Allah in the Classroom — the ABC’s of Forced Conversion

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By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
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Our children are our world as parents. They are the future of our nation. Most of us would gladly sacrifice all we have and our lives for our little ones. So, why do we so readily hand their learning and their care over to those that would abuse them and trick them into being part of the greatest evil the world has ever known? It figures that the young, innocent ones would be a prime target for Islam and are what they term, ‘fertile ground’ for their broken philosophy. Between such programs as Common Core, Connect All Schools and CSCOPE, CAIR has been ensuring that the textbooks that teach our children go out of their way to teach Islamic history and to have the children indoctrinated into Islam. CAIR has even gotten textbooks in private schools, charter schools and home schooling programs to include their revisionist history.

The Islamization of the curriculum and the school room itself in American schools is thoroughly covered by Pamela Geller at Atlas shrugs in her book: Stop the Islamization of America. Do buy and read the book and then home school your children after reviewing their ordered teaching materials. You should not be surprised either that Qatar is heavily vested in all this – they fund Connect All Schools and Common Core. On October 24th and 25th, hundreds of schools, leadership teams, and teachers from across the region gathered in Dubai, to learn about the Common Core State Standards, share curricula and best practices, and network with each other. Ask yourselves, why Dubai? Surely, Bill Gates and Jeb Bush know, since they are helping to fund it as well. They are very cozy with the Islamic states – all that money and power – motivation for selling out our children and country many times over.

Across America, in over 100 schools now, in Social Studies and World History classes, the proselytizing for Islam is being pushed and hard. It does not include the 1,400 year history of Jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural genocide and enslavement, not to mention the extermination of the entire Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe of Arabia, as Pamela Geller puts it. What it does include, and what I find infuriating beyond words, is the Shahada and the Five Pillars of Islam. The Shahada is an Islamic creed declaring belief in the oneness of God and the acceptance of Muhammad as God’s prophet. It is recited to convert someone to Islam. That’s right… they are actively converting your children to their religion. Now, how do you feel about it? Then the little ones are forced to learn the Five Pillars of Islam.

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El golpe de Maduro a la propiedad privada: Medicina, Educacion, Bancos, Seguros, Comunicaciones, Identificacion personal

Gracias a  Jesus V Diaz
LEYES SOCIALISTAS PARA VENEZUELA

(Ante-proyecto de leyes bajo discusión en la Asamblea Nacional)

Sobre la medicina Privada y las Empresas de Seguros:

·         Se decretara la gratuidad del servicio de salud privada, y se pasara a la nomina del ESTADO: a todo personal medico Y auxiliar.

·         Se expropiaran las: edificaciones, instalaciones y equipos, pagando a sus  propietarios el 5% de su valor de mercado en bonos del ESTADO, con vencimiento a 20 años, en las clínicas solo se dará atención médica a pacientes  que remuneren en dólares o euros.

·         Se suspenderá la actividad de los Seguros de Vida .privados  El personal que ahí, labora quedara cesante sin remuneración de pensiones.

Sobre la Educación Privada:

·         Se, decretara la gratuidad de la educación en todos los niveles y se pasara a la nomina del ESTADO a todo; el personal docente y administrativo.

·         Se cambiara la denominación actual de todos los colegios a institutos privados  utilizando a cambio los nombres de personas o apelativos que la REVOLUCION considere representativo como ejemplo: se tiene contemplado el que la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello pase a denominarse Popular, Andrés Bello.

·         Todos los estudiantes de todos los niveles (escolar,, bachillerato, y universitarios) Usaran. como.. uniforme Franelas rojas, pantalón azul con una leyenda a lateral (REPÚBLICA BOLIVARIANA) y boina roja..

·         Algunas materias sociales, como Historia de Venezuela y _ Geografía de Venezuela serán adaptadas, y otras serán eliminadas de los programas de la docencia. En su lugar se dictarán cursos; relacionados con él.  SOCIALISMO DEL SIGLO XXI.

·         Los nuevos bachilleres saldrán formados técnicos medios en Área; cómo: Metalúrgica; Carpintería, Petróleo, Arte, Electricidad, Construcción, etc. Pasando al servicio de la REVOLUCIÓN.

·         Se autorizara a la familia sin vivienda a que ocupen las denominaciones "segunda viviendas" comenzando esto por los apartamentos y casas en playas, incluyendo las ubicadas en clubes Finalizando con las .ubicadas., en zonas urbanas.

·         Se obligara a los propietarios ocupantes de las viviendas principales que incluyan  familias adicionales de tres miembros por habitación, reservando a la familia propietaria sólo una habitación por cada tres miembros y haciendo uso común con. los nuevos integrantes de todos los servicios de la vivienda.              

·         La finca o hacienda serán transformada en conuco al servicio de la revolución, cuya producción será de acuerdo a los sueldos de lo contrario serán entregados  a otros productores campesinos que si cumpla con lo estipulado.

·         Las tierras serán exclusivamente del ESTADO el cual a través del INTI puede adjudicarlas a específicos ocupantes, campesinos quienes no la puedan vender ni hipotecaria, ni transferirlas de ninguna manera.

Sobre la identidad y la actividad ciudadana.

·         Se pondrá en vigencia un nuevo documento de identificación para cada ciudadano, quedando los actuales sin ninguna validez.

·          A las personas que aparezcan como firmantes en cualquiera de' las listas en contra de la, revolución, como fue la' solicitud del Revocatorio al Presidente de `la `República no se le entregara ni el nuevo documento de identidad, ni el  pasaporte a menos que se sometan voluntariamente. a cursos de educación ciudadana, reconozcan por escrito sus errores pasados y cumplan con un periodo de prueba sin papeles de identificación a satisfacción del estado.

·         Para el ejercicio de cualquier actividad pública o privada (incluyendo la electoral) solamente será valido el nuevo-documento nacional de identidad.

·         La entrega del pasaporte para viajar fuera del país estará supeditada a la  consideración de-las autoridades competentes, bajó asesoría de técnicos  cubanos.

·         La patria  potestad de las personas menores de 21  años será  compartida por el ESTADO.

Sobre la banca privada:

·         Se pasara a la nomina del ESTADO a todo personal de la banca privada.

·         La moneda va a cambiar de denominación  y se le van a quitar los tres últimos ceros.

·         Los fondos de :particulares; superiores a los SIETE  MILLONES  BOLIVARES 7.000.000. serán  retenidos por el .ESTADO.

Sobre `las comunicaciones:

·         El uso del cable y otras comunicaciones satelitales se van a restringir a las  dependencias oficiales, y a los establecimientos hoteleros y turísticos.

·         E! uso de la telefonía celular será de uso exclusivo para las personas del                                        ESTADO.

·         Se eliminara el acceso a Internet a personas naturales.

·         Se exigirá el registro oficial de todo los mini-computadores y cualquier PC en                                        posesión de particulares.

·         Se  expropiaran todas las emisoras-de radio y TV, pasando a integrar una sola red de transmisión a nivel nacional, pagando a sus ,propietarios el 5% de su valor de mercado en BONOS DEL ESTADO con vencimiento a 20 años.

·         Se expropiaran igualmente todos los periódicos y demás medios impresos.

Sobre la propiedad privada en general:

·         Se nacionalizaran toda clase de propiedad privada. SOBRE LAS FUERZAS ARMADAS NACIONALES:

·         Se creara oficialmente una milicia popular, la cual progresivamente pasara  hacer uso de todas las instalaciones y equipos de- las Fuerzas Armadas  Nacionales. El Instituto de Previsión Social de las Fuerzas Armadas asumirá  las obligaciones sociales de por lo menos 250.000 reservistas. Se procederá a disolver las Fuerzas Armadas Nacionales.   

·         Se incorporará a esa Milicia Popular exclusivamente a la oficialidad que  coincida con los ideales de la REVOLUCIÓN.

·         La oficialidad' no afecta con la REVOLUCIÓN o con un pasado dudoso, quedará cesante en sus funciones sin ningún tipo de ingreso por retiro.

·          Se consolidaran todas las policías estadales y municipales bajo un solo comando.

·         El servicio militar obligatorio para ambos sexos se hará a partir de tos 17 años. Los conscriptos estarán en disponibilidad inmediata para apoyar los  procesos revolucionarios en naciones con las cuales nuestro país tiene  convenios: CUBA, BOLIVIA, NICARÁGUA O IRAN: .

Sobre el control de cambio:

·         Se penalizará con cárcel la tenencia de-divisas extranjeras en papel moneda.

·         Se prohibirá la titularidad de cuentas de divisas en el exterior, sus dueños estarán en la obligación de repatriarlas, con pena de prisión.

·         Se eliminará todo tipo de tarjetas de créditos o débito para su uso dentro o                                     fuera del país.

Sobre la economía:

·         Se impondrá Bonos o talones.

·         Se impondrá el trueque con asesoramiento de miembros de la. Milicia Popular.

·         Se impondrá el uso de la Tarjeta Alimentaría, para ser utilizado el Mercal.

·         Se impondrá el Salario Mínimo a todo el personal; que este en Nomina del Estado; a obreros, técnicos  profesionales por igual . Igualmente se prohíbe  el ejercicio de la profesión a cualquier profesional o técnico que se niegue a  servir al ESTADO.

Practica religiosa.-

·         Se prohíbe el uso da la minifalda.

·         Se prohibirá cualquier clase de culto religioso fuera de sus templos.

·         Se prohibirá la catequesis fuera de los templos.

·         EL ESTADO supervisará a nivel nacional los seminarios y demás centros de  formación religiosa.

·         Se expulsará del país a todo clero por nativo

Sobre las prácticas sociales:

·         Se prohibirá el uso atuendos que atente en contra de la moral y las buenas costumbres. (minifaldas, trajes de baño ”hilo dental” escotes muy pronunciados, pantalones ajustados, etc.).

·         Se prohibirá el consumo de bebidas alcohólicas en la vía pública.

·         El béisbol profesional y cualquier tipo de deporte profesional estará bajo control del ESTADO.

·         Se restringe las importaciones de artículos de lujo tales como: whisky, electrodomésticos, autos de lujo, etc.

·         Se prohíbe el uso imágenes y artículos de influencia transculturizadora imperialista en todas las entidades públicas. (tales como: santa claus, mickey Mouse etc.)

Sobre la propiedad privada:

·         Se legitimará la' ocupación de los edificios, desocupados hasta la presente fecha alcanzando más de 77 solo en el centro de Caracas, se apoyara el decreto para expropiar los edificios de los propietarios.

PATRIA SOCIALISMO

O MUERTE.

More educated but how much richer?

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Transgender Teacher Returns to School a Woman

By JoNel Aleccia 

A California high school science teacher gave students and colleagues a new lesson in biology Monday, showing up for the first time as a woman a week after her plans to switch genders became suddenly public.

The former Gary Sconce, 56 — an award-winning educator, husband, father and grandfather who has taught at Yosemite High School for 24 years — will now be known as Karen Adell Scot, she said.

“I’m actually going to work as my real 'out' self,” Scot told NBC News. “I stand in front of the class and I’m so filled with joy.”

Under a long auburn wig and makeup, wearing a blue flowered dress and size 12W open-toed shoes, the transgender teacher said her brain will now match her body after a transition that has been a lifetime in coming.

“I will not return as my male persona ever again,” she said.

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Karen Scot, 56, gets dressed at her North Fork, Calif., home before her first day teaching as a transgendered woman at Yosemite High School in Oakhurst, Calif. Scot has been a science teacher for 30 years.

The change has stirred controversy in the small town of Oakhurst, Calif., in the Gold Rush territory just outside Yosemite National Park. One neighbor, Kathi Bales, wrote a letter published in the local newspaper last week telling Scot to quit her job and urging the community to reject her.

“I see this as an assault on the minds and morals of our children,” she wrote. “It blurs the lines of what is right and wrong.”

Others, however, have rallied to support Scot, saying she’s a role model for integrity, courage and authenticity.

“Karen is truly an inspiration to everyone,” said Julia Cruz, 34, of nearby Coarsegold, Calif., whose 18-year-old daughter, Erin Asis, was a student of the former Mr. Sconce.

"I never expected it, but I'm very happy for her," Asis said. "She'll still be the same excellent teacher that she is."

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Common Core Obama's Means to 'Fundamentally Transform' America's Education System

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By Dr. Susan Berry 

Proponents of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) often insist that the new standards are not a federal takeover of education. Actually, Common Core supporters could be right in one sense: Common Core is not so much about a nationalization of education as it is part of a world-wide initiative that may ultimately serve to make American values and practices secondary to global sharing.

Writing at Crisis Magazine, journalist Mary Jo Anderson asserts that Common Core is nothing less than the latest attempt by the U.N. to impose on the United States a globalist perspective with the utopian goals of worldwide peace, environmental sustainability, and economic fairness. In that context, Common Core is part of the Obama administration’s “transformational” education plan that places emphasis on global relationships rather than a unique American culture.

It is commonly known that Common Core is being financed with more than $150 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In addition, the Gates Foundation has collaborated with the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

In 2004, Gates’ Microsoft Corporation signed a Cooperation Agreement with UNESCO to develop a “master curriculum” which would include benchmarks and a testing program. According to the agreement, “UNESCO will explore how to facilitate content development.”

In the Agreement, UNESCO maps out its intention to establish “Knowledge Communities,” which it defines as “web-based communities of practice in UNESCO’s fields.” The goal is to create, through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) throughout the globe, communities without borders, in a sense, so that all students around the world are learning similar content and sharing knowledge. As many Americans are aware, Common Core relies heavily upon increased broadband width. In at least some states and local school districts, total reconstruction of Internet capabilities has been necessary.

According to Anderson, in this concept of globalism that UNESCO and Microsoft proposed, “a nation is permitted to keep its surface culture, such as language, music, and cuisine. But patriotism, religion, and individualism are anathema, as each competes with the globalist vision of world harmony.”

Anderson writes that the most efficient way to urge a nation to abandon its culture and natural resources is to “invest in education to ensure that the coming generation will embrace the principles of globalism as a natural consequence of their formation.”

Despite the continued, overt insistence of the Obama administration--and some prominent Republicans--that Common Core is a state and local endeavor, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has actively promoted the standards in the U.S. Recently, however, he may have dealt a serious blow to the endeavor, with a controversial comment made during a meeting of state schools superintendents. Feeling the heat of increased opposition to Common Core, Duncan said that those who oppose the new standards are “white suburban moms who – all of a sudden – their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought.”

In 2010, Duncan addressed UNESCO, and in his remarks said that education would be the “beacon” that would light the way to stem a “global economic crisis.” Offering “two overarching messages” about America’s efforts to “transform” education and achievement, Duncan said:

First, the Obama administration has an ambitious and unified theory of action that propels our agenda. The challenge of transforming education in America cannot be met by quick-fix solutions or isolated reforms. It can only be accomplished with a clear, coherent, and coordinated vision of reform.
Second, while America must improve its stagnant educational and economic performance, President Obama and I both reject the protectionist Cold War-era assumption that improving economic competitiveness is somehow a zero-sum game, with one nation’s gain being another country’s loss.

Duncan cited Obama in the latter’s speech “to the Muslim world in Cairo” in 2009: “Any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.”

“In the United States, we feel an economic and moral imperative to challenge the status quo,” Duncan said. “Closing the achievement gap and closing the opportunity gap is the civil rights issue of our generation.”

Lamenting the high number of high school dropouts in the United States, Duncan said that global “partnerships” will inspire students to take responsibility for the betterment of the global community.

“A just and socially responsible society must also be anchored in civic engagement for the public good,” he said. “Education, as Nelson Mandela says, ‘is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.’”

Ironically, Duncan also touted in his UNESCO address that President Obama “wants to expand school choice to encourage innovation – and spread the effective practices of high-performing schools to all schools.”

It is doubtful, however, that school choice is in President Obama’s “transformational” education plan, as most Americans define it.

Recently, the Department of Justice challenged the state of Louisiana in court for starting a scholarship program that frees low-income minority children from failing schools. Last Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder decided to drop the initial lawsuit and instead announced he will seek to require Louisiana to submit to a bureaucratic review process that would mandate all voucher application information be sent to the federal government prior to awards being granted to students.

Similarly, the Obama administration has had a history of fighting the successful Washington, D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP).

The message from the Obama administration, then, seems to be that school choice will be tolerated only if it is regulated by the federal government.

Duncan went on to tell UNESCO the Obama administration has set a goal that the United States “will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world,” a goal that “can only be achieved by creating a strong cradle-to-career continuum that starts with early childhood learning and extends all the way to college and careers.”

Finally, in his description of the plans to achieve this goal, Duncan went on to tell UNESCO how the Obama administration used its Race to the Top stimulus bill grants to entice states to participate in the Common Core standards.

Barack Obama said he would “fundamentally transform” the United States of America. He has failed at transforming America’s economy and America’s health care system. Are American parents willing to trust his plan to transform their children’s education?

La funesta manía de pensar

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Si mañana un cataclismo, o un virus racista, destruyera todas las universidades de América Latina y España, la cultura planetaria apenas sufriría un imperceptible arañazo, especialmente en el terreno de la ciencia y la técnica, pero también en el de las humanidades y los estudias sociales.

El asunto es muy triste. Las universidades iberoamericanas no están entre las 150 mejores del planeta. Aunque son varios millares, son muy escasas las que figuran entre las 500 mejores del mundo. Las menos malas son algunas brasileras, chilenas, colombianas, argentinas, mexicanas y españolas. Las caribeñas y centroamericanas apenas comparecen en la lista, con la excepción de la costarricense en alguna facultad privilegiada.

¿Cómo lo sabemos? Porque anualmente se compilan varios índices de calidad universitaria en distintas latitudes y todos concuerdan en las conclusiones. Los más conocidos son los que confecciona el diario The Times de Londres, la Universidad Jiao Tong de Shanghái, la revista U.S. News and World Report de Estados Unidos y el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas de Madrid.

Para medir la excelencia de las instituciones tienen en cuenta las publicaciones en revistas acreditadas, la presencia en Internet, las veces que los artículos, libros o autores son citados, el número de profesores con Premios Nobel o Medallas Fields (matemáticas), el desempeño de los graduados y las opiniones de expertos. No se trata de ensalzar a algunos países y denigrar a otros. Intentan establecer cierta jerarquía. Sólo eso.   

Es una pena, porque la primera universidad que se fundó en el Nuevo Mundo fue la de Santo Domingo en 1538, prácticamente un siglo antes de Harvard. Poco después se crearon las de México y Lima en 1551. La de La Habana tiene casi 300 años y antecede en 20 a la de Princeton. Esa tradición ha servido de muy poco. Tal vez, incluso, ha sido una rémora.

Cuando comenzaron nuestras universidades en Hispanoamérica, todas legitimadas por la Corona española y operadas por frailes, el método de enseñanza y la filosofía que lo animaba se basaban en la Escolástica. Todas las verdades ya habían sido descubiertas por las autoridades religiosas. La labor del docente y del alumno (literalmente, “el nutrido”) era llegar a ese conocimiento mediante ejercicios memorísticos o juegos retóricos.

La universidad era para repetir, no para innovar. Recuérdese que uno de los delitos perseguidos por la Inquisición era la innovación. Todavía a menudo se cita la increíble frase del rector de la Universidad de Cervera, en Cataluña, al rey Fernando VII: “lejos de nosotros, majestad, la funesta manía de pensar”.

Naturalmente, se trata de un problema cultural. En nuestro mundillo iberoamericano no abunda, como en otras latitudes, la voluntad de cambiar, de innovar, de progresar, de encontrar nuevas y mejores formas de hacer las cosas. Vivimos en una cultura reiterativa, no transformativa.

Para nosotros una persona culta no es la que es capaz de modificar nuestro presente, sino la que retiene una asombrosa cantidad de información sobre el pasado. Vivimos dándole vueltas a lo que ocurrió hace mucho tiempo, lo que, por cierto, no nos ha salvado de cometer los mismos o parecidos errores una y otra vez, desmintiendo la inútil advertencia de Jorge Santayana (“Aquellos que no recuerdan el pasado están condenados a repetirlo”). Los latinoamericanos lo recordamos y lo repetimos.

No quiero decir, por supuesto, que las universidades latinoamericanas son inservibles. Eso sería una estupidez. Muchas de ellas gradúan personas  muy competentes. De algunas egresan magníficos médicos, abogados, dentistas, periodistas, economistas, ingenieros, expertos en cuestiones empresariales, y así hasta el medio centenar de profesionales valiosos, absolutamente indispensables para el buen funcionamiento de las sociedades.

Ese no es el problema. La consecuencia negativa del fenómeno de las culturas reiterativas es que viven parasitariamente a remolque de centros creativos radicados fuera de su perímetro. En gran medida, la extensión de nuestra vida y cómo la vamos a vivir, se dicta en esos sitios intelectualmente densos y generadores de ideas. De una forma perversa, sin darnos cuenta, continuamos calificando de “funesta manía” la actividad de pensar con nuestra propia cabeza. Y así nos va.

Obama Calls for An End to Catholic Schools; Claims They’re Too Divisive

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The Catholic media is up in arms over comments President Obama made during a speech while in Northern Ireland for the G8 summit. Obama made what is described as “an alarming call for an end to Catholic education,” in spite of the fact that it is considered “a critical component of the Church.”

In front of an audience of about 2,000 young people, including many Catholics, Obama claimed that Catholic education divides people and blocks peace, according to the Scottish Catholic Observer.

“If towns remain divided—if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden—that too encourages division and discourages cooperation,” Obama said.

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Worried college will turn your kid into a Marxist? It's worse

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By Michael F. Haverluck

The expression “boys will be boys” is no longer true at dozens of America’s universities who are offering sex change operations with paid tuition fees. Instead, “boys will be girls” more accurately portrays the thinking behind the new health coverage policies at many of America’s elite colleges, which, according to the host of the nationally syndicated radio show “Line of Fire,” reflect the agenda pushed by the Obama administration.

Michael L. Brown, host of Line of Fire, said in a WND interview that universities routinely teach that gender is a matter of mind, not physical assignment at birth, so it’s changeable.

And President Obama has been helping spread that idea.

“Without a doubt, the president and his administration have been real game changers, not so much in changing public opinion from scratch, but rather in hastening the progress of LGBT activism,” said Brown.

“What has surprised me is to see how some religious leaders are now caving in because of the president’s public stands. Before Mr. Obama was elected, I warned my radio listeners that he would be the most radically pro-gay president in our nation’s history, and in that respect, he has not disappointed us.”

Brown cited the recent news from Yale, founded in 1701 as a Bible college to instruct colonists in morality and the Christian faith, that it may be adding sex-change operations to the student health plan.

Already, some three dozen colleges and universities agree to pay for student sex-change procedures as part of their health benefits plans.

“Almost overnight, perception has changed about ‘transgender’ issues, and without any new scientific or psychological [research] to justify that change in perception, more and more of the public now simply believes that if a little boy (or a grown man) claims to be one gender outside and another gender inside, then that’s who they really are, in which case sex-change is like any other surgery,” Brown told WND.

“The fact that most American colleges and universities are quite liberal means that they would more readily embrace this point of view,” he said.

Many of the arguments for transgenderism come from the American Medical Association, which has coined “gender identity disorder” as a “serious medical condition” that manifests as a continual discomfort with one’s primary and secondary biological sex characteristics.

Its claim is that individuals could experience severe depression and have suicidal tendencies if not treated.

Yale officials already offer the benefit of sex-change procedures to faculty and staff, university spokeswoman Karen Peart told Fox News.

She explained, “Cost would vary depending on treatment.”

Estimates are it could be $25,000 or more.

It might be too early to tell how much the extra “service” would escalate student expenses, but could the surgeries add to the already high cost of education at Yale? Already, the university says that a single student living off campus during the 2012-2013 academic year can expect to pay a “reasonable, albeit modest” $61,394 for tuition, fees, room and board, and the Yale Health hospitalization fee.

It claims that the $41,225 tuition fee includes health-care services under Yale Health, but how much of the fee would go into covering-sex change operations is yet to be seen.

According to the Yale Daily News, Yale University Health Services Director Dr. Paul Genecin insists that students have shown “increasing interest” in the school covering sex-change surgery but concedes that he has received only a “small number of requests.”

Other demands also are arising.

“It’s among a handful of health-care issues that are of concern to students right now; another would be improving access to mental health and counseling services,” Gabriel Murchison, a Resource Alliance for Gender Equality member at Yale, told FoxNews.com.

Does this increased need for treatment of emotional or psychological problems have anything to do with the mainstreaming of LGBT teachings in education?

“It has to be so,” responded Brown, founder and president of the Fire School of Ministry. “The more that kids are raised without a mom or dad, the more they are told that any arrangement that is loving works, the more that marriage is genderless, the fewer role models they have and the more negative media influence they have, coupled with the propaganda put forth in schools (along with Gay Straight Alliances and the like) – when you couple all this with the fact that a young person’s sexual development can be confusing at times, it is only natural that these problems would be on the increase.”

The Transgender Law and Policy Institute announced last month that Brown University became the 36th university to offer sex changes to students.

Brown points out that more and more education programs at colleges and universities are seeking to normalize homosexual and transsexual behavior. He says this has greatly affected the way society defines sexuality and morality, which has resulted in an outright war against those holding to Christian principles.

“Since our next generation of leaders (or, with the Internet boom, the current generation of leaders in many cases) is being educated at our major universities, where gay positive is the norm and moral (and biblical) conservatism is mocked, the new ‘tolerance’ is outright hostile to biblical values,” Brown contends.

And when asked which universities he considers to be most aggressively pushing the LGBT agenda through their academic programs and campus politics, Brown didn’t know where to start.

“There are too many to mention!” Brown exclaimed. “A whole book was written by gay activist Shane Windmeyer for the The Advocate, listing the most gay-friendly campuses in America, and they included quite a few of the biggest and best. Some even had funding in their programs to recruit LGBT students. I have a whole chapter on this in my book, “A Queer Thing Happened to America.”

Windmeyer says campuses promoting sexual alternatives are to be commended.

“Every student deserves to feel safe on campus, and all of these colleges are committed to creating a more LGBT-friendly campus,” Windmeyer said.

Some notable schools making Windmeyer’s 2012 Campus Pride “Top 25 LGBT-friendly Colleges and Universities List” are Stanford, UCLA, Cornell, University of Chicago, Penn State, UC Berkeley, Ohio State, Washington, Michigan and Oregon.

Do the shocking statistics about immorality on American campuses nationwide present the most compelling cases out there that would alert parents who are planning on sending their kids to college?

“Not so much the stats (which include all kinds of sexual immorality – gay and straight – as well as lots of drugs and drinking), but the anecdotes, where kids really ‘come out’ and begin to identify themselves in every imaginable way, like a queer-bisexual-transdyke – in other words, ‘normal’ doesn’t exist anymore,” Brown contended.

Public K-12 schools also are see by Brown as the breeding ground for the sexual libertinism witnessed on college campuses from coast to coast.

“Public schools that have policies where a boy who identifies as a girl uses the girl’s bathroom, or that don’t make gender distinctions and refer to the students as ‘friends’ rather than boys and girls, or that have GSAs where kids can come out as gay among their peers and faculty advisers without parents knowing, or first-graders having gay books like “King and King” read to them, or a gay positive sex-ed programs – all this and more paves the way for the ultra-liberal atmosphere on the campuses,” Brown explained.

After-college life is being hit, too, with one quarter of Fortune 100 companies covering sex changes with insurance, up from only 1 percent less than a decade ago.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/lurch-toward-transgenderism-pushed-by-obama/#R7j3yj3qRhOMcE1Y.99

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How Gaming Will Change the World

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Jane McGonigal, author of The New York Times best seller "Reality Is Broken" and world-renowned designer of alternate reality games, talks about how games can be created to improve the way we learn, work, solve problems, and lead our real lives.

Bill Gates on Obama educational priorites

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Bill Gates praises the educational priorities of the Obama Administration, but worries that their efforts may be undermined by the increasing unaffordability of higher education.

Texas Schools Teaching ‘Allah Is The Almighty God’

Pat Dollard 

Excerpted from WND: In the 70 percent of Texas public schools where a private curriculum has been installed, students are learning the “fact” that “Allah is the Almighty God,” charge critics of a new online curriculum that already is facing condemnation for its secrecy and restrictions on oversight.

The program, called CSCOPE, is a private venture operating under the umbrella of the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative, whose incorporation documents state its independence from the State Board of Education of the Texas Education Agency.

Other reports previously have raised alarm over the curriculum’s depiction of the Boston Tea Party as a terrorist act on par with the 9/11 attack.

According to documentation that has leaked out, the program describes the Boston Tea Party this way: “A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the property of private citizens today at our nation’s busiest port. Although no one was injured in the attack, a large quantity of merchandise, considered to be valuable to its owners and loathsome to the perpetrators, was destroyed. The terrorists, dressed in disguise and apparently intoxicated, were able to escape into the night with the help of local citizens who harbor these fugitives and conceal their identities from the authorities. It is believed that the terrorist attack was a response to the policies enacted by the occupying country’s government. Even stronger policies are anticipated by the local citizens.”

There also have been reports that the curriculum – contrary to recent Supreme Court rulings – says the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the right to bear arms, is limited to state-run organizations.

“The collective right’s advocates believed that the Second Amendment did not apply to individuals; rather it recognized the right of a state to arm its militia. It recognized limited individual rights only when it was exercised by members of a functioning, organized militia while actively participating in the militia’s activities.”

Now come concerns about what critics describe as a definitively pro-Islam bias.

The critics say the studies border on proselytizing.

In one scenario, students are asked to study the tenets of Islam, and critics say the materials provided exceed impartial review of another faith, extending into requirements of conversion and moral imperatives.

A computer presentation utilized as part of a study of Islam includes information on how to convert, as well as verses denigrating other faiths.

According to excerpts, under the heading, “Who Is Allah?,” students are told:

“Allah is the Almighty God.”

“Allah alone is the Creator. He alone deserves our devout love and worship.”

Muhammad is described as having become “disillusioned with the corruption in the city and the growing gap between the urban dwellers and the Bedouins (nomadic herders).”

But there is no mention of his documented sex activities with a child or his penchant for beheading entire indigenous people groups.

CSCOPE’s geography curriculum also is being scrutinized.

A high school question on a geography test asks, “Which of the following has been a benefit of globalization?” Possible answers are as follows: a) pandemics, b) increased standard of living, c) loss of local culture, and finally, d) widespread environmental impacts.

The only “correct” answer accepted in the context of the test is “an increased standard of living.”

WND recently reported the Texas State Board of Education was hearing concerns expressed by parents.

The debate carries national significance because of the influence Texas has on textbook and curriculum publishers as the only state that adopts uniform standards. Keep reading >>

Quebec politics amid strife: Charest, undead, lives on?!

Riddle me this: if, as a majority of Quebecers believe, the Quebec government’s special law regarding protests goes to far; and if, as the same Léger Marketing poll suggests, an overwhelming majority of Quebecers believe that the government should lay off the obstinacy and return to the bargaining table with the students; and if the recent 100,000-strong protest in the streets of Montreal was less about tuition fees than almighty rage against the Charest government, then why, pray tell, is the Parti Québécois still only neck and neck with with the big, bad Liberals, at 32 per cent a piece?

And why, despite having wholeheartedly embraced the student movement’s position to the point of wearing its red square on her lapel everyday, is Pauline Marois only just as popular as Jean Charest? The numbers speak for themselves: when Léger asked, “In the context of the ongoing conflict, do you have a good or a bad impression of the following people?”, Jean Charest ranked at 30 per cent good, 59 per cent bad. Marois, meanwhile, scored an equally paltry 31 per cent good, and only a mildly better 54 per cent bad. In short, despite having radically different and conflicting takes on the student movement, Jean Charest and Pauline Marois are basically within the margin of error with each other. This, after more than three months of headline-grabbing stalemate between the students and the government. What gives?

Jean Charest - Premier of Quebec

The answer, if not quite blowing in the wind, at least lies in the between Montreal and the rest of the province. For instance, 47 per cent of Montrealers are for Bill 78; In Quebec City, meanwhile, 54 percent of residents say they are for it. And while 75 per cent of Montrealers are for the City of Montreal’s ban on masks, the support is even higher in Quebec City and what is quaintly referred to as les régions: 80 per cent in both. (These numbers are from the detailed Léger that I can’t seem to find online.)

The numbers are even more stark when you consider how a large western chunk of the island of Montreal has always been staunchly Liberal. As Léger V-P Christian Bourque told me, “Provincially speaking, the west of Montreal is still very Liberal red.” Discount these Liberal red-or-die types (and they include French and English), and you have a real difference between Montreal and the rest of the province. ”We’re seeing how opinions in Montreal and the rest of Quebec is getting and further apart. Montreal is more left and open, while the rest of the province is more conservative.”

The split between Montreal and the rest of the (Quebec) world is nothing new. As long ago as 2006, the Bloc Québécois commissioned a report on the phenomenon after a light electoral spanking in the Quebec City region at the hands of The Conservatives. The ensuing “Alarie Report” noted the following: “The Bloc, its leader [Gilles Duceppe], its organization, its program, the colour and scent it puts off is too Montreal.” One anonymous Bloc candidate, quoted anonymously in the report, was quite succinct. “Our platform was too lefty, too Montreal.”

For the PQ, there is an odd disconnect in this. By tilting her party to the right of the Bloc’s traditional lefty perch—and by the virtue of largely not being implicated in the plethora of scandals wafting around the Liberals—Pauline Marois has made inroads within the province, and rightly so—though, it must be said, she was only briefly ahead of Charest in the polls even before the current brouhaha. The caveat: this support has come mostly from les regions—where antagonism against the student movement is at its highest. ”The PQ is ahead in the regions where the support for the government and tuition hikes is higher,” Bourque says. “By wearing the red square, the party has painted itself into a corner a little bit.” If the current protest had taken place in Quebec City rather than Montreal, Bourque says, “It would have been over a long time ago, and people would have been cheering the police.”

Quebec student rebellion by euronews-en

Certainly, the Charest government remains in crisis mode. Today, the Premier brought back Dan Gagnier as his chief of staff. He was Charest’s C-o-S in 2007, and managed to steady the Premier’s nosedive in the polls before resigning in 2009. Charest says Gagnier’s return has nothing to to with the student strike, which I believe about as much as his line about not paying attention to polls. And anything can happen in the coming days, weeks, and (oof) months with people and police frequently clashing in the street. And Charest will have to call an election before December 2013, when the collective memory of tear gas, strife and ugly laws (and alleged party finance skullduggery, and construction industry misery, and more mafia ties) will in all likelihood be stuck in Quebec’s collective memory.

But as dark as things are for the Premier, he can take comfort in this: his opponents aren’t fairing much better than him.

Shaquille O'Neal Earns Doctorate Degree in Education

You don't need to go to Harvard to be a smart guy-Try it!

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My latest WSJ Head Case column is on Daniel Kahneman’s new book, which is quite wonderful. Even if you think you know prospect theory, it’s insightful to read a review of the work by the master:
Here’s a simple arithmetic question: “A bat and ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?”

What’s most impressive is that education doesn’t really help; more than 50% of students at Harvard, Princeton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology routinely give the incorrect answer.

Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Laureate and professor of psychology at Princeton, has been asking questions like this for more than five decades. His disarmingly simple experiments have profoundly changed the way that we think about thinking. While philosophers, economists and social scientists had assumed for centuries that human beings are rational agents, Mr. Kahneman and his scientific partner, the late Amos Tversky, demonstrated that we’re not nearly as rational as we like to believe.

Don't cheat, do your best.

But I am not a Harvard guy and I get it:

Bat+Ball=1.10 

[Bat =1+Ball]

Then 1+2Ball=1.10

Ball=[1.10-1]/2=0.05

Universidad espanola abre dos sedes en Cuba

 Espana esta en una profunda crisis economica con mas del 20% de tasa de desempleo y en cuidados intensivos por bancarrota, pero encuentra presupuesto para contribuir a la formacion de los nuevos "cuadros" del Neocastrismo.

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La Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM) ha saltado las fronteras europeas y ha inaugurado dos sedes educativas en Cuba, en su capital de La Habana, dedicadas exclusivamente a ámbitos de postgrado (Máster y programas de doctorado), según han informado fuentes de la institución docente en un comunicado.

Una de las sedes se encuentra en el Centro Cultural San Juan de Letrán, centro perteneciente a la orden de los dominicos donde se imparte el Máster en Desarrollo Social; y la otra 'Félix Varela', se encuentra en el edifico de la Catedral de La Habana, con un Programa MBA donde el Cardenal Jaime Ortega ha cedido espacios para el desarrollo de programas de la UCAM, a través de una Escuela de Negocios.

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Mosquing of the Public Schools in Toronto. No infidels allowed.

By barenakedislam 

Islamic ritual prayers are conducted in a Toronto public middle school every Friday in the school cafeteria.” Non-Muslims are forbidden from entering the cafeteria during that time.

Blazing Cat Fur - Every Friday my daughter’s school cafeteria changes into a mosque as dozens of Muslim boys and their imams (Islamic preachers) lead Islamic ritual prayers and no one else can even walk through the cafeteria. 

Some imams (Islamic preachers) come from the outside of the school and lead Muslim students in the Islamic prayer and this happens at the school Cafeteria after the lunch on Fridays. All other non-Muslims are in classes in the afternoon when they are using the cafeteria as mosque. There is a mosque nearby but the Muslim kids pray in the school

School administration take part preparing the Cafeteria and making it into mosque every Friday and no one but Muslims can use the Cafeteria during the Islamic prayers on Friday.

And there are a number of other incidents involving Islam and other anti-Christian issues that I complained about, including a white convert to Islam who was a supply teacher and who openly promoted Islam and bashed Christianity last year!”

“Mark, my other two kids also go to a different public primary school and the snack for all the kids in this primary school is all “Halal”. My wife complained about it and she was told she can prepare her own snack for our kids but the school would not drop the Halal menu for all the students. All the school kids in this primary school have to eat halal snacks whether they are Muslim or not”

Update: It is confirmed thanks to reader Munimula, the Valley Park Middle School cafeteria is turned into a mosque and a local Imam is brought in to lead the children in worshipping Allah: “Prayer Service, the school is providing a venue for the Muslim student’s to have prayers at school on Fridays. An Imam from the neighbouring mosque comes to our school and conducts the prayers. Prior to this, students signed out early on Friday afternoons to go to mosque. By staying at school, valuable instructional time is saved for our students.”

The document is also accessible here.