http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/pages/author.htm

Notice what is says in her bio?

She wrote the booklet “Soviets in the Classroom: America’s Latest Education Fad” which covered the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements which remain in effect to this day.

Tom Keane is NOT the subject of my post which was a response to your question, so please stop trying to attribute my statements and beliefs to him.

Best to leave that to those who ascribe to the Saul Alinsky method of personal attacks and guilt by association.

You can attack me all you want and I will respond to you honestly about how and why I feel the way I do, but for you to try to connect Mr. Keane to what my beliefs are is the predictable next step that I am sure everyone here will see right through.

Your last post is even more interesting when combined with your earlier comment on May 18: “Libraries are a thing of the past and no town should waste any more money on them….. there is no need for them now that we have the internet.”

I wonder if eliminating the town library and the school libraries can also help in the battle against the forces of which you speak.

I hope Mr. Keane will enlighten us as to his views on these subjects.

It’s nothing more than a place to teach global socialism under the corporations’ dream of total control. Turning them into community organizers is the key. How to redistribute the wealth across the nations from big bad America..

http://tinyurl.com/worldgovernmentiswrong

No one can ever define just what are ‘global standards’ a term they use to dazzle and confuse the parents, but it’s clear from this article that the whole thing has a political agenda and these ’standards’ are not academic… even without this program which Bow managed thankfully to avoid, under Goals 2000 all of this stuff was instituted.

The TOK program is questionable. Leave it to the UN to figure out a way to brainwash your kids while having taxpayers pay for it through the nose.

Here is a quote from the teachers union in 1946, 1946!!!!!

“In the struggle to establish an adequate world government, the teacher has many parts to play… He can do much to prepare the hearts and minds of children for global understanding and cooperation… At the very top of all the agencies which will assure the coming of world government must stand the school, the teacher, and the organized profession.”

– National Education Association Journal, 1946

Can anybody explain what this person is talking about? So are folks in the Kremlin stocking the library shelves now? Is Osama bin Laden making up our students’ reading lists? Or, God forbid, is it our worst nightmare, the French?

I have had first graders come to me in tears because they were so disturbed to have discovered such books. I simply turned them into the main office.

And I did not recommend wikipedia which is a slanted biased source of information who can delete things contributed on a whim.

However, many books have been translated to electronic format and can be either heard on audio or read online. Plus you sure can do 100X the research that you can do lugging heavy books and it’s handicap accessible.

I still say libraries are no longer useful as they once were.

That has to be one of the most un-educated arguments I’ve ever read. That along with Ms. Martin’s “there are already plenty of books in the library” argument.

Teacher, you of all people should recognize the value of a library. That is you were a former educator were you not? Libraries provide the utmost ability to do research and provide for those who do not have the funds to access the internet from the comfort of their own homes.

As a college student, the library was my second home. Now that I have long since graduated, it still provides me with wonderful resources, for research that I continue to do in my spare time.

I detest wikipedia and most here should plainly see why. But, if that is how you think our youth should learn, so be it. I for one will support the library as long as I can.