Common Core - Skinner Tentacles

by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, ABCsOfDumbDown.blogspot.com Posted on October 16, 2014, Day 16: Skin­ner Hor­ror Files

Skinner’s Ten­ta­cles Extend to Pri­vate and Home Education

An oldie from 2002 high­lights the prob­lems with Skin­ner­ian edu­ca­tion and com­put­ers. Once a tiny bit of gov­ern­ment monies comes to pri­vate edu­ca­tion, the government’s ten­ta­cles will fully encir­cle and start to suffocate.

In an arti­cle pub­lished on NewsWith­Views on July 8, 2002, titled “DEATH SENTENCE FOR PRIVATE AND HOME EDUCATION, COURTESY OF SUPREME COURT,” I described what was hap­pen­ing with computer-based edu­ca­tion. Below are a few brief excerpts:

The Supreme Court’s recent 5–4 deci­sion allow­ing the con­sti­tu­tion­al­ity of finan­cial aid to par­ents which they may use at reli­gious or pri­vate schools, includ­ing vir­tual acad­emy (computer-assisted-instruction) char­ter schools avail­able to home school­ers, will result in the delib­er­ate dumb­ing down of all education.

In this lat­ter regard, the writer of this arti­cle was told in 1981 by the Direc­tor of the Office of Libraries and Learn­ing Tech­nol­ogy, U.S. Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion, that “in the future all edu­ca­tion will take place in the home, using computer-assisted-instruction, but that we will always have the school build­ings for ‘social­iza­tion’ pur­poses.” This is the United Nations life­long learning/brainwashing con­cept (Inter­na­tional com­mu­nity edu­ca­tion) which places all com­mu­nity ser­vices under the umbrella of the com­mu­nity school. (The National Alliance of Busi­ness refers to this agenda as Kindergarten-Age 80).

The pub­lic sec­tor suc­cumbed years ago to fed­eral con­trol through fund­ing. Now, pri­vate schools, will­ing to go the “voucher” route in order to get the money to stay in busi­ness, will have the oppor­tu­nity to be equally dumbed down, denied a lib­eral arts cur­ricu­lum, and stripped of all sound moral edu­ca­tion. I can already hear the howl­ing from voucher-supporting con­ser­v­a­tives the first time the heavy hand of the fed­eral gov­ern­ment lands on a pri­vate school deny­ing it the right to deter­mine “what is right and what is wrong” in its cur­ricu­lum, hir­ing prac­tices, recital of the Pledge of Alle­giance, The Lord’s Prayer, etc. Those pri­vate schools which coura­geously, for rea­sons of con­science, resist vouch­ers will even­tu­ally be forced out of busi­ness due to their inabil­ity to remain competitive.

Inter­est­ingly enough, the blame for this incred­i­bly dan­ger­ous Tro­jan Horse deci­sion can be laid at the feet of the con­ser­v­a­tive major­ity on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Is school choice a plot to imple­ment the social­ist, cor­po­rate fas­cist, work­force train­ing agenda for the global planned economy?  You ‘betcha.…

If the ques­tion of school choice is con­sid­ered in a vac­uum, with­out the ben­e­fit of an in-depth under­stand­ing of the his­tory and highly con­tro­ver­sial goals of Amer­i­can pub­lic edu­ca­tion, if it is con­sid­ered sim­ply in the con­text of pro­vid­ing a bet­ter edu­ca­tion for low income chil­dren, if it is con­sid­ered only as an issue of equal fund­ing for all chil­dren, one escapes the very dan­ger­ous crux of the mat­ter: ACCOUNTABILITY… account­abil­ity to the gov­ern­ment which is grant­ing the voucher or tax credit.

So, why is it that those pro­mot­ing tuition tax cred­its and vouch­ers have missed this point of accountability?…

Let me warn par­ents and pri­vate school admin­is­tra­tors: “Free­dom to choose” is exactly the oppo­site of what they and the pri­vate sec­tor will receive if they take one penny of fed­eral, state or local tax money to edu­cate chil­dren. Believe it or not, slav­ery is right around the cor­ner, since once the pri­vate sec­tor is con­trolled through vouch­ers, thereby cre­at­ing a part­ner­ship with gov­ern­ment (cor­po­rate fas­cism), stu­dents, hav­ing been psy­cho­log­i­cally pro­filed, will be tracked into spe­cific train­ing at an early age and later into job slots to suit the needs of the cor­po­rate sec­tor and the global econ­omy. That is the failed inter­na­tional social­ist quota sys­tem that in essence pro­vides NO CHOICE !

What school choice is all about is not giv­ing par­ents a real choice with­out strings attached; it is about con­trol­ling all chil­dren (referred to as “human resources”), every­where on this planet, in order to imple­ment the cor­po­rate fas­cist global econ­omy, with 100% par­tic­i­pa­tion in the global computer!

Source:http://agenda21news.com/2014/10/skinner-tentacles/#more-3149

http://www.newswithviews.com/iserbyt/iserbyt1.htm

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  Comments
  We need to refuse to let our children be subjected to this brainwashing. It will be a long, noisy fight.  If we refuse to comply, we will win.
  We should be able to use computers to educate our children, just like homeschoolers do.  If we can remove Common Core and political propagandizing from schools, they will survive. If not, homeschooling will grow to include tutors for kids of working couples. In any event, it’s clear that parents need to know what their children are being taught.  If they don’t like it, they should not allow it.
  Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader