Jan. 21, 1998

"...only the souls who are ready to receive the new curriculum will elect to raise their vibrations to match those required to enter the New Age ... Did you know that animals' souls are the souls of our future children? ... We are entering the Age of Aquarius ... The goal for all humanity who will enter the new millennium is to become androgynous ..."

— Dr. Shirley McCune in

"The Light Shall Set You Free," 1996

If the above quote makes you giggle and roll your eyes, stand by to retch. Shirley McCune is the former director of the Mid-Coast Regional Education Laboratory — which has trained thousands of Texas teachers and administrators. She's also been a research assistant at the School-to-Work program at Arizona State University. And she's currently the administrative assistant to the superintendent of schools in the State of Washington.

This, folks, is one of the driving influences behind "education reform" in the United States.

Lest you sigh and shrug, remember that much of the information in her book, as related by Dr. D.L. Cuddy in the Dec. 13 Times-Leader in Princeton, Ken., was "channeled through the authors by 'Ascended Masters,' including one called 'El Morya, Master.'"

El Morya, just for general information, is the same wandering mystical entity who apparently inspired a chap by the name of Robert Muller, the former U.N. Assistant Secretary General who's now the driving force behind the "world schools" movement.

Scared yet?

Cuddy is a former Department of Education educrat who, like Charlotte Iserbyt before him, has seen through the facade of "education reform" and is now one of its staunchest opponents. He's the author of a 200-year chronology of education, as well as a book about the National Education Association entitled "The Grab For Power."

Cuddy notes that during his time with the DOE, he ran across the "Community Tool Kit" to promote education reform. Included in the tool kit was a "troubleshooting guide" for "dealing with opponents" — which includes the labeling of people as "extremists" from the "radical right."

Washington ain't the only state in trouble, that's for sure.

In Texas, it seems that Ronald McDonald is teaming up with a federal agency to make parents feel guilty about owning guns, the Gun Owners of America report.

The Centers for Disease Control have teamed up with the Ronald McDonald House on a project called "Team Up to Save Lives," aimed at preventing teen suicide.

Nice idea, but since when was suicide a "disease?"

"The program ... contains video clip examples for teachers to effectively employ guilt tactics in order to frighten parents into relinquishing their firearms," reports GOA's Chris Stark, a Crosby resident. "One GOA staffer even took all four teachers' exams included with the program and earned a certificate after reading only three of the four test sections. How, may you ask? He simply answered anti-gun and pro-government intervention, receiving a perfect score!"

I basically agree that having a loaded weapon lying around where kids can get at it is not a good idea ... but again, have to ask, when did suicide become a disease?

Last but not least, there's the Mississippi story about the straight-A student who got kicked off her school's student council for refusing to sell underwear.

An Associated Press report says that Alicia Lane refused to sell student-council boxer shorts with the Pearl High School "Pirate" logo emblazoned on them, claiming moral objections. The student council booted her, a decision upheld by the local superintendent and school board.

Superintendent Bill Dodson said a demerit system, not the boxer fiasco, was the real reason Alicia came up short, but her mother, Elizabeth Lane — the district's 1997 Parent of the Year — told the school trustees they should be ashamed of themselves.

At least the sale of boxer shorts won't be much of a factor in the future. Once the current flock of animals transcends reality and becomes the next generation of androgynous children, I have this mystic vibration that they'll all prefer briefs, anyway.