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Teacher Remains Anonymous
to Avoid Reprisals

By Susan Hikel-Greenleaf
January 2001

A veteran teacher for more than twenty-five years, this anonymous woman has been a great help to parents who have been betrayed by  “social engineering” in the public schools.

About ten years ago, an incident occurred where she taught that permanently changed her life. Nearly overnight, she took on a new role after parents confided that their children had been forced to attend a vulgar AIDS education assembly. Though some upset students attempted to leave, teachers blocked the doors. Parents knew their children could not have fabricated this story. They wondered why they had been kept in the dark.

When the administration attempted a cover-up, this award-winning teacher gathered evidence that the school system could not deny. The repercussions of this evidence have been used in the U.S. Congress, the Statehouse and in other states to help pass the Parents Rights Act.

To enable her to continue to educate and assist others without fear of retribution, she has asked to be anonymous and to be called, “Mrs. Smith.”

“This incident was my clarion call. I shed tears when I saw that my noble teaching profession had sunk into such a gutter of depravity.” Until this happened, she never believed that children would be in crisis because of the school system.

From that point on Mrs. Smith became an intense researcher, “not trusting any new fangled fads that came down” from the top. “Outcome based education,” “multiculturalism,” “whole language,” “new math” and the “alternate lifestyles” – all were suspect.

“Where were all these unfounded social experiments coming from?” Smith wondered. “And what do they have to do with imparting knowledge and skills to children?”

 She believes that the educational system has been taken over by secular humanists and liberal “crazies” who have gotten entrenched leadership and political positions in higher education, teacher training programs, teacher unions and the Department of Education. Smith says that both teachers and students are being fed the “social engineering line.” And because it’s not based on science or validated research, it’s very frustrating, she says.

She referred to the instructional video, “It’s Elementary,” as homosexual propaganda being circulating to all the schools in an attempt to integrate the homosexual lifestyle into pre-school and kindergarten curriculums.

“The video touts the party line, that this is nothing more than ‘tolerance,’ but the video clearly shows entire schools celebrating Gay Days, third graders discussing the merits of gay marriage, and no dissenting point of view ever taken seriously,” Smith says. She discovered an American Family Association video called, “Suffer the Children,” which she suggests that teachers show – in the name of equity – to tell “the rest of the story.”

She comments that the majority of teachers she knows are good-hearted people, who really love kids and their jobs. They don’t want to get involved with these controversial subjects. “But they are frustrated because of these workshops that are mandated by the state. This health curriculum that is coming down from the top really frustrates a lot of teachers who don’t want to have anything to do with it.”

Smith has attended numerous “Sensitivity” Workshops, which some teachers are required to attend for professional development points. “We are fed a constant diet of propaganda in them.” She has been appalled that those in attendance do not think critically enough to ask questions about the primary sources of materials being presented. “And yet we’re the ones, according to the curriculum frameworks, who are supposed to teach the children critical thinking skills!”

She’s noted that the sex ed packets given at the workshops have footnotes which refer to unverified or inconclusive data, which the average teacher is too busy to recheck. “I’m hoping that some courageous teacher who is forced to attend such a presentation will legally challenge the system. After all, moral and religiously orthodox teachers still have rights, and their brand of diversity deserves respect too.”

She knows there are many good teachers that just don’t have the facts. She urges all parents and teachers to read Dr. Judith Reisman’s, Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences, an expose on Dr.Alfred Kinsey, the nation’s sex education expert. Reisman gives conclusive evidence that Kinsey’s data was criminally derived from sex convicts and pedophiles. Smith said the foundation for all comprehensive sex education came from his so-called, “documentation.” She believes, “We need to work together to expose Kinsey’s lies in the so-called Safe Schools $1.5 million funding.”

Two professional associations are credited for helping Smith to become informed and she uses them as a resource to channel other teachers. One is Christian Educators Association, which brings in motivational speakers and attorneys to educate Christian teachers in public and private schools on their legal rights. The other, the Association of American Educators, focuses on character education, which Smith discovered is “really big around the country – teaching kids to be good as well as smart – but most schools in Massachusetts have never heard of this movement.”

Both of these organizations provide liability insurance for teachers, have outstanding speakers, and are an alternative to the teachers unions. According to Smith, most teachers join unions for the liability insurance but don’t necessarily agree with their endorsement of political candidates or controversial platforms such as birth control, abortion and homosexuality.

There have been attempts by her opponents to get Mrs. Smith fired, and she has been a victim of administrative harassment and intimidation tactics for her activism in her personal life.

Mrs. Smith has one unfulfilled dream, to see a whole troop of teachers regain control of the education establishment.

“I have to believe there are a lot more of us who want to stick to academics, who believe there are unchanging absolutes, and who have the common sense when controversies arise in the classroom to simply say, ‘Go home and ask your parents their opinions.’

“But the scary thing is, I have seen educators who truly believe that they know better than the parents what’s good for their children. And I guess this is the most frustrating part of being part of the educational system.”

The Christian Education Association International can be reached at 818-798-1124 or <www.ceai.org>.

The Association of American Educators is at 800-704-7799 or www.aaeteachers.org.