EDUCATION IN AMERICA - PART 4         
Monday, March 29 , 2004

Very few people stop to think that the schools across America are basic to the preservation of our freedom. The study of history bears witness to the truth that our nation’s foundation was built upon liberty. Our Founding Fathers recognized that all people are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Those rights include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

To maintain liberty we must, at all costs, protect and maintain our national sovereignty as put forward in the Declaration of Independence.

To many parents alert to America’s system of education, the new federal curriculum, namely the Civics textbook titled “We The People: The Citizen And The Constitution” is a threat to our freedom. Many view and well they should, the increasing control of our schools by the federal government as a danger to a free people.

The text book, “We The People: The Citizen And The Constitution” states, “The development of this text was originally funded and cosponsored by the Commission
on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.” The current edition of the textbook, was authorized and funded in 1994 by the Education Appropriations
Bill known as HR6. The Text was reauthorized and funded by Congress in HR1 in 2002 and is commonly known as “No Child Left Behind.”

It is made clear in the book, that the Civics textbook was a project of the Center for Civic Education. Obviously, grants were made available to fund the project. So ask the question, why should the federal government subsidize the publishing of this high school textbook and no other?

To explain the philosophy of the book, the text preface ends with these words to the students: “You too, will strive…to let America be America again/ The land that never has been yet.” This means that the U.S. is constantly changing its basic standards. For example, it is enlarging federal powers and judicial powers. It is as if the principles upon which America was founded were fine for then but today is different. So, in other words, we have left the “self-evident” truths and the “unalienable rights” and exchanged them with new theories that reflect a new culture.

This is why multiculturalism taught in our schools discards the principles of national sovereignty, natural law, and the rights to life, liberty, and property. Multiculturalism does not embrace godly principles it considers inappropriate for us today. The philosophy of multiculturalism does not recognize the “self-evident” and “unalienable truths” of our Founding Fathers.

Multiculturalism is presented as truth, but it discloses a dangerous paradigm shift. The new and radical truths presented in this new Civics textbook are the solidarity rights in the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights described as “worthy” of any just society.” This statement is used in constitutions of Communist countries.

Tomorrow - Part 5