First Short Quiz

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Subject: Short Quiz - Gates Foundation Crimes Against US Education Policy - for Sep 12th

Date: Sat, August 18, 2012
Time: 9:38 am MDT > 11:47 am MDT
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Dear Friends,

Our next meeting is Wednesday evening, Sep 12th, at the Salt Lake Public Library (200 East 400 South).

Our focus will be Prof. Diane Ravitch's "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education" ($11.35 from Amazon.com + shipping - 352 pages).

Diane Ravitch is N.Y.U.'s Research Professor of Education and a historian of education. In addition, she is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education.

She accuses the Gates Foundation, inter alia, of pushing for 10 years the breaking up of failing high schools into smaller high schools and, after admitting the failure of that approach, of now pushing teacher evaluations as the most important approach to failing high schools!!!

Attached is the original proposal posted on http://www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org which explains why the two positions taken by the Gates Foundation comprise "Crimes Against Humanity" as defined by the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court and why these "Crimes Against Humanity" condemn to a "fate worse than death" more human beings than any crimes prosecuted so far at the International Criminal Court.


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SHORT QUIZ – GATES FOUNDATION CRIMES AGAINST U.S. EDUCATION POLICY

1. What do many of you have in common with the late Joe Paterno and the former President of Penn State?

2. Who was Eugene Lang?

3. When Eugene Lang’s project which had been in operation 1981-1985 was suddenly featured on 60 Minutes and the front page of the NY Times, how many people (mostly CEO’s of major corporations) stepped forward to replicate what Gene had done?

4. What were the typical high-school graduation rates in the inner-cities of the 51 major American metropolitan areas in which the 179 new “I Have A Dream”® projects operated?

5. For the 179 new IHAD projects headed primarily by CEO’s of major corporations, how many of their “Dreamers” lived in single-adult households? Single-adult households headed by a drug addict? Single-adult households headed by druggies who signed any welfare checks directly over to the pusher so the kids had to steal just in order to eat?

6. Was Yours Truly one of the 179 people who stepped forward as founder, chief benefactor and chief “work horse” to replicate elsewhere what Gene had done? Did Yours Truly’s IHAD project serve 200 “Dreamers” in public-housing projects? Did Yours Truly also serve as the volunteer treasurer of Gene’s IHAD-National Foundation in the 1990’s?

7. Who served on the IHAD-National Advisory Board for nearly a decade until the 1992 Iowa caucuses?

8. What was the inspiration for the “1,000 points of light” Inaugural Address?

9. What other national figures, though not nearly so well known, were associated with IHAD?

10. As the volunteer treasurer and de facto chief fund-raiser of IHAD-National, what did Yours Truly document was the typical success rate of the 179 IHAD programs in transforming the typical SINGLE-DIGIT high-school graduation rates?

11. As the volunteer treasurer and de facto chief fund-raiser of IHAD-National, did Yours Truly investigate why the 179 IHAD programs were only succeeding in transforming the typical SINGLE-DIGIT high-school graduation rates to 60%-65% of the Dreamers graduating from high school and proceeding to college?

12. Did Yours Truly’s investigation document that the reason for only a 60%-65% success rate was that 50% of the female Dreamers became pregnant before high-school graduation and then, as a practical matter, did not pursue education further?

13. Did Yours Truly then investigate further why the female Dreamers who had become pregnant, did so?

14. When Yours Truly investigated the reason why the female Dreamers who had become pregnant did so, did the answer almost invariably have nothing to do with welfare, etc., but instead was almost always the result of a feeling of being loved by nobody and, accordingly, a feeling of wanting to create something that would have no choice but to love them?

15. Did Yours Truly then investigate why the female Dreamers who had NOT become pregnant, did not do so?

16. Did Yours Truly document that the IHAD tutors/mentors of the Dreamers as they progressed from early-elementary school through high-school graduation had become de facto “surrogate parents”? And that, as surrogate parents, if they told their female Dreamers “You could make something of yourself with this program AND IT WOULD BREAK MY HEART IF YOU DIDN’T!!!”, the female Dreamer pregnancy rate was only 10% instead of 50%?

17. And did Yours Truly then recommend for all the IHAD projects whose “Dreamers” had not yet reached High School graduation, that their tutors/mentors make a special point of saying to the Dreamers early and often that “You could make something of yourself with this program AND IT WOULD BREAK MY HEART IF YOU DIDN’T!!!” And did the success rates of those projects then break through the 60%-65% barrier of High School graduation and college matriculation, so that the success rates exceeded 90%?

18. Was this success rate fueled not only by tutors/mentors who became de facto “surrogate parents” from early-elementary school through high-school graduation, but just as importantly was it also fueled by the transformation of the atmosphere of an entire grade in an inner-city school (or the atmosphere of an entire grade-cohort in a public-housing project) as all of the children in such a grade level or grade cohort began focusing on, and talking with each other about, their dream of going to college?

19. Does IHAD-National appear to have lost all of this “institutional knowledge”? In other words, do the local IHAD programs during the last decade appear to be located in close-in suburbs rather than inner-cities?

20. Does “school choice” fail abysmally to solve the real problem because it only “cherry picks” the inner-city children who are fortunate enough to have a functional parent and leaves behind in America’s permanent under-caste the overwhelming majority who are in a single-adult household headed by a druggie who signs over any welfare checks to the pusher so the kids have to steal just in order to eat?

21. Do “teacher evaluations” and “teacher incentives” fail abysmally to solve the real problem because they do nothing to provide the “surrogate parents” who are required and to transform the atmosphere in a complete grade level of an inner-city school (or a complete grade cohort of a public-housing project)?

22. When inner-city Kindergartners are asked to draw what they would like to be when they grow up, do they invariably draw WHITE teachers, fire fighters, pilots, etc.?

23. In other words, do they already know at the age of 5 that they are ineligible for their dreams?

24. In other words, do they already know at the age of 5 that their only realistic career objective is to be a pusher or pimp, or the girl friend of a pusher or pimp?

25. Does being trapped in such a perpetual under-caste comprise a “fate worse than death”?

26. Since the Gates Foundation and Melinda Gates led America for 10 years away from “The Promised Land” by promoting the “false idol” of breaking up inner-city high schools into smaller units and then, after admitting the failure of that approach, promoting the “false idol” of teacher evaluations, are they guilty of “Crimes Against Humanity” within the meaning of the Rome Statute which established the International Criminal Court at The Hague?

27. Even though the U.S. is one of the world’s few countries that has not ratified the Rome Statute creating the International Criminal Court, does the United Nations Security Council still have the power to confer ICC jurisdiction over the Gates Foundation and Melinda Gates? [Hint = How did the ICC achieve jurisdiction over War Crimes in Bosnia?]

28. Should the United Nations Security Council confer jurisdiction on the ICC to prosecute the Gates Foundation and Melinda Gates for “Crimes Against Humanity” that have destroyed the lives of more human beings than have been involved as victims in all of the prosecutions combined that the ICC has undertaken in its history?

29. So what do many of you have in common with the late Joe Paterno and the former President of Penn State?


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We hope to see all of you on September 12th!!!

Your friend,

John K.

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