Reason 15,893 to Home School

The NEA among others have come out with new guidelines for teaching sex education to our children.  While the report doesn't specifically say this, I doubt that this will be opt-in.

Lets begin with what will be taught to your 5-7 year-olds:

They should be able to properly name both male and female anatomy, they should be able to talk about all different types of families, and show respect for these families.  They also need to be able to talk about and demonstrate how media influences how boys and girls think and act.

7-10 year-olds:

They should be able to define sexual orientation, and be able to name parents or adults that can help them understand sexual orientation.

Apparently, the worry is that right now, only about 3.1 hours is spent talking to elementary school children about HIV/Aids, pregnancy, and STD prevention.  Silly me, I didn't think I needed to talk to a five-year old about STD prevention.  I am so out of it.

Here is one of my favorites:

By completion of the eighth grade, the report says, students should be able to “[d]ifferentiate between gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation,” “[e]xplain the range of gender roles,” and “[d]efine emergency contraception and its use.”
Upon completion of middle school, students should be able to “[a]nalyze external influences that have an impact on one’s attitudes about gender, sexual orientation and gender identity”; “[a]ccess accurate information about gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation”; “[c]ommunicate respectfully with and about people of all gender identities, gender expressions and sexual orientations”; “[e]xplain the health benefits, risks and effectiveness rates of various methods of contraception, including abstinence and condoms”; and “[d]escribe the steps to using a condom correctly.”

I am not naive enough to think that kids don't have questions about sex or are not tempted to experiment.  Their bodies are changing and many kids hit puberty in the eighth grade and they start to have sexual feelings.  I get that.  I also get that kids are much more advanced in many areas then I was at that age.  But I will tell you, the very last thing I wanted to talk about, let alone participate in at that age was the down and dirty details of sex.  I was horrified whenever anyone brought it up.  I wasn't ready at that age, plain and simple.  I get that not all kids will be like that, but there will be children who are just not ready for these types of conversations and to force it upon them is abusive.

And by the time they graduate from high school students should be expected to “[d]efine emergency contraception and describe its mechanism of action” and “[a]ssess the skills and resources needed to become a parent.”
Also included in the guidelines are the following: “Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of abstinence and other contraceptive methods, including condoms”; “Access medically-accurate information and resources about emergency contraception”; “Compare and contrast the laws relating to pregnancy, adoption, abortion and parenting”; and “Describe potential impacts of power differences (e.g., age, status or position) within sexual relationships.”

Well, at least they are willing to talk about adoption over abortion and abstinence.  I guess I should take some comfort in that.  But never fear, the NEA, in all of its infinite wisdom, has partnered with Planned Parenthood and GLSEN to help write these guidelines.  Thank heavens, they contacted the experts in giving our children moral guidance.  /sarc.

You can read the report here to get a gander at the glossary they provide.  Ooh, can't wait.   Bedtime reading.

The Moral Equivalency of the Progressive Left

I stayed up way too late last night watching the live stream from the Wisconsin state house after the union vote. So I am tired and a tad cranky today from a lack of sleep. But, I was transfixed to the stream. The union members completely lost their minds and the moral equivalency that was being used was quite amusing while being sad all at the same time.


There was a young woman who worked as a stage hand. She is obviously a union member. What I found so interesting about her was the fact that she said it looked like she was going to have to work seven days now. At first I thought she was thinking that she somehow was going to forced to work seven days a week. I was thinking what a brainwashed dingbat. Then I realized what she meant is that today was her day off and she was called in by her union to show up at the Capitol building to protest. The law has nothing to do with her or her job. Nothing will change for her. This law was about government unions, not about stage hands.

Doesn't this just prove what conservatives are saying about unions? The power that unions have is acute in this country that the average taxpayer is not on an even playing field. What is going on in Wisconsin has very little to do with the teachers. This is about the unions realizing that the political power they hold over the democratic party is beginning to be marginalized, and that is being viewed as a mortal threat to them. A local radio station in Milwaukee got a hold of a copy of an email sent to the law makers in Wisconsin:

WE want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in the past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me have decided that we’ve had enough. We feel that you and the people that support the dictator have to die. We have tried many other ways of dealing with your corruption but you have taken things too far and we will not stand for it any longer. So, this is how it’s going to happen: I as well as many others know where you and your family live, it’s a matter of public records.


We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn’t leave it there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the message to you since you are so “high” on Koch and have decided that you are now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a demorcratic process

It goes on to talk about bombs being set to go off in different areas of the city to target not just the law makers but the families of the law makers as well. The sender of this email also doesn't seem to care about going to jail because they are going to martyr themselves for the 300,000 people who will no longer be able to survive due to this passage of this law:

The teachers paychecks will go down, but only due to paying more for benefits. Their pay scale remains unchanged and they are still going to be paying less than the average person pays for their benefits package and this is a benefits package that is also much better than the average person receives. These changes are something that they already agreed to. Again this is about power. If the state allows teachers to decide for themselves if they want to join the union and pay more than $1,000 per year in dues the unions could easily not allow the union to stuff the coffers of the politicians. Unions give more than 98% of the donations to the democratic party.




Better and more effective classrooms and student achievement is too high of a price to pay to give up collective bargaining rights? This is what this about. It isn't about the kids, it isn't about the pay scale, it is about power.

I also was following along on twitter last night.


RT @shoq: DEAR AMERICAN PROGRESSIVES: #WI was your 9/11


Yes, you are reading that correctly. The vote last night is the equivalent to 9/11 to the progressive left.


Do conservatives really need to say more? The veil is being lifted and the true picture is not pretty.

Cross posted at Potluck

If you and your goonies feel that it’s necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making them unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families and themselves then We Will “get rid of” (in which I mean kill) you

The NEA and Alinsky - Coming to a school near you

Here is a copy of the recommendations of the NEA.  So how long until this becomes required for our kids? 


Recommended Reading: Saul Alinsky, The American Organizer



Reveille for Radicals


by Saul Alinsky


Vintage; Reissue edition (October 23, 1989)


Buy It






Rules for Radicals


by Saul Alinsky


Vintage; Reissue edition (October 23, 1989)


Buy It






An inspiration to anyone contemplating action in their community! And to every organizer!






Saul Alinski wrote the book on American radicalism - two books, in fact: a 1945 best-seller, "Reveille for Radicals" and "Rules for Radicals" in 1971. The "Reveille" title page quotes Thomas Paine... "Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul."






Saul Alinsky, who was a labor and civil-rights activist from the 1910's until he died in 1972, has written here a guidebook for those who are out to change things. He sets down what the goal is: a society where people are free to live, and also aren't starving in the streets. A society where there is legal and economic justice. Then he sets out to say how to get there.






Alinsky spends a lot of time critiquing the idea that "The end does not justify the means." What end? What means? He feels that there are circumstances where one can and should use means that in other circumstances would be unethical. I am not sure I agree, but Alinsky certainly speaks with the voice of experience.






Alinsky's goal seems to be to encourage positive social change by equipping activists with a realistic view of the world, a kind of preemptive disillusionment. If a person already knows what evil the world is capable of, then perhaps the surprise factor can be eliminated, making the person a more effective activist. Alinsky further seems to be encouraging the budding activist not to worry to much about getting his or her hands dirty. It's all a part of the job, he seems to say.






Alinski, the master political agitator, tactical planner and social organizer didn't mince words...






"Liberals in their meetings utter bold works; they strut, grimace belligerently, and then issue a weasel-worded statement 'which has tremendous implications, if read between the lines.' They sit calmly, dispassionately, studying the issue; judging both sides; they sit and still sit.






"The Radical does not sit frozen by cold objectivity. He sees injustice and strikes at it with hot passion. He is a man of decision and action. There is a saying that the Liberal is one who walks out of the room when the argument turns into a fight.






"Society has good reason to fear the Radical. Every shaking advance of mankind toward equality and justice has come from the Radical. He hits, he hurts, he is dangerous. Conservative interests know that while Liberals are most adept at breaking their own necks with their tongues, Radicals are most adept at breaking the necks of Conservatives.






"Radicals precipitate the social crisis by action - by using power. Liberals may then timidly follow along or else, as in most cases, be swept forward along the course set by Radicals, but all because of forces unloosed by Radical action. They are forced to positive action only in spite of their desires ...






"The American Radical will fight privilege and power whether it be inherited or acquired by any small group, whether it be political or financial or organized creed.


"He curses a caste system which he recognizes despite all patriotic denials.


"He will fight conservatives whether they are business or labor leaders.


"He will fight any concentration of power hostile to a broad, popular democracy, whether he finds it in financial circles or in politics.


"The Radical recognizes that constant dissension and conflict is and has been the fire under the boiler of democracy. He firmly believes in that brave saying of a brave people, "Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!"


"The Radical may resort to the sword but when he does he is not filled with hatred against those individuals whom he attacks. He hates these individuals not as persons but as symbols representing ideas or interests which he believes to be inimical to the welfare of the people.


"That is the reason why Radicals, although frequently embarking upon revolutions, have rarely resorted to personal terrorism."


Alinski practiced what he preached. He said, "Tactics means doing what you can with what you have ... tactics is the art of how to take and how to give."






He uses eyes, ears and nose for examples...


Eyes


"If you have a vast organization, parade it before the enemy, openly show your power."


Ears


"If your organization is small, do what Gideon did: conceal the members in the dark but raise a clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more that it does."


Nose


"If your organization is too tiny even for noise, stink up the place."






Alinski devised and proved thirteen tactical rules for use against opponents vastly superior in power and wealth.






1. "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.


2. "Never go outside the experience of your people.


3. "Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy.


4. "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.


5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.


6. "A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.


7. "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.


8. "Keep the pressure on.


9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.


10. "Major premise for tactics is development of operations that will maintain constant pressure upon the opposition.


11. "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.


12. "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.


13. "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.


"The real action is in the enemy's reaction. The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength. Tactics, like life, require that you move with the action."

Alinski was hated and defamed by powerful enemies, proof that his tactics worked. His simple formula for success...


"Agitate + Aggravate + Educate + Organize"


h/t to Watching the Nation

NEA General Counsel: Union Dues, Not Education, Are Our Top Priority

And people wonder why I don't trust unions. Card Check - I think not.



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