NY Schools’ ‘Human Rights’ Curriculum Features Van Jones
by Kyle OlsonA new human rights curriculum that was recently introduced to middle schools and high schools all across New York is a disservice to students because it wastes precious instruction time which would be more wisely spent on academic fundamentals.
Last Friday, December 10, over 1,000 New York students took part in the inaugural webcast of the “Speak Truth to Power” curriculum distributed by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights and New York State United Teachers.
The web event originated from a classroom at Chestnut Ridge Middle School, a school with a student population that recently scored below-average on statewide tests, according to the New York Times. It is extremely difficult to see how lessons focusing on corporate “greed,” landmine awareness, Chinese labor camps and abolishing the death penalty will do anything to raise student test scores in math, reading and science.
According to a NYSUT blog, the curriculum “introduces general human rights issues” and “urges students to become personally involved in the protection of human rights.”
New York parents and taxpayers ought to be very concerned that their public schools think this curriculum is an appropriate use of time. Students may end up with an increased awareness of global problems, but if they don’t graduate with basic academic skills, what can they possibly do about such issues?
This is another case of public schools using class time to indoctrinate students with a radical, leftist political agenda. No curriculum that promotes the views of Van Jones should be allowed to pollute the minds of school kids.
New York schools need to focus on the rights of their students to an education that prepares them for life. Teaching social awareness to students who are lacking basic academic skills is a luxury that New York schools, families and taxpayers cannot afford.
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Is Van Jones even human? (that's a joke for you angry libs out there)
A Van Jones appearance.
Certainly a target rich environment.
Communism: THE BIG VAN JONES LIE…shuck this AzzzzBoil out of the country…he is a communist Anus.
Isn't that just great. Public schools are now standing up self avowed Communist as role models.
Time to close the public schools down tight and privatize the entire system. The public schools have failed.
The commies and their public union allies are desperate. They sense their power is waning.
May the new congress starve these parasites and send them back into hiding.
"…that recently scored below-average on statewide tests…"
The dumber they are, the better they are as candidates for indoctrination into lunatic-left d-crat socialism/communism.
Imagine if Glenn Beck made an appearance at a public school?
They see the children as a bunch of little acorns'
Where is Joe McCarthy when you need him?
No surprise here, what else would one expect from the socialist school system, The SS , Socialist Schools !
The liberals want to keep kids dumb so that they can indoctrinate them with their socialist/communist views!
I'm now waiting for Kevin Jennings to introduce his homosexual procilivities. Van Jones was just a warm up. The progressives lost the election but no one can stop their rhetoric from poisoning our children. Children are so vulnerable to this because they go through a rebellious stage and embrace anything that fuels that rebellion no matter what their parents teach them. These slimy commies know this and will totally take advantage of the situation.
Parents need to get involved in what the socialists are doing behind their backs.
That's a school I would WANT to send my kids to.
Van Jones is nothing but a "Commie-come-lately".
An uppity tool whose sole function is advocating violence, and the overthrow of America as we know it.
He needs silenced.
He should be thrown in a cell with Julian Assange.
Oh come on people, who needs reading, writing, and arithmetic. Lets get in touch with our inner feelings, close our businesses, and live in the parks like our urban-outdoorsmen.
Maybe we should be sure to teach the kids about the atrocities of communist regimes around the world as part of their history lessons.
And this why why advocating for "communist" or "socialist" "revolution" should be a criminal act punished as treason.
I certainly don't want them in hiding…I just want them gone from our Republic!
Get this Communist away from the children…..whatever it takes.
Amen…
Next thing you will know, Van Jones will join up with the Epstein dude from the Huffington Post, and advocate Fathers sleep with their Daughters.
These people are vile, and ill.
They are evil.
I'd just toss in his head…
We'll call it a conjugal visit for Julian….
They need to be 'removed' from society…
With extreme prejudice.
Twisted, amoral and ignorant to boot!
Look into who introduced and is pushing the curriculum. What are their ties; are they directly connected to VJ?
Someone should make a "Best Of VJ" compilation from all the Beck coverage last year and have someone in the school admin explain why they would want a self admitted communist radicals views taught in school. Furthermore maybe someone should enlighten parents who are not aware of this that the school is encouraging their children to learn from a self admitted communist.
The days of sitting on the sidelines thinking how mad you are and someone "will take care of it" are over. You must come to understand that YOU are that someone!
Take back America though http://www.savingtherepublic.com
Awake up America ! Our youth are being poisoned from K+ with left wing sosialism.They'll turn against us for global change and whatever other lies they are taught.
What part of Article IV; Section 4 do our "leaders" not understand?
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government"
At what point does advocating socialism, communism, or any OTHER form of government become treasonous? At the very least, all of the "van jones" types need to be charged with sedition.
Educated.
If I were to say I preferred a military government (which I do not) and that I would create chaos or shed blood to get it, I would be jailed faster than you can say Van Jones.
These people are violent and represent a clear and present danger to the republic.
Just look at what their kids are doing in the UK.
They've got the Van Jones disease in NY School Districts and down here in Texas we have LULAC infecting schools with similar crap, which is why Farmers Branch wants out of the liberal biased illegal infested Dallas ISD.
Unless parents rise up and say no to this, it will expand. Soon all the little chilrens gonna be stupider dan uh rok! but they nows it jus a New Yok thing!
lol Good one Cowboy!
Might I add corrupt to the core!
A job that I would pay to do….
Hello Missy.
We haven't been here at the same times of late. In the event I don't see you in the days to come, I'd like to wish you and yours a Merry and Blessed Christmas. Keep up the good work.
I wish you and yours a Merry Christmas as well…
I was out job hunting all last week, I'm taking it a bit easy today and then back to gung-ho again tomorrow…
Just wait.
They will turn against their parents for a crust of bread, and knock them in the head to steal their gold fillings.
The fact that Jones could appear on a school campus anywhere in the USA after Beck exposed his
!!!
open agenda against our CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC leaves me speechless.
Somewhere, someway the word sedition must be applicable.
.
Why would you want something as silly, old fashioned, and silly as a job?
Massa Barry Obama will pay you for three years to sit idle at home. I'm sure by the time three years is up, it will be extended to five.
Fer Chrissakes, what's the matter with you? You're sounding responsible, and Republican.
This is part and parcel with why Liberals lag so far behind Humans when it comes to Education in the United States of America.
Comrade Van Jones: Bottom up, top down and inside out.
I agree with other posters here, that V. Jones should be charged, and tried for sedition! Why? Because his rhetoric goes way, way, way beyond First Amendment Rights. Of course, getting AG Eric Holder out from under his bed on this issue, is the same as his head up his colon on the New Black Panther's! /S
Amen.
Merry Christmas from our house too CL…. and a prayer that next year Christmas holds even more real hope for the country.
I know Epstein personally. Did you know he's CIA
Mr. Jones, after being fired by the President, has gone to the only ones that will listen: children, spinning his hate speech since that's the only purpose he serves. He needs to team up with Marc Lamont and shout 'environmental racism' out an open window in the wilderness.
According to a NYSUT blog, the curriculum “introduces general human rights issues” and “urges students to become personally involved in the protection of human rights.”
Kids that grow up learning Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic aren't the kinds of people that end up becoming dependent on the gov't for their well-being. The left is ensuring a consistent voting bloc with this tripe.
Amen and a justifiable target. He is a commie.
Maybe if they taught the Kids Science, Reading, Writing, and true American History, instead of indoctrinating the students into being good little Progressive/Socialist revolutionaries, maybe the little Rugrats test scores would go up and all that inner city poverty they perpetuate would end.
This is a total disgrace letting this Communist address the impressionable youth. Keep them dumb so they will be sheeple following the Communist Propoganda. Parents get involved with what is being presented in your schools to your youth. This is your responsibility.
He should be sent to live in one of these places.
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The government is the POWER. Getting a job is not the same thing as being enslaved, morons.
Are you being facetious? Joking?
These poor kids do not stand a chance. The Union "teachers ?" are commie. When I was in highschool we took a class called "Americanism Verses Communism"
Van Jones has called for violence. What in the hell are they doing up there in NY?
Calling folks morons, is not a way to win friends and influence people.
I don't want to be friends with Marxists! I want them to wake the hell up!
I don't want to be friends with anybody.
I just want to be left alone.
How does this even happen?
There would be no way my kid would be involved in something like this.
When my kids were in middle school they themselves would have seen this for the crap it is.
A better joke is he even an American?
Same with mine. They probably would have pointed and laughed.
HUMAN RIGHTS CURRICULUM??? And they wonder WHY the rest of the world is kicking our asses in academic achievement. Oh wait……that's not important, is it? Keep them brain-washed and dumb….easier to get their vote that way.
Like the proverbial bad penny, this guy keeps coming back.
"A new human rights curriculum that was recently introduced to middle schools and high schools all across New York is a disservice to students because…"
Because it is a f*cking fraud. WTF are "human rights"? It is a smokescreen to devalue individual rights, as there are NO OTHER KIND!
"It is extremely difficult to see how lessons focusing on corporate “greed,” landmine awareness, Chinese labor camps and abolishing the death penalty will do anything to raise student test scores in math, reading and science…"
And then…
"This is another case of public schools using class time to indoctrinate students with a radical, leftist political agenda."
Well HOLY SH*T GENIUS, tell me something I DON"T know! Familiar with "progressives" much? They want an army of ignorant robots to pass their agenda! Future stupid voters of America, anyone?
Of all the things WE as AMERICANS should find a way to do, it is the total DISMANTLING of "public" "education"(?). It is the #1 transmission belt for the sick ideologies destroying this country. Think about all of the OTHER crap you hear about kids being INDOCTRINATED with, and at all grade levels.
Privatize education and make it a true marketplace at ALL levels. Some greedy capitalist pig will come up with the best, most efficient means of teaching the greatest number of children – not what to think, but how to think. Once enough young Americans are introduced to actual critical thinking and the truth about history and their birthright – that will be the day we roll this insidious monster of oppressive government off our backs. Until then we can expect MORE of this crap…
'………According to a NYSUT blog, the curriculum “introduces general human rights issues” and “urges students to become personally involved in the protection of human rights.”,…….."
It's called,……. the United States military,….
best damn human rights protector in the history of mankind.
But then reds like Jones and his fellow travelers like the not so good reverands Sharpton and Jackson would lose their grip upon the throats of the impoverished inner city people. Then where would they, (the hucksters), be? They might have to actually earn an honest living.
And he will keep coming back. I see no choice but to give the cretin a dose of his own medicine and a long stint of hard labor in a salt mine.
The Progressive radicals are indoctrinating our kids with the cooperation of the public school system. Radical progressives have targeted the youth by using the the public school system similar to nazi Germany during the WWII. With the goal of indoctrinating these young minds to become pawns and sheeple of the government.
Former White House Green Czar, and communist Van Jone's once wrote in a manifesto for his failed radial group "STORM" , how recruiting youth is an essential element to a communist overthrow of capitalism. This is the same MO that he and Soros funded groups like Center For American Progress are using on the youth in our public school classes . THIS MUST BE STOPPED. Van Jones should not be allowed within a three mile radius of any public school facility . Parents must start rebelling against any progressive radical indoctrinating in their kids classroom. They must un-indoctrinate and re-teach their kids the truth about the founding documents, principles, values and the free market system that has made our nation the envy of the world.
I wasn't addressing anyone here, but the socialists. That's not clear from the post?
"Human Rights" = Anything that is bad for white people.
My Bad. You must be talking about Jennifer. I thought you were talking about Edward Jay. Been a long day.
This isn't meant to teach kids fundamentals. It's meant to brainwash kids into the communist party.
It's everywhere, HonestAmerican. I was watching the newest so call "Christmas" show about the Snow Meiser and Heat Meiser a few days ago, and it's about Global Warming. This was on ABC Family channel. At the local level, you need to start sitting in on class room instruction and see what the teachers are saying. And when your kids come home and are talking nonsense, ask them where they heard it.
Privatize education.
Dismantle the federal government.
unfortunately it's working…………………….in spades.
Don't you love that they first went after the kids that scored below average on the state tests and in New York. They know exactly who to go after, don't they? I wonder how well that asshat Jones and their "human rights curriculum" would go over with some really smart kids in fly-over country?
When I went to Broke with my kids, I was happy to see lots of children attending.
Hi BMartin, don't forget, they take children on field trips to mosque so they can pray to allah, and take them to a voting place so they can "vote" on ballots that only have dembots on it………………why the hell wouldn't they invite an avowed commie into a public school to visit the children? That's the way they roll……….
Black militant commie indoctrination of our children in public schools. That's so nice.
How do like the fundamental transformation of America now?
Probably well enough in any urban/suburban area. Don't over-estimate the parents in my neck of the woods – they only care if the GPA is good enough for the U they want the kids applying for… Honest country folk on the other hand? Not a chance with most of 'em…
Good post George. This shit has been going on since before most of us were born (and there are some really old people that post here… You know who you are!)
Check out this:
http://www.rense.com/general32/americ.htm
and if you missed it, this:
http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2010/12/12/big-dupes-at-...
We need to privatize education so parents can escape "schools" that teach crap like this. What will the market bare? Let parents and students decide. Nobody wants to grow up dumb…
"The sad fact is that parents just don't give a rat's ass what's proselytized to their children by the teachers' labor unions. "
O rly? THIS parent gives a rat's ass. And corrects the BS our kid comes home from school with.
:::stands and simply applauds::::
If I hadn't learned in school that landmines are super scary, I never would have known. *gags*
Students may end up with an increased awareness of global problems, but if they don’t graduate with basic academic skills, what can they possibly do about such issues?
Use violence and coercion, of course.
This guy has been around speaking, fundraising, growing the tree. He is very much on the inside. Inside the Whitehouse. If we are not careful, he will be inside your house soon.
You all DO realize this is the promotion of the UN's UDHR? Please, all read that and pay special attention to #29-3 where it says these rights (which are mostly entitlements like free eduacation for all) are only guaranteed so long as they do not interfere with the principles and purposes of the UN.
Basically it means you HAVE no rights!
Better yet, all of those calling for the head of the Australian, Assange, for "treasonous activities" should redirect their arrows at the real traitors, starting with the subversive teacher's unions and their leaders.
This is typical of the left. Keep people ignorant so they keep thier power.
It's getting near time to take the country back by force if necessary
Is this garbage statewide or just in New York City?
No he isn't. To be human implies compassion, this man has none.
When you seek to oppress and destroy your fellow man in the pursuit of power, you give up your humanity.
Another case where a COMMUNIST PIG preys on the IGNORANCE OF THE USEFUL IDIOTS! Remember van jones was a POS the obummer administration recruited to be the green jobs czar. What rock did they find him under? Secondly, this COMMUNIST PIG should be in jail! His rhetoric is RACIST and INCITEFUL and borders on SUBVERSION! How podesta and the center for American REGRESS claims this CLOWN is trying to make America better for all of us is mind boggling! Admit it podesta, this man is a RACIST COMMUNIST ANARCHIST that will help to bring this country to the boiling point! ARREST HIM NOW AND THROW AWAY THE KEY!
This is the last person you need speaking to kids!! He is a self-proclaimed communist.
Did' nt calling for the overthrow of the government USED to be ILLEGAL ?? Oh, right, he's PROTECTED by Eric Holder's Justice Department because he's Black. And the FBI must have been ordered to "BACK OFF" !!
We've lost control of our Government and our Country. it's OVER and NO Election will ever bring America back….
Half the parents are absent or on Drugs. The next Hit is more importand than their children.
Very True . These kids today have NO IDEA of life under Communism and don't even know what it is..Teach them REAL HISTORY !
Is being a communist illegal in the States? Is it even an issue? Sometimes I don't understand your obsession with communism.
The IQ level at that school would drop an average of 10 points.
In a well deserved place in Hell.
How do you test for and measure "anarchy" in grade school students? If they're looking for suggestions I would offer, dressing in old military fatigues, rock throwing, sign making, over turning police cars, smashing store windows and living off public welfare.
This dude is scary beyond belief. He should be banned from any teaching or counseling roles involving young people in any way. He is nothing more than an anti-American toolshed.
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