Throw More Money into Government-Controlled Education

The Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, wants to have “equity” in education and to replace the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) with a new law that would include government-funded preschool. The sooner the collectivist indoctrination starts, the better. NCLB already cost taxpayers $25 billion in 2014. http://dailysignal.com/2015/01/12/obama-administration-proposes-expanding-government-funded-preschool-replacing-no-child-left-behind/

Government failed miserably with Head Start but the taxpayers’ memories are short. Sec. Duncan wants to throw $1 billion more to the Title I program to low-income school districts with no guarantee that it will make a bit of difference in the education outcomes of those students, particularly since curricula is dictated by the wicked Common Core standards with the nonsensical and unnecessarily complex math, collectivist indoctrination, and proselytizing for Islam.

No wonder teachers with a conscience are retiring early after 22 years of teaching—nobody wants to jump through political correctness hoops, they want to teach traditional curriculum that made Americans successful before the Department of Education came into being and before Bill Gates decided to change it into “Conformity Core” Standards.

Government intrusion into education is not a formula for success. Parents, teachers, and even some administrators have no idea how the data mining of their children is going to be used by third parties who will purchase the information. The start-up company, Knewton, has gathered information on 4 million children.

Politico reports, “Students are tracked as they play online games, watch videos, read books, take quizzes and run laps in physical education. The monitoring continues as they work on assignments from home, with companies logging children’s locations, homework schedules, Web browsing habits and, of course, their academic progress.” http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/data-mining-your-children-106676.html#ixzz3Oo9FovT6

Knewton, according to parents, administrators, and teachers, collects more data on our children than the NSA. When parents protested against data-mining, Knewton’s CEO Jose Ferreira responded that “concerns are overblown,” he was helping them learn. He asked, “Is it simply that they don’t want a for-profit company to map their kids’ minds? If not, why not? They’d rather the NSA have it? What, you trust government?”

Knewton, which advertises, “The world's most innovative learning companies use Knewton technology to boost student achievement,” has the following partners: http://www.knewton.com/

-          Santillana (Spain and Latin America)

-          Wizard (Brazil)

-          Sesameworkshop (“The Electric Company”)

-          Elsevier (scientific, technological, and medical information)

-          Gyldendal (Norway)

-          Sanoma Learning (Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Poland, and Sweden)

-          Malmberg (Netherlands)

-          Sebit (U.S., Europe, Turkey, Middle East, Asia)

-          Adaptive Curriculum

-          Microsoft

-          Cengage Learning (Management and Sociology)

-          Gutenberg Technology (My Ebook Factory)

-          Lelivresscolaire.fr (French grammar, English grammar, math, geography, and history)

-          Cambridge University Press

-          MacMillan Education

-          Triumph Learning (Common Core standards)

-          Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

-          Wiley Global Education (Australia and New Zealand)

-          Pearson (Common Core standards and testing)

There is nothing wrong with helping children learn by traditional methods but there is no evidence that using technology to spy on children’s habits and their thought-pattern is actually helping them learn. Technology can be used nefariously to implant thoughts and ideas into impressionable minds, brainwashing them into the ideology of the government’s choice.

It is impossible to demand “equity” in schools because not all schools are created equal and not all children are created equal, some have stronger musical intelligence, some logical, some are naturalists, some are mathematically gifted, some learn best kinesthetically, and some have stronger linguistic intelligence. Howard Gardner identifies 8 types of different intelligences in children, some are weaker and some are stronger in each child. http://www.cse.emory.edu/sciencenet/mismeasure/genius/research02.html

 A student coming from a small and remote school in Alaska cannot pick up where he/she left off when moving to another state. In many places, one cannot find an entire class of students ready, willing, and able to take advanced chemistry nor the teacher qualified to offer such a course. Perhaps it can be offered through the web but students need hands-on experimentation in a lab.

Germany has “sorted out” information on children and their families in order to address allegiance problems to the state. “Children were used to control their parents by being encouraged to report what they did and said. Hitler realized that older people would be less enthusiastic about his ideas, so he made every effort to win the minds of the next generation.” The control of people’s ideas was introduced in the form of a gradual change. The brainwashing/education included:

-          Nursery rhymes and songs were “about bloodshed, violence, and anti-Semitism

-          No foreign languages for girls and only math related to cooking and childcare

-          Textbooks were revisionist versions of Nazi propaganda

-          Lesson included only Nazi ideals and ideology

-          Girls were taught about church, 4 children, and cooking, no makeup, no expensive clothes, long hair worn in a bun

-          Propaganda lessons about the ideal German family

-          Boys studied math and science and outdoor activities/sports

-          Membership in Youth Organizations was compulsory http://www.johndclare.net/Nazi_Germany2_BBCnotes.htm

Then there is the Virginia Goochland County Board of Education that was swamped by angry parents who wanted the repeal of a policy that would have forced 14-year-old home-schooled children to be interrogated by the school board about their religious beliefs. Virginia’s religious exemption statute gives parents the right to control the upbringing and education of their children. http://www.redstate.com/diary/matthewclark/2015/01/14/virginia-county-interrogate-homeschool-teens-religious-beliefs/

What are some of these 600 plus data points collected on each child? When religion and political affiliation of your parents, or whether they voted or not in the last election are included in the data-mining, it is worrisome.

Suppose you know this information and your next onscreen lesson is about the non-existence of God, or that Republicans are mean and hateful people who stand in the way of progress and success of the downtrodden, conservatives are enemies because they object to redistribution of wealth, government control, and high government taxation, then your child’s obstacles will be overcome by training them to accept government control of their lives through subliminal messages included in their on screen lessons. Government curricula can thus make children believe whatever they want them to believe through subtle and subliminal brainwashing.

 

 

"Free" Education With Strings Attached

If you think college tuition is expensive now, wait until it is free. Two years of “free” community college sounds wonderful, even though some students who just graduated felt cheated that they did not get it “free” and, in the name of fairness and justice, retroactive reimbursement was immediately demanded.

The President announced that two years of junior college will be free if “you are willing to work hard.” Was he referring to working hard to keep up stellar grades or doing community service in exchange for “free” or subsidized tuition? Surely even liberals must understand that nothing is free, somebody must pay for it, it is basic economics. There is an opportunity cost attached to any choice made. Not to mention that the government is going to dictate the curriculum taught in these junior colleges and there will be subliminal deliberate indoctrination.

Since liberals run education, it is really easy to search for ulterior motives. As Thomas Sowell said, “The real motives of liberals have nothing to do with the welfare of other people. Instead, they have two related goals – to establish themselves as morally and intellectually superior to the rather distasteful population of common people, and to gather as much power as possible to tell those distasteful common people how they must live their lives.”

How much is this generous “free” education going to cost U.S. taxpayers? The initial estimation is $60 billion, however, with everything that the government does, the price tag will escalate to much larger levels. The $10 billion the government lost on bailing out GM and Chrysler, not counting the forced loss to private investors, pales by comparison to how much taxpayers are going to lose with this “free” community college education.

Heritage Foundation’s Lindsey M. Burke reports that students with “C” average or better, will have three-quarters of the cost paid by our government with hopes that states will cover one-fourth, saving students $3,800 in tuition costs per year. This sounds like the Obamacare promise of saving families $2,500 a year in premiums. That worked out really well.

What’s going to keep junior colleges from increasing their tuitions, knowing that the government is paying the tab, Burke wonders. Federal subsidies should decrease, not increase. “According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, only 20 percent of community college students transfer to four-year schools, and only 72 percent of those will have finished or remained enrolled four years later.” http://dailysignal.com/2015/01/09/free-community-college-anything-free/

Rush Limbaugh suggested on his show that perhaps President Obama is offering this “freebie” because he wants the young vote; maybe he wants to sweeten the financial pie after young people are going to have to fork over penalties for non-compliance with Obamacare, pay taxes on the subsidies, and lose potential W-2 tax refunds to IRS collection.

Who says that everybody is college material or is actually taking classes to learn? Some do it in order to defraud the government. One colleague mentioned 19 students who enrolled with a government grant through one of the community college programs, collecting over $20,000. By the end of the semester, the 19 students had passed a total of 12 semester hours even though the courses chosen were very easy. None returned. The following school year, the same people attempted to enroll in a community college 550 miles away with the same intent of fraud.  Because the two community colleges had academic ties, contact was made, and it was verified that the very same 19 were involved.

William Voegeli was quoted in the Blaze, “It sounds like what we’re saying is that…since the K-12 education system is doing such a questionable job on behalf of most of our students, what we’re really going to have now is a K-14 educational system. We’re going to have a fifth and sixth year of high school.” http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/01/12/is-president-obamas-free-community-college-plan-an-indictment-of-americas-education-system/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons

There is a model of extended high school in Germany. The students who wish to pursue a college degree must attend a five-year high school. The rest either go to technical schools, apprentice schools, or are trained by various companies who foot the education bill.

Who says that a college degree is worth much anymore? Lately it’s like attending a bastion of liberal insanity. If you are interested in classes and degrees in studies of race, gender, environmental justice, social justice, and other non-sense degrees that will leave you unemployable after four years of expensive college tuition, and you don’t care that free speech is suppressed, then college is for you.

My education was theoretically free in Romania until, after two years of college, I decided to move to America. Why should capitalists benefit from my education, I was told? Suddenly my free education was no longer free. The communist party decided that I had to pay back the cost of everything, elementary, middle, high school, and two years of college.  Thank God I did not go to kindergarten and day care, my parents were too poor to afford it, it was only free to communist party elites’ children.

How much was it all worth, I asked? At subsidy rates, it was about $250 in 1978 dollars.  I got a good education, minus the socialist/communist indoctrination, so the price was more than reasonable even though we were dirt-poor. The college tuition in the U.S. at that time was about $600 per semester in a state university.

My Blogtalk Radio Discussion with Silvio Canto, January 12, 2015

Topic today: Paris massacre and the European Demographics (29 minutes)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cantotalk/2015/01/12/the-paris-shooting-troubles-in-europe-and-other-issues-with-dr-ileana-johnson

The American Oligarchy

We are fundamentally changing, it’s been coming for decades but it is more noticeable now because we have Internet, wireless devices, pocket size encyclopedias encapsulating libraries around the world, and instant access to real news around the globe.

We see how the main stream media has become the spokesperson for the ruling elites, corruption rules and day, and education is melting in the flames of common core.  

We are no longer a Constitutional Republic because we failed to keep it. We are a benign oligarchy composed of same party rule of the few oligarchs, no matter how we vote at the polls. The oligarchs do as they please.

Oligarchy is a “form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; it is government by the few.” Nations ruled by oligarchies do not fare well, whether they are benign oligarchies or absolute tyrannies.

Newly elected politicians sign worthless pledges to constituents which they immediately break on the first day of Congress, joining those they swore to defeat and corruption is epidemic with all politicians, new or expert octopuses with tentacles strangling the heart of the republic. The oath of office is just a meaningless step to power.

We go about our daily lives; we go to work, shopping, to the movies, to parties, and watch surreal “reality TV” and sports while our country continues to fall apart. Nobody understands the insurmountable debt accumulated by Congress after Congress that is looming over our futures.

We still have food, we are fat thanks to food additives and a sedentary lifestyle, we are lulled into a false sense of security, we have a warm place called home, some have jobs, some have 2-3 part-time jobs, the welfare checks keep rolling in, what is there to worry us?

We are like the declining Roman Empire – America is waning because of the corruption of our leaders which we elect time and time again.

The average American does not really care right now. But the day to day contentment will change during their life time because of millions and millions of illegal aliens brought into the country by this administration. Their children will exist in a third world state riddled with poverty, illiteracy, crime, welfare, shortages, and equal and deplorable penury.

Most people are not feeling the change in their lives, but “fundamental change is in the air” and coming at dizzying speed.

We still have freedom of religion, although some “religions” are catered to more by government laws and regulations, forcing the rest of us to accept a “religion” that is contradictory to our Judeo-Christian values, lest we are sued or killed. Christianity is constantly under attack around the world and at home.

We have to self-censor or pay the penalty of hate-speech. The United Nations wants to codify into law a punishment for anyone who dares to criticize the very violent “religion of peace.”

Theoretically, we still have freedom of speech but, if we exercise it, we are marginalized as loons or phobes, forced to apologize for factual statements, or lose our jobs. In essence, we have lost the freedom of speech guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. We are now fearful to speak publicly, to our neighbors, and even whisper to relatives who have not yet written us off as strange and inimical because we have divergent opinions.

Ask tenured professor Dr. John McAdams of Marquette University about his suspension for exercising his freedom of speech in a blog which criticized an instructor who forbade students to have dissenting opinions in his class because the topic “was settled.” http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/fight-erupts-over-universitys-censorship-of-student-speech/

Speech is free as long as you agree with me. If you advocate for freedom of speech, you are going to be fired or suspended in the very place that prides itself over freedom of speech. But are universities a place where anyone can express their thoughts freely anymore? Especially when they have installed tiny corners called “free speech zones” but you have to ask permission from the university to use it.

We have freedom of the press but the press is run by liberals. We can write our opinions, but can we get them published? After all, most of the publishing houses are owned and staffed by brainwashed progressives.

We have freedom of assembly as long as the city government pressed by progressive agendas approves our petition to assemble and the topic of discussion. Conservative groups are often told no, while illegal immigrants can freely assemble to protest their illegitimacy and law-breaking presence in our country.

What is the goal in bringing into America four million Muslim immigrants per year who are intolerant of infidels and of their freedom of speech, as evidenced in the most recent massacre of twelve innocent Parisians who dared practice their trade of free speech through cartoons? The slain policeman who arrived on a bicycle and unarmed, was unable to protect the other eleven victims.

How could this happen in the liberal paradise of France where police has been disarmed and guns prohibited as demanded by the progressive society who believes that an unarmed populace will convince terrorists to give up their weapons. Surely they will respond to reason and mercy. We are all civilized humans, aren’t we?

Fareed Zakaria said on his CNN show, “There is within the world of Islam many, many pockets, many groups that really have a great deal of difficulty with the modern world, and particularly with the open Western freedom of speech loving, freedom of expression loving world.  The grievance, the grievance is that they feel they live in a world not of their making, a world of the west's making.” Well, in that case, let’s remake the world in the intolerant image of Islam and terrorism will go away. If they hate our world so much, why are they immigrating in droves to the west? http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/01/09/left_focuses_on_non_existent_islamophobia_to_smear_conservatives

Christiane Amanpour, referring to the Paris massacre, said, “One of the things that we're living right now is a very ugly and unseemly rise yet again of Islamophobia, and this is very worrying.  All these governments now are gonna be watching to see how the far right, which made huge gains in the last local elections in Europe a few months ago, National Frontier, UKIP in England, you know, the groups in Belgium and Germany and elsewhere, which are mobilizing big anti-Islamic demonstrations, how this is gonna play into this very ugly political situation.” http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/01/09/left_focuses_on_non_existent_islamophobia_to_smear_conservatives

What “ugly political situation?” Twelve innocent individuals, doing their jobs and exercising their right to free speech in the civilized world, have been slaughtered by the adherents to Islam. Can anyone name contributions to civilization that Islam has made since the 11^th century other than violence, destruction, and death?

France24 reports that fifty world leaders have gathered in Paris to attend the Anti-Terrorism Rally on Sunday, January 11, 2015. http://www.france24.com/en/20150110-paris-rally-charlie-hebdo-sunday-leaders/ Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority among them, “are marching in solidarity against radical Islam,” said LTC Ralph Peters on Fox and Friends Weekend.

Kirk Lippold, Commander of USS Cole, wonders on his Facebook page why the United States is not represented in this massive rally against terrorism. “This is an embarrassment for the United States and speaks volumes about this Administration's commitment to defeating radical Islam and the terrorists who kill innocent civilians.” https://www.facebook.com/kirk.lippold.9/posts/10205683838880415?notif_t=close_friend_activity

We are in the phase of a “soft, benevolent dictatorship,” some call it “despotic oligarchy,” shaping what we do, what we say, what we think, what we eat, what we drink, what medicines we take, what doctors we see, but people are generally blind so far to this new phase of reshaping America away from the “evil” capitalist empire that has brought prosperity and development to the entire world.

The moral decline of America is driving more nails into its coffin because everything deviant is now protected and promoted by law and the medical field is encouraging and paying for any physical changes desired.

Rome did not fall in one day, it took a long time for its collapse and it split into two empires, the Western and the Eastern. The Western Empire fell quickly in 476 A.D. to the barbarian hordes that wanted the Roman lifestyle but were unwilling to assimilate.

Political corruption, a mercenary army disloyal to Rome, unchecked immigration,  waves of Visigoths, Vandals, Angles, Saxons, Franks, Ostrogoths, and Lombards who took turns damaging the Empire, an inflationary economy, decreased agricultural production, trade deficit, decadence, piracy, and lead poisoning were other variables that contributed to the fall of Rome. The Eastern Empire flourished for another 1,000 years as Byzantium.

How long is the American Empire going to survive under a soft, benign oligarchy?

 

 

 

Furs and Environmental Political Correctness

Photo: chinchillaguide.com

Genesis 4:21

The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.*

 

 

 

I touched the buttery soft banded white and grey chinchilla coat on the mannequin, draping a fiery red dress. I wonder how many tiny animals were sacrificed to make this beautiful coat that would adorn the shoulders of an elegant socialite who might get cold in the climate change winter air on her way to a fashionable restaurant or a D.C. party. The $50,000 price tag can certainly buy a small house in the south.

The label says that the full-length chinchilla came from Slovakia, the former territory of the Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia which split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia after the “fall” of communism in 1989.

The red dress under the chinchilla coat cost $300. It’s like drinking a glass of cheap red bubbly Moscato in my 85-year old crystal glass from Grandma Grace.

This department store is certainly not alone in its offering of high-end furs. There is another store that actually specializes in fur coats. I had expected this furrier to go out of business long time ago but it’s been around for quite some time. There are no PETA protests and no sprayings of red paint like they used to do in the 1990s.

According to furriers, it takes about 130-200 chinchillas to make a coat, depending on size and length. Sixty-five minks, 10-24 foxes, and 60-80 sables must die in order to make a full-length coat.

Chinchilla fur is thirty times softer than human hair. Because the fur is so thick, 20,000 hairs per square cm, parasites such as fleas suffocate in its thickness. A chinchilla has more than fifty hairs growing from each follicle. The animal must bathe in volcanic ash or dust frequently in order to remove excess oil and moisture from its fur.  

Who needs furs in our climate change? If you ask environmentalists, since the planet is warming globally, this dastardly man-made climate change, it is ridiculous to even own a fur.  It is an unnecessary fashion statement of social status, like driving a gas-guzzling or an expensive car. Even if you live in permafrost regions, with all this polar high tech clothing, who needs furs in order to prevent frost bite or freezing.

There are 6,000 fur farms in the European Union, capturing 63% of the mink production alone, 64% of farms are in northern Europe, 11% in North America, and the rest are in places like Argentina and Russia. https://www.change.org/p/eu-ban-fur-farming-in-the-european-union

Major producers are China, the Netherlands, the Baltic States, Finland (fox pelts), Russia, Canada, U.S., and the European Union (70% of fox pelts production), with China being the largest re-exporter of finished fur products.

Notwithstanding PETA’s dreadful description of the caged conditions of animal farms destined for fur coats, environmentalists tell us about the environmental pollution by chemicals such as ammonia, formaldehyde, hydrogen peroxide, and other chromates and bleaching agents used to preserved and dye furs. These chemicals prevent the decomposition of furs over time in owners’ closets and, in their opinion, are a waste of resources that should be used somewhere else.

According to the environmental lobby, the production of one fur coat from farm-raised animals uses “more than 15 times more energy than producing a faux-fur coat.” They do not say how they arrived at this number and I am not holding my breath for its accuracy.

The much maligned and often cruel modern fur industry occupies an important part in the history of the United States. “Beaver furs were one of the first commodities settlers traded with Europe,” more specifically France.

Beaver pelt traders stretched their routes from Green Bay, Wisconsin, to the Mississippi River with outposts in St. Louis and New Orleans, leaving their French mark in names such Des Moines, Iowa and Detroit (French détroit, “straits”), Michigan.

The fur trade followed the beaver in the north and to the Pacific north-west. You may object to wearing furs today but states like Washington, Montana, Idaho, Oregon (Benny the Beaver), California, and Wisconsin owe their existence to the beaver fur trade.

* Chriss R. says, "Notice he did not make them wool clothes or linen clothes. He used SKIN---leather!"

 

How Did We "Fundamentally Change" So Fast?

The gilded cage
Photo courtesy of Internet free stock

How did American culture fall prey to the lowest common denominator in our country?

When did we start admiring primitive cultures and considering them superior to our western civilization, giving in to their needy and outrageous demands no matter what happens to our own citizens?

How did the western world fall prey to Marxist-Leninists, to Islam, and to the rap music of the ghetto and prison culture?

How was Europe colonized by Islam in just a few decades of open-borders immigration? Why did its leaders eagerly embrace Islam instead of their own citizens, committing cultural and demographic suicide?

How did American education change so fundamentally that now communism and jihadi Islam are praised and admired?

How did our education decline so much that Boards of Education are composed of liberals and universities are populated by Fabian socialists and communists who have watered down the curriculum to the point where “studies of” have become one of the more popular majors in college even though jobs are not available in such fields?

How can sane educators teach Common Core indoctrination into collectivism and Islam in elementary, middle, and high schools, and still sleep at night, content that they have done their job to educate the youth of America into what it is to be a successful American citizen?

How in the world so many “useful idiots” socialist educators and administrators have made it into their positions of influence and power with superficial academic preparation?

I remember one outstanding history teacher, Judy M., who always posted gruesome pictures of the Holocaust in the hallways.  Her message to students was that we must never, ever forget.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower had ordered plenty of pictures taken of the liberated concentration camps because he realized that someday there will be individuals who will deny that the Holocaust ever existed.

In April 1945 Dwight Eisenhower visited the concentration camp near the town of Gotha and wrote about his experience:  “I have never felt able to describe my emotional reactions when I first came face to face with indisputable evidence of Nazi brutality and ruthless disregard of every shred of decency… I have never at any other time experienced an equal sense of shock.” http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=136

And Eisenhower was right. A 2014 Common Core assignment, a mere seven decades later, asked students to write on the topic, “Did the Holocaust really happen or was it staged for political reasons?” The six million Jews, gypsies, priests, and other innocents who died in concentration camps must be rolling in their graves. http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/education-2/common-core-students-asked-to-write-essay-did-the-holocaust-really-happen-or-was-it-merely-a-political-scheme\

When Judy M. introduced the topic of the Great Depression each year, students had to forgo food all day except for thin soup so they could truly understand what it was like for people standing in soup lines. Students eating in the cafeteria their allotted bowl, surrounded by an abundance of food, found out that it was hard to concentrate and go about their daily studies with growling stomachs. There are not many teachers left like Judy M.

Carl B., invited victims of communism to his classes to give first-hand testimony of life under a totalitarian regime. He asked victims of the Holocaust with numbers tattooed on their arms to tell the story of what happened to them in WW II concentration camps and how few of their family members survived.  He had former Ambassadors, Governors, and decorated veterans come to his classes. He was so proud of our American heritage and of our selfless courage in the face of adversity!

The late Carl B. loved history so much, he dedicated his entire life to preserving an abandoned three-story ante-bellum home in which doves had made their nests, and brought it to its former glory, filling it with antiques, carpets, music, and paintings of the era. He invited groups into his home every year during Easter and Christmas to admire and enjoy a restored labor of love. A 400-pound statue from a New Orleans antiquary graced his lawn on a bluff, shaded by colorful azaleas in the spring.

Carl B. organized a Pilgrimage tour to other ante-bellum homes in the area and facilitated an evening visit of the local Civil War cemetery. His students chose a few tombs, researched the family history, and, wearing period costumes, re-enacted a candle light tour, describing the lives of those buried there.  People from around the country and around the world came to Columbus, Mississippi for the annual Pilgrimage and the Cemetery Candlelight Tour.

What happened to the American psyche? What intervened since 1979? Was it the establishment of the Department of Education by Jimmy Carter that began the slide of our education system?

Was it the college the education, a mill of socialist indoctrination, producing educators who were certified by the state to make beautiful lesson plans and eye-arresting bulletin boards, but lacked substantive content in their teaching areas? 

College of education majors attracted weaker students, who often lacked basic courses of math and science. The fluff degrees taught them the latest methodology of instruction, usually an untested fad created by a college professor trying to get tenure. Such professors were the role models to emulate around the country, the darlings of the conference circuit, lecturing other minions how to dumb down the education system. 

Was it the fact that we socially-promoted students, we accepted them into college based on racial quotas, minority groups, and other discriminatory systems, and not on merit? 

We now have college professors who are open vitriolic Marxists who staff or chair departments of studies of feminism, racial issues, social equality, social justice, environmental justice, and collectivism, the hallmarks of communism.

Were educators in a North Carolina high school Common Core approved English class teaching vocabulary or were they proselytizing for Islam?   Why would an American teacher be willing to drill their American students into such a subliminal Islamic lesson? Why would an American administrator approve such a curriculum and not call it into question? Why would parents not care what their children are taught? http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/north-carolina-public-high-school-proselytizing-for-islam-in-vocabulary-lessons

If teachers had used Christianity and Jesus to teach vocabulary, liberals would be up in arms, invoking the manufactured excuse that church and state have no place in a state-run school curriculum, and demanding that the offending teachers be terminated immediately.

Common Core has not been tested, it is the dream of Bill Gates who has invested over $200 million of his vast fortune into its implementation and it is now pushed by politicians on both sides of the aisle.   

It is sad how far and how quickly the Republic has “fundamentally changed.” Can we restore the spectacular education system that we had prior to the founding of the Department of Education that drains $72 billion annually from taxpayers? Can we reverse the insane Common Core math that is impractical and counterproductive in the real world? Can we reverse the Islamic and Marxist indoctrination of Common Core?

The liberal media is constantly harping and criticizing American values, often in front of foreign audiences, lying and inciting hatred and racial bigotry, enmity, protests, and violence. Manufactured reality takes center stage while real news are ignored. The main stream media is constantly dishonest, covering up for the Democrat Party and for corrupt politicians.

The “journalists” are talking heads who read teleprompters well, indoctrinating the entire country into falsehoods and lies, clouding the minds and judgment of impressionable youths with the agenda of the Marxist Democrats who are now running the country.

The globalist billionaires, with no allegiance to our country, have used their vast fortunes to turn it into a banana republic, infusing their money into progressive causes that are detrimental to the United States, supporting illegal immigration, amnesty, and open borders in their pursuit for cheap labor. Shamelessly, they are using their fortunes to make more money at the expense of future Americans who will eventually find themselves citizens of a global tin-utopia ruled by the United Nations.

The globalists and Hollywood elites with their decadent lifestyles are destroying the future of our children and of America. They are demolishing the middle class by demanding that everybody must be equally poor and equally miserable.

The welfare mentality and dependency created and promoted by politicians has produced generations of adults living on the financial plantation of the Democrat Party that needs their votes but doesn’t care about their education.

The Americans on the dole, who have given up their freedoms in order to live in gilded cages tarnished by fool’s gold, seem content to receive their welfare checks, the crumbs from the powerful elites who run the “changed” world.

Last, but not least, professional corrupt politicians of both stripes are also “fundamentally changing” the country by serving their own greedy interests in the quest for power and control.

Who will inherit the “fundamentally transformed” western civilization and what will they do with it?