Socialist “Curriculum” cannot penetrate home schools…therefore, they must be outlawed. (Updated - Corporate America Agrees)

(Updated) Michelle Malkin reports, “The Subway sandwich corporation is holding a story-writing contest for kids. You can win athletic equipment, gift baskets, or sandwich shop cash cards. Except if you’re a homeschooled student…”

In the fine print at the bottom of the contest information:

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Contest is open only to legal residents of the Untied [sic] States who are currently over the age of 18 and have children who attend elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted.

Doctor’s Associates Inc., which owns and operates Subway, typifies an American corporation with an international bent toward subverting the U.S. Constitution and acting as socialism’s change agent. Don’t believe it? Check out its “Helping Society” page, outlining its “diversity” and “going green” policies, as well as it’s commitment to to only dealing with “business partners” adhere to the same practices.

Also see:

• More Subversion of the Constitution through the American Corporation
• When American Corporations were American

 

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(Original Post 5/19/08) Rob Shearer, of Contending with the Culture, reports:

The Tennessee Department of Education has recently defended its decision not to recognize homeschool diplomas with the assertion that because they were prohibited from having anything to do with the selection of a curriculum, teachers, or textbooks…(more)

That word, “curriculum” is a little-understood word that has been used to change the public school system in the last 100 years. As I wrote, in What Happened to the New England Primer and a Slateboard?, during the early part of the 20th century, the subject of curriculum development changed from a study for “curricularists,” who specialized in general curriculum development for colleges and universities to a field of educational psychology, according to Marshall, Sears and Schubert, in their Turning Points in Curriculum (pp. 19-20).

Jerome Bruner, a leader in the field of cognitive studies, published his book, Process of Education, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961) was instrumental in turning the field of curriculum development into a forum on how children and adults learn, and how educators can shape public thought.

When we understand the cognitive processes, we will certainly be able to design education that will use man’s potential for learning far more effectively than it has been used before.

This change in the role of education along with the legal “civil rights” precedents opened the door for today’s political and social activists of every persuasion to begin utilizing the national curriculum to push various social agendas.

“Curriculum” (see some popular definitions, here) does not refer to the traditional three “R’s” (Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic), being taught in the schools. It applies to a systematic learning program. It refers to the overall framework and ideology in which all of the learning content is presented to the students. Social activists in the public school system can easily indoctrinate the state’s children with their ideas in a state-sponsored “curriculum.” They cannot, do this, in a home, where the parents are choosing the so-called “curriculum,” and usually incorporating their family’s values into the courses being taught and learned there.

That is why the state has such a problem with home schooling. If the concern were over whether or not the children were learning what they need to learn, this could easily be solved (and has been solved in many states) with standardized testing for homeschoolers. But we know that is not the concern. German homeschooling parents have been coming under fire for some time, as reported by the Home School Legal Defense Association, and closer to home, Californians have also had an uphill battle. Now, Tennessee. No, the “curricularists” in Tennessee feel children should be in the public schools, so that they have full access to what Doug Giles is calling, “Memphis High School: Reading, Writing and Bumping & Grinding.”

Hat-Tip, Blue Collar Muse