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This is a good article to send people about today's educational agenda; easy
to read and understand...especially for those you know who are not as aware as
the regular people on this email list.  
Judy/Riverside, CA  
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>From Citizens' Intelligence Digest - Jan/Feb 98 Issue (web: www.CHG.org)

Dreams and the Freedom to Choose
By Lt. Col. Tom McKenney (USMC, Ret.)
The change agents of the Globalist Left continue to launch assaults on our
constitutional system and its freedoms.
Lincoln observed that "the beliefs and values of this generation's classroom
will become the policies of the next generation's government."
The radical Left has gained virtually complete control of the public schools
(and the Education Colleges that train their teachers) and is turning them
into indoctrination centers for global socialism, moral relativism and New Age
paganism: in short, for the New World Order.
Emphasis on learning basic subjects has been replaced with self-esteem and
politically correct attitudes. Challenging for individual excellence is out;
mediocrity and group work are in. The goal is for everyone to be the same.
Independent thinking and initiative are out; the herd mentality and "group
solutions" are in.
Correct spelling and grammar are out; make-up-your-own is in. Well-educated
teachers, imparting knowledge gained over many years, are out; the kids teach
each other. In fact, teachers are no longer teachers (really); they are now
just "facilitators," allowing the children to teach themselves things they
don't know.
God, of course, is out; spirit guides and Gaia, the Earth goddess, are in.
It's About Control.
Ultimately, it's all about control of the children to indoctrinate them.
That's why educrats want to start them before kindergarten - teaching
certificates are now being issued in education colleges for "Newborn through
Primary."
That is why they want year-round schools, serving breakfast as well as lunch,
and school-based "health" clinics with condoms, birth control pills and
abortion referrals. The family (you remember, a father, mother and some
children, living together in a house) is an outdated concept. The children
are now "commodities," to be raised by the "village."
Our traditional system consisted of three levels of education: elementary
(grade school), secondary (high school), and higher (college/university). It
has worked well, despite the experimentation of educational bureaucrats,
relentlessly trying to "fix" something that wasn't broken. But lately a new
term is being used by educrats: you will be hearing of something called "post-
secondary" education.
When I first heard the term, I thought it must be just another trendy
expression. "Post" is merely Latin for "after"; therefore, post-secondary
education merely means education that occurs after high school. And that just
means college, right?
Wrong. It doesn't mean that anymore. What it does mean is perhaps the most
sinister threat to our traditional liberty yet launched by the New World Order
socialists.
The European "Track" System.
The plan is to assign children to educational "tracks," preparing them for
future work careers, chosen for them by elitist bureaucrats. The tracks will
be assigned very early, with children monitored from birth. The vast majority
will be placed on a track that will lead to non-academic vocational training -
to put it simply, factory work, construction, etc. 
A small number, undoubtedly children of the controlling elite, will be placed
on the track for academic education leading to college, thus becoming the
controlling elite for the next generation.
This is the European tradition, with its caste system of peasants and
aristocrats, with little upward mobility. Once a peasant, always a peasant.
Post-secondary is actually vocational education, but not college or
university. Plainly put, it means trade school. And this is the reason for the
current effort to remove Kentucky's Community Colleges from the University of
Kentucky, for which they have been feeder schools.
Genuine community colleges are a threat. You see, as long as we ordinary
people have access to accredited, two-year colleges in our own communities,
then genuine higher education is within our reach. We can then go on to
complete a degree at a four-year university.
So, their remedy is to remove the community colleges from the state university
system. From academic institutions offering the freshman and sophomore years
of college, they would become trade/technical schools, preparing the tracked
workers for their assigned fields.
But how would children be assigned to a specific track? Simple: the needs of
area industries would determine these assignments to "the workforce." Everyone
would be a part of the planned society, serving the planned economy,
controlled by the government.
If this reminds you of Hitler and Stalin, you are perceptive. Under those
dictatorships, only the children of the privileged few were allowed university
education; the masses of peasants were controlled by the work permit, and by
the Gestapo/KGB. If you did not obey, you got no work permit, which meant no
job, and you became a beggar or a criminal.
The work permit is already becoming a reality here in America, through our
radicalized public school system. It is called the "Certificate of Initial
Mastery." If our high school children don't demonstrate politically correct
attitudes and collectivist values, they cannot obtain a certificate.
Without a CIM they will not be able to get a job; thus the CIM becomes the
work permit of Hitler or Stalin. The modern Gestapo/KGB is already taking
shape in the form of Clinton's National Police.
Key Words and Catch Phrases.
Related key words and catch phrases include "workforce" and "school-to-work."
Workforce will be the mass of peasants, told what line of work they will
follow. School-to-work just refers to the locked-in track system which will
railroad each child into an assigned future.
Now, whenever you hear the need to revamp our educational system to
accommodate the economy, you will know that you are really hearing slick
propaganda for pervasive government control reminiscent of George Orwell's Big
Brother.
What is lost in such a managed society? The most precious loss is personal
freedom, especially the freedom to become whatever we can dream, whatever our
abilities and desire will allow us to achieve.
No longer would an Abraham Lincoln be able to work his way out of a dirt-floor
log cabin and into the White House. No longer would a George Washington Carver
be able to climb up from slavery to become a world-changing scientist and
educator.
And more important still, the will of God and His plan for our individual
lives would be found nowhere in the process.
Yes, it really is this serious and this real, and it is already underway. If
we don't know about it, if we don't pray, if we don't act, we have no chance
to stop it.
But now you know.

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