Hmmm….so just which side of the political spectrum indoctrinated young Mr. Loughner to hate? Well, here’s your answer: Loughner was a graduate of Mountain View High School’s infamous Smaller Learning Communities “Program Of Studies” a program of studies funded by George Soros through his Open Society Institute by way of his contributions to Ayers’ Annenberg Foundation which funds Smaller Learning. This Annenberg/Smaller Learning curriculum mirrors those of the International Baccalaureate Program, a curriculum of High School studies also funded by George Soros. Barack Obama, Bill Ayers and other Leftists, including Bill Gates.
And, significantly, “Ayers himself is considered one of the fathers of the Smaller Learning Communities, often providing lectures to schools on the subject. For example, a 2001 lecture at Lewis & Clark College featured Ayers at a workshop entitled, “A Simple Justice: Building Smaller Learning Communities to Know Our Youth. Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop has the stated goal of providing support for teachers who want to create smaller learning environments. Ayers reportedly recruited a radical activist, Mike Klonsky, to head the Workshop. Klonsky still serves as director.
The Small School Workshop originally was associated with the University of Illinois in Chicago, where Klonsky previously taught in the education department alongside Ayers, who retired from the university last year. The group was headquartered for a time inside the university’s department of education building.
In 1995, with Obama as its chairman, the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or CAC, a school reform organization, gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000. The CAC provided another $482,662 to the Workshop over the next few years.
Ayers was on a working group of five that originally founded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Correspondence shows Ayers was instrumental in recruiting Obama to serve as the CAC’s first chairman.
Soros at Annenberg
In the 1970s, Klonsky became a top communist activist and leader of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party.
He reportedly identified as a Maoist, and traveled in 1977 to Beijing, where he held friendly meetings with the Chinese leadership.
In a book, “Revolution in the Air,” author Max Elbaum, himself a former Maoist activist, recounts that in Beijing, Klonsky toasted the Chinese Stalinist leadership who, in turn, hailed the formation of his Communist Party group as “reflecting the aspirations of the proletariat and working people,” effectively recognizing Klonsky’s organization as the all-but-official U.S. Maoist party.”
The Small Schools/Annenberg curriculum so closely mirrors the Baccalaureate curriculum that its course credits are often accepted as Baccalaureate credits by many universities, including Tucson’s University of Arizona.
More on the Baccalaureate curriculum:
Here, and in the New York Times:
The lesser-known I.B., a two-year curriculum developed in the 1960s at an international school in Switzerland, first took hold in the United States in private schools. But it is now offered in more than 700 American high schools — more than 90 percent of them public schools — and almost 200 more have begun the long certification process.
Many parents, schools and students see the program as a rigorous and more internationally focused curriculum, and a way to impress college admissions officers.
To earn an I.B. diploma, students must devote their full junior and senior years to the program.
Some parents say it is anti-American and too closely tied to both the United Nations and radical environmentalism. From its start in 1968 until 1976, the program was financed partly by Unesco. It is now associated with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and until recently it endorsed the Earth Charter, a declaration of principles of sustainability that originated at the United Nations.
“When there is a program at the school with a specific agenda, which in this case is the United Nations agenda, I have a problem with it,” said Ann Marie Banfield, who unsuccessfully opposed the adoption of the I.B. program in Bedford, N.H.
I.B. opponents have created a Web site, truthaboutib.com, to serve as a clearinghouse for their views.
Andy Tureff working with International Baccalaureate students at Greely High School in Maine.
And here, today’s New York Times on Loughner the Bush-Hater:
He became intrigued by antigovernment conspiracy theories, including that the Sept. 11 attacks were perpetrated by the government and that the country’s central banking system was enslaving its citizens. His anger would well up at the sight of President George W. Bush, or in discussing what he considered to be the nefarious designs of government.
Loughner is clearly more a product of the anti-Bush Leftist hate machine than any other political influence. And these “Small Schools” and Baccalaureate schools continue to spread far and wide every year. In the U.S., most of them are government schools (aka public schools). Just who is filling your child’s head with what? And is it good that it is created, funded and supported by the team of George Soros, Bill Ayers, and Barack Obama?
