Ann McElhinney, famous for her films “Not Evil Just Wrong” and “Mine Your Own Business”, gives a heartfelt speech about how children are being indoctrinated by teachers:
Towards the end of the clip she references The Story of Stuff (vomit alert).
Ann McElhinney, famous for her films “Not Evil Just Wrong” and “Mine Your Own Business”, gives a heartfelt speech about how children are being indoctrinated by teachers:
Towards the end of the clip she references The Story of Stuff (vomit alert).
The Story of Stuff video clip definitely needs a vomit alert. It is right out of an Agitprop production. The infiltration of Communists into the educational system during the 1950s appears to have paid off handsomely. Note the Brigette DePape incident during the throne speech.
So true Ken (Kulak) and just like the Bosheviks in Old Russia, this perky ‘teacher type’ makes the fairy-tale sound so logical that support is almost a foregone conclusion unless a person knows ‘the rest of the story’. Young people seldom see through convoluted propaganda stories; they tend to trust, they are easy to brainwash. Kids would fall for the ‘story’ with hearts and minds.
Like the lady in the video states: parents must tell their children the rest of the story so that the story of the USA will not be a rewrite of the story of Russia and the counties consumed by the Communists running the Soviet Union.
The best antidote to this propagada is to give your kids, or grand-kids a few shares in a good company so they can watch the growth and the dividends accrued.
Half truths remain just that – and now for the rest of the story!
Remember: the next time you call for “better teachers”, you are actually asking for better indoctrinators: seductive indoctrinators and coercive indoctrinators.
Take heart, If they wind the propaganda war against Capitalism is banned from the Western wold, those teacher and the children they destroyed will become the impoverished slaves of those in China, India and the Middle East where they don’t buy that bullshit at all.
Just desserts folks, Too bad about your kids and grandkids though, maybe you should have said or did something before it was too late.
Maybe we need to pull all our kids out of public schools and withhold our tax support for education. Naw … too radical ,,, right?
Jesus, vomit alert is an understatement. I made it to the five minute mark before hitting the stop button. My children are just entering the school system (eldest of four starts K in September), and you’d better believe I’ll be keeping a close eye on things like this. Fortunately, we have chosen to send our children to a private school, where they make a point not to piss off parents.
Sorry about my horrid typos, I am in the sunshine with a laptop and i can barely see the screen
Not Evil Just Wrong is a must see and should be shown in Schools before Al’s propaganda peace An Inconvenient Truth.
I disagree with the implied premise of the title “Not Evil Just Wrong”, because as far as I am concerned, they truly are evil.
The public school system…hmmmm, let me count the ways. I’m just really happy that my grandbabys can afford private education.
Good video, I now feel vindicated telling one of my kids that the teacher is a really nice person but she doesn’t know as much as she thinks she does. This followed a long conversation correcting the teacher’s misinformation about “green” electricity. Previous years included conversations about zero garbage lunch bribery/punishment and diversity nonsense.
Every time I have to put up with this crap it pushes me closer to homeschooling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5uJgG05xUY&feature=fvwrel
I found this link to the “Story of Stuff, The Critique Part 1 of 4”. As you can see it is broken down into 4 parts and refutes most of the content of the original video.
“God between us and all harm” That line alone made the video watching!
I’m with her on the “perceived obsolescence” thing. Fashion stinks. If it looked good last year, it still looks good. That thing that will look stupid in five years, looks pretty dumb now as well.
Worse still is fashion of mind. New does not mean better. Insofar as “new” means “untested”, new usually means worse. If the topic is something timeless like justice, civil society, economic order or human nature,” usually” means “a 99%-plus chance”.
If you want a new idea with a decent chance of being good, read an old book.
Hmm… yes, seeds of environmentalism have found its way into the private Christian school that my boys attend, via the teachers. It’s not full-blown or constant bombardment, but it’s there nonetheless.
I believe the problem is worse than simple indoctrination. I respect most teachers for their patience with our kids, but there are some real losers out there.
In my neck of the woods, my grandaughter’s K-teacher is a completely incompetent twit, who has been presented a 5 year old with a lasting negative impression of teachers.
This idiot “teacher” was retired off and somehow was given charge of a K-class (which she had zero experience at) and has made a bloody mess of it. Example – during lunches she goes into her office and the kids are not allowed to speak or even move from their chairs. Kids are ignored when they ask to go to the bathroom because they waste time. Oh the humanity – a child waisting time! I guess it’s better if they pee themselves.
It reminds me of the idiot I had in grade 12 math who made the students teach themselves, because he was too lazy to lift his fat ass off a chair and do what he was paid for. The consequences for me as a somewhat challenged math student were quite significant. Nice job moron!
Sorry for the rant, and thanks for letting me vent. Teachers have no right to to espouse any political viewpoint, and the point is never whether or not I agree with it – it’s not appropriate. BTW, any teacher that sends their students to teacher/political rallies for the union should be immediately fired.
Teach the ciruculum, we don’t care about your political views, of which many can be described as bizarre or plainly moronic.
If the teacher somehow recognized herself in my blog – up yours and go back to retirement where your damage can be minimized.
Shamrock, you say that teachers “have no right to to espouse any political viewpoint” and should just “[t]each the ciruculum”. I couldn’t agree more.
But what happens if the curriculum, itself, has been completely politicized?
Shamrock, you say that teachers “have no right to espouse any political viewpoint” and should just “[t]each the curriculum”. I couldn’t agree more.
But what happens if the curriculum, itself, has been completely hijacked and politicized?
Double post due to some, new-fangled thing in the SDA system.
But sorry anyway.
It’s no secret that our monopolistic public school system produces mostly eco-zealots and little marxists. Magnificent socialists all of them.
And I see no hope in sight.
As a teacher, the story of stuff does present a valuable lesson in critical thinking. Most of what she states in the video is manipulated, twisted, and even made up data and as such should be ignored. I feel that it is important to present high school aged students with radical opinions, however, as long a well balanced teacher is there to make sure that they are questioning information, demanding citation, and fact checking. Note that the teacher’s personal opinion does not enter into this equation.