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Show Uses 'f education mmwj November 3, 1999 - The Springville Herald - Page Three i Editor: School boards do not like to discuss the implementation of curriculum-oriented program. They are afraid the public will disagree so, at board meetings, they stick with trivia-children sing, teachers get awards, construction con-struction reports are made, etc. etc. To get information, the public has to find ways to pressure pres-sure educators who cover up their world, view curriculum and don't want taxpayers to know how tax money is wasted. Would parents have agreed with the "Whole Language Reading Read-ing Program" had they known it was based on the theory that children learn to read if surrounded sur-rounded by books? National writer Sam Blumenfeld calls it the "Whole Language OBE FRAUD". When questioned, a high level employee at the State Office of Education insisted schools were not meant to teach reading. He said schools have more important things to do. "Look in the mirror to see the person responsible for teaching your child to read," he said. This program created a generation gener-ation of non-readers. Governor Leavitt has made it very clear that Utah has thousands of adults who cannot read; however, he pushes some of these very programs pro-grams that are destroying oar children. School boards hold back information on the Outcome-based Outcome-based Education program; however, how-ever, upon request, a distraught, young sounding woman at the State Office did send detailed OBE information. Her boss, the State OBE Director, had just died and she was confused about what information to send. A great deal was learned from that information which probably would not have been given under different circumstances. cir-cumstances. Utah was selected to be an OBE example to the nation. Teachers were trained. Millions spent. Teacher-training sessions were held across the state. Twenty-three Utah districts received special training from Johnson City, New York and were identified identi-fied as OBE MODEL districts. These districts agreed to change every facet of traditional teaching and follow Humanist psycholo gists such as Benjamin Bloom. OBE has a psychologically hidden hid-den anti-Christian World Agenda. Curriculum comes from federally funded research laboratories across the U.S. Anti-Christian curriculum constantly found in classrooms, bears witness to the hidden political, anti-Christian agenda. Ezra Taft Benson, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture was well aware of the dangers to education being planned at a national level. He warned us but we didn't listen too well. In his book, "An Enemy Hath Done This," he says: (page 19) "It is high time we awaken to the dangers of excessive government in business, in education, in agriculture and in segments of the economy." (Page 229) "Should education ever fall into the hands of the in-power in-power political faction or into the hands of a tightly knit group of professional social reformers, it could be used, not to educate but to indoctrinate." (Page 281) "False Educational IdeasOur institutions of learning have been turning out an increasing increas-ing number of students schooled in amorality, relativity and atheism-students divested of a belief of God, without fixed moral principles or an understanding of our constitutional republic and capitalistic, free enterprise system. These false educational ideas, set forth in many textbooks today, to-day, are prevalent in the world and we have not entirely escaped them among teachers in our own system. Their day of judgment is coming and, when it does come, for some of them it would have been better, as the Savior said, that a millstone had been put around their necks and they had drowned in . the depths of the sea." Dorothy Bryson Payson, Utah Using our school trust lands money The schools are in need of parent input to identify our most critical academic needs. Utah schools have, for the first time since statehood, the opportunity to use a portion of the school trust lands money to make a difference in our children's education. edu-cation. To use the trust, certain steps must be taken. Each school has money set aside for them in accordance with the number of students they have. Committees have been formed and are now surveying parents and teachers as well as evaluating various test results to determine our most pressing academic needs. The amount of money this year is not large, but it can impact im-pact kids' lives in a positive way. If used effectively, the schools will receive a greater amount of money from the fund each year. (This money is a bonus-educa tion will still receive it's allotted 48 of state tax money.) Please help us know the best ways to invest in our children's future. 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