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barrykind
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The times we live in are two fold to me:
Very Sad at the state of unredeemed man, and the so called "church"
2nd Very exciting to see bible prophecy being fullfilled before my very eyes, and the strengthening of the true "remenant" body of the Messiah..
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The HEART of the issue is truly the issue of the HEART!
John 3:3;Mark 8:34-38;James 1:27
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*Some ask why I leave the o out of G-d. To leave the vowel in, is to Jews defaming HaShem (the name) just as to Christians it is defaming His Name to see a small (g) instead of a capital (G). the small g represents False gods, and is Never used by Christians to refer to the One and Only G-d. Jews and Christians are recieving this. My Jewish friends know I believe Yeshua/Jesus is the Messiah. There is no deception going on here.*
It is my understanding that the Jews leave out the O to indicate that the name of God is so Holy that it could not even be written my man.
Did I miss something????
Anyway why is the NEA rewriting history? A very simple answer; the religion of the NEA, and make no mistakes, they have one) is called humanism. It began with the Humanist founder of modern public education John Dewey:
John Dewey, 1859-1952
Dewey is considered the father of modern public education. He wrote:
"What the church has been for medieval man, the public school must become for democratic and rational man. God would be replaced by the concept of the public good." "...the traditional approach in which the tools of learning [reading, writing, and arithmetic] were first mastered was not appropriate for the new age of social consciousness." "...apart from the thought of participation in social life, the school has no end or aim." "There is no God and there is no soul. Hence, there are no needs for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room for fixed, natural law or moral absolutes."
The agenda of all humanistic thought is to remove God, from society. It is the agenda of the PS system, the NEA, the evolutionist and a host of others too lengthy to list.
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First of all let me say that there is something wrong with a society that puts so little importance on public servants- teachers, firemen, policemen, servicemen & women- we pay sports figures, movie & music stars ungoldy sums of money and this country should be ashamed for having its values so screwed up.. now to the articles- there are two here:
Teachers do not back NEA's pc version of 9/11:
By Ellen Sorokin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
http://washingtontimes.com/national...20-12959908.htm
Teachers nationwide say they will develop lesson plans about September 11 based on students' questions and will focus on the facts to correct any misconceptions children may have about the terrorist attacks. Top Stories
Several teachers said they will tell the "truth" about the terrorists and their religious background, and will avoid the National Education Association curriculum that cites American intolerance as a reason for the attacks and cautions against assigning blame.
"I'm going to work with what my students give me," said Whitney Finn, a seventh-grade social studies teacher from Westport, Conn.
"I want to prepare them for the truth, and the only way to do that is to keep talking to them and making sure that they have the correct information about what happened that day."
James McGrath Morris, a 12th-grade social studies teacher from Springfield, said his lesson plan will try to explain why America was attacked by tracing the rivalry among the three Western religions with the most adherents — Islam, Judaism and Christianity — and noting that the terrorists were Muslim.
"These are all aspects of the facts," Mr. Morris said. "My lesson plans will not skirt the issues."
Educators and clinical psychologists said the worst thing teachers can do is "sugarcoat" the events of September 11.
"Honesty is important," said Robin Gurwitch, a clinical psychologist at the pediatrics department at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
The NEA, the country's largest teachers union, has drawn criticism from conservatives and other teachers unions who say its guidelines instruct teachers not to "suggest that any group is responsible" for the attacks and to take a blame-America approach.
They urge educators "to discuss historical instances of American intolerance" so that the American public avoids "repeating terrible mistakes."
"The American Federation of Teachers disagrees with the lesson plans found on the NEA Web site," said Janet Bass, a spokeswoman for the union. "The AFT does not support a blame-America approach in particular and wishes to distance itself from the entire document."
Compiled under the title "Remember September 11" and appearing on the NEA health-network Web site, the guidelines were developed by Brian Lippincott, who is affiliated with the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at John F. Kennedy University in California.
NEA officials did not immediately return calls seeking comment. However, they issued a press release yesterday praising the Web site that includes Mr. Lippincott's tips, which were taken from proposals solicited from teachers.
"This is a terribly difficult time for all Americans," NEA President Bob Chase said in the statement.
"The NEA joins with our fellow citizens to honor our heroes and our country on this day. We hope this Web site offers help in navigating the challenges teachers face in the classroom with addressing this sensitive topic. Our goal is to provide age-appropriate information for them to use as needed."
Although a variety of lesson plans has been developed over the past several months to help teachers cover September 11, many school districts are still trying to figure out how teachers should best commemorate September 11 and how to incorporate the attacks into a daily lesson plan.
School officials in Fairfax County will hold a training seminar, "Teaching in a Time of Terror: How Do We Respond?" on Aug. 29 for 700 middle and high school teachers. Officials in Prince William County are expected to meet today.
In Maryland, school officials in Montgomery County are discussing the matter with their social studies teachers.
Teachers should decide on their own how to describe the attacks, depending on the age of the students, but they need to set the facts straight, officials said.
"There's always a part of us that says if we bring it up, we're going to need to downplay it or sugarcoat it," Miss Gurwitch said. "By doing that we may create more problems if we don't address it. The truth is always good."
NEA execs collect 8 times what teachers are paid
NEA execs collect
Study: Bigwigs haven't been in classroom for decades, out of touch with membership
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Posted: August 20, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jon Dougherty
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28661
A public-policy think tank says the leadership of the National Education Association, the country's top teachers' union, is so far removed from ordinary classroom environments they can no longer relate to the tasks facing working-class teachers.
"The new leaders of the National Education Association tout themselves as classroom teachers on leave to represent their colleagues," said Carl Gibson, a spokesman for the Olympia, Washington-based Evergreen Freedom Foundation.
But, Gibson continued, "we did a little digging around to see what kind of classroom experience they have. Turns out none of them have worked in a classroom during the last decade. For some, it's been far longer."
Gibson said EFF looked at Bob Chase, the 2.7-million member NEA's outgoing president; Reg Weaver, its incoming president; Dennis Van Roekel, the union's new vice president; and Lily Eskelsen, NEA's new secretary-general. The union's top officials are not the seasoned teaching pros they often claim to be. Plus, the group said, the NEA elite do much better financially than teachers still in the classroom – even veteran teachers. According to a July 3 press release, the NEA said Weaver is "a 35-year teaching veteran and middle-school science teacher from suburban Chicago." In published statements, Weaver said he was an "advocate" for public-education reform.
But EFF countered that Weaver has instead been a union official for three decades while a teacher "for less than 10 years."
The think tank said Weaver first began teaching in Harvey School District 152, which is just south of Chicago, in 1961, but district personnel say Weaver has been on leave for a decade. He served as president of the Harvey Education Association in Illinois from 1967-71, then became vice president of the Illinois Education Association from 1977-81.
He left that position to become president of IEA until 1987. Two years later, Weaver became a member of the NEA's executive committee and served in that post until 1995. The following year he was selected as VP of the NEA; in 2002 he ascended to NEA's presidency.
Former NEA head Bob Chase ran the union from 1996-2002. Before then he spent seven years – from 1989 until 1996 – as its vice president. Prior to his national posts, Chase served as president and vice president of the Connecticut Education Association from 1979-1989, having served the CEA in a junior capacity for an undetermined amount of time before 1979.
Dennis Van Roekel, the NEA's vice president, is a "supposed 25-year teaching veteran," EFF said, but research shows he's had "approximately 17 years in the union and approximately five to seven years as an actual teacher."
Van Roekel's resume includes secretary-treasurer of the NEA from 1997 until his election as its VP, preceded by two terms on the NEA's executive committee, a term as president of the Arizona Education Association, two terms on the Paradise Valley Education Association and a stint as treasurer of the PVEA, all from 1977-1996.
Can NEA executive committee members and leaders remain full-time educators? No, according to union officials, because there is too much time involved in running the organization.
In terms of compensation, however, that isn't a problem for the union's top officials. According to the Education Intelligence Agency, a for-profit public-education research firm, Weaver's salary this year will top $231,000, but go up next year to $237,967.
Yet, the NEA's own data says the median salary for in-the-trenches teachers is $38,316 a year. New Jersey teachers have the highest average salaries at $52,381 a year; South Dakota teachers make the least at $30,265 annually.
And, in an April 8 press release, NEA officials were complaining – hypocritically, some claim – that nationally, teachers' salaries remain too low.
"As more money was invested in public education, teacher salaries remained stagnant – all while the U.S. was in a time of economic expansion," Chase said in a July statement. "If we, as a nation, are serious about student achievement, we need to make sure we can attract and retain high-quality teachers."
Besides generating well-above-average salaries, NEA executives will also reap a combined $570,817 in cash allowances, benefits and travel expenses over and above their paychecks this year. Next year, EFF said, that figure climbs to $582,075.
"Each of the three executive officers gets an additional 20 percent of salary as a cash 'living allowance,' plus another 20 percent of salary for benefits, since they are not on the employees' benefits plan," said Mike Antonucci, head of the Education Intelligence Agency. "So that additional 40 percent for each of them comes out of that half-million.
"Whatever is left over is for travel expenses, and that goes into a common pot for the three of them," he added. "Naturally, the president will tend to travel more than the other two."
Michael Pons, a spokesman for NEA, dismissed the EFF report.
"I don't know where [it's] going or what the general public interest is in this," he told WND.
But, he said the salaries of the NEA's top officials was not commensurate with the kind of salaries earned by the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies who have far fewer employees. Also, he questioned the manner in which Antonucci calculated NEA compensation.
"[Antonucci] converts to 'salary' [NEA executives'] salary, their benefits and their travel," he said. "Is that how you talk about your job? Most people don't."
"Even if [their salaries] were in the amounts he talks about, it's relatively low for people who hold that kind of position in an organization of this size," Pons said. "It's like a tenth of what a CEO would make in a comparably sized organization."
He also said it was "interesting" that "nobody knows what [Antonucci] and others make, yet they're all for full disclosure."
In terms of reform, Pons said NEA was focused mostly on finding "qualified teachers" for all schools, including inner-city urban schools, where that need is the greatest.
The EFF report comes amid growing turmoil over public education. While most kids in the U.S. attend public schools, parents and educators are becoming increasingly skeptical of them. Years of falling test scores, increased violence and drug problems, and higher dropout rates in the public schools have driven some parents to send their children to private or parochial schools, or to sacrifice even more by teaching them at home.
The Supreme Court recently gave advocates of alternatives to government schools a critical legal victory. In July, the panel ruled that Ohio's school voucher program, which allocates some public funds for private-school education, is constitutional.
However, though Weaver and other NEA officials say they support education "reforms," school vouchers are not one of them.
"Vouchers are a divisive and expensive diversion from continuing progress" in public-school education, said an NEA statement following the Supreme Court decision. "Make no mistake – vouchers are not reform. If policymakers want to act on the issues that parents care most about – the kitchen table discussions about education opportunity for their children – they will address teacher quality, class size, making sure all schools have high expectations for every child and providing the resources to help students succeed."
Also, the union historically has opposed other so-called "school choice" initiatives that include any alternatives to government-run public schools.
According to the National Center for Policy Analysis, tuition tax credits, education savings accounts, and vouchers – coupled with dramatic changes in curricula
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God bless,
Kindgo
Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.
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barrykind
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This was sent to me by Joan Hunt....
What think ye???
I mentioned to someone the other day this country will embrace terrorist and Never have the guts to fight them, Much less a Respect for the Word of G-d. Read and know the truth. Those who know G-d please stick very close to Him and His W-rd. People are believing Lies and have not a Love for the Truth. Please do not think that any of us are beyond being decieved. The scriptures at the bottom were added by me.
*Some ask why I leave the o out of G-d. To leave the vowel in, is to Jews defaming HaShem (the name) just as to Christians it is defaming His Name to see a small (g) instead of a capital (G). the small g represents False gods, and is Never used by Christians to refer to the One and Only G-d. Jews and Christians are recieving this. My Jewish friends know I believe Yeshua/Jesus is the Messiah. There is no deception going on here.*
Love and Prayers~
Joan
>From: "Jay Alan Sekulow, Chief Counsel"
>To: cjhannoel@hotmail.com
>Subject: Why is the NEA rewriting the history of 9/11?
>Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 02:57:50 UT
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>Dear Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Hunt,
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>If the National Education Association (NEA) has its way, educators are just days away from teaching your child and grandchild a lesson that rewrites history about the devastating events of September 11, 2001!
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>The NEA is encouraging its 2.7 million members to avoid placing blame for the 9/11 attacks ... yet one lesson plan seems to blame America itself for this act of terrorism!
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>I am outraged by this blatant disregard for the truth ... and the American Center is taking a stand to protect our children and grandchildren - and we need your financial support today!
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>https://www.donation-net.net/donate/gift1.cfm?dn=1008&commid=39491299&id=974969
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>The NEA - a powerful lobby group which represents many of America's public school teachers - has compiled lesson plans to help teachers and students deal with the anniversary of September 11.
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>Sounds harmless, right? Don't be fooled.
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>These lesson plans are so bent on being politically correct that they rewrite history and ignore the truth. According to a Washington Times report, here's what the NEA is recommending:
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>- Instruct teachers not to "suggest that any group is responsible" for the attacks.
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>- Urge educators "to discuss historical instances of American intolerance" so that the American public avoids "repeating terrible mistakes."
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>- Inform teachers that "blaming is especially difficult in terrorist situations because someone is at fault. In this country, we still believe that all people are innocent until solid, reliable evidence from our legal authorities prove otherwise."
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>The evidence is irrefutable. Al-Qaida brags about its success on 9/11 and continues to work to kill more Americans and destroy our way of life.
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>The fact is, we know who was responsible for the September 11 attacks but the NEA is determined to distort the truth.
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>The American Center is determined to protect your children and grandchildren from this deception. We are committed to supporting the President and his justified war on terrorism.
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>Now our legal team is in the process of drafting the strongest response possible to the NEA setting the record straight.
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>We are now in the process of compiling detailed information including legal precedent and specific factual evidence to inform the NEA of the truth about the tragic events of September 11. We will do whatever it takes to ensure that the history of 9/11 isn't radically distorted in our public schools.
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>And we need your help to make a difference. We are already protecting the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance while at the same time preparing briefs in several Supreme Court cases - yet we must keep up the battle on many fronts to protect your constitutional freedoms!
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>Please give a generous, tax-deductible gift today to help us fight the NEA's deception while we continue our critical legal work. The new school year has begun in many school districts across the country, so please let me hear from you right away.
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2 Timothy 3
3:1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of G-d, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; 9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.
2 Thess 2:2-12
3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called G-d or that is worshiped, so that he sits as G-d in the temple of G-d, showing himself that he is G-d. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the L-rd will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish,! because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason G-d will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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2 Tim 3:16
16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of G-d, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of G-d may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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WHAT THINK YE??????
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The HEART of the issue is truly the issue of the HEART!
John 3:3;Mark 8:34-38;James 1:27
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