THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

District 45J3, Oregon Dept. of Education). The latter was declared a success on national TV
by Marc Tucker, Executive Director of the "National Center on Education and Economy", a
creation of the Carnegie Foundation which counts Hillary Clinton and David Rockefeller
among its Board members. [Students and parents, on the other hand, called it an abysmal
failure and an orchestrated fraud. By 1996, the controversy erupted in a group lawsuit, which
of course received scant media attention.] From the obscure testing ground of the first NA
school to the fully legislated NA education now operative in America, no more than 30 years
had passed.
3a. The NA principles of Alice Bailey are being progressively spread to all school children.
They are already securely embedded in the system adopted by the U.S. Department of
Education for public schools across the country. One of the schools which incorporated OBE
in its experimental stage was Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado (Jefferson
County), the site of a student-led massacre a decade later. [While no solid conclusions can be
drawn here, just knowing this detail provides a horribly plausible explanation for what went
wrong in that quiet "normal" community. Littleton, we should note, was only No. 6 in 8
incidents of "unexplained random shootings" of classmates within two years, committed by
students aged 11-18. It is not hard to guess why the government and media, which publicly
claim to be at a loss for a plausible cause in every one of these incidents, uniformly fail to
mention an educational curriculum which includes both "death education" and the teaching
that no personal values may be condemned by external authority.]
Private schools are eventually to be included in OBE monitoring as well, under the auspices
of the National Education Goals Panel, which declared in 1991 that the National Goals 2000
framework "must take into account those students who do not attend public elementary and
secondary schools [in] our measure of progress." (_Potential Strategies for Long-Term
Indicator Development_, Report No. 91-08, p.37) Nor will home-schooling provide an
escape. Iowa legislators have already authorized the Department of Education to dictate which
tests home-schooled children will be required to take in order to be accepted as "educated"; if
they should fail to pass an OBE-based exam favored by this federal body, state law will
consider them "truant" and in need of child welfare intervention. On the national level, the
National Education Association (NEA) has proposed that home-schooled children be required
to use "a curriculum provided by the State Department of Education" and "meet all state
requirements" to pass. (NEA 1992-93 Resolutions, pub. Sept. 1993)
3b. An important tangent: Are "Goals 2000" and OBE being forced on Americans, or not?
This is being hotly debated at the moment. Parents and local school authorities claim to have
found evidence that the "voluntary" nature of OBE is a sham designed to deceive the public, a
strategy which is sanctioned at the highest government levels. The federal "Goals 2000
Educate America Act" itself contains plans (S.1150) to eventually replace the high school
diploma with the CIM (Certificate of Initial Mastery, awarded through OBE). However, the
Education Department, in an effort to deflect growing opposition, gives high profile on its
website to a 1996 "Amendment to the Goals 2000 Educate America Act", which "does not
require [any Goals 2000 participant] to provide OBE." [Their case would be greatly
strengthened if they could point to even one Goals 2000 participant who has been authorized
to provide an alternate framework instead of OBE, but none appear anywhere on the site.]
This amendment also states that Goals 2000 itself is a "completely voluntary" program; yet a
clause in the "Elements of the State Goals 2000 Action Plan" requires participating states to
"monitor... [and] improve schools that are not meeting the state content standards voluntarily
adopted by the state," showing that the "voluntary" clause applies only at the state level. And
the states which have already "voluntarily adopted" Goals 2000 currently total 49 or 50 (cited