The state of the education system

September 2, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

The following is an excerpt from the Education — Key Page at the website of Fathers for Life.  The last three links identified in the list show additions that were made today.

The state of the education system:

• Measuring up: The performance of Canada’s youth in reading, mathematics and science

• Getting an education in a feminist-dominated education system

  A new report “The Myth That The Schools Shortchange Girls: Social Science in the Service of Deception” is available at http://www.uaf.edu/northern/schools/myth.html.  One way out is home schooling

• The Scandal and Sham of Education in the UK (off-site)

• The Happy Days —An assessment by Robert A. Heinlein of what the status of the US education system was at the end of the Seventies, with comments by me explaining to where we got to since then.

• The Myth That Schools Short-change Girls: Social Science in the Service of Deception — an article by Judith Kleinfeld, Professor of Psychology, University of Alaska

• The “Fix” That’s Destroying Education In America

Have no illusions that the problems with America’s education system are national ones. Once you read Tom DeWeese’s article and know who’s behind “The Fix”, you’ll come to the conclusion that you know also why  “The Fix” is destroying education in all developed nations.

• NEA Hastens Death of American Education, INSIGHT magazine, January 6, 2003, Ralph de Toledano

The National Education Association (NEA), just prior to the anniversary of the horror of the Twin Towers attack, urged its members in a directive not to lay blame on Islamic terrorists but instead to lecture students on America’s sins. For a day or two, there were some indignant outbursts. But few pointed out the connection between the unconscionable state of American education and the ideological hold the NEA has on our public schools and system of higher education.

• No gold stars for successful L.A. teachers, Los Angeles Times, August 28, 2010

L.A. Unified has hundreds of excellent instructors. But no one asks them their secrets to success, and most of the time no one praises them. Often their principals don’t even know who they are.
August 28, 2010|By Jason Felch, Los Angeles Times

• School reform fails in N.Y. test score scandal, SocialistWorker.org, September 1, 2010

Alexander Super, a former public school teacher in New York, looks at the issues raised by the big downward revision of student test scores in the city.

• The following is a link to an article on the key issue that is being addressed in the two articles identified above; the issue being that teachers unions have always persisted in refusing to permit the grading of teachers’ performances according to the students’ test scores.

L.A. Unified presses union on test scores, Los Angeles Times, August 22. 2010

The district wants new labor contracts to include ‘value-added’ data as part of teacher evaluations.

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Another million dollars for women

August 31, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

FYI:

Recipient Name:	Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters
Location:	Edmonton, Alberta
Date:	2009-12-02
Value:	$1,000,000.00
Type:	Contribution
Purpose:	This three-year project will bring together provincial / territorial shelter organizations across Canada to work to improve the access to and quality of services for women who are in abusive situations, with a focus on Aboriginal, immigrant and rural women. The project will coordinate the national exchange and implementation of proven, promising, and innovative practices and service delivery models across Canada, through the establishment of a national network, including a strategy and action plan to link women’s shelters across Canada. The project will also pilot, implement and evaluate one proven practice across Canadian shelters. By establishing a strong national voice, shelters will be able to act together to identify and effectively address their common issues and goals. Their work will be carried out in collaboration with stakeholders, including government departments, community-based service providers, and women who are victims of family violence.
Comments:	Multiyear project

Source: Status of Women Canada, Disclosure of Grant and Contribution Awards

h/t to Gilbert Claes

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In contrast, there are no government-funded shelters for battered men and “their” children, no funding for men’s issues, but men have much shorter average life expectancies.  Men comprise the vast majority of serious or fatal job injuries, the vast majority of heart attack victims and receive far less attention in gender-specific medical research.

Still, the all-pervasive propaganda campaign that alleges that women are victims of men’s oppression marches on…

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Tips and Notes

August 31, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Got a news item or comment that does not fit one of the existing discussion threads?  Post it here as a comment.

For URLs, make sure that you just copy and paste them as simple character strings.  Do not use any HTML tags for URLs.

Do not post complete news articles.  Usually the headline and identification of the source, date, URL and a short explanation are sufficient.

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Wanting a normal, stable, heterosexual relationship

August 31, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

[Name not shown] wrote:

Hey my name is [not shown] and I just wanted to thank you for your website. I only recently discovered it and I’m happy and proud there are people out there who are trying to redeem something from this crap we’re in as men.

I’m only 19 years old but I already see how we’ve been sold a lie and everything normal and stable is being destroyed. Unlike most guys I know and see, I want a partner and family sometime in the near future, but I find it difficult and frustrating when I go out and see amongst the groups of young women who debauch themselves and act like sluts.

Luckily though, most of my close friends want what I want, both male and female, and in some ways I find it relieving that there are some out there who wish for a normal, stable, heterosexual relationship.

Thanks again

Response by F4L: Thanks for the thumbs-up.

I probably don’t have to tell you any of this, but just in case you want to have a check-sheet that you can also give to some of your friends, these ideas may help you to find the right woman to share your life with.  It takes a bit of common sense and open eyes.  You have more than enough of that.

Messages like yours convince me that I have not wasted a good portion of my life and resources with writing about such things.

All the best,

Walter
http://fathersforlife.org

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Is the world overpopulated?

August 26, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

At the website for Fathers for Life, the web page that displays population pyramids for selected countries is the sixth-most-popular web page at the site.

That web page has a footnote I thought to quote in the following.  I want to show the footnote because of an addition I made to it today on account of something I read that supports the assertions I made in the footnote.  I had said that all of the world’s population could fit into a land area the size of Alberta, with a house for each family (of three, on average) and enough land for each house to supply some of the food each family needs.

I know that some people feel that assertions like the ones I made are ridiculous, but, believe it or not, what I read today makes the assertions I made look puny.

Read the footnote and the information I found today.

Is the world overpopulated?

If all of the world’s people were located in the Province of Alberta (just a touch smaller in area than the State of Texas) and each were to have an equal share of all of the land in Alberta, then each of the world’s people would have 98.6m² of land to live on.

Assuming that the average household consists of three people, a family of three would have enough space (3,184 ft²) for a moderately-sized house and a garden large enough to grow some of the food consumed by the family.

• Alberta land area: 661,565 km², 255,541 miles²
• World population: 6,706,993,152 (Source: CIA World Factbook, July 2008 est.)

See also: The 1989 Montreal Massacre in the context of men’s sacrifices, 2008 12 07, by Professor Jeffrey Asher.

Update 2010 08 26: I don’t know whether anyone ever read the assertions contained in this footnote.  If the assertions were read, then everyone having read them must have thought that they were so outrageous and so totally-out-to-lunch that they were not even worth commenting on, because no one ever commented on them.  That is odd, given that so many people claim that humanity must be drastically reduced so as to avert ecological catastrophes of epic proportions.  However, consider something else, Phytofarm, that is: farming by means of the use of artificial light.

At the current efficiency of PhytoFarm, the entire present population of the world can be supplied from a square area about 140 miles on a side - about the area of Massachusetts and Vermont combined, and less than a tenth of Texas. This represents only about a thousandth as much land as is needed for agriculture at present (give or take a factor of four; for illustrative purposes greater exactitude is unnecessary). And if for some reason that seems like too much space, you can immediately cut the land space by a factor of ten: just build food factories ten stories high, which should present no more problems that a ten-story office building. You could economize even more and build a hundred stories high, like the Empire State Building or the Sears Tower. Then the surface area needed would be no more than the space within the corporate limits of Austin, Texas, to pick the first alphabetically among the many U.S. cities large enough.
PhytoFarm techniques could feed a hundred times the world’s present population - say 500 billion people - with factory buildings a hundred stories high, on one percent of present farmland. [My emphasis — WHS]  To put it differently, if you raise your bed to triple bunk-bed height, you can grow enough food on the two levels between the floor and your bed to supply your nutritional needs.

The Ultimate Resource II: People, Materials, and Environment (1998), by Julian L. Simon
CHAPTER SIX, WHAT ARE THE LIMITS ON FOOD PRODUCTION?

I know, I know.  You must think about where all of the energy to produce the required light will be coming from.  Never fear, Julian Simon thought of that.  Read the book and you will find out.  Come on!  If you are sufficiently worried about over-population that you feel driven to stop reproducing and even try to limit other people’s wish to propagate, you must be interested enough to read just one book.  No?  You mean you have your mind so firmly made up that no facts will confuse you?

Update 2010 09 01: Well, you seem to be ready to accept some facts.  Here is an essay that will convince you, if any convincing is necessary, and confirms that the world is not running out of anything and will not run out of anything even if the size of the world population grows to several times its present size:

There Is No Shortage of Stuff

May 8, 2009 by E.M.Smith

Functionally Unlimited Resources Exist

The worry is often put forward that we are going to run out of resources. That as population increases we just MUST run out of stuff. In this article I will be presenting a selection of examples of why this is not so. Please remember that this is far from a complete list. I have left out more resources and technologies than I’ve put in the article. These are just a sample sufficient to prove the thesis, the others were left out not due to lack of merit, but due to lack of space….(Full Story)

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UK baby boom blamed on cold winter

August 25, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

The Independent

Baby boom blamed on cold winter

PA

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

…independent midwife Joy Horner, of Birth Joy, said bad winters often led to baby booms.

She told the Portsmouth News: “We do see a rise in conception rates when there’s been severe weather. The weather does have an impact.

“The snow could definitely be the reason for the baby boom next month.

“If you can not get out of your house, you’ve got to find some way to keep yourself occupied.”….

Full story: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/baby-boom-blamed-on-cold-winter-2061676.html

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Save the environment.  Shower with a friend.

–Walter
http://lce.folc.ca

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Australian newlyweds — Women far more violent than men

August 19, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Thanks to Peter Forster

Taken from:

Halford, WK., Farrugia, C., Lizzio, A. & Wilson, K. (2010). Relationship aggression, violence and self-regulation in Australian newlywed couples. Australian Journal of Psychology, 62(2), 82-92.

“Female violence was more common than male violence, with 76 women (20%) and 34 men (9%) reported to have been violent. A two x two chi-square showed a significant association between female and male violence, ײ(I, n=379) = 90.23, p<.001. In violent couples the most common pattern was for only the woman to be violent (n=48/82 or 59% of violent couples), next most common was violence by both partners (n=28, 34%), and least common was male-only violence (n=6, 7%).”

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False rape-claims

August 10, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

FALSE RAPE CLAIMS AROUND THE COUNTRY [U.K.] AND ABROAD

Guest post by George Rolph

Feminists tell us that false rape claims are rare and we should all believe every woman that makes a rape claim because not doing so deters other females from coming forwards. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. When we believe every woman who cries rape we open the door to massive injustice that can destroy the life of the accused completely and leave them open to assault or even death. What is more, false rape allegations have the effect of diluting the credibility of genuine rape victims when they stand before a jury.

The feminist position hurts everybody and seeks to protect those other criminals who make malicious and false allegations against the innocent.  Whether those allegations involve the horrendous crimes of rape or domestic violence.

From the feminist position, hurting as many men as possible may seem like an ideal to be pursued and indeed they have written widely that this is their aim. One has to wonder what kind of sick, misandrist mind-set wants to do that and why society has been giving so much credibility to those feminists who hold these sick views? It is surely time to begin asking some very deep and penetrating questions of those who hold onto these desires.

As someone who has fought for over thirty years now to get justice for male victims of abuse who are often arrested for being the victim, I have long been warning about how women who assault their male partners in the home will often give themselves injuries to make their claims look credible to gullible  and badly trained police officers (police officers most likely to have been trained by feminists and indoctrinated into a feminist view of domestic abuse, incidentally) These claims of mine have been dismissed as the ranting of a man who hates women. A claim I most fiercely deny. Hating what some bad females do is not the same as hating women as a group! In fact, I wrote a fictional story and published it online years ago to illustrate how women, filled with hate against male partners, can manipulate the police and media by the use of self inflicted injuries.  (You can read it here: http://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/heads.html )

In one of the true stories at the links below you can read the following account:

“A young woman who ripped her clothes and gave herself a black eye to support her rape lies was yesterday jailed for three years…”

Further on in the story we get this detail:

“The frilly dress and leggings she had been wearing had apparently been ripped in the attack, clumps of her hair had been hacked off and she had a black eye and scratches to her breasts and legs.

But police became suspicious, and tests showed the Libyan-born former children’s holiday rep had ripped her own clothes and inflicted the injuries herself to back up her fabricated claims…”

It is only when reading real accounts about the lengths some women will go too, out of sheer spite and hatred for the male sex, to do as much damage to them as possible and where they can, to misuse the law and media to inflict this damage, that the reality of what really goes on in homes up and down the land begins to sink in. It is a reality the police, those in the legal system, the media and the politicians need to think about and investigate as thoroughly as possible. It is also as clear an indication as it is possible to have why the ideology of a particular political group with a gender axe to grind, cannot be allowed to make social or political policy that will affect the lives of millions of people. Many of whom may not share that ideology. Slanted views will always lead to injustice. Balance and sober reflection should always accompany those who make and maintain laws. Not an ideology which is neither balanced or sober and which must lead to gross injustice and social harm. How can it be right that a group known to hate marriage and the family are given a powerful political platform to preach their views, for example, while those in favour of both are denied the same? How can it be fair, equitable and just that these political groups are also funded by the state when their opponents are not?

All of the false rape stories in the press at the links below you will notice have the following dates attached. All come from just one Google search carried out today.

16th July 2010
21/07/2010
28 July 2010
1st August 2010
2nd August 2010
10th August 2010

Six cases found from around the country [the U.K.] being dealt with by the courts in just one two-month period! I will leave the conclusions about how serious this menace is up to the reader. What I would draw attention too is the staggering differences in weak sentences being handed down for this life destroying and wicked crime in British courts.

Here is a story about the same crime — this time being perpetrated for financial gain against British men — from Greece. Note how the story blames the males.

Dated 09 Aug 2010 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/7933190/Britons-trapped-in-false-rape-sting-by-blonde-Swede-on-Greek-island.html  Sweden, incidentally, is a European feminist hot spot.

Please, take some time to read through and analyse these stories and draw your own conclusions about the nature and frequency of this terrible crime. If you have a blog or web site of your own, perhaps you should get a discussion going? We cannot just pass by on the other side and let those with an agenda of hate go on being responsible for making our social, legal and political policy on these important human issues.

• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1299310/Woman-admits-SECOND-rape-offence-spared-jail-heavily-pregnant.html

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-10790304

• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1301755/Mother-alleyway-sex-soldier-cried-rape-hide-shame.html

• http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Haverhill/New-mum-locked-up-for-false-rape-claim.htm

• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294947/Leyla-Ibrahim-jailed-crying-rape-despite-7-months-pregnant.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

For more study on the effect of social misandry please go here: http://www.manwomanmyth.com/

Please circulate widely on your lists.

George Rolph
London

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In praise of older women

August 6, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Today someone sent me some sort of statement (I received it a number of times already) falsely alleged to have been composed by Andy Rooney.

I wrote to her:

Claire,

No, anyone searching his memory for a 60-minutes program in which he did say that will search in vain.  It was not Andy Rooney who said or wrote it.

Here is the truth about that one: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney2.asp  [You can find the whole piece she sent at that link.]

As you can see at his website, the true originator of it, Frank Kaiser, did not say the gross parts of it either.  Which proves that one does not have to be gross to be clever, because clever he most certainly is, even though he is a feminist who is smart enough not to mention the female version of Western Chivalry.  Still, perhaps now there isn’t a female version of that anymore, especially not to be found amongst the young women of North America today, although in some nations and cultures it still exists.  I believe, if memory serves me right, that it was called femininity.

Mozart once wrote something to his sister about the power of women, and that one, I think, is truly clever.

…a free translation of a poem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (the poem was part of a letter he wrote in Vienna, August 18, 1784, to congratulate his sister on her impending marriage):

You’ll experience much in matrimony
that was half a riddle to you;
soon you’ll know from experience,
how Eve once had to deal with
giving birth to Cain.

However, sister, those matrimonial duties
you’ll do gladly with all your heart,
because, believe me, they aren’t hard.
But every matter has two sides:
although matrimony brings much joy,
it’ll bring you grief as well.

Therefore, when your husband offers,
what you feel you don’t deserve,
dark demeanor in his bad mood,
then think, that is male whim,
and say: Lord, Thy will be done
by day and mine at night!

A little later, in the beginning of the 19th century, Alexander Pushkin told us about the travails of Eugene Onegin and his views about the power that women exercised over their husbands.  (The husband may think he rules the roost, but who rules the rooster?  Right!)

XXXI She was like him and always sported the latest fashions of the town; but, without asking, they transported her to the altar and the crown. The better to dispel her sorrow her clever husband on the morrow took her to his estate, where she, at first, with God knows whom to see, in tears and violent tossing vented her grief, and nearly ran away. Then, plunged in the housekeeper’s day, she grew accustomed, and contented. In stead of happiness, say I, custom’s bestowed us from on high. XXXI For it was custom that consoled her in grief that nothing else could mend; soon a great truth came to enfold her and give her comfort to the end: she found, in labours and in leisure, the secret of her husband’s measure, and ruled him like an autocrat - so all went smoothly after that. Mushrooms in brine, for winter eating, fieldwork directed from the path, accounts, shaved forelocks,4 Sunday bath—, meantime she’d give the maids a beating if her cross mood was at its worst — but never asked her husband first. – Alexander Pushkin, “Eugene Onegin,” (begun in 1824) Chapter Two, (Translated by Charles Johnston)

[From the translator’s notes]: 4. Serfs chosen for the army had their forelocks cut off. [Note, as always during the history of mankind, it was the men, not the women, who were chosen for the army and to die on the battlefield, but that, like so many other things that men do (anyone can see the evidence all around), is something many women readily forget about. —WHS]

Aside from the bit from Snopes, all of that is — except for a couple of very small edits — from the web page at http://fathersforlife.org/hist/gerst.htm, which presents the translation of a somewhat longer poem about a prison pastor who had his very own patriarchal ways of looking at and dealing with dissidence in marital relations in the late 1840s.

Here is another side of the story.  It is more about the things that your story alluded to, “The ‘evil’ that men did.”

Enjoy,

Walter

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The reality of communist ideology

August 2, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Glenn Beck produced a documentary that many people who do not watch Fox TV have not seen, but they should.

Ideology is a concept that is somewhat related to idealism.  For some confused people the two concepts are interchangeable.

Ideology:

1 : visionary theorizing
2 a : a systematic body of concepts especially about human life or culture b : a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture c : the integrated assertions, theories and aims that constitute a sociopolitical program
(Merriam Webster OnLine)

Idealism:

1 a (1) : a theory that ultimate reality lies in a realm transcending phenomena (2) : a theory that the essential nature of reality lies in consciousness or reason b (1) : a theory that only the perceptible is real (2) : a theory that only mental states or entities are knowable
2 a : the practice of forming ideals or living under their influence b : something that is idealized
3 : literary or artistic theory or practice that affirms the preeminent value of imagination as compared with faithful copying of nature — compare realism
(Merriam Webster OnLine)

What do the following people have in common?

• Karl Marx and Frederick Engels (the authors of the Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1848, calling for a bloody revolution that would bring about the rule of the proletariat)
• Josef Stalin (his regime murdered about 30 million people, about 20 million of them before he became an ally in the fight against Hitler)
• Adolf Hitler (his regime murdered 6 million people)
• Che Guevara (Cuban revolutionary, a cold-blooded killer who personally murdered close to 200 people)
• Mao Zedong (his regime murdered at least 30 million people)

All of them shared the criminality of communism.  They all shared the same ideology.  They only differed in the number of people they murdered.

That message comes across loud and clear in Glenn Beck’s documentary The Revolutionary Holocaust, Live free… or die (five parts, 42 minutes)

In his documentary, Glenn Beck demonstrates that it has become fashionable to promote the images and ideology of Marxism, Che Guevara and Mao Zedong, and that even George Bernard Shaw was quite outspoken in calling for the atrocities that mass-murderers like Stalin, Hitler and Mao turned into reality.

What Glenn Beck shows goes far beyond mere misguided fashionable statements printed on bikinis and T-shirts.  It has become part of the political doctrine that is being preached by a many misguided political figures.

As great as Glenn Beck’s documentary is, it would be even better if he could expand his documentary to show, for instance, that the doctrine of radical feminism quite literally uses quotes verbatim from the teachings of Frederick Engels (see also Friedrich Engels and Simone de Beauvoir, the shining apostles of contemporary family politics).

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