As you may  know, Bill Ayers is to speak at Millersville University on March 19, 2009. He is to speak of his accomplishments in urban Chicago education reform in the last 20 years. Problem is, all of his educational reforms were/are failures. His true reform is spelled out below. It speaks for itself! A complete failure, despite blowing more that $160 million in the process.

The statistics follow. For receiving $3,000 to lecture at MU, it will be interesting to hear how he spins his lecture. I feel the ones who will be hurt most are the MU students. The public has conveniently been shut out of the lecture. No freedom of speech for them.

I label Ayers as a psychopathic narcissist who has mastered the art of manipulation and deceit. He puts on a good show when interviewed and knows how to work a crowd/audience. I believe he's doing far more damage in his "educational reform" than his bombings in the "Days of Rage" in 1970.

Ayers remains an unrepentant terrorist who has been indoctrinating students w/ propaganda as follows. The link below is is a first hand account of Ayers bombings in 1970 who he intentionally killed as many people as possible, as told by an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Weather Underground.

I'm asking that you reconsider your  decision  of allowing Ayers to speak at MU. He is not worthy to speak at any PA public college. He remains a terrorist!

Ayers is both a hero and adviser to Hugo Chavez and a colleague of Obama's.

A brief resume of Ayers on the Venezuelan government site describes him as "the leader of the revolutionary and anti-imperialist group The Weather Underground which initiated struggle against the government of the USA," which it calls "the empire."

Ayers told the great humanitarian Chavez: "Teaching invites transformations, it urges revolutions large and small. La educacion es revolucion." It is that form of socialist revolution that Ayers, and Obama, have worked to bring to America.

Ayers, now a tenured Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

 "Ayers and his education school comrades are explicit about the need to indoctrinate public school children in the belief that America is a racist, militarist country and that the capitalist system is inherently unfair and oppressive."

Education: The joint effort between Barack Obama and terrorist William Ayers to "reform" Chicago schools was a flop. After spending $160 million, Chicago's children were still being left behind.

Ayers was more interested in transforming Chicago's schools into vehicles for socialist revolution than in reading scores. He sought to use Annenberg's grant to fund his dream

Like most efforts to improve the government monopoly by throwing money at it, the CAC [Chicago Annenberg Challenge], was a failure, and a costly one at that. The grant was conditioned on raising at least twice that amount in matching funds. With the grant, CAC had $160 million to throw at the problem.

Challenge: Successes, Failures, and Lessons for the Future Final Technical Report of the Chicago Annenberg Research Project."

“The Challenge had little impact on student outcomes." The report says: "There were no statistically significant differences between Annenberg schools and non-Annenberg schools in rates of achievement gain" and that "any improvements were much like those occurring in demographically similar non-Annenberg schools."

In 1998-99, just 36% of the Annenberg school students in grades three through eight were reading at or above national norms compared with 35% in Chicago schools citywide. In math, the results were similar. Some 43% of Annenberg students were at or above national norms versus 42% for non-Annenberg students.

The CAC did not improve the schools, and in some ways made things worse. The executive summary also notes: "Classroom behavior, students' sense of self-efficacy, and social competence were weaker in 2001 than before the Challenge."

Ayers became a leading advocate of "social justice" teaching — i.e., getting students to believe that they are victims of an unjust, oppressive and racist America. Community organizers can then use these young people to vote and otherwise carry out Ayers' "revolution."

Ayers has been on a decades-long mission to transform education into anti-American indoctrination and to get young people to demand government control of the economy, politics and culture.

CAC translated Mr. Ayers's radicalism into practice. Instead of funding schools directly, it required schools to affiliate with "external partners," which actually got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or Acorn).

My conclusion: Despite the hype and accolades by the press, his education endeavors were were/are miserable failures. No doubt the rest is political and yet dangerous to our children’s  education.

The more pressing issue is not the damage done by the Weather Underground 40 years ago , but the far greater harm inflicted on the nation’s schoolchildren by the political and educational movement in which Ayers plays a  plays a leading role today.

A first hand account of a former FBI undercover agent [Larry Grathwohl], with the Weather Underground in 1970 may be found at: http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=grathwohlid=1.21.09.htm.

I'm encouraging all to call MU President Francine McNairy @ 717-872-3591 and Dr John  Cavanaugh, Chancellor of the PASSHE, who oversees 14 PA State colleges. The lecture date is March 19, 2009.

Again, please reverse your decision based on well documented facts.

Thanks for your help,

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Chip Seiple lives in Lancaster County, PA.