The Civil War on our Civil Rights, has begun in our Classrooms.

I was reading an article this morning,that was posted in my group page, "Stop Common Core in NH", and this particular excerpt stuck out to me.

 Keep in mind that Outcome Based Education is the same thing as Competency Based Education, which is what Common Core teaches to.

" OBE was implemented in New Hampshire High Schools through a grant from The Nellie Mae Foundation.  The Nellie Mae Foundation's primary goal when offering grants to schools, is to focus on "community organizing efforts".   As you can see on page 1, the focus is not on academic excellence but on community organizing.  Note that Saul Alinsky is referenced at the end of page one."

I am hoping that when I post this blog, the above links stay intact so you can click on the second one and view the PDF file. There is a clear agenda here, and it's not of an academic nature.

The name Saul Alinsky seems random. How has he influenced the foundational efforts in changing how and what our kids are taught? What do I know about Saul Alinsky? I know he died on a street corner from a heart attack when I was a child. He is considered one of the leading "Community Organizers" of our American History. His philosophy's and tactics have been a major influence on both Obama and Hilary Clinton. Clinton even wrote her senior thesis on him while attending Wellesley College. When she was First Lady access to this thesis, was restricted per the White House. Much like Obama's personal records have been sealed since he came into office. I digress. My personal feeling is that if this man is held in honor by Obama and Clinton, two powerful people who at their very core, oppose everything I stand for, and stand for everything I oppose...he is probably not someone I would want my schools to embrace.

Alinsky was described as being "The New Left", and "The New Socialist movement." Many of his efforts were to empower the poor and organize labor unions. I think that we can all agree that the safety laws and protections that we have -(weather you are a union member or not) are because of the unions. Nobody wants to go back to the days of slave labor, cruel bosses, child labor, etc. I do however believe that unions have changed from what the original intent was. This is a somewhat touchy subject in my family because both my husband and my eldest son are union members. The view point from my kitchen window is that it is now more about politics than worker protections. I hate that my household is forced to pay for political candidates races, who's core values, cut into the very fiber of my beliefs. Sure, we have the 'Right to Work' laws in our state, but try to opt out of the union and see how you will be treated. You really only have to look back less than a year, to the mid west, with the automobile and Hostess debacle to see how that turns out. I'm pretty sure that the laws that have passed would stay intact even if the unions went away.

My youngest is in the 6th grade this year. A few weeks ago in his Language Arts class he had a reading assignment on Cesar Chavez. Chavez was a civil rights and union organizer for farm workers in the the 1950's. He did amazing things for the farm workers, in improving their working conditions. In 1977,  he traveled to the Philippines, and endorsed then president Ferdinand Marcos, who was viewed by human rights activists and religious leaders as a brutal dictator. (This last part, was not in the reading assignment) A few days after this assignment, he needed to bring in 2 current events, involving unions found on the internet.

It's seems the more I study, the more I find that people who started out fighting for good, to help the underdog, end up being corrupted. The very people they have tried to empower, end up enslaved. I have also noticed that what the kids are learning is hand picked to show the beginning intent, and not the whole story.

Many of the people that today's Progressives have embraced were fighting for civil rights. Today I see American's civil rights being attacked. American Blacks, Whites, Latinos, Asian's. Especially if you are a conservative Christian, Jew, patriot, or just believe in the government set up for us by our founders. I would imagine that the folks- that are black, and Hispanic, that fought so hard to change the racist climate in this country in the late 1900's are a little frustrated to watch everything they fought for begin to lose ground now. My guess is that Martin Luther King, Jr-might be pretty pissed off at what our country has become in the attack against our Constitution and our Bill of Rights.

Another Civil War against civil rights has started. It just looks different then it did  150 years ago. The enemy has taken siege on our children's minds through rewritten, revisionist history.