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This post does touch on politics a bit. I hope the Moderator will be lenient as our public schools are run by the government and the two cannot be separated.
Many groups are cropping up, claiming to be Christian in their ideology, but examining their vision statements and knowing what other groups they are affiliated with reveals their version of Social Justice is NOT compatible with authentic Catholic teaching on social justice. They come under the heading of “faith-based community organizing”. Unfortunately, many Catholic parishes and dioceses have fallen for their agenda, which appears to be that of helping the poor and disenfranchised of society (a noble goal – and they DO do some good projects).
Also see posts over at the thread:
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=376418
Many groups are cropping up, claiming to be Christian in their ideology, but examining their vision statements and knowing what other groups they are affiliated with reveals their version of Social Justice is NOT compatible with authentic Catholic teaching on social justice. They come under the heading of “faith-based community organizing”. Unfortunately, many Catholic parishes and dioceses have fallen for their agenda, which appears to be that of helping the poor and disenfranchised of society (a noble goal – and they DO do some good projects).
Also see posts over at the thread:
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=376418
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Lengthy article, but it illustrates how our public schools have been a breeding ground and indoctrination camp for some of these radical ideas. The political Left has been working on this for decades, and thus the phrase you may have heard our President use, "We are the ones we've been waiting for" makes sense in this context.
[city-journal.org/html/16_3_ed_school.html](http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_3_ed_school.html)
The Ed Schools' Latest-and Worst-Humbug
Sol Stern
Teaching for "social justice" is a cruel hoax on disadvantaged kids.
In 1980, Bill Ayers and his partner Bernardine Dohrn came up from the
underground-the Weather Underground, that is. It had been a wild ride for
the Bonnie and Clyde of the sixties New Left. They first went into combat
during the 1969 "Days of Rage" in Chicago, smashing storefront windows and
assaulting police officers and city officials in the fantasy that they were
aiding their Vietnamese allies by "bringing the war back home." They spent
the next few years planting bombs at government buildings around the
country, including in restrooms at the Pentagon and the Capitol. When their
little war against America sputtered to a halt, the revolutionary couple
rationalized that at least they had not caused any deaths. But three of
their comrades had blown themselves up in a Manhattan townhouse while
preparing a bomb to detonate at a dance at the Fort Dix army base.
Ayers has acknowledged committing crimes during his underground days-crimes
that arguably amounted to treason. Yet thanks to procedural complications
and a lack of witnesses, he never went to trial or to jail. A few years
after stepping out of the shadows, Ayers reflected on his odyssey in a
conversation with journalists Peter Collier and David Horowitz: "Guilty as
hell, free as a bird-America is a great country," he exulted.
But that was just half the wonder of it. Ayers would soon go on to disprove
thoroughly F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous though mistaken aphorism that "there
are no second acts in American lives." Ayers's spectacular second act began
when he enrolled at Columbia University's Teachers College in 1984. Then 40,
he planned to stay just to get a teaching credential. (He had taught in a
"Freedom School" during his pre-underground student radical days.) But he
experienced an epiphany in a course taught by Maxine Greene, a leading light
of the "critical pedagogy" movement. As Ayers wrote later, he took fire from
Greene's lectures on how the "oppressive hegemony" of the capitalist social
order "reproduces" itself through the traditional practice of public
schooling-critical pedagogy's fancy way of saying that the evil corporations
exercise thought control through the schools.
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There is a movement called Exodus Mandate; it calls for a mass boycott and removal of children from the public school system to private schools or homeschools. It is promoted pretty much among Evangelical protestant (and non-denominational) circles. I think it's time has come. Do whatever you can to protect your children. Our parochial schools are dying -- it's time for them to come back to LIFE!
Here's the web site; apparently the Ex. Mandate is still going!
[exodusmandate.org/](http://www.exodusmandate.org/)
Many people sacrificed to build and maintain these schools during tough economic times -- I think the People of God are again being called upon to do this again in the 3rd Millenium.
Our Church's survival depends on it.
Our country's survival may depend on it.
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Maybe Catholics need to start their own version of Exodus Mandate.**
We homeschooled for 14 years -- it IS possible without having to spend very much. Seton Home School has Catholic curriculum. Many parents work opposite shifts to make it possible (if they need the income).Working from home may also be a possibility. Many helps are available via the internet, and probably a support group near you.
Also see The Alliance for the Separation of School and State:
[schoolandstate.org/home.htm](http://www.schoolandstate.org/home.htm) I've been a member for years. It is an eclectic group. We also have a list on yahoo.
God bless,
Mimi
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops, like bishops, and your religious act like religious.” ----Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen