THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VI, Issue # 74, April 13, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THE UNITED NATIONS, THE U.S.A., & AMERICAN EDUCATION:
"NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND" & UNESCO
By Tom DeWeese
FULL STORY:
My monthly newsletter, The DeWeese Report, has reported many times that President Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” education
reform act was not an instrument with which to improve America’s schools. The Bush program strengthens the behavior modification
programs of Goals 2000. We have warned that “No Child Left Behind” continues the School-to-Work program by driving curriculum
away from teaching basic academics and toward job training programs in all public schools.
In recent issues, we reported that the Bush administration is issuing grants through the U.S. Department of Education for the UN’s
International Baccalaureate program, which provides a curriculum that teaches our children and youth to be global citizens, rather than
Americans.
In the November, 2003, issue (DeWeese Report, Vol. 9, Issue 11), we noted that, “The New Civics teaches that American
classrooms would be doing a disservice to students by suggesting that America’s recognition of inalienable rights deserves any
superior place in the spectrum of world politics. Instead, they pack the genius of our Founding Fathers with every run of the mill
democracy on the globe, regardless of whether that democracy is constitutional or absolutist, whether its powers are limited or it is
characted by majoritarian dictatorship, i.e., unlimited rule of the majority and no protection of the rights of mionorities. American
students are now to learn that we’re nothing special.”
We’ve issued the warnings, but many don’t want to believe that a Republican president or his Republican Congress would be
responsible for such an anti-American curriculum.
The DeWeese Report is just the messenger. We don’t make the policy. Perhaps it would be easier to believe if it came directly
from the Bush administration that it’s more interested in teaching about the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights than
America’s precious and unique Declaration of Independence?
Well, here it is. On October 3, 2003, just three months after the Bush Administration put the United States back into the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), after Ronald Reagan had removed us twenty years ago,
Education Secretary Rod Paige addressed the UNESCO Round Table of Ministers on Quality Education.
Said Paige:
“The United States is pleased to return to UNESCO and to participate in meetings like this. I am very pleased to see many
friends from the Third Inter-American Education Ministerial in Mexico City.
“There and here, we agree that we must make education a universal reality. Our governments have entrusted us with the
responsibility of preparing our children to become citizens of the world. We are here to share and learn.
“When President Bush took office, he saw these problems and decided to tackle them head on through a program called
‘No Child Left Behind.’ UNESCO, through the great leadership of Director General Matsuura, knows the importance of
education on a global level by coordinating the “Education for All” initiative.
"‘Education For All’ is consistent with our recent education legislation, the “No Child Left Behind Act.”
There you have it. UNESCO’s global education curriculum is “consistent” with the Bush administration’s education policies. Those
policies are now storming into classrooms across the nation.
For example, from the Idaho Department of Education comes a curriculum called “Human Rights in Education.” Listed below are four
classes taught to four separate grade levels.
Grade Six (Geography and Cultures – Western Hemisphere): Introduction to Our World; Focus on Canada; Focus on
Latin America; Global Citizenship
Grade Seven (Geography and Cultures – Eastern Hemisphere): Global Citizenship
Grade Eight (Social Science Exploratory – A Case Study of Idaho): Universe of Obligation
Grade Nine (World History &Humanities): Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Yes, your child may have courses called math, science, literature, geography and civics, but those courses are full of globalist myth,
and its source is UN programs like UNESCO’s “Education for All” curriculum. It starts there and is filtered into American classrooms
through “consistent” programs like “No Child Left Behind.”
This behavior modification of your child’s attitudes, values, and beliefs won’t end until the American people stop allowing the federal
government to invade their local schools. It can be stopped, but not until the American people stop swallowing this drivel about
“world class education.” The above list is just a sample of what that phrase means.
Remember, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige just told you that it starts with the United Nations and ends in your child’s brain.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Education & America's Schools
The United Nations & Its Agencies
A Practical Guide to Homeschooling
Tom DeWeese is the Publisher and Editor of The DeWeese Report and President of the American Policy Center, a grassroots
activist think tank. Headquartered in Warrenton, Virginia, the Center maintains an Internet site at
www.americanpolicy.org. Mailing Address: American Policy Center, 50-A South Third St.
(#1), Warrenton, VA 20186. Telephone: (540) 341-8911.
Copyright 2004 Tom DeWeese
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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