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From the Radio Free Michigan archives
ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot
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TIME TO ABOLISH THE DEPT OF EDUCATION
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Many non-governmental organizations have been influential in the orgy of
spending tax money to corrupt education, for their selfish interests, while
claiming the pure motive of helping our children acquire quality education.
The two most powerful of these are the American Federation of Teachers(AFT)
and the National Education Association(NEA).
The American Federation of Teachers was organized in 1916. From the
beginning it has been a militant, Marxist organization, using force,
politics, pressure, and propaganda to gain control over teachers and thus
build power for itself. The AFT never did achieve a large national
membership. Its strength has always been concentrated in a few eastern
cities - mainly, New York City. But the AFT influence on public education in
the U.S. has been enormous, for two political reasons: first, during the
critical period of the 1930s, such people as John Dewey and Norman Thomas
were members of the AFT; and second, rivalry between the AFT and the NEA
helped induce the NEA to adopt the socialist tactics of the AFT.
The National Education Association was organized in 1862. In 1906, Congress
conferred upon it a federal charter, to work as a professional organization
in the field of education. For a long time, the NEA did operate as a
professional group, publishing information helpful to classroom teachers,
trying to improve the quality of teachers and of teaching in public schools.
But by the mid-1930s, the NEA - like its rival, the AFT - was militant and
Marxist. The NEA became the foremost leader of the drive that was begun by
John Dewey educationists in the American Federation of Teachers - the drive
to create "an educational program for a socialist America," which would be
governed by an elite of professional educator-politicians.
By the 1960s the NEA had a stranglehold on American public education. Today,
NEA officials hold so many key positions in the Department of Education that
the NEA practically runs that federal agency, which dispenses billions of
tax dollars. NEA influence on Congress, the Supreme Court, and local state
senators and assemblymen is also powerful. The NEA works with monopolistic
unions, huge tax-exempt foundations, racial-agitation organizations, the
National Council of Churches, and similar groups, lobbying for court
decisions and big-spending federal and state programs.
For years, the NEA pretended that it was not a union, and claimed to be
opposed to teacher strikes. The NEA's malign influence and political
pressures on elected officials can never be fully measured, but can be
indicated by the words of its own spokesmen. In 1970, NEA President George
Fischer said: "We will put the fear of God in politicians all over the
country. We plan to make it political suicide to vote against kids and
educations." And so it came to be.
One irony in all this is that the NEA's political lobbying is an open and
direct violation of the federal tax law which gives it tax exemption. The
Internal Revenue Service has never revoked that tax exemption.
Today, we have created the most extensive and expensive educational system
that has ever existed in the history of the world. Yet, it graduates
thousands of young people who cannot spell, write a correct sentence, work
a simple arithmetic problem, or read with understanding. They have no
worthwhile skills. They do not even know the alphabet well enough to work
effectively as file clerks. The present American educational system has left
a generation of Americans largely ignorant of the moral, economic,
political, and spiritual principles on which the greatness of our nation is
founded. It has brainwashed a generation of Americans into accepting the
illegal conversion of our Constitutional Republic into a tyrannical,
inefficient socialist-welfare state. It scorns individual excellence and
extols mass mediocrity. Can you really be sure your children won't come out
any different?
Many a person has supported federal aid to education because he thought that
getting "federal money" to help pay for schools in his district would ease
his local tax burden. The opposite has happened. As federal and state taxes
increase to pay for increased aid, the increased aid creates and mandates
more expensive educational systems - which are still financed in large part
by local taxes on real estate. Throughout the United States, all taxes are
going up because of the costly (and unconstitutional) state and federal
programs we have permitted.
So, when the NYS United Teachers runs full-page ads to "save our schools",
we know NYSUT really does mean THEIR schools - not ours.
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