Erasing borders in The Classroom

        Political battles rage across
America over unbridled illegal immigration on the southern border. Some
build fences while others march for full rights for illegals. The
Columbia University Teachers College, however, leapfrogs over the entire
debate.

        Columbia’s Teachers College
Record recently published a

Michigan State University Professor’s approving review of

The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican
Immigration, a book by
Bill Bigelow.
Bigelow’s and the reviewer’s premise for school curriculum is this:
"The border between the U.S. and Mexico was not a natural
occurrence, but instead, was the result of an act of aggression that
created a new artificial line in the mid-19th century."

        Bigelow doesn’t present this
as an opinion, mind you, but as fact. Book reviewer Jerry Garcia calls
the book, “a timely publication.” Indeed. Its curriculum and teaching
activities are for high school and middle school teachers. There’s no
hint of evenhanded discussion of the intense political controversy over
illegal immigration. Their view of our southern border as an “artificial
barrier” is presented as firmly established fact, like the discovery of
DNA.

       
“Transformational
education” is the generally accepted belief in educational circles
that schools are to “transform” students, and good education truly does
transform. While schools were formerly viewed as an extension of the
family, however, today’s transformers admit that they mean to undermine
belief in the traditional and majority culture’s laws, values,
traditions, history, and beliefs. In this case, teachers are being
equipped in how to teach our kids that our sovereign borders
illegitimate.

            At
what point does the public, no matter where our kids are schooling,
charge teacher’s colleges with treason?

           
Teachers colleges treat the debate over illegal immigration as settled.
They’ve taken the side of the illegals, and the teachers unions reflect
that same political agenda in their annual platforms. Within the
entrenched education establishment, no political controversy  over
illegal immigration exists. Of course, this extends to other political
controversies, as well: global warming, same sex marriage, redistribution
of wealth, the sacredness of the earth, etc all paid for with your tax
dollars and mine.

           
Teachers colleges have been bastions of radicalism for generations. They
have finally “progressed” to training our teachers to oppose the very
boundaries of our nation and the laws that establish them, to
deliberately rewriting the history of the Mexican-American War, to
aggressively guiding our children into identifying with the lawbreakers
and those who would erase our borders, to charging Border Patrol law
enforcement with "de-sensitization," and to engaging our
indoctrinated children in social/political activism to support these
ideas.

           
“Follow the money.” Any serious political effort to staunch the flow of
illegal immigration into our nation that fails to address the tax money
spent to teach the young generation to undermine America cannot be
successful in the long run. Genuine education accountability begins with
the teachers colleges. Why are we funding treason?

Julie M. Quist works with EdWatch in Minnesota.