The following comes from an Oct. 14 story by Anne Hendershott in Crisis Magazine.
As teachers throughout the country introduced the new Common Core curriculum—the federal standards for mathematics and English Language Arts—in their classrooms this fall, most parents had no idea this radical change in their children’s education was coming. Some might have noticed over the past month that there were dramatic changes in the textbooks and tests that their children were bringing home. Others may have noticed that in language arts, their children are now being introduced to some very different kinds of books—texts with more emphasis on technical or informational material, and less emphasis on classical literature. It would be difficult not to notice, as the Common Core curriculum is a dramatic change in the ways in which education is being delivered. Yet, few parents, and even fewer elected political representatives, knew this was coming.
A recent poll by Phi Delta Kappa International and Gallup revealed that 62 percent of the population has never heard about the Common Core curriculum. Now that they are finally finding out about what can only be called a federal takeover of public education, it may be too late. The curriculum has been created, the books have been purchased, and the standards have been implemented. Assessment testing has already begun. Many are asking how something like this could happen without parental and local input. Others are wondering how education could have become federalized when there are already laws in place to prevent just such federal intervention?
The answer is that it was a stealthy appropriation by the federal government to take control of the curriculum in the local public schools—and now, in some private schools also. The federal takeover involved no parental input, and very little involvement by elected representatives. It had to be done covertly because there are indeed laws protecting states against unwanted federal intrusion into the educational curriculum of local school districts. The General Education Provisions Act, the Department of Education Organization Act, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act all protect states against intrusion by the United States Department of Education. The problem is that the “intrusion” has not been entirely “unwanted” by state political leaders—especially the governors of each state. Enlisting the state governors as allies in the creation of the curriculum through the National Governor’s Association, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation used the lure of more than $150 million in grant money—and the promise of future federal funds—to convince the leaders of budget-strapped states to support the federal standards.
Working collaboratively with the Obama administration, the Gates Foundation helped to subsidize the creation of a national curriculum that has now been adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia. Endowing the creation of the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed an additional $76 million to support teachers in implementing the Common Core—a standardized national curriculum. This, on top of the more than 100 million they have already awarded to the National Governor’s Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to develop the Common Core in the first place.
Although the Common Core was designed to address problems in the public schools, many Catholic schools have decided to adopt the Common Core standards also. Eager to share in the largesse of the Gates Foundation, and the promise of future federal funds, Catholic school superintendents from more than 100 Catholic dioceses across the nation have embraced the federal education standards. According to the National Catholic Register, the National Catholic Education Association, while not formally endorsing the Common Core, has been holding workshops on how to implement the standards in Catholic schools.
Many parents of these Catholic school children are unhappy with the implementation of federal guidelines in their Catholic schools. Catholic parents groups are emerging throughout the country to try and fight against the continued implementation of the Common Core. New Jersey parents have banded together to address the problems they see with the common core, and Pittsburgh Catholics Against the Common Core have organized to protest the implementation of the federal standards in their children’s Catholic schools. The National Catholic Register published comments from Ann Hynds, one of the members of the Pittsburgh parents’ group, who declared that “Catholic parents are so angry … we are the primary educators of our children, and we are being told not to worry, that they know better.”
These angry sentiments are echoed by many other concerned parents. Most have said that they believe the Common Core will be detrimental to Catholic education—as Hynds said “Catholic educators all say how excellent Catholic education has always been.… So why are they doing this?”
That is a good question. While it is understandable that the governors were empowered to make the decision in collaboration with their school superintendents, it is less clear how Catholic school superintendents were empowered to make the decision about Common Core unilaterally. Many parents are asking whether their bishops were involved in the decision to implement the federal curriculum.
Still, there are many dioceses that have refused to implement the Common Core. Richard Thompson, superintendent of Catholic schools for the Denver archdiocese has refused to allow the Common Core in the Catholic schools there. In a published interview in the National Catholic Register, Thompson said that he saw no need to install the federal standards in the Catholic schools in Denver because the schools are already “exceeding most of Common Core standards. We’re already there and more.”
Indeed, this is a major concern for Catholic school parents. One of the reasons that many of these parents sent their children to Catholic schools was because of the academic rigor that was missing in the public schools. In a critical op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal by Jamie Gass and Charles Chieppo, we learn that Stanford University emeritus mathematics professor James Milgram, the only academic mathematician on the Common Core’s validation committee, refused to sign onto the final draft. Milgram described the Common Core standards as having “extremely serious failings” and reflecting “very low expectations.” Reflecting these concerns, Phyllis Schlafly, president of the Eagle Forum wrote a letter to the Catholic bishops warning them that in the Common Core, “conceptual math has replaced fundamentals,” and “Euclidian geometry was displaced.” She also asserted that in language arts, students are forced to read texts “in a vacuum” without contextual information, and lamented the reductions in classical literature that accompanied the Common Core.
Parents are worried. So concerned about the negative response to the Common Core from parents of Catholic school children that Father Peter Stravinskas, executive director of the Catholic Education Foundation, has scheduled a conference titled Catholic Concerns About the Common Core in Elberon, New Jersey next month (at the Stella Maris Retreat Center on November 5-6). The National Association of Private Catholic and Independent Schools will co-host the event with the schools office of the diocese of Gaylord, Michigan and the superintendent of high schools of the archdiocese of Los Angeles [Sal Pilato]. Father Stravinskas has warned that since the SATs and other standardized tests will be geared to the Common Core, Catholic schools need to pay attention to the federalized standards.
Education policy expert Diane Ravitch appears to agree with Father Stravinskas about the standardized testing issues. Ravitch pointed out that since David Coleman, the primary architect of the Common Core standards has become president of the College Board, “we can expect that SAT will be aligned to the standards. No one will escape their reach, whether they attend public or private school.” Even homeschooled children will be vulnerable to the federalization of public education standards.
It is possible that some school districts—especially those in economically deprived areas—will benefit from the federal intervention in their local schools. But, it is difficult to see how inviting the federal government into our Catholic schools to help create a new curriculum can make things better.
To read the original story, click here.
This is the end game of the Globalist control, these satanic power hungry monsters
My son attended Catholic schools in 4 different states. One had great academics but poor catechesis, one had great catechesis but poor academics, one had poor academics and poor catechesis and one had great academics and great catechesis.
Each school is different.
OK, so 50% of the Catholic schools in your experience and estimation have poor catechesis. But your post appears to have no connection to the point of the article, i.e., the adoption of the Common Core curriculum in Catholic schools. We all know Catholic schools can have poor catechesis with or without Common Core.
Sorry, Catholic schools conform to the state or local standards on academics(there are exceptions such as those in failing school districts like St. Louis City schools). So in the states where standards are low, Catholic school standards are low.. The article (read the whole thing) acts like all Catholic schools are superior and that is not what our experience was.
Back in the day, Catholic schools had the reputation of being superior. They still do when compared to public schools. That’s the only reason non-Catholics used to have any interest in sending their children to Catholic schools.
Catechesis slipped in the extreme the more this happened. Why? To be charitable to non-Catholics in Catholic schools. (When in Rome do as the Romans do was deemed harsh and narrow minded.) But at least the academics didn’t slip.
That will change with the adoption of ‘Common Core’. Why? Because it is indoctrination. Calling terrorists freedom fighters. Extolling China for their wonderful worker policies while denigrating capitalism (instead of the actions of greed) as bad. Branding liberal as freedom for all while castigating conservatism as freedom for a select few.
That’s why there is an uprising against public school ‘education’ even from non-Catholics, atheists, wiccans, you-name-it.
Translation: There is no safe zone for our kids anymore if even the Catholic schools are adopting a curriculum intended to hamstring the intellect and/or to give it the supposed freedom to question why the number one is called one and not something else.
Common Core standards are in Math and Language Arts. Here is a link:
https://www.corestandards.org/the-standards
Please tell us where you got that information on indoctrination.
Here is a link to debate in a state that has implemented them.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/opponents-supporters-of-the-common-core-standards-debate-in-tampa/2147455
Anonymous, give us your name and I’ll consider giving you sources. Without a name, your post smacks of a progressive activist group seeking to mine/plant/discredit as needed for your cause.
That said, it would be easy enough for you to do a Google search and find opposition arguments to Common Core. But I think you know that already ;^)
God bless
Ann Malley, give you my name? It is always recommended that people do not do that online. I don’t have a cause and I am not a progressive activist group. Turning other cheek now.
This is only the second time I have ever heard of Common Core. The first time was when we were comparing high schools and one of the school staff bemoaned the fact that they did not use Common Core because instead of offering high school students Chemistry and Physics, they were offering Botany and Astronomy. Remember, Common Core are standards. They outline what students should learn in Math and Language Arts. A test of adults in 23 nations found that U.S. adults ranked 2nd from the bottom in Math and 15th in Language arts. One out of 7 U.S. adults cannot read a newspaper. With all our unemployment, many employers cannot find workers who have the math skills needed for the job. 2 year colleges have to offer remedial courses to almost half of their students. At 4 year colleges, it is close to 30%. This is what Common Core is trying to address. I don’t know if it will succeed.
Thank you, Not Anonymous Anymore, for the ‘name’ and for turning the other cheek. Of course you don’t need to use your real name online, but that doesn’t preclude the notion of giving others the ability to identify you amidst a sea of Anonymous posters. That can and does get messy and unkind at times.
That said, my sources were the Blaze and Fox News regarding negative aspects of Core. It is my understanding that there are various sources used for writing the actual context and much has been questionable. A video series in Texas that rebrands the 9/11 attackers, freedom fighters, a video that denounces American Capitalism while promoting communist business practices, and another enrichment exercise that notes the business savvy of a rapper, making full mention of the crude album titles and other lovely things that are age inappropriate.
Back when I homeschooled my children with the state curriculum in CA, their social studies book indicated in a very short note that some believed Jesus to be a very holy man then proceeded to go into great length to promote the positive aspects of Hinduism and Islam. That last wasn’t common core – but putting that together with what’s been in the news leads me to say ‘keep your kids away from it’.
Ann Malley, thank you for your answer. I will check out those sources. Common Core standards are benchmarks that a student should reach by the end of grade level (such as multiple a two digit number by a single digit number.) I will point out now that Texas is one of the states that has not adopted Common Core. Standards will effect the curricula (the subjects studied). And the curricula will effect the selection of textbooks. The same manufacturers that have provided the textbooks for the education of our youth in years past are providing the textbooks for those who have switched to the Common Core standards. The textbooks used should be an aid to a teacher who knows the subject and knows the students they are teaching.
Catholic schools must “spoil the Egyptians” and otherwise work around them.
“As a practicing Catholic,” and “in the tradition of the great Catholic scholars,” it is “important to question received teachings,” in particular “the one saying that birth control is a sin.” – Melinda Gates
Really Melinda, should question the Trinity, the Resurrection, the Assumption as well…..
Canisius,
MELINDA GATES PROBABLY DOES QUESTION THOSE TEACHINGS AS WELL!
May God have mercy on an amoral America!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Married into money and thinks she’s a scholar! Unfortunately, the urge to equate wealth with wisdom isn’t limited to here, or to the political left.
Melinda Gates is “practicing” the rattling and the shaking of the *gates* of hell. Would Melinda Gates even listen if someone were to return from the dead to warn her and to let her know that Our Lord’s words are true and that her soul is in great danger?
Matthew 19:24
“And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.” – Douay-Rheims
Matthew 16:26 “For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?” Douay-Rheims
Matthew 16 “And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” – Douay-Rheims
“[18] The gates of hell: That is, the powers of darkness, and whatever Satan can do, either by himself, or his agents. For as the church is here likened to a house, or fortress, built on a rock; so the adverse powers are likened to a contrary house or fortress, the gates of which, that is, the whole strength, and all the efforts it can make, will never be able to prevail over the city or church of Christ. By this promise we are fully assured, that neither idolatry, heresy, nor any pernicious error whatsoever shall at any time prevail over the church of Christ.”
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us. Our Lady of Fatima pray for us.
“In the End My Immaculate heart Will Triumph”
And there’s the problem. Has Melinda Gates bishop corrected her misstatement? That is, “…as a practicing Catholic I…” should say “advocate unrepentant mortal sin for myself and others.”
No, there is no correction. No calling out of those in power positions, especially those with money, to atone for scandal. And so scandal and confusion and crisis grows.
The woman in question practices overt subversion of the Faith. She is practicing all right. A practicing agitator.
That said, I wonder if this supposed advocate of mankind takes into consideration the ecological damage done by her beloved pills. Probably she does, but under the name ‘Anonymous’.
Catholic administrators feel they must embrace the public school methodologies and new programs because they need to be able to compare their students to public schools. Why, when we’ve always prided ourselves in doing better? Many Catholic school administrators, in a rush to prove their worth, have bought into this system – not through necessity, but because they don’t really know our past (and they probably have to do something to earn their, sometimes enormous, salaries).
The need to change programs every decade or so also pervades education. Remember “New Math”? The invariable cottage industries spring up, as well. New testing, revised testing, periodic testing, books, new books and new bureaucracies are created, to the delight of many who make money off of education.
“Why learn to multiply or learn prayers when we can merely look them up on our computer device?” stated one Catholic school principal. Wherein lies a (the) problem. Technology should assist education, we should not become its slave. How are we to produce a generation of thinking adults who can still think when the electricity goes out?
Learning times tables, prayers, nursery rhymes, cursive writing, etc, were common place things that children were expected to learn by rote. Few pieces of classic literature are read and learning math is becoming more of a survey curriculum rather than producing in-depth knowledge of the subject.
We need to not lose what made our schools the envy of the education community and also return our Faith to its preeminent role in teaching our students.
Bob, you have it right. Without classical education (the 3 R’s), our children’s education will plummet to a new low. I attended the number one rated school’s in the nation and in the world in the 50 and 60’s–California public schools–where I learned about classical literature, art, music, Latin, writing, math and science. Children who graduated from public school back then were well prepared to go out into the job market and work wherever their interests lie. College wasn’t for everyone–even that doesn’t guarantee work these days. And, I was well catechized with the teaching from the Baltimore Catechism. Common Core removes even more of the “high standards” that made America’s education of the young the envy of the world. And we all know how the lack of catechesis has coincided with the lack of a moral compass in our world.
Common Core standards actually are the 3 R’s.
Again with the no name…. my goodness!
Teaching Catholicism with the Baltimore Catechism, Latin and reading Catholic classic were against the rules where I once taught – of course, most of the teachers and principals went to LMU, so they had no idea of the Faith to begin with!
In the Oakland Diocese the three R’s are Recycling, Reparations and Reproductive Rights (the Democratic playbook). The joke going around the Diocese: If you want your kid to loose their faith, just send him/her to a Catholic school.
Sad but true summation, Gravey.
Bob,
In far too many cases, Catholic School Administrators only see one thing, $$$$$$$$$$.
They are Judases selling off their Master and His children!
That is why there are now more and more Independent Catholic Schools!
May God have mercy on an amoral America!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Kenneth,
True, true. Some make a lot of money and isn’t it odd that the same book sellers are always recommended (read as, You should buy their books). Most administrators have been in place for years and years, setting up their little fiefdoms.
Ask parents about anything (such as Common Core), instead of telling them? Of course not, administrators know best. Teachers questioning the decisions of administrators (such as Common Core) will be shown the door, too – there is no such thing as being ecumenical!
Diocesan schools cost a lot, independent schools usually cost more. Bishops, on the whole, don’t care except at budget time. Usually they don’t want to be bothered, so the administrators have job security for a long while.
Bob
Unfortunately, my grandchildren go to a so-called “independent” Catholic school and they are still given the Common Core agenda. A sad day for Catholicism in America. We are about to lose the next generation.
Where are the shepherds?
This cowardly cave-in by Catholic schools will doom what little residual “Catholic” content still left in our parochial schools today. Catholic parents are wasting their money by sending their children to parochial schools. The “Common Core” curriculum is a “one size fits all” leveling of educational standards to the lowest possible denominator. A handful of Catholic schools are resisting to comply; many more, alas, are perfectly willing to jump overboard with Rabelais’ sheep. The goal of the Department of Education is to eradicate any remainder of our western Christian heritage and to replace it with a multi-culti claptrap concoction of revisionist history. Ostensibly, Catholic schools are swallowing this poison pill to make it easier for Catholic students to pass standardized tests. The camel got its nose in our tent years ago. “Catholic” education has long been watered down; it is now decidedly dead. The camel is in the tent.
While our right to protest and enact/resist change is guaranteed in our Constution, shouldn’t resist accepting the premise of secularists and humanists? Public education is their game. As Catholics parents were commanded to be the “primary educators” of our children according to our Catechism. This does not mean prepare them for entrance into Harvard or a career in biochemistry. As parents our charge is to provide our children a happy, loving and safe home with knowledge and reverence to God so they may attain eternal salvation. They cannot take that away.
He who rocks the cradle, rules the world. If knowledge is power, than erroneous ideas promote totalitarianism and dictatorships which will effect us all. The government that governs least, governs best. What we have now is a disaster, which could have been prevented. The air heads who support massive government interference in our daily lives are responsible. Instead of relying on God’s providence and the parents’ right and duty to teach their children, the nanny state has replaced God as the supreme authority in all things. May God have mercy on us all!
Homeschool if you can! It’s well worth it.
I agree with you but the priest having this conference does not: Father Peter M.J. Stravinskas, executive director of the Catholic Education Foundation, has become something of a bete noire for the Catholic home-schooling community, championing the idea that Catholic children should be educated in Catholic schools. “There are several reasons to prefer Catholic schools, Father Stravinskas told Our Sunday Visitor, including that the Church Fathers made clear that catechesis is the job of the whole Church, with the main responsibility resting on the shoulders of the pastor, not the parents.
And Catholic parents who choose to home-school when there is a Catholic school available at least implicitly send the message that they do not trust the Church to educate their children properly, and the children get that message. On the same property where they go to church on Sunday is a school where the parents don’t wish to send them,” he said.
That leads to a subtle anti-clericalism, he said, because the children learn that priests cannot be counted on to hand on the faith. It shows in what he sees as a dearth of vocations from home-school families. “Why would you want to join the club if its members can’t be trusted to their jobs?” he said.
He also believes it is psychologically unhealthy for mothers to spend 24 hours a day with their children as they get older, and it’s academically nearly impossible for one person to teach all that is included in a modern high school curriculum.
From Our Sunday Visitor June 5, 2011
That’s right Father…..May God have mercy on us all! Especially Catholics who turned away from God’s providence and made the worldly government their god–the Gates, etc.
Father Karl, one out of seven US adults cannot read a newspaper. Perhaps with the internet things will improve; however one-third of internet traffic is to porn sites. Unlike the author, I have not found that schools, even Catholic schools use much in the way of classical literature. I guess if you call “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Pearl” classical literature. I actually kept my son out of one Catholic school when it became apparent that students as young as 2nd grade were being encouraged to read the Harry Potter series. “It gets them to read.” What good is drinking from a poisoned well?
Fr. Karl, there are really two key issues at work here. Catholic parents really believe that they are the first teachers of their children. Many choose homes-school as an alternative to the public schools, or enroll their children in the local parish school. That really is the concern of any parent; to make sure that their children are getting the education they want for them. The second issue is that education is important for the nation if it wants to be competitive in the global market. Education is a national priority and needs national direction. Those two ideas are at odds with each other on so many fronts. Yet, the notion of local control of the schools, an idea from the earliest history of our country, is not working in the globally competitive marketplace. We do not have the capacity to compete with many of the developing countries of the world because our elementary and secondary schoold don’t produce an adequate supply of citizens who can do the work now required by industry. If you consider the top 10% of high school students in India today, they are more that all the high school students in the U.S. In an effort to try to do something to improve the situation, the educational leaders have tried to develop a common core of standards for our kids. It means that the kids in Mississippi will have the same standards as the rest of the country. That is not government control, it is simply setting a minimum expectation. Of course we expect our Catholic schools to surpass those minimums and all will be well.
More liberal nonsense from CC favorite statist, Bob One there are two major reasons for our schools failing…the NEA and AFT..I am curious Bob One how much control are you willing to give up to our government overlords
Canisius, you ae right that the NEA has done more than any other organization to impact the educations system in a negative way. That, however, is the result of our legislators being easily bought off by any union group. As to the concept of the state taking over the educations system, let’s keep in mind that since its earliest days, the schools have been the province of the state. Every state has a set of standards that it hopes its students will meet. Every local government tries to meet those standards. Parents have the choice of sending their children to public, private or home schools. That is the parent’s right. In our state, however, home schoold kids must show up at school every now and then for reviews and for testing to make sure they are at least learning the minimums. (I have always wondered how I could teach a child advanced statistics when I had such a hard time getting throught algabra two.) So, today and for hundreds of years the education in the US has been the job of the state. In Europe, and most of the world, education is the job of the state and kids must pass state test to get into college, etc. The concept is nothing new!
The threat of Common Core is not the standards themselves, its the take-over of those standards by the federal government as a tool to manipulate local schools. CC originated with the states and as a voluntary project. The standards themselves (and I am most familiar with the mathematics) are pretty reasonable, and actually a bit of throwback to what we did before the New Math came along (and at least they scrapped the dumb idea of algebra for all in the eight grade). As for being “minimal”, who says we can’t go beyond the minimal? The superintendents of the dioceses in California have made it clear that Common Core will be implemented in a Catholic way, and that will certainly mean beating the pants off the “publics” just as always.
Tom: You make an excellent point. Avoiding nonsense such as the “new math” makes a lot of sense by standardizing the teaching of math, especially the terminology. My complaint with CC is not math or science; it is with the so-called Social Studies. History, literature, what used to be called the Humanities; the classics of Western Christian civilization are under siege. Gender studies, ethnic studies, the whole gamut of faddish subjects designed to divert the attention of our children away from the rich heritage of our culture and political traditions. Those are he things I believe are under attack. I cannot understand how Catholic educators are so willing to accept what they must surely recognize as being pernicious.
This is the new evangelization : the secular world is evangelizating the
the Catholic church.
Lets all sing a chorus of Kumbayah- the new official chant of thr catholic
church.
In his Totalitarian Tale for the Ages – Animal Farm, author George Orwell describes how all the newborn puppies are taken away from the egalitarian farm community for special training.
They return a pack of vicious attack dogs – used to keep order amongst the masses, who now must learn the Real Revolutionary Truth – that while Four Legs are Good, Two Legs are Better!
In the 1930s the Boy Scouts in Germany were destroyed and all were required to join the new instrument of ‘change’ – the ‘Hitler Youth’ – under party founder (and boy raping homo-anal coprophile terrorist) Ernst Rohm & his prostitute protege Hitler.
So too the Gaystapo Attack on the Church Today – just with updated costumes and a campier musical score, kind of like glee does rocky horror, in an Age of Abomination
Family Research Council said:
“…join us this Thursday, October 17, at 10 AM, as we bring you the next live webcast on the effort to repeal the awful law known as AB 1266, the “Bathroom Bill.”
We will be hearing from key leaders on the front lines, including:
Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, a dear brother and friend, who has been the tip of the spear in this effort;
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of the San Francisco Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, sharing with us how the Catholic Church in California is working in this effort;
Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage, sharing with us the latest updates and the strategic plans.
https://vimeo.com/jimgarlow
Common Corpse-Man Scam
Catholic Education need not be a tool for Gaystapo Indoctrination – even when Kalifornia ( the 900 lb gorilla in the textbook market) pushes their Heavy Censorship pogroms via publishers.
The E-Book System allows Catholics to Include the Truth of God’s Creation without the Lies of “Corpse Man” POTUS’ Abomination – without having to kill trees to do so.
‘Common Core’ scams enrich the publisher cronies of the Gaystapo Thought Police – Not Help Kids
Function Related Education (not so much tech school but more like Applied Academics) can really engage students (particularly Boys) – and turn classroom and ‘playground’ in to a complimentary learning tools.
The chance to apply what they learned while sitting in class, to the real world outside the door – makes for more attentive students in both places.
Admittedly the main function of the Public Zoo System is to Make Boys Ashamed to grow in to Good Men, and ‘education’ shouldn’t interfere with shaming the “little Rapists” with Y-DNA markers.
SEE
A tenured professor tells the truth about academia on his way out the door
Higher education is a vast industry about to face years a crisis. Like housing, it has expanded based on unsustainable debt.
And like the American auto industry, it got fat, lazy, inward-focused, and expensive during its decades of monopoly on certification of higher end new labor force entrants.
Now, with the growth of digital versions of higher education, it faces a competitor/industry entrant that has lower costs and high quality (at least potentially).
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/08/a_tenured_professor_tells_the_truth_about_academia_on_his_way_out_the_door.html
The Church elected these politicians. I saw this coming… I don’t suppose our Church leaders are stupid… When you support these liberal politicians… this is what you get. You should know that. Follow Christ (it’s not designed to be an easy path – never has been), not liberal idiots who promise something for nothing. There’s no such thing as a free lunch… and it looks like – it’s time to pay the piper. But do it with your own money. You’ve gotten all you’re going to get of mine.
Take Caesar’s Coin = Become Caesar’s Stooge; the Gaystapo Loves It, Why Not U?
Bishop obeys govt order to remove Catholic school teaching on sinfulness of homosexual acts
Oct. 18, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Diocese of Whitehorse has obeyed an order by the Yukon government to
– remove Church teaching on the sinfulness of homosexuality from its policy on pastoral care for same-sex attracted students in its publicly-funded Catholic schools. Critics have pointed out that even in the title of the new policy, the ‘truth’ has been removed.
The original policy contested by the government was called ‘Living with Hope, Ministering by Love, Teaching in Truth.’ The new policy title reads: ‘One Heart: Ministering by Love.’
The original policy, published in the spring of 2012, sparked opposition from media, homosexual activists, and some citizens in the town of 20,000 last spring because it expounded the Catechism’s teaching that homosexual acts are “gravely depraved” and the homosexual inclination is “objectively disordered.”
…Minister of Education Scott Kent sending a letter to Whitehorse Bishop Gary Gordon in which he effectively told the bishop that Church teaching on homosexuality was barred from publicly-funded Catholic schools…
“We wish to make it clear that departure from the Church’s teaching, or silence about it, in an effort to provide pastoral care is neither caring nor pastoral,”
wrote Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s 1986 letter ‘On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons’.
“Only what is true can ultimately be pastoral. The neglect of the Church’s position prevents homosexual men and women from receiving the care they need and deserve.”
The draft policy also says that the schools… will use materials to present homosexual “writers, historians, scientists, artists, musicians, and spiritual leaders” as “positive role models.”..
The new policy is also facing strong criticism from the other side, however, for not going far enough in removing Church doctrine.
…Religious teachings that are “inconsistent with and do not meet the requirements of existing laws and policies cannot have application in any publicly supported schools in the Yukon,” he wrote.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop-obeys-govt-order-to-remove-catholic-school-teaching-on-sinfulness-of
Michael McDermott: We can now see the future from here . It lies in the Yukon. Thank you for your report . I hope our bishops read it before buying the snake oil of the Common Core.