News from the Front:
Indoctrination
Parading as History at Andover High
By Richard L. Cravatts--History News Network--11/13/06
A teacher at Andover High
promotes the view that Israel is an "apartheid state."
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Hamas High
By Eric Danis--FrontPageMagazine.com--10/23/06
A high school teacher's disturbing campaign against
Israel.
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Burning
Freedom in Middle School
By Chris Kenning--The Courier-Journal--08/23/06
A Stuart Middle School teacher has been removed from the classroom after
he burned two American flags in class during a lesson on freedom of speech,
Jefferson County Public Schools officials said.
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By Sol Stern--PSAF.org--07/31/06
The ten most prominent texts used in education
schools to encourage teachers in K-12 schools to indoctrinate students
with the views of political radicals.
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The
Political Assault On Our K-12 Schools
Statement from David Horowitz--07/13/06
Today the gravest threat to American public education comes from educators
who would use the classroom to indoctrinate students from kindergarten
through the 12th grade in radical ideology and political agendas.
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For months, an education school accrediting group’s use of the phrase “social
justice” to describe a desirable quality in candidates to become elementary
and secondary teachers has fueled a debate that has been robust and at times
contentious.
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FIRE Warns Department of Education Against Supporting Political
Litmus Tests on Campus
By FIRE--06/05/06
Taking a stand against evaluating educators on political criteria.
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Taxpayers along with radical groups that aim to reconquer the
Gay-giography: A Textbook Case
By Lloyd Billingsley--FrontPageMag.com--05/23/06
California legislators put gay pride into the curriculum.
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The Survey Says What?
Sexual-orientation questions cause stir at Port high school
By Tom Kertscher--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel--05/16/06
Port Washington - Parents are angry and school leaders are promising action
in response to a "Heterosexual Questionnaire."
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"Social Justice" and Other High School Indoctrinations
By Sol Stern--FrontPageMag.com--04/13/06
Leftist political indoctrination in the classroom is now even more pernicious
in K-12 education than it is on the university campus.
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Class
filmstrip casts Bush as 'a--hole'
By
WorldNetDaily.com—04/11/06
An 8th-grade science teacher in
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A Rousing Success
By Sara Dogan--FrontPageMag.com--04/11/06
The First National Academic Freedom Conference unmasks the crisis of campus indoctrination.
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Press Conference to Announce K-12
Academic Bill of Rights
04/04/06
At a special press conference at 11:00am on Friday, April 7, Pennsylvania
legislator Sam Rohrer will announce that he is considering legislation
that would create an Academic Bill of Rights for K-12 schools in his
state.
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Transcript
of Classroom Indoctrination
PSAF--03/28/06
Colorado
H.S. Teacher Jay Bennish Compares President Bush to Hitler.
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Indoctrination High
By Ben Johnson--FrontPageMag.com--03/03/06
The New McCarthyism
By James Taranto--WSJ--02/28/06
For months, 17-year-old Andrew Saraf had been troubled by stories he
was hearing about a Peace Studies course offered at his Bethesda high
school.
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A Maryland High School's Peace Studies Indoctrination
By Sara Dogan--SAF--02/28/06
Students speak out at a school where radical propaganda has been taught
unchallenged for nearly two decades.
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Bethesda-Chevy Chase Students Protest Peace
Studies Indoctrination Course
By Lori Aratani--Washington Post--02/26/06
For months, 17-year-old Andrew Saraf had been troubled by stories he
was hearing about a Peace Studies course offered at his Bethesda high
school. He wasn't enrolled in the class but had several friends and classmates
who were.
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Shelving of Panel on Mideast Roils School
By Elissa Gootman--New York Times--02/17/06
An elite NYC high school cancels a one-sided panel showcasing
the Palestinian
viewpoint towards Israel.
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Schools of Reeducation?
By Frederick M. Hess--Washington Post--02/05/06
For those who have been troubled by the tendency of universities to
adopt campus speech codes, a worrisome new fad is rearing its head in
the nation's schools of education.
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The Politicization of Teacher Education
Remarks by Candace de Russy--05/15/05
The thoroughly politicized state of teacher education should be of grave
concern to us all.
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Madison 3rd Grade Class Asked to Write Anti-War Propaganda Letters
From The Madison Freedom Fighter--11/23/05
"The Frank
Allis third grade will be writing letters to encourage an end
to the war in Iraq. The letter writing will teach civic responsibility,
a social studies standard, while providing an authentic opportunity
to improve composition skills and handwriting."
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Students: Teacher Gave Anti-Bush Vocab Quiz
FoxNews.com--11/25/05
BENNINGTON, Vt. — A high school teacher is facing questions from administrators
after giving a vocabulary quiz that included digs at President Bush and the
extreme right.
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K-12
Brainwashing
By Ari Kaufman--FrontPageMagazine.com--11/04/05
It is no longer a secret that many public and private universities are
populated by professors who use their classrooms to recruit students
to their political agendas. But while the politicization of the universities
is now common knowledge, an even more distressing instance of this abuse
is to be found in the nation’s K-12 schools.
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Hating Christopher Columbus at Pierce School
By Emil Levitin--RepublicanVoices.org--10/24/05
Columbus Day: to
celebrate or not to celebrate? That was the question posed to seventh
graders at Pierce School in Brookline as a project for their special
unit on Christopher Columbus, taught during the weeks preceding Columbus
Day.
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Lewiston High School Student Threatened with
Suspension for Distributing GOP Literature
By IPR--Magic City Morning Star--10/04/05
LEWISTON -- The Maine College Republicans express strong support of Lewiston
High School senior Brent Bowen, whose First Amendment rights were violated by
a member of the school’s faculty during an unfortunate incident there last
week.
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Letter from a Los Angeles Middle School Teacher
By Larry Sand--09/26/05
I am an American history teacher at a public middle school in Los Angeles.
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Censoring 9/11, Campus Style
College and high school officials around the country are using weak
excuses and creating needless roadblocks for students who are eager
to memorialize the fourth anniversary of 9/11.
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These Are Your Teachers?
WorldNetDaily.com--07/14/05
The National Education Association recently concluded its annual meeting in
Los Angeles - and you might be surprised what the largest teachers' union in
America talked about and decided.
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School
Administrator to Student: "Leave
your Faith in the Car"
06/02/05
LOS ANGELES – A federal civil rights lawsuit filed today charges
that the Poway Unified School District violated the constitutional
rights of a student
and censored his free speech.
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Activists Mobilize to Counter Classroom Bias
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald--Christian Science Monitor--06/05/05
Concerned that public schools are becoming sites of liberal indoctrination, activists
have generated a wave of efforts to limit what teachers may discuss and to bring
more conservative views into the classroom.
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Indoctrination
in High School
By David Horowitz--FrontPageMag.com--06/06/05
The next battleground for the hearts and minds of America’s
youth.
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Young Marine Denied Right To Wear Uniform at High School Graduation
From StandwithUs.org--05/27/05
A young man in Petaluma, California, finished High School early and did not
go through the graduation ceremony. Instead, he went through Marine Boot Camp.
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School
to second-grader: You may not sing ‘Awesome
God’ at talent show
ADF News Center--05/20/05
ADF to defend 8-year-old girl who was denied her right to sing religious song
at New Jersey school talent show
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A Textbook Case of Junk Science
By Pamela R. Winnick--Weekly Standard--05/05/05
Several centuries ago, some "very light-skinned" people were
shipwrecked on a tropical island. After "many years under the tropical
sun," this light-skinned population became "dark-skinned," says Biology:
The Study of Life.
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The Liberal Facultia?
Conservatives Bringing Education-Bias Issue Into Mainstream
By Chris Graham--Augusta Free Press--04/08/05
One girl wrote that soldiers in Iraq are "being forced to kill
innocent people." A boy wrote that soldiers were "destroying
holy places, like mosques."
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East Lansing High School Censors Student Newspaper
03/17/05
EAST LANSING, Mich. – East Lansing High School student Tyler Whitney
denounced the censorship of the Right Way, an independent conservative
newspaper that students were barred from distributing.
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Eco-Terrorist Recruit 2nd
Graders
by Mark Morano CNSNews.com | December 24, 2004
An environmental group dedicated to "protect[ing] the
rainforest" is under attack for recruiting public elementary school students
to protest the lending practices of a major U.S. bank in New York City.
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Declaration of Independence
Banned at Calif School
By Dan Whitcomb--11/24/04
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California teacher has been barred by his school from
giving students documents from American history that refer to God -- including
the Declaration of Independence.
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Public Schools and the ACLU
Play Scrooge This Christmas
By Don Feder--FrontPageMagazine.com--11/24/04
In Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol, Scrooge wishes
that "every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on
his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake
of holly through his heart."
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Boulder High Band Draws Notoriety
By Aimee Heckel--Daily Camera--11/12/04
A musical band of Boulder High teachers and students aroused national
controversy Thursday, drawing scrutiny from the U.S. Secret Service and
spurring discussion about the separation of politics and public education.
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The ABC's of Anti-Americanism
By Jacob Laksin--FrontPageMagazine.com--11/09/04
Pop quiz: Who’s responsible for the attacks of 9-11? If you said
the United States, you’re well qualified to teach American students
about the defining historical event of their lives. That, at least, is
the conclusion reached by Dickinson College.
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Democrats Make 'Public' School Pupils Shill for Kerry
Newsmax, 10/27/04
Latest reason why Johnny can't read: Instead of getting an education,
children in Democrat-controlled Milwaukee's Democrat-controlled failed
government school monopoly are being exploited to get out the vote for
John Kerry.
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Middle School Teacher
In Trouble Over Presidential Photo?
By Ken Rosato--Monmouth Junction-WABC, 10/03/04
A middle school teacher is told to leave the
school after she refuses to take down a photo of President Bush that is
part of a display of all American presidents.
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For Immediate Release
Students for Academic Freedom
August 19, 2004
Students for Academic Freedom Launches K-12 Initiative
Second Grader Abused in Class for Wanting
to be a Soldier like Grandpa
Students for Academic Freedom, leader of a national
movement to promote intellectual diversity on America's college campuses,
announced today that it was launching Parents and Students for Academic
Freedom, a new program to promote intellectual diversity and fight political
indoctrination in the nation's primary and secondary schools.
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Group honors curricula
that explore 9/11's ‘Root Causes'; Opponents
fear ‘simplistic
view'
By Greg Toppo, USA Today, 09/09/04
A new way of teaching children about terrorism has some concerned.
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New Initiative Fights Indoctrination
in K-12 Schools
Parents disturbed by the one-sided teaching and partisan indoctrination
in the nation’s secondary schools will now have a new organization
to express their concerns.
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OPERATION TIGER CLAW -- DEBRIEFING
My name is Bryan Henderson and I am an 18 year old
senior attending Princeton Senior High School. Better known as Templar_Crusader
on the PW forum, I am the
proud leader of the small but growing PHS chapter of ProtestWarrior. Operation
Tiger Claw was my first attempt at leading a protest against the apathy
and leftism running rampant at my school.
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Agenda Pushing and Censorship in Secondary Schools
By now, it has become widely accepted among conservatives
that college institutions are among the worst offenders in infringing
the a intellectual freedom of students. But academic censorship within
the walls of secondary schools may be even worse than censorship at the
collegiate level.
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11-Year-Old Patriot
Following in the revolutionary and freedom-loving
footsteps of the Sons of Liberty and Paul Revere, an 11-year old Massachusetts
boy has started a blog that exposes the liberal bias present in the American
educational system.
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The Indoctrination of America's Youth
By the time you complete reading the contents of this
page, you will be shocked. HundredPercenter has taken an in depth look
into New York State's regents examinations for Global history, U.S. history
& Government, for the years 2000-04. Within the contents of the examinations,
you will find incontrovertible evidence of a scary liberal bias,with many
questions being anti-capitalist, anti-government, anti-chrisitan, and
outright anti-american. The regent exams, which are publicly funded, are
part and parcel of an attempt by the left in America to indoctrinate our
youth.
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