Charlotte Iserby -- Reject Political Correctness! Shout 'Merry Christmas'

REJECT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS! SHOUT 'MERRY CHRISTMAS'

By Charlotte Iserbyt

December 7, 2005

NewsWithViews.com

Down with "Happy Holidays!" Shout "Merry Christmas" from the rooftops. Say "Merry Christmas" over and over again before the government speech and thought police have officially banned those dangerous, politically incorrect words!

The following letter to the editor from one brought up in Cuba, where the mention of God is banned, provides much food for thought during the Christmas season:

Children of the Gulag (letter to the editor of The New American Editor, May 7, 2000):

I'd like to commend Mr. William Norman Grigg for his article "Children of the Gulag" in the March 13th ("Elian's Odyssey") issue of The New American.

It is obvious that he took the time to research and investigate the truth behind Castro's "Cuban Wonderland" especially where children are concerned.

What really touched home for me was Mr. Grigg's accurate description of how teachers point out those students who deviate from the norm. When I was growing up in Cuba, my mother always taught me to be truthful with myself and with others. So, when teachers asked us to raise our hand if we believed in God, I was always one of the two timid children who would do so. This became a weekly routine since I can remember being in school, which goes back to third grade. And it didn't matter that I had different teachers: they were all programmed to ask the same questions.

Once the "worms" were identified, the teachers would proceed to humiliate us in front of the whole class, telling us God didn't exist, that my mother was crazy, that one day my mom would be sent away to the American imperialists, and that I would stay and learn what a great thing it was to be a Communist.

This activity got to the point where it was driving me crazy and I did not know who to believe; the teachers or my mother. I especially remember this one day when I was in fifth grade: after taking a grilling from one of the teachers in front of the whole class, red as a tomato, and as soon as I saw my mother outside the school, I shouted at her: "It's all your fault." Needless to say, I grew up in a hurry. And thanks to my mother, I never deviated away from God.

I left Cuba when I was 14 years old. Before doing so, I had the "pleasure" of experiencing three years worth of labor camps. I was first sent to a camp when I was 11 years old; I was sent together with my whole school to the western province of Pinar del Rio, an area rich for tobacco growing. the tobacco plants were twice as tall as we were, but we were still awakened at 4:30 a.m. and would work the fields until 6:00 p.m., having a brief lunch break in the middle. My childhood experiences in those labor camps, however, do not even come close to matching the effects those weekly classroom grillings had on me.

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Only those who don't know what it's truly like to grow up in Cuba can be in favor of sending Elian (Gonzalez) home, and so I thank Mr. Grigg once again for trying to expose the truth to everyone out there.

Luis D. Ezra, Miami Lakes, Florida

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Charlotte Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America's classrooms. Iserbyt is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She has also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and in the Republic of South Africa.

Iserbyt is a speaker and writer, best known for her 1985 booklet Back to Basics Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet Soviets in the Classroom: America's Latest Education Fad which covered the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements which remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer and has had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The Bangor Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional hearings.

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I left Cuba when I was 14 years old. Before doing so, I had the "pleasure" of experiencing three years worth of labor camps. I was first sent to a camp when I was 11 years old;