Citizens can make a difference at school

Public Schools and you  =  Citizens can make a difference,

Many Americans are asking the question about how they can make a difference and stop the anti-American trend that is engulfing our nation. One place is the local school. Most everyone who owns property pays a significant amount of taxes to support the public school system. And in days of old--not so long ago, really--each community had a large thumb-print on just how the local school was operated, what was taught and the type of teachers who were hired.

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The anti-poverty and civil rights laws of the 1960s and 1970s brought about a dramatic emergence of the Department's equal access mission. The passage of laws such as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which prohibited discrimination based on race, sex, and disability, respectively made civil rights enforcement a fundamental and long-lasting focus of the Department of Education.
In 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act launched a comprehensive set of programs, including the Title I program of Federal aid to disadvantaged children to address the problems of poor urban and rural areas. And in that same year, the Higher Education Act authorized assistance for post-secondary education, including financial aid programs for needy college students.
In 1980, Congress established the Department of Education as a Cabinet level agency. Today, ED operates programs that touch on every area and level of education. The Department's elementary and secondary programs annually serve nearly 18,200 school districts and over 50 million students attending roughly 98,000 public schools and 32,000 private schools. Department programs also provide grant, loan, and work-study assistance to more than 12 million post-secondary students.

That means the Federal contribution to elementary and secondary education is about 8 percent, which includes funds not only from the Department of Education (ED) but also from other Federal agencies, such as the Department of Health and Human Services' Head Start program and the Department of Agriculture's School Lunch program.
Although ED's share of total education funding in the U.S. is relatively small, ED works hard to get a big bang for its taxpayer-provided bucks by targeting its funds where they can do the most good. This targeting reflects the historical development of the Federal role in education as a kind of "emergency response system," a means of filling gaps in State and local support for education when critical national needs arise. Staffing

One final note: while ED's programs and responsibilities have grown substantially over the years, the Department itself has not. In fact, the Department has the smallest staff of the 15 Cabinet agencies, even though its discretionary budget alone is the third largest, behind only the Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, the Department provides over $150 billion in new and consolidated loans annually.}

 Nowadays, with both parents usually working to make ends meet, they have little time or energy to participate in one of the most important areas of their children's lives--where their children spend the vast amount of their time--
the public school.

There probably has been no other influence so life changing to this nation as that of the public school system. And if you are truly interested in changing the direction of this country, acting locally at the school is where you personally can have an impact. You pay, perhaps, thousands of dollars a year to support it and you can have a voice in what happens there. For example, if parents would have stood firm and massed a strong voice against it, the Bisbee, Arizona School Board would have had a difficult time in 2008 voting to include condoms in the "prom bags" that were given to every student who attended the annual dance.

Or how about the Islamic public charter school in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota?
 This school, supported by public tax dollars, was an Islamic colonization school. It taught Arabic as a second language. It set aside an hour each day for Islamic prayers. It served only Halal approved food. It practiced Islamic washing rituals and required students to remove shoes in certain rooms. And after hours the TIZA school taught the Koran, and busses did not arrive and children are not dismissed until after the Koran is taught. It didn't fly the American flag--the Imam schoolmaster said he doesn't know how to operate the flag pole. Due to public outcry, the Minnesota Education Department shut down the school in July 2011. Citizens can make a difference, but not without being armed with the facts, and a legal fight.

Not one penny of our tax dollars should ever support such efforts. But the National Education Association has brainwashed parents by having programs that support the schools and make parents think they are doing the right thing by participating in all their little do-gooder projects. In reality, these very same people are teaching our kids to be sexually immoral, to be anti-American, to be multi-cultural, and that every religion is fine except Judaism and Christianity.

Public schools are a big issue in the current decline and future direction of America.
Ephesians 6:13 instructs us to "take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand." Have you done all? Are you standing? ----
 Bill Wilson ---

Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!

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