Meeks Heit "Health Book" Revealed The Brainwashing of our Children in Public Schools
A NOTE FOR when you think about your children, family, country and rights: "Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well by creating the international child of the future." --Harvard psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce, speaking as an expert in public education at the 1973 International Education Seminar
Want to know more about how children are brainwashed in government schools? VISIT The Anti-Gun Violence Pledge and Analysis of the Meeks-Heit Health Books
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Critiques

Here is the original alert from Weldon Clark that prompted us to take a closer look at our South Carolina public school health text books in year 2000:

NEA, Reno and Cuomo take advantage of students in gun control campaign

Meeks Heit Totally Awesome Health Book serves as vehicle for anti-gun propaganda in Greenville County Schools (South Carolina)

By Bob Dill - Editor in Chief - The Times Examiner
44 Pine Knoll Dr, Suite E-2, Greenville, SC 29609
Phone: 864-268-0576, Fax: 864-292-1013

A coalition of organizations called "First Monday 2000" has announced that they intend to use college students to advance their gun control political agenda. Student response will gauge the effectiveness of public school indoctrination in gun control propaganda. First Monday 2000 organizations include the National Education Association (NEA), Handgun Control (HCI), the American Bar Association (ABA), American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP), Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), and others. The coalition of organizations, known for their support of liberal causes, has the support of the Clinton administration, with active participation by Attorney General Janet Reno and Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo.

Reno told an audience of several hundred students working in Washington during the summer that America "is one of the most violent nations in the world ... and we can do something about it." Coumo told the students "it's up to you to make it happen." First Monday 2000 President Nan Aron threatened "to launch a mobilization so massive that politicians cannot ignore us." This effort allegedly grew out of the so-called Million Mom March. The effort is likely to draw impressive numbers of students who have been indoctrinated in gun control rhetoric in public schools before reaching college.

The Meeks Heit Totally Awesome Health Book used in the School District of Greenville County, South Carolina, contains the anti-gun propaganda espoused by the NEA. The book is used from K4 through K12 in all the district's schools. The text was accepted by the trustees without discussion, based on the recommendation of Brenda Mays, the district Sex Education Advisor, over the objections of trustee Ann Sutherlin who urged the board members to review the volumes, especially the sections that deal with controversial political issues. But the board majority chose to accept the books without review or discussion.

A review of the text by The Times Examiner staff, revealed that the sex education portion complies with South Carolina Law by endorsing abstinence. However, the health portion dwells extensively on mental health, mental problems, psychological techniques, emphasizing politically correct positions on everything from global warming and secondhand smoke to gun ownership, stressing it to a point of indoctrination. (The Times Examiner, April 21, 1999. "Political Incorrectness Can Be Hazardous To Students' Health").

Mays said Meeks Heit "builds from kindergarten through high school." Each year the message is a little stronger and in more detail than the previous years. First graders are told: "Stay away from anyone who carries a gun." There is no distinction drawn between policemen, parents who hunt, or criminals, and there is no mention in the text of the Constitution of the United States that guarantees the right of citizens to bear arms.

Linda Meeks and Philip Heit are "insiders" in every respect. They are closely connected with the education establishment, so it is understandable that educators give their books special consideration. Their college-level text Totally Awesome Strategies for Teaching Health is the most widely used book for teacher training in colleges, universities, state departments of education, school districts in the United States, and a dozen foreign countries. Also, "thousands of teachers throughout the world have participated in their teacher training workshops and wellness conferences," according to their promotional material.

How to Fight Back - by Weldon Clark

This attempt to program your children is happening all across the country, not just in South Carolina. Look at your children's text books. Ask questions of your school board. Get involved in School Board elections. Get rid of this evil propagandizing of your children. The National Education Association is attacking gun ownership. Here are two ways to fight NEA: exercising your rights as a union member, if you are a teacher, and vouchers. The NEA hates and fears the "voucher" concept.

Employees of unionized industries have several options to prevent all or part of their mandatory union dues from being used to destroy constitutional liberty:

1. Don't join. Employees who refuse to belong to the union can get as much as 30% of their dues refunded. However, many employees still want to belong to the union so they can have a voice. If that is the case:

2. Better yet: join but object on religious grounds. You have the right to have 100% of your dues redirected to a charity. Often this can be the charity of your choice. For example, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Gun Owners of America, Pacific Justice Institute, or a church or religious charity. For those of you in South Carolina, visit GrassRoots: www.SCFirearms.org. Thus, you can not only keep nearly $1000 a year from being used to destroy America, but you can redirect it to help save America, at no cost to you.

See www.PacificJustice.org for all the information you need to take advantage of these options. The Pacific Justice Institute will represent employees without charge in matters regarding religious freedom, academic freedom, and freedom of association.

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Here's an alert about the brainwashing sexual education content of the Meeks Heit series from 1997:

Local Battles Rage Over Sex Education Curricula
May-June, 1997
Minnesota Family Council
2855 Anthony Lane S, Minneapolis, MN, 55418
Phone: 612.789.8811, Fax: 612.789.8858
http://www.mfc.org

Local school districts in Minnesota have a great deal of discretion in determining how they will handle sex education. In many districts, this selection process has become a center of controversy, and parents are grappling with school boards and teacher committees for control of curriculum selection.

In the Anoka-Hennepin School District -- one of the state's largest -- parent Barb Anderson is working to inform parents about the "Totally Awesome Health" curriculum from Meeks Heit Publishing. Anderson served on the middle school health curriculum committee, which voted 3-2 against using the material (with three parents opposing and two teachers favoring the material). Despite this defeat, the school district is considering using the material in "pilot programs" or in other grades.

Anderson said the Meeks Heit program is designed to change student behaviors and attitudes, including "heterosexism:" the belief that heterosexual relationships are superior to homosexual relationships. Anderson says the material holds open the possibility that students who hold traditional views of sexuality may be penalized for it in grading.

Despite parental objections and the inability of Meeks Heit to provide complete sets of finished curriculum for review, some of the teacher-influenced curriculum committees chose the Meeks Heit material over less controversial alternatives. "The eight grade committee voted it in after seeing only a rough draft and a few sample lessons," noted Anderson. "No one has seen a teacher's manual. In my opinion, it is very irresponsible to vote in a curriculum without ever seeing the finished product." Anderson drew several hundred parents to a May 6 meeting at which she outlined some of what she had been able to learn about the Meeks Heit approach to health education:

• Abstinence is equated with "outercourse" (sex without insertion), and masturbation with sexual fantasies is presented as a suitable outlet for teens who have chosen to practice sexual abstinence.
  
  
• Children are given definitions of "toxic" families that include "families in which parents try to control their children, demand perfection, and pressure their children to succeed."
  
  
• A teacher's guide explains that successful parents tolerate early forms of sexual curiosity and experimentation among children, and accept teenage sexuality.
  
  
• A suggested grade school activity is for the teacher to make a large drawing of the male reproductive system on the floor, and for children to play the role of sperm, working their way toward ejaculation.

In Osseo, hundreds of parents recently attended a meeting with school board members to share their objections to choices the district had made.

Parent Jeri Gort, who helped organize the meeting, became interested in the subject after visiting her school to review the family life curriculum being used in her daughter's fifth grade class. "What I found disturbing was how detailed the information was on intercourse -- it wasn't just a simple description. Even more disturbing was that boys and girls were going to be taught together."

Gort asked the school to institute gender-segregated sex education, but was told that co-ed teaching of the subject was district policy. She called the school district and was told the policy was not open to review. She asked if she could serve on a curriculum committee, and was told there were no spots for parents on the committees. "They sent us all a letter saying they believe parents are the 'primary family life educators,' but they're sure not acting like it," Gort explains.

Gort invited some neighbors over for coffee to discuss her concerns. The parents started a petition, and gathered hundreds of signatures seeking four changes:

• Full disclosure, with schools telling parents what children are being taught and how explicit the materials are.
  
  
• Parental input in curriculum selection.
  
  
• Separate sex education classes for boys and girls.
  
  
• Respectful alternatives for children who opt out of sex education.

Get involved: Gort advises parents to preview health education curriculum and also talk with teachers about presentation; some teachers add to the curriculum. Ask to have boys and girls separated if this is what you prefer, she says, and remember that you have a right to opt your child out of classes that conflict with your family's values or religious beliefs.

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Here's an interesting (encouraging) viewpoint on the Meeks Heit health books that was written in 2002:

One man goes on a mission to demystify our city's public school textbooks
COVER STORY - Between the Lines
by Roger Abramson, Nashville Scene
http://www.NashvilleScene.com
October 2002 (EXERPT)

The most prominent health book on Metro bookshelves has the vomit-inducing title of Totally Awesome Health. The publishers of this book actually have reserved the trademark of 'Totally Awesome,' apparently believing that Earth will someday enter a tear in the space-time continuum and return permanently to 1985, when, I believe, teenagers last used this phrase. Believing that the title speaks for itself, I won't elaborate on Totally Awesome Health, except to share some of the book's reasons that teenagers should abstain from certain activities.

Totally awesome reason not to smoke: "I do not want to paralyze my cilia and prevent them from keeping harmful substances out of my lungs."

Totally awesome reason not to drink: "I want my secondary sex characteristics to develop in a normal way."

Something tells me the folks at R.J. Reynolds or Anheuser-Busch don't have much to worry about. Buy stock now.

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