It should be painfully obvious to everyone by now that it is time to get all of our kids out of the government schools. The public school system in the United States has been dramatically declining for a long time, and in most areas of the country the public schools are open sewers at this point. Yes, there are some U.S. public schools that are still very good and that do a decent job of preparing our young people for their adult lives. But those good schools are the exception to the rule. Hopefully the school shooting that just happened in Ohio will be a wake up call to millions of parents out there. Drugs, sex and violence are rampant in American public schools today. The "teachers" are endlessly pushing specific political and social agendas down the throats of our kids, and the skills that our children really need such as reading, writing and mathematics are often badly neglected. Hopefully we can get more parents educated about what is really going on in these schools. After all, why would any parents want to send their children into an environment that is going to be highly destructive for them for six to eight hours a day? (Read More.....)
A preschool girl was told her homemade meal wasn't healthy enough so a school cafeteria monitor made her eat chicken nuggets instead.
What could be less healthy than chicken nuggets? A turkey and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread with a side of a banana, potato chips, and apple juice.
'What got me so mad is, number one, don’t tell my kid I’m not packing her lunch box properly,' the mother from North Carolina, who wished to remain anonymous, told a local newspaper...[Full Article]
It has been said that children are our future, and right now the vast majority of our children are being "educated" in public schools that are rapidly being turned into indoctrination centers and prison camps. Our children desperately need to focus on the basics such as reading, writing and math, but instead a whole host of politicians, "education officials" and teachers are constantly injecting as much propaganda as they possibly can into classroom instruction. Instead of learning how to think, our children are continually being told what to think. Not only that, our children are also being trained how to live as subservient slaves in a Big Brother police state. Today, nearly everything that children do in public schools is watched, monitored, recorded and tracked. Independent thought and free expression are greatly discouraged and are often cracked down upon harshly. If students get "out of line", instead of being sent to see the principal they are often handcuffed, arrested and taken to the police station. In addition, law enforcement authorities are using weapons such as pepper spray and tasers against young students in our public schools more than ever before. Children in U.S. public schools are not learning how to live as strong individuals in the "land of the free and the home of the brave". Rather, they are being trained how to serve a Big Brother police state where control freaks run their entire lives. If we continue to allow all of the liberty and freedom to be systematically drained out of our school children, then there is not going to be much hope for the future of this nation. (Read More.....)
Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011
“We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.”
In a week where the establishment is desperate to reinforce the official 9/11 fable, a government-supported charity group has embarked on a mission to include the state-approved version of events on the school curriculum in the UK as part of a bid to “demolish conspiracy theories” surrounding the attacks.
As we reported yesterday, the launch of the project was timed to coincide with the unveiling of a macabre 9/11 “memorial” in Battersea Park, London, after which Mayor Boris Johnson resolved to carry out a “controlled demolition” of conspiracy theories to “remind people of the tragedy of what really happened”.
A website for the “9/11 London project” has been launched which includes downloadable lesson plans for teachers. The program is designed “to teach schoolchildren in Britain about the events of 9/11 and “demolish conspiracy theories” surrounding the attacks,” reports AFP.
The project is supported by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, as well as establishment figures in Britain such as Common Purpose member Maqsood Ahmed, Lord West, Lord Carey, and Lord Fink, CEO of International Standard Asset Management (ISAM) and Treasurer of the Conservative Party.
“A lot of the children… didn’t know much about the event, some had only heard a lot about the conspiracy theories, so it’s great to have another insight,” 26-year-old history teacher Nat Ogborn told AFP.
In explaining the need for such an educational program, the website for the project states the goal is to develop the critical thinking of students who are “confused about the actual events of the day.”
However, in announcing its purpose is to “demolish conspiracy theories,” ie any evidence that contradicts the state-approved version of events, the program has already ‘demolished’ any notion that it will encourage critical thinking. It will only pursue the exact opposite.
It’s not the first time the state has relied on using the power of the curriculum to brainwash British schoolchildren into accepting the official narrative about a subject.
A controversy ensued in 2007 after the government sent Al Gore’s global warming polemic An Inconvenient Truth to schools in England, Wales and Scotland, advising that teachers make the documentary part of the curriculum.
A parents group later brought the case the court, complaining that the government’s circulation of the film amounted to “political indoctrination” and was in breach of the Education Act 2002.
Assessing whether it should be shown to school children, a British High Court judge later ruled that the documentary contained nine significant errors, that claims in the film were made in “the context of alarmism and exaggeration,” and that the documentary was of a political and not scientific nature, therefore should not be used in school curriculums without the material also including opposing arguments.
Along similar lines, a University Professor in the United Kingdom recently conducted a comparative analysis of a BBC documentary on 7/7 “conspiracy theories” and an independent documentary in which the official story behind the London bombings is questioned. The Professor concluded that the documentary produced by “conspiracy theorists” was more accurate and more likely to be a truthful representation of the events of 7/7.
You can be certain that the evidence contained in the video below will not be part of the 9/11 school curriculum, primarily because it actually encourages critical thinking, unlike the “911 London Project,” which only encourages children to blithely regurgitate what they are told by the authorities.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.
If Tara Keener had known that her 5-year-old son was only sleeping, she might not have acted this way.
But Keener, an emergency room nurse, didn’t know. All she knew was what she could see through the windows of a big yellow school bus as she walked down her Perry County driveway. Other kids were standing over the kindergartner’s assigned seat, yelling that Xander was slumped over.
“Help, he’s not moving,” she recalled during a recent court hearing. “We can’t wake him up.”
So she ran to the bus, up the steps and to the landing. The driver told her she couldn’t get on the bus. It’s against the law.
Keener kept going. “My focus was on my son,” she told a judge.
What happened on that bus Dec. 15 has earned Keener a misdemeanor charge of unlawfully entering a school bus. She’s now awaiting trial in Perry County Court...[Full Article]
America's second-largest schools district is giving students a break with a new policy ruling that homework can only count for 10% of a student’s grade.
Los Angeles is joining the growing list of school districts across the country that are downgrading the importance of time children have to spend working on assignments at home.
The idea is to allow students to spend more time with their families or on extracurricular activities such as sports or hobbies.
Parents are increasingly worried that the competition to get into good colleges is leaving their children exhausted with all their free time taken up doing hours of homework.
But teachers worry that the move penalises hard-working youngsters who are eager to improve by taking on extra studies at home.
Critics also say the Los Angeles Unified Schools District is effectively rewarding slackers who don’t bother doing their homework...[Full Article]
Schools are helping teenage girls keep abortions secret from their parents. Imogen Neale reports.
A MOTHER is angry her 16-year-old daughter had a secret abortion arranged by a school counsellor.
Helen, not her real name, found out about the termination four days after it had happened. "I was horrified. Horrified that she'd had to go through that on her own, and horrified her friends and counsellors had felt that she shouldn't talk to us," she said.
She had suspected something was wrong, but her daughter insisted her tears were over everyday teenage dramas.
But Helen confronted her daughter's friends, who said the counsellor had taken the girl for a scan and to doctors. "I didn't know that they could do that."
Helen said teachers could discuss how a student was doing in school or phone parents when their child misbehaved, but would then keep life-changing situations such as abortions secret.
Her daughter had since told her the counsellor "wasn't very forthcoming" with advice. The counsellor did ask the girl if she had talked to her parents, but never pursued it.
Helen said follow-up counselling for her daughter was "nonexistent". She concedes patient confidentiality is a tricky issue and said her child feared she'd be disowned. "She's come to realise that's not the case. But if you're responsible for them, surely you should be told."
Helen has been too upset to approach the school. "Afterwards I was too wild, and I probably still am."
Another mother who was worried for her 15-year-old daughter "hit a brick wall" when she approached the school, and eventually discovered it was a friend of her daughter's who had undergone an abortion. "But I went through the horror of knowing that under the legislation, they did not need to say anything to me."
One teacher told the Sunday Star-Times she had seen parents become "absolutely livid" after finding out they had been kept out of abortion decisions...[Full Article]
Chicago school bans some lunches brought from home To encourage healthful eating, Chicago school doesn't allow kids to bring lunches or certain snacks from home — and some parents, and many students, aren't fans of the policy
ChicagoTribune
Fernando Dominguez cut the figure of a young revolutionary leader during a recent lunch period at his elementary school.
"Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?" the seventh-grader shouted to his lunch mates in Spanish and English.
Dozens of hands flew in the air and fellow students shouted along: "We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch!"
Fernando waved his hand over the crowd and asked a visiting reporter: "Do you see the situation?"
At his public school, Little Village Academy on Chicago's West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home. Unless they have a medical excuse, they must eat the food served in the cafeteria...[Full Article]
Lansing— Swift and severe changes are coming to Detroit Public Schools.
State education officials have ordered Robert Bobb to immediately implement a financial restructuring plan that balances the district's books by closing half of its schools, swelling high school class sizes to 60 students and consolidating operations...
ARVADA, Colo. -- An 11-year-old Arvada boy was arrested and hauled away in handcuffs for drawing stick figures in school, something his therapist told him to do.
His parents say they understand what he did was inappropriate, but are outraged by the way Arvada Police handled the case. The parents do not want their real names used...
Officials in the Anaheim school district in southern California are taking a new technological approach to cutting high school truancy: GPS devices.
According to the Orange County Register, students in seventh or eighth grade who cut class more than a few times can avoid "continuation school" or juvenile prosecution by agreeing to carry a handheld GPS device the size of a cell phone. Then, at critical times of day where they might skip out -- like on the way to school and at lunch -- they are supposed to enter a code that tells officials where they are...
Skipping class, though frowned upon, is practically a rite of passage for young teens, but thanks to an elaborate system involving GPS being used by some school districts, it is practically being eliminated completely.
The Orange County Register reports that the Anaheim Union High School District in California is currently participating in a pilot program which involves using a combination of Global Positioning System technology, automated telephone reminders, and one-on-one coaching to cut down on truancy. It's similar to programs being used in Baltimore and San Antonio...
The Anaheim Union High School District in California is currently cracking down on students who have a penchant for missing classes. The Cali school district is currently taking part in a pilot program in association with The Orange County Register Reports, which will be tracking lackadaisical students who have 4 or more unexcused absences throughout the year. How will they track them? Through a complex GPS system that works in conjunction with automated telephone reminders, coaching, and student responses. According to reports, 7th and 8th grade students will be enrolled in the Anaheim program who have a history of cutting class. These kids will receive a GPS tracking device, which will need to be used on a regular basis.
“Each morning on schooldays, [students will] get an automated phone call reminding them that they need to get to school on time. Then, five times a day, they are required to enter a code that tracks their locations – as they leave for school, when they arrive at school, at lunchtime, when they leave school and at 8 p.m...
A teacher at a Chicago school did not act outrageously in screening part of the movie “Brokeback Mountain” — including gay sex scenes — to a class of seventh- and eighth-graders, a jury has found in rejecting an unusual emotional injury lawsuit.
Jessica Turner, a 12-year-old seventh-grader at the time, and her grandparents claimed she suffered “severe emotional distress” as a result of seeing the R-rated Oscar winner at Ashburn Community Elementary School. They sued the substitute teacher, Marnetta Buford, and the Chicago Board of Education in May 2007 for at least $500,000 in damages.
Buford showed the film in, of all things, a math class, allegedly after warning students that “what happens in Ms. Buford's class stays in Ms. Buford's class.” The school allows only G-rated movies to be shown to students and requires teachers to get the principal's permission before screening a film.
But after a three-day trial, On Point has learned, a Cook County Circuit Court jury last month cleared Buford and the school board of liability, finding the teacher's behavior did not meet the “outrageousness” standard of claims for intentional infliction of emotional distress.
According to trial testimony, Buford screened the first 44 minutes or so of the film during the final period of the school day on May 26, 2006. That segment includes the film's most explicit scene as the two cowboys played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal begin a homosexual relationship while herding sheep in the Wyoming wilderness.
But perhaps crucially, there was no evidence to support the plaintiffs' allegation that Buford “deliberately screened only the sexual segments of 'Brokeback Mountain.'”
“The sex scenes were not specially screened or specially highlighted,” Joseph D. Gergeni, an assistant general counsel for the school board, tells On Point. “They were shown in the context of the movie as a whole.”
The children in Buford's class viewed two scenes of Ennis Del Mar (Ledger) and Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal) making love in their tent. During the first 44 minutes of the film, there are also glimpses of male nudity along with some drinking and swearing.
“[S]ubjecting Jessica to view an 'R' rated movie with adult themes and strong homosexual content was extreme and outrageous,” Turner and her grandparents said in their complaint.
In Illinois, the legal test for intentional infliction of emotional distress “is met only if the distress inflicted is so severe that no reasonable person could be expected to endure it.” Buford did not testify in the trial, leaving her motives for showing “Brokeback Mountain” unclear.
“The evidence was that Ms. Buford did not seek permission [from the principal],” says Lisa Decker Hugé, co-counsel for the board. “No one knew she was going to show the movie.”
The jury wasn't swayed by the plaintiffs' argument that Turner and her classmates were particularly vulnerable at their age. The evidence of emotional trauma was also somewhat flimsy — Turner had an initial visit with a counselor but did not return for a therapy appointment.
“The counselor testified that she was not qualified to make a diagnosis,” Hugé says.
A judge dismissed Turner's other claims for negligent hiring and false imprisonment before the trial. Her lawyer asked the jury for only $40,000 in damages.
Detroit — Detroit Public Schools would close nearly half of its schools in the next two years, and increase high school class sizes to 62 by the following year, under a deficit-reduction plan filed with the state.
The plan, part of a monthly update Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb gives the Department of Education, was filed late Monday to provide insight into Bobb's progress in his attempt to slash a $327 million deficit in the district to zero over the next several years. Under it, the district would slim down from 142 schools now to 72 during 2012-13...
"Killing becomes a drug, and it is really addictive. I had a really hard time with this problem when I returned to the United States, because turning this addiction off was impossible," Whittington wrote in the essay for his class at the Community College of Baltimore County in Catonsville, Md.
"I wrote this essay and the teacher gave me an A for it, and she encouraged me to publish it in the school newspaper," Whittington said. "Two weeks later, it was published."
After reading it, college administrators called Whittington into a meeting.
"They said he's barred until he gets a psychological evaluation," said Deborah O'Doherty, president of the Maryland chapter of American War Mothers and a friend of Whittington's family. She attended the meeting with Whittington. "They also gave him a no-trespass notice and kept bringing up the Virginia Tech shooting."...
There was a time when school was there to educate. They’ve always been slightly fascist by their very nature, but the main focus appeared to be on developing the minds of the children so they could enter society with a well rounded view of the world. Not anymore, it seems instead of developing minds, schools across the UK and the world are now actively breaking them down and traumatizing them psychologically.
In the last few months at various primary schools innocent children have been the victims of a mock crime scene (with fake blood), a staged alien invasion and abduction, and a Holocaust simulation. All incidents were initially played out as if they were real, to the shock of uninformed parents that didn’t give consent, who then had to deal with their traumatized children.
In my day you were allowed to leave the room during sex education videos in case you were squeamish. Now children are subjected to the sight of their teacher being assaulted, leaving blood on the floor!
Terrorist attacks like 9/11 have had a mass psychological affect on the general public. The all powerful United States and it’s two most iconic buildings (and a third lesser known structure) came crumbling down before everybody’s eyes. In a state of fear the masses have accepted two contrived wars and the removal of some of their basic freedoms. A politician only needs to use the buzzword terrorism to rally up support. People turned to their governments to save them.
These lower scale attacks on children might have a similar affect. Despite the truth coming out eventually, traumatized kids are much more likely to look toward their school as an authority there to save them and dictate to them, in an almost replication of Stockholm syndrome, where the victim of a kidnapping ends up relying on their kidnapper and ultimately feeling a connection towards them. The kidnapper or in this case the school behind these events, becomes the closest thing in the child’s subconscious hierarchy to their parents.
- The first incident occurred in July 2009 at Southway Junior School, in Burgess Hill, west Sussex. As reported in the Telegraph at the time:
Children saw a ’spaceship’ crash near their school and then aliens grabbed a member of staff as part of the “performance”.The ‘alien invasion’ show, which was supported by Sussex Police, took place without parents being informed, leaving some furious that they had to comfort their terrified children. Police contributed to the invasion by providing sirens and flashing blue lights to signify the landing of the craft just before morning classes on July 10.
It wasn’t made clear to some students, even after the staged events that it was indeed a performance, not reality. One unnamed mother recounted her story…
“God only knows what the school was playing at. I mean to shock children into thinking that the aliens have landed and have abducted a teacher is just a little too much for seven-year-olds. My daughter was deeply upset by it all and came home looking shell shocked. She wasn’t sure what had happened and really wanted to know that everything was going to be alright.”
Many parents share the struggle of getting a child soundly off to sleep when they see something on the TV. There’s no telling how many children relived this sick event before bedtime.
- The second incident occurred in November 2009 at the Foxhill Primary School in Sheffield. Children arriving at the school in the morning were greeted with a pool of blood and a police crime scene. One female member of staff in on the act pretended to have been assaulted, and the children were tasked to help police in the investigation.
The school made no attempt to put the traumatized children’s minds at ease, because the alleged problem solving exercise wasn’t exposed as such until 4 days in to the week!
One parent told the Telegraph: “I think it’s disgusting – the children are too frightened to go back to school because it has not been made clear it’s a fictitious incident.”
- A third psychological attack took place at St Hilary’s Primary School in Lanarkshire, Scotland. As reported by Mail Online: A group of stunned primary schoolchildren began crying when their teacher told them during a bizarre Holocaust game that they were to be taken away from their families. The pupils, aged 11, became upset after a number of them were segregated and told they were being sent away or might end up in an orphanage. The ordeal was meant to give the youngsters at the Lanarkshire school an insight into the horrors faced by Jewish children during World War II.
One parent who thankfully stood up to the system and lodged an official complaint wrote:
Mrs McGlynn told the children they would probably have to be sent away from their families and that their parents had been informed about this and knew all about it.
‘When one child asked if that meant they might have to go to an orphanage, they were told that might be a possibility.
‘At that point many of the children became very distressed.
‘One boy kicked his chair over, one was angry and demanded to speak to someone in charge but most were crying on a scale ranging from mildly to severely.
‘Their ordeal lasted between 12 and 15 minutes before the children were informed that it was all an act but that the role play would continue until lunchtime.’
(This reeks of the controversial trips many Israeli students are forced to take to Auschwitz, where they are encouraged to cry and explain their feelings on the matter in some bizarre method of psychologically attaching the children to the event.)
How can so many schools mismanage staged events and enact them as if they are real, and what is the purpose if they were planned that way from the start? It’s unsure what is going on here, or whether there is a deeper agenda at hand, but if parents don’t nip this in the bud there may be a day when psychological trauma is part of the school curriculum.
Parents of the incident in Scotland need to seriously question the authority of their country, considering officials at the highest levels have recently been linked to a pedophile ring that abused a down’s syndrome girl Hollie Greig and at least 7 other children in Aberdeen.
…Over the pond in the US school children are also being subjected to deeply traumatizing events. One theme in America is the “staged Terrorist attack” playing off the 9/11 card, where armed gunmen fake an attack to prepare children in case a real terrorist attack occurs.
As reported by MSNBC: Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables. The mock attack Thursday night was intended as a learning experience and lasted five minutes during the weeklong trip to a state park, said Scales Elementary School Assistant Principal Don Bartch, who led the trip.
The National School Safety and Security Services are clearly hyping up a terrorist threat surrounding schools, yet every attack to date links back to the Government themselves, or at least a serious lack in intelligence gathering.
….It should also be noted that schools across the United Kingdom are moving in to a system of surveillance, with CCTV being used in every possible location, many in breach of data-protection act by not informing pupils and parents where the cameras are and for what purpose they are being used.
As reported in the Guardian: The act states that the data being captured “should be adequate, relevant and not excessive”. This vague wording has allowed schools to become testbeds for the latest surveillance technologies, and is “habituating young people to accept a heightened level of scrutiny for increasingly mundane activities, such as borrowing a book from the school library”.
As reported by Sky News: Outraged parents have hit out at a school in Birmingham after pupils discovered CCTV cameras in the school’s toilets.
So when your child runs to the bathroom in tears after their alien invasion exercise, it’ll be ok because cameras will capture the moment!
…Schools in the US have been caught using cameras on school laptops to spy on children in school and at home. One case reported by CNet News describes how: Students at Harriton High School in Lower Merion School District near Philadelphia were given Apple MacBook laptops to use both at school and at home. Like all MacBooks, the ones issued to the students have a Webcam. And, in addition to the students’ ability to use the Webcam to take pictures or video, the school district can also use it to take photographs of whomever is using the computer.
In a civil complaint filed in federal court, a student at the school, Blake Robbins, said he received a notice from an assistant principal informing him that “the school district was of the belief that minor plaintiff was engaged in improper behavior in his home, and cited as evidence a photograph from the Webcam.”
Although there may be a case for CCTV, using cameras in bathrooms or using laptops as spy devices clearly oversteps the mark. As for staging various kinds attacks, one has to wonder who in their right mind would come up with such a scenario?…what was there a staff meeting where it just came up in conversation over tea and biscuits? Or was it ordered from somebody higher-up the chain?
There has never been a better time to home school your child.
Many were shocked at my recent article entitled Psychological Attacks Coming To A Primary School Near You, but it is now abundantly clear that there is an agenda to stage events and only reveal them as hoaxes hours or even days later, after the children have been left traumatized.
Alien Invasion
The first form of attack is the Alien Invasion scenario that entails a UFO landing in the school. The teacher reacts as if it’s real and takes the children (some obviously scared) out to investigate, where they’ll sometimes see one teacher being dragged away by aliens. This has full support of the local establishment and police sometimes offer flashing lights to add to its realism.
The organization behind this scenario is the “National Literacy Trust – transforming lives“. Yes, they are transforming children’s lives, by psychologically traumatizing them.
The official line is that the Alien Invasion is as way to peak student’s creative writing skills. That’s all well an good, but why are they led to believe the event is real?
This organization is a privately run charity, outside of the government and national curriculum; basically a lobby group, which should raise alarm bells right away. If you’re not familiar with the work of Brian Gerrish and the general move the country is making towards giving power to private companies, charities and quangos, you should definitely do some research. These types of organizations have always helped (knowingly or unknowingly) with the social engineering of society. The funding and web of partnerships that these groups develop, make it nearly impossible to really see where the agenda is coming from. Who’s held accountable?
Amanda Jordan is the chairperson (lets be politically correct now) of the NLT. Here’s her public profile: As well as chairing the NLT’s Board, Amanda is joint Chair of Corporate Citizenship formerly known as The SMART Company, which she founded in 2001 after a successful career spanning the voluntary and private sectors. In the 1990s she spent 10 years developing and managing an award-winning CSR programme for NatWest. She was also an Adviser to the Social Exclusion Unit in the Cabinet Office and a Non-Executive Director of the ODPM.
Amanda has a particular interest in the role that business plays in public policy development and has written and edited a number of publications focusing on the boundaries of ‘corporate responsibility’. As well as advising clients on the importance of focused, relevant and measurable CSR and sustainability programmes. Amanda presents on these issues at conferences in the UK and abroad.
Amanda’s interest in responsible business behaviour extends into the field of self-regulation. She currently chairs a working party for DCSF on regulating internet content and has also been a Non-Executive Director of the Banking Code Standards Board.
The above profile is all rather fluffy if you buy in to the newspeak rhetoric, but lets breakdown essentially what this leftist does. She is chair of “Corporate Citizenship” another private nothing with clients as broad as ExxonMobil and Cadbury Chocolate. Their role is to essentially help big companies appear more humanist and loving, and mold them to the ideals of the extreme left. “We believe our clients will achieve greater, longterm, sustainable success if they are also creating beneficial change for business and society.” And of course there’s always this emphasis on CHANGE….companies and charities using their power to change society….to change young people’s minds? Why are private quangos and companies being given the authority to change society?
Of course, they are also steeped in this trumped up climate change revolution. Aren’t they all?
Next of course she worked NatWest Bank. Any time you hear bank…run a mile. Now to be fair her role was to create a “Corporate Social Responsibility Program”, but as far as the general public are concerned, it didn’t work did it Amanda? If the banks had any mind for social responsibility they wouldn’t lend out 10 times more than they have on deposits and expect the imaginary amount back with interest, they wouldn’t open up unauthorized overdrafts to pay for bills that aren’t theirs to pay, they wouldn’t be giving the crooks that caused the economic crash record bonuses while the rest of the public bail them out.
No Amanda’s role was to create those little condescending leaflets asking you if you need help with debt, to make sure PR pieces are sent out saying how the bank loves to help the environment, when they’ll be the ones ones profiting from carbon trading; and to make sure there’s adequate customer service…..based out of India.
Also lets not forget Amanda’s lust for “self-regulation”, which basically means give all the power to the private sector to regulate themselves. Just like Obama and Brown’s doublethink agenda to give more power to the banks in order to prevent future crashes. Huh? What!?
She was also part of this all loving and caring government Social Exclusion Unit. Because of course we can’t have mavericks bucking the system and doing their own thing. We can’t have children that prefer their own company rather than that of the “hive”. Heaven forbid they are anti-social!….We must get all the mentally ill and physically disabled back in to work, those dirty scroungers, we must make them see that they can still contribute to our great society…worship the state!
Ohhh Amanda. She also wants to regulate internet content from all of those nasty cyber-bullies. Yes that’s what she wants, but in turn it allows Peter Mandelson and the Rothschilds to curtail free speech.
Now I’ve gone off on a rant, but the scope of this agenda is so wide reaching it could fill the Encyclopedia of Britannica. Our country is run by a conglomerate of NWO manipulated extreme left quango-wango private companies that nobody knows who created, where the money came from and what they actually do because half of their “about us” pages read like a Lawyers legalese handbook. It’s all about stats, and political correctness, and schemes and projects and mind-maps not brainstorms…and scaring our god damn children silly because this gargantuan system thought it might peak their creative writing skills!
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The next board member of the NLT is Robert Lee Smith, who worked for nearly 20 years at the Department for Education. Thanks mate! Keep telling the kids that Hitler was a lone nut and that the EU is wonderful for the country, good job!
During that period he took a leading part in the establishment of the cross-cutting Sure Start and Connexions programmes.
You mean that useless group that somehow knows every kid in the UK’s mobile phone number and address, bugs them until they have a meeting, then spurts out a suitable job they’d be good at because a checklist and a windows 95 PC said so?
The group that thinks preparing kids for exams is giving them questions written in groovy text language cos dats ow d kidz speek deese days!
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The next Trustee is Kamini Gadhok, a Chief Executive of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
Well that sounds alright?
Not exactly, her role is to “help deliver service change by building strong partnerships with key stakeholders across government, charities, other professional bodies and the regulator.”
She’s a middleman helping to subvert regular democratic chains of command. Almost like Common Purpose graduates.
Then there’s Gail Rebuck, Chief Executive of The Random House Group, one of the largest general book publishers in the UK. She is also a Non-Executive Director of BSkyB.
Basically she’s a propagandist.
The Deputy Director is Abigail Moss, who “supports all aspects of the NLT’s work and its contribution to social justice and growth.” Social justice and growth?
Policy adviser George Dugdale says, “I investigate how literacy transforms lives.” Or how scaring children will make the more obedient and prepared for the creeping fascist state.
The list goes on and on. They even have celebrity supporters, one being Singer/ songwriter and star judge on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, Alicia Dixon, photoed reading a book about Obama. How about you read the one by Webster Tarpley?
Of course, all of this information doesn’t necessarily highlight what the agenda is and why it is taking place. But you can at least see how obscure people with nonsensical career-titles and links to big business have a say on your child’s education. Can any old charity claiming to be FOR literacy gain power over the school curriculum? I certainly hope not!
Mock Crime Scene
The second and possibly more shocking scenario is the mock crime scene, where pupils are lead to believe that there has been some kind of assault or crime committed at the school. They are then tasked to help the police solve the crime.
The publicized incident came from the Foxhill primary school in Sheffield, where they pretended a teacher had been assaulted (she wore a bandage) and set up a fake crime scene with drops of blood. No parents were informed and it took 4 days for the truth to fully out, that it was a staged event.
Nicola Shipman (no relation to Harold), headteacher at Foxhill, admitted that parents and pupils were kept in the dark to make the event more realistic.
“To make it more convincing South Yorkshire Police forensic officers went to the school and took the fingerprints of some of the children and a police officer spoke to the children about it.” [I missed this in the original article...this is deeply worrying; getting children accustomed to finger printing?]
I can’t at this time find out where the actual scenario was dictated from, but it follows the same pattern.
“The problem solving week was held to cover key skills in the school curriculum from creative writing through to science, numeracy and analysis. We wanted to give the pupils a topic that would inspire their creativity and their imaginations which is why the crime scene was chosen. This was also done to raise pupils’ aspirations and to reinforce a positive view of the police and the work they do in the community.”
Brainwashing then.
Holocaust Simulation
The third traumatic scenario is the holocaust simulation where children are told that they are to be taken away from their families and might end up in an orphanage. This of course is to teach them about the holocaust.
Again like the mock crime scene it is unsure where the idea to do this came from, although the immediate blame is being placed on Deputy Headmistress of St Hilary’s Primary School in East Kilbride, Elizabeth McGlynn, who took the class when the “role playing” took place.
It was again to help with creative writing. As one parent said, “My position and opinion on the method used to extract emotive story writing from the children was cruel, barbaric, traumatic and totally, totally unethical.”
A South Lanarkshire council spokeswoman, who confirmed that a role play activity took place, said, “The council can confirm that a parent handed in a letter to Education Resources on Monday, March 8, 2010,” although it appears nothing has been done.
Conclusion
Other than the staged alien invasions that have documented ties to the National Literacy Trust charity, the roots of the other two scenarios are not clear. The common theme is that the exercises are to get children creative in their writing, however one has to ask why the events weren’t acted out as a performance from the beginning? Children don’t need to think something is real to get their imagination going.
What we might be seeing (whether deliberate or accidental) in the first two scenarios is a trauma based psychological process, to cement authority figures within the children’s minds. Some might call this trauma based mind control or predictive programming.
Having been initially traumatized by a situation they have never encountered before, the children’s brains are taking an imprint of how it all unfolded, which they’ll subconsciously go back to should a similar situation occur in real life.
In the boundaries of the experiment, the only people they can look to for guidance and safety are the teachers and the policemen; not their parents. In this state of fear, although upset, they have no choice but to go along with the authoritarian solutions given to them by their authority figures. Thus when in the mock crime scene scenario they happily hand over their little hands to be fingerprinted, despite them clearly not being suspects.
This teaches them to be subservient later on in life.
That’s my interpenetration, but the shocking holocaust simulation has its roots in a real 1960s experiment by a teacher called Jane Elliott, who wanted to teach her class about racism.
She told her pupils a pseudo-scientific explanation of how eye colour defined people: blue eyes showed people who were cleverer, quicker, more likely to succeed. They were superior to people with brown eyes, who were described untrustworthy, lazy and stupid. She then divided the class according to who had brown eyes and who had blue eyes. To ensure clarity of divisions – given that some eye colours might be subject to dispute, she used ribbons to mark out the ‘inferior’ brown-eyed children (those with clearly different eye colours acted as bystanders). To reinforce the situation, she gave the superior group extra classroom privileges, and would not let the brown-eyed children drink from the same water fountain. She made a point of praising the blue-eyed children, and being more negative to the browns.
Jane Elliott was amazed at the speedy transformation in her class. The superior blue-eyed children became arrogant, and were bossy and unpleasant to their brown-eyed class mates. The brown eyes quickly became cowed and timid, even those that had previously dominated the class. But what really astounded Jane was the difference academically. Blue-eyed children improved their grades, and managed mathematical and reading tasks that had proved out of their grasp before. Brown-eyed high-flyers stumbled over simple questions.
According to Wikipedia: Jane Elliott is considered to be the “foremother” of diversity training, with the blue-eyed/brown-eyed scenario as the basis of much of what is called diversity training. She has done such training for corporations like General Electric, Exxon, AT&T, and IBM, as well as lectured to the FBI, IRS, US Navy, US Dept of Education and US Postal Service.
Where is all of this headed? It’s not clear, but at least now we can keep a critical eye on this progression in to shock and emotion based learning, and how it seems to have sprung up at the behest of private organizations like the NLT, without the input of parents.
MercuryNews.com The Associated Press Posted: 08/18/2010 08:42:13 AM PDT
RICHMOND, Calif.—California officials are outfitting preschoolers in Contra Costa County with tracking devices they say will save staff time and money.
The system was introduced Tuesday. When at the school, students will wear a jersey that has a small radio frequency tag. The tag will send signals to sensors that help track children's whereabouts, attendance and even whether they've eaten or not.
School officials say it will free up teachers and administrators who previously had to note on paper files when a child was absent or had eaten.
Sung Kim of the county's employment and human services department said the system could save thousands of hours of staff time and pay for itself within a year.
It cost $50,000 and was paid by a federal grant.
[Webmaster - TRACK/TRACE/DATABASE... Next stop is the IMPLANTABLE microchip. They always target the most vulnerable members of society first...the children...the elderly...]
In 1787, Thomas Jefferson lamented the fact that the newly minted Constitution lacked any specific provisions on standing armies. “I do not like the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for… protection against standing armies,” Jefferson wrote Madison. “The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force,” he told Chandler Price in 1807.
A soldier works with a kindergarten student at Chester Valley Elementary School in Anchorage, Alaska.
Now? We relish large armies and enthusiastically send them out to kill people and break things around the world. The government and the corporate media encourage us to “support our troops” as they illegally occupy foreign lands and engage in war crimes. George Washington’s admonition, expressed in his Farewell Address, that the United States extend commercial relations and have with foreign nations as little political connection — to say nothing of military — as possible is almost entirely forgotten.
In violation of Posse Comitatus — a law in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson’s warning about the militarization of civil society — the Pentagon works hand-in-hand with local law enforcement. Increasingly, militarized police are becoming an extension of the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and even the CIA and the FBI. Few seem to understand the grave danger of this tendency.
Now the military has invaded our grade schools. “A new partnership between the Anchorage School District and the U.S. Army Alaska will add a military presence to local schools,” reports the Alaska Star. “School and military officials said the program will help students academically. But having uniformed military in schools also will lend support to children of military members on deployment, they said, and give non-military kids an understanding of what soldiers do for the country.”
If schools in Alaska want to help students academically, they would bring in scholars and education experts, not soldiers. Ideally, students should be home schooled and completely divorced from the pernicious influence of the military and the federal government.
The effort in Alaska has little to do with test scores and literacy. It’s about inculcating the young to the presence of the military. Contrary to the warnings of Jefferson — who knew standing armies will invariably be employed to enslave the people — the U.S. military has over the span of several decades crept into nearly every public aspect of life.
The military instinct in society is now second nature, so much so that a high school in South Carolina has automatically enrolled students in a Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps with little outrage or opposition. “The entire freshman class at Carvers Bay High School has been automatically enrolled in the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps, a military-sponsored program that trains high school students in military discipline and concepts,” The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, reported this week.
“The breaking men to military discipline is breaking their spirits to principles of passive obedience,” Jefferson wrote John Jay in 1778.
It is not merely soldiers or would-be-soldiers in training who are expected to be passively obedient. In fact, the whole of society is now expected to react with passive obedience to an out of control military and federal government. A militarized police state — where soldiers and military technology are integrated within society — is sold to us as normal and admirable, especially since the advent of September 11, 2001 when cave-dwelling Muslims supposedly attacked us from afar.
Jefferson’s “supremacy of the civil over the military” is now a thing of the past. The Pentagon has not only invaded our high schools, but may now be found in our grade schools teaching the very young and impressionable.
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — A high school teacher who assigned her class to plan a terrorist attack that would kill as many innocent Australians as possible had no intent to promote terrorism, education officials said Wednesday.
The Year 10 students at Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community High School in the state of Western Australia were given the assignment last week in a class on contemporary conflict and terrorism...
The federal prosecutor investigating the case of a Pennsylvania school district that spied on its students via remote-controlled laptop cameras says the school district won't face criminal charges in the case.
US Attorney Zane David Memenger said in a statement that there is no evidence the Lower Merion School District, in suburban Philadelphia, had any criminal intent when it remotely activated cameras on laptops issued to students.
"For the government to prosecute a criminal case, it must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the person charged acted with criminal intent," Memeger said, as quoted at Information Week. "We have not found evidence that would establish beyond a reasonable doubt that anyone involved had criminal intent."
The issue came to light in February, when the parents of Harriton High School student Blake Robbins filed a class-action lawsuit alleging the school district invaded Robbins' privacy by filming him in his home through his school-issued laptop. It emerged later that the school district photographed Robbins 400 times in a two-week period, in various states of undress and even during his sleep.
Investigators found that the remote-controlled cameras took some 56,000 pictures of Lower Merion School District students over a two-year period, with the cameras sometimes left on for weeks at a time...
system that works in conjunction with automated telephone reminders, coaching, and student responses. According to reports, 7th and 8th grade students will be enrolled in the Anaheim program who have a history of cutting class. These kids will receive a GPS tracking device, which will need to be used on a regular basis.
