Posted on 03/13/2010 10:48:02 AM PST by Titus-Maximus
Our local news affiliate had a 45 second news story on this last night. Having read about this curriculum change here on FR in the past week, I had an idea what the real story was about. However, the news story (on a FOX affiliate, no less) was told from the standpoint that the changes were to textbooks, making them less an authored piece of literature to an assembled book of components. They had a New York literature expert (ha) assessing why this was a bad thing.
Then at the literal end of the piece, the reporter stated that parents were concerned about these changes because the forces that were pushing for the new text books were Hispanics and Christian Conservatives.
By the way, there was not one mention of the content that was being included in the books.
That certainly won't happen in Plymouth-Canton Schools in Michigan which has just approved a new africanhyphenamerican history curriculum (written by a white woman--the curriculum that is). It will begin in the 1890s with Jim Crow and proceed to present times. Of course, there will be no mention of contributions of black people such as "The Real McCoy", the 54th Massachusetts, Frederick Douglas. It will be about a giant white guilt trip for the white children. Thank God my kids are thru with that part of their lives.
Yes, I think it is fair to teach about why we cherish our religious freedom (which is NOT freedom FROM religion, that makes Atheism the defacto faith of the State).
Point out how in Europe nations sometimes required the populace to adopt Catholicism or Protestantism depending of the latest monarch.
But don't just cast this into hundreds of years past of European history (we came to America to found a new principled nation).
Point out Communism's State imposed Atheism.
Point out Saudi Arabia's Islamic theocratic state and prohibition on all other religious texts.
Point out China's human rights violations on those of religious faith.
When people see the threats to that freedom ELSEWHERE IN THE MODERN WORLD, it drives the point home that all nations are NOT equal.
So it won’t go into the origins of the KKK and how it was established by Democrats?
I had to call the school board twice to get them to get the American Flag back up on the flag pole in front of one of the middle schools near my house. I had previously listened to the poverty speech when I called the middle school principal. I'm sure they'd rather the hammer and sickle or the cuban flag....and me in the gulag.
Academic bias is very real and others need to catch on
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/academicbias/index
One notable turn of events that is largely supressed in the media...
The State of California explicitly prohibits Communists and those preaching sedition against this government from teaching in California public schools and universities. Now we know that it isn’t fully enforced, but it is on the books.
There is a Democrat in California who wants to strike this from California law. There is no compelling reason to turn public students over to Communist indoctrination on the tax dollar. And it’s a Democrat pushing for access for Communist professors.
For the most part that is a great idea. The only problem I see with that, though, is Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists. The libs love to use that one to push church-state separation beyond what it really meant.
If Thomas Paine was included there could be problems with The Age of Reason and Agrarian Justice, too. Paine attacked religion in the first and advocated a universal welfare payment paid from property taxes in the second.
As I said, it’s a great idea for the most part, but we need to be careful what we wish for sometimes.
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