Watch out, teach! The apple may be laced with righteousness!
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In our email last
week:
Dear Rev. Dan,
"This month,
tens of millions of American young people will head back to government-run
schools. And many will receive mediocre education.
Yes, there are many dedicated teachers who
want to do the right thing, but the system works against them.
And worse, leftist political and spiritual indoctrination is the norm in most
school systems."
Back to school: those words used to conjure the dread of
kids...and the relief of parents. Now social conservatives (aka the Christian
Right) want to further the anxiety of kids and instill fear in the hearts of
mothers and fathers nationwide. It's liberalism, you see, in all its terrifying
godlessness and immorality. It's Muslim Obama. It's big government. It's
promotion of homosexuality. It's gun legislation. It's anti-Americanism. It's
...just about everything, everything that's so wrong with America today!
Your donation is especially important in light
of unprecedented threats and opportunities:
- Radical anti-faith, anti-family indoctrination is
increasing in schools.
Here
comes the old "bullying-is-unacceptable-but ..." philosophy because
teaching acceptance is simply ... not acceptable. It is, in fact,
"pro-homosexual" and coercing kids into "denying their faith's
moral teachings." This is also where social conservatives display the
"it's not really our fault" ideology concerning gay teen suicides.
- Sex 'education' that excludes abstinence
and encourages immorality is rampant, and it is only making problems like teen
pregnancy and sexually-transmitted disease worse."
Here is where the
Family Research Council fails in the "Research" department:
"abstinence only" programs don't work, with some teen pregnancy (and
abortion) rates climbing even higher.*
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As the education establishment puts more money and effort into social and
political indoctrination, test scores for math, literacy, and history are
continuing to fall. Students don't know enough math . . . are not taught other
critical skills . . . and aren't taught the principles of limited government and
free enterprise that will make them good citizens."
Unfortunately,
"the principals of limited government" usually lead to limited
education - limited to the poor in underfunded schools - and the rich, in
private schools teaching the kind of "free enterprise" that results
in good citizens such as "Gordon Gecko.**
" Parents and many policymakers are mounting a backlash,
and your support for FRC will help it grow!
For example, the reforms led by Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin
were a blow to the ultra-liberal National Education Association (NEA)--the
nation's largest public employee union whose leaders promote left-wing
classroom propaganda. School choice laws are making some progress in the
states, putting pressure on schools to stop the indoctrination and mediocrity
or lose their funding."
As far as promotion
goes, the NEA has primarily promoted science and new education techniques. The
FRC undoubtedly looks askance at insisting that Creationism remains in the
classrooms as strictly a religious "theory." Scott Walker's purge of
Wisconsin unions has spawned
a backlash that is even more
grassroots than the attempts of the FRC to promote "free enterprise."
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