Glenn Beck and Kyle Olson: Teaching social justice themes in school creating a left wing army...

[madfloridian]

Run time: 09:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pXrckbKQVQ   Posted on YouTube: December 04, 2011 By YouTube Member: eagfoundation Views on YouTube: 36   Posted on DU: December 05, 2011 By DU Member: madfloridian Views on DU: 5732

 
An army of students who will enact the personal agenda of teachers.

They are speaking of what Kyle Olson calls the movement to insert "social justice" into math curriculum. He says teachers will use that to teach things he does not want taught in his country. That is just weird that he and Beck would object to social justice themes.

They started out talking about the book called Click, Clack, Moo. Cows That Type Video of the very special book at the link.

The book was written in 2000, won the Caldecott award the next year. It is about a group of cows on a farm who get hold of a typewriter. They type a message for the farmer demanding electric blankets because the barn is cold. When the farmer gets mad and demands they produce, they send another message that the chickens are cold as well. They offer to give up their typewriter if they get the blankets.

The farmer agrees to give blankets to the cows and hens so he can get his eggs and milk. Soon the ducks become involved in the bargaining.

It's a great story.

Kyle Olson claims to be a founder of a non-profit group called Education Action Group. In reality they are funded by the Koch and the Devos family. Betsy Devos is sister to Erik Prince of Blackwater fame, so there is a real right wing movement behind Olson's group known as EAG.

The latest right-wing loony accusation is delivered by Kyle Olson of the Michigan-based grouplet, the Education Action Group.

Olson parades around as a concerned parent of a kindergartener. But we have pointed out that the EAG is secretly funded, has close ties to the Koch brothers, Andrew Breitbart and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. The Mackinac Center has recently been exposed for secretly sending emails and lobbying Michigan legislators in violation of their non-partisan tax status.

...This week, Kyle went on Fox (surprise) to denounce the use of Click Clack Moo. Cows that Type to indoctrinate kindergarten students in pro-union ideology. He accused a Chicago teacher of sneaking the word, “negotiate,” into a vocabulary lesson."

More:

EAG isn’t really a group. It’s two very partisan men with ties to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and Dick DeVos of Amway Corp. fame. Olson’s brother is director of education policy at the Mackinac Center, another anti-union, pro-privatization group. The man who incorporated EAG, Eric Doster, is a Michigan Republican Party lawyer who has served on the board of the Great Lakes Education Project, a political action committee linked to DeVos. DeVos, of course, helped finance the failed 2000 vouchers initiative.

Right wing claims teachers using union propaganda

This is an example of the education reform movement that is sweeping our country.

They consider a book about cows negotiating with a farmer to be union propaganda. They consider that teaching about social justice is creating a left wing army in the schools.

I wonder what other countries are thinking about our country's idiotic right wing right now?

[madfloridian]

1. Olson's wife bought the book at a yard sale. He refused to read the rest of it...

to their kids when he realized the animals were using negotiating skills. So halfway through he quit, rather than instill such ideas in his kids.

He even said the author went to union meetings and picnics. These guys have a true hate for unions.

[bluestateguy]

2. Damn! They got word of the master plan.

I guess we'll have to go back to George Soros, the SEIU, Frances Fox Piven and Cass Sunstein for a new set of marching orders.

[madrchsod]

3. social justice is what christ talked about and....

look what happened to him. other countries are waiting for america to grow up.

[Enthusiast]

4. Christ appeared to be all about social justice.

Glenn Beck is the very worst in a collection of horrible right wing media figures.

[madfloridian]

14. "waiting for America to grow up"....I am sure they are doing that.

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. so now unions - one of the most fundamental units of modern democracy - are un-American?

[dotymed]

6. Unions are not allowed in a Fascist state. n/m

[Dumpster Macaine]

22. An Important Point Worth Noting

[d_legendary1]

7. So any education that is not right wing

is indoctrination? Crackpots?

[marmar]

8. I say, Onward Granola Soldiers !!!!

nt

[wxgeek7]

9. GBTV?

Oh, yeah, grand bull**** tv.

[W T F]

10. I couldn't understand what Beck was saying because of that tin foil hat he has over his head

[ccavagnolo]

11. Thats not the coloring book that garnered attention

I've never even seen that one. However I do remember the 9/11 coloring book with images of Osama hiding behind his wife as soldiers aimed and fire.

[joanbarnes]

12. "A Left-wing Army of Students!" I hope and pray they succeed where my generation failed.

[chervilant]

13. Two sad,

pathetically twisted men pontificating about 'leftist' propaganda. How rich the irony...

[Plucketeer]

15. God forbid that our kids be enlightened

beyond ANYTHING our corporate masters want us to realize. El Diablo is sharpening his pitchfrork tines for your arrival, Glenn.

[AlbertCat]

16. Teaching social justice themes in school creating a left wing army...

jesus... for the 1st time in my life.... I hope they're correct!

[PatrynXX]

17. suppose he'll have a Stroke when the remake of The Lorax comes out next year.

Prefer the darker original one though. :P

how you can turn 30 minutes into a feature length movie should be interesting..

[Tsiyu]

18. Jayzuss, don't let them ever get their hands on

Animal Farm

They might piss their 1% panties.

[Dumpster Macaine]

23. Or Worse

Shit in 'em

[freshstart]

19. This is the clown that created these "exposed"

websites for both of the major teachers unions. While asking for "tax deductible" donations and trying to sell his book "indoctrination."

http://educationactiongroup.org/nea-exposed

http://educationactiongroup.org/aft-exposed

I know he's tied to Brietbart, I didn't know about the other connections.

[Gringostan]

20. this is not the country

Where o where did we take that wrong turn; this is not the country I grew up in....

[Dumpster Macaine]

24. I think It Is The Same Country

We just didn't know it then, we couldn't know it, because of being indoctrinated. America is growing up. People like Glenn Beck + Co. just take a little longer

[tomg]

21. Just reading about

these morons is exhausting. I don't know how you do it, but Madfloridian, thanks for posting. It is a struggle for so many teachers just to have the tools and time to teach in the current climate without having to deal with fools acting as fronts for corporatist agendas. There was a time when someone like Olson would have just been the town crank or a concerned, but fairly dim, parent taking an over interest.