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Author Oleg Atbashian presents his book to a libertarian/conservative group Liberty on the Rocks in Colorado Springs, August 23, 2011.

Oleg Atbashian is a writer and graphic artist from the former USSR. Born and raised in Ukraine, he used to be a teacher, a translator, a worker, a freelance journalist, and at one time a propaganda artist, creating visual agitprop for the local Party committee in a Siberian town. In 1994, he emigrated to the USA hoping to live in a country that was ruled by reason and common sense. Ironically, he now lives in New York City. He is the creator ofThePeoplesCube.com, a satirical website where he writes under the name of Red Square.

By Christopher Smith Gonzalez

The system is meant kill legislation: That’s the old line often heard around the Capitol. And now, as the session’s end slams the coffin door on a slew of bills, more than a few lawmakers are taking solace in the fact that their dead legislation has plenty of company.

Top on the list of bills that didn’t make it across the finish line is, of course, Senate Bill 1811, a broad fiscal matters proposal that had public school financing tacked on to it. Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, killed it with a filibuster, but school financing has to be addressed and will be taken up in a special session.

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From the McAllen Tea Party

In some of these posts over the past few months, we told you about some of the information being taught in our public schools. Some of you were skeptical. 

Well, this should really shock you as it did one of the school board members who objected to the reading and to one of the teachers in the meeting. He just hung his head apparently in shame, then walked out of the meeting.

On Glenn Beck’s radio program this morning, an excerpt from a Tuscon school board meeting was played wherein a young woman read portions (including page number references) from a book used in the Controversial Ethnic Studies Curriculum for grades 3 through 12. 

This seemed to be an emotional reading for the people attending the meeting so we researched it to find the actual video.

We found it.

References to “Blood-sucking Capitalists”, the “F” word, “S—”, and “BullS—” appear to be used quite extensively throughout the book.

Caution: This video contains language you may not want to hear! But, that’s kind of the point, isn’t it? Should the “offensive” language in a public school textbook be censored in a public meeting but not in the classroom? What about the kids? 

I’m thankful that this young woman cared enough to review the textbook and then had the courage to confront the school board.

What are our kids and grand-kids being taught? 

Shouldn’t we be more involved in our kids’ education?

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

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Received this as an email. Made a lot of sense to me, so I’m passing it along.

Chris

Earlier this decade, Michael Barone wrote a book entitled “Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for America’s Future”. His premise was that we are becoming an America of Soft people demanding entitlements at other people’s expense, unwilling or unable to stand on our own and looking to the government instead of ourselves to provide our every need.

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Originally published at David Horowitz’s NewsRealBlog
By Chris Rowan

A very unscientific Google search for ‘government education grants’ yields over 4,000,000 hits. There are all manner of scholarships, grants, and loans available for every conceivable category of person, with the possible exception of politically conservative religious white heterosexual males. There is no room on college campuses for hate-filled superstitious racist homophobes.

Not unless they are hate-filled Islamofascist racist homophobes, that is. They apparently go to the front of the Financial Aid line at University. But I digress.

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Bisd Fast Rpt

By Chris Rowan

Last November 20, I drove to San Antonio to attend the second Texas TEA Party Summit.   Leaders of TEA Party groups from across the state were in attendance.  Colonel Deering would have gone, but he had a doctor’s appointment that Saturday and could not attend.

I’m not going to go into a great amount of detail.  I took notes and listened very attentively, but most of what was said had to do with Texas House Speaker Joe Straus and is not very high on our priority list.  Ousting Joe Straus is important – do not get me wrong – but we in south Texas had been focused on the Congressional election and , of course, the election for County Judge.  To be honest, I had not heard of Joe Straus until I read about him on Facebook.

Seems like all information roads lead to Facebook.

Overall, the Summit was eye-opening and very informative.   I had no idea how many different TEA Party groups there were in Texas.  It is a HUGE phenom in Texas, folks.  One of the TEA Party leaders I met represents 30 such groups in East Texas ALONE.  I wish that someone had thought to write down all the TEA Party groups represented at the Summit.  I should have, but it was all I could do to keep up with the flow of information.  I should also have livestreamed the event, but thought it would have been presumptuous and frowned upon.  Next time, perhaps.

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By Amy Eldred

Can each of us fire off an email to this guy please?  We just won this battle with the textbooks, just defeated another liberal on the SBOE with the victory of Charlie Garza in SBOE Dist. 1, and now we have a RINO pushing to revise!  Let treat Mr. Ratliff to some “tea” and remind him that Texans like traditional values and honest history taught to our kids.

Thanks for all you do.

Amy

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Thomas Ratliff, a newly elected SBOE member and a RINO, has stated that he would like to change the Social Studies standards. The new SBOE representative for district 9, Thomas Ratliff needs to hear from all of you who sent emails earlier this year, registered to testify and helped to shape the future classrooms of not only Texas but the nation in support of the excellent Social Studies Standards passed!

Tell Ratliff to leave our new standards ALONE!  Email thomas@thomasratliff.com

The new standards can be read here.  They include teaching our national heritage, American Exceptionalism and our place “in the grand history of human progress” (Donna Garner, retired teacher.)

Below is more from Donna:

Public schools have become so secularized that they make no mention of Christmas or Easter. Many think that their rights and responsibilities are assigned by government rather than endowed by God. They struggle with the truths enshrined in our Declaration of Independence and are unaware of the protections against abusive central governmental power woven into the fabric of our Constitution.

I am also convinced that the existing [new -- adopted by the SBOE in May 2010] Social Studies Standards go a long way toward restoring a degree of rigor to our public school offerings and toward engendering in youngsters a bit of pride in America. The World History standards include evidence that Biblical truth underlies the advance of western civilization along the path to Democratic Revolution.

If you find them to your liking, an email to our new SBOE member Thomas Ratliff might help him decide to leave them alone. Please share this information with your friends who might send an email and register their ideas with Mr. Ratliff.

Email thomas@thomasratliff.com

(From NewsRealBlog.com)

By Chris Rowan

It is news to no one that our educational system sucks. American students are consistently out-performed by students in other countries year after year.

Why?

Liberals, progressives, socialists, communists, “compassionate” conservatives (i.e., neocons, RINOs, liberal Republicans) , teacher unions, and other leftist groups would like you to believe that it is some combination of bad schools, teachers, and financing. The solution, as they see it, is to engage in a game of Three Card Monty where students are shuffled from schools that are “failing” them, to schools that will allow them to “succeed” –as though success is a magical elixir of brick, mortar, and fairy dust that is present in some schools and absent in others.

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By Chris Rowan
From American Thinker

Discipline by racial quota. 

I kid you not.

 Their latest education-destroying innovation is eliminating the disproportionate suspension and expulsions of African-American students.

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How is this seemingly alluring “racial fairness” to be accomplished? The answer is not on a case-by-case basis by scrutinizing millions of outcomes to detect bias. Instead, bureaucrats will use the ‘disparate impact‘  approach —  i.e., it will be assumed that racially disproportional punishment inherently equals racial discrimination. Thus, if African-Americans constitute 30% of the student body but half of all expulsions, racial discrimination is demonstrated.

More hope and change.   This administration is doing so much damage to the fabric of our society that I despair it ever becoming whole again.  The entire Democrat party needs to be relegated to the dustbin of history.  And good riddance.

Destroying Schools to Achieve Racial Justice.

By Chris Rowan
Originally published at NewsRealBlog.com

One of the more comforting aspects of the major religions is the belief that there is justice in the hereafter and the wicked are ultimately punished. One of the reasons why so many people are willing to risk everything to come to the United States is the belief that we have a system of justice that is fair and impartial, so that even the very poor and politically unconnected can expect a modicum of justice in this country.

At least, that’s what I would like to believe. More importantly, that is what I would like to convey – with conviction – to my children. But it is getting harder and harder to suspend disbelief about our “impartial” judicial system. Read the rest of this entry »

(From NewsRealBlog.com)

By Chris Rowan

David Aikman of Townhall.com posted a 1-minute podcast commentary today that should be of great interest to conservative moms and dads out there – “Alinsky: In Your Child’s Classroom?“ 

According to Aikman, 

. . . the nation’s largest teacher organization, the National Education Association, has sent an email to all its teacher members advising them to use Alinsky’s teaching in educating their students – OUR children and OUR grandchildren. Considering that one of Alinsky’s ethical principles was that the end justifies the means, American parents ought to think long and hard whether they want their children brainwashed by followers of Alinsky. 

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