Entries tagged with “NEA”
by Kathy Brown on March 31st, 2010 |
Perhaps you read about the teenager in Ballard, WA, who got an abortion without the knowledge and consent of her parent(s) through her school. Is this a shocking revelation? Not at all, as this article relates:
"A King County Health official would not speak about any of the details surrounding the case, but did say that no laws were broken. In Washington State a girl of any age can get an abortion without her parent's being notified. It's one of 15 states without either parental consent or parental notification laws."
In defense, the school reported that the mother had signed off on a medical permission slip. Apparently, giving a pregnancy test, flagging a taxi and ushering minors in for an abortion are activities considered as innocuous as dispensing an aspirin.
At the root of this heartbreaking story is a worldview. Foundational Presupposition Chart It begins with an institutionalized idea that God is not allowed on the public school ground. His presence is not welcome. In His place is the typical bully who swaggers through the schoolyard. Having extracted the lunch money, the big kid with his gang threatens to shove aside anyone who lips off. Our tax supported educational system is composed of turf defenders, and their primary interest is maintaining jobs and promoting their ideology. (see previous article: NEA)
It stands to reason that extracting the unborn is allowed inside the philosophical neighborhood where human beings are created by evolutionary chance, not made in the image of God. If sex is a physical union designed merely for entertainment and personal pleasure, without purpose and meaning, there is justification for “eliminating” any inconvenience it produces. When families have no particular functional definition, then they do not necessarily have the primary responsibility for children and their training. Because morality taught in classrooms is relative, it makes sense that everything is acceptable, even discarding babies in the womb and neutering parents when they are an obstacle to progress.
How have we become a nation that has surrendered parenting to the government? That’s something we’d better consider . . . and quickly.
From Romans 1:20 - 21:
"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened."
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by Kathy Brown on June 6th, 2009 |
Education is purposeful. It intends to deliver (1)a moral framework and (2)factual information. The coupling of these two provide the spring board for application in a student's life. The National Education Association, the primary union for public government schools, passed the following Resolutions (italics added to to highlight the issue) at their 2007 Convention in Philadelphia:
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B-20 Education of Refugee and Undocumented Children and Children of Undocumented Immigrants . . . The Association further believes students who have resided in the United States for at least five years at the time of high school graduation should be granted amnesty by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, granted legal residency status, and allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship.
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B-47 Sex Education . . . The Association also believes that to facilitate the realization of human potential, it is the right of every individual to live in an environment of freely available information and knowledge about sexuality and encourages affiliates and members to support appropriately established sex education programs. Such programs should include information on sexual abstinence, birth control and family planning, diversity of culture, diversity of sexual orientation and gender identification, parenting skills, prenatal care, sexually transmitted diseases, incest, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, homophobia.
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B-55 Education on Peace and International Understanding . . . Such curricular materials should also cover major contributing factors to conflict, such as economic disparity, demographic variables, unequal political power and resource distribution, and the indebtedness of the developing world.
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F-2 . . . Pay Equity/Comparable Worth. The "market value" means of establishing pay cannot be the final determinant of pay scales since it too frequently reflects the race and sex bias in our society.
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H-7 National Health Care Policy . . . The National Education Association believes that affordable, comprehensive health care, including prescription drug coverage, is the right of every resident. The Association supports the adoption of a single-payer health care plan for all residents of the United States, its territories, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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I-13 Family Planning . . . The National Education Association supports family planning, including the right to reproductive freedom. The Association also urges the implementation of community-operated, school-based family planning clinics that will provide intensive counseling by trained personnel.
- I-28 Freedom of Religion. The Association opposes any federal legislation or that would require school districts t o schedule a moment of silence.
These are just a smattering of what our national government schools promote. What religious worldview do they reflect? Is it "neutral"? Is there room, in our public schools, for children to be taught a different religious worldview? Something to ponder.
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by Kathy Brown on May 14th, 2009 |
BELOW ARE (SOME) RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE NEA IN 2007
1. A-11. Use of Closed Public School Buildings. The Association believes that closed public school buildings should be sold or leased only to those organizations that do not provide direct educational services to students and/or are not in direct competition with public schools.
2. A -15 Federal Financial Support of Public Education. The Association opposes any federal legislation, laws or regulations that provide funds, goods, or services to sectarian schools.
3. A-24 Voucher Plans and Tuition Credits. The Association opposes voucher plans, tuition credits, or other such funding arrangements that pay for students to attend sectarian schools.
4. B-75. Home Schooling . . . The Association also believes that home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools.
5. A-33 Federally or State-Mandated Choice/Parental Option Plans . . . Therefore, the Association opposes such federally or state-mandated choice or parental option plans.
These are the interests that our teachers, willingly or not, support through their dues. Does the ideology represent all who pay their tuition through taxation? How public is public education, anyway?
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