Lantieri Linda Janet Patti Foreword (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Number line 8 7 6 5, only; the fifth printing. Government uses the threat of force to herd the nation's children -- all but the children of the rich, who know better -- into its mandatory youth propaganda camps, taking away the authority of parents to manage education in their own homes and neighborhoods, and -- surprise! -- finds these little lockups turning into "war zones" (as Marian Wright Edelman admits in her Foreword, here.) But it turns out there's a solution: Multicultural collectivism! "Cooperation is a prerequisite for many . . . school tasks, and teachers often assign collaborative projects in the hope that young people will work together, only to become frustrated when the projects fail because the children argue, interrupt one another, and don't work as teams," the authors sigh. "It's important to remember that children aren't born cooperative and certainly haven't been encouraged to be so in this society." Not like in, say, really cool, collectivist societies, like Communist China and North Korea. "In our curriculum, children are taught that cooperation is about working together toward a common goal, and that it has many advantages over competition because it allows people to help one another." Ah. But they still insist the government schools aren't discouraging excellence, trying to substitute the collectivism of the herd for the competition, free enterprise, and recognition of individual achievement that made America great. No! They're just teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic! Honest! "Although peer mediation can become an integral part of any conflict resolution effort at a school, it is not a panacea for ridding a school of all violence. In fact, schools without a solid curriculum component in conflict resolution often lack a firm foundation to support peer mediation," warn the authors, who hail from (hang onto your seats!) Boston and New York. But the reason our kids -- incarcerated in camps where "teachers' pets" who strive to get good grades are regularly beaten up in the locker rooms -- can't spell, can't file in alphabetical order, can't count change, and don't know any history or basic economics isn't because their days are larded up with a bunch of trendy, non-academic, social-engineering "curricula" designed to re-make our society into a lowing collectivist bovine herd, where the individual initiative that made America great is discouraged. No! The government schools are just teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic! Honest! "Extensive advertising by gun manufacturers and the gun lobby has convinced many American that owning a gun increases their chances of protecting themselves and their children. Unfortunately this is far from true," the authors simper, ignoring what happened to Germany's disarmed Jews -- as well as the millions of times armed Americans dispatch home invaders, and the fact that armed American farmers won the battles of Trenton, Princeton, and Saratoga. "We as adults can decrease the chances of an accident by keeping firearms unloaded and locked away from children's reach, with bullets stored and locked in a separate place." Where they'll do a fat lot of good during a home invasion. But the coercion-based collectivist government youth camps aren't trying to propagandize children to become good little stool pigeons, helping create a disarmed peasant class, the more easily squeezed of our life-blood for the benefit of their burgeoning corporate/collectivist police state. No! They're just teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic! Honest! This pile of unread, as-new, collectivist drivel, which gets its absurd, long-disproved "guns aren't useful in self-defense" "statistics" from the infamous rape-enabling Children's Defense Fund, is inscribed "Thank you for waging peace where you are," and signed "Linda Lantieri" to the half-title page. 268 pp., here reduced considerably from $27. Will no one buy this steaming pile of rape-enabling, collectivist crap? It's SIGNED!. Inscribed by Author(s).