Posted on 10/18/2013 5:21:46 AM PDT by bryan999
A Pennsylvania woman set out with a video camera to learn what college students in her state know about the Holocaust — and discovered an incredible lack of knowledge not only of the genocide of the Jews, but of basic facts about U.S. history and World War II.
Rhonda Fink-Whitman visited college campuses in Pennsylvania this fall, including the venerated Ivy League institution the University of Pennsylvania, where she was repeatedly faced with a remarkable ignorance about events that took place in the last century.
Students didn’t know where Normandy was, why U.S. forces landed there, why the U.S. even entered the war or who was president at the time. (Wilson, Eisenhower and JFK were among the guesses.) One student didn’t know who Anne Frank was, because he said he never read the book.
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We (California) were taught about the Holocaust also. I remember reading and discussing The Diary of Anne Frank, and seeing the movie "Night and Fog."
LMAO then you complain.
OMG you actually sent your other kids to public school? How dare you? You abused your children.
Hmm..maybe it’s the parents. Maybe the parents didn’t properly raise their children. Oh no, it can’t be that. It has to be something else. LOL
And the other side, our side, has done nothing to counteract it.
All that is great. But, what they also need to know is facts.Dates. Just like rote memorization of math facts, science facts (formulas) is imperative to understanding so is history facts. So is grammar, spelling, sentence structure, etc.
Well said.
OMG I’m a child abuser and a Conservative. Whatever shall I do?
Really? Hmmm. My four kids have seen it once, for the older two and, none for the younger two. It’s not a big deal here.
War is brutal. Those who fight in war are forever changed. We all can sit here and comment but for those who actually go to war, our soldiers, it’s life altering. My Dad fought in WW II and he never spoke about it until I had a project in high school. He dealt with it but he didn’t pretend it was this rah rah thing. It was brutal and necessary. We shouldn’t sugarcoat it.
Maybe if conservatives here cared about our education system they’d be more involved other than trashing it on a message board. It’s the way it is because nobody cared enough to fight the infiltration.
BS. Does it give you jollies to make this shit up?
The Diary of Anne Frank is still required reading at our district for 8th grade LA. They visit the Holocaust Museum in NJ for 6th grade LA.
Get your kid out of public school.
What did I make up?
I'm going to march right down to the local government school and demand that they suffuse the curriculum with Catholic doctrine.
Obviously this is impossible, since not all children are Catholic, and this would violate the parental rights of non-Catholic parents.
Similarly, imposing a godless curriculum on children, 90% of whose parents believe in God, according to Gallup, is equally a violation of parental rights.
Government schools are antithetical to education --not schooling-- education, because they undermine parental authority. Parents have the God-given right to be their children's primary educators.
You claim to be a Catholic. Look it up.
Government schooling began as a socialistic experiment, and has remained so, with fascistic elements waxing and waning.
If you want to learn the truth about American schooling, read The Underground History of American Education, by John Gatto, the 1990 NY State Teacher of the Year. It's available to read on-line for free, and it the result of 10 years of historical research.
Hey, Twink!
I guess it's all going to go down the drain when the States roll out Commie Core.
Come, Lord Jesus.
In a system where social welfare of the young, the sick and the elderly was almost solely delivered by women in private homes supported by their marital partner's occupation, and where the rate of stable marriages was in the 92nd percentile, giving women the vote might have brought on today's Fathering-by-Government and cradle-to-grave socialism a lot sooner. Few marriages can survive when intellectual debates over the system itself infect the household. As in the writings of Abigail Adams, women were free to influence their husbands.
The other bad thing about universal enfranchisment is today's "one person, one vote" socialist ideal, which the Founders dreaded. Then, voting was a privilege for those who owned property. In relation to the old system, the wife was "covered" by the head of household. Now, everybody votes, no matter how ill-equipped, and the left is trying even to get convicted felons the vote. People living hand to mouth on drugs get the same vote as people creating jobs for thousands of workers. That's taking democracy too far -- removing all obligation to give back to society.
The problem with the left is that they simply can't envision the complexity of human organization. You can't replace an entire organic system of natural law with an entirely synthetic mishmash of political correctness and expect it to produce organic, sustainable results. The farther societies veer from natural living, the worse things get. Our current reliance on mass systems of water, communications, food, energy and GroupThink are making us vulnerable to overthrow. Communities need to be able to sustain independent and localized resources. That is the essence of Federalism.
No, no, no, no, no. University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university in the City of Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1740 -- before the Revolutionary War that founded the United States.
Penn State, where Sandusky and Paterno "worked", is a public state university founded in 1855 and located about 200 miles west of UPenn near the Appalachian mountains.
Love your tagline, honey!
Female heads of households had no vote, whether or not they owned property, and a husband’s vote is not a wife’s vote.
Your argument about women voting for socialism is no better than arguing against giving blacks the vote for the same reason. (And, indeed, white women still on average vote conservatively today.)
FR is full of cro magnon types where women are concerned—which hurts the conservative cause.
I admit I stole it from a joke we got via e-mail. (I modifed the phrase a bit to make it work better)
That's me, 9YearLurker; and ain't I a woman?
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