Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

353 T HE N ATIONAL E DUCATION G OALS P ANEL C OMMUNITY A CTION T OOLKIT WAS DEVELOPED and dis tributed by the U.S. Department of Education in 1995. The Toolkit was to be used for brain washing, coercing and coalescing communities into accepting Goals 2000 , H.R. 6, school-to work, UNESCO’s lifelong learning, etc. Toolkit instructions discussed how to deal with resisters. Elected officials, governors, and others were involved in production and dissemination of this 300+page “How To” Toolkit , which used Professor Ronald Havelock’s The Change Agent’s Guide to Innovations in Education techniques to brainwash themselves and their constituents, especially targeting the religious community. (See Appendix XIV.) “T HE S HOCKING B ELIEFS BEHIND E DUCATIONAL S TRATEGIC P LANNING ” BY M ICHAEL J ACQUES was published in the August 1995 issue of The Interpreter . Jacques, a concerned parent from West Allis, Wisconsin, has provided some very “hard-to-come-by” information regarding The Cam bridge Group, an international strategic planning center for education reform. Excerpts from this informative article follow: Strategic planning seems to be the driving force at the local level for Outcomes-Based Edu cation (OBE)/ Goals 2000 . Most school districts... have a facilitator trained by The Cambridge Group, which is an international strategic planning center for education out of Montgomery, Alabama. The Facilitator’s Training Manual states under “The Urgency of Change” on p. 4: The Noxious Nineties : c. 1995

Education must declare its magnanimous intent and omnipotent ability to serve as the surrogate family.

“Strategic Planning” is defined:

Either no one can see or will acknowledge the fact that the real task of reformation is the radical transformation—a re-creation—of every facet of the American education system—its purpose and scope, its governance, its teaching and learning dynamics, its curricula, its time and place—all with a new dedication to developing the original genius in the mind of every student. This means a complete change of all education paradigms, of definitions, of disciplines, of vocabularies—perhaps values. This is the meaning of reform. And that is the meaning of strategic planning.… (p. 20) The advent of this new age, and the discovery that human beings now have both the capacity and the inclinations to re-create themselves in their own image according to their own imaginations... specifically it has demanded a redefinition of the human be ing…. (p. 28) Urgency of Change Spiritual: once confined only to that thought to be religious and other worldly; forbid den in the world of practicality and reality; a relationship between someone and God or something. Now, a realization of the pneumapsychosomatic nature of every person; the practical reality of the human spirit when manifested in self-esteem, motivation, aesthetic appreciation, manners and respect, as well as reverence; and a priori an ultimate rela tionship between people.… The fact is that all American institutions—the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the legislative and judicial branches of government, the education system, and other aspects of the current established order—were predicated on a mono-cultural society. It will be interesting to see how long the present systems can exist in a polyglot society. (p. 29)

Mr. Jacques ends his article by quoting from the Wisconsin Independent School Board As