--By Bill Evelyn on
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The Phony Debate over Education
Over the next few months politicians at town-hall meetings will
be supporting and opposing the Common Core being rolled-out by the Obama
administration. What will not be told to you is that Common Core is a
culmination of 100 years of intervention in education by the political class;
especially the Utopian dreamers bent on producing equality of outcomes for
everyone. Make no mistake Common Core is the final intervention by the state to
ensure that the wealth of the nation flows into a small few.
“Despite the century-long harangue that schooling was the cure
for unevenly spread wealth, exactly the reverse occurred – wealth is 250
percent more concentrated at century’s end than at its beginning.” 1 With
inflation factored in the average purchasing power of a couple in 1995 was less
than a single working man in 1905. Over the past century this decline in
prosperity required both spouses to enter the work force and turned government
schools into a full-time baby sitter. This “government schooling has made
people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker, not stronger; ruined formal
religion with its hard sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone
by dividing children in classes and setting them against one another; and has
been the midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands
of a fraction of the national community.” 2 Unless we understand how our
current government schooling evolved we will never understand how rotten Common
Core really is.
Our current government school set up evolved from a cocktail of
the Brahman schools in India and the Prussian school mindset of the late 19th
century. The Brahman schools were designed to maintain the class structure in
India. The Brahman or the highest caste took up the task of educating the
poorer castes. It was designed to enforce the caste system and protect social
order. Students were given menial tasks and were trained to accept their lot in
life. This system of schooling was imported into the British Isles in the mid
18th Century by an Anglican Missionary Andrew Bell. He found it to be the
perfect method to recruit students and train them to be good Anglican faithful.
While Mr. Bell’s intention was to create good little Anglicans, the Prussian
model sought to create good little soldiers and ministers of the state.
In the late 19th Century everything German was all the fad
in the United States. A growing caste of very wealthy individuals decided to
structure our schools to model the Brahman/ Prussian school system. By the end
of the 19th Century government schools were teaching lower-class children
obedience under the guise of learning to read and do their sums. The system
included the pedagogue – Latin meaning a specialized type of slave that teaches
the school masters curriculum. The master (bureaucrats) creates the curriculum
and the pedagogue (teacher) pounds it in to the students mind. Every teacher
should realize he/she is a social servant vested with the responsibility to
churn out state approved workers and taxpayers. This is why every teacher needs
to possess a state approved certificate and if that teacher strays from the
curriculum they are punished and abused. Now occasionally a parent brings a
problem to the teacher and the matter ends up being debated until finally ends
in frustration with no real change. The bureaucracy is so large, so rich, rife
with unions, and corrupted by government funding it is gobbling up the civil
society. Common Core is no different.
“Common Core is part of an effort to implement regionalism, the
replacement of local governments by regional boards of federally appointed
bureaucrats, who in turn are beholden to international bodies. Regionalism will
eliminate the freedom parents now have in choosing neighborhoods with good
schools because tax funds will be distributed equally. There will be no escape
in home schooling or private schools either, because the curriculum will follow
national tests. Students will be tracked through mandatory state records that
will then be accessible to Washington bureaucrats. Ultimately, all students
will be subject to education mandates implemented by Obama’s radical cronies.”
3 This is not from the black helicopter conspiracy crowd.
The regional boards are not elected School Board members we
select every four years. In fact, if Common Core comes online we can actually
do away with our School Board members. All taxes are paid into one pot and will
be distributed equally across the region. There is no reason to move to a
better school district that will impact your home values. Home schooled
children will be required to pass the Common Core GED exam, meaning parents
will need to teach their children the Common Core curriculum. Private schools
will also follow national tests and students will be required to possess a
“Dangan”. The “Dangan” is used in China and follows a citizen through their
entire life. It keeps track and logs their performance in school, how they
think, what they’ve done, and where they have worked. In fact, you can’t be
employed in China without a “Dangan”. This is the mandatory record that Common
Core requires.
Common Core is the final phase in state run education to create
the perfect citizen for the new global society. In our world of government
schooling Thomas Edison would have been put into special education and probably
lost his self-ambition to create the light bulb. George Washington’s mother
would be jailed for not committing her son to school until 11 years of age.
Andrew Carnegie’s mother forced Andrew to attend school at 13 much to his
chagrin. Carnegie was already into his career of becoming the wealthiest steel
magnate in the nation. Yet, all three could read and write before they went to
school and already had prodigious businesses started.
In the beginning government schools had nothing to do with
children, parents, or communities. It was designed to create a centralized
industrialized economy and powerful political state. Woodrow Wilson gave a
speech in front of some businessmen prior to World War 1. He said;
“We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another
class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privilege of a
liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual
tasks.”
It is clear that government schools are charged to create
classes or tools of the state. It assumes there are massive numbers of dumb
children, otherwise we would not need all these masses of bureaucrats to care
for them. I have never met any of these dumb children when I went to school.
In part two we are going to snoop into the moral dilemma Common
Core creates. Parents entrust their children, their most important gift, with
complete strangers.
1Charles Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American
Education, Oddyseus, 412 pages, page 74.
2Ibid, page 74.
3Mary Graber, Terrorist Professor Bill Ayers and Obama’s Federal
School Curriculum, September 21, 2012
Source: New
Georgia Republican Leadership for Principles above Politicians <newgagopleaders@groups.facebook.com>
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About
Bill Evelyn
Bill Evelyn was raised in the village of Oaks in Valley Forge,
PA. Upon graduation from university, Bill entered the United States Air Force
and flew F-4 Phantoms in the Philippines, Korea, Europe, did an exchange tour
on the USS Midway. Bill has lived in Forsyth County since 2000, longer than any
other place in his life. Bill is active in the tea party and Republican Party.
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