Wisconsin Student Bill of Rights Video : a Leftist Manifesto

When does it become a conflict of interest if a top educational official, Tony Evers, Wisconsin State Superintendent, takes a stand on political issues that directly effect the out come of his personal agenda to the detriment of those he is suppose to serve, the parents and taxpayers?

The Student Bill of Rights, Youth Empowered in the Struggle, leaves nothing to the imagination for anyone that cares about what is being thought in our schools, and that is supported by the highest official responsible for setting the learning agenda. Lenin would be proud.

Also, Tony Evers supported the recall of Gov Scott Walker in Wisconsin who proposed and passed Act 10 that eliminated collective bargaining, which by the way saved the state more then 800 million dollars and balanced the budget eliminating a deficit of 3 billion, and now Tony Evers says he supports this student bill of rights that reads like a Marxist manifesto. Really?

This isn't the first student 'bill of rights' that has been seen as Marxist - there are many such 'bills of rights' that are now in force in middle schools and have been for decades, it just that this new one goes even further to support the progressive socialist agenda.

It would be a 'suspension of disbelief', to use a term from Hillary Clinton, to believe this bill of rights wasn't directly influenced by the progressive socialist liberal Democrats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljhmtZ7UHcs&feature=player_embedded

Wisconsin’s top education official endorses student ‘Bill of Rights’
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org

MADISON – When students are pondering a “bill of rights” for themselves, one might expect to see a vending machine in the cafeteria or a longer lunch hour on the list of demands. You know, kids stuff.

But students affiliated with Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES!) are apparently concerned about collective bargaining for their teachers. And their “Bill of Rights” reads more like a list of demand that might be put forth by a labor union.

For whatever reason, Wisconsin State superintendent Tony Evers recently called the document “reasonable” and “well thought out.”

EAGnews has produced a new video which sheds a little more light on the controversial student “Bill of Rights.”

Among the more outrageous demands in the Bill of Rights (and presumably approved by Evers) are:
- Students have a right to a school environment where all teachers and staff have the right to collectively bargain.
- Students have the right to a focused and peaceful environment through mutual respect between teachers and students. This should translate into equal power dynamics in the classroom…
- Students who are in the process of learning English deserve access to their school’s curriculum with support in their native language.
- Schools must document the demographics of students who are reprimanded by police in school, suspended, or expelled, in order to track and protect against racial profiling.
- Students have the right to beneficial activities aimed at improving their self-esteem, physical well-being and overall person.
- Students who have plans to enter the work force should be provided with worker rights orientation…

It just so happens that YES! is led by several Wisconsin high school teachers with radical left-wing backgrounds. Chances are this document was produced through a lot of suggestions from them.

Why else would students even address collective bargaining privileges for teachers? That’s a union issue, in a state where the legislature recently curtailed collective bargaining activities in schools.

In any case, Students are free to produce whatever nutty, demanding or impractical “Bill of Rights” they choose. But state leaders should be cautious about giving credibility to such demands, unless, of course, they’re interested in putting the full weight of the state government into actually enacting them.

We just wonder, with Evers’ endorsement, whether other radical teachers will use other students to produce and demand attention for similar documents in the future.