H.S. Principal Promotes Dem Progressive Propaganda Film Contest
- Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:36pm by
Mike Opelka
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In what seems to be an endless supply of stories supporting the theory that our education system is riddled with uber-liberal indoctrination programs and a Progressive agenda, we present the latest jaw-dropping story about a school Principal in Pittsbugh, PA who is handing out flyers to faculty members in hopes they will encourage students to enter a contest with the sole purpose of creating Progressive propaganda.
According to our sources, Principal Melissa Pearlman of Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 was handing out the flyer seen below to all faculty members, and allowing them to be posted in public areas where students could see them. Calls to the school and Principal Pearlman have not been returned.
‘Got a message to make the Progressive message stronger?’
At issue here in not the Film Festival. The 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club has every right to encourage people to be part of their contest. (although they may want to update their homepage which is currently carrying an endorsement for Joe Sestak.) What is being called into question here is the use of public school staff, facilities, and student’s time to promote a purely political cause that only represents a small portion of the general populace. And we know that the 14th Ward club is expecting to receive films from students because they said so in a recent internet posting:
We’re still waiting to hear from student and activist filmmakers. We have already some great entries from recent events around the country.
And we are also certain that the students know about the competition because the flyers have been posted in their classrooms. Here is a very recent photo of the flyer as it was posted in a classroom in the CAPA 6-12 building.
Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 (Creative And Performing Arts) is a Pittsburgh Public Magnet School where students spend half of their day half on academics and half on their majors. As you might expect a Creative and Performing Arts school has intense programs in; Visual Arts, Creative Writing, Theatre, Dance, Instrumental Music, and Vocal Music. Reports also state that many of the arts teachers are adjuncts who are professionals in their fields and not certified teachers.
Public education is all about giving students a foundation for a lifetime of learning. Most parents expect schools to provide students with the basic tools needed to study any subject and then be able to make a decision based on sound logic and reasoning not brainwashing.
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kickagrandma
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 7:00pmTime to rise and shine the light of GOD’s truth and stand in the BLAZE, Patriots! We are running out of time here.
Does anyone of you who posts here regularly have a way for us to stay in touch if this all goes to h*** in a hand basket? Let me know.
Here’s what some long-time friends and I have agreed to do in order to remember and to know that we are holding each other in our prayers if the Inet is taken away from us:
1. On that day, we will begin reading the Bible with Genesis 1, Psalm 1 and Matthew 1 and read a chapter a day in each section until we finish that section of the Bible or until the Internet is restored. If the Inet access is not restored by then, we simply continue our reading in the O.T, whichever Psalm and whichever book in the N.T.
2. We will use a precious book called GOD CALLING written in the 1930′s in England by “The Two Listeners” and edited by A.J. Russell and read it daily remembering our friends who are doing this with us.
3. And, any other devotional material or CHRISTIAN author who will center our thoughts and keep our focus on JESUS CHRIST WHO is in control and WHO loves us each enough that had we been the only person born on this earth, HE would have come and died for us so that we could live with HIM in eternity.
GOD BLESS my dear friends on THE BLAZE. I am grateful for you. And, I am thankful for the trolls who keeps us woven in the fabric of GOD’s great love for HIS kids.
Report Post »peezee
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 7:41pmGod bless you too. We will seek each other out and we will find one another if they shut down the internet. And we will still defeat them. No quarter will be given to them. None.
Report Post »flyoverbob
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:49pmIt must be really sad to go every day and put down a country that has given us all the oppurtinity to be our best.The system you praise would not give everyone the chance at the opportunities you have enjoyed.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:48pm@545 vs Good idea. On it!
Report Post »T.E.A.PARTNER
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:46pmMaybe Moonbat should move in with the girl who is sponging Off of her mom and stepdad. I’ve got a feeling their the same age …DUUUDE!
Report Post »brntout
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:42pmReally and they did’t win the superbowl why?
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:34pmI want to hear someone taking action not mouthing the issue. Take that SOB principal and toss her in the street. Melissa Pearlman of Pittsburgh is a loser and the parents are losers if they allow their children to be brainwashed. I want to hear action!
Report Post »franknshadow
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:29pmHonestly a tempest in a teacup.. Who cares really.. The fact that so many educators are so undeniably progressively liberal, and yet conservatives are still a majority in this country speaks volumes about the lifelong influence of ignorantly leftist teachers.. They are transparent in their bias.. Even our youngsters can see that..
Report Post »ilovethiscountry
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:26pmThis is why I homeschool.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:47pm@ ILOVETHISCOUNTRY ~~ Are you old enough to remember papering your friends’ houses? Seems like it‘s a real good time to resurrect that custom and get some practice on the leftists’ houses…oh, wait. They probably would call the cops who are unionized who would come and protect the little darlin’s…. hmmmmm… let me work on this!
Report Post »ilovethiscountry
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 7:41pm@kickagrandma
Report Post »I’m old enough, I homeschool my grandkids.
ilovethiscountry
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:26pmI am at a loss for words. The principal should not be doing this.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:19pmShouldn’t there be something in the books somewhere about “separation of school and politics?“ Or ”equal time for the other party?”
Report Post »Tulsatime
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:18pmShould we expect less from a CAPA school? My girlfriends daughter went to a “Performing Arts” high school and was indoctrinated on a daily basis. I kept asking her “What does President Bush have to do with theatre”? She is now out of work and living off of her mother and me…. and still spewing anti free-market babble.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:44pm@TULSATIME ~~~ been in on part of that with our carrying our daughter financially while she “found herself”. Before she could however, we learned from a good source that cutting off the money and getting out of GOD’s way would allow HIM to get her attention and she could then grow up. It worked. Lots of blood, sweat and tears and prayers on our part, but it worked….eventually. It wasn’t easy on any of us at all. I wish you and your wife courage and strength to allow your daughter grow up. GOD BLESS!
Report Post »Tulsatime
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 9:06pm@kick
She has until June 1 to be in college or at work.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:17pmI will not attend this year’s NRA con being held in Pittsburg PA because of cr@p like this. Bad move NRA.
Report Post »PatriotSmith
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:15pmThe winner will be flown to DC each week to work out with the Obamas
http://www.patriotsmith.com
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:40pm@ PATRIOT~~~ LOL…really funny. Working out with the obamas leaves a big question mark for me…. I see no obvious results except that the girls are withering away to nothing and mamacita’s big butt (no, not her husband) is increasing hourly….
Report Post »Boom!Winning
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:04pmWhat kind of crap school is this? That sketch on the bulletin board is clearly not winning.
Report Post »barrycooper
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:00pmIt’s important to realize that the way leftists remain leftists across lifetimes that would otherwise include enough learning to show them the error of their ways is by unit cohesion. What do Marine instructors teach? Well, besides core principles of Courage, Honor, and Commitment? Unit cohesion.
Now, Marines interact with the physical world. Their decisions, and the ideas upon which they base their decisions, have outcomes that are measured carefully.
This is not true of Leftists. It is a world insulated from outcomes, in which one can continually “accomplish” the OPPOSITE of the stated aim, but in which as long as EVERYBODY AGREES that it was for the best, it’s all good. Truth is being in lockstep with everyone around you .
That is what this festival is about, in expressing and encouraging conformist behavior. Since many leftists conceal their inner grayness with outrageous clothing and behavior, they can often convince themselves they are individualists. But get them one on one, and question them about why they believe what they do, and in my experience they will first act haughty, then angry and abusive, and finally stop talking.
Nowhere will there ever be a debate in which the ideological Other is granted the status as even potentially equal as a human being or thinker.
This is why the arts are so powerful: they demand obedience without demanding critical engagement.
Report Post »Moonbat
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:14pm@ Barry
What? Dude, the arts thrive on criticism. There’s an entire industry devoted to it. If you think that all liberals agree on… well… anything, then you don’t know many liberals.
RN MOM
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:35pmMoonbat- Like Dada- the dumbest cr@p ever to waste museum space. But, idiots should have their minds stimulated too, I guess. Right?
Report Post »WHITE LOTUS2x
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:59pmWell, if that isnt a good reason to fire the guy what is. Hes probably a double dipper. Hes probably a retired teacher that went back for another retirement check as a principle. They are sitting back with there feet up saying How Sweet It Is. I used to think there were more dedicated teachers than bums but I dont think that any more. Home schooling would rock their foundation, it needs to fall and start over again. It is tainted by these people.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:57pmThank you, I have been waiting for it to post for tonight, will see if I can download it then, it may come in handy indeed.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:07pmTo paraphrase MacBeth “Me thinks I goofed in this post.” I think I put it in the wrong area.
Report Post »matt708
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:53pmfire her asap. This is bull. parents ou should be up in arms about this
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:51pmPrincipal Melissa Pearlman of Pittsburgh, keep your hands off the children.
Report Post »Moonbat
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:50pmThis is a magnet school. Parents apply to send their kids there. Functionally, it’s much like the charter school program, or even school vouchers, both of which are roundly supported by conservatives.
So you guys support school choice, unless the choice happens to be liberal?
UlyssesP
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:54pmFunctionally, a knife is a knife. But I prefer the knife in the hands of a surgeon than a thug.
Report Post »IntheKnowOG
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:29pmWhy only progressive ideas? Can’t handle the truth? Why so Socialist?
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:31pmMoonbat- let them have their club, but since you know so much about the school, I wonder if you know if there is a republican/ conservative club in the school? Because it would seem to me if 14th ward were to be a true place of education, it would give both sides of the spectrum fair play- ya know sorta like the new FCC rules for all airwaves. Kids shouldn’t be “indoctrinated” in school, it’s too reminiscent of Germany under Hitler.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:38pm@ Moonbat
Report Post »If you ever need a surgery in the future, go to a local prison and pick out a thug who is in jail for killing people by slashing their throats. That’ll be the best person to perform surgery
brntout
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:47pmNo MOONBAT we are here to educate and protect ours from yours
Report Post »smartypoop
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 7:20pmI support choice in education, however do not support using children as pawns in the game of politics.
Report Post »Moonbat
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 8:35pm@ everybody
Again, parents chose this school, just like you might use a school voucher to send your kids to a religious school. It isn’t what I would choose — but they’re your kids. Get it? If you think that conservative parents have a right to guide the education of their children, then why don’t liberal parents have the same right?
I don’t even support vouchers. I just know that most of you do, so I think you’re being hypocrites on this issue.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:50pmwow……………im not surprised at this at all
the parents these days aren’t really as bright as they would like to think they are, and are too busy to be responsible for their child’s education
no wonder the scourge in America seems to think they can get away with this and a blatantly showing their colors
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:50pmOh boy! I hope no one starts sending them crazy videos to waste the judges time parsing through which ones are part of the contest and which ones are bogus entries.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:37pm@ULYSSESP ~~~ Guess who will help train and fund those videos? Yep, sorosites running around like ticks and affixing themselves to young blood. SCARY.
The more we hear, the more I believe the Rapture is right around the corner…People. get ready!
Report Post »DAGNY
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:52pm@kickagrandma
You know, I sometimes think it can’t come soon enough.
Report Post »ConstitutionFreedomLover
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:47pmThis is sickening…the principal should be fired.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:56pmGot a better idea, transfer him to a teaching position for the unrepentant rocks at the southern pole.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:44pmIt’s clear that a person born into a progressive home can live their entire life and never hear a serious conservative idea. Not ever.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:55pmUnfortunately I have to agree with you there; thankfully my grandfather made sure I got enough real world learning, and the ability to openly and daringly question even things that are accepted as wrote by most of us in the world. Where I have thought the whole story brought togeather, then sometimes a book or a passage in a text would open a new window unto the times those people lived in and make it easier to see their perspective on matters, for good or bad.
Report Post »mytwocents
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:43pmRemember the Alamo.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:48pmIndoctrination combined with the push for the Progressive agendas along with the control and corrupt ideals given as the only values to the youth of this land; and yet here we have ‘art teachers’ who will be involved in this, who are not certified teachers, or at least certified as in ‘sane’ and ‘delusional with ideals of a napoleon complex.’
God Above help us now, let the parents and the people of the nation shout and scream for this kind of stuff to stop already. We need to make the stand and bring this rubbish to its end, and now.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 5:53pm@Mytwocents
Indeed, the ideals and honor of the Alamo are at hand; and it is time to take the stand. These ideas of the progressives have to end, and end now. In the apartment complex I live in, three progressives have passed a petition around calling for the public computer lab to become usable by only a handful of the residents with ‘special keys’ so it can be better monitored and secured during the day and the night…and guess who would hold the keys?
They would, just these three and the one manager; needless to say, today at the main meeting of the residents on the matter, the progressives got defeated by about a 150-3 margin…and they still had the audacity to say I (snowleopard) had manipulated everyone into voting against them, when their own actions and foolish demands made everyone else turn against them.
Based on what these three constantly present to the world of the progressive ‘elites’ we do not need one of them at all.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:08pmHas the school defined what it means by the term
Report Post »‘progressive’ ??????
What exactly are they using kids to propagandize about ?
MrButcher
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:21pm@snowleopard
you have my solidarity.
no lock and key for the communal apartment complex computer lab!
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:47pmIs there a possibility here can we foster home schooling by providing–to start–online help as an alternative to public schools. Start recruiting retired teachers to provide training and education online then later when the ways and means become available provide low cost private schooling. I think there is an opportunity here if we can put it together. Let’s start! Am I a fool for suggesting this?
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:53pmI knew there was something funny about Steeler’s fans.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:55pm” The 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club has every right to encourage people to be part of their contest.”
Yes, you have every right to encourage adults, but NOT minors in public schools.
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 7:00pmLantern,
Report Post »Not all Steeler’s fans are as deranged as this loony principal is.
Take for example…oh…say…the chief editor of The Blaze!!!
DagneyT
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 7:12pmGod bless homeschooling parents! Their kids will be the ones to salvage our great country!
Report Post »smartypoop
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 7:17pmYea, support those teachers unions, they dont do enough of this…(sarcasm off)
Report Post »Tnredneck
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 7:21pmWould they entertain a play presented by the tea party? Yes time to take a stand! And after today’s beck show I am headed to Costco to stock up. Then on to get ammo for the Alamo.
Report Post »*************************
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 7:33pmHey. kids! Fight back against the Nazi school authorities! Draw stick figure shootouts and title them “Progressive (communists) Teacher Massacre” — for the “Defenders Of Liberty” prize!
town drunk JIM [holding out solid hand]: “Look at this hand.”
Report Post »sheriff BART“ ”Steady as a rock.”
town drunk JIM [holds out other spastic hand]: “Yeah, but I shoot with this one.”
-Blazing Saddles
Ashley
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 7:35pm@rodamaa Actually, just a week ago, a few friends were discussing the idea of home-schooling via teachers on-line. Someone needs to look into this possibility. The public schools are teaching socialism as our future and we will soon have a bunch of indoctrinated graduates.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 8:55pmNote to EDDARDSTARK: Funny that you should defend COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA by completely swerving off the subject into a tyrade on subjects that are irrelevant to the discussion. We see this often when the subject IS UNDEFENDABLE! Your current moniker should be added to the list of known TROLLS on TheBlaze….
Report Post »tbud
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 9:13pmIt reminds me of a film by a producer that won a little known award from the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival last year…this group is growing but will probably never be recognized by the maintream media…Chris Bowers produced “Agenda, Grinding America Down”. Take a look at the trailer and get a copy to share with your friends!.. wwww.agendadocumentary.com
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:36pmAs the lead for this thread says, this liberal group has every right to hold and encourage people to participate in the contest. Good so far!
Then the Blaze says, “According to our sources, Principal Melissa Pearlman of Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 was handing out the flyer seen below to all faculty members.“ ”Our sources”? What unnamed sources would those be? They saw the Principal handing out the fliers “to all faculty members?” Was this unnamed source standing next to the Principal all day? Or do teachers at this form a line when they walk into work with the Principal standing there handing out fliers?
This kind of claim wouldn’t fly with any judge anywhere in the United States: an “anonymous” person who says they say the Principal “hand out” this flier to “all faculty members.” That statement is obviously, at best, an exageration, at worst a complete lie.
And from that shaky foundation the Blaze goes on to question “the use of public school staff, facilities, and student’s time to promote a purely political cause…”
I believe there is a contest organized by students. The rest is of this thread is illogical propoganda on the very face. But, this kind of thing helps make money and this is America! Go for it patriots!
Report Post »EddardStark
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 5:49am@C. SCHWEHR????? How did I swerve from the topic? I did not introduce the Alamo. The lead post of the comment chain did. I was questioning what a rebellion based on the maintenance of slavery in a Mexican state had to do with this film festival. My comments were based on the content of the poster. Did you read the poster? I was wondering what people specifically object to about the suggested content of the film entries. I was suggesting that people were jumping to conclusions based on anti-progressive propaganda and that they were judging this principal on the basis of its demonization at the hands of Glen Beck and not what it was actually promoting. Then I was ridiculing the idea that putting something on a bulletin board meant that it was propaganda by accusing the adjacent Woody valentine card of promoting social justice, or as GB would say, communism under an innocuous name.
A quick google search did not reveal a conservative film festival in the same area that was ignored in favor of this progressive one, so how can you accuse a principal of indoctrination for promoting an opportunity to make art at an art school?
Thanks for the TROLL tag. I thought people who prided themselves on critical thinking and investigation, like the people of this blog, would appreciate a dissenting voice to help them hone their own arguments. Socrates was a troll, or in the parlance of his time a “stinging gadfly.” He tried to get people to questions their assumptions to understand what they truly believe and that is all I am trying to do. How does an echo chamber of constant agreement further any political discussion?
Report Post »cnsrvtvj
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 7:56amWe need to get back control of our schools. I have to hand it to the progressives on this one; they took over the schools without most of us even noticing. Finally we are waking up to this.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the Society in Decline video
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 9:46amThis is so obviously one-sided. Keep political ideology out of the schools completely! In the words of Davy Crockett, “You can all go to hell; I‘m goin’ to Texas”. There was a man you believed in his principals. I do feel like we’re being invaded by Liberals. Fortunately, we’re not actually out numbered as Mr. Crockett was.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 2:54pmRODAMAA, I’m a retired teacher with 30 years of experience. I would be glad to help, and I suspect many others would be glad to do so also.
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