Proselytizing Preschoolers

What are you doing to protect your three-year-old
from the radical anti-war agenda?

The aggressive efforts by blame-America educators to

indoctrinate college-age students are well-known.
But even toddlers are not safe from peacenik
proselytizers.

Example: The nation`s largest and most influential
organization of early childhood educators sells a
teacher`s guide that depicts the famed

Blue Angels, our U.S. Navy`s flight demonstration
squadron of F-18 Hornet fighter pilots, as heartless
killers threatening to bomb innocent American children.

According to the National Association for the
Education of Young Children (NAEYC),
which oversees preschool teacher training, curriculum
standards, and daycare accreditation,

“That`s Not Fair! A Teacher`s Guide to Activism with
Young Children” is “an exciting and
informative”

resource for “developing community-building, deep
thinking, and partnership…to change the world for the
better.”

On page 106 of the guide, co-author Ann Pelo details
an activism project she initiated at a Seattle preschool
after her students spotted a Blue Angels rehearsal
overhead as they played in a local park. “Those are
Navy airplanes,” Pelo lectured the toddlers.
“They`re built for war, but right now, there is no war,
so the pilots learn how to do fancy tricks in their
planes…” The kids returned to playing, but Pelo
wouldn`t let it rest. The next day she pushes the
children to “communicate their feelings about the
Blue Angels.”

Pelo proudly describes her precociously politicized
students` handiwork:

“They drew pictures of
planes with Xs through them: `This is a crossed-off
bombing plane.` They drew bomb factories labeled: `No.`

“Respect our words, Blue
Angels. Respect kids` words. Don`t kill people.”

“If you blow up our city,
we won`t be happy about it. And our whole city will be
destroyed. And if you blow up my favorite library, I
won`t be happy because there are some good books there
that I haven`t read yet.”

Pelo reports that the children “poured out their
strong feelings about the Blue Angels in their messages
and seemed relieved and relaxed.” But it`s obvious
this cathartic exercise was less for the children and
more for the ax-grinding Pelo, who readily admits that
she “didn`t ask for parents` input about their
letter-writing – she didn`t genuinely want it. She felt
passionately that they had done the right thing, and she
wasn`t interested in hearing otherwise.”

So much for “community-building, deep thinking,
and partnership.”

On page 115, guide co-author Fran Davidson trumpets
her own anti-war biases and her difficult struggle to
tolerate pro-military parents` views:

“During the Persian Gulf
War, I became acutely aware of how difficult it is to
honor families` values when those values are different
from mine. In the classroom, I emphasized peaceful
resolutions to conflicts and talked often with the
children about elements of peace. Most families felt
comfortable…but when our conversations about peace
expanded to include discussions of the Persian Gulf War,
some families became uneasy…[Some] families talked about
the necessity of war to overthrow oppressors and to
protect and free people…This was a really uncomfortable
time for me…”

Then get out of the classroom, dear, and let the kids
have a teacher (calling Jessica Lynch!) who can lead the
ABCs without raising her fist and turning it into a
brainwashing session on Anti-imperialism, Blood
for oil, and Conflict resolution.

Pelo and Davidson`s guide is also promoted by the

Early Childhood Equity Alliance (ECEA), a network of
activist educators. Its statement against

Operation Iraqi Freedom argues: “As the still
relevant saying from the 60`s aptly puts it: "War is not
healthy for children and other living things!"

(And allowing Saddam Hussein to gas Kurds,

imprison children who refused to join the Baath
Party,

torture their dissident fathers, and use pregnant
women to shield his soldiers, is?)

ECEA

encourages early childhood educators to “look to
alterative sources of information beyond the mainstream
media” such as

moveon.org, the Clintonite website still fatuously
promoting

inspections over war.

Dr. Karen Effrem, a Johns Hopkins University-trained
pediatrician/researcher who has tracked the
radicalization of preschool teacher training,

warns that these professional educators` groups are
spreading “a very radical and dangerous curriculum to
teachers and child care workers who, in turn, use it on
our very youngest and most vulnerable children. This is
no small campaign.”

Welcome to the new preschool curriculum: play dough,
finger painting, and Pacifism 101.

Michelle Malkin [email
her] is author of

Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists,
Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores.
Click

here for Peter Brimelow`s review. Click

here for Michelle Malkin`s website.

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