Collusion
Between the Right and Left
“The
argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies,
one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable
only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should
be
almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at
any
election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.” – Dr.
Carroll
Quigley (former historian for the Council on Foreign Relations,
and Bill Clinton’s
mentor at Georgetown University), “Tragedy and Hope,”
1966, p. 1247, 1248.
This article deals with
the role of the neoconservatives with help from the Obama
Administration, and high up leaders of major teacher unions --
NOT REGULAR CLASSROOM TEACHERS! Organizations
such as the neoconservative
Heritage Foundation, the
Carnegie Foundation, the Gates Foundation and other
foundations and members of Congress) are supporting/creating charter schools, unaccountable to the taxpayers who fund them and not subject to customary public
school regulations. Thus, the last nail is being pounded into the coffin of our free REPRESENTATIVE form of government. (Why isn’t there the same uproar over
tax-supported charter schools being exempted from public school regulations as
there is over corporations and unions who lobbied for Obamacare applying for
waivers (exempt from having to comply with the mandates of the law?) Those
pushing for charter schools know that they have to get rid of elected school boards
in order to be able to change education from academics to totalitarian workforce
training. Elected school board members cannot be expected to eliminate their role
of overseeing the expenditure of taxpayers’ hard-earned money and/or the shift
from academic education to workforce training. So, “off with their heads”, so to
speak. Move to appointed boards whose role is to implement the changes.
The significance of the charter
school/school choice issue is NOT related strictly to educational choice. It is
related to acceptance of a communist system of governance
where
decisions are made by appointed, not elected
officials. Appointed officials cannot be removed from office by voters/taxpayers.
California’s
Parent Trap
California’s recently
passed Parent Trigger law (which in reality is a Parent Trap)
allows parents in
75% of its low performing schools (usually minority schools) to
create charter
schools. (Here we go again with legislation targeting the low-
performing
minority students in the “grand experiment” to train for the workforce.
[1] In the
Foreword to my book the deliberate dumbing
down of america, educator
and writer Samuel Blumenfeld says the following
regarding taxpayers who continue
to support what is presented to them as
“change,” in this case unelected charter
schools for workforce training: “It reminds
one of how the Nazis charged their
victims train fare to their own doom.”) For
those who believe the teachers unions
are opposed to charter schools,
please listen: NEA leadership actively supported
the 1995 Washington State
push for charter schools. And the NEA (at the top)
has been working with David Rockefeller,
the late McGeorge Bundy, et al in
changing NEA policy/agenda. [2] How curious that the
neoconservatives blame
teachers’ unions for the dumbing down of our children,
when the union
LEADERSHIP is in bed with
the neoconservatives on communist workforce
training and charter schools? (Did you know Russia has charter schools, and that charter
schools are international ?) Isn’t it interesting that the neoconservatives rarely
call for abolishing the U.S. Department of Education which has been and is the
primary culprit in deliberately dumbing down our children (wrecking the traditional
American system of education -- happening right now -- so it can be replaced by
Soviet workforce training? The dialectic at work big time!) Why? Because neocons
are in bed with the left and the union/international corporate community which
needs the U.S. Department of Education to collect and analyze data regarding
workers’ attitudes and beliefs, global economic performance and workforce needs.
Maine’s
Story
The Maine Heritage Policy
Center (MHPC), a state affiliate of the national Heritage Foundation, is
pushing for unconstitutional charter
schools in Maine. In the past,
MHPC has brought speakers from
abroad into our state to promote regionalism/ consolidation/communism.
We in Maine recently, with the help of Maine's Tea Party, elected a Governor
who we had hoped would continue Maine's successful opposition to
charter schools. Our state is one of the eleven states to resist the lure of
federal
money in order to get charter school approval. We, true conservatives
and
traditional teachers, are most concerned that our new Governor is being
influenced
by The Maine Heritage Policy Center to support the concept of
charter schools.
Meddling
with state policy
The Maine Heritage Policy
Center (MHPC) is one of the national Heritage
Foundation clones determining
socialist policy in all our states.
Heritage
Foundation was founded and funded by Richard Mellon Scaife (That’s
Chase
Mellon Bank and Rockefeller) to the tune of $900,000. Heritage Foundation
supports the North American Free Trade Agreement [3] and approved
of
President Reagan signing the U.S.-Soviet cultural, educational, and
scientific
exchanges agreement (1985). [4]
On December 30, 2010, I corresponded
with Stephen Bowen, an MHPC staff
member. The following excerpts are from my letter
and relate to the dangers of
charter schools:
“After 35 years of
research on public education, including serving as a school board
member and as Sr. Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Education, I believe
I
have a sound view of what works and what does not work in education and, yes,
you are quite correct, I do have a complete understanding of the conspiratorial
forces which have resulted in our nation's children having close to the worst
academic test scores in the world today. Those who reject the conspiratorial
view
of history do themselves and the nation a great disservice. Please tell me
how it
is possible for the USA to have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on
education
(totals over a trillion) over the past 100 years and to have seen
nothing but a
decline in academic test scores and an increase in immorality?
Isn't there
something amiss here? “I
doubt that you read my article since if you had, you would definitely see the conspiratorial role of the tax-exempt foundations, amongst
others, in changing our education system from one which previously focused on
academics to the corporate fascist workforce training model we are looking at
today. This model, interestingly enough, has been promoted by the Carnegie
Corporation from the early nineteen hundreds to the present. The U.S. Congress
in the early fifties held Congressional Hearings on the role of the tax-exempt
foundations role in subverting American education. You can read the entire
3000 pages of those hearings. I paid $3000 to purchase the ONLY existing
copy of the transcript of those hearings. The foundations, 20 years ago, offered
the person from whom I bought that copy, ‘any $ amount’ in order to get a hold
of that one copy. He refused to sell it to them for any price. They quite obviously
did not want the information contained in the transcript to reach the American
people. “My article has very important quotes documenting the fact that ‘yes,
there has been a monumental conspiracy to dumb down our children and to
change their values so they will march to the globalist drummers.’ Also, you
may read my 700- page book the deliberate dumbing down of america...A
Chronological Paper Trail, 1999, which is a free pdf download. The few
remaining copies were sold last week. “The history of what happened to
our schools is very clearly outlined in that book. “Charter Schools, regardless
of how good they may be, are ‘taxation without representation’ and, although
those promoting them decry the influence of the U.S. Department of Education
on local schools, charter schools MUST administer the federal test, the NAEP,
which is at least 40% attitudinal, in order to continue receiving federal funding.
I have research going back to the sixties on the need for charter schools. The
internationalist Aspen
Institute started the whole movement, starting with
recommendations for site based management, school choice, vouchers,
tuition
tax credits, etc.[5] Marjorie Ledell, a leading change
agent educator, close to
William Spady and others, said in an article in the
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s (NEA spinoff) Educational
Leadership, January 1994
entitled ‘To OBE or Not to OBE’ the following:
‘Finally, raise the real issue and
depend on democracy. Don't let ‘to OBE or
Not to OBE’ or ‘to implement or not
implement efforts to improve student
learning’ cloud the overdue national debate
about whether public education
should exist or be replaced with publicly funded
private education.’
“Ledell is obviously looking forward to federally-funded charter
schools with
no accountability to the taxpayers (taxation without representation.) “
I am 100
% opposed to the use of computers to teach our children. There is
massive research,
from educational experts in the field of technology, who agree
with me. My book
contains most of that research. I support students learning
‘how to use the
computer’, not the use of software to brainwash them. Dustin
Heuston of the
World Institute for Computer Assisted Instruction said ‘We’ve
been absolutely
staggered by realizing that the computer [Skinner’s ‘Box’–Ed.]
has the
capability to act as if it were ten of the top psychologists working with
one student
. . . You’ve seen the tip of the iceberg. Won’t it be wonderful when
the child
[‘your child, parent! ’–Ed.] in the smallest county in the most distant
area or
in the most confused urban setting can have the equivalent of the finest
school
in the world on that terminal and NO ONE CAN GET BETWEEN THAT
CHILD AND THAT
CURRICULUM? We have great moments coming in the
history of education.’
“Please re-read my article
‘The Death of Free Will’ a pdf here. (click on Articles).
If you don't
have time to read the whole article, please be sure to click on the links
and
to read the C.S. Lewis quotes.”
A warning
to other states
Let our experience here in
Maine be a warning to citizens in other states who are
fighting charter school legislation. Also, consider alerting legislators
that any charter
school legislation will be followed by lawsuits based on the
constitutionality of
charter schools. Such a lawsuit is pending in Georgia
which has 200 charter
schools, all created under the direction of the Georgia
Public Policy Association,
a Heritage Foundation affiliate.
Endnotes:
1- Download “Experimentation
with Minorities and Deliberate Dumbing Down
for the
Planned Economy.” July 29, 2003.
2- Click
here and type in “Cardinal Principles Revisited” for proof of NEA
leadership’s
cooperation with globalists.
3- The
Heritage Foundation’s EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM #371 – “The North
American
Free Trade Agreement: Ronald Reagan's Vision Realized”
--
by Michael Wilson, Nov. 23, 1993 says: “Ronald Reagan first
proposed a free trade agreement between the U.S. and
Mexico in his 1980 presidential campaign. Since
that time,
The Heritage Foundation is proud of the role it has played in
articulating
President Reagan's vision of free trade in Latin
America and around the world.
Since the mid-1980s, Heritage
analysts have been stressing that a free trade
agreement with
Mexico not only will stimulate economic growth in the U.S., but
will make Mexico a more stable and prosperous country.
Heritage has published
over three dozen studies stressing the
benefits of free trade in North America.”
The memo also says, “The
NAFTA win is a great victory for free trade conservatives. It was they who first championed the notion of free trade with
Mexico. And it is they who will carry the banner of free trade in the future --
a banner under which even Bill Clinton now marches.” The Heritage Foundation
website (accessed 1/12/11).
4- See
Backgrounder, No. 478, Jan. 9, 1986, The Heritage Foundation.
5- See entry
in the deliberate dumbing down of america, p. 136, regarding:
“LAWRENCE
C. PIERCE DELIVERED A PAPER IN 1976 ENTITLED
‘SCHOOL
SITE MANAGEMENT’ to a meeting of the Aspen
Institute for Humanistic Studies
in which he referred to
site-based management as an ‘intermediate structure
between centralized school management and education vouchers.’”
© 2011 Charlotte T.
Iserbyt - All Rights Reserved
Charlotte
Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as
Senior
Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research
and Improvement (OERI),
U.S. Department of Education,
during the first Reagan Administration, where
she first
blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would
control
curriculum in America's classrooms. Iserbyt is a former school board
director in
Camden, Maine and was cofounder and research analyst of Guardians
of
Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She has also served in the
American
Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the Korean War, and in the
United States
Foreign Service in Belgium and in the Republic of South Africa.
Iserbyt is a
speaker and writer, best known for her 1985 booklet
Back to Basics
Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International
Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet
Soviets in the
Classroom: America's Latest Education Fad which covered
the
details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education
Agreements which
remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer and
has had articles
published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The Bangor
Daily News,
and included in the record of Congressional hearings.
Website: www.deliberatedumbingdown.com
Website: www.americandeception.com
E-Mail: dumbdown00@yahoo.com
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