Teens seek debate vs. Limbaugh

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 13, 2005 | KATE N. GROSSMAN Education Reporter

[OXENinFLA]

Be fun to listen to though, maybe he could do this on his radio show.

[wallcrawlr]

I'd be all for this. Rush would expose this total lack of knowledge public school kids have on History.

Going to school...can you remember anyone that cared about history (I did)...the mantra was, "why do I need to learn about the past".

He'd wipe the floor with them. Expose them Rush!!

[VRWCmember]

"Maybe he might be a little intimidated because I don't know his basis for saying we don't know anything," Sarah said. "But I think he might be interested if he wants to live up to his reputation and back up his ideas so he doesn't look stupid."

The arrogance of high school students who think that their little bit of data they have received from woefully inadequate textbooks makes them more informed than someone who has been around the block a few times is utterly amazing.

[whereasandsoforth]

So its big news when Limbaugh is thought to be "caught" being wrong about something. I thought Limbaugh was so full of lies and distortions and purposeful misleadings every day of his existence that it couldn't possibly be big news.

Often the left is caught in their own lies by things just like this. You don't demonize a man and brand him a perpetual liar that is wrong about everything and then turn around and make a news story out of one instance where they think they can REALLY prove him wrong. It highlights how the left lies about everything else associated with Limbaugh.

[anniegetyourgun]

"....the school has strong participation in Model United Nations...."

I wonder if they practiced selling lunchmoney vouchers for answers to test questions, raping foreign students, or perhaps sexually harassing the staff?

[dennisw]

"young skulls full of mush" ping

[G.Mason]

Not surprising.

Any career with the word "social" in it seems to to be indicatve of "mind numbed robots".

My appologies for plagerizing ... Rush.

[Born Conservative]

[Bahbah]

I hope he does it.

[hellinahandcart]

I wonder if they practiced selling lunchmoney vouchers for answers to test questions, raping foreign students, or perhaps sexually harassing the staff?

Or looting the cafeteria, which really did happen at the UN. :D

[Vic3O3]

I hope Rush takes them up on the challenge! It ought to be an amusing slaughter of young minds...

[lnbchip]

Rush should be careful with this one. First, we don't know which version of History would be debated - reality or the liberal version. Second, would any rebuttal by Rush simply be considered hate speech and ignored as an example of the politics of personal destruction. And Finally, would the media hail the opinions of these children even greater if Rush tore them apart in the debate. Most liberals come to fame after great failures in their political and cultural past.

[AmericanInTokyo]

"All ETHS sophomores choose among several "global perspectives" courses covering the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Asia and Russia. In the Middle East class, for example, students adopt a new identity for the semester -- a Syrian baker or a medical student in Qatar -- and try to view what's transpiring in the region from that perspective."

(I've underlined my own emphasis, above).

My take is that as long as one does this, but all along maintains one perspective that America is still the greatest, there is nothing wrong with it.

Great training for the intelligence analysts and intelligence operatives of America's future, our high school students. Our enemies in Pyongyang, Beijing, Teheran, elsewhere etc. do the exact reverse.

However, given that the courses in the USA would by default--knowing our educational system in most cases--probably be taught with an anti-US bias/grudge by slanted, guilt-ridden anti-USA liberal teachers, it would be meaningless.

I am all for American high school students learning much more in the way of countries, world politics, languages, cultures, traveling to those nations, and becoming more sophisticated--if at the end of the day IT CAN BE PUT TO USE ON BEHALF OF THE INTERESTS OVERSEAS OF THE AMERICAN EAGLE.

[Tungenchek]

I think he would have to prove that his remarks were accurate...

That to me would be the test...

If they can show that he was wrong in his evaluation..

They would win..

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[SQUID]

The reason you don't know his basis is because you don't know anything indeed.

[Kitten1]

HAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAA!!!

Direct Hit! I can't wait to read the list of resolutions they submit against Rush.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to clean cocoa off of my keyboard and my blouse.

[layman]

"It's not even worth responding to," said Aaron Hamilton, a senior

I agree with Aaron, although I'm sure I would enjoy some kind of an exchange whereby the kids could showcase their knowledge of U.S. history.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I expect there's been a wee bit of coaching from the teachers and administrators of this school about Rush's comments.

Public schools are being exposed for their LIBERALISM and their inadequacies. They're losing the blind public support they've enjoyed for so long.

[bobsatwork]

Rush Limbaugh said on his nationally syndicated radio show that Evanston Township High School students "don't know anything about World War II" and "they've probably never heard the name Adolf Hitler" because they're so focused on a multicultural curriculum. ....This entire article is based on these two out-of-context sentence fragments. Does anyone have the actual quote? Was he quoting the CSM article?