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Biased Message Pitched in Taxpayer Funded Textbook
Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 5/20/2012 | Tom Gantert

Posted on 05/21/2012 5:19:21 AM PDT by MichCapCon

Students in high schools around Michigan and the nation are being taught how former U.S. Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Detroit, was “more interested in finding solutions than focusing on politics,” according to a 2005 American Government textbook still in use.

“The best public policy is bipartisan,” Kilpatrick is quoted as saying on page 339 of a profile of her called, “Voices on Government,” in Prentice Hall Magruder’s “American Government."

Except, nobody considered Kilpatrick, the mother of ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, to be bipartisan in the 14 years she served in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“Kilpatrick had one of the most liberal voting records in Congress,” the Washington Post reported. In her last term, Kilpatrick voted with Democrats 97.9 percent of the time.

Kilpatrick refused to vote to certify the Ohio electoral votes that secured the 2004 presidential election for Republican George W. Bush.

Barney Keller, communications director for the limited-government Club For Growth, called Kilpatrick “one of the most partisan, liberal, borderline-socialist members in the history of Congress.”

Kilpatrick voted to limit government 3 percent of the time over her career, Keller said.

“She never advanced a single policy idea that attracted Republican votes,” he said. “It is just shocking to me that she would pretend that she is a bipartisan politician.”

Yet students are being taught just the opposite. Before 1970, school districts in Michigan weren't required to provide textbooks free of charge. However, a 1970 Michigan Supreme Court ruling stated schools need to provide school materials.


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: carolyncheeks; carolynkilpatrick; detroit; kwamekilpatrick; liberal; media; michigan

1 posted on 05/21/2012 5:19:33 AM PDT by MichCapCon
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Boycott! Thanks MichCapCon.


2 posted on 05/21/2012 5:33:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: MichCapCon
Pay yo taxes, whitebread !


3 posted on 05/21/2012 5:41:50 AM PDT by tomkat (:^)
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To: Springman; Sioux-san; 70th Division; JPG; PGalt; DuncanWaring

The public school model has failed utterly and completely.

If anyone wants on the Michigan Cap Con ping list, let me know.


4 posted on 05/21/2012 5:52:08 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: MichCapCon

Most modern textbooks are leftist propaganda.


5 posted on 05/21/2012 5:52:32 AM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: MichCapCon
“more interested in finding solutions than focusing on politics,”

You have to be able to speak the language of animal farm to understand what is being said.

Finding a solution is finding a way to get their way.

Focusing on politics is taking into account that their solution is not the best solution and compromising .

6 posted on 05/21/2012 5:55:14 AM PDT by oldbrowser (They are Marxists, don't call them democrats)
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To: MichCapCon

So glad we homeschool our kids...Michigan Education Association is the absolute worst!


7 posted on 05/21/2012 5:55:31 AM PDT by republicanbred (...and when I die I'll be republican dead.)
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To: MichCapCon

Government schools; government crap.


8 posted on 05/21/2012 6:29:29 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (I like Obamacare because Granny signed the will and I need the cash)
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To: republicanbred
As a former homeschooling parent, I salute your decision to homeschool your children.

Leftist textbooks are a large part of the problem with government schools. You can have good teachers(conservative or non-political) but you are still stuck with the textbooks that the state system requires to be used.

9 posted on 05/21/2012 6:33:05 AM PDT by rightly_dividing (This space available--inquire within)
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To: MichCapCon
Prentice Hall is an imprint of Pearson Education, the same left-side-of-bell-curve outfit behind Pineapplegate last month: Talking Pineapple on New York State Exam Stumps Everyone
10 posted on 05/21/2012 7:17:15 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: oldbrowser
“more interested in finding solutions than focusing on politics,”

In the real world, there are no solutions, only tradeoffs.

A "solution" would be something that could be done that would make one group better off, while making nobody worse off. This almost never happens. The "solution" either costs money (which must be extracted from taxpayers), or grants preferences to one group at the cost of another.

11 posted on 05/21/2012 7:32:46 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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