Posted on 04/07/2010 2:30:59 PM PDT by bamahead
We are going to have fun with this one. The New York Times hosts a section on their website called Teaching and Learning with The New York Times. Here they post suggested lesson plans and guides for teachers. Their latest plan is called: Preserve, Protect and Defend? Considering Violent Protests and American Values. You guessed it - it is based on the right-wing, hate-filled, violent protests in the wake of ObamaCare's passing.
Here is how the lesson is described: Students consider the recent public displays of political anger directed at members of Congress to examine differing conceptions of America by engaging in one of several multidisciplinary activities ... Following are some multidisciplinary ideas for examining the recent public displays of political anger that have included threats, vandalism and violent behavior in response to the passage of the health care bill.
There are many lesson plans included, but here is an example of just one. See if you can determine any political philosophy at work here:
Have students read Frank Rich's Op-Ed column "The Rage is Not About Health Care" and/or Charles M. Blow's Op-Ed column "Whose Country Is It?" Explain to students that both columnists are attempting to analyze the anti-government protesters' often-heard slogan "take America back."
Ask: What is America? Who do protesters want to take it back from? Where do they want to take it back to? If they are taking it back, when did they have it before? What did it look like when they had it last? Who was protesting then? Were they hoping to "take America back"? What was the rhetoric like in a different political climate in recent memory?
Government schools. Gotta love 'em. If you're sending your child to the government to be educated you should consider yourself to be a child abuser.
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He says this all of the time...warms my little homeschooling heart _LOL!!
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Their not “analyzing” anything. The are promulgating a lie to further an agenda.
Explain to students that Democrat lawmakers lied about TEA party protesters, and in spite of offers of hundreds of thousands of dollars for video evidence showing the protesters shouting racist slurs, no one has come forward. Yet the liberal press continues to repeat the lies.
What about Bob Herbert’s column where he accused Tea Party people of using the N-word. Herbert was so indignant. Then Breitbart offered $10,000 to anyone who could prove it happened.
Class assignment: analyze Times coverage of Breitbart’s reward and how he had to pay off. Whoops. How he didn’t have to pay off.
Extra credit: find reference in Times to Breitbart making Herbert look silly.
They are sooooo used to conservatives taking their carp without a whimper. Times have changes (and I’m not talking about that rag in NY).
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