Good Intentions

Liberally Conservative at Agora VOX provides some insight as to why understanding Obama's relationship to Bill Ayers is important.

Obama’s education bill, S.2111, significantly redesigns and amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to allow, in part, for “State...local educational agencies, and schools to increase implementation of early intervention services, particularly school-wide positive behavior supports.”

According to Section 3, “the term `positive behavior support’ means a systematic approach to embed proven practices for early intervening services, including a range of systemic and individualized strategies to reinforce desired behaviors and eliminate reinforcement for problem behaviors, in order to achieve important social outcomes (emphasis added)...”

Section 5 called: “Teacher and Principal Preparation to Improve School Climate,” mandates a new requirement for teachers and principals. It’s described as “an understanding of social or emotional, or both, learning in children...such as positive behavior support.”Obama’s bill also provides for “instructional leadership skills to help teachers” satisfy this requirement.

In Section 8 Obama’s bill creates what’s called the “Office of Specialized Instructional Support Services” which shall “administer, coordinate, implement, and ensure adequate evaluation of the effectiveness of programs ...” via a new “Director” who provides “continuous training and professional development opportunities for specialized instructional support personnel” comprised of “school counselors...social workers...psychologists, and others...” These “instructional support personnel” provide “assessment, diagnosis, counseling, educational, therapeutic, and other necessary corrective or supportive services...” for students.

How are these "desired behaviors" defined? Who decides what they are and when they are to be applied? I thought parents were responsible for providing kids with social and behavioral guidance.

Compare this to the August 20, 1976 FBI summary on Ayers' activity in the Weather Underground:

“The point of the revolutionary youth movement strategy is to move from a predominant student elite base to more oppressed (less privileged) working-class youth as a way of deepening and expanding the revolutionary youth movement... This is part of the strategy to reach the entire working class to engage in struggle against imperialism...it is both important and possible to reach young people wherever they are-not only in the shops, but also in the schools ...to recruit them to fight... A good program mobilizes and teaches...”

The language may be different but the ideas are the same. Liberals, dare I say Fascists, like Obama view governance as one big ongoing social experiment justified by perpetual injustice. The specific injustice, whether it be greed, racism, global warming, poverty, etc. is irrelevant. That it exists is the important thing. And, the only way they can sustain the revolution is by indoctrinating our kids.

Yes, knowing who influences Obama's policies is important.