimately, you are responsible. You have the ultimate oversight and the right to fire and hire administrators that can do the job. Your people produced this. Who got fired?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvVejhEirJWNN-h1yxUdS0gVqp2dcNXP2-kJriZEQzW0aVPSQFCyaDc_YdOk2GsTG_7j0tYPX1qmC873tAO2WNb35wOfwgOSXi9LQBoa0BZLVRHSa9-sVPnhbfv1jAaA8vppQwB0JL36v8GBUep4wHvO5OR7mHDPEL3nKbCYI2PTuO9MZgx3avagvAIA/s2378/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.37.43%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1392" data-original-width="2378" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvVejhEirJWNN-h1yxUdS0gVqp2dcNXP2-kJriZEQzW0aVPSQFCyaDc_YdOk2GsTG_7j0tYPX1qmC873tAO2WNb35wOfwgOSXi9LQBoa0BZLVRHSa9-sVPnhbfv1jAaA8vppQwB0JL36v8GBUep4wHvO5OR7mHDPEL3nKbCYI2PTuO9MZgx3avagvAIA/w692-h405/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.37.43%20AM.png" width="692" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To the Dothan City Commission, Chamber of Commerce, and Business Council: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Dothan City Schools spend from $8000 to over $10,000 per child depending upon the school. And yet you support more and more fundraisers to shore up failure. At what point do you quit listening to those who have caused the problem tell you how to fix it? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A Plus, supposed grassroots Research organization, has led you down the garden path to Goals 2000, Outcome Based Education, Common Core... It is part of a consortium --the Columbia Group. Those in whom you placed your trust have betrayed you and therefore the parents and children of our community and state. You are supposed to be the gatekeepers. Man/Woman up and do your job!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Alabama is 52nd in education. Dead last in Math. Look to the colleges of education for the Typhoid Marys of our delinquent schools. Why do those people sit on the education committees for the Chamber of Commerce and Business Council? Will they rock the boat? Or insist upon keeping the status quo. Circling the wagons as I have seen them do over and over. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Look at the child standing on the corner ashamed of his failure and acting out in the only way he/she knows to survive. He does not realize the schools failed him. The information is available for what works. It has been for over thirty years. Who is keeping it from you---and why?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you cannot recognize repackaged failure when presented to you, do a little research. Find out what is different. Don't let them tell you you cannot do it. That is why you are there! Challenge them. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u>Retarding America: the Imprisonment of Potential </u>by Michael Bruner is a must read<u>.</u> What will you do to break the cycle? Support more of the same?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7DmO1P5_-X_L92JVoPpEWTOP9CnMUZKYJOw8N63QkwoZpZTwLfHfeFx8a3hmxSIdulNURVlx1GGIp75numCoNj778H2ocmYLk8Hs40jLz7BThKnegJeNldOfCKQ9uRZwO8zjjfR2COfaCFpXZX2Tl_7GxLnmm44T7D2mV5sAdIuFezDn0dn5k0er8w/s918/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%206.44.20%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="918" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7DmO1P5_-X_L92JVoPpEWTOP9CnMUZKYJOw8N63QkwoZpZTwLfHfeFx8a3hmxSIdulNURVlx1GGIp75numCoNj778H2ocmYLk8Hs40jLz7BThKnegJeNldOfCKQ9uRZwO8zjjfR2COfaCFpXZX2Tl_7GxLnmm44T7D2mV5sAdIuFezDn0dn5k0er8w/w613-h301/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-28%20at%206.44.20%20PM.png" width="613" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><div><div><div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: #999999; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px;"><div class="vicrunchJS427318324" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 15px 0px; width: 640px;"><div id="aniBox" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 330px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="aniplayer_vicrunchJS427318324-1661710779073" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 361px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; width: 640px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="avp-p-wrapper" id="aniplayer_vicrunchJS427318324-1661710779073Wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow: inherit; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /></div></div>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-39149235468158806232022-08-26T08:10:00.053-07:002022-09-11T13:18:16.534-07:00THE NEW WORLD ORDER BECKONS AND OUR SCHOOLS ARE ITS TRAINING FACILITIES<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> CREATE YOUR OWN POWERPOINT. I created this PowerPoint presentation thinking I might need it when presenting to a group at some time. I want to share it so that the information can get further than my own computer. If you start a small group or have a large group with whom you can share this information, or simply want to study this on your own, you are welcome to use this information. This ideology is implanted in our teachers through the colleges of education and therefore into every <i>accredited</i> school and teacher. The NEA controls accreditation by placing its people in leadership positions. So do not think your school is safe. Be vigilant. This is probably a provocative Power Point and may take several meetings to discuss. EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH THE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING. 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">LET ALINSKY'S OWN WORDS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. YOU MAY RECOGNIZE THESE METHODS IN WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND US. </span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><b>"Never let a crisis go to waste."</b></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict."</span></h1></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at."</span></h1></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within."</span></h1></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "libre baskerville", serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), </span>the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer (to whom Alinsky dedicated <u>Rules for Radicals</u>)</span></h1></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. </span>From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, <span style="font-weight: 400;">then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism."</span></span></h1></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"</span>The first step in community organization is community disorganization. <span style="font-weight: 400;">The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new."</span></span></h1></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. </span>He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.<span style="font-weight: 400;">"</span></span></h1></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"Let the liberal turn to the course of action, the course of all radicals, and the amused look vanishes from the face of society as it snarls, “That’s radical!†Society has good reason to fear the radical. Every shaking advance of mankind toward equality and justice has come from the radical. </span>He hits, he hurts, he is dangerous<span style="font-weight: 400;">. Conservative interests know that while liberals are most adept at breaking their own necks with their tongues, radicals are most adept at breaking the necks of conservatives."</span></span></h1></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"The organizers first job is to </span>create the issues or problems<span style="font-weight: 400;">, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first </span>rub raw the resentments<span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must </span>search out controversy and issues<span style="font-weight: 400;">, rather than avoid them, for unless </span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-weight: 400;">there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . </span></span></h1></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">"Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing -- but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next </span><span style="font-family: "libre baskerville", serif;"><span>convention, you be the delegates."</span></span></span></h1></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"In the beginning the organizer's first job is to </span>create the issues <span style="font-weight: 400;">or problems."</span></span></h1></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"It is a world not of </span><span>angels but of angles</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span>where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles<span style="font-weight: 400;">; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral;"</span></span></h1></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away."</span></h1></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">An organizer must </span>stir up disatisfaction and discontent<span style="font-weight: 400;">. Alinsky</span></span></div></h1></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Frankfurt School's "critical theory" is based on criticizing everything about America. And so we have "Critical Race Theory," "Critical Gender Theory," "Critical Pedagogy,"... <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-theory/" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); font-family: Lato; letter-spacing: 0.8500000238418579px;">The critical</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); font-family: Lato; letter-spacing: 0.8500000238418579px;"> methodology, then, is the central object of concern, and it is the tool by which Social Justice scholarship and activism proceed.</span></span></a></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. Saul Alinsky</span></h1></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyAQpdM4cUORtuq-9XxRA7EgMhQZsdRw8zgsPufo-jjS1cnaipCLwWRuQjmfOOI-Xfzypek6da1E7DPsdNRuGMUHjTJ5Pp1H9ZiGfX1TlZfJfsaCH7P6pZYvbAxNmTE4ENQlduFsWAatZLs9ESeG1ED2A0rvO1ol-khFg2HYIcW9Ucqe6YJCqJdP0dtg/s2/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.32.48%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2" data-original-width="2" height="2" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyAQpdM4cUORtuq-9XxRA7EgMhQZsdRw8zgsPufo-jjS1cnaipCLwWRuQjmfOOI-Xfzypek6da1E7DPsdNRuGMUHjTJ5Pp1H9ZiGfX1TlZfJfsaCH7P6pZYvbAxNmTE4ENQlduFsWAatZLs9ESeG1ED2A0rvO1ol-khFg2HYIcW9Ucqe6YJCqJdP0dtg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.32.48%20AM.png" width="2" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiorCXTuKAC_tjxWv1TCxpG5a_ggeOueLgibKLVFDhvassAsJx74DmqE9UPoh0abDQ3RfX3rgXJ3Zg6Gji5HN_W3yCkJ93_2iPipTXK6jiHYTgZP022KbNPUaBqTtII7LHw-xdg-ODtT1ayUbqumlPdl0QgxOQDrW84aUuezsca0qo-ETnKkvPhTJJ6YA/s2528/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.33.02%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1426" data-original-width="2528" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiorCXTuKAC_tjxWv1TCxpG5a_ggeOueLgibKLVFDhvassAsJx74DmqE9UPoh0abDQ3RfX3rgXJ3Zg6Gji5HN_W3yCkJ93_2iPipTXK6jiHYTgZP022KbNPUaBqTtII7LHw-xdg-ODtT1ayUbqumlPdl0QgxOQDrW84aUuezsca0qo-ETnKkvPhTJJ6YA/w558-h316/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.33.02%20AM.png" width="558" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">At the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, “the brainchild of Bill Ayers,” they (Obama and Bill Ayers, Weatherman, jailed domestic terrorist now with a PHD) funneled more that $100 million to radical groups which used the funds to promote radical education. This initiative was also promoted by Arne Duncan, Chicago Superintendent of Schools, who became US Secretary of Education. Also as board members of the Woods Fund, Ayers and Obama channeled money to ACORN (</span><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)</span> <span>and the Midwest Academy: Organizing for Social Change. Chicago, the Windy City, was also where Saul Alinsky established his first community organizing training school and where Cardinal Joseph Bernardin wound up. </span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Only 26 percent of Chicago Public School 11th-graders can read and do math at grade level, according to the latest Illinois </span><a href="https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/District.aspx?source=trends&source2=sat&Districtid=15016299025" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Report Card data</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and yet last week the district proudly announced that </span><a href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-public-schools-announces-record-high-graduation-rate" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">84 percent of students graduated</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> from CPS in 2021 – a new record high. It is important to note that Chicago was the source of Outcome Based Education /Mastery Learning in the 1990s and that is just another name for Equity. Common Core came from Chicago with Obama and his friends. Ayers recommended his friends, Kevin Jennings and Gloria Ladson-Billings (CASEL board member Collaborative for Academic <a href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2022/08/15-harmful-elements-of-sel.html">Social and Emotional Learning</a>) </span></div></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">For the methods courses, Bill Ayers’s </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> tops the bestseller list. Domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers continues his efforts to destroy America through his fifth </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">column subversives. Our teachers. </span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Education is the motor-force of revolution." Bill Ayers</span></h1></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent."</span></h1></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism."</span></h1></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today."</span></h1></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "libre baskerville", serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,"</span></h1></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat."</span></h1></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war."</span></h1></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at."</span></h1></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty."</span></h1></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire."</span></h1></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"I don't regret setting bombs."</span></h1></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="quote clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country."</span></h1></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>I was among the deluded. I voted for Obama twice. He seemed like such a good role model for the Black children I had taught. I wanted them to know that our great country WAS NOT DISCRIMINATORY toward good, capable men of any color. God forgive me. </b></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHXZ7D9LIskMu_NDcR6e-b6dRsWR1i7YHWVOidlgFa62WvlTpZ2aQtUcfMiqMJRJFhke_edJ_rPKGeSxRGeyplCJPDhzlOSM3HUgn_69QPaAWXH7lGWF1tG2ef8eps9y40StRfMrGNsQYKIkfKhgArTAdzJ0pwQiCYs2-svQgrZZFSO2pDpINoMK6NXg/s2534/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%203.02.08%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1426" data-original-width="2534" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHXZ7D9LIskMu_NDcR6e-b6dRsWR1i7YHWVOidlgFa62WvlTpZ2aQtUcfMiqMJRJFhke_edJ_rPKGeSxRGeyplCJPDhzlOSM3HUgn_69QPaAWXH7lGWF1tG2ef8eps9y40StRfMrGNsQYKIkfKhgArTAdzJ0pwQiCYs2-svQgrZZFSO2pDpINoMK6NXg/w645-h363/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%203.02.08%20PM.png" width="645" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Read and weep. Is it any wonder Alabama's children have such poor math and reading scores?</b></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">From Anyon's book, Barbara Cooper's "Bible" for education policy. (Pat Ellis' Review) </span></b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Classrooms as Movement Building Spaces</span></b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In this section, Ms. Anton promotes <b>strategies for teachers to engage their students in civic activism and provides examples from the Philadelphia School System.</b></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">(Page 12)</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Mapping Community Assets</b></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Mapping community assets is an activity to engage students in researching their neighborhoods for community resources that could be useful to make the neighborhood a better place to live and work. Included in the assets would be the “gifts, skills and capacities of the community’s residents”. </span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Power Analysis</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“A power analysis identifies a problem faced by students or other community residents and asks the following kinds of questions:</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">1. Who is impacted by the problem?</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">2. Who makes the decisions that affect the immediate situation?</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">3. Who makes the decisions that determine what those individuals or groups do and say?</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">4. What kind of informal influence or formal power do they have?</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">5. What kinds of informal influence or formal power do community residents have over the situation? </span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">6. Whose interests are affected by decisions that have been made? </span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">7. Who are potential allies in an attempt to solve the problem.</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Developing an Issue Campaign</b></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“One key to developing an issue campaign with students is to break the overall task – say, a campaign for immigrant students’ rights into manageable pieces…”</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When working with youth use their own cultural modes. Example: “…a youth organizer in Oakland, CA <b>took a group of her students</b> to a concert by the Hip Hop group Dead Prez, a politically progressive group.” She reported: “Attending the concert was an incredible political education for the students because they related so well to the medium in which the political message was delivered.”</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This section goes on to list the steps to take in order to have a successful campaign when working with young people on issues. One suggestion is to have teachers and students work together and protest together. An anecdotal protest in Chicago had students and teachers both taking part targeting the board of education. They protested the U.S. military budget supporting the war in Iraq and depleting money available for public education. (A write-up of the “Rally” is on Page 195, <i>Radical Possibilities</i>)</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: left;"><b><span><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Long ago, community organizing icon Saul Alinsky pioneered the use of conventions to establish unified agendas and strategies among groups (Shaw 2001, p. 258) and such an approach seems crucial to the creation of synergy and impact today.”</span></span></b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><b>(Community organizing icon? Is this the purpose of our schools? Train more radical community organizers? With my taxes? While we have to send our children to private schools to learn to read? She is talking about Saul Alinsky's <u>Rules for Radicals</u>, friends. My comment. Sharman)</b></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTuXblDM7JV5xMDNl_aYfXm6TeSFzLFMWiSmCXQaH7iwFmiDLuVHDf2iEDbZ8UpYIuQHf815bzNbB9c4VMJTDtFBRN_sfgzfgQo6IEyAC-PSC5mI3-nEU11g1OEO2mwyvD6l8zVzrjMa4qUQoGhVpBHtnl7A1nOSccs9jus7P0tC38dbHXfxFtzp4_dg/s2524/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.33.22%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="2524" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTuXblDM7JV5xMDNl_aYfXm6TeSFzLFMWiSmCXQaH7iwFmiDLuVHDf2iEDbZ8UpYIuQHf815bzNbB9c4VMJTDtFBRN_sfgzfgQo6IEyAC-PSC5mI3-nEU11g1OEO2mwyvD6l8zVzrjMa4qUQoGhVpBHtnl7A1nOSccs9jus7P0tC38dbHXfxFtzp4_dg/w609-h342/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.33.22%20AM.png" width="609" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: medium;"><b>"Malachi Brendan Martin</b> (23 July 1921 – 27 July 1999), also known under the pseudonym of <b>Michael Serafian</b>, was an Irish-born American Traditionalist Catholic priest, biblical archaeologist, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcist" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Exorcist">exorcist</a>, paleographer, professor, and prolific <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Writer">writer</a> on the Roman Catholic Church.</span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: medium;">Ordained as a Jesuit priest, Martin became Professor of Palaeography at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. From 1958, he served as secretary to Cardinal Bea during preparations for the Second Vatican Council. Disillusioned by Vatican II, Martin asked to be released from certain aspects of his Jesuit vows in 1964 and moved to New York City.</span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: medium;">Martin's 17 novels and non-fiction books were frequently critical of the Catholic hierarchy, who he believed had failed to act on what he called "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Secrets_of_F%C3%A1tima" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Three Secrets of Fátima">the T</a>hird Prophecy" revealed by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mary (mother of Jesus)">V</a>irgin Mary at Fatima. His works included <i>The Scribal Character of The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dead Sea Scrolls">D</a>ead Sea Scrolls</i> (1958) and <i>Hostage To The Devil</i>(1976) which dealt with Satanism, demonic possession, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism_in_the_Catholic_Church" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Exorcism in the Catholic Church">exorcism</a>. <i>The Final Conclave</i> (1978) was a warning against Soviet espionage in the Vatican.</span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Windswept House describes a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Satan">s</a>atanic<span style="background-color: white;"> ritual – the enthronement </span><span style="background-color: white;">of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lucifer">L</a>ucifer<span style="background-color: white;"> – taking place at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappella_Paolina" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cappella Paolina">S</a>t. Paul's Chapel<span style="background-color: white;"> inside Vatican City, on June 29, 1963. The book gives a depiction of high-ranking churchmen, cardinals, archbishops and prelates </span><span style="background-color: white;">of the Roman curia, taking oaths signed with their own blood, plotting to destroy the Church from within. It tells the story of an international </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Conspiracy (crime)">o</a>rganized attempt<span style="background-color: white;"> by these Vatican insiders and secular internationalists to force a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Pope">p</a>ope<span style="background-color: white;"> of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Catholic Church">C</a>atholic Church<span style="background-color: white;"> to abdicate, so that a successor may be chosen that will fundamentally change orthodox faith and establish a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="New World Order (conspiracy theory)">N</a>ew World Order<span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: CG Times; font-size: medium;">The author describes the book as containing "real events and real people masked in the form of a novel", a device he refers to as "faction". According to Martin, 95% of events in the book are real, and 85% of the characters are real people.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-interview_1-1" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;">Wikipedia</sup></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: medium;"><b>Research that I have done on the characters in the novel identifies <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnlLjOA23JE">Cardinal Joseph Bernardin </a>of Chicago as one of the priests who led the Satanic enthronement. Bernardin paid for Barach Obama to attend Saul Alinsky's training school. Bernardin, President of the Bishop's Council, used Alinsky methods to gain control of the Catholic Call to Action by placing like minded people in positions of power. Because of Bernardin's position in the Catholic Church many of Bernardin's people gained access to the halls of power in Chicago and throughout the country...and world. "Rebels have taken over our conference."John Cardinal Krol, Archbishop</b></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid_HnSsG36Ho_-TsDoYc8ZQbrUhELkhqySk_nrAggN7vUypNFQT67gvalliz4yjXD6Z2noXEGRDAF4oQqV3zAP-XMtJiVNyQqvYIp2gEBpT4StJS6UntAFEMQOKiP7q41zfFQA5RJAdipfKEeneYJ_mxUpkK2xmQD8GNdZ-F3CAhSgTgJ4c3D875VJXQ/s2532/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.33.48%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="2532" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid_HnSsG36Ho_-TsDoYc8ZQbrUhELkhqySk_nrAggN7vUypNFQT67gvalliz4yjXD6Z2noXEGRDAF4oQqV3zAP-XMtJiVNyQqvYIp2gEBpT4StJS6UntAFEMQOKiP7q41zfFQA5RJAdipfKEeneYJ_mxUpkK2xmQD8GNdZ-F3CAhSgTgJ4c3D875VJXQ/w602-h339/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.33.48%20AM.png" width="602" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Watch this on Bernardin: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnlLjOA23JE&t=70s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnlLjOA23JE&t=70s</a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXDhEL6YG4uV626VJ9nyEeLhXnLgOy9OSfj11RkwkLosILA124nwhg2yep6e9_bwHNJUFFbc3jMx1ecM7Pe72BY1I6RAPGylpBRWQUCIKz1DRIEBIz02nPxFK5m6kqeMJIraItso_IQy8l6B-7P91JLIICdAfJt93aFZb1z3WP5Hux59nM3_vg1n6ybQ/s2530/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.34.02%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1424" data-original-width="2530" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXDhEL6YG4uV626VJ9nyEeLhXnLgOy9OSfj11RkwkLosILA124nwhg2yep6e9_bwHNJUFFbc3jMx1ecM7Pe72BY1I6RAPGylpBRWQUCIKz1DRIEBIz02nPxFK5m6kqeMJIraItso_IQy8l6B-7P91JLIICdAfJt93aFZb1z3WP5Hux59nM3_vg1n6ybQ/w585-h329/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.34.02%20AM.png" width="585" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">CRITICAL THEORY AND OUR SCHOOLS</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In 1923, Lenin recognized the Socialist Movement would not spread to industrialized nations so he brought together a group of scholars to retool their strategy. To camouflage its nature they called it the Institute of Social Research. This group has also been known as the Frankfurt Group. Key members of the group moved to the US, mainly Columbia University. In the US they developed what they called "Critical Theory." They designed it as a strategy to change, revolutionize, and bring down America by criticizing it. </span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202122;">Marcuse ... advocated the </span><span style="color: red;">"long march through the institutions" </span><span style="color: #202122;">and recommended educational institutions as a refuge for radicals in the US.</span></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202122;">The</span><span style="color: red;"> Frankfurt School </span><span style="color: #202122;">was a significant influence on Paolo Freire</span><span style="color: #202122;"> in the conception of critical pedagogy</span><span style="color: #202122;">, alongside influences from orthodox Marxism. </span><span style="color: #202122;">Critical pedagogy was meant initially to address the needs of peasants resisting oppression rather than students in the United States, who attend universities as part of a process of entering the social or economic elite.</span><span style="color: #202122;"> Amidst the decline of the New Left</span><span style="color: #202122;">, the rise of neoconservatism</span><span style="color: #202122;">, and the election of Ronald Reagan, </span><span style="color: #202122;"> animated by Aronowitz's</span><span style="color: #202122;"> reminder of Marx's dictum, </span><span style="color: red;">"the ultimate task of philosophy and theory was not merely to 'comprehend reality' but to change it"</span><span style="color: #202122;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Giroux" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Henry Giroux">Henry </a>Giroux <span style="color: red;">sought to make the university classroom a site for class struggle</span><span style="color: #202122;">.</span><span style="color: #202122;"> Giroux drew on the work of Gramsci and the British cultural marxists </span><span style="color: #202122;">in conceiving of</span><span style="color: red;"> teachers as a revolutionary vanguard</span><span style="color: #202122;">.</span><span style="color: #202122;"> Alongside Michael Apple</span><span style="color: #202122;">, Giroux popularized Freire in educational studies,</span><span style="color: #202122;"> to the point that Freirian language and techniques of critical pedagogy became ubiquitous in liberal arts classrooms</span><span style="color: #202122;"> of the 1990s.</span><span style="color: #202122;"> The value of these practices were questioned in the broader cultural conversation on political correctness.</span></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202122;">McLaren has developed a social movement based version on critical pedagogy that he calls revolutionary critical pedagogy, emphasizing </span><span style="color: red;">critical pedagogy as a social movement for the creation of a democratic socialist alternative to capitalism.</span></span></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202122;">In 1992, Maxine Hairston took a hard line against critical pedagogy in the first year college composition classroom and argued, "everywhere I turn I find composition faculty, both leaders in the profession and new voices, </span><span style="color: red;">asserting that they have not only the right, but the duty, to put ideology and radical politics at the center of their teaching.</span></span></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: start;">Though no one has as yet surveyed how far social justice teaching has pervaded America’s 1,500 ed schools, education researchers David Steiner (now Hunter College ed-school dean) and Susan Rozen did a study two years ago on the syllabi of the basic “foundations of education” and “methods” courses in 16 of the nation’s most prestigious ed schools. The mainstays of the foundations courses were works by Paolo Freire, Henry Giroux (a leading critical pedagogy theorist), and the radical education writer Jonathan Kozol (“</span><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_americas_most.html" style="text-align: start;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #00afcf; padding: 0in;">America’s Most Influential—and Wrongest—School Reformer</span></a><span style="text-align: start;">,” Winter 2000)</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If you see, Paulo Freire's book, <u>Pedagogy of the Oppressed</u> or Ken Goodman's <u>Whole Language Catalog,</u> you can be guaranteed your university is producing radicals not educators.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 0.25in; orphans: auto; text-align: right; widows: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times;"><b>CRITICAL PEDAGOGY and Bill Ayers</b> (domestic terrorist and Obama's boss at the Chicago Anenburg Project). Ayers’s spectacular second act began when he enrolled at Columbia University’s Teachers College in 1984. Then 40, he planned to stay just to get a teaching credential. (He had taught in a “Freedom School” during his pre-underground student radical days.) But he experienced an epiphany in a course taught by Maxine Greene, a leading light of the “critical pedagogy” movement. As Ayers wrote later, he took fire from Greene’s lectures on how the </span><span style="color: red; font-family: times;">“oppressive hegemony” of the capitalist social order “reproduces” itself through the traditional practice of public schooling</span><span style="color: black; font-family: times;">—critical pedagogy’s fancy way of saying that the evil corporations exercise thought control through the schools.</span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 0.25in; orphans: auto; text-align: right; widows: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Critical pedagogy theorists nurse a rancorous view of an America in which it is always two minutes to midnight and a knock on the door by the thought police is imminent. The education professors feel themselves anointed to use the nation’s K–12 classrooms to resist this oppressive system. Thus Maxine Greene urged teachers not to mince words with children about the evils of the existing social order. They should portray “homelessness as a consequence of the private dealings of landlords, an arms buildup as a consequence of corporate decisions, racial exclusion as a consequence of a private property-holder’s choice.” In other words, they should turn the little ones into young socialists and critical theorists.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: right; widows: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The reading list for his urban education course includes the bible of the critical pedagogy movement, <b>Brazilian Marxist Paolo Freire’s <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Pedagogy of the Oppressed</span></i>;</b> two books by Ayers himself; another by bell hooks, a radical black feminist writer and critical race theorist; and a “Freedom School” curriculum. That’s the entire spectrum of debate.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: right; widows: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING AND LEADING STANDARDS</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"> --Critical Race Theory-based </span><span style="color: black;">force teachers to call America systemically racist, affirm the “fluidity” of gender, “mitigate” their Euro-centrism and whiteness, and substitute activism for achievement when grading students. Finding creative ways to present traditional civics to minorities is one thing. Teaching radical activism is quite another.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: right; widows: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: right; widows: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: black;">CRITICAL RACE THEORY</span></b><span style="color: black;">--“experiential” advocacy projects designed to appeal to minority students. We are talking about Black Lives Matter protests outside of police stations for course credit. And the grants will be disbursed by President Biden’s Education Department, sure to be staffed by left-leaning bureaucrats who believe — as does the president — that our country is “systemically racist.” Put together the priority criteria and a Democrat-controlled Department of Education and you will see a tremendous number of grants going to Critical Race Theory-based political advocacy programs, <b>all under the label of “civics.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 0.25in; orphans: auto; text-align: right; widows: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Critical Race Theory, of course, is antithetical to the classically liberal principles upon which our constitutional republic rests. Teaching it is actually a form of anti-civics. Yet that is what hundreds of millions of dollars disbursed by the “Civics Secures Democracy Act” is going to be used for.</b></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In 2007, a group from the <span style="color: red;">American Educational Research Association (AERA)</span>, including Ayers, demanded major accrediting organization for schools, colleges, and departments of education include categories of "social justice, sexual orientation and gender identity" in its standards. Ayers and colleagues called their effort <b><span style="color: red;">"Call to Action: A RED Campaign for Social Justice and Queer Lives."</span></b> Formerly vice president for curriculum of the AERA, Ayers was the spokesman on behalf of the effort and called on the <span style="color: red;">National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education</span> (NCATE) to include these categories.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMPz2y6OTey-ycjnQMMtxHw9YQPH7ZFnDpyUiy8WBnHZj0RrTt-bVqtEhkwKYLRMax_-WBx4RJqQ_1q6-gnDoDVGnXJKopALMRiNcMokTKQPtesdsulX7mGdYKJLBM2_NsTBinka2P1M40KZlFhqhDxhuBRWARNZseXjTh0v47cl_qifB_jZub1mu1Hg/s2534/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.34.42%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1432" data-original-width="2534" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMPz2y6OTey-ycjnQMMtxHw9YQPH7ZFnDpyUiy8WBnHZj0RrTt-bVqtEhkwKYLRMax_-WBx4RJqQ_1q6-gnDoDVGnXJKopALMRiNcMokTKQPtesdsulX7mGdYKJLBM2_NsTBinka2P1M40KZlFhqhDxhuBRWARNZseXjTh0v47cl_qifB_jZub1mu1Hg/w601-h341/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.34.42%20AM.png" width="601" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cognitive dissonance was a bad thing when I attended the University of Alabama college of education fifty-four years ago. So why do they boast of intentionally <span style="color: red;">creating cognitive dissonance now</span>?</span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwRT0DNzxphpZ9W5SFkl8R_S9JuGucivZeLiYZ0CT_DeWRRa8CWOG1Nd2hrfmck70vWKSe3tCpVxGp7WFgpmcq7Ky1KHG8gpYBZx82gBcgbZf1Q4NWpMWTqLXLMY-kuIXOzlXV_bZpyysy5Qk5duGNMpU00p6gjlNOBW3t2Bpqad45VQBftd51HiUCKQ/s2542/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.34.51%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1434" data-original-width="2542" height="337" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwRT0DNzxphpZ9W5SFkl8R_S9JuGucivZeLiYZ0CT_DeWRRa8CWOG1Nd2hrfmck70vWKSe3tCpVxGp7WFgpmcq7Ky1KHG8gpYBZx82gBcgbZf1Q4NWpMWTqLXLMY-kuIXOzlXV_bZpyysy5Qk5duGNMpU00p6gjlNOBW3t2Bpqad45VQBftd51HiUCKQ/w596-h337/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.34.51%20AM.png" width="596" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Repeated for emphasis. What do they say is the purpose? </span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"> </span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: times; text-align: left;">Bob Hamer, FBI undercover, writes about a SEXUAL PREDATOR’S STRATEGY: GROOMING. He states: "</span><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">For the persuasion sexual predator, “grooming” is the vehicle used to manipulate and seduce the vulnerable child. I didn’t learn about grooming in a college classroom or from a textbook. I learned it from the pedophiles themselves."</span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju-HKRpJYIDG_cz09iYE0VCC_uko1Rl7yDN9Imp2j-wMGzeJEqUdDR8w0UBVMUBuummOCAN1Q-aVGfK-cGuBUabt38D734AXQ72y4iH3SWao4oqOGlK6JhDzah8NvXC9HYY81hMALd3E-XsF8Zj_SuFrRWHN9CYg4BZOivwwlDbZZyHVec4KhEFRJQTw/s2536/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.35.03%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="2536" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju-HKRpJYIDG_cz09iYE0VCC_uko1Rl7yDN9Imp2j-wMGzeJEqUdDR8w0UBVMUBuummOCAN1Q-aVGfK-cGuBUabt38D734AXQ72y4iH3SWao4oqOGlK6JhDzah8NvXC9HYY81hMALd3E-XsF8Zj_SuFrRWHN9CYg4BZOivwwlDbZZyHVec4KhEFRJQTw/w590-h331/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.35.03%20AM.png" width="590" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This time when you read it, please pay attention to the organizations that are promoting this agenda. The National Association of School Psychologists is battling our state on the Vulnerable Child Protection Act. This act attempts to protect children with potential school-induced dysphoria from the mutilation of transgender surgeries. So, just who does the National Association of School Psychologists/Alabama Association of School Psychologists represent? The child? Their parents? </span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJLLq6IQYYbl_VJgB1K0jHUzIzJqZGiJffBYlqeQewQ2zVioFOix4B-MAUZ8Zru7CqU-TA1fZPHmhzBVIYUa6CcUovMy_fHX-YkkOo_hGkbDUba5qPUXVYPTiYQp0fDczHHjc0b_kdJ93AYzyoPHMfyeFqvDX6BU5GY5xNdhD1M6E-mdrCgG-gmgjvvA/s2524/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.35.23%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1430" data-original-width="2524" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJLLq6IQYYbl_VJgB1K0jHUzIzJqZGiJffBYlqeQewQ2zVioFOix4B-MAUZ8Zru7CqU-TA1fZPHmhzBVIYUa6CcUovMy_fHX-YkkOo_hGkbDUba5qPUXVYPTiYQp0fDczHHjc0b_kdJ93AYzyoPHMfyeFqvDX6BU5GY5xNdhD1M6E-mdrCgG-gmgjvvA/w577-h326/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.35.23%20AM.png" width="577" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What is the definition of Cognitive Dissonance? Creating confusion? Forced Compliance? Challenging the Fixed beliefs of their parents? And our schools have that authority?</span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9VCc-VheAKXGYScR8Fau5eT6PEemxrOszMzcWeyHxB4qvU0ssvr2fpMZ1S25RYJF_ZOQfUOLf9pO3e2pLdJY3ePN-DeyUoAA1Ul33B1poeMOQvOid4zVJWiztIFCpck2jfhJG4lKq1Qnrsz3McoO4vsOhGoiroTH7GtCofG7D5cY57lqo6MA6rBZ48A/s2532/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.36.07%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="2532" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9VCc-VheAKXGYScR8Fau5eT6PEemxrOszMzcWeyHxB4qvU0ssvr2fpMZ1S25RYJF_ZOQfUOLf9pO3e2pLdJY3ePN-DeyUoAA1Ul33B1poeMOQvOid4zVJWiztIFCpck2jfhJG4lKq1Qnrsz3McoO4vsOhGoiroTH7GtCofG7D5cY57lqo6MA6rBZ48A/w579-h326/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.36.07%20AM.png" width="579" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgBlkAWaUKMbGd2n6FDysMQ3lRYs0DG-M2n0KI2GH-6m0DuAxG6pejynbYzp_zFM8YRKMMmSAODb3Txi0WoAgFCPCwRDW_4iDas7v0G694je7bBw7XTRB9tg-C-UxDgNxqNgVQO8JH3UZlz51R9iWtby-ZNZ-xsYE90Et9qhHvjgvMWsCakeilzDxTjA/s2530/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.36.19%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1438" data-original-width="2530" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgBlkAWaUKMbGd2n6FDysMQ3lRYs0DG-M2n0KI2GH-6m0DuAxG6pejynbYzp_zFM8YRKMMmSAODb3Txi0WoAgFCPCwRDW_4iDas7v0G694je7bBw7XTRB9tg-C-UxDgNxqNgVQO8JH3UZlz51R9iWtby-ZNZ-xsYE90Et9qhHvjgvMWsCakeilzDxTjA/w596-h339/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.36.19%20AM.png" width="596" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTGN40TfIe7HOZO8EEDBM1ee4SvVyNaLaJnlX-uY_kJuLBnQyMUCxD-ZO8hgYU1MZ4NXIdfWGAXy501W79gIDzyGxW4lzIHHRo3qF8KjILxlXJ2ZjKXSjEYqf1AYb-AM-lMrQcjaG1Kw66g3VY0aiE5BiOMVhQ7fh91LbUA_By_vYtm_soMbfvcNbWLQ/s2538/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.36.37%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1432" data-original-width="2538" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTGN40TfIe7HOZO8EEDBM1ee4SvVyNaLaJnlX-uY_kJuLBnQyMUCxD-ZO8hgYU1MZ4NXIdfWGAXy501W79gIDzyGxW4lzIHHRo3qF8KjILxlXJ2ZjKXSjEYqf1AYb-AM-lMrQcjaG1Kw66g3VY0aiE5BiOMVhQ7fh91LbUA_By_vYtm_soMbfvcNbWLQ/w599-h338/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.36.37%20AM.png" width="599" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><blockquote style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222325; line-height: 32px; margin: 0em 2.5em; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px 24px; position: relative; quotes: none; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; margin: 0in; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Comprehensive sex and relationship education” has created in young people the expectation that they will have a series of casual sexual relationships. Within this culture, sexual exploitation has been allowed to go undetected and vulnerable young people have been deprived of protection.</span></p></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><blockquote style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222325; line-height: 32px; margin: 0em 2.5em; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px 24px; position: relative; quotes: none; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; margin: 0in; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the foreword to Wells’s book, Nottingham University Business School professor David Paton concludes:</span></p></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><blockquote style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222325; line-height: 32px; margin: 0em 2.5em; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 20px 24px; position: relative; quotes: none; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; margin: 0in; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A clear picture emerges of a culture in which underage sexual activity has come to be viewed as a normal part of growing up and seen as relatively harmless as long as it is consensual. Combined with official policies to encourage the confidential provision of contraception to minors, it becomes clear that current approaches aimed at improving teenage sexual health have frequently facilitated and perpetuated the sexual abuse of vulnerable young people.</span></p></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/12/46417/" style="text-align: left;">https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/12/46417/</a> </span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://washingtonstand.com/news/public-school-teachers-told-to-indoctrinate-kids-as-young-as-3-in-lgbt-radical-gender-theory"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://washingtonstand.com/news/public-school-teachers-told-to-indoctrinate-kids-as-young-as-3-in-lgbt-radical-gender-theory</span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZgUVXAjKM2MW3hrZnL0u2dAbRzCU-xXQsZOVWVm9TDojB8wFNavo93-P6YEGB8w89xXQu-hj0PTbzH612bfZnJIjF29-zQp3AKBAJIclD9-lA36uLRvqwtIE9zbJ2NrDONzs68IS0aCr2GlfYBWdfqi60NBZxZRCZkZnPvVt-o2jzGxfHj0vqNF-Vtg/s2532/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.36.49%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1424" data-original-width="2532" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZgUVXAjKM2MW3hrZnL0u2dAbRzCU-xXQsZOVWVm9TDojB8wFNavo93-P6YEGB8w89xXQu-hj0PTbzH612bfZnJIjF29-zQp3AKBAJIclD9-lA36uLRvqwtIE9zbJ2NrDONzs68IS0aCr2GlfYBWdfqi60NBZxZRCZkZnPvVt-o2jzGxfHj0vqNF-Vtg/w590-h332/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.36.49%20AM.png" width="590" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://pitt.substack.com/p/dear-principal-teachers-and-social?utm_medium=ios"><span style="font-size: medium;">More about Gender Dysphoria:</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: times; text-align: left;">Bob Hamer, FBI undercover agent, writes about a SEXUAL PREDATOR’S STRATEGY: GROOMING. He states: "</span><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">For the persuasion sexual predator, “grooming” is the vehicle used to manipulate and seduce the vulnerable child. I didn’t learn about grooming in a college classroom or from a textbook. I learned it from the pedophiles themselves."</span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcY3dZ25cZ1RvG8res24tHwU_7z_4ef01zKnYIgf16fQEUhfBVBR60pBqi39TDpdTZ2BzPACWi8skZEPeM6JXyORQUtHTdo57NHA5ydsN77_Wq7rB_x5FKNHllEFg0i918Jfoqxcqf8O3TRJr8BmM5_D3FhQf0S0xQaR-DnvIWJiOx2tZ5eQR8T_hfeg/s2522/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.37.24%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1426" data-original-width="2522" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcY3dZ25cZ1RvG8res24tHwU_7z_4ef01zKnYIgf16fQEUhfBVBR60pBqi39TDpdTZ2BzPACWi8skZEPeM6JXyORQUtHTdo57NHA5ydsN77_Wq7rB_x5FKNHllEFg0i918Jfoqxcqf8O3TRJr8BmM5_D3FhQf0S0xQaR-DnvIWJiOx2tZ5eQR8T_hfeg/w638-h360/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.37.24%20AM.png" width="638" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In 2007, a group from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), including domestic terrorist, now with a Ph.D. in education, <b><span style="color: red;">Bill Ayers, demanded major accrediting organization for schools, colleges, and departments of education include categories of "social justice, sexual orientation and gender identity" in its standards. </span></b>Ayers and colleagues called their effort "Call to Action: A RED Campaign for Social Justice and Queer Lives." Formerly vice president for curriculum of the AERA, Ayers was the spokesman on behalf of the effort and called on the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) to include these categories.</span></p></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Would all schools in the U.S., under the muscle of an Obama administration, be forced to drill youth in the talking points of "gay" sex and gender–switching, calling it "justice"? Would Ayers' idea that America is an oppressive regime with way too much heterosexuality become a core tenet of your child's value system? (Remember the Alinsky method of co-opting words to steal their moral currency and use it to justify their own actions.)</span></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.25in; orphans: auto; text-align: right; widows: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>American Education Research Association (AERA) </b>25,000-member AERA is the umbrella organization of the ed-school professoriate, and over the past two decades it has moved steadily left, becoming more multicultural, postmodernist, feminist, and enamored of critical race theory and queer theory.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">And now the organization has just hired its first national Director of Social Justice. In fact, Ladson-Billings and Tate have coedited their own volume of essays on educational research and social justice, wherein they argue for a critical race theory approach, based on the idea that institutionalized “white supremacy” remains pervasive in American public education. Left unexplained is how these two particular critical race theorists, both black, could have been elected by their overwhelmingly white peers to preside over the education establishment’s premier organization. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="about://">https://www.city-journal.org/html/ed-schools’-latest—and-worst—humbug-12948.html</a></span> </span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhvbkWORhNNgY1cdvSNkpHkzQHjhxD1yVEtLhkGa_uD1-yao4qOxm5BP8tdWoHDNzbTry-wiOxPtzC1Ynx_vSBboMy60cz49_sLWUOdCnAMLjDgwEpjiyQrlkWXMxBVukJ0HoIQv9O0Yt4iUD73fefC0PiCgGUGObaC5ET-31QMtyXAuFBQk3nUNn62A/s2526/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.37.35%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1424" data-original-width="2526" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhvbkWORhNNgY1cdvSNkpHkzQHjhxD1yVEtLhkGa_uD1-yao4qOxm5BP8tdWoHDNzbTry-wiOxPtzC1Ynx_vSBboMy60cz49_sLWUOdCnAMLjDgwEpjiyQrlkWXMxBVukJ0HoIQv9O0Yt4iUD73fefC0PiCgGUGObaC5ET-31QMtyXAuFBQk3nUNn62A/w632-h356/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.37.35%20AM.png" width="632" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Check out these reading scores. You can individualize this by going to that website and zeroing in on the scores for the schools in your community. Once they find out we are onto them, they will probably change the criteria for grading once more. Notice the International Baccalaureate and the Expeditionary Learning charter schools. They are globalist in ideology and will certainly make good citizens for Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum's GREAT RESET. </span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With Whole Language, you have school-induced dyslexia. Dyslexia, or learning disabilities, is a label much too often slapped upon a child to exonerate poor teaching methodology. </span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxgp1PurnrrIrUD4nX4E1vu_xUiHE1xHRJcTPwZ1WF5jnUsMbSG6FbInOJnfSmAqjyaX8vOgT3nNepVeytwgBY8XqovkQ2CnTZ5fbXTXECrXkYGoBR5JgCkg182foClS_DHr91XKVo6STGMABkB3WajkiloD3fRXP20HDvybnxqyXKEkM1WgIlF6YgRA/s2378/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.37.43%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1392" data-original-width="2378" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxgp1PurnrrIrUD4nX4E1vu_xUiHE1xHRJcTPwZ1WF5jnUsMbSG6FbInOJnfSmAqjyaX8vOgT3nNepVeytwgBY8XqovkQ2CnTZ5fbXTXECrXkYGoBR5JgCkg182foClS_DHr91XKVo6STGMABkB3WajkiloD3fRXP20HDvybnxqyXKEkM1WgIlF6YgRA/w642-h375/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.37.43%20AM.png" width="642" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFhVAiSPdSUwNi59F-4neuqRsN6D5MOw5rXvYomRvgjMs9f1OTzxJKxyS1nYEE4PS3nEA6SrwW_7JblgBjzV8ZGVsdiFZ5-AtkWNNDUjLNCELJXu_TFibOcJdZ2DAtitww-qbbsoKR6ZmmTYOhnUTuC56w78dTPPYT0FWDs-bsKw0nJNYRYV7EhcVROg/s2952/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%208.01.03%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1660" data-original-width="2952" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFhVAiSPdSUwNi59F-4neuqRsN6D5MOw5rXvYomRvgjMs9f1OTzxJKxyS1nYEE4PS3nEA6SrwW_7JblgBjzV8ZGVsdiFZ5-AtkWNNDUjLNCELJXu_TFibOcJdZ2DAtitww-qbbsoKR6ZmmTYOhnUTuC56w78dTPPYT0FWDs-bsKw0nJNYRYV7EhcVROg/w635-h358/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%208.01.03%20PM.png" width="635" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ken Goodman, once president of the International Reading Association, is co-editor of the <u>Whole Language Catalog</u> and is considered by some as the "Founding Father of Whole Language." He wrote "Reading: A Psycholinguistic Guessing Game" in 1967 and he was off to the races. </span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours--the current meaning of peer review and power politics in education and probably the reason Direct Instruction was shuffled off to the back burner of education instruction and methodology. Yet, Systematic, Direct, Intensive Direct and Early (SIDE) phonics instruction continues to be the most effective reading method as shown through ABEKA schools (now online), Orton Gillingham (Providence in Dothan), and Spalding Writing Road to Reading as well as DI (Direct Instruction). </span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj98rNKx6q66iYO3c05oHD_7QjN1bKQiotfbGaH13ZnQGbHg3SovbfWfh7yGG7B_OzxPLxWaDorRp4YSFk88NPJcjPLfjmb8JTgRYo77PElgymb7Y5H29qmeP6KHwrgXwws0Zm8HGlAU-tygxhA4pM8b_qfKVdskdBdYeMkSI_OjjIJLx966Aipy7W5VA/s2536/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%2012.34.10%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1434" data-original-width="2536" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj98rNKx6q66iYO3c05oHD_7QjN1bKQiotfbGaH13ZnQGbHg3SovbfWfh7yGG7B_OzxPLxWaDorRp4YSFk88NPJcjPLfjmb8JTgRYo77PElgymb7Y5H29qmeP6KHwrgXwws0Zm8HGlAU-tygxhA4pM8b_qfKVdskdBdYeMkSI_OjjIJLx966Aipy7W5VA/w635-h358/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%2012.34.10%20PM.png" width="635" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> SEE ALSO: <a href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2014/06/math-wars-once-again-into-fray.html"> MATH WARS: ONCE AGAIN INTO THE FRAY</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9JwLLMIHGOlU-4RXCVbDGpdCd2cIj_yNWzj2sr7TMkF08XlFywHN28r3930Tz5hOPfiTFeXxBxdHDXnJDqk8lMNg6S9QRc-ULe6eazoNiTPbU3lqaKFxs5qsCA4XItzTHmrfyIrvF1h7L09ItktL4sZ7yzG6qVmwsuscNQdChb3UI0u82anCj5gNBSw/s2536/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.40.03%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: right; widows: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice by</span> </b>Eric Gutstein, a Marxist colleague of domestic terrorist and now PH.D. professor Bill Ayers’s at the University of Illinois and also a full-time Chicago public school math teacher--Like Ayers, Gutstein reveres Paolo Freire. He approvingly quotes Freire’s dictum that “there neither is, nor has ever been, an educational practice in zero space-time—neutral in the sense of being committed only to preponderantly abstract, intangible ideas.” Gutstein takes this to mean that since all education is political, leftist math teachers who care about the oppressed have a right, indeed a duty, to use a pedagogy that, in Freire’s words, “does not conceal—in fact, which proclaims—its own political character.”</span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: right; widows: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; widows: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Accordingly, Gutstein has relentlessly politicized his math classes for years, claiming that this approach has improved his students’ math skills while making them more aware of the injustices built in to capitalist society. One lesson, for example, presents charts showing the U.S. income distribution, aiming to get the students to understand the concept of percentages and fractions, while simultaneously showing them how much wealth is concentrated at the top in an economic system that mainly benefits the superrich. After the class does the mathematical calculations, Gutstein asks: “How does all this make you feel?” He triumphantly reports that 19 of 21 students described wealth distribution in America as “bad,” “unfair,” or “shocking,” and he proudly quotes the comments of a child named Rosa: “Well I see that all the wealth in the United States is mostly the wealth of a couple people not the whole nation.” (<a href="about://"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.city-journal.org/html/ed-schools’-latest—and-worst—humbug-12948.html</span></a>)</span></p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhME9_lbk7vlk50acBaVXZg5BBUeC3s9eajSg30av5ShtMkeXHALgFPlSrjfDED7vFVPlw4TOTALMF2A1cGIXin1Uo9AxKWuBqrOZMm2DPmWmp5DW4zdcBfivXqCVrfu51PGDRyoL1zXKUKBMDQZYyzcSXUm6EGduwpo3uAyFM-P1l3hM-B4ErI8SGsgg/s2532/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.40.14%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="2532" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhME9_lbk7vlk50acBaVXZg5BBUeC3s9eajSg30av5ShtMkeXHALgFPlSrjfDED7vFVPlw4TOTALMF2A1cGIXin1Uo9AxKWuBqrOZMm2DPmWmp5DW4zdcBfivXqCVrfu51PGDRyoL1zXKUKBMDQZYyzcSXUm6EGduwpo3uAyFM-P1l3hM-B4ErI8SGsgg/w609-h343/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.40.14%20AM.png" width="609" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcz1aG2e90jD8g602NZl8XYLmU0_chYd9DP7b_GluPpqPdNiwbZ-4HqEc0ia2ieKm1SfZ_hPv4M5WHBzjrmgJeqFGP-8T5FkUrMF2i8z8vNlGaqK9ZdmycFEUdz6haTTnSoLNoZ5opXInJ-EnQuUGxoNfrJJ_ei_YdxE1DJpFwkN3Via2IFSSuOlhnNw/s2524/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.40.29%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1424" data-original-width="2524" height="347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcz1aG2e90jD8g602NZl8XYLmU0_chYd9DP7b_GluPpqPdNiwbZ-4HqEc0ia2ieKm1SfZ_hPv4M5WHBzjrmgJeqFGP-8T5FkUrMF2i8z8vNlGaqK9ZdmycFEUdz6haTTnSoLNoZ5opXInJ-EnQuUGxoNfrJJ_ei_YdxE1DJpFwkN3Via2IFSSuOlhnNw/w613-h347/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.40.29%20AM.png" width="613" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Z8lM5C1auHfS0nB21e_0zr5BPdKAqrIePQA1gFAJii1OtROVz3mNGGp1WkzKxx0pUCXmuJQ3rw8OtVy8aYYUAZq41RkKl96ok_Jol1SgCF-3T3GJJPvG4MDCugaVglXVvl6ObXzILKtUgkvmeiwpb9K752sNFvlIcT_tbj6BVbvL_tXtY4gD7-CbRA/s2534/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.40.41%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1430" data-original-width="2534" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Z8lM5C1auHfS0nB21e_0zr5BPdKAqrIePQA1gFAJii1OtROVz3mNGGp1WkzKxx0pUCXmuJQ3rw8OtVy8aYYUAZq41RkKl96ok_Jol1SgCF-3T3GJJPvG4MDCugaVglXVvl6ObXzILKtUgkvmeiwpb9K752sNFvlIcT_tbj6BVbvL_tXtY4gD7-CbRA/w624-h354/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-26%20at%209.40.41%20AM.png" width="624" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Patrick Groff wrote the article I posted on my blog (sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com) on the <a href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-leftist-invasion-of-reading.html">Leftist Invasion of Reading Instruction.</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I now copy from his book, <b><u>Preventing Reading Failure: Why the Myths of Reading Instruction Prevail</u></b>. </span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">THE MONOPOLY OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A final reason why the myths of reading instruction have found favor among reading professionals rests in the nature of the financial makeup of the public school system. First, the public school of the nation obviously dominate the educational scene. They have achieved this position of eminence and authority because they receive most of the tax monies that are allocated for education. None of these funds can be directly spent for the support of nonpublic schools. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As a consequence, the public school has become an educational monopoly. As such, it faces no serious competition from any other system of education in our society. It is normal for monopolies to stifle competition. Monopolies which face no competition, also do not have to be accountable for the quality of their product. These conditions are reflected in the present public school system. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There is little incentive here to reject the myths of reading instruction, since the public school as a monopoly knows full well that it will be supported from tax funds regardless of the level of academic attainment gained by its graduates. In fact, the public school recently has discovered a unique bounty in such fundings. <b>It has discovered that the less successful it becomes in its mission to develop basic skills in its graduates, the more money it can expect from tax source for its educational programs.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Thus the workings of the "great American reading machine," a Yarington call it, have resulted in an attempt to establish a monopoly in the dispensation of instruction in reading pedagogy by departments of education in colleges and universities.</b> College students ordinarily are not allowed to enroll in these reading pedagogy courses less they agree beforehand to officially enter the teacher education programs at these institutions. Courses in reading instruction offered by private sector commercial enterprises cannot be substituted for these college department of education courses. State departments of education ordinarily refuse to honor the private sector courses in fulfillment of the requirements for teaching credentials. Neither will local school districts normally accept this private sector coursework as evidence that their teachers have made the improvement of proficiency that is used by school districts to award teachers increases in pay or promotion in job status.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">These monopolistic practices bring with them other disadvantageous side effects. As evidence from the field of economics would attest, production in monopolies tend to become sluggish and inefficient. Product quality inevitably suffers. Costs accelerate. The almost exclusive control of how the training or reading teachers shall be conducted by colleges and universities has proved to be no exception to this rule.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The present monopoly in the training of reading teachers by college and university departments of education thus has had a greater effect on such training than merely making it difficult to obtain. <b>This seemingly impregnable authority over teacher education has led to the perpetuation of practices in reading instruction that have been discredited by experimental research findings.</b> A consequence of the heretofore invulnerable power over the education of reading teachers by departments of education has been a group of serious mistakes in the way teachers have been trained to carry out reading instruction. These mistakes are what has been described as the myths of reading instruction.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">----------------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What Dr. Groff described here has exploded since he published PREVENTING READING FAILURE: THE MYTHS OF READING INSTRUCTION in 1987. What Groff described has affected English (now Transformational Grammar and WOKE Literature), History (now Multiculturalism), Civics (Globalist mumbo jumbo), Science (Green New Deal), Math (Social Justice Math no drill or repetition) --everything we once thought of as proper schooling has been replaced by MARXIST LIBERATION PEDAGOGY. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Paolo Freire, author of <i>Pedagogy of the Oppressed,</i> is only behind the Bible and Shakespeare as most cited. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">----------------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-91672882010835577652022-08-22T18:05:00.001-07:002022-08-22T18:20:08.725-07:002021-2022 READING SCORES FOR DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS<p> <span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">Dothan City Schools Reading Scores.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmx-QiH4aXA5QbWL_GwdWHpQie8ABpthpPeyrLj9rYpLNH6gjWC7CFL7C5x-w0rZgoz-PyVb9qJmN7bTw5e8mTVozVVtkiBROhXcaCGKhwII7Giti1-Fu469w1faGsYJeJCzai7PmWsccODNt8n62EG2vQek310H1LZOzk_UoXFI-V00UcI00XFKLrjQ/s1682/Testing%20Dothan%20Reading%20Compared%20to%20area%20county%20schools.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="1682" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmx-QiH4aXA5QbWL_GwdWHpQie8ABpthpPeyrLj9rYpLNH6gjWC7CFL7C5x-w0rZgoz-PyVb9qJmN7bTw5e8mTVozVVtkiBROhXcaCGKhwII7Giti1-Fu469w1faGsYJeJCzai7PmWsccODNt8n62EG2vQek310H1LZOzk_UoXFI-V00UcI00XFKLrjQ/w644-h346/Testing%20Dothan%20Reading%20Compared%20to%20area%20county%20schools.png" width="644" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div><p></p><p>I wish those interested in creating a real difference in reading in Dothan would read Dr. Patrick Groff's book, <u><i>Preventing Reading Failure: An Examination of the Myths of Reading Instruction.</i></u></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is 2022. About thirty years ago, a group of Dothan parents, black and white, brought John Winston to share the success of his school using the <i>Spalding Writing Road to Reading</i> in Nachitoches, Mississippi. He brought his school that served a couple of housing projects and was 90% black up from the 24<sup>th</sup> percentile to the 80<sup>th </sup>percentile, his identified dyslexics dwindled from 40 to one or two, and the violence in the school became negligible. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Dothan City School Board rejected the proposal to at least have a pilot school using the <i>Spalding Writing Road to Reading</i>, the method for reading instruction used by John Winston to replace Whole Language in his school. They supported and should be held accountable for choosing, the Whole Language "Method", promoted by Dr. Fritchie at Troy State and the Whole Language Hootenanny of her students who attended the meeting. With that vote and others since, the Dothan City School Board, following the unquestioned guidance of our administrators, adopted the philosophy as quoted in the <i>Whole Language Catalog</i>, “We are not just asking for a change in the teaching of reading, but a radical change in the social and political structure of schooling and society." (Giroux and McLaren 1986)</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">These are the reading scores about the time Goals 2000 changed education to fit the political goals of the <a href="https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2021-09/NEA%20Resolutions_2021-2022.pdf">National Education Association,</a> a Left Wing political action lobbying group that has commandeered the Department of Education, colleges of education, teacher certification, classroom management, even the school facilities, demanding payroll deduction for membership fees and political donations, use of the schools for meetings, payment for time off for professional activities, school access for correspondence between teachers and union, and free access for union representatives. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRlrzgUqhp16dXOTL4Si1edON9l23n3Qa051P8PfjoMWWO0dQZos2uDdm3ZaIJmVLk8dVHyWv-KI1kjB9rLFSK41KWLwXbjzRBrU74bKiMQwLuAI3zEy_e9dH0I7MXWdLVE5P9rvbMJgokSLdKn2rLPP-68HTylGUTJ0V_eJG984u8GOIBldrnJWJAUA/s1208/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-07%20at%201.11.38%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1208" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRlrzgUqhp16dXOTL4Si1edON9l23n3Qa051P8PfjoMWWO0dQZos2uDdm3ZaIJmVLk8dVHyWv-KI1kjB9rLFSK41KWLwXbjzRBrU74bKiMQwLuAI3zEy_e9dH0I7MXWdLVE5P9rvbMJgokSLdKn2rLPP-68HTylGUTJ0V_eJG984u8GOIBldrnJWJAUA/w485-h414/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-07%20at%201.11.38%20PM.png" width="485" /></a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">So what has happened 30 years later after the supposed "School Reform" of Goals 2000 and then the Common Core railroading? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Learning to read by the end of third grade is considered fundamental to school success. Children not reading proficiently by the end of third grade are four times more likely </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">than proficient readers to leave high school without a diploma. After third grade, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">teachers expect students to read in order to learn in later grades, students without adequate reading skills struggle and have limited opportunities to make up the deficit. </span></p></blockquote><p>Dothan Compared to other area schools</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmx-QiH4aXA5QbWL_GwdWHpQie8ABpthpPeyrLj9rYpLNH6gjWC7CFL7C5x-w0rZgoz-PyVb9qJmN7bTw5e8mTVozVVtkiBROhXcaCGKhwII7Giti1-Fu469w1faGsYJeJCzai7PmWsccODNt8n62EG2vQek310H1LZOzk_UoXFI-V00UcI00XFKLrjQ/s1682/Testing%20Dothan%20Reading%20Compared%20to%20area%20county%20schools.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="1682" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmx-QiH4aXA5QbWL_GwdWHpQie8ABpthpPeyrLj9rYpLNH6gjWC7CFL7C5x-w0rZgoz-PyVb9qJmN7bTw5e8mTVozVVtkiBROhXcaCGKhwII7Giti1-Fu469w1faGsYJeJCzai7PmWsccODNt8n62EG2vQek310H1LZOzk_UoXFI-V00UcI00XFKLrjQ/w644-h346/Testing%20Dothan%20Reading%20Compared%20to%20area%20county%20schools.png" width="644" /></a></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://parcalabama.org/category/education-workforce-development/">https://parcalabama.org/category/education-workforce-development/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">As you can see, there has been no improvement in Dothan City Schools since the 1990s yet we continue to listen to those who caused the problem to tell us how to fix it. I will guarantee you those professors at Troy and Dothan administrators have submitted a lifelong series of </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">professional papers to journals using Dothan City Schools students to feather their professional resume. In academia, it is a you publish my paper and I'll publish yours and we will have like-minded (peer review) approval for whatever we chose to inflict on the children in our schools. Little wonder parents are choosing to go to the county schools or homeschool.</span> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">As a lifelong member of this community, I am appalled that we have fallen victim to the "need more money and then it will work" claims of our education establishment. With this trusting attitude we have let our children fall victim to what Dean Kunkel of Auburn called thirty years ago "current wisdom." As a consequence, an unbelievable number of our children graduate as functional illiterates. History has become Multiculturalism dividing our country into tribes. English has become "Transformational" and we are allowing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eU0gydb8Gc&t=1s">Sex Education k-12</a> and <a href="https://eagleforum.org/category/education/social-emotional-learning">Social Emotional Learning (SEL)</a> to "teach" topics that would have been considered child abuse thirty years ago.</span> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Parents need to </span> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">1. Read the Resolutions for the National Education Association and determine for yourself whether this Left Wing (Marxist) organization should be controlling our schools. (How can this be legal?) <a href="https://calltowakeup.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-nea-is-leftist-political-lobbying.html">https://calltowakeup.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-nea-is-leftist-political-lobbying.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">2. Stand up! The child belongs to you! If the school cannot do the job then the money for his/her education should be put in your hands so you can put him/her into the school that will. </span> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"> 3. <span style="font-size: medium;">Attend the School Board Meetings.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> And then do research on your own (not what they give out in their PR packets). </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">See if it is another of the items on the Resolutions for the National Education Association. </span></p><a href="https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2021-09/NEA%20Resolutions_2021-2022.pdf">https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2021-09/NEA%20Resolutions_2021-2022.pdf</a></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>I am a bit confused about Highlands. I find on another spot that their rating is as listed below. That would be 36% of children not proficient in reading. 27% in the third grade, 33 % in the fourth grade and 48 percent in the fifth grade. I really see irony here at these scores on a website called "great schools" and they report that at least one third of the students are not proficient readers. <a href="https://www.greatschools.org/alabama/dothan/1912-Highlands-Elementary-School/">https://www.greatschools.org/alabama/dothan/1912-Highlands-Elementary-School/</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9I5M4SvNfHomXsWMZMXqsDiXlIM7_vYaUzVuzfWTn_3YNrE1KvBRY6zzIe_Yw_xLkG3xct_hccRfzQMloZd9lxHRanFUbNxWe9yhLiPgQESXYggPidPrSYm7xVZ3Js3NW_t3CIkfoIlUiGW9nBkgxiCDsoRLEgVrn_AZVHbtTdd5R8xduMfWvDBPMsA/s1520/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-08%20at%2010.20.48%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1288" data-original-width="1520" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9I5M4SvNfHomXsWMZMXqsDiXlIM7_vYaUzVuzfWTn_3YNrE1KvBRY6zzIe_Yw_xLkG3xct_hccRfzQMloZd9lxHRanFUbNxWe9yhLiPgQESXYggPidPrSYm7xVZ3Js3NW_t3CIkfoIlUiGW9nBkgxiCDsoRLEgVrn_AZVHbtTdd5R8xduMfWvDBPMsA/w430-h364/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-08%20at%2010.20.48%20AM.png" width="430" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These are the Reading Score Screen shots from which I made the Excel Graph. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red;">PERCENT OF STUDENTS NOT READING ON GRADE LEVEL BY END OF 3RD GRADE</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">FAINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, DOTHAN CITY SCHOOL 61%</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">NOT EVEN ONE OF EVERY TWO CAN READ ON 3RD GRADE LEVEL </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn9NDLypgkY2N3CufESRm_bBgS8W1EigPgdW3eaanBEgYuZ3MSDZDWYfUFsM2migIBM1hpvCE9uB_w333oah8n74LwY0X0UHo7nUhNsahpJ0kcxPeAYBZeM5nakxUgdb2VvsNbZYBnJ_DYBaP-umrmvArxpc1K3ckjvZeqyNolL6YalKa2uLtqFNum3w/s1938/FAINE%20ELEMENTARY%20SCHOOL%20DOTHAN%20CITY%20SCHOOLS.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1256" data-original-width="1938" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn9NDLypgkY2N3CufESRm_bBgS8W1EigPgdW3eaanBEgYuZ3MSDZDWYfUFsM2migIBM1hpvCE9uB_w333oah8n74LwY0X0UHo7nUhNsahpJ0kcxPeAYBZeM5nakxUgdb2VvsNbZYBnJ_DYBaP-umrmvArxpc1K3ckjvZeqyNolL6YalKa2uLtqFNum3w/w588-h380/FAINE%20ELEMENTARY%20SCHOOL%20DOTHAN%20CITY%20SCHOOLS.png" width="588" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY, DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS 7%</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Appear to be doing something right. But Great Schools says that 36% are not reading on grade level. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, which do we believe? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghqhH8-kH6pVddSEDPMsT77xFuxjN9JnxOLpg5KGSIwgePGCs9mZq8orZMdHYOcjMtXTuwkimzkLrpGhl1JxMH0m5-e-rV2s9qzJwMgrNV1huDVSAt1y_-jzYk0qISxtHvEknk5ud-3chjYl2nugmw4bXm8Q62t53728ma492Uq39Nd_dZUEEOHPtBtQ/s1914/Testing%20Reading%20Highlands%20Elementary%20Dothan.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1462" data-original-width="1914" height="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghqhH8-kH6pVddSEDPMsT77xFuxjN9JnxOLpg5KGSIwgePGCs9mZq8orZMdHYOcjMtXTuwkimzkLrpGhl1JxMH0m5-e-rV2s9qzJwMgrNV1huDVSAt1y_-jzYk0qISxtHvEknk5ud-3chjYl2nugmw4bXm8Q62t53728ma492Uq39Nd_dZUEEOHPtBtQ/w583-h445/Testing%20Reading%20Highlands%20Elementary%20Dothan.png" width="583" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">KELLY SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS 42%</div><div style="text-align: center;">MORRIS SLINGLUFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS 41%</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">Almost one of every two students cannot read on grade level. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi75icj0OCQzOGfva0OrKhotMZL7RMFJM3GixpCKsJLZrG6xaAFBkxWVA9OFRQk37eI3wtBQ08G2yj332s0m9eHJtlJfL08rRKvbgsiJCK5X4fEHWR4YPGAyoQ9kpgNs9hmp9XW55jy982WhTgNKL04Fdv57WDVER9q0TQqYdYNhJxTGxXtXlMJhkVbKQ/s1482/Testing%20Reading%20Kelly%20Springs%20and%20Morris%20Slingluff%20Elementary.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1482" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi75icj0OCQzOGfva0OrKhotMZL7RMFJM3GixpCKsJLZrG6xaAFBkxWVA9OFRQk37eI3wtBQ08G2yj332s0m9eHJtlJfL08rRKvbgsiJCK5X4fEHWR4YPGAyoQ9kpgNs9hmp9XW55jy982WhTgNKL04Fdv57WDVER9q0TQqYdYNhJxTGxXtXlMJhkVbKQ/w543-h264/Testing%20Reading%20Kelly%20Springs%20and%20Morris%20Slingluff%20Elementary.png" width="543" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Almost one of every two students cannot read on grade level. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">BEVERLYE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS 47%</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">GIRARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS 46%</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZwl7_xyxCuY9BFrGkKU3ounNjFjQ0gk0KQBdm81-cFaGQSTqRthVYmALwXboXFY6aOSa9-UouhIwt8nMHT8Qw7_lwh1Ruy1Px1IQEzadP2TWht8c_zBgUliCF4s3U9FG5M3gyI4L6aT_QHuyml7sNdByyTLijMhJB1VS1VTOn7ibx_c8J7x3cekfXiw/s1524/Testing%20Reading%20Beverlye%20and%20Girard%20Intermediate%20School%20Dothan.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="1524" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZwl7_xyxCuY9BFrGkKU3ounNjFjQ0gk0KQBdm81-cFaGQSTqRthVYmALwXboXFY6aOSa9-UouhIwt8nMHT8Qw7_lwh1Ruy1Px1IQEzadP2TWht8c_zBgUliCF4s3U9FG5M3gyI4L6aT_QHuyml7sNdByyTLijMhJB1VS1VTOn7ibx_c8J7x3cekfXiw/w601-h232/Testing%20Reading%20Beverlye%20and%20Girard%20Intermediate%20School%20Dothan.png" width="601" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Remember, this looks good in comparison, but that is one of almost every 4 students who cannot read on 3rd grade level.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">SELMA STREET SCHOOL, DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS 25%</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjAKsdTpAIn0rCNNf0CZLKtlIK5Ln48NVGA1CYAaAY63aO5KwaPEX3myPIpttoOokZw2uIRGFroc7molG49c2slmV2p3SmHv_BCptdj5vYX0Ok_zvW6LaoH6JuJO78k-9Zm-CzKs9so3ikNt0KeEcR11g9UKrF4haDHi7HGsxiCEuRLeeykCAmdwnVFw/s1944/Testing%20Selma%20Street%20School%20Reading.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1282" data-original-width="1944" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjAKsdTpAIn0rCNNf0CZLKtlIK5Ln48NVGA1CYAaAY63aO5KwaPEX3myPIpttoOokZw2uIRGFroc7molG49c2slmV2p3SmHv_BCptdj5vYX0Ok_zvW6LaoH6JuJO78k-9Zm-CzKs9so3ikNt0KeEcR11g9UKrF4haDHi7HGsxiCEuRLeeykCAmdwnVFw/w593-h391/Testing%20Selma%20Street%20School%20Reading.png" width="593" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">HEARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS 14%</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Remember, this looks good in comparison, but that is one of almost every 10 students who cannot read on 3rd grade level.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjKuRtChaf4y2sLJnJg-9GeGr6IP8VmKNwSCtM_PQstsH5X5eZvPAan7NRsPVPQds5kPirpBnB9dMdSYPJ-7APZp55hzm5vS5jdn9yXqG0wvx4Z4xA2mc-yKlvY0b3r9WJ0umV9lTb6ohW-hrxrN69RsA4g0PXQbYeBXREE8Op6tjAl5qIb1YQpKA1Pg/s1924/Testing%20Heard%20%20Alabama's%203rd%20grade%20reading%20scores%20by%20school.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1526" data-original-width="1924" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjKuRtChaf4y2sLJnJg-9GeGr6IP8VmKNwSCtM_PQstsH5X5eZvPAan7NRsPVPQds5kPirpBnB9dMdSYPJ-7APZp55hzm5vS5jdn9yXqG0wvx4Z4xA2mc-yKlvY0b3r9WJ0umV9lTb6ohW-hrxrN69RsA4g0PXQbYeBXREE8Op6tjAl5qIb1YQpKA1Pg/w513-h408/Testing%20Heard%20%20Alabama's%203rd%20grade%20reading%20scores%20by%20school.png" width="513" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">RRemember, this looks good in comparison, but that is one of almost every 10 students who cannot read on 3rd grade level.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">REHOBETH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS 12%</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUTZL0hHvMdoc3O7vf8OZ2LDK2Cd6UkEtcx2TjjcZpWI5FG8D-XgDexLwr_UQcLjyHUcSA1_03BRT5ySftscWKsKhiNEFEgkCsG7lzdwdZdUoIjaj0hw5QbGp9x9i19r6_mkQHgXcpRgvA8NmrnO0n1SdaeHEvJRA0udLRTggsj2mQTydUgjJ23vOWgw/s1980/Testing%20Rehobeth%20Alabama's%203rd%20Grade%20Reading%20Scores.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1532" data-original-width="1980" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUTZL0hHvMdoc3O7vf8OZ2LDK2Cd6UkEtcx2TjjcZpWI5FG8D-XgDexLwr_UQcLjyHUcSA1_03BRT5ySftscWKsKhiNEFEgkCsG7lzdwdZdUoIjaj0hw5QbGp9x9i19r6_mkQHgXcpRgvA8NmrnO0n1SdaeHEvJRA0udLRTggsj2mQTydUgjJ23vOWgw/w463-h359/Testing%20Rehobeth%20Alabama's%203rd%20Grade%20Reading%20Scores.png" width="463" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Remember, this looks good in comparison, but that is one of almost every 5 students who cannot read on 3rd grade level.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">COTTONWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, HOUSTON COUNTY 20%</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjabth6MGz3PycqOjCLgEla74aBOJe0sdiuLVrv5Qy9qNV0_jVV9McvTkgY61fEOQCEn4Z5eCT9QAUI1JPQFnRN-GzEigpDAmiIRVrn4HCFnIBLjNzsDqUJ4nu4M6oU7_tc01tRLj-hOCyl0lMWKbmc-9n10j68mTot3VL0MeXwxXTH43fElu6ueJwzZw/s1960/Testing%20Alabama%203rd%20Grade%20Reading%20Scores%203%20Cottonwood.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1546" data-original-width="1960" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjabth6MGz3PycqOjCLgEla74aBOJe0sdiuLVrv5Qy9qNV0_jVV9McvTkgY61fEOQCEn4Z5eCT9QAUI1JPQFnRN-GzEigpDAmiIRVrn4HCFnIBLjNzsDqUJ4nu4M6oU7_tc01tRLj-hOCyl0lMWKbmc-9n10j68mTot3VL0MeXwxXTH43fElu6ueJwzZw/w434-h342/Testing%20Alabama%203rd%20Grade%20Reading%20Scores%203%20Cottonwood.png" width="434" /></a></div>Remember, this looks good in comparison, but that is one of almost every 10 students who cannot read on 3rd grade level.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">WICKSBURG, HOUSTON COUNTY 14%</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjKuRtChaf4y2sLJnJg-9GeGr6IP8VmKNwSCtM_PQstsH5X5eZvPAan7NRsPVPQds5kPirpBnB9dMdSYPJ-7APZp55hzm5vS5jdn9yXqG0wvx4Z4xA2mc-yKlvY0b3r9WJ0umV9lTb6ohW-hrxrN69RsA4g0PXQbYeBXREE8Op6tjAl5qIb1YQpKA1Pg/s1924/Testing%20Heard%20%20Alabama's%203rd%20grade%20reading%20scores%20by%20school.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1526" data-original-width="1924" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjKuRtChaf4y2sLJnJg-9GeGr6IP8VmKNwSCtM_PQstsH5X5eZvPAan7NRsPVPQds5kPirpBnB9dMdSYPJ-7APZp55hzm5vS5jdn9yXqG0wvx4Z4xA2mc-yKlvY0b3r9WJ0umV9lTb6ohW-hrxrN69RsA4g0PXQbYeBXREE8Op6tjAl5qIb1YQpKA1Pg/w466-h370/Testing%20Heard%20%20Alabama's%203rd%20grade%20reading%20scores%20by%20school.png" width="466" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">HEADLAND, HENRY COUNTY 19%</div><div><br /></div>Remember, this looks good in comparison, but that is one of ever 5 students who cannot read on 3rd grade level.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CmVR0w6mdKg/Yvg3UJegNQI/AAAAAAAAOtE/wf9NOKxbZ40lx7ECy6-tOH6Ke2NOJ99XgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1940/Testing%2BAlabama%2527s%2B3rd%2BGrade%2BReading%2BScores4%2BHeadland.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="1940" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CmVR0w6mdKg/Yvg3UJegNQI/AAAAAAAAOtE/wf9NOKxbZ40lx7ECy6-tOH6Ke2NOJ99XgCNcBGAsYHQ/w664-h480/Testing%2BAlabama%2527s%2B3rd%2BGrade%2BReading%2BScores4%2BHeadland.png" width="664" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Reading Methods that actually work</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Orton Gillingham (used by Providence)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Spalding Writing Road to Reading (also based on Samuel Orton's methodology)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ABEKA (used by Northside)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There were others I once recommended, but they have been bought by Pearson and </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">corrupted because of their supposed "eclectic" approach that brought Whole Language into it </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and undermined the whole process. </div><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6D0PIeAoCdePbwmLZddsSjT5y617BNVdnuVDeHpb8BQF-nSjZedPkn0tX6J1hoEWJwPWomiiZqhrb8GrI113HUnUC2pQaNl1OCUeUdUpGntNufUNAB1Uv-I05wuU4M_XtF3YWwlsrhH243Bie4DZTwi1xWX7rU0TdXKZnHqZldlsAi9lg8PkdEZ4kHw/s1990/Testing%20Alabama%20ACT%20REsults%20Universities.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1528" data-original-width="2006" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmkDImjeENvgco5eCdk2G4Ru6Rqw_eg-53ff-5QUUPu970gjz-3FgdP93gTFG9PloVOledjrQf3SqRU5KEZA6BYlgE8k3Ytmbakquiy72BnDTLr3zEOpSbEcpC1pinpmk-P4UGj_vW-qWeuUju9NlAoSHUsq1I1xUNOgs9nD5OKaA1JZe9lxha8vUJOQ/w594-h452/Testing%20Alabama%20ACT%20Scores.png" width="594" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You see where Alabama is on the ACT scores. We are actually 52nd in the nation behind Washington DC and Puerto Rico on the National Assessment of Education Progress. And you can see where Dothan stands in Alabama. </div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 65); color: #404041; font-family: Campton-Book; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">The Alabama Literacy Act, passed in 2019, has sharpened the focus on early grades reading and directed coaching support and additional resources to support reading instruction based on the science of reading. The law now requires all schools to assess all students in reading from kindergarten through third grade. If a K-3 student is identified with a reading deficiency, the law requires the child’s parent or guardian to be notified of the deficiency within 15 days. The school is required to develop and implement an intervention plan for the student within 30 days. Identified students are to receive intensive support from specialists trained in the science of reading during school, before or after school, and over the summer until that student’s deficits are addressed. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 65); color: #404041; font-family: Campton-Book; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">“Each K-3 student who exhibits a reading deficiency or the characteristics of dyslexia,” the law reads, “shall be provided an appropriate reading intervention program to address his or her specific deficiencies. Additionally, students shall be evaluated after every grading period and, if a student is determined to have a reading deficiency, the school shall provide the student with additional tutorial support.” </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 65); color: #404041; font-family: Campton-Book; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">“Each identified student,” the Act continues, “shall receive intensive reading intervention until the student no longer has a deficiency in reading.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 65); color: #404041; font-family: Campton-Book; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">The 2022 results represent a slight improvement over 2021, when 23% of students scored below grade level on the reading portion of the Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program (ACAP), the statewide standardized test administered to students each spring. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 65); color: #404041; font-family: Campton-Book; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">The Literacy Act will eventually require that, to be promoted to fourth grade, students must demonstrate that they can read at grade level (some exceptions apply). That provision of the Act was delayed by the Alabama Legislature in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The children entering third grade this fall will not face the retention requirement. However, the rest of the law is in force. Schools and systems must identify and provide intervention services to children in grades K-3, including summer learning camps. All parents of second and third graders who scored below grade level on the reading portion of the ACAP should have been notified and should enter school this fall with a plan for remediation in place.</p></div>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-68816845450475689572022-08-22T08:26:00.004-07:002023-09-12T08:58:44.438-07:00GAY AND LESBIAN TRAINING ON TAXPAYER DIME<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">Middle School Agenda for Sexual Orientation as a part of Multicultural Education</h3><div class="post-header" style="font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8471136411406235589" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; 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padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 596px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">"The left’s attempt to poison the minds of impressionable young children is lockstep with the United Nation’s World Health Organization’s effort to to eradicate gender and expand its concept of “intersectionality.”</span></p></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 596px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">In July, the WHO <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/world-health-organization-issues-new-gender-guidance-sex-not-limited-male-female/" rel="noopener" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e428a; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">announced</a> it will update its “gender mainstreaming manual” to declare “sex is not limited to male or female.”</span></p></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 596px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/06-07-2022-who-updates-widely-used-gender-mainstreaming-manual" rel="noopener" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e428a; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">According to</a> the WHO website, intersectionality “looks at how gender power dynamics interact with other hierarchies of privilege or disadvantage, resulting in inequality and differential health outcomes for different people.</span></p></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 596px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="sponsor REP" id="REP_1-ad" style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 10px 0px; text-align: left;"></div></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 596px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">As <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Gateway Pundit</em> has reported, the walls of elementary school classrooms at the United Nations International School in New York City are covered with posters designed to groom and indoctrinate students with propaganda promoting body dysmorphia, “gender fluidity” and social justice." Gateway Pundit, </span></p><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e428a; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/k-12-teachers-texas-urged-take-lgbtqia-training-taxpayers-dime-course-materials-given-brainwash-students/">K-12 Teachers In Texas Are Urged To Take This ‘LGBTQIA+’ Training on Taxpayers’ Dime, Here’s The Course Materials They Are Given To Brainwash Students</a></span></h1><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: start;"><div class="entry-meta-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: table; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; max-width: none; vertical-align: top;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: times;">By <a data-type-location="before-article-meta" data-type="Internal link" href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/author/aliciap/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e428a; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Alicia Powe</a> <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Published August 21, 2022 at 9:04pm <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><a class="post-comments entry-comment-count-article" href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/k-12-teachers-texas-urged-take-lgbtqia-training-taxpayers-dime-course-materials-given-brainwash-students/#disqus_thread" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">561 Comments</a></span></span></div></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> If this is happening in Texas, it is happening here. </span></p></div></div></blockquote><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 596px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="sponsor REP" id="REP_1-ad" style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-family: catamaran, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 10px 0px; text-align: start;"><div id="REP_1" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></div></div></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 596px;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">8.22.22</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Austin ISD LGBTQIA+ Teacher Training at Taxpayer Expense”</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">From Donna Garner</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">COMMENTS FROM DONNA GARNER: This link shows many of the actual slides from the LGBTQIA+ teacher training in Austin ISD. If this isn’t the most disgusting and upsetting material for little children I have ever seen, then I cannot imagine how much worse it can get: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Be-a-Beacon-101-1-1-1-1.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1661268559331000&usg=AOvVaw0qNsFEYYu-IDGwgfCJoaWl" href="https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Be-a-Beacon-101-1-1-1-1.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://freebeacon.com/wp-<wbr></wbr>content/uploads/2022/08/Be-a-<wbr></wbr>Beacon-101-1-1-1-1.pdf</a></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">===================</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">8.20.22 – Free Beacon </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Texas School District Pushes Teachers To Take ‘LGBTQIA+’ Training on Taxpayers’ Dime”</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">By Patrick Hauf</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://freebeacon.com/campus/texas-school-district-pushes-teachers-to-take-lgbtqia-training-on-taxpayers-dime/&source=gmail&ust=1661268559331000&usg=AOvVaw2ncrX-ql4Itbp7OIQoU4bT" href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/texas-school-district-pushes-teachers-to-take-lgbtqia-training-on-taxpayers-dime/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times;">https://freebeacon.com/campus/<wbr></wbr>texas-school-district-pushes-<wbr></wbr>teachers-to-take-lgbtqia-<wbr></wbr>training-on-taxpayers-dime/</span></a></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Excerpts from this article: </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">A Texas school district [Austin ISD] encouraged K-12 teachers to take paid time off, at taxpayer expense, to take a course on "how to create supportive learning environments for LGBTQIA+" students as young as five years old.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Austin Independent School District's <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Be-a-Beacon-101-1-1-1-1.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1661268559331000&usg=AOvVaw0qNsFEYYu-IDGwgfCJoaWl" href="https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Be-a-Beacon-101-1-1-1-1.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">course material</a>, obtained through a public information request, defined gender identity as the "innermost concept of self as male, female, neither or both," calling it "one's authentic identity." </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The course also provided an example of a girl who questions her gender identity and asked how teachers should properly respond.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">"A 14-year-old youth, who recently asked to be called Ronnie not Veronica, discloses to you a desire to go by ‘they' pronouns," one PowerPoint slide read. </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">"Ronnie wants to cut their hair short but isn’t sure how their parents will react, making them feel anxious. Ronnie is also stressed because while they have been dating Julie and ‘came out as a lesbian' in 7th grade, they have started to have feelings for Ted, who identifies as male, and this is confusing for them."</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">…The Austin public school district sparked controversy in June when it <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/26/paxton-lgbtq-pride-austin-isd/&source=gmail&ust=1661268559331000&usg=AOvVaw0DSw6so84Ik11SVZEadTkm" href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/26/paxton-lgbtq-pride-austin-isd/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">defied</a> orders from Texas attorney general Ken Paxton (R.), who labeled its pride parade as "human sexuality instruction," </span><span style="font-family: times;">which requires parents to approve their children's participation.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The district rejected Paxton's claim and followed through with the parade without parental approval.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The "Be a Beacon" gender course is run by Out Youth, which in a February Facebook <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://m.facebook.com/OutYouth/photos/a.116086655657/10158538730750658/?type%3D3%26eid%3DARAO1PjKuRsxOvBITaTlYURRWRF0_AnjAMYbFx_He-Uz_V30jJgDmb6V06hHceSg0-ay9ulsdbLv-D_Q&source=gmail&ust=1661268559331000&usg=AOvVaw1gU1eSO7WLth2YfoHlnV9V" href="https://m.facebook.com/OutYouth/photos/a.116086655657/10158538730750658/?type=3&eid=ARAO1PjKuRsxOvBITaTlYURRWRF0_AnjAMYbFx_He-Uz_V30jJgDmb6V06hHceSg0-ay9ulsdbLv-D_Q" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">post</a> claimed that so-called gender-affirming care for transgender children "saves lives." </span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The training course cited resources from <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hrc.org/resources/get-the-facts-on-gender-affirming-care&source=gmail&ust=1661268559331000&usg=AOvVaw2n_IpO7vuaWl1yvOcq5vdN" href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/get-the-facts-on-gender-affirming-care" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">two prominent</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.glaad.org/reference/health&source=gmail&ust=1661268559331000&usg=AOvVaw3_uT5NXqrinYoqlN8ZdY75" href="https://www.glaad.org/reference/health" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LGBT groups</a> that also support children receiving puberty blockers and hormone treatment. The presentation cited a book titled, The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals…</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">==========================</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">8.21.22 – The Gateway Pundit</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">“K-12 Teachers In Texas Are Urged To Take This ‘LGBTQIA+’ Training on Taxpayers’ Dime, Here’s The Course Materials They Are Given To Brainwash Students” – by Alicia Powe </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/k-12-teachers-texas-urged-take-lgbtqia-training-taxpayers-dime-course-materials-given-brainwash-students/&source=gmail&ust=1661268559331000&usg=AOvVaw2vqHvZkb6Bxtk8R-jOt3L7" href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/k-12-teachers-texas-urged-take-lgbtqia-training-taxpayers-dime-course-materials-given-brainwash-students/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times;">https://www.thegatewaypundit.<wbr></wbr>com/2022/08/k-12-teachers-<wbr></wbr>texas-urged-take-lgbtqia-<wbr></wbr>training-taxpayers-dime-<wbr></wbr>course-materials-given-<wbr></wbr>brainwash-students/</span></a></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Excerpts from this article: </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Austin Independent School District in Texas urged k-12 teachers to attend a training seminar on “how to create supportive learning environments for LGBTQIA+” students as young as five at taxpayer expense.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Are you, or parts of you, both? How do you know?” the training manual asks. “If your anatomy changed overnight to the opposite sex, would it change who you feel yourself to be?”</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in 0in 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The “Be a Beacon gender training was developed by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://m.facebook.com/OutYouth/photos/a.116086655657/10158538730750658/?type%3D3%26eid%3DARAO1PjKuRsxOvBITaTlYURRWRF0_AnjAMYbFx_He-Uz_V30jJgDmb6V06hHceSg0-ay9ulsdbLv-D_Q&source=gmail&ust=1661268559331000&usg=AOvVaw1gU1eSO7WLth2YfoHlnV9V" href="https://m.facebook.com/OutYouth/photos/a.116086655657/10158538730750658/?type=3&eid=ARAO1PjKuRsxOvBITaTlYURRWRF0_AnjAMYbFx_He-Uz_V30jJgDmb6V06hHceSg0-ay9ulsdbLv-D_Q" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Out Youth</a>, an organization that “promotes the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being of sexual and gender minority youth so that they can openly and safely explore and affirm their identities,” <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.outyouth.org/mission&source=gmail&ust=1661268559331000&usg=AOvVaw2jluIOFlmDAf5bkCbS9ahP" href="https://www.outyouth.org/mission" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">according to</a> its website.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in 0in 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Out Youth</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg4c6BnrtOV/&source=gmail&ust=1661268559331000&usg=AOvVaw36P0s-oLirba9UFg2VDIBB" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg4c6BnrtOV/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hosted</a> </span><span style="font-family: times;">a drag show for “all ages” to celebrate Austin Pride Weekend on Aug. 21.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in 0in 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">The group creating training courses for elementary school teachers also previously hosted a dance party to commemorate Lil Nas X, a rapper notorious for giving Satan a lap dance in his</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://pagesix.com/2021/03/27/fans-divided-as-lil-nas-x-gives-satan-a-lap-dance-in-new-video/?_ga%3D2.127202628.819967997.1661010855-1957401129.1657643630&source=gmail&ust=1661268559331000&usg=AOvVaw3zJjifM3Y8VtaFeDcDV0PS" href="https://pagesix.com/2021/03/27/fans-divided-as-lil-nas-x-gives-satan-a-lap-dance-in-new-video/?_ga=2.127202628.819967997.1661010855-1957401129.1657643630" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">music video</a> and manufacturing <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://pagesix.com/2021/03/27/lil-nas-xs-satan-shoes-will-contain-drop-of-human-blood/?_ga%3D2.53271009.819967997.1661010855-1957401129.1657643630&source=gmail&ust=1661268559331000&usg=AOvVaw17fkJBZVOaPgVUQvGxB8vc" href="https://pagesix.com/2021/03/27/lil-nas-xs-satan-shoes-will-contain-drop-of-human-blood/?_ga=2.53271009.819967997.1661010855-1957401129.1657643630" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Satan Shoes”</a> with Nike that contained drops of human blood.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">[COMMENTS FROM DONNA GARNER: It is very telling to me that the group itself identifies with Satan. This should tell any “doubters” exactly what they need to know. Satan, the prince of darkness, lies, suffering, evil, and total destruction… This is what Satan has planned for our precious children using the LGBTQ perversion.] </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: #26282a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><b><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 13.2px;">Middle School Agenda for Sexual Orientation as a part of Multicultural Education</span></b><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times;">I will let you read below the sessions for this 1994 Convention for the National Middle School Association to determine for yourself if there is a national agenda for a certain political and world view. Are these teachers prepared to handle psychotherapy in their classrooms? This was sent to a Dothan City Schools teacher in 1994 who shared it with me. Are they truly prepared to address the impact these topics and presentation on the individual child? Are parents aware of what is now considered a part of public education?<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KnNakQ_mw2M/Wg3ZdF_EcmI/AAAAAAAAEsM/8I4RMHecgG8_T7yZq0vKCb7bzwJ9mDGKQCLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_ac8f.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="545" height="262" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KnNakQ_mw2M/Wg3ZdF_EcmI/AAAAAAAAEsM/8I4RMHecgG8_T7yZq0vKCb7bzwJ9mDGKQCLcBGAs/s640/fullsizeoutput_ac8f.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">I kind of thought schools were to teach Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, History and Science. When did the education establishment presume to assume as their role the enlightenment of our 11 year old Middle School children on whether they are gay, lesbian or bisexual? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times;">As I have written, secular humanism is now the established religion of our schools. </span><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times;">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. And, of course, these children (11 - 15) are well-equipped to handle this information.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u4UIaBXKLhs/Wg3Z0PoeQaI/AAAAAAAAEsU/kKgbtYm_DVY6Ul4EzoW4unFUxwpa_8yTACLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_9e3d.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u4UIaBXKLhs/Wg3Z0PoeQaI/AAAAAAAAEsU/kKgbtYm_DVY6Ul4EzoW4unFUxwpa_8yTACLcBGAs/s640/fullsizeoutput_9e3d.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times;"> I am being sarcastic here. You see, I was a late bloomer. At 15 I was still playing with Barbie dolls with my little sister (6 yrs younger). I was innocent of the words that must be explained even in the simple descriptions of the topics of this seminar. My parents would have been appalled. Just as I am as a grandmother of five. Our schools have no business sexualizing our children. </span><br /><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--tcU9iVDP6k/WgykktqTwLI/AAAAAAAAEgY/YLL-Z68rMB8dQKhSRiLPyhZGqsqG5ZdYwCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/fullsizeoutput_b5f4.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="602" height="390" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--tcU9iVDP6k/WgykktqTwLI/AAAAAAAAEgY/YLL-Z68rMB8dQKhSRiLPyhZGqsqG5ZdYwCPcBGAYYCw/s640/fullsizeoutput_b5f4.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: times;">I believe that "as a man thinketh, so is he." (Proverbs 23:7) It is our responsibility as parents to protect the minds and hearts of our children just as we protect them physically. It is my belief that topics such as this belong with the parents and family. And yet, you <b>cannot opt out </b>as this is <b>integrated into the curriculum</b>. When Goals 2000 mandated the rewrite of local board bylaws, the local watchdogs of curriculum were kicked out any oversight. By the way, you paid for those experts to impose that on your community.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/08/secular-humanism-is-now-accepted.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #420178;">https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/08/secular-humanism-is-now-accepted.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Does behavior modeling attitudes and beliefs apply here? <span style="color: #420178;"><a href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-protest-at-busy-intersection-near.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-protest-at-busy-intersection-near.html</a></span></span><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">We saw this sexual orientation agenda included in the Conflict Resolution Curriculum for pre schoolers. </span><a href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/02/conflict-resolution-or-political-and.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/02/conflict-resolution-or-political-and.html</a></div><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LdMc-TaMtu8/WalpgnNA71I/AAAAAAAADwg/-c3eKXnMIxUGpdubKv7Wiuxtv112kG9WQCEwYBhgL/s1600/middle1.gif" style="color: #888888; 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background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" /></a></div><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"></div><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">You realize, of course, that sex education has now been politicized.</span><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> </span><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">And it is</span><b style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> integrated into every subject </b><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">throughout the curriculum K-12 in the Common Core curriculum under the aegis of Pearson Publishing led by atheist, globalist Sir Michael Bailey. Common Core has nothing to do with academic excellence. It has everything to do with social engineering.</span><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4388520810074756700" style="clear: right; color: #888888; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SRmNrNQu0_w/WgyeRKWa_UI/AAAAAAAAEe8/fKzbjEshAJIBesxFRgG5uZ3sKByxUeJJQCLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_b428.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="816" height="386" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SRmNrNQu0_w/WgyeRKWa_UI/AAAAAAAAEe8/fKzbjEshAJIBesxFRgG5uZ3sKByxUeJJQCLcBGAs/s640/fullsizeoutput_b428.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">You know that the Guttmacher Foundation works hand and glove with Planned Parenthood. This is their definition of comprehensive sexuality education.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MqdNucXqnlM/Wgye87vSiJI/AAAAAAAAEfU/1lXylAXam_wwRbXCwK3F1b0g0VYG0nA6wCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B2.08.46%2BPM.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="1466" height="402" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MqdNucXqnlM/Wgye87vSiJI/AAAAAAAAEfU/1lXylAXam_wwRbXCwK3F1b0g0VYG0nA6wCLcBGAs/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B2.08.46%2BPM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AMTARnZeZRU/WalpkRtbOII/AAAAAAAADwU/QAXU-j9I-mo82PvlYnAz5XLeJT0RnWoJwCLcBGAs/s1600/middle7.gif" style="clear: right; color: #888888; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="606" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AMTARnZeZRU/WalpkRtbOII/AAAAAAAADwU/QAXU-j9I-mo82PvlYnAz5XLeJT0RnWoJwCLcBGAs/s1600/middle7.gif" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" /></a></div><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">There has even been a set of Sexuality Standards to be taught in Common Core. Let me remind you once more, it will be integrated into every subject including Math and English beginning in Kindergarten. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FftOKwJhAJ8/Wgyh7AtsTnI/AAAAAAAAEfg/0a0aZKX1rKoLEpmeFTIoX4x1Kz8wEqezACLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_a484.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="1184" height="408" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FftOKwJhAJ8/Wgyh7AtsTnI/AAAAAAAAEfg/0a0aZKX1rKoLEpmeFTIoX4x1Kz8wEqezACLcBGAs/s640/fullsizeoutput_a484.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">I would challenge their definition of “health”. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x3y3vds28DI/WgyiN1lnMRI/AAAAAAAAEfk/a1jonBM2vjI26s8z2ofLvWKTukrFwAypACLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_b768.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="580" height="442" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x3y3vds28DI/WgyiN1lnMRI/AAAAAAAAEfk/a1jonBM2vjI26s8z2ofLvWKTukrFwAypACLcBGAs/s640/fullsizeoutput_b768.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Washington State Sex Education aligned theirs to the above. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4388520810074756700" style="clear: right; color: #888888; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"></a><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AD0pnFdgigY/WgyexqIpbJI/AAAAAAAAEfY/ZZ_TjxQ9Zo8b1dRJQQy5LqwD2OaotXa9QCEwYBhgL/s1600/fullsizeoutput_ba4b.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="314" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AD0pnFdgigY/WgyexqIpbJI/AAAAAAAAEfY/ZZ_TjxQ9Zo8b1dRJQQy5LqwD2OaotXa9QCEwYBhgL/s400/fullsizeoutput_ba4b.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6jVPIGUXSeU/WgyexDHQnxI/AAAAAAAAEfY/BFk_HcJC7SkE1I6QhfFW4G24NvL7dxL9QCEwYBhgL/s1600/fullsizeoutput_b8ce.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="326" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6jVPIGUXSeU/WgyexDHQnxI/AAAAAAAAEfY/BFk_HcJC7SkE1I6QhfFW4G24NvL7dxL9QCEwYBhgL/s400/fullsizeoutput_b8ce.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="251" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">What is age appropriate about Kindergarten sex education? I thought parents had control of the attitudes and beliefs of their children!</span></b><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zwxdsJqRpXU/Wgyi2JJXesI/AAAAAAAAEfw/y4T5_2OyigYjY-z6JsU1qhjtWs5bp9EKgCLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_a7f5.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="501" height="242" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zwxdsJqRpXU/Wgyi2JJXesI/AAAAAAAAEfw/y4T5_2OyigYjY-z6JsU1qhjtWs5bp9EKgCLcBGAs/s320/fullsizeoutput_a7f5.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W3n89MIWAx8/Wgyi2JrxYJI/AAAAAAAAEfs/YjVoD-t1DEk6_E3k1J-xKg0k-DFZAoh9ACLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_b3c9.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="515" height="246" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W3n89MIWAx8/Wgyi2JrxYJI/AAAAAAAAEfs/YjVoD-t1DEk6_E3k1J-xKg0k-DFZAoh9ACLcBGAs/s320/fullsizeoutput_b3c9.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N7_nk8AUyic/Wgyjy3LM3gI/AAAAAAAAEgA/po-dFgx0CvsMKJ1DsIZAThPr3DOR5Td7ACLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_b0eb.jpeg" style="clear: right; color: #888888; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="239" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N7_nk8AUyic/Wgyjy3LM3gI/AAAAAAAAEgA/po-dFgx0CvsMKJ1DsIZAThPr3DOR5Td7ACLcBGAs/s320/fullsizeoutput_b0eb.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="286" /></a><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Sex skills? Is this what they consider Age Appropriate? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KlIXOOAliNI/Wgyjy4UtBTI/AAAAAAAAEf8/_mK-cwbwq68PMwE6VnlUJfuqgTKKqj79gCLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_9cb1.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="410" height="628" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KlIXOOAliNI/Wgyjy4UtBTI/AAAAAAAAEf8/_mK-cwbwq68PMwE6VnlUJfuqgTKKqj79gCLcBGAs/s640/fullsizeoutput_9cb1.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dg3kUhc1N4s/Wgyj9e_hSVI/AAAAAAAAEgE/VSPjCqhyQVkOANbmipZIcIoSIh_e4TGFgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B2.30.24%2BPM.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="994" height="520" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dg3kUhc1N4s/Wgyj9e_hSVI/AAAAAAAAEgE/VSPjCqhyQVkOANbmipZIcIoSIh_e4TGFgCLcBGAs/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B2.30.24%2BPM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">I guess this must be considered age appropriate because it is a cute unicorn. And this is only the beginning. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--tcU9iVDP6k/WgykktqTwLI/AAAAAAAAEgM/FdN8nTfntC0dB-sAdWeSr4D1x1NNtzh4wCLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_b5f4.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="602" height="390" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--tcU9iVDP6k/WgykktqTwLI/AAAAAAAAEgM/FdN8nTfntC0dB-sAdWeSr4D1x1NNtzh4wCLcBGAs/s640/fullsizeoutput_b5f4.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Respect. How do you measure respect? What is the government definition of respect. That is Bill Gates, Sir Michael Barber (atheist globalist in charge of Pearson curriculum and testing), David Coleman (Sociologist, architect of Common core and now the College Boards), Bill Ayers (anarchist, $100,000 a speech on Implementation of Socialism in Schools) because that is who developed this crazy federal domination of education known as COMMON CORE. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TIPojS-Tyd0/WgylvMw3asI/AAAAAAAAEgg/lRsDlFXYSp8UEyvD7e1UofmtKtWlVxW4wCLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_add7.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="1097" height="414" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TIPojS-Tyd0/WgylvMw3asI/AAAAAAAAEgg/lRsDlFXYSp8UEyvD7e1UofmtKtWlVxW4wCLcBGAs/s640/fullsizeoutput_add7.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Practice </span><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">skills? Variety of Assessments? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0TN4bY_uxO4/WgylYz4BezI/AAAAAAAAEgc/DN30i5w94X8D2O4WvnW5QrD-CUQmLImuwCLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_aa27.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="1117" height="380" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0TN4bY_uxO4/WgylYz4BezI/AAAAAAAAEgc/DN30i5w94X8D2O4WvnW5QrD-CUQmLImuwCLcBGAs/s640/fullsizeoutput_aa27.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">"...think they should act? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DFSpefNpw0k/WgymUPeRreI/AAAAAAAAEgs/QkWCJM5hPscd80iOAxoZ5rP-S6dbxEB-gCLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_a426.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="834" height="484" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DFSpefNpw0k/WgymUPeRreI/AAAAAAAAEgs/QkWCJM5hPscd80iOAxoZ5rP-S6dbxEB-gCLcBGAs/s640/fullsizeoutput_a426.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><br />How do you measure respect?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zNFPf7kx_8Y/WgyoL6uEuzI/AAAAAAAAEg8/B16IiMTd1kIvuu_neutJBrydA2kX9PLrACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B2.41.47%2BPM.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="1406" height="402" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zNFPf7kx_8Y/WgyoL6uEuzI/AAAAAAAAEg8/B16IiMTd1kIvuu_neutJBrydA2kX9PLrACLcBGAs/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B2.41.47%2BPM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">If, as a person of Faith, your world view is different. Does that mean you don’t have enough “respect.” We know how tolerant these people are of other perspectives. Through their indoctrination, if you do not accept their world view (respect) you must be re-educated. They do have their methods of evaluating whether one respects something or not. They were revealed in a document that described the attitudes they are trying to create in each child. Your child (and you because you planted those beliefs in your child) will reveal those attitudes not only in class and in tests they take, but by biometric evaluations revealed in a document now taken down from the internet, but found and screen shots taken before it was removed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U2YU3tZA2To/WgyopFBnJfI/AAAAAAAAEhA/75ZvJieY7X0tCfa9jB-zp-SyCFw7pl-ZACLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_afe9.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="430" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U2YU3tZA2To/WgyopFBnJfI/AAAAAAAAEhA/75ZvJieY7X0tCfa9jB-zp-SyCFw7pl-ZACLcBGAs/s640/fullsizeoutput_afe9.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="444" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IlUWH2WP2nI/WgyumA25bkI/AAAAAAAAEio/bmGZWCf097sm1ugIHeu8QKEqBLUQvkDJQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.14.24%2BPM.png" style="clear: right; color: #888888; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IlUWH2WP2nI/WgyumA25bkI/AAAAAAAAEio/bmGZWCf097sm1ugIHeu8QKEqBLUQvkDJQCLcBGAs/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.14.24%2BPM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="574" /></a><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Below you can see the Agenda inclusion in a plan for Multicultural education, another instance of “integrating” all in every subject throughout the curriculum.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #16191f; 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text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1424" data-original-width="1010" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3lRc3foY8RA/Wgyunqf-P5I/AAAAAAAAEi4/yHI3OuVUCMgbIsG--3Fj7Tt56RvHbhauwCLcBGAs/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.15.08%2BPM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="452" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J49N0-U3jA4/Wgy74JsgxqI/AAAAAAAAElQ/XmSKgmJ6ylAR-WViufNicKE-cu-3VcubwCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B4.04.43%2BPM.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1402" height="382" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J49N0-U3jA4/Wgy74JsgxqI/AAAAAAAAElQ/XmSKgmJ6ylAR-WViufNicKE-cu-3VcubwCLcBGAs/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B4.04.43%2BPM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sNTCvDXewG0/WgywFBU1ZEI/AAAAAAAAEjY/hduhDfopxj8_YHCPV1ES-QniEB3GYxtzACLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_afc5.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="545" height="131" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sNTCvDXewG0/WgywFBU1ZEI/AAAAAAAAEjY/hduhDfopxj8_YHCPV1ES-QniEB3GYxtzACLcBGAs/s320/fullsizeoutput_afc5.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Really? A Social Construct?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DJ99RKwbwoY/WgywFMUoCvI/AAAAAAAAEjQ/rhntRevI28EIMqdM03Y1v12CjaI82H0MwCLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_a12d.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="132" data-original-width="552" height="76" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DJ99RKwbwoY/WgywFMUoCvI/AAAAAAAAEjQ/rhntRevI28EIMqdM03Y1v12CjaI82H0MwCLcBGAs/s320/fullsizeoutput_a12d.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d2ADaf0l3TQ/WgywFtD18bI/AAAAAAAAEjg/TJjPy8VaImcpSvJzursj6lfYvIPuBFB9ACLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_b6ae.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="121" data-original-width="537" height="71" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d2ADaf0l3TQ/WgywFtD18bI/AAAAAAAAEjg/TJjPy8VaImcpSvJzursj6lfYvIPuBFB9ACLcBGAs/s320/fullsizeoutput_b6ae.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dD4dfGB6UoY/WgywFcfNOTI/AAAAAAAAEjc/gL1KBEFSgOMDIVKIC44fjJdKUjuExqkagCLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_b192.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="142" data-original-width="549" height="82" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dD4dfGB6UoY/WgywFcfNOTI/AAAAAAAAEjc/gL1KBEFSgOMDIVKIC44fjJdKUjuExqkagCLcBGAs/s320/fullsizeoutput_b192.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qZ9U8DbDxpg/WgywGJob1mI/AAAAAAAAEjk/vuIWtXfC8tw6BlGI9N1RK-Tfd4RIJFwUQCLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_bc69.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="132" data-original-width="552" height="76" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qZ9U8DbDxpg/WgywGJob1mI/AAAAAAAAEjk/vuIWtXfC8tw6BlGI9N1RK-Tfd4RIJFwUQCLcBGAs/s320/fullsizeoutput_bc69.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s4EhW1QpMsc/WgywFJ5-w7I/AAAAAAAAEjU/jhXCVGhyPyMnZ6eamsYM_WVanr-mnZmTwCLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_a5dd.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="121" data-original-width="537" height="71" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s4EhW1QpMsc/WgywFJ5-w7I/AAAAAAAAEjU/jhXCVGhyPyMnZ6eamsYM_WVanr-mnZmTwCLcBGAs/s320/fullsizeoutput_a5dd.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Age appropriate? Theory driven? ( MEANING YOUR KID IS A GUINEA PIG) And you trust these people. Why? You think your teacher is prepared to be a psychotherapist to a classroom of children (your child) each an individual. Do you think he/she has any idea of how your child responds to this? Do you think she/he cares?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ACOUueoKISQ/WgyvPXA-s5I/AAAAAAAAEjE/TyuAoEFYLmwZ17HhepcMizC6k_4vdNA7QCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.18.16%2BPM.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="716" height="442" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ACOUueoKISQ/WgyvPXA-s5I/AAAAAAAAEjE/TyuAoEFYLmwZ17HhepcMizC6k_4vdNA7QCLcBGAs/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.18.16%2BPM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Can you imagine any anyone deeming this appropriate -- especially educators?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--qdIRAxUVE8/WgyxdPw61eI/AAAAAAAAEj8/WcL170Yci_0FB1ulEtb71Mfg5C-y2rf_gCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.27.13%2BPM.png" style="color: #888888; 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background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IFjR7COcNQQ/WgyxeC2YQoI/AAAAAAAAEkE/RqthNapi6jMhziOajRD-PNAzqhYmbw-vQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.27.29%2BPM.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1388" height="354" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IFjR7COcNQQ/WgyxeC2YQoI/AAAAAAAAEkE/RqthNapi6jMhziOajRD-PNAzqhYmbw-vQCLcBGAs/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.27.29%2BPM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vmLbPYGyzXI/WgyxenZw29I/AAAAAAAAEkI/ceN1Famtb78fNWdOghlCzSBaz3BgJt25QCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.27.37%2BPM.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="958" data-original-width="1460" height="418" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vmLbPYGyzXI/WgyxenZw29I/AAAAAAAAEkI/ceN1Famtb78fNWdOghlCzSBaz3BgJt25QCLcBGAs/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.27.37%2BPM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Middle School Girls Forced to Ask Classmates for Lesbian Kiss</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cajPvnBr90M/Wgyyq-YX01I/AAAAAAAAEkY/FhyqtMlKFzU55H4gXgDPea86mxkuWqBdwCLcBGAs/s1600/fullsizeoutput_b66e.jpeg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="437" height="600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cajPvnBr90M/Wgyyq-YX01I/AAAAAAAAEkY/FhyqtMlKFzU55H4gXgDPea86mxkuWqBdwCLcBGAs/s640/fullsizeoutput_b66e.jpeg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4m6oLIvPa7w/Wgy1jr_48AI/AAAAAAAAEk4/2jXzImmgnW08LKrg4yLnXqRHILTjChw8gCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.44.53%2BPM.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="1172" height="146" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4m6oLIvPa7w/Wgy1jr_48AI/AAAAAAAAEk4/2jXzImmgnW08LKrg4yLnXqRHILTjChw8gCLcBGAs/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.44.53%2BPM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Sex Ed Integrated into Math Education. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q3tfHqWW_xw/Wgy1iXA0aJI/AAAAAAAAEko/MSuvgFdokHcVS-yrbH-_alSE2hPLudJVACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.44.04%2BPM.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1142" data-original-width="994" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q3tfHqWW_xw/Wgy1iXA0aJI/AAAAAAAAEko/MSuvgFdokHcVS-yrbH-_alSE2hPLudJVACLcBGAs/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.44.04%2BPM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="556" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">When you see the word Health think SEX. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4cScpziDKjM/Wgy1iZ7t3pI/AAAAAAAAEks/4NT5om9tun8Tb4ZB4mD3EFaWnM4IBKJ7ACEwYBhgL/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.44.16%2BPM.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="974" height="490" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4cScpziDKjM/Wgy1iZ7t3pI/AAAAAAAAEks/4NT5om9tun8Tb4ZB4mD3EFaWnM4IBKJ7ACEwYBhgL/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.44.16%2BPM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); 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margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="1228" height="362" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QowT16u_3-8/Wgy1jbSFw5I/AAAAAAAAEk0/Z_5Fh-1VfDEh4nYsV6XSb9PnKtAlp1G_QCEwYBhgL/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.44.36%2BPM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4m6oLIvPa7w/Wgy1jr_48AI/AAAAAAAAEk4/e7VEMNY5iEQAE4auH3l9TeajztwOzXVuwCEwYBhgL/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.44.53%2BPM.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="1172" height="146" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4m6oLIvPa7w/Wgy1jr_48AI/AAAAAAAAEk4/e7VEMNY5iEQAE4auH3l9TeajztwOzXVuwCEwYBhgL/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-15%2Bat%2B3.44.53%2BPM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4388520810074756700" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"></a></div><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #16191f; font-family: "times new roman", serif;">So, after all of that “education” you will probably have need of an abortion clinic.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></div></div><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-48156103580980086492022-08-21T05:55:00.025-07:002022-08-22T18:35:17.445-07:00Letter to Dothan City Schools' School Board Members<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnslf-WDQ4XV6mXgOLHMghIlxixmdInXkSEIJClQgtJhzENZ0UzOfr7FNecCEgMHwtgD0ZirhSyYsfn5yoqJyq7sBvV76fc6Z9UeO44-yYvIMfi70R42ysrDZOLSxGig4hJbR6pMp8ec15oGhuW7kdq7aQ-UyVMQXSqxxtn6nJ7MKL9RNnJYvnTmBhdw/s1328/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-21%20at%207.30.37%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1328" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnslf-WDQ4XV6mXgOLHMghIlxixmdInXkSEIJClQgtJhzENZ0UzOfr7FNecCEgMHwtgD0ZirhSyYsfn5yoqJyq7sBvV76fc6Z9UeO44-yYvIMfi70R42ysrDZOLSxGig4hJbR6pMp8ec15oGhuW7kdq7aQ-UyVMQXSqxxtn6nJ7MKL9RNnJYvnTmBhdw/w623-h370/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-21%20at%207.30.37%20AM.png" width="623" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMgzNy8ZpjMJ8Qt8yCzSmbp18Sjt2bkEYK_Xwu-pXOFZ7GUC3ksRszOiLGmHwciEx18MX-taFoNMRmsl6TwlnPxDrYi1H9QnXov2xYTOEZ9I16dkALWPbu9xoyez1LRiXswTKV-v9gxVfsEcUbuMSR9RUF64D97ThhMirz9nOTpPBepxUc6teB9hqDKw/s1818/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-21%20at%207.35.03%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="1818" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMgzNy8ZpjMJ8Qt8yCzSmbp18Sjt2bkEYK_Xwu-pXOFZ7GUC3ksRszOiLGmHwciEx18MX-taFoNMRmsl6TwlnPxDrYi1H9QnXov2xYTOEZ9I16dkALWPbu9xoyez1LRiXswTKV-v9gxVfsEcUbuMSR9RUF64D97ThhMirz9nOTpPBepxUc6teB9hqDKw/w648-h255/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-21%20at%207.35.03%20AM.png" width="648" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">These are the Dothan City School Board members. Their <a href="https://www.dothan.k12.al.us/domain/1057">email addresses</a> are also available on the Dothan City Schools website if any of you would like to contact them. If you want to speak at a Board meeting you must call to get on a list.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">I began by giving the board members my identifying information that I will not include here. I wonder if I will get a response. This is a follow up to the article I wrote and the Dothan Eagle published in May of 2021, <a href="https://calltowakeup.blogspot.com/2022/07/concern-over-dothan-school-curriculum.html">Concern over Dothan City Schools Curriculum. </a>I did not mention to them that I have a MSE in Education and have taught from Middle School through university level. I have seen and researched what is happening in our schools. I am a writer published by a university press and write a blog visited by over 200,000 visitors. I am a teacher. That is my profession. Education should be policed by teachers. But those who know what is wrong circle the wagons and support it because they are afraid to speak out. There will be a day when Jesus returns and we will all be accountable. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; text-align: left;">Matthew 18:6</b><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; text-align: left;"> “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What do you think "challenge the fixed beliefs of their parents" (Blooms Taxonomy) and constructivist education "creating cognitive dissonance" actually means?</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p></p><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Dear Board Members:</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Around thirty years ago, I ran twice for the school board and lost both times. I ran on a back to basics agenda at a time when we were battling Outcome Based Education and <a href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-leftist-invasion-of-reading.html">Whole Language</a>. Since I lost, both of those agendas became real in our schools. There was no one to battle them. And now we reap the results. </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have been called a "flat earther", a member of the Ku Klux Klan (ridiculous), and other names, I am sure. But the truth is I was right and am right about what is happening. Since the campaigns of my opponents were run out of the central office, I have no doubt that those claims were used. But answer for yourself, what group of children has been most poorly served by the curriculum that they have supposedly been "educated' with? Look at the reading score chart! And Alabama scores last in Math. I wonder why.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I write to you in hope you will take the time to read the information I send you. 2 minutes is simply not long enough to express my concerns at a Board Meeting. You might want to visit the website Betty Peters, Barbara Moore and I have set up called Wake Up America. On that website you will find <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calltowakeup.blogspot.com/2022/08/dothan-city-schools-reading-scores-then.html&source=gmail&ust=1661171542138000&usg=AOvVaw1qIZagA1_mw5qfflWDHF2k" href="https://calltowakeup.blogspot.com/2022/08/dothan-city-schools-reading-scores-then.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://calltowakeup.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2022/08/dothan-<wbr></wbr>city-schools-reading-scores-<wbr></wbr>then.html</a> the current reading scores of our schools. Or go to mine: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com&source=gmail&ust=1661171542138000&usg=AOvVaw05bNnA5FDbi9E87040TkYz" href="http://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.<wbr></wbr>com</a>. The scores (jpg attached) should alarm you as you are the "gatekeepers" supposed to be protecting our children. You are not there to rubber stamp everything proposed by the Administration. Several hundred people have already read the article about the reading scores. I suggest you read <i>Retarding America: the Imprisonment of Potential</i> if you doubt that your decisions make a difference. </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Indeed, there is much for you to be accountable for. Our administrators will use our children as guinea pigs and rise up in their profession writing articles and spouting affective excuses and reasons (not objective or empirical data). But you were elected not to represent them, but the children, parents and citizens whose trust you represent. </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This is an article I wrote recently that should wake you up to what is happening under your noses and under your authority. Therefore you will be accountable before God for whatever stand you choose to take on issues. I was at the school board meeting when you all okayed Social Emotional Learning for Dothan Preparatory. God help us. I assume you all do your own research and do not simply accept what is handed to you by our Superintendent and his minions who all probably belong to the NEA/AEA. I challenge you to read the article on the <a href="https://calltowakeup.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-nea-is-leftist-political-lobbying.html">NEA/AEA resolutions </a>so you can know the belief system of the colleges of education and professional "educators." I call them change agents. If their belief system is not your belief system, what are you doing to stop them in their efforts to advance their cause? </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I recently watched <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DZnKB9NzgD4k%26t%3D3356s&source=gmail&ust=1661171542138000&usg=AOvVaw0hcf8ZyPCcKexFsKB6dh7P" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnKB9NzgD4k&t=3356s" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing </a>about Saul Alinsky. Suddenly all the pieces fell in place and I wrote this article:</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">SAUL ALINSKY, HOMOSEXUAL PREDATOR PRIEST BERNARDIN, BARACH OBAMA and their AL</span>IGNMENT<span face="arial, sans-serif"> WITH PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e20;">The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.’ </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e20;">He went on to say: ‘I no longer need to run as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.'” Norman Thomas</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e20;">"A wise man cannot and should not keep his word when doing so is to his disadvantage, since men are wicked, they will not keep faith with you, you need not keep faith with them. But it is essential to conceal how crafty one is, to know a clever counterfeit and hypocrite." Nicolo Machiavelli</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e20;">According to Alinsky, Machiavelli's book, <u>The Prince</u> was written on how to hold power. <u>Rules for Radicals</u> is how to take power. Alinsky dedicated his book, <u>Rules for Radicals</u>, to Lucifer, the first radical "who was so effective he won his own kingdom." </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e20;">Alinsky's methods: </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e20;">"The end justifies almost any means."</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e20;">"All effective actions require the passport of morality. You do what you can and clothe it in moral garments."</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e20;">"Pick the target. Freeze it. Personalize it. Polarize it. Make the enemy live up to its own rules." (Think Roy Moore and Justice Kavanaugh)</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e20;">Moral rationalization is indispensable at times of action more than justifying the ends and means. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><span>POWER</span></b><span> </span><u><span style="color: blue;">Cardinal Bernardin Homosexual Predator Satanist </span></u><span>was a power player in the Catholic Church who participated in the Satanic enthronement in the Vatican written about in Malachi Martin's <u>Windswept House</u>. President Barack Obama told a round table of religion writers that he continues to be profoundly influenced by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, whom he came to know when he was a community organizer in a project partially funded by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Obama said his encounters with the cardinal continue to influence him, particularly his “seamless garment” approach to a multitude of social justice issues. Alinsky and Bernardin worked together. Obama attended Alinsky's training school and Cardinal Bernardin footed the bill with Catholic donor money. The high tide of Alinsky’s direct influence in the church came in 1978, when his clerical allies seized control of a national meeting of Catholic lay leaders, the Call to Action Conference. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>The "seamless garment" approach to social justice issues came from a 1983 speech wherein Bernardin applied the Biblical story of Jesus' tunic "woven in one piece from the top down" to public policy issues. He maintained that matters as varied as the death penalty, the minimum wage and how to wage war should be considered on the same moral plane as abortion. Benedict XVI wrote "not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia." </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>"Bella Dodd, representative of the American Communist Party, testified "We put 1100 men in the priesthood to destroy the church from within." </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">This method has been used to undermine institutions of influence throughout America--particularly the education system. Barach Obama, schooled by Alinsky, mentored by Cardinal Bernardin, came into power and inserted change agents for his agenda to foment Alinsky's goal of revolution in our country. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><span>DIVISION</span></b><span> --MULTICULTURALISM divides us to conquer us. It was a Saul Alinsky training school that taught Barack Obama how to use “community organizing” as a tool of racial division and political power-grabbing. Choose an issue small enough. Set up the situation of enemies and stir up other enmities with power politics. Alinsky's methods are divorced from morality. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><span>CONFLICT-</span></b><span>Rub raw the feelings of discontent. According to Alinsky the struggle is the victory itself. You must <b>produce the unrest and disparities</b> Alinsky says he is fighting against. The theme of "WHITE PRIVILEGE" has set up the enemy. Now, all that needs to happen is to further stoke the feelings of discontent and hatred.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL) also CONFLICT THEORY OR THESE DAYS CRITICAL THEORY (like CRITICAL RACE THEORY and CONFLICT RESOLUTION) all fit in this category.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Using Alinskyite tactics to make sure that leftist dissenters from key Catholic doctrines at the Call to Action Conference were appointed to key positions, these radicals tried to transform the Call to Action into a kind of American Catholic parliament. Pretending to speak on behalf of all American Catholics, they demanded that the church change its age-old teachings on contraception, ordain women priests and embrace “gay liberation.”</span><span>and placed priests of like mind in positions of authority.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Just so, Alinskyite tactics are used in school board meetings across the country to stifle opposition, isolate the objectors, and use courts and media to promote their agenda. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><span>DECEIT-</span></b><span>-Educators use CONSTRUCTIVIST "methodology" that intentionally produces COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. This is also a tactic used by pedophiles in GROOMING their targets. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Cognitive dissonance is a state of confusion brought about by conflicting beliefs. There are a number of different situations that can create cognitive dissonance, such as "Forced Compliance." They teach children to "challenge the fixed beliefs of their parents" and teach a nonjudgemental morality that makes their beliefs fluid and object of change. This is what the <i>New Republic</i> once called the plasticity of the child, an object to be molded will constitute the new education.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Using methods like those promoted by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics that encourage the move away from the traditional emphasis on computational skills like multiplication tables and algorithms—a teaching method that university mathematicians still favor but that many K–12 math teachers dismiss as “drill and kill.” Teachers (particularly liberal and left-leaning teachers) instead use a “<b>constructivist</b>” or “discovery-based” pedagogy, sometimes called “fuzzy math.”</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>The consequence of cognitive dissonance according to the <i><a style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: blue;">verywellmind</span></a> </i>website: "<wbr></wbr>Sometimes you might find yourself engaging in behaviors that are opposed to your own beliefs due to external expectations, often for work, school, or a social situation. This might involve going along with something due to peer pressure..." </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>So, are kindergarteners strong enough to withstand the peer pressure and proselytizing of an agenda "contrary to the fixed beliefs of their parents?" And how is this Constitutional? </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>And how does Queer Math fit in here? </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Dr. Tommy Bice, former gay Superintendent for the state of Alabama, is a board member of the Magic City Acceptance Academy (grades 6 through 12), one of Alabama's first charter schools. They state on their website: "The essential components in constructivist theory are to elicit prior knowledge, <b>create cognitive dissonance,</b> and apply the knowledge with feedback and reflection on learning." </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>What is the purpose of creating cognitive dissonance? Grooming?</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Obama's friend and former boss, Bill Ayers wrote an endorsement on the book, <i>Queering Elementary Schools: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling</i> for which Kevin Jennings, founder of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian &Straight Education Network), wrote the foreword. Ayers recommended Jennings to be Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. According to the GLSEN website, the National Association of School Psychologists, the Learning First Alliance, the National Education Association, the Council for Exceptional Children, Social Workers Association of America and the American Federation of Teachers are their longtime partners in the education world. They say the purpose of GLSEN is to transform America's K-12 schools into an "affirming environment."</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>A leftist organization called "The Queer Mathematics Teacher" is seeking to embed gender theory in K-12 math classes. Brandie Waid, the director of The Queer Mathematics Teacher, laid out a plan for incorporating gender theory into math classes in a blog post on the Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotion Learning (CASEL) website. <b>CASEL is sponsored by the Allstate Foundation</b>. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e20;">"For the last decade or so, largely working beneath public or parental notice, a well-organized movement has sought to revolutionize the curricula and culture of the nation’s public schools. Its aim: to stamp out “hegemonic heterosexuality”—the traditional view that heterosexuality is the norm—in favor of a new ethos that does not just tolerate homosexuality but instead actively endorses experimenting with it, as well as with a polymorphous range of bisexuality, transgenderism, and transsexuality. The educational establishment has enthusiastically signed on. What this portends for the future of the public schools and the psychic health of the nation’s children is deeply worrisome." writes Marjorie King, <i>Queering the Schools</i>: </span><u><span style="color: blue;">CJ, Spring 2003</span></u><span style="color: #221e20;">. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e20;">Community organizers have been hard at work setting up this framework for up is down, left is right, right is wrong, and numbers, computation, and letters don't matter. Schools are set up to manufacture automatons of the Left, not educated children. At what point does the public refuse to fund these programs that undermine our homes, families and society? The doors were set wide open with President Obama installing "change agents," like Kevin Jennings as Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, in positions of power throughout his government. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">A transcript from a 1997 speech shows Kevin Jennings, Office of Safe Schools chief in the U.S. Department of Education, expressing his admiration for Harry Hay, who was one of the nation's first homosexual activists who launched the Mattachine Society in 1948, founded the Radical Faeries and was a longtime advocate for the North American Man-Boy Love Association, NAMBLA. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>“One of the people that's always inspired me is Harry Hay,” the transcript shows Jennings saying, “who started the first ongoing gay rights groups in America. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span> “Hay was a prominent American gay rights activist, communist, pro-pedophilia activist (NAMBLA), and … founder of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States as well as the Radical Faeries, a loosely-affiliated gay spiritual movement.” Among these, NAMBLA is the infamous North American Man/Boy Love Association. (Wikipedia)</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Harry left Communist Party of the USA and in 1950 joined a group of homosexual communists in forming the so-called Mattachine Society, the pioneering organization of gay communists. From there, Hay did remarkable work in spreading both gay-rights propaganda and communist propaganda and forging the two under a mighty left-wing rainbow umbrella that would revolutionize what we now called the wider “LGBTQ” movement. (Actually, writers at </span><i><span>People’s World</span></i><span>, flagship publication of Communist Party USA, have now started using the term “LGBTQIA.”)</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>These change agents trained in Alinsky methodology, couched in moral rationalization, now work to undermine our country through the institution that touches us all and has had support of being as all-American as Mom and Apple Pie. They managed to extract Christianity and now the children have no Truth to hold onto. The rats have come home to demolish all that we hold dear. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>When will we stand up and "just say no!" </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">But then, maybe this is your belief system. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">By the way, have you looked at the "media center" for Dothan Preparatory? Are you willing to support your decision to make these books available to sixth graders? Or any age child? God will indeed hold you accountable. You are supposed to know what is going on!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2022/08/what-is-now-available-in-dothan-city.html&source=gmail&ust=1661171542138000&usg=AOvVaw1PebIpUHE9FjEF4GKm19l2" href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2022/08/what-is-now-available-in-dothan-city.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://sharmanbursonramsey.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2022/08/what-is-<wbr></wbr>now-available-in-dothan-city.<wbr></wbr>html</a><span style="color: #888888;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"><br /></span></span></span></p></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); color: #888888;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); color: #888888;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Sharman Burson Ramsey</b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com&source=gmail&ust=1661171542138000&usg=AOvVaw3dKoWqml4lGQEEmLDULG6U" href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Sharman Burson Ramsey blog</span></a></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.southern-style.com&source=gmail&ust=1661171542138000&usg=AOvVaw0Ha1YwaT9UimDDvyUeJSFL" href="http://www.southern-style.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Southern-style: A Downhome Perspective on All Things Southern</span></a></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/s?k%3Dsharman%2Bburson%2Bramsey%26crid%3D3AEBA523C89CJ%26sprefix%3Dsharman%2Bburson%2B%252Caps%252C128%26ref%3Dnb_sb_ss_retrain-deeppltr_1_15&source=gmail&ust=1661171542138000&usg=AOvVaw0RAbuFmPjqvkSVruHPKNSN" href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sharman+burson+ramsey&crid=3AEBA523C89CJ&sprefix=sharman+burson+%2Caps%2C128&ref=nb_sb_ss_retrain-deeppltr_1_15" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Books by Sharman Burson Ramsey</span></a></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://calltowakeup.blogspot.com&source=gmail&ust=1661171542138000&usg=AOvVaw10WijTdgvoUPYv2B4f6tio" href="https://calltowakeup.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">WAKE UP AMERICA!</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p><span style="color: #888888; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">A note: I did originally misspell alignment. And I added an "l" in Klu Klux Klan (should be Ku Klux Klan). I corrected that for this post. Fast fingers make for misspelled words. How embarrassing it is to send such errors to the Board of Education--or post on an education website! So when they point these two errors out to discredit the information within, you are forewarned. </span><br /></span></p><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Also, if any of you reading this wonder about what really works in teaching reading order Dr. Patrick Groff's book, <u>Preventing Reading Failure: An Examination of the Myths of Reading Instruction.</u> If you are interested in what works with Math instruction visit </b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2014/06/math-wars-once-again-into-fray.html">Math Wars: Once Again into the Fray.</a> Join the 35, 539 others who have visited there. </b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Also: </b></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is a story behind the writing of this letter, the research on Windswept House and the Saul Alinsky, Barach Obama, Cardinal Bernardin connection. I was writing about Malachi Martin's book <u>Windswept House</u> but had not read it in a long time. I have many bookshelves filled with double layers of books. I knew I had not seen it downstairs where I have moved books and bookshelves several times and figured it was upstairs where I had not been in awhile. I looked and looked. And was about to give up when I saw Dr. Groff's book, one that I had not been able to find the last time I looked for it, lying in plain sight at eye level. I picked it up and immediately looked to the left and there was Windswept House also at eye level. Those of you who are believers will recognize a "God Thing." If I ever thought twice about writing as I do about these things, that kind of "God Thing" will definitely encourage the discouraged. There are angels on assignment about us. God does not want even one of His children to be lost. </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><b>BOARD MEETING INFORMATION</b></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Our school board recognizes that public support and open lines of communication are vital to a successful educational environment for students and employees. Citizens are encouraged to stay informed on the decisions which affect students and teachers, to let board members know opinions on important issues, and to attend board meetings whenever possible.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div>Dothan City Schools is guided by a seven-member Board elected to four-year terms by the district’s citizens. </div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div> </div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div>The Board holds two meetings monthly, one work session (as needed) and one regular board meeting, at the Dothan City Board of Education Office, 1665 Honeysuckle Road. There are some exceptions to the schedule. Board Work Sessions are tentatively scheduled usually on the second Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. and Regular Business Meetings are held on the third Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m.</div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div> </div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div>To speak during the Board's Regular Business Meetings, please see the "Public Comment" tab.</div></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;">Simbli by eBoard Solutions is a Board of Education management system. Dothan City Schools will be placing Board Agendas, Information, and Minutes in this program. To view this information, please visit the links below:</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;"><a aria-label="Board of Education Information on eBoard - Opens a new window" href="https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=2058" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #00528a; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Board of Education Information on eBoard</a></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;"><a aria-label="Board of Education Meetings and Agendas on eBoard - Opens a new window" href="https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_MeetingListing.aspx?S=2058" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #00528a; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Board of Education Meetings and Agendas on eBoard</a> </p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>RULES FOR PUBLIC COMMENT</p><div class="ui-widget-header" style="border-bottom-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 17px; padding: 0px;"><h1 style="font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 4px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 11px; text-transform: uppercase;">BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING PUBLIC COMMENT GUIDELINES</h1></div><div class="ui-widget-detail" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative; width: auto;"><ul class="ui-articles" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><li><div class="ui-article" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px;"><div class="ui-article-description" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="color: #333333;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">Individuals who have followed the attached protocol and are interested in speaking before the Dothan City Board of Education are asked to do one of the following to be placed on the Agenda:</blockquote></div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><ul><li style="color: #333333;"><u><strong>Comments of this nature are limited to five (5) minutes maximum.</strong></u> Submit a request in writing two (2) weeks prior to the Board of Education meeting through a letter addressed to the Superintendent, 1665 Honeysuckle Road, Suite 1, Dothan, Alabama 36305, or emailed to <a aria-label="lernest@dothan.k12.al.us - Opens a new window" href="mailto:lernest@dothan.k12.al.us" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #00528a; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">lernest@dothan.k12.al.us</a>. Please make sure the letter/email contains your name, contact information, and a brief statement of the topic. You may also go to the Dothan City Schools website - <a aria-label="www.dothan.k12.al.us - Opens a new window" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.dothan.k12.al.us&source=gmail&ust=1604424118084000&usg=AFQjCNFWdxpFDCoHMpGEtT8pYd5IBWwQXw" href="http://www.dothan.k12.al.us/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #00528a; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.dothan.k12.al.us</a> or use the link provided below and complete the form. Your request will be placed on the Agenda; or</li><li><u style="color: #333333;"><strong>Comments of this nature are limited to three (3) minutes maximum. </strong></u><span style="color: #333333;"> Sign up with the Board Clerk the night of the Board of Education meeting prior to the start of the meeting. The Chairman will recognize Delegations under Public Comments in the order they are received. </span><span style="color: red;">No one will be allowed to sign up once the meeting begins.</span></li></ul></ul><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;"></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red;">Discussion will not be held.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> Specific names cannot be mentioned.</span></blockquote><p></p></div></div></li></ul></div><p> </p>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-10717807342383590822022-08-18T17:01:00.020-07:002022-08-25T16:29:51.638-07:00SAUL ALINSKY, HOMOSEXUAL PREDATOR PRIEST BERNARDIN, BARACH OBAMA and their ALIGNMENT WITH PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif">SAUL ALINSKY, HOMOSEXUAL PREDATOR PRIEST BERNARDIN, BARACH OBAMA and their AL</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">IGNMENT WITH PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION</span></p><p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">by Sharman Burson Ramsey</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.’ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">He went on to say: ‘I no longer need to run as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.'” Norman Thomas</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">"A wise man cannot and should not keep his word when doing so is to his disadvantage, since men are wicked, they will not keep faith with you, you need not keep faith with them. But it is essential to conceal how crafty one is, to know a clever counterfeit and hypocrite." Nicolo Machiavelli</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">According to Alinsky, Machiavelli's book, <u>The Prince</u> was written on how to hold power. <u>Rules for Radicals</u> is how to take power. Alinsky dedicated his book, <u>Rules for Radicals</u>, to Lucifer, the first radical "who was so effective he won his own kingdom." </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Alinsky's methods: </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">"The end justifies almost any means."</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">"All effective actions require the passport of morality. You do what you can and clothe it in moral garments."</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">"Pick the target. Freeze it. Personalize it. Polarize it. Make the enemy live up to its own rules." (Think Roy Moore and Justice Kavanaugh)</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Moral rationalization is indispensable at times of action more than justifying the ends and means. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">POWER</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Cardinal Bernardin Homosexual Predator Satanist </span></u><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">was a power player in the Catholic Church who participated in the Satanic enthronement in the Vatican written about in Malachi Martin's <u>Windswept House</u>. President Barack Obama told a round table of religion writers that he continues to be profoundly influenced by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, whom he came to know when he was a community organizer in a project partially funded by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Obama said his encounters with the cardinal continue to influence him, particularly his “seamless garment” approach to a multitude of social justice issues. Alinsky and Bernardin worked together. Obama attended Alinsky's training school and Cardinal Bernardin footed the bill with Catholic donor money. <span style="background-color: white;">The high tide of Alinsky’s direct influence in the church came in 1978, when his clerical allies seized control of a national meeting of Catholic lay leaders, the Call to Action Conference. </span></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">The "seamless garment approach to social justice issues came from a 1983 speech wherein Bernardin applied the Biblical story of Jesus' tunic "woven in one piece from the top down" to public policy issues. He maintained that matters as varied as the death penalty, the minimum wage and how to wage war should be considered on the same moral plane as abortion. Benedict XVI wrote "not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">"Bella Dodd, representative of the American Communist Party, testified "We put 1100 men in the priesthood to destroy the church from within." </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">This is the process--the Alinsky method--that has been used to undermine institutions of influence throughout America--particularly the education system. Barach Obama, schooled by Alinsky, mentored by Cardinal Bernardin, came into power and inserted change agents for his agenda to foment Alinsky's goal of revolution in our country. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">DIVISION</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> --MULTICULTURALISM divides us to conquer us. It was a Saul Alinsky training school that taught Barack Obama how to use “community organizing” as a tool of racial division and political power-grabbing. Choose an issue small enough. Set up the situation of enemies and stir up other enmities with power politics. Alinsky's methods are divorced from morality. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">CONFLICT-</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Rub raw the feelings of discontent. According to Alinsky the struggle is the victory itself. You must <b>produce the unrest and disparities</b> Alinsky says he is fighting against. The theme of "WHITE PRIVILEGE" has set up the enemy. Now, all that needs to happen is to further stoke the feelings of discontent and hatred.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL) also CONFLICT THEORY OR THESE DAYS CRITICAL THEORY (like CRITICAL RACE THEORY and CONFLICT RESOLUTION) all fit in this category.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Using Alinskyite tactics to make sure that leftist dissenters from key Catholic doctrines at the Call to Action Conference were appointed to key positions, these radicals tried to transform the Call to Action into a kind of American Catholic parliament. Pretending to speak on behalf of all American Catholics, they demanded that the church change its age-old teachings on contraception, ordain women priests and embrace “gay liberation.”</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">and placed priests of like mind in positions of authority.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Just so, Alinskyite tactics are used in school board meetings across the country to stifle opposition, isolate the objectors, and use courts and media to promote their agenda.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">DECEIT-</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">-Educators use CONSTRUCTIVIST "methodology" that intentionally produces COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. This is also a tactic used by pedophiles in GROOMING their targets. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">And how does Queer Math fit in here? </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Dr. Tommy Bice, former gay Superintendent for the state of Alabama, is a board member of the Magic City Acceptance Academy (grades 6 through 12), one of Alabama's first charter schools. They state on their website: "The essential components in constructivist theory are to elicit prior knowledge, <b>create cognitive dissonance,</b> and apply the knowledge with feedback and reflection on learning." </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">What is the purpose of creating cognitive dissonance? Grooming?</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Obama's friend and former boss, Bill Ayers wrote an endorsement on the book, <i>Queering Elementary Schools: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling</i> for which Kevin Jennings, founder of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian &Straight Education Network), wrote the foreword. Ayers recommended Jennings to be Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. According to the GLSEN website, the National Association of School Psychologists, the Learning First Alliance, the National Education Association, the Council for Exceptional Children, Social Workers Association of America and the American Federation of Teachers are their longtime partners in the education world. They say the purpose of GLSEN is to transform America's K-12 schools into an "affirming environment."</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Cognitive dissonance is a state of confusion brought about by conflicting beliefs.</b> There are a number of different situations that can create cognitive dissonance, such as "Forced Compliance." They teach children to "challenge the fixed beliefs of their parents" and teach a nonjudgemental morality that makes their beliefs fluid and object of change. This is what the <i>New Republic</i> once called the plasticity of the child, an object to be molded will constitute the new education.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Using methods like those promoted by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics that encourage the move away from the traditional emphasis on computational skills like multiplication tables and algorithms—a teaching method that university mathematicians still favor but that many K–12 math teachers dismiss as “drill and kill.” Teachers (particularly liberal and left-leaning teachers) instead use a “<b>constructivist</b>” or “discovery-based” pedagogy, sometimes called “fuzzy math.” Gary </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Martin and Marilyn Strutchens of Auburn University have been awarded nearly $600,000 to establish professional learning communities in mathematics promoting this constructivist (create cognitive dissonance) agenda. Strutchens served on the board of directors of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">The consequence of cognitive dissonance according to the <i><a href="about://"><span style="color: blue;">verywellmind</span></a> </i>website: "Sometimes you might find yourself engaging in behaviors that are opposed to your own beliefs due to external expectations, often for work, school, or a social situation. This might involve going along with something due to peer pressure..." </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">So, are kindergarteners strong enough to withstand the peer pressure and proselytizing of an agenda "contrary to the fixed beliefs of their parents?" And how is this Constitutional? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">A leftist organization called "The Queer Mathematics Teacher" is seeking to embed gender theory in K-12 math classes. Brandie Waid, the director of The Queer Mathematics Teacher, laid out a plan for incorporating gender theory into math classes in a blog post on the Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotion Learning (CASEL) website. <b>CASEL is sponsored by the Allstate Foundation</b>. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">"For the last decade or so, largely working beneath public or parental notice, a well-organized movement has sought to revolutionize the curricula and culture of the nation’s public schools. Its aim: to stamp out “hegemonic heterosexuality”—the traditional view that heterosexuality is the norm—in favor of a new ethos that does not just tolerate homosexuality but instead actively endorses experimenting with it, as well as with a polymorphous range of bisexuality, transgenderism, and transsexuality. The educational establishment has enthusiastically signed on. What this portends for the future of the public schools and the psychic health of the nation’s children is deeply worrisome." writes Marjorie King, Queering the Schools: </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">CJ, Spring 2003</span></u><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #221e20;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Community organizers have been hard at work setting up this framework for up is down, left is right, right is wrong, and numbers, computation, and letters don't matter. Schools are set up to manufacture automatons of the Left, not educated children. At what point does the public refuse to fund these programs that undermine our homes, families and society? The doors were set wide open with President Obama installing "change agents," like Kevin Jennings as Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, in positions of power throughout his government. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #221e20; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "CG Times", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A transcript from a 1997 speech shows Kevin Jennings, Office of Safe Schools chief in the U.S. Department of Education, expressing his admiration for Harry Hay, who was one of the nation's first homosexual activists who launched the Mattachine Society in 1948, founded the Radical Faeries and was a longtime advocate for the North American Man-Boy Love Association, NAMBLA. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "CG Times", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "CG Times", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“One of the people that's always inspired me is Harry Hay,” the transcript shows Jennings saying, “who started the first ongoing gay rights groups in America. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "CG Times", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "CG Times", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> “Hay was a prominent American gay rights activist, communist, pro-pedophilia activist (NAMBLA), and … founder of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States as well as the Radical Faeries, a loosely-affiliated gay spiritual movement.” Among these, NAMBLA is the infamous North American Man/Boy Love Association. (Wikipedia)</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "CG Times", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Harry left Communist Party of the USA and in 1950 joined a group of homosexual communists in forming the so-called Mattachine Society, the pioneering organization of gay communists. From there, Hay did remarkable work in spreading both gay-rights propaganda and communist propaganda and forging the two under a mighty left-wing rainbow umbrella that would revolutionize what we now called the wider “LGBTQ” movement. (Actually, writers at </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">People’s World</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">, flagship publication of Communist Party USA, have now started using the term “LGBTQIA.”)</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">These change agents trained in Alinsky methodology, couched in moral rationalization, now work to undermine our country through the institution that touches us all and has had support of being as all-American as Mom and Apple Pie. They managed to extract Christianity and now the children have no Truth to hold onto. The rats have come home to demolish all that we hold dear. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">When will we stand up and "just say no!"</span></p>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-28845896297587651312022-08-15T11:37:00.019-07:002022-08-18T10:15:43.021-07:00Who's Who of Malachi Martin's "Windswept House"<div><h3 style="margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span>Who's Who of Malachi Martin's "Windswept House"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div></span></span></h3></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><h3 style="margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">I wondered why I read back over this article that I wrote originally years ago after reading Malachi Martin's novel "Windswept House." Then I googled Cardinal Bernardin and Paolo Freire, the originator of Liberation Pedagogy that has transformed our schools, our teachers and our students into change agents for Social Justice (Marxism). Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago had a close relationship with Saul Alinsky and Barach Obama. He paid for Obama to attend Alinsky's training school. And this is what I found. God works in mysterious ways. I had heard of the film, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, but yesterday I bought it and watched it.</span></span></div></span></span></h3></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><h3 style="margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">I recommend you do so as well. You will then be able to see how something so despicable as </span></span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><a href="https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2022/08/bill-ayers-influence-on-social-justice.html">Queering Elementary Schools,</a> Multiculturalism and Marxist Social Emotional Learning could get into our education system. If Satan was enthroned in the Vatican, as described in Martin's book he is now enthroned in our schools, seminaries, and professional organizations, including the National Education Association, the colleges of education throughout our country and the Department of Education. </span></div></span></span></h3></div></blockquote><p>Sure, you say. How could this happen? The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing costs 19.95 but you need to buy it, watch it, and share it. Read how these people invaded the Catholic Church and purposefully placed like-minded people in churches and positions of power. It is also available at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnKB9NzgD4k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnKB9NzgD4k</a>. </p><p>Malachi Martin warned us. Read here about the characters in this novel and the real life people upon which they were based. </p><div><h3 style="margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>Along with the Intersection of Cardinal Bernardin, Saul Alinsky, Barach Obama and Paolo Freire</span></div></span><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> <b><i><span style="color: red;">Windswept House</span></i></b></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Windswept House</i> is a sweeping novel, set on the grand global stage and the unfolding of the next stage of civilization, the ominously-named New World Order. It tackles head-on a number of heavy issues from abortion to the Third Secret of Fatima, but the essential message seems to be this: Satanists lurk in the shadows, from the heart of the Vatican down to the local parishes, manipulating those duped by the false spirit of Vatican II. They are doing their damnedest to subvert the Roman Catholic Church.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In <i>Windswept House</i>, Martin was quite explicit about the conditions in the Vatican, opening the novel with the above-mentioned satanic ritual. In it, Satan was formally enthroned in the Vatican in the Chapel of St. Paul (by all reports a dark and appropriately spooky place). The ceremony was coordinated via telephone with another simultaneous rite in South Carolina.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">But these are minor quibbles. Like <i>The Keys of This Blood</i>, <i>Windswept House</i> is written for a wide and not necessarily Catholic audience, but both books give an odd feeling of being intended for John Paul II himself. It’s as if <i>Keys</i> was written to show the Pope that Martin understood what the Pontiff was doing in the geopolitical arena and address his concerns for the Church’s internal situation. (One may be reminded of Machiavelli’s <i>The Prince</i>, written also by a courtier exiled from court.) <i>Windswept House</i>, however, is a much more dramatic and desperate plea to the Pope.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The characters of Fr. Malachi Martin's "Windswept House" are said to be actual people whose names were changed for the text of the book. The following is a guide to who's who in that book. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><br />This comes from the bottom of the text version of Fr. Martin's "Windswept House," found at this URL: </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #d52c1f;">https://archive.org/stream/MalachiMartinsWindsweptHouse/WindsweptHouse_ djvu.txt</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p></h3><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="color: black; width: 800px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 2pt; width: 1.5pt;" width="2"></td><td style="padding: 2pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #d52c1f;"><br /></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><br /></span><b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">Agnes: </span></b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><br /><br /></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #d52c1f;">https://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/catholicchurch/cardinal-bernardin-chicago/#_ftn10</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><h2 style="background-color: white; break-after: avoid; color: #2f5496; margin: 2pt -0.1in 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><strong style="font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;">Bernardin’s Involvement In Satanic Rituals</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A woman using the pseudonym Agnes for her own protection claims that she was <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">raped by “Cardinal” Bernardin. She has testified to this in a sworn deposition, in <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">accounts to investigators, in affidavits submitted in support of others’ cases against<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Bernardin, in phone calls and letters to “Church” officials, and in sworn affidavits <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">with Vatican officials.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Agnes claims that when she was eleven years old (which was several decades ago)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> Joseph Bernardin raped her as part of a satanic ritual in which Bishop John J. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Russell of Charleston, South Carolina, also took part. Agnes was brought to the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ritual by an abusive father who was a member of a satanic cult. Agnes said that <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">her dad offered her to the cult as part of a satanic sacrifice.<a href="https://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/catholicchurch/cardinal-bernardin-chicago/#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="color: #954f72; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: none;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #003399; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">[10]</span></a> During this <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ceremony, a Catholic Eucharist was defiled and Agnes’ pet dog Flinnie was <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">tortured.<a href="https://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/catholicchurch/cardinal-bernardin-chicago/#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="color: #954f72; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: none;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #003399; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">[11]</span></a> In the fall of 1992, Agnes passed a polygraph (lie detector) test <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">regarding the truthfulness of these events. She now has passed several polygraph<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> tests.<a href="https://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/catholicchurch/cardinal-bernardin-chicago/#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="color: #954f72; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: none;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #003399; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">[12]</span></a> Several years ago I was able to speak to Fr. Charles Fiore (one of Malachi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Martin’s best friends) shortly before he died. Fr. Fiore told me that, in interviewing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">aand getting to know Agnes, she affirmed the whole story of what had happened to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">her as an eleven-year-old. Fr. Fiore also considered her to be credible. In the early <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">as someone who could get her information to the Vatican. Malachi Martin incorporated <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>hher story into his book </span><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Windswept House</span></i><span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Although the rape of Agnes by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Bernardin<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>took place in 1957, Martin incorporated<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> it into his book’s description of the satanic enthronement of the Vatican on June 29,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">1963. Martin said that the satanists (which included many who claimed to be <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">igh-ranking members of the Catholic Church) “prayed” and sacrificed satanically to <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">transform the Catholic Church into “The Universal Church of Man.”<a href="https://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/catholicchurch/cardinal-bernardin-chicago/#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="color: #954f72; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: none;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #003399; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">[13]</span></a> During this <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">satanic ceremony, the “high priest” said to the participants: “Do you each and all <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">now solemnly swear that your administration of office will be bent to fulfill the aims <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">of the Universal Church of Man?” They responded: “We do so solemnly swear.”<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #003399; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: none; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/catholicchurch/cardinal-bernardin-chicago/#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" style="color: #954f72; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: none;">[14]</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: inherit; margin: 5pt -0.1in;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Cardinal Bernardin paid for Barach Obama to attend Saul Alinsky's training school.</span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 427.25pt;" valign="top" width="570"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You remember him, don’t you? Alinsky was the subject of Hillary Clinton’s college thesis, and mentored her by mail. Ben Carson made headlines during the GOP convention by pointing out that Alinsky dedicated his last book, <i>Rules for Radicals</i>, to Lucifer — as the world’s first successful radical. <i>The Stream</i> seconded Carson’s concerns, <a href="https://stream.flywheelsites.com/hillary-satan-saul-alinsky/"><span style="color: #456ca1;">explaining in detail</span></a> how Alinsky’s tactics are divisive, destructive and utterly amoral.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 427.25pt;" valign="top" width="570"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>It was a Saul Alinsky training school that taught Barack Obama how to use “community organizing” as a tool of racial division and political power-grabbing. In 2012, </span><span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/No-Higher-Power-Religious-Freedom/dp/1621570126/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477432438&sr=8-1&keywords=No+Higher+power"><span style="color: #456ca1;">Phyllis Schlafly and George Neumayr</span></a> dropped the bombshell <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">that the person who paid to send Obama to Saul Alinsky school was none other than Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin</span>. The cardinal used money given by hard-working Catholic parishioners to further the “Catholic Campaign for Human Development” (CCHD). Bernardin also crafted the “Seamless Garment” argument, which served pro-choice politicians as a <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/archbishop-cupichs-seamless-bulletproof-vest-for-pro-choice-politicians"><span style="color: #456ca1;">bulletproof vest</span></a>, allowing them to smoosh together Medicaid funding, gun control, and the murder of a million babies each year, as interchangeable “life issues.”<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 427.25pt;" valign="top" width="570"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As <i>Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing</i> reveals, the CCHD (Catholic Campaign for Human Development) was created by Alinsky supporters within the Church, who’d been drawn to his socialist goals and sharp-elbowed tactics as early as the 1940s. Catholics who donate to the annual CCHD collection on Sunday are rarely told that the money goes not to feeding the poor, but rather to organizing them into fierce political grievance groups, led by men like Barack Obama. As <i>The Stream</i> <a href="https://stream.flywheelsites.com/hillary-satan-saul-alinsky/"><span style="color: #456ca1;">noted last year</span></a> and this film reveals via personal accounts from priests who got caught up in Alinsky’s movement, he taught Christians to see political conflicts as ruthless struggles for power between the “haves” and “have nots,” and to use dehumanizing rhetoric and confrontational stunts to destroy their “enemies.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>...</span><span>Because the leftist Catholics were in a distinct minority, in a church that was fiercely persecuted by socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and China, they turned to a brilliant outsider in Alinsky. A master of misdirection and verbal trickery, Alinsky taught leftist Catholics how to seize the high ground in intra-church debates, organize astroturf groups to give the appearance of mass popular support, and intimidate their opponents.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 1em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The high tide of Alinsky’s direct influence in the church came in 1978, when his clerical allies seized control of a national meeting of Catholic lay leaders, the Call to Action Conference. Using Alinskyite tactics to make sure that leftist dissenters from key Catholic doctrines were appointed to key positions, these radicals tried to transform the Call to Action into a kind of American Catholic parliament. Pretending to speak on behalf of all American Catholics, they demanded that the church change its age-old teachings on contraception, ordain women priests and embrace “gay liberation.”</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 1em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://stream.org/radical-activist-saul-alinsky-recruited-wolves-shepherds-clothing/" style="font-family: times;">htttps://stream.org/radical-activist-saul-alinsky-recruited-wolves-shepherds-clothing/</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">1. Jean-Claude Cardinal de Vincennes - Jean Cardinal Villot (deceased)</span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -13.25pt; width: 581px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 175pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 175pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 436pt;" valign="top" width="581"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">Within days of Luciani’s election to the See of Peter, Archbishop Gagnon was summoned to a private audience with him. This meeting was at Cardinal Benelli’s insistence with the new pope. John Paul I had already decided to rid himself of Paul VI’s Secretary of State, Jean Cardinal Villot, and replace him with Giovanni Cardinal Benelli. Most unfortunately for the new pope, his timing was off. The correct moment to have made that major change in government was toward the end of the Conclave that elected him; right after receiving obeisance from each of his electors. That would have been the perfect time for the new Pontiff to have summoned four burly Swiss Guards and ordered them to escort the former Secretary of State back to France. However, Pope John Paul I—a total outsider when it came to understanding and dealing with the Roman Curia—rather than present Giovanni Cardinal Benelli as his new Secretary of State, his “right-hand man,” actually </span><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Times; padding: 0in;">reinstated</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">, “for the time being,” every member of the Roman Curia in his post! A fatal mistake.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 13pt;"><a href="https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2020/12/major-expose-rooms-broken-into-dossiers.html">https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2020/12/major-expose-rooms-broken-into-dossiers.html</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />2. Cosimo Cardinal Mastroianni - Agostino Cardinal Casaroli (deceased)</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 5pt -0.1in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -0.25pt;"><tbody><tr style="height: 132.7pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 132.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 364.5pt;" valign="top" width="486"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> <b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #1a1a1a;">Agostino Cardinal Casaroli</span></b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #1a1a1a;">, Italian Roman Catholic priest and diplomat who from the 1960s served as the Vatican’s </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><a href="about://" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: black;">liaison</span></a></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #1a1a1a;"> to the communist bloc and from 1979 to 1990 was secretary of state and thus second in command under Pope </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><a href="about://" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #14599d;">John Paul</span></a></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #1a1a1a;"> II (b. Nov. 24, 1914, Castel San Giovanni, Piacenza, Italy--d. June 9, 1998, </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><a href="about://" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #14599d;">Rome</span></a></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #1a1a1a;">, Italy).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />3. Silvio Cardinal Aureatini - Achille Cardinal Silvestrini, Cong. Oriental Church<br /></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -13.25pt; width: 581px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 175pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 175pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 436pt;" valign="top" width="581"><p style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">For instance, there was the time when I suddenly found out there was a photograph of mafia members meeting up before the 2005 conclave—a picture modestly entitled “A Visit Enjoyed by Friends.” I spent hours trying to find that elusive picture, to no avail, only to learn that the person who had leaked it in a small publication was none other than Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, a mafia member who apparently just had to confess. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Then one August day, searching online books for information about a mafia member, I stumbled upon the mysterious 2007 French text<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Confession d’un Cardinal</em>. It was the confession of an anonymous cardinal who presented himself as a good friend of several mafia members. As this mysterious cardinal described the “antagonistic” tendencies that separated Martini and his friends from Pope Benedict XVI; as he spoke of Cardinal Bergoglio’s second-place performance in the 2005 conclave that elected Benedict; as he said to keep that performance in mind in case Pope Benedict’s pontificate did not last long, pointing out that Bergoglio was not yet seventy years old—I felt my jaw drop. I felt I was in the presence of an intelligence that was part of the mafia itself. I felt, in short, like I was possibly listening to Silvestrini himself.</span><span face="Open Sans, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> <a href="https://tandirection.com/enemies-of-salvation/exposing-the-st-gallen-mafia/">https://tandirection.com/enemies-of-salvation/exposing-the-st-gallen-mafia/</a></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />4. Leo Cardinal Pensabene - Pio Cardinal Laghi, Congregation of Christian Education</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -16.25pt; width: 597px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 181pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 181pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 448pt;" valign="top" width="597"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 16pt;"><b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;">Role of Vatican in Argentina's Dirty War</span></b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><br />By Uki Goñi, 1995<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">The Vatican Embassy in Argentina kept a secret list of thousands of people who disappeared during Argentina's Dirty War of the late 1970s which it failed to make public at the time and which may have since been destroyed, according to recent revelations regarding the Catholic Church's poor human rights record in this country. Italian Cardinal Pio Laghi, who was Papal Pro-Nuncio in Buenos Aires during the time of the military dictatorship - and who later served as John Paul II's Pro-Nuncio in the United States - has openly admitted to the Argentine press that he had knowledge of some 6,000 cases of people who "disappeared."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">After leaving Argentina, Pio Laghi became the Pope's representative in Washington D.C. for the ten years leading up to 1990. Until 1984 he was the Vatican's Apostolic Delegate in Washington. After former President Ronald Reagan established diplomatic relations with Rome that same year Pio Laghi stayed on in the U.S. as the first Apostolic Pro-Nuncio. He is now a Cardinal in Rome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">Pio Laghi's admission - in an interview published by Gente magazine in Argentina - came only after press reports in early 1995 that his own office and the Catholic Church in Argentina kept secret lists of part of the 30,000 people who are believed to have died at the hands of the dictatorship of General Jorge Rafael Videla.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">Details of the Church's grizzly lists were provided by one of its own members, Father Federico "Fred" Richards, a Catholic priest of Irish descent at the Church of the Holy Cross in Buenos Aires, in an interview on 13 April 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">"I know of two lists kept by the Church. One was at the office of Pro-Nuncio Pio Laghi and the second at the office of the Military Vicariate. What happened to these lists? Did they burn them? Did they throw them away? Why does the Church hierarchy not bring forth the lists these dignitaries had?" asked Father Richards, who despite being a third-generation Argentine and 73 years of age still speaks fluent English with a thick Irish brogue.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">Although Pio Laghi claimed that his silence enabled him to save some few lives, this help was limited only to the cases of individuals from influential families who had access to him. But some of those same influential few condemn Pio Laghi for withholding information which could have prevented the "disappearance" of thousands of other victims.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><a href="http://www.desaparecidos.org/arg/iglesia/vatican.html">http://www.desaparecidos.org/arg/iglesia/vatican.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 16pt;"><b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;">5. Cardinal Moradian - Gregoire Pierre Cardinal Agagainian (deceased)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">6. Cardinal Karmel - Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, Paris</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">7. Leonard Cardinal Boff - Basil Cardinal Hume, Westminster (deceased)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">8. Aviola -Silvano Cardinal Piovanelli, Florence</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">9. Cardinal Sturz - Franz Cardianl Koenig, Vienna (retired)</span><br /><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">10<b>.</b> Cardinal Leonardine -<b> </b>Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Chicago </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>(cf. also Cardinal of </span><span>Century </span><span>City and Archpriest in South Carolina) - priest who assisted in the</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span> Satanic "Enthronment of </span><span>the Fallen Angel Lucifer" ceremony in the U.S.referred to in the book</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><u1:p style="background-color: white;"></u1:p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f;">1.<span style="font-stretch: normal;"></span><span> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f;"><span style="color: #330099; text-decoration: none;"><a href="about://" style="color: #954f72;">Bernardin: Homosexual Predator Satanist</a></span><u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(63, 63, 63);"> SEE ALSO: </span></span><a href="https://novusordowatch.org/wp-content/uploads/the_beginning_of_the_end_of_the_bernardin_legacy.pdf">https://novusordowatch.org/wp-content/uploads/the_beginning_of_the_end_of_the_</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><a href="https://novusordowatch.org/wp-content/uploads/the_beginning_of_the_end_of_the_bernardin_legacy.pdf">bernardin_legacy.pdf</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #007542;">www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/bernardin...</span><span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -0.25pt;"><tbody><tr style="height: 132.7pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 132.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 364.5pt;" valign="top" width="486"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #525252;">While Bernardin was cardinal-archbishop of Chicago, he launched the nation's first diocesan gay office, AGLO, Archdiocesan Gay and Lesbian Outreach, an office still in existence today.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><u1:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #333333;">An in-depth Church Militant investigation has turned up a career-long track record of accusations against former Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin that not only was he a homopredator his entire career but that at various stops in his career, many of those sexual assaults were tied to satanic rituals.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #333333;">Current Cardinal Blase Cupich has reported none of this to the Illinois attorney general, deliberately covering up at least one serious allegation.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #333333;">Hello, everyone, and welcome to this Church Militant special report, following up on our last investigation into Cardinal Joseph Bernardin and the Chicago archdiocese's history of covering up his sordid past.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #333333;">Bernardin's entire public career was one of warm relationships with promoters of homosexuality — in fact, beyond his career and even his life; he explicitly requested the Chicago Gay Men's Chorus to sing at his wake.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #333333;">Bernardin was ordained in April of 1952 by his bishop in Charleston, South Carolina, John J. Russell. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #333333;">In the case of the <a href="about://" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #0971b2;">1957 rape of the minor in South Carolina we previously reported</span></a>, the victim identified not only then-Fr. Bernardin, but also Bishop Russell and that the assault was part of a satanic ritual.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #333333;">Church Militant was handed secret files from the vaults of the Chicago archdiocese by whistleblowers there.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #333333;">Bernardin's entire public career was one of warm relationships with promoters of homosexuality — in fact, beyond his career and even his life.<a href="about://" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #0971b2;">Tweet</span></a></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #333333;">In this June 1993 letter to the U.S. nuncio at the time, Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, the victim expressly states, "I was raped by then-Father Bernardin as part of a satanic ritual. He accompanied Bishop Russell, who was the 'celebrant.'"</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #333333;">A few lines later, the victim says, "Bishop Russell had been the patron of Father Bernardin, and I hesitate to think how many Bernardin has advanced in the Church and in his brotherhood.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #3f3f3f;">1.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #3f3f3f;"> </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #3f3f3f;"><a href="about://" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #330099;">Cardinal Bernardin, clerical culture, nuns and homosexuals ...</span></a></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #007542;">www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/cardinal...</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #007542;"><br /></span></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #757575;">Aug 10, 2009 · </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #525252;">In the file are letters from Cardinal Bernardin to several priests who had been accused of sexually molesting young Catholics. Bernardin uses the code word "sabbatical" to refer to the five months...</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #414042;"><br />In the file are letters from Cardinal Bernardin to several priests who had been accused of sexually molesting young Catholics.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #414042;">Bernardin uses the code word "sabbatical" to refer to the five months of paid time off awarded to suspected pedophiles. He describes how the pastor will return to his parish position after the sabbatical.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #414042;">"May I take this opportunity to thank you for your fine work," he writes to one horrendous violator who was later imprisoned. "As you look forward to this important transition in your priesthood, please know that you have my support and prayers."</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #414042;">Transition in your priesthood.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><u1:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #414042;">Such wordplay and manipulation of reality was the normal.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in;"><b><span><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></u1:p></u1:p></u1:p></o:p></u1:p></u1:p></u1:p></u1:p></u1:p></u1:p></u1:p></u1:p></u1:p></u1:p></u1:p></u1:p></o:p></span></u1:p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b>11. German Jesuit Cardinal - Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. (deceased)</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -15.25pt; width: 572px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 92pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 92pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 429pt;" valign="top" width="572"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in -0.1in 0in 7.8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">When Pius XII proposed appointing Bea to the </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="about://" title="College of Cardinals"><span style="color: #0b0080;">College of Cardinals</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> in 1946, Superior General </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="about://" title="Jean-Baptiste Janssens"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Jean-Baptiste Janssens</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> spoke out against it, as many felt the </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="about://" title="Holy See"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Holy See</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> was showing preferential treatment to the Jesuits.</span><sup><span style="color: #202122; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="about://"><span style="color: #0b0080;">[12]</span></a></span></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> He had for some time as his secretary Jesuit priest </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="about://" title="Malachi Martin"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Malachi Martin</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span><sup><span style="color: #202122; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="about://"><span style="color: #0b0080;">[13]</span></a></span></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Among his other offices, Bea was a consultor to <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>12. Bp. "Leo" James Russeton - Bp. John Russell (deceased 1993)</b></span></span><b style="font-family: times; text-align: center;"> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -0.1in;"><tbody><tr style="height: 25.15pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 25.15pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 339.95pt;" valign="top" width="453"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">(Charleston, South Carolina. Also accused of ritually raping “Agnes” at a satanic black mass <o:p></o:p>in the fall of 1957. Bishop John Russell stated he would testify against Cardinal Bernardin in court, but he died before he had an opportunity to do so.)</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 339.95pt;" valign="top" width="453"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">13. Otto Sekuler - real person/name not disclosed, a member of the KGB</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: large;">14. Frater Medico - Agnes' father, an M.D. (deceased)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">15. Aldo Carnesecca - real person/name not disclosed (deceased)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">16. Msgr. Daniel Sadowski - <b>Msgr. Stanislao Dziewicz</b></span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -0.1in;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 425.45pt;" valign="top" width="567"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 425.45pt;" valign="top" width="567"><p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #2f222a;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Catholic Church in Poland has been undergoing a reckoning on clerical sexual abuse for several years. In 2019, the Polish bishops’ conference issued a report which concluded that 382 clergy sexually abused a total of 624 victims between 1990 and 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 425.45pt;" valign="top" width="567"><p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #2f222a;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Dziwisz was ordained a priest in 1963 by St. John Paul II, who was then an auxiliary bishop of Krakow. When Bishop Karol Wojtyla was made archbishop of Krakow the following year, Dziwisz became his secretary — a role he served in until the pope’s death in 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 425.45pt;" valign="top" width="567"><p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #2f222a;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Dziwisz was appointed archbishop of Krakow shortly after his mentor’s death, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">17. Msgr. Taco Manuguerra - Msgr. Agosto Bueno</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">18. Jean Cardinal de Bourgogne - John Cardinal Cody</span></span></p><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c UK95Uc uUuwM jGGQ5e" data-header-feature="0" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; contain: layout paint; flex-direction: row; flex: 1 1 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><table align="left" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; margin-left: 6.75pt; margin-right: 6.75pt;"><tbody><tr style="height: 113pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 113pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 357pt;" valign="top" width="476"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #202124;"><a href="about://" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #681da8; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-decoration: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></p><h3 style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 2.25pt;"><span style="color: #681da8; font-family: Times; font-weight: normal;"><a href="about://" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #681da8; text-decoration: none;">"Satan would enter the highest realms of the hierarchy"</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><cite role="text"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; font-style: normal;"><a href="about://" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #202124; text-decoration: none;">https://www.tldm.org</span><span style="color: #5f6368; text-decoration: none;"> › news3 › highest_realms</span><span style="color: #681da8; text-decoration: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></cite></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #202124;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">At a </span><b><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">June 27, 2000 Vatican press conference</span></b><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">, </span><b><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mikhail Gorbachev</span></b><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> was </span><b><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">given</span></b><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> a </span><b><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">seat</span></b><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> of </span><b><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">honor between </span></b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #4d5156;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Vatican Secretary</span></b><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> of </span><b><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">State Cardinal Angelo Sodano</span></b><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> and ...</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #4d5156;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #202124;"> </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">19. Fr. Damian Slattery, O.P. - composite of Michael Cardinal Browne, O.P., and a living former U.S. Dominican, perhaps Fr. Fiore</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #980000;">Fiore denies urging Bernardin's accuser</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span>By TOM ROBERTS<span class="apple-converted-space"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><br /><i>NCR Staff</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A controversial Wisconsin priest has issued public denials recently of speculation that he had urged Steven Cook to accuse Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of sex abuse.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The denials by Fr. Charles Fiore were prompted by the publication of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Gift of Peace</i>, Bernardin's posthumous memoir, published in January, in which the cardinal says he learned from Cook that a priest who was an adviser to Cook urged him to name the cardinal in a sexual molestation lawsuit.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The book did not name the priest. But Fiore, a longtime critic of the cardinal who was publicly linked with Cook at the time of the lawsuit, says he did not do what is claimed in the book.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"I categorically deny it. It is simply untrue," Fiore said in a telephone interview with Catholic News Service from his home in Lodi, Wis. Cook, who was suffering from AIDS, died in 1995. Bernardin died last November.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Another account of Bernardin's final years, a 15,000-word addition by Chicago author Eugene Kennedy to his biography of Bernardin, leaves no doubt that Fiore is the priest in question. Kennedy added the section to his 1990 biography,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Bernardin: Life to the Full</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Bonus Books, Chicago), following Bernardin's death.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the new edition, Kennedy reconstructs an encounter that occurred between Bernardin and Cook at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, Pa. The conversation, which took place Dec. 30, 1994, occurred in the context of a reconciliation meeting between the cardinal and his accuser. The account, said Kennedy in a phone interview, is based on interviews with Bernardin and other witnesses who were present at the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Cook "explained his coming in contact with lawyer Stephen Rubino [of Ventnor, N.J.] to file suit against the priest who had abused him in the seminary," Kennedy wrote. "He spoke of the intervention by phone of a Father Fiore who had urged him to remember if Bernardin had abused him and to include him in the suit, and of how he had tried by words and gifts to get Steven's mother to cooperate in the venture." Among those present during the exchanges were Fr. Scott Donahue, who accompanied Bernardin, and a man named Kevin, Cook's companion and caregiver.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Chicago archdiocesan spokesman Robert Quakenbush declined to say if Fiore was the priest in question. He said, "The cardinal chose not to name the priest in his book. The archdiocese intends to follow his example."<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Bernardin's memoir of his last three years includes reflections on his struggles with cancer and on the dramatic claim of sexual abuse filed against him by Cook in November 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Cook recanted all his allegations against the cardinal less than four months later, and he and the cardinal were reconciled in the December 1994 meeting at the seminary outside Philadelphia. The cardinal wrote that in their 1994 meeting, Cook said a priest had urged him to name the cardinal in his lawsuit.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Although Steven was pursuing a case only against his seminary teacher," the cardinal wrote, "his priest adviser began mentioning me, Cardinal Bernardin, suggesting that, if I were included in the case, Steven would surely get back what he wanted from the church. This spiritual guide pushed my name, urging Steven to name me along with the other priest in the legal action."<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Fiore, ousted from the Dominicans, sometimes writes for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Wanderer</i>, a right-wing Catholic weekly, and regularly criticizes bishops he considers insufficiently orthodox or not vigorous enough in enforcing church teaching and practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He was particularly critical of Bernardin, whose "consistent ethic of life" he regarded as undermining the church's stance on abortion.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In an interview with Religious News Service in November 1993, shortly after the suit against Bernardin was filed, the controversial priest referred to Bernardin as "an evil man."<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Fiore told RNS that he spoke "several times" with Cook, though he could not remember the specific days, and also said he spoke to Cook's mother twice.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">At the time of the interview, Fiore said he had been in contact with victims of priest sex abuse in about 75 to 100 cases. Fiore said he supplied Rubino "with some research and factual material that went into the complaint and some other points. In the course of events, he put me in touch with Steve Cook."<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In more recent interviews, Fiore said that not only did he not urge Cook to name the cardinal in his lawsuit, but at that point the claim was so near to being filed that "nothing I said could have influenced them to include" the cardinal if they had not already done so.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the RNS interview, Fiore said Bernardin "has not been totally loyal" to the pope. "On many issues having to do with the life and doctrine of the church, he has said and done things that are doctrinally suspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"I've watched this man for years," Fiore said, "I've seen his thumbprints all over the place."<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He also expressed his disdain at the time for other church leaders, including Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee. "I dislike these people. I've been a priest for 33 years. I am married to the church, the church is my wife, and I don't like these people playing games with her. I don't like what I see. I don't like their double-dealing with doctrinal matters."<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the recent interviews, Fiore said he still believes Bernardin was guilty as charged even though Cook recanted his accusations as groundless.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Fiore said he is currently in his canonical five-year trial period for becoming a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. The fraternity was established in 1988 to welcome followers of traditionalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre who, after the archbishop was excommunicated, wanted to remain within the church.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Fiore joined the Chicago Province of the Dominicans in 1954 and had a history of disputes with superiors, according to the 1993 RNS account, including a run-in during the late 1970s with the late Cardinal John Cody of Chicago over the priest's fund-raising and antiabortion work. Cody eventually banned Fiore from preaching or making public speeches anywhere in the archdiocese, according to Fiore's superior in 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Relations between Fiore and the Dominicans deteriorated throughout the 1970s and 1980s until the priest was suspended in 1984, according to Dominican officials.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He was then asked by leaders of the province to leave the order and seek affiliation with a diocese.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Fiore was accepted, on an experimental basis, by the Ponce, Puerto Rico, diocese for a five-year period, according to the RNS account. The diocese did not renew the association at the end of the period in 1991. Fiore received permission from the order to continue living outside the Dominicans while searching for another spot. Shortly after, he sought to join the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409.25pt;" valign="top" width="546"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">20. Fr. Christian Thomas Gladstone - composite of 3 priests</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">21. Mrs. Francesca Gladstone - elderly woman, still living</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">22. Windswept House - Galveston Island, Texas</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">23. Cyrus Benthoek - Bill Morrell (deceased)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">24. J.J. Cardinal O'Cleary - John Cardinal O'Connor, New York (deceased)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -2.25pt; width: 637px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 204pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 204pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 478pt;" valign="top" width="637"><p class="defaultstyledtext-sc-1wxyvyl-0" style="margin-left: 2pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #191919; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="defaultstyledtext-sc-1wxyvyl-0" style="margin-left: 2pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #191919; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Cardinal O'Connor challenged the people of New York and the people of the nation to respect the lives of the unborn, the infirm and the unwanted," Chicago Cardinal Francis George said Wednesday night. "For John O'Connor, this was not empty rhetoric. He supported his profound oratory with the actions of a true shepherd."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="defaultstyledtext-sc-1wxyvyl-0" style="margin-left: 2pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #191919; font-family: times; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Though he was older than George's predecessor, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who died in 1996 at age 68,O'Connor represented a new generation of bishops in the United States in the 1980s, more boldly confrontational and more likely to take cues from Rome than from fellow American prelates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="defaultstyledtext-sc-1wxyvyl-0" style="margin-left: 2pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #191919; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Over the decade that followed, O'Connor and Bernardin became totems for the Catholic right and Catholic left in America, symbolizing different sides of the </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); letter-spacing: 0.13333334028720856px;">chasms in</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"> the church. </span></span></p><p class="defaultstyledtext-sc-1wxyvyl-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); line-height: 2.5rem; margin: 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-05-04-0005040187-story.html">https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-05-04-0005040187-story.html</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">25. Piet Cardinal Svensen - Leo Cardinal Suenens, Belgium</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -8.25pt; width: 605px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 250pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 250pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 453.5pt;" valign="top" width="605"><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="color: #616161; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In 1964, Cardinal Leo Joseph Suenens of Belgium spoke at the University of Chicago and urged that seminaries of the future might be urban based, in the context of a great academic center, and ecumenical in spirit. That speech inspired the founding of CTU in 1968, when several religious orders combined their seminary resources, moved to Chicago’s Hyde Park, and began a daring experiment in collaboration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="color: #616161; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Fifty years later, CTU has grown to be a premier school of theology, sponsored by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">twenty-four religious communities</strong>, with a global reputation for academic and pastoral excellence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="color: #616161; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The hallmarks of CTU reflect its founding inspiration. CTU enjoys excellent relations with the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">University of Chicago Divinity School</strong>, is a major partner of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Association of Chicago Theology Schools</strong>, has partnered with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">DePaul University</strong>, and is a highly respected institution in the eyes of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Archdiocese of Chicago</strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 8pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #616161;"> </span><u>https://ctu.edu/the-ctu-story/</u></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(82, 81, 81); clear: both; color: #525151;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the spring of 1973, Fr Michel Dubois, a priest from Belgium, was introduced to The Word of God charismatic community in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as someone who had come from Europe to experience the Catholic charismatic renewal in person. He stayed with community members in their homes, attended prayer meetings, met with a variety of small groups and participated in seminars. Only at the end of his approximately five-day visit did he reveal to everyone his true identity: <span style="background-color: #01ffff;">Cardinal Léon Joseph Suenens, archbishop of Malines–Brussels and primate of Belgium</span>, and one of the four moderators of Vatican II. Few in the community knew who he was, and his plan for anonymity worked well enough that he was able to have a personal encounter with this new movement in the US, known at that time as Catholic Pentecostalism (later it was widely known as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, hereafter CCR).<a class="ref footNoteViewer" data-id="fn2" data-reflink="" href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/swc.2019.0267#" style="color: #041e42; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;"><span style="line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">2</span></a></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(82, 81, 81); clear: both; color: #525151;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The immediate result of the Cardinal's visit could be seen in the popular charismatic magazine <i>New Covenant</i>. The June 1973 issue showed a photograph of Suenens alongside Ralph Martin and Steve Clark – two recognised leaders of the movement who were based in Ann Arbor, but already well-known worldwide – and prominently featured an interview in which Suenens expressed his approval for Catholic charismatics and his willingness to assist them.<a class="ref footNoteViewer" data-id="fn3" data-reflink="" href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/swc.2019.0267#" style="color: #041e42; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;"><span style="line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">3</span></a> The long-term results were obvious as time went on. At his suggestion, the 1973 annual conference for leaders in the charismatic renewal, which previously had been held in Ann Arbor, was moved to Grottaferrata, near Rome, and the 1975 international conference for Catholic charismatics, which had been held annually at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana since it began in 1967, was moved to Rome, where charismatics had their first public encounter with a pope, Paul VI. At the main altar of St Peter's Basilica, Suenens gave his famous official speech calling the renewal ‘une chance pour l'église’.<a class="ref footNoteViewer" data-id="fn4" data-reflink="" href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/swc.2019.0267#" style="color: #041e42; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;"><span style="line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">4</span></a> Eventually, he was appointed by Paul VI as a special advisor to oversee the reception of the CCR into the Catholic Church, becoming in effect a patron of the movement. Between 1974 and 1986 Suenens collaborated with a commission made up of theologians and leaders of the CCR which produced six documents – known as the Malines Documents – as guidelines for the Catholic charismatic movement.<a class="ref footNoteViewer" data-id="fn5" data-reflink="" href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/swc.2019.0267#" style="color: #041e42; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;"><span style="line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">5</span></a> That period – the second half of the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s – was the golden era of the charismatic movement, which was expanding not only throughout North America but also in Latin America, Europe and the rest of the world, gradually acquiring particular indigenous traits and becoming a movement that today has more than 160 million followers.<a class="ref footNoteViewer" data-id="fn6" data-reflink="" href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/swc.2019.0267#" style="color: #041e42; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;"><span style="line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">6</span></a></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(82, 81, 81); clear: both; color: #525151;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The focus of this article is to explore the emergence and institutionalisation of CCR in North America, particularly in the US Midwest, and its growing interactions with the wider Church. In fact, the academic historiography of CCR has not properly taken into account the development of the early organisational structures of the movement and the reaction of the ecclesiastical authorities toward it.<a class="ref footNoteViewer" data-id="fn7" data-reflink="" href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/swc.2019.0267#" style="color: #041e42; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;"><span style="line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">7</span></a> Although popular ‘insider’ historical works, such as the books by Kevin and Dorothy Ranaghan and Fr O'Connor, offer insights, these can be considered as primary sources rather than historiographical material.<a class="ref footNoteViewer" data-id="fn8" data-reflink="" href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/swc.2019.0267#" style="color: #041e42; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;"><span style="line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">8</span></a> Also, US historians have paid little attention to the origin of the Catholic charismatic movement, and their research has focused chiefly on its impact on American Catholic laity.<a class="ref footNoteViewer" data-id="fn9" data-reflink="" href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/swc.2019.0267#" style="color: #041e42; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;"><span style="line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">9</span></a> Certainly the development of lay spirituality and lay interaction with social structures in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s forms an essential background to the rise of a charismatic spirituality among Catholics, but a much wider range of factors was involved.<a class="ref footNoteViewer" data-id="fn10" data-reflink="" href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/swc.2019.0267#" style="color: #041e42; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;"><span style="line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">10</span></a> Precisely because the significant role of North American lay charismatic leadership, in conjunction with the work of Cardinal Suenens, shaped the history of the charismatic renewal within the Catholic Church, resulting in its early legitimisation and its transnational diffusion, it is worthwhile investigating this story.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(82, 81, 81); clear: both; color: #525151;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/swc.2019.0267">https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/swc.2019.0267</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">26. Local Chapel/SSPX "Danbury" - Dickinson, TX, chapel of the SSPX</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">27. Fr. Angelo Gutmacher - P. Schmidt, Cardinal Bea's secretary (and his biographer)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">28. Giacomo Cardinal Graziani - Angelo Cardinal Sodano, Vatican Secretary of State</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="left" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: 6.75pt; margin-right: 6.75pt;"><tbody><tr style="height: 113pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 113pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 357pt;" valign="top" width="476"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #202124;"><a href="about://" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #681da8; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; text-decoration: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></p><h3 style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 2.25pt;"><span style="color: #681da8; font-family: Times; font-weight: normal;"><a href="about://" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #681da8; text-decoration: none;">"Satan would enter the highest realms of the hierarchy"</span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><cite role="text"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; font-style: normal;"><a href="about://" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #202124; text-decoration: none;">https://www.tldm.org</span><span style="color: #5f6368; text-decoration: none;"> › news3 › highest_realms</span><span style="color: #681da8; text-decoration: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></cite></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #202124;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">At a </span><b><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">June 27, 2000 Vatican press conference</span></b><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">, </span><b><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mikhail Gorbachev</span></b><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> was </span><b><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">given</span></b><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> a </span><b><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">seat</span></b><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> of </span><b><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">honor between </span></b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #4d5156;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">Vatican Secretary</span></b><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> of </span><b><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;">State Cardinal Angelo Sodano</span></b><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt;"> and ...</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #4d5156;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: #202124;"> </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -0.25pt;"><tbody><tr style="height: 132.7pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 132.7pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 364.5pt;" valign="top" width="486"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">Sodano: honored mass-murderer Gorbachev</span></i></b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><br />At a June 27, 2000 Vatican press conference, Mikhail Gorbachev was given a seat of honor between Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano and Cardinal Achille Silvestrini. The subject of this “press conference” (at which no questions were permitted) was the <i>Ostpolitik</i> of the late Cardinal Casaroli, the former Secretary of State. The Vatican’s policy of refusing to condemn communist repression of Catholics during the Cold War was lauded by Gorbachev and the two Cardinals. This is the same Gorbachev who, in 1987, told his fellow communists that "There must be no letup in the war against religion because as long as religion exists, communism cannot prevail. We must intensify the obliteration of all religions." This is the same Gorbachev who promotes worldwide abortion and contraception through his tax-free foundations. And this is the same Gorbachev who ordered the bloody invasion and war against Afghanistan, in which between 1.5 million and 2 million Afghans were killed (90% of whom were civilians), and 2 - 4 million were wounded. <br /><br /></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">Cardinal Sladkevicius of Lithuania, a witness to communist persecution of the Church, has warned, <b>"The West has committed a serious error: it is trusting Gorbachev."</b> The Cardinal also said, "Behind the openings of perestroika, a sham can be hidden: I am truly scandalized by the enormous and gratuitous credit which is given to the Kremlin outside the U.S.S.R."<br /><br /></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">And the Church has been scandalized by Cardinal Sodano.<br /><br /></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><b><i><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><u1:p>Sodano: perpetuated infamous Vatican-Moscow Treaty<br /></u1:p></i></b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">This horrendous scandal of honoring a murderer like Gorbachev would not have been possible without the Vatican-Moscow Treaty, the outcome of secret negotiations between the Holy See and the Kremlin in Metz, France in 1962. Cardinal Tisserant, Pope John XXIII's own representative, met with Archbishop Nikodim, the Kremlin spokesman, who at the time was head of the department of the external relations of the Russian Orthodox Church. At this meeting, the Vatican promised not to attack the people or the communist regime of Russia at Vatican II. This agreement enabled Russian Orthodox observers to attend the Council. <br /> This existence of the Vatican-Moscow Treaty explains a great deal. It explains why the petition of more than 200 bishops from 46 countries to discuss communism during Vatican II was blocked. It also explains why the petition of the Spanish and Portuguese bishops to consecrate Russia at the Council was also refused.<br /> This treaty has perpetuated a "communism-friendly" negotiating style amongst the Catholic hierarchy that has, for the most part, silenced the Church from effectively speaking out against the atrocities of this godless and ruthless system. In 1990, the KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn warned of this mistaken attitude:</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">"The Vatican should reverse its mistaken support for the renew of the communist regimes.... It fails to understand the greater apparent official tolerance of religion ... is accompanied by a secret drive to increase Party and KGB penetration of the Catholic and other churches and to use agents therein for political and strategic purpose...." </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> Just what Our Lady of the Roses has warned us about for years, but who listened? Pope Pius XI, prior to Vatican II, issued this crystal-clear condemnation of atheistic communism:</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif">"See to it venerable brethren, that the faithful do not allow themselves to be deceived! Communism is intrinsically evil, and no one who would save Christian civilization may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever. Those who permit themselves to be deceived into lending their aid towards the triumph of communism in their own country, will be the first to fall victims of their errors." (Pope Pius XI, <i>Divini Redemptoris</i>)</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"></span><o:p></o:p></p><o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: red;">"Go forward, My child, now, and bring this message to the world: satan has entered into</span></b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span><b><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: red;">the House of God. He rules now from the highest places. The world and the Church of God is in deep darkness. Those who are in command—many have fallen away. Pray, My children, much, for with your prayers and sacrifices they, too, can be recovered.” </span></b></p><o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><o:p></o:p></p><o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.1in;"><i><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="color: red;">- Our Lady of the Roses, April 13, 1974 </span></i><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0in;"><b><span><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div></div></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></span></o:p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">29. Noah Cardinal Palombo - Virgilio Cardinal Noe, Vatican (retired)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -2.25pt; width: 585px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 204pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 204pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 438.5pt;" valign="top" width="585"><p style="line-height: 20.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.75pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"><br /><br /></span><span>– Virgilio Cardinal Noe, 86, Master of Liturgical Ceremonies during the Pontificates of Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II, disclosed in an interview with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Petrus</em>, his inside information on the comment. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 20.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.75pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“You from Petrus, have gotten a real scoop here, because I am in a position to reveal, for the first time, what Paul VI desired to denounce with that statement. Here it is:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Papa Montini, for Satan, meant to include all those</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><strong><i>priests or bishops and cardinals who didn’t render worship to the Lord by celebrating badly</i></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i> </i></b></span><em>(mal celebrando) Holy Mass because of an errant interpretation of the implementation of the Second Vatican Council.</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><strong><i>He spoke of the smoke of Satan because he maintained that those priests who turned Holy Mass into dry straw in the name of creativity, in reality were possessed of the vainglory and the pride of the Evil One. So, the smoke of Satan was nothing other than the mentality which wanted to distort the traditional and liturgical canons of the Eucharistic ceremony.”</i></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 20.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.75pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Now we know the Pope hated guitar Masses, too…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 20.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.75pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Cardinal Noe had the reputation for being a big fussy and exacting stickler for ceremony. This may have influenced how he interpreted a private or public comment from Paul VI combined with his own distaste for modern Masses.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 20.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.75pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">-The most delicious theory is that there are actual Satanists in the Vatican! In his novel,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>The Windswept House – A Vatican Novel</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> (1996), author Fr. Malachi Martin vividly described a ceremony called “The Enthronement of the Fallen Angel Lucifer” supposedly held in St. Paul’s Chapel in the Vatican, but linked to concurrent satanic rites here in the U.S. on June 29, 1963, barely a week after the election of Paul VI. In the novel, before he dies, a pope leaves a secret account of the situation on his desk for the next occupant of the throne of Peter, a thinly-disguised John Paul II.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 20.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.75pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">On pages 492-93 of “<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1136142/posts" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #16496b;">The Windswept House</span></a>” Fr. Martin went another step to link gay and lesbian religious to Satanists during the reign of Paul VI.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 20.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.75pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Suddenly it became unarguable that now during this papacy, the Roman Catholic organization carried a permanent presence of clerics who worshipped Satan and liked it; of bishops and priests who sodomized boys and each other; of nuns who performed the “Black Rites” of Wicca and lived in lesbian relationships…every day, including Sundays and Holy Days, acts of heresy and blasphemy and outrage and indifference were committed and permitted at holy Altars by men who had been called to be priests. Sacrilegious actions and rites were not only performed at Christ’s Altars, but had the connivance or at least the tacit permission of certain Cardinals, archbishops…”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 20.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.75pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In a June 9, 1997 article in The John Birch Society publication,<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><em>New American</em>, Martin confirmed that the ceremony did indeed occur as he had described it in the book. “Oh yes, it is true; very much so,” the magazine reported he said. “But the only way I could put that down into print is in novelistic form.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #191919; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"> </span><a href="https://nihilobstat.info/tag/smoke-of-satan/">https://nihilobstat.info/tag/smoke-of-satan/</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">30. Michael Continho, S.J. - Carlos Cardinal Martini, S.J., Milan</span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -8.25pt; width: 527px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 139pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 139pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 395pt;" valign="top" width="527"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212;">In a startlingly explicit interview published on Saturday, the day after his death, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini aimed a last and posthumous barb at the conservatives in his church, declaring that Roman Catholicism was "two hundred years behind [the times]". He added: "Our rites and our customs are pompous."</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="color: #616161; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/03/italy-mourns-cardinal-church-200-years">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/03/italy-mourns-cardinal-church-200-years</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">31. Victor Venable, OFM - Fr. Vaughan</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">32. Serozha Gafin (Moscow) - A. Golovin</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">33. Gibson Appleyard (U.S.A.) - composite of J. Hale, State Department, </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="background-color: white;">and William Colby, </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">C.I.A.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">34. Rev. Herbert Tartley, Church of England - former Archbishop of Canterbury</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">35. Nicholas Clatterbuck - real person, still living</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">36. Dr. Ralph Channing - real person, still living</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">37. Cliffview House - 304? Riverside Drive, New York</span><br /><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">38. Jacques Deneuve (banker) - K. Schwab, World Trade Organization </span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -11.25pt; width: 573px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 153pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 153pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 429.5pt;" valign="top" width="573"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 11pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">THIS WILL BLEND INTO THE INVOLVEMENT WITH KLAUS SCHWAB, BUT THE CONNECTION TO THE FATHER OF LIBERATION PEDAGOGY IN THE US IS TOO IMPORTANT NOT TO EMPHASIZE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As time went on, both Freire and Câmara grew in popularity in the Latin American nations, but only Câmara would have a strong reach into Europe and North America. Using this reach, Câmara began inviting Freire to group meetings with various priests and bishops within the church. Details surrounding this is vague at best, however it is known that following these early meetings, Câmara then introduced Freire to many interesting and influential individuals, including Henry Giroux - the man who would later obsess over Freire’s work and popularise it in the west.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Freire would - in his 1985 book<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Politics of Education</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> </span>- directly reference Hélder by name, referring to him as not only as an influence but also an unjustly persecuted figure. While the details surrounding their relationship are scarce, there is no doubt that it was a crucial point in the forming of Freire’s ideas and the promotion of his writings.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">THE POPE OF LIBERATION<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">While Freire’s relationship with Câmara is interesting let’s take a step back to see what other influential characters are in the picture. Among them is Pope Francis, whom has over the years shown admiration for Câmara as a helper of the poor and oppressed. However what is more interesting is that Hélier Câmara was not just an influence, but supposedly the mentor of Pope Francis during his early years.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In keeping with Câmaras ideas, Pope Francis publicly stated in 2020 that “Christianity has never recognised the right to private property as absolute or immovable”, and “the right to private property is always accompanied by the primary and prior principle of the subordination of all private property to the universal destination of the earths goods, and thus the right of all to their use”. This is a direct call for the abolition of private property and blatantly Marxist.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 11pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Founder of the World Economic Forum and greatest promoter of the GREAT RESET<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 11pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">KLAUS SCHWAB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We can now turn our attention to Klaus Schwab, who stated that Câmara was his ‘spiritual father’, and described his first encounter with the priest in the early 1970s as a ‘crucial moment in his life’. Schwab had travelled to Brazil, and was introduced to whom he had been told was the ‘priest of the poor’. Câmara showed him the favelas and lower class areas of the region, which impacted Schwab greatly. Following this, Schwab was compelled to invite Câmara to speak at Davos in 1974 about the reality of poverty in third world nations (despite Câmara being frowned upon in Switzerland for his communist reputation).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Davos speech from the priest included a critique of ‘waste society’ and the distribution of wealth, which Schwab said was well received by the audience. This event would compel Schwab to invite further Catholic priests to speak - many of whom happened to reiterate the same talking points as Câmara had in 1974 - and was likely a key factor in the friendship we now see between the Pope and Schwab. Câmara’s friendship and ‘spiritual guidance’ of Schwab would continue on, and Pope Francis would posthumously declare the priest a ‘Servant of God’ in 2015.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In terms of the WEF’s revolutionary intent, could Câmara’s personal input behind the scenes has led to the Klaus Schwab we see today? The stated motives of the WEF differ slightly from classical Marxism, but with Câmara’s beliefs in the mix, it all begins to make sense. Similar to the Pope’s call for the abolition of private property on religious and moral grounds, Schwab calls for the abolition of private property on the grounds of environmentalism, and more broadly as a way of achieving some sort of cosmic fairness for the disenfranchised. Again, this is presented in the same moralistic manner as Câmara and liberation theology.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">THE WORLD STAGE AND COMMUNISM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As others who are aware of this strange connection have highlighted, these three key figures (Francis, Freire, Schwab) and their influence happen to coincide with three major areas which are crucial to control for communism to succeed; religion, education, economy. It seems that Pope Francis has politicised Catholicism back into the dark ages, while Freire’s work in oppression-based educational ideas have poisoned schools and universities across the Western world. Schwab’s approach to economics is a confusing mix of Marxist property centralisation and Fascist corporate control, but ultimately leads to the same end.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Câmara is the influence common to all of them. The Great Reset is the old Marxian revolution required to overthrow the current system to usher in a technocratically controlled, transhuman utopia. Man recreating himself as his own god, everyone equal, each master of his own destiny without oppression.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://escapingmasspsychosis.substack.com/p/the-real-man-behind-the-reset">https://escapingmasspsychosis.substack.com/p/the-real-man-behind-the-reset</a></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="background-color: white;">39. Gynneth Blashford (publisher) - Bertelsmann</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">40. Brad Gerstein-Snell (communications) - Ted Turner </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">Founder of CNN</span><span style="background-color: white;">41. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">41. Sir Jimmie Blackburn (South Africa, diamonds) - James Goldsmith</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -7.25pt; width: 603px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 125pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 125pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 452.5pt;" valign="top" width="603"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 7pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-size: 14pt;">Sir James Goldsmith is a protean figure: high-flying financial buccaneer, crusading politician, famously unconventional family man, who shares homes in London, Paris, Burgundy, Spain, and Mexico with his aristocratic wife, Annabel, his ex-wife and former secretary, Ginette, and his mistress, Laure Boulay de la Meurthe. From his family, friends, and foes, and an exclusive interview with Goldsmith himself, the author learns about the renegade passions of the Anglo-French billionaire who is fighting to change the future of Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 7pt;"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 7pt;"><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1997/05/goldsmith199705">https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1997/05/goldsmith199705</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">42. Kyun Kia Moi (Korea) - real person, still living</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">43. Bp. Novacy - Abp. Pavel Hnilica</span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -11.25pt; width: 645px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 153pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 153pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 484pt;" valign="top" width="645"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 11pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Archbishop Kondrusiewicz was accompanied on his visit to Fatima by Bishop Pavol Hnilica, SJ, the Slovak Bishop who has worked for a long time to spread the message of Fatima, particularly with regard to Russia. It will be remembered that it was Bishop Hnilica who had taken all the Fatima documentation to John Paul II during his convalescence in <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">1981, and who had presented him with the statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary which the Holy Father sent to a specially constructed church on the Polish-Soviet border. It was during the time he spent in prison in Czechoslovakia that Bishop Hnilica discovered the true meaning of Our Lady's request to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart as the only way to obtain peace in the world. As a result, he has worked to spread the message of Fatima wherever he went.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 11pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>h<a href="ttp://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/ttindalr/hnilica.htm">ttp://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/ttindalr/hnilica.htm</a></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">44. Maldonado (I.R.A.) - Sig. Alberico Novelli</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">45. Card. Amedeo Sanstefano (I.R.A.) - Silvio Cardinal Oddi (deceased)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">46. Bp. Ievin Rahilly (CT) - Abp. John Whealon, Hartford (deceased)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -12.25pt; width: 604px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 9in;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 9in; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 453pt;" valign="top" width="604"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Roboto;">Later that day, Whealon met with Donahue and Ferguson in Whealon's office; Gianelli did not attend that meeting. Whealon, however, memorialized that meeting in a handwritten memorandum to Gianelli, stating that Ferguson had been struggling with his sexuality since childhood, and “[n]ow alcohol has entered the picture.” Whealon noted specifically that Ferguson had molested the two boys “in a way that showed his abject weak-ness,” but was now “totally contrite,” acknowledging he needed help, and had claimed that he was not in “immediate danger of touching others</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "MS Mincho";">․</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Roboto;">” Whealon communicated the decisions made during the meeting, namely, that: (1) they would arrange for Ferguson to be treated at the House of Affirmation, an inpatient facility; (2) Donahue would inform the woman who had reported the molestation about their solution and “will ask them to tell no one”; and (3) Ferguson would “tell no one” of what happened. Whealon noted his “hope [that Ferguson] can get help [and] control it permanently. Otherwise we have a real problem.”<a name="footnote_ref_6"></a><a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ct-supreme-court/1706085.html#footnote_6"><sup><span style="color: #621f95; font-size: 9pt;">6</span></sup></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Roboto;">Subsequently, on March 16, 1979, Donahue reported to Gianelli that Ferguson had not gone to the House of Affirmation, and did not want to leave Saint Bernard's Parish. Gianelli brought this to Whealon's attention. After following up on this report, Whealon stated in a memorandum that there “is more at [Northwest] than we know of,” and that the mother of one of the boys who had been molested was seeing a counselor with him. Whealon observed further that the counselor was a mandated reporter under state law, and the “entire matter seems to be blowing up” as the “mother is not satisfied that anything is being done.” With respect to additional victims, Whealon noted specifically that “there were [four] older boys, last summer. These last [two] were in [November] 1978. Seemingly nothing has happened at [Northwest].” Whealon directed Gianelli to call Ferguson and tell him to leave Saint Bernard's Parish, or else Whealon “who [is] liable,” would order him out personally.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Roboto;">Subsequently, Gianelli discussed Ferguson's alcoholism and acts of child molestation with Father Michael Peterson, a priest and physician who was the director of the Saint Luke Institute in Holliston, Massachusetts. Gianelli then reported to Whealon that he had arranged for Ferguson to enter the inpatient program at the Saint Luke Institute on March 26, 1979, which would first “work with [his] chemical dependence” and then his “emotional and psychological problems” over a four to six month period. Gianelli did not know whether or how the Saint Luke Institute specifically would address Ferguson's pedophilia. Gianelli further advised Whealon that he would inform Northwest, through the defendant's superintendent of schools, that Ferguson would be leaving the teaching assignment to “get ‘some help’ “ because of “some pressures [Ferguson] is experiencing,” in order to “keep this thing quiet and help [Ferguson]” who “agrees with this procedure. It can and will save him from [an] embarrassing situation.” Gianelli noted that it “will be recommended that [Ferguson's] next assignment be away from the area he is presently assigned to.” Gianelli then stated that he would direct Donahue to “inform the [woman] in Tariffville that [Ferguson] is away and being treated. I will not let this woman know where [Ferguson] is receiving treatment. She could become a pest if she knew.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Roboto;">Much more at: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 12pt;"><a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ct-supreme-court/1706085.html">https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ct-supreme-court/1706085.html</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">47. Bp. Primas Rochefort (NY) - Bp. Matthew Clark, Rochester</span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -8.25pt; width: 569px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 88pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 88pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 426.5pt;" valign="top" width="569"><h4 style="break-after: avoid; color: #2f5496; line-height: 18.75pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #444444; padding: 0in;">ROCHESTER, N.Y.</span></u><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444;">(<a data-pf_rect_height="19" data-pf_rect_width="162.921875" data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" href="https://www.churchmilitant.com/" style="color: #954f72; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #444444; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">ChurchMilitant.com</span></a>) – Testimony from Rochester’s former bishop is confirming he routinely reassigned to ministry priests accused of pedophilia.</span><span style="color: #a6a6a6;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h4><h4 data-pf_rect_height="209" data-pf_rect_width="384" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="break-after: avoid; color: #2f5496; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18.75pt; margin: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">In testimony<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-pf_rect_height="19" data-pf_rect_width="69.125" data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" href="https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-news/new-information-revealed-from-former-bishops-deposition-in-rochester-diocese-bankruptcy-case/" style="color: #954f72; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #444444; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">released</span></a> on Monday, Rochester’s Bp. Emeritus Matthew Clark admits under oath that he was aware of sexual abuse allegations against priests, who he nonetheless returned to active ministry after sending them to rehabilitation centers. Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney representing 94 sexual abuse victims suing the diocese of Rochester, says Clark’s deposition, given in March, indicates Clark did shelter known pedophile priests.</span><span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h4><h4 data-pf_rect_height="114" data-pf_rect_width="384" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="break-after: avoid; color: #2f5496; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18.75pt; margin: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: baseline;"><span data-pf_rect_height="114" data-pf_rect_width="358.6875" data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #444444; font-weight: normal; padding: 0in;"><span>“The testimony by Bp. Matthew Clark under oath in his deposition of March 3, 2020 indicates that Bp. Clark hid pedophilia from the public for decades just as clergy sexual abuse victims had suspected,” Garabedian commented.</span></span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h4><div><span data-pf_rect_height="114" data-pf_rect_width="358.6875" data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #444444; font-weight: normal; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span data-pf_rect_height="114" data-pf_rect_width="358.6875" data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #444444; font-weight: normal; padding: 0in;">...</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">The rapidity with which the diocese filed bankruptcy after alleged abuse victims were allowed to sue, came as no surprise to insiders. The vast majority of clerical sex abuse in the United States was perpetrated by homosexual priests, who were given license to carry out such abuse by gay or gay-friendly bishops.</span></span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Clark, for instance, was <a href="http://www.newwaysministry.org/2012/07/18/rochesters-bishop-matthew-clark-submits-resignation-letter/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">lauded</a> by the <span id="docs-internal-guid-2403746f-7fff-8149-9c04-dcb62f5da33a" style="box-sizing: border-box;">dissident pro-LGBT group New Ways Ministry </span>for being "a longtime supporter of LGBT people in the Catholic Church." He was also close friends with the notorious pro-gay Bp. Howard Hubbard, then bishop of the neighboring Albany diocese.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Testimony from the late Fr. John Minkler <a href="https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/hubbard-albany-gay-ringleader" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">spotlighted</a> the two bishops' actions to further the homosexual agenda in their dioceses. Both bishops are accused of readmitting homosexual predator clergy back into active ministry.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Garabedian <a href="http://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-news/new-information-revealed-from-former-bishops-deposition-in-rochester-diocese-bankruptcy-case/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">says</a> such bishops must be held accountable for the abuse that took place at the hands of their own priests.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0350ca8b-7fff-1a9f-e0e5-7219b18f5802" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"By hiding pedophilia, Bp. Clark was part of the horrible problem and not part of the solution," he observed.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownpelicanla.com/rochesters-bishop-emeritus-clark-admits-recycling-predator-priests-by-bradley-eli/" style="color: #954f72;">https://brownpelicanla.com/rochesters-bishop-emeritus-clark-admits-recycling-predator-priests-by-bradley-eli/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">48. Bp. Bruce Longbottham (MI) - Bp. Kenneth Untener, Saginaw (deceased)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -8.25pt; width: 569px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 88pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 88pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 426.5pt;" valign="top" width="569"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The spiritual wreckage in the diocese can be traced back to Bp. Kenneth Untener, who, as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/the-church-in-detroit-paving-the-way-for-evil" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #954f72;" target="_blank"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;">administrator</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">of St. John's Provincial Seminary in the archdiocese of Detroit, caused scandal by airing pornography to seminarians as part of a course on morality. Untener was made bishop of Saginaw in 1980, where he remained till his death in 2004.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 8pt;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/saginaw-loses-nearly-half-its-catholics-over-13-years">https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/saginaw-loses-nearly-half-its-catholics-over-13-years</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">49. Abp. Cuthbert Delish (WI) - Abp. 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But his accuser, Paul Marcoux,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-te.archbishop24may24-story.html" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;">brought to light a letter</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that Weakland wrote to him in 1980.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Weakland says at one point in the letter, "So gradually I came back to the importance of celibacy in my life."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He ended the letter with the statement, "I love you."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Weakland later<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30696446/ns/us_news-faith/t/ex-head-milwaukee-catholics-admits-hes-gay/#.XJPCHihKi71" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;">admitted in 2009</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that he was homosexual.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Also in 2009, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://archive.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/78431087.html/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;">shed light on court documents from 1993</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in which Abp. Weakland admitted that he had shredded archdiocesan documents related to clerical sex abuse allegations. The documents he shredded were weekly logs about priests of the archdiocese, especially those accused of sexual abuse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In January 2011, the archdiocese of Milwaukee — now headed by Abp. Jerome Listecki —<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/milwaukee-eighth-diocese-file-bankruptcy" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;">filed for bankruptcy</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>amid numerous settlements with victims of priestly sex abuse.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/sex-scandal-settlement-submitted" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;">In August 2015</span></a>, the archdiocese finalized its plan to pay out $21 million to more than 300 victims of clerical sex abuse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">But Thomas rejected the bishop's attempts to excuse the behavior. In his letter, he said that he wanted to get away from Hubbard, and indicated that he felt the only way to escape the bishop's grasp was suicide. On April 19, 1978, Thomas set himself ablaze at his parent's home in Albany.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In response to Zalay's allegation, Hubbard convened a press conference, during which he declared that he had been celibate since his ordination in 1963.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">But the bishop's claim was soon countered by allegations involving underage male prostitutes. Former teenage runaway <a href="http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2004_01_06/2004_02_27_cruxnews_PriestsMysterious.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2;">Anthony Bonneau</span></a> stepped forward alleging that, years earlier, he twice had sex with Hubbard in Washington Park, one of Albany's gay cruising hotspots. Bonneau said he was troubled by Hubbard's denial and, as a convert to Christianity, came forward out of a sense of moral duty to protect other vulnerable minors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">According to whistleblower Fr. John Minkler, during his nearly 40 years as bishop (1977–2014), Hubbard intentionally cultivated an expansive <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16kFmoFi_ZRCqSrbPWXsOGl-eNAYyRpot/view" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2;">homosexual network</span></a> inside the diocese of Albany.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16kFmoFi_ZRCqSrbPWXsOGl-eNAYyRpot/view" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2;">a 1995 letter</span></a> to New York Cdl. John O'Connor, Fr. Minkler warned that while rejecting spiritually and psychologically healthy young men, "the diocese regularly accepts and ordains seminarians who have been dropped by other dioceses because of their homosexual activity."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Minkler, who later died under mysterious circumstances, named more than a dozen actively homosexual clerics operating in Albany at that time, including multiple parish priests, the diocesan priest-personnel director, the judicial vicar, the chancellor, a vicar general — and Bp. Hubbard himself. He went to describe what he'd been told by various diocesan insiders:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"In recent years an Albany physician who works with AIDS patients stated that within a four-month period she encountered two recently diagnosed AIDS patients, who were unknown to each other. They informed her with almost identical stories about their involvement with a ring of homosexual Albany priests which also included Bishop Hubbard."<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"A permanent deacon at the Cathedral in Albany where Bishop Hubbard has been residing for the last few years has seen the Bishop leaving and returning very late at night, dressed in cut-off shorts and tank tops. He states that the Bishop keeps very much to himself, is very secretive, and that he feels that the Bishop is living a double life."<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Recently a young priest was told by his pastor, a young priest his same age and homosexual, that he should not become so upset over the conduct of the Albany clergy. The pastor stated that the reason he was pastor of a good parish and his first pastorate was due to the fact that Bishop Hubbard favors the young homosexual priests. He went on to state that Bishop Hubbard himself has had homosexual experiences in the past and is currently involved with two young priests, namely, Fathers Thomas Chevalier and Patrick Butler, both of whom were made pastors of very good parishes at an early age. As a seminarian, Patrick Butler was invited to vacation at Cape Cod with Bishops Hubbard and Clark [of Rochester] along with Father Thomas Powers." <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Under Hubbard, the diocese of Albany became a hotbed of homosexuality and a <a href="https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/albany-a-predators-playground-under-bp.-howard-hubbard" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2;">predator's playground</span></a>. In light of this, the bishop's response to the clerical sex abuse crisis has raised more than a few eyebrows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In June, 49-year-old <a href="https://wnyt.com/investigates/man-shares-allegations-of-abuse-at-hands-of-albany-area-priest/5388699/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2;">Michael Harmon</span></a> went public with allegations that as a boy, he was repeatedly abused by former diocesan priest Fr. Edward Pratt. After suffering in silence for five years, at age 16, he revealed the abuse to Bp. Hubbard. Reportedly, Hubbard responded by threatening to throw Harmon into jail.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">But Thomas rejected the bishop's attempts to excuse the behavior. In his letter, he said that he wanted to get away from Hubbard, and indicated that he felt the only way to escape the bishop's grasp was suicide. On April 19, 1978, Thomas set himself ablaze at his parent's home in Albany.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In response to Zalay's allegation, Hubbard convened a press conference, during which he declared that he had been celibate since his ordination in 1963.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">But the bishop's claim was soon countered by allegations involving underage male prostitutes. Former teenage runaway<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2004_01_06/2004_02_27_cruxnews_PriestsMysterious.htm" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;">Anthony Bonneau</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>stepped forward alleging that, years earlier, he twice had sex with Hubbard in Washington Park, one of Albany's gay cruising hotspots. Bonneau said he was troubled by Hubbard's denial and, as a convert to Christianity, came forward out of a sense of moral duty to protect other vulnerable minors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">According to whistleblower Fr. John Minkler, during his nearly 40 years as bishop (1977–2014), Hubbard intentionally cultivated an expansive<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16kFmoFi_ZRCqSrbPWXsOGl-eNAYyRpot/view" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;">homosexual network</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>inside the diocese of Albany.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16kFmoFi_ZRCqSrbPWXsOGl-eNAYyRpot/view" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;">a 1995 letter</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to New York Cdl. John O'Connor, Fr. Minkler warned that while rejecting spiritually and psychologically healthy young men, "the diocese regularly accepts and ordains seminarians who have been dropped by other dioceses because of their homosexual activity."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Minkler, who later died under mysterious circumstances, named more than a dozen actively homosexual clerics operating in Albany at that time, including multiple parish priests, the diocesan priest-personnel director, the judicial vicar, the chancellor, a vicar general — and Bp. Hubbard himself. He went to describe what he'd been told by various diocesan insiders:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"In recent years an Albany physician who works with AIDS patients stated that within a four-month period she encountered two recently diagnosed AIDS patients, who were unknown to each other. They informed her with almost identical stories about their involvement with a ring of homosexual Albany priests which also included Bishop Hubbard."<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"A permanent deacon at the Cathedral in Albany where Bishop Hubbard has been residing for the last few years has seen the Bishop leaving and returning very late at night, dressed in cut-off shorts and tank tops. He states that the Bishop keeps very much to himself, is very secretive, and that he feels that the Bishop is living a double life."<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Recently a young priest was told by his pastor, a young priest his same age and homosexual, that he should not become so upset over the conduct of the Albany clergy. The pastor stated that the reason he was pastor of a good parish and his first pastorate was due to the fact that Bishop Hubbard favors the young homosexual priests. He went on to state that Bishop Hubbard himself has had homosexual experiences in the past and is currently involved with two young priests, namely, Fathers Thomas Chevalier and Patrick Butler, both of whom were made pastors of very good parishes at an early age. As a seminarian, Patrick Butler was invited to vacation at Cape Cod with Bishops Hubbard and Clark [of Rochester] along with Father Thomas Powers."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Under Hubbard, the diocese of Albany became a hotbed of homosexuality and a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/albany-a-predators-playground-under-bp.-howard-hubbard" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;">predator's playground</span></a>. In light of this, the bishop's response to the clerical sex abuse crisis has raised more than a few eyebrows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In June, 49-year-old<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://wnyt.com/investigates/man-shares-allegations-of-abuse-at-hands-of-albany-area-priest/5388699/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;">Michael Harmon</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>went public with allegations that as a boy, he was repeatedly abused by former diocesan priest Fr. Edward Pratt. After suffering in silence for five years, at age 16, he revealed the abuse to Bp. Hubbard. Reportedly, Hubbard responded by threatening to throw Harmon into jail.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/bp-howard-hubbard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-right: -0.1in; margin-top: 5pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">50. Bp. Manley Motherhubbe (NY) - Bp. 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</style></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: 4.75pt;"><tbody><tr style="height: 76pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 76pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 409pt;" valign="top" width="545"><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Bishop Hubbard’s testimony on his 37 years as ultimate leader of the Diocese of Albany reads like a case study of the Bishops’ playbook set forth in Pennsylvania’s 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury Report.<a href="https://www.andersonadvocates.com/news/bishop-howard-hubbards-testimony-publicly-released-for-first-time/#_ftn1" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s, background-color 0.3s ease 0s;"><span style="color: #0075c9; text-decoration: none;">[1]</span></a>“Unfortunately, we are not shocked that Bishop Hubbard used the same playbook that countless other Bishops have employed to evade accountability and protect perpetrators at the expense of children,” said Anderson.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 13.2pt; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Bishop Hubbard testified to the strategies he employed throughout his nearly 40-year tenure as Bishop, including:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Recycle perpetrator priests through Bishops’ treatment center allies:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Bishop Hubbard received reports of 11 priests sexually assaulting minors between 1977 and 2002. (Tr. at 90:12–20.) As a matter of “procedure,” he sent accused perpetrators to treatment centers used by Bishops across the United States—Via Coeli in Jemez Springs, NM, staffed by the Servants of the Paraclete; St. Luke Institute; House of Affirmation; St. John Vianney Center; Guest House; Southdown Institute in Ontario, Canada. (Tr. at 77:13–24, 102:23–103:4, 137:12–19, 281:4–11, 615:5–15, 731:20–732:6.) Bishop Hubbard testified to receiving reports of child sexual abuse against the following priests between 1977 and 2002:<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in;" type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dozia Wilson</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Tr. at 63:15–65:21, 74:17–75:11, 85:10–14, 159:5–165:14, 284:18–285:15, 373:4–420:24)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Carl Stone</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Tr. at 75:12–90:11)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">David Bentley</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Tr. at 91:4–96:5)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">James Rosch</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Tr. at 96:6–102:13)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Edward Leroux</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Tr. at 102:14–107:19)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">John Fitzpatrick</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Tr. at 108:11–120:16)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">James McDermott</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Tr. at 120:17–134:22)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mark Haight</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Tr. at 136:3–142:14)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Edward Pratt</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Tr. at 142:15–143:15)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Joseph Mancuso</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Tr. at 143:16–145:5)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Never inform or warn parishioners or the public of the danger when removing or transferring offending priests:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>After sending abusive priests to treatment, Bishop Hubbard reinstated them into parishes—despite knowing as early as the 1970s that they could reoffend. (Tr. at 81:12–82:8, 103:19–104:6, 153:12–154:3, 867:2–871:13.) Bishop Hubbard testified that “it was a conscious decision on my part not to inform the congregation” and he did not consider the peril of returning to ministry priests who had admitted to sexually abusing minors. (Tr. 106:14–17, 682:14–15.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Don’t report allegations of child sexual abuse to law enforcement:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Prior to 2002, Bishop Hubbard never reported, or directed anyone to report, suspicions of sexual abuse of minors or his direct knowledge of perpetrators assaulting children to law enforcement. (Tr. at 85:2–24.) He did not report to law enforcement to avoid “scandal,” preserve “respect for the priesthood,” and protect the reputation of the Church. ( at 81:9–22; 93:3-8, 94:10-12.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Refuse to fire offending priests by removing them from the priesthood:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Bishop Hubbard believed the penalty of laicization—firing priests by removing them from the clerical state—to be too harsh. He only petitioned to have one sexually abusive priest removed from the clerical state, Fr. Gary Mercure; he did so only after Fr. Mercure was criminally convicted of sexually abusing children; and he “did it because [he] thought it was in the best interest of the church.” (Tr. at 140:4–141:5.)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.andersonadvocates.com/news/bishop-howard-hubbards-testimony-publicly-released-for-first-time/#_ftnref1" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s, background-color 0.3s ease 0s;"><span style="color: #0075c9; text-decoration: none;">[1]</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Report I of the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury</em>, p. 2–3, Office of Attorney General: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (July 27, 2018),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">available at</em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/report/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s, background-color 0.3s ease 0s;"><span style="color: #0075c9; text-decoration: none;">https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/report</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bishops’ Playbook Exemplified in Diocese’s Handling of Serial Predator Fr. Dozia Wilson</u></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 13.2pt; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Bishop Hubbard’s testimony revealed his and the Diocese of Albany’s sordid and secretive handling of serial offenders such as Fr. Dozia Wilson (Tr. at 64:16–65:21, 373:4–420:24). In 1976, the Albany County District Attorney informed Diocese of Albany officials that Fr. Wilson had been accused of sexually abusing a minor, “asked the Diocese to cooperate in assigning him elsewhere, and indicated that he would not be permitted back into the Albany area for any length of time.” (Tr. 378:18–379:14.) Fr. Wilson was sent to the Archdiocese of Boston, where he faced additional complaints. (Tr. at 399:20–408:5.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 13.2pt; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Bishop Hubbard recalled Fr. Wilson from Boston in 1979 and, despite knowing that Fr. Wilson had been accused of child sexual abuse, assisted Fr. Wilson in obtaining work in the Diocese of Rochester and took no meaningful steps to ensure that Fr. Wilson did not pose a danger to children there. (Tr. at 386:21–388:5.) Following additional complaints in the Diocese of Rochester, Bishop Hubbard recalled Fr. Wilson from the Diocese of Rochester and sent him to treatment. (Tr. at 412:10–413:2, 415:23–416:3.) Fr. Wilson sought employment as a United States Navy chaplain but was rejected, after which Bishop Hubbard attempted unsuccessfully to obtain employment for Fr. Wilson in the Diocese of Tulsa. (Tr. at 398:10–19, 415:18–416:10) Unable to find Fr. Wilson work outside of his diocese, Bishop Hubbard secured the District Attorney’s blessing to place Fr. Wilson at a parish outside the Capital District; assigned Fr. Wilson to St. Mary in Hudson, New York in 1981; and took no steps to warn parishioners of Fr. Wilson’s dangerous propensities or ensure that Fr. Wilson could not use his position of authority to sexually abuse children. (Tr. at 395:10–396:2, 415:18–420:5.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">At least three survivors filed lawsuits under the Child Victims Act alleging sexual abuse by Fr. Wilson in the 1980s and early 1990s while Fr. Wilson was assigned to St. Mary in Hudson. These three survivors would not have met Fr. Wilson if Bishop Hubbard had taken any one of the number of chances he was afforded to do the right thing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">When Bishop Hubbard Faces Multiple Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in 2004, Diocese of Albany Hires Law Firm and Pays $2.4 Million To Clear Him</u></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 13.2pt; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">After Bishop Hubbard was accused of sexual abuse of a minor in 2004, the Diocese of Albany paid $2.4 million to have the allegations against Bishop Hubbard investigated by a law firm—more than the $2.3 million it had paid to that point in time in settlements to survivors of child sexual abuse. (Tr. at 32:15–21, 175:23–176:13.) Bishop Hubbard continued in his position as Bishop and leader of the Diocese as the investigation occurred. (Tr. at 1068:18-22.) Bishop Hubbard testified that his “primary interest” regarding the investigation was “to see that the investigation included that I had not engaged in any sexual misconduct with minors.” (Tr. at 344:8–20.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vatican Goes Silent After Bishop Hubbard Accused of Sexual Misconduct in 2004</u></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 13.2pt; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Bishop Hubbard testified about the Vatican’s response to the allegations leveled against him in 2004. (Tr. at 18:9–31:6.) The Vatican’s reaction to the serious accusations leveled against Bishop Hubbard was—described charitably—indifferent: Bishop Hubbard contacted the Vatican’s Apostolic Nuncio in Washington, D.C., had a 15–minute conversation with the Nuncio, and the Nuncio “accepted what [Bishop Hubbard] shared with him and didn’t press for any further information.” (Tr. at 28:9–29:2.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Bishops in Communication and Coordination</u></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 13.2pt; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Starting in the early 1980s, Bishop Hubbard began to coordinate his response to allegations of child sexual abuse with other Bishops in New York State, including Diocese of Rochester Bishop Matthew Clark and the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York. (Tr. at 880:23–886:11.) Bishop Hubbard found that these Bishops were handling abusive priests “pretty much the same way that [he] was coping with it at the same time in Albany”—by sending offenders to treatment and returning them to ministry. (Tr. at 885:22–886:11.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ten Lawsuits Accuse Bishop Hubbard of Child Sexual Abuse; He Denies Allegations</u></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 13.2pt; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Ten plaintiffs filed lawsuits under New York’s Child Victims Act alleging that Bishop Hubbard sexually abused them when they were minors. The lawsuits allege incidents of abuse by Bishop Hubbard spanning nearly four decades—from 1974 to 2012. Bishop Hubbard has strenuously denied the allegations against him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Testimony Exposes Bishop Hubbard’s Lies in August 13, 2021 Op-Ed</u></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">On August 13, 2021—the last day for survivors to file suit under New York’s Child Victims Act—Bishop Hubbard authored an op-ed in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Albany Times Union</em>. Bishop Hubbard’s self-serving statements in his op-ed directly contradicted his sworn testimony, understated his longstanding knowledge of the high rate of recidivism among offenders and the severe impacts of sexual abuse on survivors, and minimized his role in perpetuating child sexual abuse in his Diocese over the course of nearly four decades:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">51. Bp. Raymond Luckenbill (MN) - Bp. Raymond Lucker, New Ulm</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -12.25pt; width: 592px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 103pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 103pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 444pt;" valign="top" width="592"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><br /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #666666; font-family: "Titillium Web";">Nationally, however, Bp Lucker is also remembered as a progressive who sometimes broke ranks with Pope John Paul II during the 1980s and 1990s, including over birth control and the ordination of women. He also criticised John Paul II’s decision to publish a universal catechism, seeing it as unnecessary and overly centralising.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Roboto;"> </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">52. Bp. Ralph Goodenough (IL) - composite of Chicago auxiliaries</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">53. Sr. Fran Fedora (Seattle) - Fran Ferder</span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -7.25pt; width: 656px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 195pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 195pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 492pt;" valign="top" width="656"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Sister Fran Ferder and the Rev. John Heagle practiced as internationally known therapists while advancing what for the church were subversive ideas about sexuality and church hierarchy. They were at the center of the Seattle Archdiocese’s response to a nascent sexual-abuse crisis that was beginning to grip the Catholic Church nationwide.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The nature of the counseling the woman received at Therapy and Renewal Associates in 1988 is the subject of a recently filed lawsuit that questions in whose interest they were acting: that of the woman, who was ostensibly their client, or the church. It could be another example of the church’s early tendency to minimize the consequences of sexual abuse by priests. And the charges suggest the need for scrutiny of one of the least-understood aspects of the Catholic abuse crisis—the role of the therapists used by the church to help both victims and perpetrators. But the story of therapists Ferder and Heagle is not a simple one. It is as complex as the conduct of the archdiocese itself during this pivotal period.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Ferder and Heagle helped draw up the Seattle Archdiocese’s initial protocols for dealing with abuse allegations, protocols that were at the time far more progressive than those of virtually every other archdiocese in the country. The protocols included removing a priest immediately when allegations surfaced. The nun and the priest were also part of a response team the archdiocese deployed for “listening sessions” in shaken communities that had learned of abuse in their midst.<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Even more crucially, the Seattle Archdiocese relied on their clinical services. It used TARA to evaluate abusive priests, including some of the state’s most notorious predators. At the same time, the church sent victims of such abuse to Ferder and Heagle, often paying for the counseling they delivered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">54. Sr. Helen Hammentick (New Orleans) - ?</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">55. Sr. Cherisa Blaine (Kansas City) - Sr. Theresa Kane</span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -5.25pt;"><tbody><tr style="height: 12pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 12pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 446pt;" valign="top" width="595"><p style="margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />Referring to the Vatican investigation of U.S. women religious initiated last December by Slovenian Cardinal Franc Rodé, who heads the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, Kane called it “a sign of impotence in the church hierarchy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Regarding the present interrogation, I think the male hierarchy is truly impotent, incapable of equality, co-responsibility in adult behavior,” she said, not mincing any words. “In the church today, we are experiencing a dictatorial mindset and spiritual violence.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.2in; margin-top: 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f;">Kane said there is a proper place for anger. “If we do not get angry, we won’t make change,” she said. And change can come, she noted. Years back, she recalled, women were required to cover their heads when in church — “even using tissue paper, if necessary.” After a while women simply stopped the practice and the requirement ended. She called it a “silent revolution.”</span><span style="color: #1f1f1f;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Spiritual violence it demonstrably is, impotence less clearly so, but I think she is right. Real authority does not do reassert itself with these conspicuous assertions of power, but instead is proves itself by the continuing, voluntary cooperation of those governed. I also like her observations on excommunication, and on the possibility of change, and on the possibility of facing excommunication:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.2in; margin-top: 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f;"><span>Kane, as the nation’s most identifiable advocate of women’s ordination, has been repeatedly asked if she fears a Vatican excommunication. Her response: “I’m not out of communion. The institution got out of communion with me.”</span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #1f1f1f;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><a href="https://queeringthechurch.wordpress.com/tag/sr-theresa-kane/"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">https://queeringthechurch.wordpress.com/tag/sr-theresa-kane/ </span></a></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">56. "Capstone" - real person, still living</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">57. Card. 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</style></span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -17.25pt; width: 569px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 654pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 654pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 426.5pt;" valign="top" width="569"><p style="margin: 5pt -0.1in 5pt 0.1in; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: start;">The shaded material on the right is a clip from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Kerk en Leven</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Church and Life), in August of 1984.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Kerk en Leven</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is the weekly magazine of the Catholic Church in Flanders. This, via DeepL, is the translation of the first paragraph of the shaded copy:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 5pt -0.1in 5pt 0.1in; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #4b5563; font-size: 14pt;">A few years ago, an ecumenical working group on paedophilia was established in Flanders. This working group, made up of Catholics and Protestants, aims to make the Churches aware of the phenomenon of paedophilia, to pass on information and to remove prejudices. The working group also wants to inform itself about everything that appears in the field of paedophilia. All are welcome who want to get to know paedophilia and paedophiles better, provided this is done in openness, respect and reliability.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 24, 39); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">The article goes on to say that they are meeting in a chapel, and that pastors are leading it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 24, 39); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">The text on the left-hand column recounts what happened when a concerned mother wrote to Cardinal Danneels, and shared with him more information that she apparently got from the program happening under his auspices. Here is what the Pedophile Working Group advised:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #111827; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">If your son or daughter feels the connection with the paedophile is fine, do not break that connection;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #111827; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">The reaction of the environment is often more harmful than the events themselves;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #111827; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">Many convinced Christians can learn something from paedophiles;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #111827; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">It is preferable that a relationship of trust be established between the paedophile in the parents.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 24, 39); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">Cardinal Danneels did nothing about this, according to the text. That was the same year his dear friend<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Vangheluwe" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #8f1b11; padding: 0in;">Roger Vangheluwe</span></a>became Bishop of Bruges. Vangheluwe would decades later be exposed as a pedophile who molested two of his nephews — and Cardinal Danneels was secretly recorded by one of the victims attempting to gain the victim’s silence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 24, 39); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">This is the great liberal cardinal that Pope Francis invited to participate in the Church’s Synod on the Family.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 24, 39); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">If you want to know more about how berserk the Catholic Church in Belgium went after the Second Vatican Council,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.kuleuven.be/thomas/page/in-gods-naam/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #8f1b11; padding: 0in;">take a look at this long report from the Catholic University in Leuven.</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s not polemical; it’s just a summary of the Church’s catechetical<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 5pt -0.1in 5pt 0.1in; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">efforts over the decades since the council. It’s in Flemish, but if you browse with Chrome, it will translate the text for you. Reading this document is like encountering a Catholic traditionalist’s satirical take on liberal Catholic catechesis — but it’s all too real. Here are a couple of excerpts:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 24, 39); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">[In the 1970s:] In the first two degrees of secondary education, Roman Catholic religious instruction had in mind primarily the introduction of the most important building blocks of the Christian faith. The teacher had to use the correlation teaching method that was already introduced in the first half of the seventies. In the first degree, the focus of religious instruction was on lessons about the Old and the New Testament. Secondly, a “Christian self-development” was central to the second degree. <a href="https://www.kuleuven.be/thomas/page/in-gods-naam/#_ftn333" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #8f1b11; padding: 0in;"> For each</span></a> intended topic, the lessons not only had an eye for the world of the class, but also for “the Bible, reflection and experience in the church community.” In this way, according to Bulckens, the teaching of religion wanted ‘to teach young people how to deal with the Christian vision of life problems and tasks’. Finally, as in the previous periods, religion classes for the third degree had the purpose of a synthesis of faith. In this way, religious instruction aimed to “help young adults to develop a personal vision” and to promote “engagement in a very mixed society in dialogue with other opinions and beliefs.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 24, 39); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">In other words, although the Roman Catholic religious lessons still cast a glance at the Christian faith, other philosophies of life gradually came to the fore. With these philosophies of life and world religions, the lessons wished to enter into constant dialogue, whereby the transfer of pure Catholic doctrine disappeared more and more into the background. Furthermore, it was absolutely unacceptable for the teacher to act as an authoritarian figure and resolutely hide behind the statements of the Catholic Church. <a href="https://www.kuleuven.be/thomas/page/in-gods-naam/#_ftn337" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #8f1b11; padding: 0in;">[337]</span></a>This could, after all, arouse the students’ aversion to the Christian faith. These views were already accepted in the first half of the seventies and were partly a result of the growing pluralization in society and within the walls of secondary education. The religious teacher was therefore expected to enter into “open and honest dialogue” with the class group, so that the students could develop their own vision of the Christian faith and other views on life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 24, 39); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">More:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 24, 39); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">As mentioned earlier, a pure proclamation of faith and the Christian formation of the class groups were no longer the central thesis of Roman Catholic religious education. Instead of such school-like catechesis, religious instruction wanted to contribute to the personal development of every student. As a result, the lessons were arranged in such a way that for some they could have a catechistic meaning and for others “an introduction to the Christian doctrine in its cultural-historical meaning”. The parents of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the pupils also received <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">a workbook for parents</span></em> in <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">The Religion in Catholic Secondary Education </span></em>given the message that a pure proclamation of faith was no longer possible. The religious education now wanted to “make young people acquainted with the Christian religion, in dialogue with the major world religions and with all kinds of humanisms, and invite them to determine their personal attitude in freedom”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 5pt -0.1in 5pt 0.1in; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">In 1988, the catechesis program was replaced by a new one called<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Roeach:</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 5pt -0.1in 5pt 0.1in; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #4b5563; font-size: 14pt;">Just like the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Catechetic Units</span></em> , a learner- centered approach formed the center of gravity within <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Roeach</span></em>‘s [the name of the new catechetical program] religious lessons through an interactive lesson. An active teaching methodology was also put forward in the current curricula. In his article, Snijkers also praised the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Roeach</span></em> textbook series for his ‘creative and student-oriented elaboration, in which varied questions and assignments and well-chosen impulses gradually led to knowledge and insight’. Furthermore, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Roeach</span></em> working group concerned intended to create “an open and dialogical learning process”, in which students were invited to “express their opinions and determine their personal position”. To arrive at such a form of teaching, the textbook series did not only respond to person-oriented didactics, but also to task and group-oriented teaching. The group-oriented component focused on class discussions about the social and religious context in question. In this way, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Roeach</span></em> encouraged the students to develop a personal vision of the Christian faith in complete freedom. Again, the prominent importance of an individual-centered approach appears here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 24, 39); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">You may recall from<a href="https://theamericanconservative.com/dreher/cardinal-danneels-euthanizer-of-belgian-catholicism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #8f1b11; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #8f1b11; padding: 0in;">yesterday’s post</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that one of these<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Roeach</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>editions infuriated Flemish Catholic mother Alexandra Colen, a politician, with its pedophilic content and illustrations, under the guise of Catholic sex education. She raised hell with Cardinal Danneels and the Church bureaucracy, but got nowhere. She pulled her kids out of Catholic school, and homeschooled them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 24, 39); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #111827; font-size: 14pt;">If euthanasia weren’t legal in Belgium, the Belgian hierarchy and Catholic Church administration should be arrested en masse for murdering Catholicism in their country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 5pt -0.1in 5pt 0.1in; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p><a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/decadence-of-godfried-danneels-belgium-pedophilia/"> https://www.theamericanconservative.com/decadence-of-godfried-danneels-belgium-pedophilia/</a></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times;">58. </span><span style="font-family: CG Times;">Card. Azande (Gold Coast) - Francis Arinze, Congregation of Saints</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86);">is a Nigerian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is Prefect Emeritus of the </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Congregation</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86);"> for Divine Worship and ...</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">59. Card. 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Joseph Ratzinger was named by Pope John Paul II on 25 November 1981 as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly known as the Holy Office and, especially around the 16th century, as the Roman Inquisition.<br />HE wrote “Instruction on Certain Aspects of the “Theology of Liberation”. <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="li" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 7.5pt 0in 27pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: 19.05pt; mso-element-top: 10.05pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="w"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span><span style="cursor: auto;"> Joseph</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span class="w"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ratzinger</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span class="w"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">as</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span class="w"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">Prefect</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; 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font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span class="w"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">the</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span class="w"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">Doctrine</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span class="w"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="cursor: auto;">of</span><span style="cursor: auto;">the</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span class="w"><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">Faith</span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: saddlebrown; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 30pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="cursor: auto;"><span class="w"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">On</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><r style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="cursor: auto;"><span class="w"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">November</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="cursor: auto;"><span class="w"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">25</span></span></span></r><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><r style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="cursor: auto;">1981</span></r></span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><r style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="cursor: auto;">Pope</span></r></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">John</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">Paul</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">II</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">named</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><b><span style="cursor: auto;">Joseph</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> <span style="cursor: auto;"></span></b></span><span class="w"><b>Ratzinger</b></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> <span style="cursor: auto;"></span></b></span><span class="w"><b>Prefect</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> <span style="cursor: auto;"></span></b></span><span class="w"><b>of</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> <span style="cursor: auto;"></span></b></span><span class="w"><b>the</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> <r style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="cursor: auto;"></span></r></b></span><span class="w"><b>Congregation</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> <span style="cursor: auto;"></span></b></span><span class="w"><b>for</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> <span style="cursor: auto;"></span></b></span><span class="w"><b>the Doctrine</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> <span style="cursor: auto;"></span></b></span><span class="w"><b>of</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> <span style="cursor: auto;"></span></b></span><span class="w"><b>the</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> <span style="cursor: auto;"></span></b></span><span class="w"><b>Faith</b></span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">formerly</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">known</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">as</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">Holy</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">Office</span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">historical</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">Roman</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">Inquisition</span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">Consequently</span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">he</span><span style="cursor: auto;">resigned</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">his</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">post</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">at</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">Munich</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">early</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">1982</span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">He</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">was</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">promoted</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">within</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">College</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">Cardinals</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">to</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">become</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><r style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="cursor: auto;">Cardinal</span><span style="cursor: auto;">Bishop</span></r></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">Velletri</span>-<span class="w">Segni</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">1993</span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">was</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">made</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">College</span>'<span class="w">s</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">vice</span>-<span class="w">dean</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">1998</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">and</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">dean</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w">2002</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt -0.1in 5pt 30pt;"><span style="cursor: auto;"><span class="w"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">In</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="cursor: auto;"><span class="w"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">office</span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">Ratzinger</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">fulfilled</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">his</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">institutional</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">role</span></span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">defending</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">and</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">reaffirming</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">official</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">Catholic</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">doctrine</span></span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">including</span><span style="cursor: auto;">teaching</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">on</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">topics</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">such</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">as</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><r style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="cursor: auto;">birth</span></r></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">control</span></span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><r style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="cursor: auto;">homosexuality</span></r></span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">and</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><r style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="cursor: auto;">inter</span></r></span>-<span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">religious</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">dialogue</span></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">During</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">his</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">period</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">in</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">office</span></span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">the</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><r style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="cursor: auto;">Congregation</span></r></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">for</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">the</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">Doctrine</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">of</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">the</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">Faith</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">took</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">disciplinary</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">measures</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">against</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">some</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">outspoken</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/23354"><span class="w"><span style="color: #5f5db7;"><span style="cursor: auto;">liberation</span><span style="cursor: auto;">theologians</span></span></span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">in</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><r style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="cursor: auto;">Latin</span></r></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">America</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">in</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">the</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">1980s</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">and</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><r style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="cursor: auto;">Jesuit</span></r></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">priest</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">Anthony</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">de</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">Mello</span></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">The</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">Congregation</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">condemned</span><span style="cursor: auto;">liberation</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">theology</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">twice</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(<span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">in</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">1984</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">and</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">1986</span></span>),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">accusing</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">it</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">of</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">Marxist</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">tendencies</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">and</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">of</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">inciting</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">hate</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">and</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">violence</span></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><r style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="cursor: auto;">Leonardo</span></r></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">Boff</span></span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">for</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">example</span></span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">was</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">suspended</span></span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">while</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">others</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">were</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="w"><span style="cursor: auto;">reputedly reduced to silence. </span></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-right: -0.1in; margin-top: 5pt;"><b> </b><a href="https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/3427154">https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/3427154</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">60. Abp. Canizio Buttafuoco - Abp. Gianni Danzi, Office of Secretary of State</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86);">Italian Catholic Archbishop of the ... he was appointed </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Secretary</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86);"> of the Governatorate of </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CG Times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86);">Vatican City </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">State</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86);">, ..</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">61. Holy Angels House - Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, IL</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">62. Fr. George Haneberry - Fr. Donald Goergen, O.P., former provincial of Chicago Dominicans, author of "Sexual Celibate, later at an ashram in Kenosha, Wisconsin</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"><br />63. Fr. Avonodor (Chicago Chancery) - Msgr. John Roche, Archdiocese of Chicago, friend of Joseph Louis Cardinal Bernardin; later worked for Helene Curtiss Cosmetics, Chicago</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">64. Fr. Lotzinger (Willowship) - Fr. Robert Lutz, St. Norbert's Church, Northbrook, IL</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -10.25pt;"><tbody><tr style="height: 99pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 99pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 451pt;" valign="top" width="601"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10pt;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In 1989, a lawsuit was filed alleging that Fr. Robert J. Lutz sexually, physically, and psychologically abused a 7-year-old boy from 1987 to 1988 while at St. Norbert’s School in Northbrook, Illinois. A second lawsuit was filed in 1992 alleging that Fr. Lutz sexually abused another minor boy on three separate occasions in 1986 while at St. Norbert’s. Fr. Lutz is said to have threatened to kill the minor boy if he told his parents about the abuse. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news5/1994_06_30_Fegelman_JuryClears.htm">https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news5/1994_06_30_Fegelman_JuryClears.htm</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJVNbjarpCE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJVNbjarpCE</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">65. Sr. Angela - Alice Halpin, Lutz's school principal, former nun</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">66. Fr. Tomkins (Roantree) - fictitious name</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">67. Fr. Keraly (Harding) - fictitious name, or perhaps Fr. Kealy</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">68. Fr. Goerge Hotelet, O.P. - Fr. Georges Cottier, O.P., Rome, a papal theologian</span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -10.25pt;"><tbody><tr style="height: 99pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 99pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 451pt;" valign="top" width="601"><p><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: medium;">Cottier served as the Theologian of the Papal Household from 1989 to 2003, meaning the heart of the St. John Paul II years. Contrary to popular impression, that’s not a full-time job, and he was never what one might call the “intellectual architect” of John Paul’s papacy – that role fell instead to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-hyphens: none; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); margin: 1.5rem; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: CG Times; font-size: medium;">Indeed, at times people wondered why the Polish pope even bothered having an in-house theologian, since it was clear that all the theological heavy lifting was being done across St. Peter’s Square by Ratzinger at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10pt;"><a href="https://cruxnow.com/church/2016/04/01/cardinal-georges-cottier-served-the-church-with-a-nimble-mind" target="_blank">https://cruxnow.com/church/2016/04/01/cardinal-georges-cottier-served-the-church-with-a-nimble-mind<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10pt;"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/12652/chapter-abstract/162606320?redirectedFrom=fulltext">https://academic.oup.com/book/12652/chapter-abstract/162606320?redirectedFrom=fulltext</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">69. Dr. Carlo Fiesole Marraci - Giovanni Baptista Marini-Bettolo Marcioni</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">70. Fr. Sebastian Scalabrini - Francis E. Pellegrini, murdered on May 30, 1984 in the process of exposing a satanic cult in Chicago</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"></span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; margin-left: -10.25pt;"><tbody><tr style="height: 99pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; height: 99pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 451pt;" valign="top" width="601"><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">On May 30, 1984 Francis E. Pellegrini, 47, was found murdered in his apartment at 2953 S. Parnell Ave. in Chicago. He had been stabbed at least 20 times. His dog had also been stabbed. Pellegrini was the organist and choir director at All Saints-St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church located at 518 W. 28th Place in Chicago. He was also assistant professor of Sociology and Social Science at City College. There are those who believe that Pellegrini was about to expose the "Boys Club," an alleged group of pedophile clergy operating out of Chicago. RCF received information regarding the existence of the "Boys Club" while it was investigating Springfield's homosexual bishop Daniel Ryan, who resigned from his see on Oct. 19, 1999. Ryan was an active homosexual who had sex with priests and male prostitutes as young as 15. Ryan was chancellor of the Joliet diocese and spent many years in and around the Chicago area. Bishop Imesch of Joliet is also no stranger to scandal and he, too, has spent many years in the Chicago area and was included in the <b>Bernardin Circle of Friend</b>s. Imesch came from Detroit where he and Bishop [Thomas] Gumbleton worked under Cardinal Deardon. Gumbleton is well known for his support of dissenting homosexual groups. Imesch, as bishop of Joliet, according to statements from two attorneys, has lied under oath in an apparent effort to protect pedophile priests (much more on Imesch will be covered in a future edition). The murder investigation is ongoing. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10pt;"><a href="https://novusordowatch.org/wp-content/uploads/the_beginning_of_the_end_of_the_bernardin_legacy.pdf">https://novusordowatch.org/wp-content/uploads/the_beginning_of_the_end_of_the_bernardin_legacy.pdf<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">71. Rodolfo Salvi - Roberto Calvi (1920-1982), of Banco Ambrosiano, found hung by the neck from a bridge over the Thames in a ritualized killing.</span><o:p style="background-color: white;"></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.1in; margin-right: -0.1in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i><span>These Last Days News</span></i></b> - May 5, 2017</span></p><h1><b class="Title" style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: red;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Unholy Alliance Between George Soros and Pope Francis...</span></b></h1><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="HeaderMessage" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"I see that the high priests of the House of God have become soft in their ways. They cater to their bodies and do not wish to sacrifice and make penance. There will be no easy road to the Kingdom. They will get down on their knees, and they will starve their worldly bodies until they rid themselves of the demons within them.<br /> "Unless you listen now to my words of caution, you will fall into the trap that is being set for you. The enemy is within the House of God. He will seek to remove your Vicar from among you, and when he does he will place a man of dark secrets upon the Seat of Peter!"</span><span class="HeaderMessageDate" style="color: red; font-style: italic;"> - St. Thomas Aquinas, August 21, 1972</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="HeaderMessage" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">“Rome will lose the faith and will become the seat of Antichrist.”</span> <span class="HeaderMessageDate" style="color: red; font-style: italic;">– Our Lady of La Salette, September 19, 1846</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="HeaderMessage" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"Without the number of prayers needed to balance the scale and acts of reparation from the children of earth, there will be placed upon the Seat of Peter one who will put and place souls and the House of God into deep darkness."</span> <span class="HeaderMessageDate" style="color: red; font-style: italic;">- Our Lady, Marc</span></span><span class="HeaderMessageDate" style="color: red; font-style: italic;">h 18, 1974</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York. <a href="https://www.tldm.org/misc/introduction.htm">Read more</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><b>Spectator.org</b></span> reported on May 3, 2017:</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">by George Neumayr</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">An excerpt from George Neumayr’s new book, “The Political Pope.”</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The election of a liberal Jesuit to the papacy thrilled Democrats in the United States, whose unholy alliance with the Catholic left goes back many decades. Barack Obama, one of the pope’s most prominent supporters, has long been a beneficiary of that alliance. The faculty at Jesuit Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., ranked as one of the top donors to his campaign.</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In a grim irony, Obama, whose presidency substantially eroded religious freedom in America, rose to power not in spite of the Catholic Church but because of it. The archdiocese of Chicago helped bankroll his radicalism in the 1980s. As he recounts in his memoirs, he began his work as a community organizer in the rectory rooms of Holy Rosary parish on Chicago’s South Side. The Alinskyite organization for which he worked — the Developing Communities Project — received tens of thousands of dollars from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Obama was close to the late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. A proponent of the “Seamless Garment” movement within the Catholic Church in the 1980s, a movement that downplayed abortion and emphasized political liberalism, Bernardin was drawn to the socialism and relativism of the liberal elite. He was so “gay-friendly” that he requested that the “Windy City Gay Chorus” perform at his funeral. He embodied Obama’s conception of a “good” bishop and one can see in his admixture of left-wing politics and relativistic nonjudgmental theology a foreshadowing of the rise of Pope Francis.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Cardinal Bernardin put pressure on his priests to work with Obama and even paid for Obama’s plane fare out to a 1980 training session in Los Angeles organized by Saul Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation. The conference was held at a Catholic college in Southern California, Mount St. Mary’s, which has long been associated with Alinsky’s group.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This alliance between the Catholic left and the Democratic left explains the honorary degree Obama received from Notre Dame in 2009, even as he plotted to persecute the Church under Obamacare’s contraceptive and abortifacient mandate. Notre Dame’s former president, Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, who supported honoring Obama, had been close to Monsignor John Egan, the socialist who started the Catholic Campaign for Human Development and sat on Saul Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation board.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The unholy alliance also explains how the Democratic Party, despite its support for abortion and gay marriage, won a majority of the Catholic vote in Obama’s two presidential elections. At the 2012 Democratic convention in Charlotte, nuns such as Sister Simone Campbell shared the stage with abortion activists from Planned Parenthood. A liberal dean of a Catholic university, Sister Marguerite Kloos, even got caught in an act of voter fraud that year, forging the signature of a deceased nun on a ballot. As Thomas Pauken writes in <em>The Thirty Years War</em>, “the radicalization of elements of the Catholic clergy turned out to be one of Saul Alinsky’s most significant accomplishments.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The election of Pope Francis was seen by Alinskyite activists as a dream come true. “I think that Pope Francis is quite an inspiring figure,” Al Gore said at UC Berkeley in early 2015. The former vice president turned radical environmental activist called Pope Francis a “phenomenon” and laughed at his liberalism: “Is the pope Catholic?” Gore said that he is so “inspiring to me” that “I could become a Catholic.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Leftists frequently turn up at the Vatican, often invited by one of Pope Francis’s closest advisers, the socialist Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga. Before the pope’s visit to the U.S., a group of left-wing activists and officials from unions and organizations such as the SEIU and PICO (an Alinskyite group founded by the liberal Jesuit Father John Baumann) descended on the Vatican to confer with curial officials about the trip. Around the same time, over 90 members of the U.S. Congress sent Pope Francis a letter, urging him to focus upon politically liberal themes. The leader of this group was Rosa DeLauro, a Catholic who supports abortion rights.</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In 2016, it was revealed through disclosures by WikiLeaks that the billionaire socialist George Soros bankrolled much of this lobbying. He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in an attempt to shape the pope’s visit to the U.S. According to the leaked documents, Soros’s Open Society Foundation sought to create a “critical mass” of American bishops and lay Catholics supportive of the pope’s priorities. The documents made special mention of Maradiaga, a champion of PICO, as a useful ally for ensuring that the pope’s speeches in the U.S. pushed socialism</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The hacked e-mails exposed the depth of the plotting:</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Pope Francis’ first visit to the United States in September will include a historic address to Congress, a speech at the United Nations, and a visit to Philadelphia for the “World Meeting of Families.” In order to seize this moment, we (Open Society) will support PICO’s organizing activities to engage the Pope on economic and racial justice issues, including using the influence of Cardinal Rodriguez, the Pope’s senior advisor, and sending a delegation to visit the Vatican in the spring or summer to allow him to hear directly from low-income Catholics in America.</span></p></blockquote><p><strong><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the e-mails, the Soros operatives make it explicitly clear that they view Pope Francis as a propagandist for their causes:</span></strong></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">At the end of the day, our visit affirmed an overall strategy: Pope Francis, as a leader of global stature, will challenge the “idolatry of the marketplace” in the U.S. and offer a clarion call to change the policies that promote exclusion and indifference to those most marginalized. We believe that this generational moment can launch extraordinary organizing that promotes moral choices and helps establish a moral compass. We believe that the papal visit, and the work we are collectively doing around it, can help many in our country move beyond the stale ideological conflicts that dominate our policy debates and embrace new opportunities to advance the common good.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">After the meeting, they rejoiced at the success of the meeting, informing John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign:</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Our visits were dialogues. We conveyed our view that the Pope is a World leader of historical significance; that his message of exclusion, alarm over rising inequality and concern about globalized indifference is important for the U.S. to hear and see animated during his visit; and that we intend to amplify his remarks so that we have a more profound moral dialogue about policy choices through the election cycle of 2016. In our meetings with relevant officials, we strongly recommended that the Pope emphasize — in words and deeds — the need to confront racism and racial hierarchy in the US…</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Conversations that were originally scheduled for thirty minutes stretched into two hour dialogues. As in our breakfast conversation with Cardinal Rodríguez, senior Vatican officials shared profound insights demonstrating an awareness of the moral, economic and political climate in America. We were encouraged to believe that the Pope will confront race through a moral frame.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Further disclosures from WikiLeaks confirmed the plotting of Democratic officials to infiltrate the Catholic Church in order to “foment revolution” beneficial to their radical causes. In 2012, in the midst of Catholic backlash over Obama’s contraceptive mandate, John Podesta received a note from Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church,” Newman wrote to Podesta. “I don’t qualify to be involved and I have not thought at all about how one would ‘plant the seeds of revolution,’ or who would plant them.” Podesta replied that the Democrats had set up Catholic front groups to plant those seeds: “We created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good to organize for a moment like this. But I think it lacks the leadership to do so now. Likewise Catholics United. Like most Spring moments, I think this one will have to be bottom up.” Podesta was wrong. It would come from the top down, as the following year Francis rose to the papacy and began politicizing the Church in the exact manner that the progressives had envisioned. Indeed, Podesta would later encourage Hillary Clinton to enlist the pope’s leftism in her campaign. In one hacked e-mail, he advised that she send out a tweet to “thank him for pointing out that the people at the bottom will get clobbered the most by climate change.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Podesta and his aides also discussed how they could exploit Pope Francis’s support for Obama’s Iran deal. Podesta was sent a report in which Christopher Hale of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good proposes getting bishops and cardinals to lean on senators temporizing about the deal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In another e-mail, which underscores how the media and the Democrats teamed up to enlist Pope Francis in their politics, a liberal columnist, Brent Budowsky, counsels Podesta: “John, HRC should get ahead of the progressive curve before the pope’s trip to the U.S. in September, which will be big deal for a week, saturation coverage, heavy progressive populist, impact after he leaves affecting the trajectory of the campaign. Here’s my take, written more in news analysis style……Brent” In the attached column, Budowsky writes, “The visit of such a popular pope will almost certainly give a lift in principle to Democrats and liberals who cheer Francis and rededicate themselves to the values and visions he stands for.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Pope Francis has been influenced by <em>The Pedagogy of the Oppressed</em>, a book that sought to spread Marxism among the peasants of Latin America. The Alinskyite left in America regards that book as a classic. The author of the book is the late Paulo Freire and Pope Francis has made a point of visiting with Freire’s widow. The meeting was set up by Cardinal Hummes, the Brazilian whom Francis credits with inspiring him to name himself after St. Francis. Pope Francis “considered the meeting with me because of the writings of Paulo, because of the importance of Paulo for the education of oppressed people, poor people, black people, for women, for minorities,” Ana Freire said</span>.</span></p></blockquote><p class="auto-style24"><strong><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Also see: <a href="https://www.tldm.org/news31/wikileaks-bombshell-the-soros-clinton-vatican-partnership.htm">https://www.tldm.org/news31/wikileaks-bombshell-the-soros-clinton-vatican-partnership.htm</a></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><strong><img height="28" src="https://www.tldm.org/news28/sirenlight1.gif" width="22" /> Editor's Comments:</strong><span class="auto-style24"> Matthew 16:18 "And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against <strong>it</strong>." Jesus said; "the gates of hell shall not prevail against <strong>'IT'"</strong> (the Church) not <strong>'HIM'</strong> (the Pope). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Church survived the Imposter Pope Paul VI in the 1970's. <a href="https://www.tldm.org/News3/impostor.htm">https://www.tldm.org/News3/impostor.htm</a> The Church survived erroneous popes in the past history of the Church and <strong>"IT"</strong> will survive them in the future.</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><strong><span class="auto-style24">"There will be an <u>uncanonically elected pope who will cause a great schism</u>, there will be diverse thoughts preached which will cause many, even those in the different orders to doubt, yea, even agree with those heretics <u>which will cause my Order to divide</u>, then will there be such universal dissensions and persecutions that if those days were not shortened even the elect would be lost."</span></strong> <span class="auto-style24"><strong>- <u><em>St. Francis of Assisi</em></u></strong> </span>(<span class="auto-style20" style="font-style: italic;">The Reign of Antichrist,</span><span class="auto-style24"> Fr. 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</style>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388520810074756700.post-79629607873790897832022-08-14T19:11:00.040-07:002023-09-12T08:57:10.043-07:00The History of America's Children Being Groomed: How We Got to Sodom and Gomorrah<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">America's children are in real trouble. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">While some may have thought the domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, had turned over a new leaf when he got his PHD in education at Columbia, the truth is Ayers still works on dismantling America from the inside, and, through Barach Obama he set up a framework to do so. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">For those who are not well-versed on 60s politics, Ayers was a leader of the Weathermen, the most radical of all 1960s revolutionaries. Among other things, the Weathermen bombed the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol and sprung Timothy Leary from jail. His wife, Bernadine Dohrn, was on the FBI's list of most wanted criminals.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As Ayers puts it, “There’s a lot in white Americans that we do have to fight, and beat out of them and beat out of ourselves,” Ayers said in a speech. “We have to be willing to fight white privilege, racism, male supremacy–in order to build a revolutionary movement.”</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Ironically, Bill Ayers is allowed to speak on college campuses, unlike conservative speakers. His T-shirt reads: “America is like a melting pot: The people at the bottom get burned and the scum floats to the top.”</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><span>He is <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156;">formerly Distinguished </span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-weight: bold;">Professor of Education</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156;"> and Senior University Scholar at the </span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-weight: bold;">University of Illinois</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156;"> at </span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-weight: bold;">Chicago</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156;"> (</span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-weight: bold;">UIC</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156;">)</span>. </span>He works i<span>n the university’s elementary teacher education program. His specialty is school improvement. <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">He has written one book on early childhood education</span> and another about teaching. He publishes regularly in scholarly journals. Each year he trains dozens of would-be teachers for private, public, and parochial schools. And he was the director of the Chicago Annenberg Project which Barach Obama chaired from 1991-1995. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">As Ayers sees it, teachers and students are victims of an oppressive schooling system that “manages and controls” instead of “opening possibilities.”</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">At the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, “the brainchild of Bill Ayers,” they funneled more that $100 million to radical groups which used the funds to promote radical education. This initiative was also promoted by Arne Duncan, who became Secretary of Education. Also as board members of the Woods Fund, Ayers and Obama channeled money to ACORN (</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)</span> <span>and the Midwest Academy: Organizing for Social Change.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8WJml-a6JOM95F5io310QwBGrlYgdBNvceocyg3suhEU6f4Z_-nS0F4Ry_cZ9S5_dyeCueJhUGOfUqE8M2cKj3TkVPfX39dz-JzHITdX-Qtmkmjm346mecNJrn7W9TYG3FmOb4sQBStClxZVX_ZIhsHZT3Zo05Dvf-8nHVCYtEUu2Tvu3m27e1QX6dg/s1126/Screen%20Shot%202017-11-10%20at%204.54.42%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="1126" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8WJml-a6JOM95F5io310QwBGrlYgdBNvceocyg3suhEU6f4Z_-nS0F4Ry_cZ9S5_dyeCueJhUGOfUqE8M2cKj3TkVPfX39dz-JzHITdX-Qtmkmjm346mecNJrn7W9TYG3FmOb4sQBStClxZVX_ZIhsHZT3Zo05Dvf-8nHVCYtEUu2Tvu3m27e1QX6dg/s320/Screen%20Shot%202017-11-10%20at%204.54.42%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In 2003, Barach Obama supported Illinois Senate Bill 99, which despite his denials and false claims by the mainstream media was not a bill to protect children from sexual predators. On the contrary, it was a sweeping, comprehensive sex-education bill that lowered the age of instruction from sixth grade to kindergarten. It gutted an abstinence emphasis and prohibited "bias" based on "sexual orientation." The term "sexual predator" is nowhere in the bill. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In 2007, a group from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), including Ayers, demanded major accrediting organization for schools, colleges, and departments of education include categories of "social justice, sexual orientation and gender identity" in its standards. Ayers and colleagues called their effort "Call to Action: A RED Campaign for Social Justice and Queer Lives." Formerly vice president for curriculum of the AERA, Ayers was the spokesman on behalf of the effort and called on the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) to include these categories.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Would all schools in the U.S., under the muscle of an Obama administration, be forced to drill youth in the talking points of "gay" sex and gender–switching, calling it "justice"? Would Ayers' idea that America is an oppressive regime with way too much heterosexuality become a core tenet of your child's value system?</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Ayers wrote an endorsement on the book, <i>Queering Elementary Schools: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling</i> for which Kevin Jennings, founder of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian &Straight Education Network), wrote the foreword. Ayers recommended Jennings to be</span><span> </span><span>Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education for the Office</span><span> </span><span>of Safe and Drug Free Schools.</span><span> </span><span>According to the GLSEN website, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">the National Association of School Psychologists, the Learning First Alliance, the National Education Association, the Council for Exceptional Children, Social Workers Association of America and the American Federation of Teachers are their longtime partners in the education world. They say the purpose of GLSEN is to transform America's K-12 schools into an "affirming environment".</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Please take note: </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">The Alabama Psychological Association (aPA) was established in 1950 and</span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"> is a state affiliate of the American Psychological Association. So when the Alabama legislature passed the Numeracy Act and included putting psychologists in every school, you might wonder why.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt 0.75in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilPses4g-DpSyxyWsnSK6dTwTZWDYnXpPMX_9wI4GKoIwjs4CK1swQIUpK6jNe1_yEWJl93oxoWBeh2NgnJDOzAZqj-QiOBnuipCNy14OQflPj5hsLWhv9XYeXntL2rKog_8FkmnAJkFI0bteYxs3yCIGZefirhRtleD3Mlc5707ybG5UqSO4eqH5XAQ/s1326/queering%20elementary%20education.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1326" data-original-width="864" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilPses4g-DpSyxyWsnSK6dTwTZWDYnXpPMX_9wI4GKoIwjs4CK1swQIUpK6jNe1_yEWJl93oxoWBeh2NgnJDOzAZqj-QiOBnuipCNy14OQflPj5hsLWhv9XYeXntL2rKog_8FkmnAJkFI0bteYxs3yCIGZefirhRtleD3Mlc5707ybG5UqSO4eqH5XAQ/s320/queering%20elementary%20education.png" width="209" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">A transcript from a 1997 speech shows </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Kevin Jennings, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">Office of Safe Schools chief in the U.S. Department of Education, expressing his admiration for Harry Hay, who was one of the nation's first homosexual activists who launched the Mattachine Society in 1948, founded the Radical Faeries and was a longtime advocate for the North American Man-Boy Love Association, NAMBLA. </span></span></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span>“One of the people that's always inspired me is Harry Hay,” the transcript shows Jennings saying, “who started the first ongoing gay rights groups in America. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">“Hay was a prominent American gay rights activist, communist, pro-pedophilia activist (NAMBLA), and … founder of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States as well as the Radical Faeries, a loosely-affiliated gay spiritual movement.” Among these, NAMBLA is the infamous North American Man/Boy Love Association. (Wikipedia)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white;">Harry left Communist Party of the USA and in 1950 joined a group of homosexual communists in forming the so-called Mattachine Society, the pioneering organization of gay communists. From there, Hay did remarkable work in spreading both gay-rights propaganda and communist propaganda and forging the two under a mighty left-wing rainbow umbrella that would revolutionize what we now called the wider “LGBTQ” movement. (Actually, writers at </span><em style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">People’s World</em><span style="background-color: white;">, flagship publication of Communist Party USA, have now started using the term “LGBTQIA.”)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span>“Well, [in] 1993,” Jennings continued, “Harry Hay marched with a million people in Washington, who thought he had a good idea 40 years before.</span></p></span></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Bob Hamer writes about a SEXUAL PREDATOR’S STRATEGY: GROOMING. He states: "</span>For the persuasion sexual predator, “grooming” is the vehicle used to manipulate and seduce the vulnerable child. I didn’t learn about grooming in a college classroom or from a textbook. I learned it from the pedophiles themselves." Read more below. </span></p><p><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Is this part of multicultural education? Are our children supposed to celebrate this? </span></p></div><div class="widget-content"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">And now we come to one of the most radical of all agents of change: the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, that has been promoting this agenda for years under the guise of "Conflict Resolution" and "Teaching Tolerance." </span></div><div class="widget-content"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdUj98st_hgnIKVBJnKqSxvSKGV-aWmRHC7jUSTRyRkVKGuZpQZdBowJSkuyoZvNpx-Nd0RBE_mpt1QdBdxuqG1GQZeAYt7bDVhxYepB0xra5VFtKyKSZpDT3pDOSfMN9Qib792OOh_a-qVhLwZhe4DC7gIkJCZVNN9E8p4TFMp_DoT-0atiQJmQdgvQ/s3578/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.40.34%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="3578" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdUj98st_hgnIKVBJnKqSxvSKGV-aWmRHC7jUSTRyRkVKGuZpQZdBowJSkuyoZvNpx-Nd0RBE_mpt1QdBdxuqG1GQZeAYt7bDVhxYepB0xra5VFtKyKSZpDT3pDOSfMN9Qib792OOh_a-qVhLwZhe4DC7gIkJCZVNN9E8p4TFMp_DoT-0atiQJmQdgvQ/w546-h268/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.40.34%20PM.png" width="546" /></span></a></div></div></blockquote><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="widget-content"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMM4uRbuQ7HlZacieBC7flF3nHYMoAAhkfbZo8RsY9V31nTLCkYo2eyyQsXKutn4--sFVRuZmjSzwJ0kytqGks01hL5aG3ggHlgYKEwNw3-emzUcvvNv_nb1hDm5NIkDS31Kyte-4buRIvVo6hP_YcwVihKk4qa7-vTDN1uOQeXd7tfQlkFlYYuejvQg/s3604/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.40.46%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="3604" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMM4uRbuQ7HlZacieBC7flF3nHYMoAAhkfbZo8RsY9V31nTLCkYo2eyyQsXKutn4--sFVRuZmjSzwJ0kytqGks01hL5aG3ggHlgYKEwNw3-emzUcvvNv_nb1hDm5NIkDS31Kyte-4buRIvVo6hP_YcwVihKk4qa7-vTDN1uOQeXd7tfQlkFlYYuejvQg/w550-h319/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.40.46%20PM.png" width="550" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBubPJlGv1WeowML7cJE4dw4KhrKfBQ_Tv6e_60AOGXQOke0WFRC19zYvfDSMQNlMf0LiEOY4ir18eSfQ4HPfVATwEoqtTWJfHIk9qqKqNChuf2dXcKWaYzRHItGuRuBSnZg2yEHnMhuEVbQZK9na81lcrMG_61DmzjUHr7BneuJcjvxuxsg44qh_iCw/s3500/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.40.59%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2198" data-original-width="3500" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBubPJlGv1WeowML7cJE4dw4KhrKfBQ_Tv6e_60AOGXQOke0WFRC19zYvfDSMQNlMf0LiEOY4ir18eSfQ4HPfVATwEoqtTWJfHIk9qqKqNChuf2dXcKWaYzRHItGuRuBSnZg2yEHnMhuEVbQZK9na81lcrMG_61DmzjUHr7BneuJcjvxuxsg44qh_iCw/w547-h343/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.40.59%20PM.png" width="547" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div class="widget-content"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Dr. Tommy Bice, former gay Superintendent for the state of Alabama, is a board member of the Magic City Acceptance Academy (grades 6 through 12), one of Alabama's first charter schools. They state on their website:</span></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span> </span>"...educational pedagogy and curriculum design that best meets our needs as a community of learners will be rooted in Constructivism. The basic tenet of Constructivism is that learners, simply put, construct learning through a variety of experiences. Learners construct knowledge rather than simply sit and take in information. As people experience problems and situations they reflect on what they experience and they create or build their own representations and incorporate new information into their pre-existing knowledge (schemas).</span></div></div></div><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>The essential components in constructivist theory are to elicit prior knowledge, </span><span><b>create cognitive dissonance</b></span><span><b>,</b> and apply the knowledge with feedback and reflection on learning. These components are best utilized in project-based, cooperative, learning activities that reflect elements with meaning to, or are relevant to the students’ lives and community." </span></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="widget LinkList" data-version="1" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 30px 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="widget-content"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>There is nothing innocent about the phrase <b>"create cognitive dissonance</b>." Cognitive dissonance is a state of confusion brought about by conflicting beliefs. There are a number of different situations that can create cognitive dissonance, such as "Forced Compliance." </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>"Sometimes you might find </span>yourself engaging in behaviors that are opposed to your own beliefs due to external expectations, often for work, school, or a social situation. This might involve going along with something due to peer pressure..," according to the <i><a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-cognitive-dissonance-2795012">verywellmind</a> </i>website. </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So, are kindergarteners strong enough to withstand the peer pressure and proselytizing of an agenda "contrary to the fixed beliefs of their parents?" And how is this Constitutional? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">"Constructivist</span><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">" equals "</span><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">cognitive dissonance"</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Alabama scores dead last nationally on math scores. We have two Auburn College of Education professors, Gary Martin and Marilyn Strutchens, who have been awarded nearly $600,000 to establish professional learning communities in mathematics. Strutchens served on the board of directors of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. </span></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> National Council of Teachers of Mathematics encourage the move away from the traditional emphasis on computational skills like multiplication tables and algorithms—a teaching method that university mathematicians still favor but that many K–12 math teachers dismiss as “drill and kill.” Teachers (particularly liberal and left-leaning teachers) instead use a “<b>constructivist</b>” or “discovery-based” pedagogy, sometimes called “fuzzy math.” Here students learn mathematical concepts by trying to solve real-life problems, like social justice lessons on how military budgets for the war in Iraq deny poor Americans their fair share of resources as an advance beyond problems about baseball statistics, shopping, or building.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Remember "<b>Constructivist</b>" equals <b>cognitive dissonance</b>. And when you see "social justice" you might as well think about the Bill Ayers and all he supports and why he promotes "constructivist" education and the creation of cognitive dissonance. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Martin and Strutchens have been on nearly every state math committee in Alabama; in fact, Dr. Strutchens chaired the committee in 2019. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">With math teachers more concerned with social justice lessons than actually teaching math we fear that Queer Mathematics will soon be in our schools if it isn't already. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"For the last decade or so, largely working beneath public or parental notice, a well-organized movement has sought to revolutionize the curricula and culture of the nation’s public schools. Its aim: to stamp out “hegemonic heterosexuality”—the traditional view that heterosexuality is the norm—in favor of a new ethos that does not just tolerate homosexuality but instead actively endorses experimenting with it, as well as with a polymorphous range of bisexuality, transgenderism, and transsexuality. The educational establishment has enthusiastically signed on. What this portends for the future of the public schools and the psychic health of the nation’s children is deeply worrisome." writes Marjorie King. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="about://"></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6Yb3QX5J6GX9gPznQYqKmbf0VmCLZmApoDP6PMxXbWiQwaLtNeZ6Xy5_xJlJ1_Hk1HesqJ1PEAE68psaNG8V1r4P16umXyqdcHFF2DNreZZtyMVHKeNT0C1WopNKjiwxCuFtVX9Wxsz0RgB99Jgcr2xs7Vr5lCkoSL8pJEutj1RT3PHWIK2_05KKng/s664/Queer%20Mathematics.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="664" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6Yb3QX5J6GX9gPznQYqKmbf0VmCLZmApoDP6PMxXbWiQwaLtNeZ6Xy5_xJlJ1_Hk1HesqJ1PEAE68psaNG8V1r4P16umXyqdcHFF2DNreZZtyMVHKeNT0C1WopNKjiwxCuFtVX9Wxsz0RgB99Jgcr2xs7Vr5lCkoSL8pJEutj1RT3PHWIK2_05KKng/s320/Queer%20Mathematics.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="about://">https://gellerreport.com/2022/08/queer-mathematics-in-public-schools.html/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> And now we discover a leftist organization called "The Queer Mathematics Teacher" is seeking to embed gender theory in K-12 math classes. Brandie Waid, the director of The Queer Mathematics Teacher, laid out a plan for incorporating gender theory into math classes in a blog post on the Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotion Learning (CASEL) website. <b>CASEL is sponsored by the Allstate Foundation</b>. </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><o:p>Once again we find Bill Ayers. </o:p><span style="background-color: white;">Linda Darling-Hammond is a radical left-wing educator and close colleague of William “Bill” Ayers. </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Hammond was Professor Bill Ayers’ choice for secretary of education during the first Obama administration. Hammond served as an education adviser and transition team leader</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> in 2008. </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Hammond serves on the board of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (</span><a href="https://casel.org/" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">CASEL</span></a><span style="text-align: justify;">), the godfather of SEL in the U.S., and co-chaired </span><span style="text-align: justify;">the Aspen Institute’s National Commission </span><span style="text-align: justify;">on Social, Emotional and Academic Learning. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; text-align: start;">"Schools should be focused on teaching children core curriculum and not on asking intrusive questions that have nothing to do with core subjects," Parents Defending Education President Nicole Neilly told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/controversial-florida-math-textbook-ignites-social-emotional-learning-debate">Fox News Digital</a>. "Injecting Social Emotional Learning into math class not only distracts from teaching students the basics, but it also undermines the program's purpose - because higher self-esteem is a direct result of subject mastery."</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Contrary to what parents want in their children's math education, the Queer Mathematics Teacher site states, "The ability to consider sexuality irrelevant in the mathematics context is a heteronormatively </span>privileged position." They note that some areas of their expertise include "queer pedagogy," "teaching mathematics for social justice," "Fostering Students' Growth Mindset (While Advocating for Systemic Change," and "Humanizing Mathematics Education for LGBTQ+ Students."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Brandie Waid, the left-wing activist promoting the Queer Mathematics Teacher, even goes so far as to suggest that activist educators should teach critical race theory and gender theory, even if it means breaking the law. Waid writes, “I implore my colleagues to ask: How can we work within (or outside) the confines of these laws to center Transformative SEL and student thriving in our teaching?”</span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> So, not only do we find Bill Ayers' agenda, we find that the National Education Association, and therefore its affiliate, the Alabama Education Association, supports-- I would say-- even promotes this sexualization of children. </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION C-12 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Student Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> "The National Education Association believes that all persons, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, should be afforded equal opportunity and guaranteed a safe and inclusive environment within the public education system. The Association also believes a safe and inclusive environment ensures that all transgender students have access to the bathroom or locker of their choice and protects them from breaches of confidentiality. The Association believes that LGBTQ students have the right to privacy and confidentiality regarding their sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. Further, educators must respect these students and their choice of whether or not to reveal their orientation, identity, or expression. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> The Association further believes that, for students who are struggling with their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, every school district and educational institution should provide counseling services and programs--staffed by trained personnel--that deal with high suicide and dropout rates and the high incidence of teen prostitution. The Association further believes that therapies designed to alter a student's orientation or identity are harmful to the emotional development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, and questioning (LGBTQ+) students. Therefore, students should have access to <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">gender affirming health care. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Association believes that all transgender students should be able to use the bathroom or locker room of their choice."</span></p></blockquote><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />What do they mean when they say students should have access to gender affirming health care? Do parents get to be involved in this "gender affirming" health care? Do these people support the mutilation of small children whom they have confused (gender dysphoria) with their "lessons" (cognitive dissonance)? Are they coming at innocent children during a time of their natural development when they prefer playing with children of their own sex and confuse them into thinking this is a "trans" issue? <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">They admit, no they boast, that they intentionally use </span><span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">constructivist methodology to create cognitive dissonance in children. </span><o:p style="background-color: #fcff01;"></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="background-color: white;">Jane Robbins, </span><span style="background-color: white;">a</span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(112, 112, 112);"><span>ttorney, researcher, and author in Atlanta, GA</span></span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(112, 112, 112); color: #707070;">.,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> writes in "<a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/07/54272/ ">The Cracks in the Edifice of Transgender Totalitarianism</a>, "The epidemic of supposed gender dysphoria among children and adolescents—“transgenderism”—has often been described as a </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">cult</span><span style="background-color: white;">. The designation is in some ways apt. Though lacking a charismatic leader usually found in such movements, other</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span> </span><span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cults-Our-Midst-Hidden-Everyday/dp/0787900516/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=cults+in+our+midst&qid=1556650059&s=books&sr=1-1">expert descriptions</a></span><span> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">of cults certainly apply: </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">“designed to destabilize an individual’s sense of self by undermining his or her basic consciousness, reality awareness, beliefs and worldview, [and] emotional control.” </span><span style="background-color: white;">Cults also lead the target to believe that “anxiety, uncertainty, and self-doubt can be reduced by adopting the concepts put forth by the group.” The promise is a “new identity” that will solve all problems, even as it separates one from family and previous life."</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">And so you can see the effects of creating cognitive dissonance through Constructivist methodology.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A program established under the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013 establishes a tax-credit scholarship that students assigned to "failing" schools can use to attend any "non-failing" public or private school in the state. A "failing" school in this case has a broad definition: It includes any school getting a D or F grade on the state's accountability system; any school in the lowest 10 percent of scores on the state's standardized assessment in reading and math; any school labeled as "consistently low-performing: by the state education department in a state application for a federal School Improvement Grant; or any school otherwise deemed as "failing" by the state superintendent. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The tax credit is equal to 80 percent of the state's per-pupil cost of attending a public school, or the actual cost of attending a non-failing public school. For parents applying for tax credits, the legislation creates a new Failing Schools Income Tax Credit Account to distribute the funds. The law also allows for scholarship-granting organizations to receive donations from both private individuals and corporations, and in turn provide the funds for parents to use in the school choice program. The donation cap for individuals is $7500 annually, and corporations may receive a tax credit of 50 percent of their total donations. The law also institutes a statewide cap on tax credits of $24 million annually. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When one considers the failure of our schools to teach our children reading and math, and the massive intrusion into parents right with psychological manipulation of small children contrary to the attitudes and beliefs of their parents, perhaps parents could consider this when claiming "tax credits" or "vouchers" to take their children from the schools violating their trust to the school of their choice. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Accreditation remains a problem as the entities promoting this agenda control credentialing of teachers. The only way to really eliminate the progression of this agenda is to bypass credentialing by giving the money to the parent who can choose schools who hire teachers with degrees outside of education and to attend schools that adhere to curriculum that is knowledge based.<i> </i>Like Saxon Math and reading programs using Systematic Intensive Direct and Early Phonics education. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Parents need to be aware that the "award winning" books available to their child sometimes contain graphic information on sex that may not fit their idea of appropriate. Those who determine those awards have themselves accepted an agenda that may not fit that of the child's parents. These books are available through the Media Center at Dothan Preparatory school, grades 6 through 9. There is no parental group to oversee physical books chosen for the library like there once was. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.dothan.k12.al.us/domain/2074">This is your child's media center. </a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_IKCj3258C283kUopfL7UiPH6ohbde3Uo5_-KyoXQUQ3nlcKgBRmQgyyVcwH-a_oZe8D3GA3iUK5Mrmd4zJvxBnpkDVOuS3IreLCeDFB10X-ixeSFTpaFXwNfX-pbAzEnVnEccXWTTvPS7otEAPpDSxqlqK9rGW-pHBKOv-CS5JOAiL8uDdgN1eb8Q/s4330/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-15%20at%207.22.45%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1714" data-original-width="4330" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_IKCj3258C283kUopfL7UiPH6ohbde3Uo5_-KyoXQUQ3nlcKgBRmQgyyVcwH-a_oZe8D3GA3iUK5Mrmd4zJvxBnpkDVOuS3IreLCeDFB10X-ixeSFTpaFXwNfX-pbAzEnVnEccXWTTvPS7otEAPpDSxqlqK9rGW-pHBKOv-CS5JOAiL8uDdgN1eb8Q/w689-h328/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-15%20at%207.22.45%20AM.png" width="689" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ1nkqyp-hXa4qm0KtExpTx7eBwirH33ksOxr9Eo3v9uNnBVzFnByBNsRZAz6gt2YuPiJ8mz1jkngG2Px3Ns5_jTKiRvVG0e-aIxLSQnIzEAVz93vV0D0cJRrvD0haXJqkyRiyOMi3tPHmQNuYMYZzVUzsPBVq-nNN9Y8vOWbVH3AGoXLR4ixgArfMtQ/s868/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.20.29%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="868" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ1nkqyp-hXa4qm0KtExpTx7eBwirH33ksOxr9Eo3v9uNnBVzFnByBNsRZAz6gt2YuPiJ8mz1jkngG2Px3Ns5_jTKiRvVG0e-aIxLSQnIzEAVz93vV0D0cJRrvD0haXJqkyRiyOMi3tPHmQNuYMYZzVUzsPBVq-nNN9Y8vOWbVH3AGoXLR4ixgArfMtQ/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%207.20.29%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As Ayers puts it, “There’s a lot in white Americans that we do have to fight, and beat out of them and beat out of ourselves,” Ayers said in a speech. “We have to be willing to fight white privilege, racism, male supremacy–<b>in order to build a revolutionary movement</b>.”</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Maybe it's time to protect our children and fight back!</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: times; font-size: medium;">YOU SIMPLY MUST WATCH THIS! 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She has also come to believe that some children identifying as trans are falling under the influence of their peers and social media." <i>Los Angeles Times</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwohqzy42Sf8xQpDEwGQCJZKI46XsxXglqmrOl4TZOV2b3o3nTiq3O42fY4CnDgp-WmCLrjg76nRoDmHPsW_e-2-K4txRVVvPunFQU34ZkpgsMX_mCYX-5q0kWK_iP7-y7GuwyuzjChVUWB92fTCNrsjjnTWNN60cY35tdwurwNDhzgRX5oO_bwcMscw/s2324/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-15%20at%207.45.51%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1256" data-original-width="2324" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwohqzy42Sf8xQpDEwGQCJZKI46XsxXglqmrOl4TZOV2b3o3nTiq3O42fY4CnDgp-WmCLrjg76nRoDmHPsW_e-2-K4txRVVvPunFQU34ZkpgsMX_mCYX-5q0kWK_iP7-y7GuwyuzjChVUWB92fTCNrsjjnTWNN60cY35tdwurwNDhzgRX5oO_bwcMscw/w482-h260/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-15%20at%207.45.51%20AM.png" width="482" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">And what damage has been done to their mind and soul?</span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg312RWDjH55UDFbL7sVSLw_REkTAFof5S0slIK1xHx1LpRJYYJZYo1omPsIMjwN1Vx-UGpyRl3Pa4mRn1UNcI3URVbxt8hDT7hizqdEqMlP32CP3QQNIbKkHe-Ud1KdHeYag1c1sICz9N7a8y6O7_YMTSOASwIfYB1VeOdjHzBlBHwV8CWLkjGY9TvdQ/s2240/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-15%20at%207.50.09%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1302" data-original-width="2240" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg312RWDjH55UDFbL7sVSLw_REkTAFof5S0slIK1xHx1LpRJYYJZYo1omPsIMjwN1Vx-UGpyRl3Pa4mRn1UNcI3URVbxt8hDT7hizqdEqMlP32CP3QQNIbKkHe-Ud1KdHeYag1c1sICz9N7a8y6O7_YMTSOASwIfYB1VeOdjHzBlBHwV8CWLkjGY9TvdQ/w485-h282/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-15%20at%207.50.09%20AM.png" width="485" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If you are a Christian, read on. The rest of this will be meaningful to you. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://connecticutcentinal.com/westport-school-superintendent-threatens-parent-concerned-with-sexualized-video-shown-to-elementary-students-what-is-child-grooming/">ConnecticutCentinal.com</a></b><span> </span><span>reported on July 5, 2022:</span></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Following the unauthorized (by parents) showing of an overtly sexualized video to elementary school children in Westport, CT, parent Camilo Riano sent an open letter to the school district highlighting what he believed was<mark> </mark><a href="https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2022/06/20/westport-ct-parent-shocked-at-child-grooming-happening-in-westport-schools/"><mark>'sexual grooming'</mark></a><mark> </mark>of children, and demanded explanations from the Westport, CT School District.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Mr. Riano's remarks included this closing phrase:</span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Mr. Scarice,</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When are you going to STOP authorizing inappropriate celebrations that are offensive to many families of the district?</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When are you going to STOP implementing programs based on Critical Race Theory?</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When are you going to STOP conducting surveys and implementing programs that open the door for racial discrimination of minority groups such as Americans of Latin or Asian origin?</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">And, when are you going to STOP the ‘child grooming’ of our children?</span></em></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Superintendent Scarice responded with the threatening letter below, declaring Mr. Riano's concerns over child grooming <em>'will not be tolerated'.</em></span></p><hr /><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Dear Mr. Riano,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I am writing to respond to your “Open Letter” below. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">At the outset, I want to acknowledge that you have the right to express your opinions. I will not comment on any of the opinions you expressed in your letter. However, I feel compelled to address two parts of your letter, given that your “Open Letter,” by definition, is a letter intended for the general public.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">First, your targeted attacks on Principal Messler are highly inappropriate and very disappointing. Mrs. Messler has an exemplary and longstanding record as a successful principal and educator in the Westport Public Schools. I stand behind Mrs. Messler and the messages of acceptance and inclusion she shared in the video you referenced, which are intended to make all members of the school community feel welcome. In any case, it is very disappointing that you did not address any of your concerns directly with Mrs. Messler, but instead chose to write an “Open Letter” publicly attacking her. I am confident that she would show you, and any parent of SES, the courtesy of having a direct conversation to address any concerns. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Second, your choice of using the phrase “child grooming” is defamatory. This is a serious allegation and bears absolutely no relationship to the work we do in our schools. Further comments of a defamatory and irresponsible nature will not be tolerated. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Again, it is clear that you are free to share your opinions, however, I ask that you do so in a respectful and civil manner. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Sincerely,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Thomas Scarice</span></p><hr /><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Connecticut Centinal spoke with our parent company CDMedia's Senior Editor and Chief Investigative Reporter <a href="https://www.wabe.org/fight-against-21st-century-human-trafficking-talk-journalist-christine-dolan/"><mark>Christine Dolan</mark></a> about the issue. Dolan has a <a href="http://www.echoproject.com.au/christine-dolan-biography"><mark>long history of investigating child trafficking globally</mark></a> and is known around the world as an expert on the subject, having been commissioned by international agencies to investigate the abuse of children.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Dolan contacted another expert, Retired FBI Agent Bob Hamer, who infiltrated the North America Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), to get his view of exactly what 'child grooming' is.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">His response is below:</span></p><hr /><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A SEXUAL PREDATOR’S STRATEGY: GROOMING</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">By Bob Hamer</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">For the persuasion sexual predator, “grooming” is the vehicle used to manipulate and seduce the vulnerable child. I didn’t learn about grooming in a college classroom or from a textbook. I learned it from the pedophiles themselves. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I spent twenty-six years in the FBI, many of those years undercover. In assignments lasting anywhere from a few days to more than three years, I successfully posed as a contract killer, international arms merchant, drug dealer, white-collar criminal, and pedophile. Though each undercover assignment carried with it an element of danger, maybe my least dangerous assignment, yet most difficult, was infiltrating NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association, a group of men sexually attracted to boys. I have shot people in drugs deals gone wrong and on more than one occasion have been threatened with death by targets of our investigations, but the NAMBLA undercover operation was psychologically and emotionally draining as I interacted with men who bragged of their sexual conquests of children. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We were able to successfully prosecute eight members of the group’s inner circle. One member gave me 125 pornographic images and eight videos of men having sex with boys. The other seven members traveled in interstate commerce to engage in oral and anal sex with boys ranging in age from ten to twelve. We were able to take these men off the streets, but they represent only a tiny fraction of men sexually seeking our youth. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As a result of my undercover role, I dealt with these men as equals. They viewed me as a like-minded cohort, not their defense counsel or court-ordered counselor. They shared their secret desires and the methods they used to persuade children to engage in sexual acts with them. These men were “persuasion predators.” They didn’t snatch children from bedrooms in the middle of the night. They seduced the child through successful grooming techniques.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The first step was identifying the vulnerable child. Willie Sutton, the famed bank robber, when asked why he robbed banks, responded, “That’s where the money is.” Predators are drawn to where children are. Though we warn our children of “stranger danger,” in fact, most predators are known to their victims. They are relatives, family friends, clergy, teachers, and coaches. It is through these friendships and associations, that the predator identifies the vulnerable child. In my experience in the three-year NAMBLA investigation, it was typically a child looking for a father-figure living in a single parent household. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The next step was fulfilling a need for the child and the parent…camping trips, free-babysitting, toys which the family couldn’t afford, time and attention the family wasn’t providing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Then came the praise and the gentle touch…hugs, arm around the shoulder, playful wrestling. Anything physical which strengthened the bond or relationship was a step toward the ultimate goal of sex. One NAMBLA member told me how he used a Frisbee at public parks. He could toss the disc at a potential target, engage that child in conversation, then use that opportunity to “teach” the child how to throw the Frisbee. This allowed the predator to wrap his arms around the boy. Another member used remote-control cars which he would race toward a target. Then allow the boy to “drive” the car, with the predator draping his arms over the boy’s shoulders instructing him on using the controller. In each instance, the predator praised the boy for being so much more adult than his peers. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As the relationship developed, the most important step evolved. The predator would introduce sexual talk and pornography, explaining to the child that he was old enough to understand and mature enough to appreciate sexual topics. Praise was the key; compliments he probably didn’t receive at home or at school. Falsely extolling the child’s maturity and other “adult” attributes helped reduce embarrassment, shyness, and anxiety. With the inhibitions lowered, it was a matter of introducing activities that furthered sexual physical encounters…getting undressed together, showering together, sleeping in the same bed or sleeping bag. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">From there it was easy to move to the final step which was sexual intimacy. Once the intimacy began, it was all about keeping secrets. “Ours is a special relationship.” “No one would understand our special friendship.” “If you tell, we would both get into trouble.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Time and time again, I listened as men bragged about their abilities to exploit children with variations of the techniques discussed above. As parents, we need to be aware of persuasion predators lurking in our home, our yard, or our local playgrounds. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Bob Hamer spent four years on active duty in the Marine Corps and twenty-six years in the FBI. Since retiring, he has authored or co-authored eleven books. His book, <em>The Last Undercover: The True Story of an FBI Agent’s Dangerous Dance with Evil</em> chronicles his infiltration of NAMBLA.</span></p><hr /><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The use of the term 'grooming' in Riano's open letter can be debated if appropriate or not.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">However, the following phrases in Hamer's article resonate with the reader:</span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Predators are drawn to where children are.</span></em></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Check - an elementary school?</span></li></ul><p><em><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As the relationship developed, the most important step evolved. The predator would introduce sexual talk and pornography, explaining to the child that he was old enough to understand and mature enough to appreciate sexual topics.</span></em></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A video of a dancing obese woman with a beard, flaunting large breasts, is definitely sexual in nature; the video could be considered soft porn.</span></li></ul><p><em><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Though we warn our children of “stranger danger,” in fact, most predators are known to their victims...Falsely extolling the child’s maturity and other “adult” attributes helped reduce embarrassment, shyness, and anxiety. </span></em></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">With the showing of a dancing obese woman in a beard, flaunting large breasts, to elementary school-aged children, something that a child would not see as normal at all, it seems the video shown does work to reduce 'anxiety' and awareness of 'stranger danger', whether intentional or not. In other words, the video could be seen as 'making children less wary of strange adults'.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We also spoke with Mary Holland, lawyer and former NYU law professor. She commented, "In my personal opinion, showing that video to children in elementary school is inappropriate."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Below is an interview Dolan conducted with Mr. Riano.</span></p></blockquote><p><a href="https://connecticutcentinal.com/westport-school-superintendent-threatens-parent-concerned-with-sexualized-video-shown-to-elementary-students-what-is-child-grooming/"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Entire video here</span></a></p><blockquote><center><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="rumble" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v16pqxt/?pub=4" width="640"></iframe></span></center></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i>These Last Days News </i></b><span>- July 5, 2022</span></span></p><h1><span class="Title" style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Westport School Superintendent Threatens Parent Concerned with Sexualized Video Shown to Elementary Students {VIDEO}...</span></h1><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="HeaderMessage" style="color: red;">A FOUL SITUATION<br />"A foul situation has come about in the schools, both public and private. They are now teaching sex education, My children. And this is a debauchery of your young souls. Parents, are you so blind that you do not investigate, or ask your children what has happened in their classes today at school? Show you no interest as you go about the world gathering materialism, and seeking to break your home apart by husband and wife going in both directions; neither do they work together to hold the home together, but they work apart, many leaving the children astray by not having counsel over them."<br /> "My child and My children, I tell you now: All that I have told you in the past will come to pass. There will be great punishments set upon earth. The United States and Canada shall not escape. They have been actually sentenced by the Eternal Father to many calamities that will befall them very shortly. The Father in Heaven feels in this manner shall they bring many back to the fold. It is not an angry God Who speaks to you, My children, but a sorrowful One. All of our hearts in Heaven, and the hearts of the saints, are saddened at what is to come upon mankind.”</span> <span class="HeaderMessageDate" style="color: red; font-style: italic;">– Our Lady, September 27, 1986</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="HeaderMessage" style="color: red;">REMOVE TEACHERS<br />"You must remove the reading matter, the books filled with obscenities - pornography, you call it, My child - errors and degradation, soul destructors. You must clean your schools. Remove the teachers who promote the destruction of souls. "Parents, as guardians of your children's souls, you must have the courage to come forward and act upon this, for it will be you as parents who shall cry tears of bitter remorse when you know that these children have been lost forever to the Eternal Kingdom."</span> <span class="HeaderMessageDate" style="color: red; font-style: italic;">- Our Lady of the Roses, July 25, 1975</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="HeaderMessage" style="color: red;">"Are you so blind that you do not recognize the acceleration of sin among you? Murders abound, thievery, all manner of carnage, destruction of young souls, abortion, homosexuality, condemned from the beginning of time by the Eternal Father. Yet sin has become a way of life. Sin is condoned now, even unto the highest judge of your land and your lands throughout the world. As you have sown so shall you reap. Sin is death, not only of the spirit, but of the body. Wars are a punishment for man's sin, his greed, his avarice."</span> <span class="HeaderMessageDate" style="color: red; font-style: italic;">- Our Lady of the Roses, August 14, 1981</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York. <a href="https://www.tldm.org/misc/introduction.htm">Read more</a></span></p><div><br /></div>Sharman Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470560303335984045noreply@blogger.com0