Indoctrination 101

[Jeanfromfillmore]

Indoctrination 101: Chicago School Teaching Students How To Protest (Part 1)

Jones College Prep – a Chicago Public Schools “selective enrollment” school – recently held “

According to a flyer on the school’s website:

“Social Justice Week was created to promote community advancement through dialogue and community service based activism. Moreover, we hope to unify the voice of various JCP and community organizations in which to facilitate collaboration for the betterment of the community at large and promote a unified human rights advancement initiative.”

The school is, according to U.S. News & World Report, a Top 100 high school in the country. It’s one of the best of the best – the cream of the crop.
Demographically, Jones College Prep is pretty balanced. Statistics from 2007-2008 show black enrollment is 23.4%, white enrollment is 29.5% and Hispanic enrollment is 33.7%.

Yet the school’s focus appears to be bent on radicalizing the students through political activities devised by adult employees, EAGnews.org reports exclusively.

See the EXCLUSIVE video here.

On Wednesday of Social Justice Week, Black Star Project, a Chicago-based community organizing group, was brought into the school to teach students about “non-violent” protesting. Led by Phillip Jackson, former “Chief of Education” under former Mayor Richard Daley, the discussion was focused on students fighting back against gun crime.

Black Star Project, according to its website, is funded by Open Society Foundations (i.e. George Soros), Best Buy, ING and Toyota Motor Sales, among others.

But Jackson apparently had no interest in discussing the issue of gun ownership with students and allowing them to come to their own conclusions. When one student disagreed with Jackson’s premise on the topic, her opinion was dismissed. The agenda is not to teach students how to think, but rather what to think.

Jackson's co-presenter, Camille Williams of the Peace in the Hood movement, made several inflammatory statements about gun ownership and the National Rifle Association. She claimed the NRA is indifferent to gun violence. She also asserted she has received emails from the NRA and/or its members claiming she is "going to hell" for her advocacy and "these porch monkeys deserved to die," referring to the students.

EAGnews.org contacted Jackson regarding these emails, wishing to make them public. We received no response.

Students simply thinking about issues is obviously not enough for Jackson. He strongly encouraged them to develop forms of non-violent protesting. “I’m not telling you to do it, but if you were going to,” he said, leading the proverbial horse to the water.

"I'm just saying," he said on several occasions.

Jackson then offered the idea of creating a graveyard on the school lawn of headstones featuring the names of Chicago residents killed with guns.
It sounds as though Mr. Jackson was simply using the opportunity to recruit volunteers for his political mission. And that sounds more like indoctrination that education.

Do the parents of Jones College Prep students understand what’s going on? What about school leaders?

Coming tomorrow: A Jones dean says “times are changing” and that’s why Social Justice Week is good for students and adults. Also, what can adults do to harness all that “teenage angst”?

http://townhall.com/columnists/kyleo...t_1/page/full/

[Jeanfromfillmore]

Indoctrination 101: Botched ‘Gender Bender Day’ leads to ‘Social Justice Week’ (EAGnews.org Exclusive Part 2)

Yesterday, EAGnews.org reported on two events held during “Social Justice Week” at Chicago Public Schools’ Jones College Prep. One event featured a community organizer who taught students how to protest and engaged in inflammatory rhetoric against the National Rifle Association.


An EAGnews.org producer who attended the events interviewed Dean of Students Grace Moody, asking how such activities prepare students for higher education.

See the EXCLUSIVE video interview here.

Moody explained that Social Justice Week came about after a botched “Gender Bender Day,” held during Spirit Week in the fall. On that day, boys could dress like girls and vice versa, with the goal being to make the school more inclusive for students who struggle with their gender identity.

It backfired, resulting in the identity-questioning students feeling ridiculed. School leaders decided a full-blown Social Justice Week was warranted. Moody thought the school could handle it because Jones College Prep is “pretty hip and pretty progressive and pretty open-minded.”

When asked why Phillip Jackson, a community organizer with Black Star Project, was brought into the school to teach students how to protest, Moody replied:

“Everyday we’re dealing with teenagers who have all that teenage angst and I think it comes with the territory in working with teenagers where they like that – with that spark that they have – they want to fight the power. I recognize that and I also recognize that we sit in the position of power.
“The fortunate part of this situation is that we want to work with our students...

“ … Our students, if they want something, need to learn how to advocate for themselves because non-violent protest training is at its roots advocacy for yourself and for your group. So I believe in teaching our teenagers – who are inherently going to protest something – to teach them how to do it so they can ultimately get what they want and need.”

Moody was asked about Jackson’s idea to have students create a “graveyard” on the school lawn to raise awareness of gun violence.
Moody said she approved of the idea, and would want to help the students however she could, and to limit the distractions a symbolic graveyard might have on the learning process.

There certainly seems to be a culture of protesting and harnessing all that “teenage angst” at Jones College Prep. Moody explained that in 2005, a “school-wide civics lesson” was created to help students understand how state and federal budget cuts might affect their school. A “full school-wide field trip” was created – approved by the Chicago Public School law department – and students walked to a building downtown where “there was going to be a protest.”

Pictures posted on the Jones College Prep website show then-CPS CEO and current Education Secretary Arne Duncan participated in the protest.

http://townhall.com/columnists/kyleo...t_2/page/full/


Coming tomorrow: At the recent National Action Network conference, Duncan addressed the issue of schools teaching students how to protest and using children at those protests. He couldn’t possibly endorse such practices, could he?

[Jeanfromfillmore]

Indoctrination 101: Ed. Sec. Arne Duncan Approves of Schools Teaching Protesting Techniques (EAGnews.org Exclusive Part 3)
On Tuesday, EAGnews.org brought you footage of Black Star Project community organizer Phillip Jackson teaching students in Chicago Public Schools' Jones College Prep the finer points of non-violent protesting. He was positioning the students to achieve a particular result he was seeking.
On Wednesday, we brought you a shocking interview with the dean of the school, Grace Moody, who explained that students should be taught how to protest. She reasoned that with all their "teenage angst," students are going to protest something, so they might as well be taught how to protest effectively.

Moody also explained how Jones' "Social Justice Week" was the result of a botched "Gender Bender Day" earlier in the year.
Today, we bring you U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan's opinions on the matter.
See the EXCLUSIVE video interview here.
Speaking at Al Sharpton's recent National Action Network conference in New York City, Duncan was asked about the appropriateness of schools teaching students how to protest, as well as bringing students to political protests.
His thoughts are sadly unsurprising, given his boss' background as a community organizer:

EAGnews.org Producer: I wanted to get your comments on the introduction of non-violent protest training activism in the schools with the children, specifically taking children to protests and advocating for their own change in the educational system.

Arne Duncan: Thank you – that’s a great question. I think whether it’s, you know, children in elementary school, middle school, or high school, or college, getting our students engaged in the civic life of our country is hugely important. So getting young people engaged – protest being a part of it – but creating clubs, participating in service, giving back – not just being recipients of service but being the givers of service … The more our young people are actively engaged, I think the more we’re going to have a strong and vibrant democracy. And so, I think, having young people at the earliest ages doing things that are somehow non-traditional, I’m a big supporter of. (emphasis added)

It is disturbing that America's top educator (theoretically) would openly endorse utilizing children for political protests and having schools use valuable time teaching such tactics. It sends a signal to every school in America that it is appropriate and it will not be scrutinized by federal educational leaders.
Our students ought not be treated like pawns by union and school leaders. Our schools ought to be places of learning, not hothouses for growing politically-charged student activists. It must be added that when students protest in support of more money for government schools, it’s the school employee unions that ultimately stand to gain the most financially. More spending leads to more school employees, who are then forced to pay union dues. Is that a coincidence?

Not to mention, programs such as "Social Justice Week" may do something to assuage the white guilt some teachers and administrators may feel, but it does little to actually help students become productive adults who are prepared to compete in the world economy.

EAGnews.org will continue to conduct these types of investigations to show taxpayers what is going on in our government schools, and to raise questions about what school officials are really trying to achieve: education or indoctrination?

http://townhall.com/columnists/kyleo...t_3/page/full/