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February 2022 Newsletter

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Legislators, Please Don’t Pass Bills that reward Lawlessness

“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” – Psalm 11:3

King David asked, “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines “can” as “to be able to do, make or accomplish.” So, what can be done by the “righteous,” defined by the Dictionary as “acting in accord with divine or moral law.” Although society is neglecting divine law, unabashedly destroying moral law, and defying the Constitution, those standards must be re-established and enforced, “in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,” as stated in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

Q. What can be done to recover constitutional authority and re-instate the observance of law?
A. Legislators can stop passing bills, such as H.B. 999, that reward unlawful entry into the U.S.
H.B. 999 Georgia Educational Freedom Act by Representative Wes Cantrell establishes state-funded promise scholarships of $6,000 per school year for each participating student to fund private nonpublic schools, sectarian or nonsectarian, higher education, curricula, etc.

  • To participate, H.B. 999 does not require parents or students to be in the U.S. legally.
  • To qualify for a $6,000 annual scholarship, the parents must, currently, reside in Georgia.
  • A student must be enrolled/attended a Georgia school for six weeks in the previous year.
  • Parents promise they’ll be taught reading, grammar, mathematics, social studies and science.
  • Students enrolled in a Department of Juvenile Justice school are not eligible for the program.

If H.B. 999 passes, the 14 members of the appointed Georgia Student Finance Commission (GSFC) will appoint eight parents of participating students to six-year terms on a promise scholarship parent review committee. In turn, the commission’s appointed executive director would appoint eight members to one-year terms on a review committee to oversee the funding of students (a) who reside in Georgia and (b) attended school six weeks the previous year.

H.B. 999 has a huge loophole that allows non-citizens $6,000 per year for private schools and tax-funded colleges. The GSFC funds citizens and “persons” alike, although “persons” include unlawful residents. Lines 298-302 of H.B. 999 state the current GSFC purpose as follows:
“Purpose of commission [GSFC]. The purpose of the commission shall be to help improve the higher educational opportunities of citizens and persons in this state by serving as an agency and budget unit within the executive branch of state government for the purpose of carrying out and effectuating the powers, duties, and functions set forth in this part and in Chapter 2B of this title.”

ACTION – OPPOSE. Call House Education Committee Representatives Dubnik, Ch., 404 656-7857; Erwin, V-Ch., 656-0188; Belton, Sec., 656-3947; Benton, 656-5126; Cantrell, 656-0152; Carter, 656-0220; Cheokas, 463-7853; England, 463-2247; Evans, 656-0109; Glanton, 657-1803; Hill, 656-0325; Howard, 656-6372; Jasperse, 656-7153; Jan Jones, 656-5072; Todd Jones, 463-2246; LaRiccia, 651-7737; Mainor, 656-0126; Nguyen, 656-0314; Nix, 656-5146; Paris, 656-0109; Rich, 656-5087; Setzler, 656-5143; Wade, 656-0188; Wilson, 656-6372.

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June-July 2019 Newsletter

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Organized Evil Warping U.S. Culture

So, you think the National Education Association (NEA) is dedicated only to education! Think again!  It’s hard to find a more liberal lobbying organization.

In its document, “REPORTS,” the National Education Association published the actions of its annual Representative Assembly in Houston, Texas July 4 – 7, 2019.  “REPORTS” has two sections – new business implementation and certain committee actions from the 2018 assembly.

NEA’s motto, “Great Public Schools for Every Student” stated on the final page, is followed by this tell-tale statement: “This document has been printed by Organized Staff Union Labor at the National Education Association.”  The following pages exemplify NEA efforts to affect culture.

Immigrant Families at the Border, the first issue in REPORTS was Resolution A of 2018 (2018-A) that affirmed NEA’s open-borders commitment.  It is quoted verbatim as follows: “The NEA will respond thoughtfully, swiftly, and forcefully in support of and in solidarity with immigrant families who are separated, incarcerated, or refused their legal right to request asylum due to the heartless, racist, and discriminatory zero-tolerance policies of the Trump administration.  We will not waiver in our commitment to these families and will take the following actions1.”

Direct Action at 2019 Representative Assembly (RA), the next item, explained that NEA’s Centers for Governance, Social Justice, and Communications partnered with Stonewall National Museum and Archives to curate and display, at specific locations, two traveling exhibits – Stonewall Uprising Exhibit and Out of the Shadows Timeline.  In addition, NEA partnered with Equality Texas, Human Rights Campaign, and Texas State Teachers Association in a direct-action event in Houston the afternoon of July 3, 2019, prior to the July 4th conference.

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January 11, 2019 Radio Commentary

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Start-Date for Schools

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, January 11, 2019 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Last session, two bills were introduced concerning the date schools start in Georgia.  Representative Ben Stephens introduced H.B. 936 on Valentine’s Day requiring the school year to start no earlier than the third week in August.  It didn’t pass, but the subject didn’t die.

On March 16th Senator Steve Gooch introduced S.R. 1068 that passed March 27th authorizing the creation of a senate committee to study the school-year calendar for Georgia public schools.

Senator Gooch expects committee research to answer questions such as these: Is a later school start date feasible; would families have better opportunities to vacation together; and would it increase the availability of summer jobs for teenagers?

By September the eleven-member study committee had been appointed and met for the first time in October.  When Senator Gooch asked them why summer break had shrunk to two months, no one was able to answer.  However, a Georgia Department of Education spokesman explained that the state DOE has no authority over school calendars, and DOE’s policy director said attendance calendars are timed around school testing.  Continue reading →

August 10, 2018 Radio Commentary

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After 28 Years, Channel One Stops Broadcasting into Schools

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, August 10, 2018 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

For the last 28 years, Channel One has aired a commercial twelve-minute non-academic television program into schools for children in grades six through twelve. Ten minutes of each program were dedicated to youth-specific news that was designed, carefully, by Channel One for use in classrooms.

Participating schools were given 19-inch television sets for each class of 23 students who would be shown special youth-specific television programming 180 days of the school year or 90 percent of the total days schools were in session.

Their take-advantage-of-captive-audiences strategy became obvious with this braggadocios comment from Channel One’s president: “The advertiser gets kids who cannot go to the bathroom, who cannot change the station, who cannot listen to their mother yell in the background, who cannot be playing with Nintendo.”

No doubt, Channel One’s intent was to take advantage of classroom children, and they did. By 1990 the captive audience included about 40 percent of all 11- to 18-year-old students, meaning almost half of grade schools had contracted with Channel One to show ten-minute versions of news and two minutes of commercials created for impressionable children to absorb in school classrooms. Continue reading →