Teaching Certificates hinged to TEA "multicultural" agenda

How does one get to be a certified teacher?

After obtaining a suitable college or university degree, the
state issues a teaching certificate through a process of
training. Around here, that is done at one of 20 Texas
Education Agency Service Centers. The nearest one is
located in Waco.

In today's atmosphere, it's not enough to demonstrate
competency in teaching the basic public school curriculum.

One must also demonstrate an ability to communicate
something called "muliticulturism."

Just "parroting" catch phrases and popular sayings won't get
the job done. Caught doing that, a student teacher is often
subjected to a "remediation plan," according to a
Minneapolis columnist who has been tracking the new trend in
educational certification in that state, Katherine Kersten
of the "Minneapolis Star-Tribune."

There are group sessions in which, through self-criticism,
the task which is set is for the neophyte public school
teacher to recognize and confess - guess what - their own
bigotry. This is the first step toward "cultural
competence," she wrote.

The ultimate goal, according to a report by Bob Unruh in the
on-line website WorldNetDaily about the Minnesota approach
is for teachers to "embrace - and be prepared to teach our
state's kids - the task force's own vision of America as an
oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homphobic."

"Anyone familiar with the re-education camps of China's
Cultural Revolution will recognize the modus operandi," he
concluded.

But it gets even better. In New York City, a lesbian
activist, playwright and City University of New York
professor, Sarah Schulman, advocates in her book, "Ties That
Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences," she offers
a strategy for dealing with homophobic trauma.

"Homophobia" should be identified as a sickness, with
families court-ordered into treatment programs.

One wonders how a child from a "homophobic" family would be
identified, then targeted and the family thus subjected to
such court-ordered counseling.

How, indeed? Would it be done by turning the public school
systems into vast political re-education camps, hell holes
in their own rite where teaching core edcuational skills
would take a back seat to shaping young minds in new systems
of morality?

One wonders.

Have you been court-ordered to any "programs" in which you
are urged to make public confessions and criticize yourself
before groups of strangers?

What about your children? Have they?

Just asking. You don't have to answer to me. You could
start with your kids.

jim@downdirtyword.com