Introduction I
The 2012 first edition blog of the above book picked up over 9,000 repeat users. Directly and indirectly, we were able to answer several hundred questions. Encouraging responses came from many. Perhaps the most exciting was an email from Judge Robert Bork's secretary.
As reported in the Ames (Iowa) Tribune, a March, 2008 legislative proposal for union contract negotiators that would make it even harder to fire harmful teachers caused "grave concerns" among school administrators. Margaret Buckton, chief lobbyist for the Iowa Association of School Boards, said, "Attempts to remove a teacher can last years and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars." "Grave concerns" is right. Documented in the Restoring Education Central to American Greatness book, a significantly higher percentage of public school teachers send their children to private schools than do non-teacher parents. They see the harmful impact that secular absolutism is having upon students' minds and values. Power-hungry ideologues are now soliciting and ruining a new generation of Americans "with words calculated to destroy the youthful faith in their heritage" (Grand Jury Presentment, 11th Judicial District in and for Story County, Iowa, December, 1968). Undoubtedly, restoring education central to American greatness is now the greatest singular need in America.
The Founding Fathers knew from history that centralized power left unchecked leads to tyranny. They instituted the Second Amendment to keep guns in the hands of the general public to discourage the use of guns by radical politicians, but this does not keep them from being habitual truth-trashers.
To justify taxpayer funding, American history and the Judeo-Christian influence upon the Founding Fathers must be unabashedly taught. Only with this knowledge can new generations of Americans identify truth-trashers and prevent the deceptive advance of oppressive government. Those demanding curriculum diversity that undermines the absolutes gleaned from history (traditional American foundations) can pay for their own schools and seek a following, just as must other separatist groups. The demand of traditionalists is based upon the justification for any education tax being placed upon Americans in the FIRST PLACE. No other argument is needed, but it must be firmly and uncompromisingly imposed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand" (Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1858). A nation cannot survive if its citizens continue to fund revisionist morality and anti-American rhetoric masquerading as education.
Subjects Covered By
Restoring Education Central to American Greatness
Part I: Government
Chapter 1
- Immortal Principles Central to Liberty and American Greatness
Chapter 2
- The Sovereignty of Man under the Impartial God of Creation over Government
Chapter 3
- Man May Prosper in Freedom If He Chooses to Honor the Will of Creation’s God
Chapter 4
- America’s Civic Religion and the Deeper Personal Faith of Our Nation’s Founders
Chapter 5
- Government by Written and Permanent Law
Chapter 6
- Defilement of the Judiciary
Part II: Education
Chapter 7
- Academic Freedom and Teacher Tenure History
Chapter 8
- Consequences of the Unionization of Government Teachers
Chapter 9
- The Education Nightmare
Chapter 10
- Education That Is Profoundly American
Part III: Liberty and Responsibility
Chapter 11
- Appeasement Will Not Work
Chapter 12
- Our Strategy for Victory: Political Action—Citizen Power
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