Declaration of Parents' God Given Responsibilities
Parents have a God given right to guide the teaching and training of their children.
Only in a united effort can individual parents guide the direction of the federal school system.
The federal and state system way of doing things is bigger than any parent.
This centralization did not occur in the formation of America, but it happened
in various degrees after WWII.
It is a new thing on the face of American schools.
Now parents must make a their own new effort to join together so their individual voices can be heard as one.
Otherwise, the system tends to tell each parent, "Well, you're about the only one wanting this change."
Around 1800-1820 When American's were asked about a system of government run schools, they said No.
They knew that whoever teaches the child shapes and molds that child, and they certainly did not
want the government being the example of all knowledge to their children. They instinctively knew
that government instruction would tend to lead to approval of whatever the government taught.
That's why there was no Department of Education in the original Constitution. They didn't want
the government taking over from the parents.
To fulfill our duty as a parent in WFISD, we must accept our responsibilities to maintain our freedoms through knowing
and acting upon the whole truth. We must prove all things. We are responsible to God for the schools to which
we send our children. Not the text book publishers of California and not the nine people on the Supreme Court.
It is the parents who are accountable to God for the teaching or failure thereof for their own children.
I list some grievances below for you to consider about WFISD. But first, let me set the tone. This is not psychology or
something I reasoned up on my own. It is the way scripture talks about parents being responsible for the teaching
and training of their own children. So here is some background, to help understand the grievances.
Even our Declaration of Independence acknowledged these things, ... we should do likewise.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. He is the Supreme Judge of the Universe. He is
the One to whom we look for divine protection of our nation and our children who are the inheritors.
We trust God that as we honor Him, He will honor us; and we know the truth of His word that
if we are ashamed of Him, He will also be ashamed of us. If we do not stand up for Him in the teaching
of our children, how then can we expect Him to continue His divine protection and blessings, either to ourselves
or to our posterity.
In the beginning of this great nation, our Founding Fathers gloriously acknowledged Almighty God, and it is
in honor to them, we also remember and testify of their faith towards God. Thus we restore good role models
to our children. It is good when children know the faith of America's generals. And the faith of their fathers.
We give honor to whom honor is due.
Honor is due to God the Father, the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. Honor is due to those great men who
established this nation upon their faith towards the divine help and protection of Almighty God, and we
give honor to them by teaching our children what those mighty men of God said and did, as recorded in the
original documents (and clearly not as some 200 year removed revisionist would water it down.)
It is the responsibility of each parent of WFISD students to prove all things concerning the teaching and training of his children.
It is the divine obedience of each parent to see that his children hear daily the word of God, and learn to
see all things by that light.
We will not presume on the grace of God. We will fulfill our god given responsibility to our children.
As we believe our rights are given by God, and not by the government (as the U.N. claims), we also
believe to maintain those rights we must teach our children the truth as seen by the divine light of God.
One of those rights, is to teach our children the things of God by the way of God. His way is spelled out in
scripture and was acknowledged in early Colonial America. As an example, the First Schoolmaster of America
compiled his dictionary so Americans could learn to read and understand the holy Bible.
As this historical story is no longer taught in the public schools, we will that our children learn such
things in spite of the school system's failure to teach appropiately.
We acknowledge the holy and living word of God to be true and faithful and preserved to all generations,
that not one word is wasted and not one jot or title shall pass away till the return of our Lord and Savior
Christ Jesus the living Son of God. And we would have our children know our recognition of our duty to obey Him
in training up our children in the admonition and comfort of the Lord and His Holy Scripture.
His word is a lamp to our path, and there is no other word that can do for our children what the living
word of God does, and has done, and will continue doing. Not the word of men that contradict God, nor the word of
philosophers or psychologists, or any that deny Him, nor any other word that is contrary to the word of God
shall be taught to our children without them being shown the contradiction and foolishness thereof.
It is acceptable and on occassion, in appropriate ways for children to be shown what foolishness contradicts
the truth of God, just as a forester would show his child how to avoid stepping into a bear trap.
But no child of mine shall be led down a forest path to a bear trap for him to be trapped therein.
Grievances against the "king" of government schools
and especially against WFISD where I and my children attended.
Grievance:The school system has refused and declined and stonewalled since 1992
on even informing parents of conflicts of opinion in education. Dr. Carnine even had a paper issued
saying "Manufactured Crisis" to sooth a group of parents who were getting too strong in their opposition.
That was after I saw a large OBE (Outcome Based Education) poster at Fain elementary. When I got an appointment
with the superintendent he denied any participation in OBE, and the next day that poster was gone.
But OBE was happening, growing and increasing in WFISD. Carnine's quote was "Don't let the people know what
your doing until it's too late for them to do anything." See Machiavelli's The Prince. He quoted it, in his own
inter-office publication. In that same publication of the Superintendent who was responsible for starting WFISD
down the road of OBE (as it was then called), the language referred to students as the raw material, parents as
the suppliers, and business as the consumer.
Grievance:The "system" has refused to make known to parents a list of reading materials
suitable for tradational Christian families and how it differs from the majority of what is being put into
public school libraries, especially grievious in the elementary schools. This topic has many pages written detailing
things on www.christianparents.com .
Grievance: When a teacher says "What difference does it make what they read,
so long as they're reading.", you've got to believe something is bad wrong in the college that taught that teacher.
Grievance: The school continues to omit instruction based on godly virtues which could
help slow or stop the cultural decline in America. Social changes of the size that should take a hundred years or more
to occur, began happening in a quarter of that time after World War II. From the 70's on such changes happened in a decade.
Mass-media and its cohort, mass-education both are serving to homogenize and sterilize that which is not middle ground.
Parents since the colonial times expected their children to grow up having the same values. But now, mass-communication
(including advertising and school instruction which must go along with the commercial dollar flow if it is to serve the customer)
is designed to make children need to be conformists and fit into a norm. That norm accepts the new moral proverb,
"...that's OK because it's funny." Which is how sexual trends work their way into television and children grow up
accepting the erosion of values that worsens each five years. Not only does the school omit instruction of how to
define and recognize corosive moral influence (especially when it's disquised in the form of 'humor'), but the school
also encourages and supports disruptive social engineering. This idea of accelerated cultural change was pointed out
by Josh McDowell author of Right from Wrong. The acceleration is made possible primarily by centralization of source for
communication. This has occured with the recently new federal department of education, and national televsion monopoly.
I just left a prime time tv 'comedy' show after the young man smiled and told the girl jokingly to 'take off your bra'.
This is offered as one example of the traditional family values being suprise attacked from every angle.
If school were influenced by parents, there would be time for explaining values to the children at a young age, so the child
could learn to recognize and not accept corrosive, eroding, degrading 'humor' as each five year period rolled by.
But instead of being guided by parents, the curriculum is guided by educational research conforming with UNESCO
and atheistic-evangelists who want to wash the child from their parents influce and replace with "social conformity"
to the new-age ha ha culture of sex, booze, non-marriage living together, ... If you question the reference to UNESCO
then be informed that President Bush has commited to cooperation with UNESCO and also Bill Gate's Microsoft in world
wide efforts including the United States.
Grievance: Teachers are more responsive to the system that pays their check, than the parents
of the child in their class. This is generally true in WFISD and throughout the system of teachers in America.
One teacher of the year told me, "If the parents are not going to stand up for their children, I'm certainly
not going to risk my job trying to help them."
Grievance: Teachers and "system administrators" have knowingly and willingly
decided they had to do what was best for the students "in their opinion" because the parents weren't taking
their own responsibilities to help and protect their own children. You can see hints of this line of thought
creeping into the educational colleges just by reading the encyclopedia articles on education written by "Educators".
Between 1952 and 1992 , schools came to see themselves as very much "replacing " the parents. Verifiable by
easy references.
Grievance: The system continues to say "everything is excellent and getting better"
with their ads "Excellence in Education" . The system fails to inform the parents of controversial issues
which would definitely bring the parents by the droves into their school board meetings.
Grievance: Why do students graduate not having been taught the Christian history of America?
Grievance: A Christian view of nearly anything is avoided in the schools of WFISD.
Grievance: Children figure it this way, the Bible must not be very important or it would be in school.
Grievance: The "Educational Colleges" have for a long time taught teachers to use
a mosaic, or kalidescope approach to presenting new material. Meaning, don't require too much concentration,
keep it short and simple, bite sized so the student doesn't have to maintain a train of thought.
This is evident in many text books, and classroom presentations. They say, "Let the student learn by osmosis, just
soaking it in with many repetitions. " Well, the original schools of America didn't do this, and now finally
new studies have shown why. The new way is inefficient. The new way is an excuse for lack of thinking.
Learning by "osmosis" and tv distractions affect the way people learn, making the knowledge they gain harder to use later on.
As published through the National Academy of Sciences
"What's new is that even if you can learn while distracted, it changes how you learn to make it less efficient and useful," said Russell A. Poldrack, a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Grievance: Many in authority have gone along with the system for the sake of their pay check and have either
failed to discover for themselves the truth of what is right and good to feed the children, or if they knew
they have failed to sound a trumpet for the parents to hear. This is true from the pre-school programs through
high school.
Examples include: The teaching and encouragment of "random self-expression" over discipline and self control.
In dance, song, and emotion, even in attempts at so called "creativity" where there is no light of knowledge
and understanding, there is darkness and confusion.
Other examples include failures in the teaching of numbers, words, and ideas.
Words are taught as being "close approximations" on a list of words, rather than detailed dictionary definitions.
Hold fast the form of sound words is just one scripture which is broken by such failures with the children.
The significance of words can be seen in John 1 "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God,
and the word was God"
Bear traps on the path of books:
Grievance:Teachers of WFISD have led children to books that contradict historical truth of our Founding Father's faith towards God.
This is robbery of good examples of godly men of faith from our children. Those role models shall be restored
to our children. Example: I searched in vain in the Rider High School library for a book testifying to the
Christian faith of our nation's Founding Father, George Washington. All I could find was a book written by a
contemporary "Ph.D." saying he was unable to find a source showing any Christian faith of George Washington.
When appropriate and good and true books were offered as a gift to the library at Barwise Jr. High, they was declined,
saying they would have to go through many layers of red tape to accept them into the library. But when
their approved channels of gift books wanted to donate books about teen-age deliquents and horror stories
of snakes turning into little girls, those books went right onto the shelves.
Grievance: Over 90% of the old good books have been sold off in book sales by WFISD and replaced with contemporary
writings which for the most part do not satisfy the needs of a growing child, but rather waste time or plant
harmful ideas before any armor has been established against such ideas. Child psychologists are well aware
of how the order of presentation of ideas affects what takes root in a child's heart and mind.
Grievance: Chaos has been taught as that from which all came. As though chaos itself produced order and life.
This is directly contradicting the truth of God. We would not know chaos unless we first knew order, just as we would not know comfort if we did not know discomfort.
A child raised on garbage for food does not know to reject the rancid and foul, but a child raised on butter and honey
learns to reject the evil and accept only the good.
Grievance:Government teachers of WFISD have failed to teach significant history when the graduate does not know how our First
Amendment was applied until the year 1948 and why it was drastically changed in the 1960's and who opposed such changes and why.
This is only one example of many which can be shown. These things affect the direction of our nation.
The first five presidents and supreme courts and congress wanted these things taught to all generations of Americans.
Failure to follow their path in teaching government ideas has led to many consequent other failures in America.
Grievance: A sweeping example of a failure in such a simple thing as holding a writing instrument,
shows failure at a foundational level of instruction. This is given as so simple, that it must indicate
many other details of righteousness are also missing from the government schools curriculum.
Watch a hundred children write, and you will see such a strain. It is no wonder writing becomes a chore,
they don't even learn the mechanics of holding a pencil for greatest ease of use. Teachers told me,
well, that is such a small thing, why do you bring it up? I respond, if you can not be faithful in such a
small thing, such a daily and often repeated thing, ... how much more failure is revealed when the
less common things are examined for righteousness.
These failures include reading rate and comprehension, vocabulary, a clear and understandable way of speaking, and a beautiful form
of handwriting as a goal.
Grievance: Digitized and fragmentized knowledge is taught that results in the child not having a connected picture
of whatever he learned.
Example: Chemistry. So much more detail is taught now than 40 years ago, but today
the child is lost in the details, not connecting the major parts. Evidences include, such detailed analysis of
the Kreb's Cycle but failure to know it's connection to their own nutrition with everyday foods.
Example: Math: Knowing details of a calculator keyboard sequence for a complex problem, but inability to solve the simple
formula D=R*T for R by a high school student with two years of algebra.
Example: Physics. Using a computer to measure tiny variations on a rolling ball down a slide, but failure to
get the big idea. Like using a computer to calulate to 4 or 5 places, but failing to comprehend
where the decimal place goes. Teach them a slide rule so they get the point of the decimal place.
Electronics: The student put together pre-assembled modules to build a toy robot, and got an A in electronics.
He didn't know how to use a voltmeter to measure resistance. He didn't know much at all except how to snap together
the pretty plastic part that held the sophisticated components of which he understood little.
Example: Computer generated answers to test questions allowing a child to graduate HS with gross misrepresentation of
what he has learned.
Example: We use money daily. The school has not taught the history of money, not even in America.
It has a complex and little known history that American leaders of the past believed worth knowing by all Americans.
The school has failed to teach this history which has an affect on every child's life.
Grievance: The school system budget for administration has grown out of proportion to benefit for students.
For further reference please see The Grandfather Economic Report link from WFISD.CHRISTIANPARENTS.Com/links.html
Grandfather Economic Reportendorsed by Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman
For further references please see The Grandfather Education Report link from WFISD.CHRISTIANPARENTS.Com
Grandfather Education Report
Grievance: A graduate has a year or two of chemistry details but gained no connection to understanding
common daily uses of chemistry around the home. This is gross failure to teach what is in their daily lives
of which they should be aware and knowledgeable.
Grievance: For a high school graduate, and a star on a champion soccer team to graduate and not even know
how to read good enough to maintain himself at Midwestern University, that is a failure on the part of the school.
And it happens way too often.
Grievance: For a graduate to not know in his own home town which way is North, that is so evident of missing
links in what is provided for the students.
Grievance: The school system continues making excuses for America's falling scores in international testing
of science and math. Such excuses are not acceptable.
Grievance:Use of tv and entertainment, and conditioning the students to only that which is deemed "fun".
Grievance: Telling the students, contrary to parent counsel, that it is OK to watch tv while doing homework
if in the opinion of the student it "helps" them. See AP news story Monday July 24, 2006 by RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer,
titled Study: TV makes learning less efficient. The school system has for a very long time told students
from elementary grades up, that if in their opinion, tv helped them relax and be more comfortable studying,
by all means go ahead and watch tv while doing your studies. This may not be recognized as an official position in their
records, but it was pervasive and common. It results from "new psychology" saying "whatever makes the student
feel good, let it be done..". In short, parents, your children have been subject to experimentation in how to learn.
And the experiment was contrary to scripture on many counts. "Let the light of thine eye be single." "Whatsoever you do
that do with all your might." I mean, don't you think students should learn how to focus and concentrate!
Now after decades of this educational experimental nonsense, a new article says it failed. Wow. How smart was that.
Article is found at TV while studying is not good
Grievance: Failure to inform the parents in WFISD of those cultural forces influencing public schools.
Forces such as the U.N. world plan for education as mentioned by President Bush, and found in many public records.
Also, it should be explained the goals of such non-tradtional, non-American forces.
Failure to present such information is a breach of trust for a tradtional minded American parent.
See link to Steven Kosser Report at WFISD.ChristianParents.com for a psycholgist's report on our schools.
In summary, the reading is not as it could be, neither vocabulory, spelling, math, physics, chemistry, history,
government, or economics.
The goals are too low. The system adapts too much to mass-media conformity, reducing too much to the lowest
level of association. This is seen when rap-prison hip groin holding and jumping is performed on stage
with the Miss Universe beauty contest. Mass-media at its best again combining the extremes at a point and place
for public acceptance which is the learned behavior for our little children. TV is changing our youth.
On TV beautiful, refined girls are shown in association with boys
who jump like monkey's while holding their hand between their legs. Such is the lesson mass-media social engineers
want your little children to have. Evidence? That's what they combined on tv this week. The school is doing the same
kind of combining and degrading of quality. Redefining is contrary to standards. Without standards who could measure
anything, a foot, a pound, or a passing understanding of any subject. But , Oh, that's what happened, the system
re-defined the standards, and that's why students get A's who wouldn't have 40 years ago.
We the undersigned will have our students to learn the things we want them to know. To this end we want
a new elective class giving our perspective of what should be taught. Such class will be available at every
year of our child's presence in WFISD. At each higher grade level, more detail can be added to what has already
been presented. And yes it does need to be done at each grade level of my child's learning in public school
at WFISD. This will in some degree help keep the focus where I as a parent want it to be for my child.
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