Dear Editor:
I'd like to call your readers attention to the Chicago Public Schools prom slogan: "This Is Are Story." ( http://eagnews.org/prom-slogan-highlights-cps-failures/. ) It's difficult to believe the extent of ignorance apparently rampant in the Chicago school system. This problem can less be understood on the basis that the average CPS teacher's salary is $76,000 while the average household income in Chicago is $47,408. On top of that, the 2012 teachers union negotiations resulted in 17 percent raises for teachers over the next three years.
I am in no way insinuating that our school system is comparable to the corrupt Democrat party stronghold of Chicago. My intent is to alert all those that feel that more federal government and teachers union control does nothing but further negatively change our educational system.
I refer your readers to: http://www.scribd.com/doc/25306300/Marxism-in-Education/. Significant quotes from the website: "Under Marxism, the ultimate purpose of education is to strengthen the state and the building up of a classless society". "The state is the sole agency of education. It has absolute power and control of all educational institutions." "The method of instruction, textbooks and evaluation system are all centrally controlled and administered by the state." "The significance of "class struggle' could be fully understood through the study of social science." I don't know about you but this sounds a lot like the direction the DoED has taken and is taking our educational system.
I sincerely hope that Missouri's parents will wake up to the efforts of the bureaucrats and unions as to what they are doing to our country's educational system. Right now there are some states that are fighting against the further takeover of our school curriculum by the implementation of Common Core. I hope Missouri will not only reject Common Core but somehow give local school boards more relief from DoED control. Re: http://www.moagainstcommoncore.com/. I cannot believe that since the creation of the Department of Education by Jimmy Carter in 1979 that anyone can say our children are more educated and prepared for life's challenges after high school, or even after college, now than before the DoED was created.
The increased distance from home from which the control of our schools comes is directly proportional to the increased deterioration of our children's education and values.